Overheard outside my window this morning: "If it's a boy I'm calling him Fish Stick. If it's a girl I'm calling her Kilimanjaro."
love this. how I wish for context.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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.
le nubian - Aug 12, 2012 11:17:39 am PDT #17906 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
aurelia - Aug 12, 2012 11:19:44 am PDT #17907 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
They were walking by so that's all I heard.
erikaj - Aug 12, 2012 11:20:13 am PDT #17908 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
funny.
§ ita § - Aug 12, 2012 11:27:30 am PDT #17909 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hrrmph. I'm making my way through all the vanilla bean ice creams, and...how did I ever think the Haagen Dazs Five was good? It's so incredibly sweet there's no way I'm finishing the whole thing.
le nubian - Aug 12, 2012 11:44:42 am PDT #17910 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh I thought it was pretty good last time I had it.
what about the other HD?
Cashmere - Aug 12, 2012 11:47:32 am PDT #17911 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Have you had Graeter's vanilla, ita? or Jenni's?
msbelle - Aug 12, 2012 11:58:07 am PDT #17912 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Hil - any chance they were relatives living with them for a year or so. maybe for school, maybe until families immigrated? My dad had a cousin live with him for a year or so when he was growing up. I feel like there have been episodes of Who Do You Think You Are where they have found family members not in the home of their parents.
Hil R. - Aug 12, 2012 12:03:59 pm PDT #17913 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil - any chance they were relatives living with them for a year or so. maybe for school, maybe until families immigrated? My dad had a cousin live with him for a year or so when he was growing up. I feel like there have been episodes of Who Do You Think You Are where they have found family members not in the home of their parents.
That's what I would have thought if they'd been older or these were earlier censuses, but the kids are all preschool age, and it's with parts of the family that had been in the US for decades already. (One of the daughters of one of these families is still alive, and she suggested that if her parents or her aunt and uncle could have somehow gotten extra money by claiming some more kids, they would have had no qualms about inventing a few, but I don't think that the census would count for anything like that.)
Tom Scola - Aug 12, 2012 12:11:21 pm PDT #17914 of 30001
hwæt
To the couple playing Scrabble next to me in the bar: “RN” is not a word.
§ ita § - Aug 12, 2012 12:46:43 pm PDT #17915 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
what about the other HD?
I am only eating vanilla bean. I haven't tasted any of the other flavours.
Graeter's didn't wow me, but I didn't hate it. Would eat again. The supermarket that I went to that had Jeni's ice cream didn't have vanilla bean, but some of the flavours they had did look interesting. For when I'm finished with the bean.
I think I don't like Tahitian vanilla bean...I need one more example. I've had Talenti and one other brand, and there was a weird aftertaste.
By mistake I bought McConnell's twice (they changed the packaging), and they both had ice crystals in them, which messed with the experience.
I think Alden's vanilla bean is my favourite so far. Though--the Ralph's Private Selection Crushed Vanilla Bean's not bad, considering. And I haven't tried any ice cream stores--just brands available in supermarkets.