Hey, evil dead, you're in my seat.

Xander ,'First Date'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Jul 09, 2012 11:04:19 am PDT #13261 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

For folks who own a BWM, does it have an RF fob that lets you start it without a key?

Keyless BMW cars prove to be very easy to steal - Hack a Day


billytea - Jul 09, 2012 11:17:07 am PDT #13262 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Anne is certainly far better educated than Laura, and more confident in circumstances requiring intelligence or people skills. But come the zombie apocalypse, Laura would be more likely to survive.

It's astronauts and cavemen all over again.


flea - Jul 09, 2012 11:21:42 am PDT #13263 of 30001
information libertarian

Casper is having a somewhat self-conscious and hilarious meltdown over her difficulty drawing an oval for a head. Direct quote: "Why am I so uncircular? WHY? Ovals mock me."


Consuela - Jul 09, 2012 11:35:59 am PDT #13264 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

It's astronauts and cavemen all over again

Hah! To a certain extent, yes. IIRC, Anne never even ends up doing any work around the farm, except maybe bringing the cows in occasionally, or collecting eggs. She's all about the domestic arts. Whereas doesn't Laura have to go pick locusts off the crops at one point, and help haul water and all?


Calli - Jul 09, 2012 11:39:00 am PDT #13265 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

doesn't Laura have to go pick locusts off the crops at one point, and help haul water and all?

I remember during the long winter, Laura helps her dad twist straw into fuel for the fire. Her hands get so rough from it she wonders if she'll ever be able to sew again without the thread catching on her callouses.


flea - Jul 09, 2012 11:42:55 am PDT #13266 of 30001
information libertarian

Anne was written by a woman who grew up solidly middle-class (her paternal grandfather was a Canadian Senator) and Laura was written by, well, Laura - the daughter of a hardscrabble and neither provident nor lucky farmer.


brenda m - Jul 09, 2012 11:46:18 am PDT #13267 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Man, who wants to go to Morocco? [link]


Connie Neil - Jul 09, 2012 11:58:49 am PDT #13268 of 30001
brillig

I would love to go to Morocco and see what I could find about Murat Reis, my pirate ancestor.


brenda m - Jul 09, 2012 12:02:45 pm PDT #13269 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

This place looks seriously awesome. I'm seriously thinking it. Maybe Octoberish if I can find someone who wants to go.


SuziQ - Jul 09, 2012 12:04:50 pm PDT #13270 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I used to be one of those people who always kept up with my work e-mail. Everything was answered, filed, dealt with... I used to rib people who had old unread e-mail hanging out in their inbox.

Today, I have 46 e-mails in my inbox and 31 of those are unread. Blarg.