Jesse--apparently some people think it's "coming down the pipe".
Huh! People are funny.
Oh thank goodness -- it's time for free ice cream.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Jesse - Aug 01, 2012 9:00:05 am PDT #16314 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Amy - Aug 01, 2012 9:00:46 am PDT #16315 of 30001
Because books.
I always thought it was thing, and was told at some point it was think, but I've always assumed it was pike and I don't think I'm going to change my mind.
Hil R. - Aug 01, 2012 9:01:34 am PDT #16316 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Now that I think about it, I can't decide whether it's pipe or pike. But it's definitely thing and not think.
sarameg - Aug 01, 2012 9:02:33 am PDT #16317 of 30001
Here's a version of the background: [link]
Tom Scola - Aug 01, 2012 9:02:59 am PDT #16318 of 30001
hwæt
Rob Halford says you’re wrong, ita: [link]
Hil R. - Aug 01, 2012 9:03:45 am PDT #16319 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
ION, I'm watching this movie on TV, and I think it has every actor born in the late seventies or early eighties. So far, I've spotted Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffman, Rachel Leigh Cook, Heather Matarazzo, Vincent Kartheiser, Hayden Christensen, and Matthew Lawrence. And there are a few other people that I recognize but can't quite place.
msbelle - Aug 01, 2012 9:05:28 am PDT #16320 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
thing thing thing thing thing thing thing thing thingity thing th thing th thing
amyth - Aug 01, 2012 9:07:04 am PDT #16321 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I'm in the thing camp.
eta: And pike.
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2012 9:10:52 am PDT #16322 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Another think coming is the original form of the colloquial phrase aimed at someone who has a mistaken view. It comes from the old comical expression, If that’s what you think, you’ve got another think coming.
Just so you're clear. I mean, say what you want, but you're the new kid on the block if you're using "thing". And "pipe".
The idiom meaning soon to happen or appear was originally coming down the pike, not coming down the pipe. But both expressions are now widely used and understood.
Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2012 9:11:21 am PDT #16323 of 30001
brillig
Thing and pike.