Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Shir!
When Gary gets home we will go out to dinner.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Sheryl - Aug 01, 2012 12:38:19 pm PDT #16382 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Calli - Aug 01, 2012 12:39:39 pm PDT #16383 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy birthday, Shir!
billytea - Aug 01, 2012 12:40:17 pm PDT #16384 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.
billytea, what does "Fang" mean? In Chinese, that is.
It means "Square". It even has a Wikipedia page: [link] Oh! And way back in the mists of time, the character used to be a swastika. (The rather more stylish modern character appears on the Wiki page.)
Zenkitty - Aug 01, 2012 12:40:38 pm PDT #16385 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Hornblowers have cannons, canonically.
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2012 12:51:36 pm PDT #16386 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.
I don't have zombie parts, but I have screws in my leg, wires in my jaw and a piece of my hip bone that was transplanted to my knee.
Oh, and I've had a laser fired into my eye a few hundred times.
Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2012 12:53:47 pm PDT #16387 of 30001
brillig
So you're due to have lasers shoot out of them soon.
Tom Scola - Aug 01, 2012 12:55:18 pm PDT #16388 of 30001
hwæt
tommyrot’s more machine than man at this point.
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2012 1:12:41 pm PDT #16389 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.
So you're due to have lasers shoot out of them soon.
Cool!
tommyrot’s more machine than man at this point.
Sad but true.
-t - Aug 01, 2012 1:13:12 pm PDT #16390 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I for one am quite impressed that your autocorrect has an opinion on "new-fangledness" but not on "woold".
Right? The prosaic truth is that it corrected "would" (or some typo-laden version thereof) to "old" which I miscorrected to "woold". Which I am now rather attached to. It's got old woold charm. Or something.
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2012 1:14:18 pm PDT #16391 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love that googling children's tv aspidistras took me to precisely what I was looking for--The Adventure Game. I haven't watched many US kid's game shows, because the timing was wrong, but this British one was absolutely perfect.
Every episode the contestants travel to the planet Arg, and have to complete tasks in order to be able to come back to Earth. The inhabitants of Arg are Argonds, shapeshifter dragons. One of whom appears as the aforesearched aspidistra, named Rangdo.
The wikipedia entry is bugfuck nuts: [link]
The contestants had to complete a number of tasks in order to achieve their overall goal (e.g. regain their crystal and return to their ship). Many tasks involved the drogna, a small transparent plastic disc containing a solid geometric figure, which was the currency of Arg. The value of a drogna was its numbered position in the visible spectrum multiplied by the number of sides of the figure. For example, a red circle is worth one unit, an orange circle is worth two units, a red triangle and a yellow circle are both worth three, and so on.