Timelies all!
After being offline for two days, am trying to catch up before I go away for the weekend.(Annual FSGW Getaway- lots of music-folk and related)
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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 - Sep 27, 2012 3:03:21 pm PDT #23750 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
le nubian - Sep 27, 2012 3:03:37 pm PDT #23751 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I always feel sorry about the retail people who have to listen to the same Christmas carols over and over.
yes. I worked in retain during christmas season for about 5 years. to this day, I can only take christmas carols in small quantities. And no muzak carols at all.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2012 3:04:25 pm PDT #23752 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That sports one would make more sense to me if there weren't humans involved in the random number generation. If you can see that guy break his leg and still finish the race and think "weighted random numbers" then, yeah, sports are not your things, but I don't know how 'random' applies, as opposed to 'meaningless'. People, man. People strive, and people excel. That's never not made sense to me, even in sports that leave me entirely cold--they're just excelling at something that doesn't get my knickers dirty.
askye - Sep 27, 2012 3:27:43 pm PDT #23753 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I worked at a retail video store when Jurassic Park came out and that's all my manager played for at least a week. He had 2 tapes open so while 1 was rewinding the other could be playing.
We didn't have corporate tapes to play so there was a lot of random stuff played including Red Dwarf and Black Adder. One assistant manager really liked the sound track for Silverado so that got played a lot.
Then I worked at Blockbuster when Titanic came out on video. Blockbuster had specific tapes that you had to play with previews and fake news segments. And during that time Celine singing My Heart Will Go On.
Cashmere - Sep 27, 2012 3:33:31 pm PDT #23754 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
sarameg - Sep 27, 2012 3:36:27 pm PDT #23755 of 30001
Summer I was a nanny, the kids watched Star Wars, the Phantom, Independence Day and Jurassic Park ALL SUMMER LONG. It took me a long time to forget the dialog I involuntarily committed to memory.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 27, 2012 4:08:27 pm PDT #23756 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I did just think of a fun retail teevee memory- at Penney's, the tvs in the Young Men's department actually got a signal, so my firend in that department and I used to watch Jeopardy every night we the worked together. Luckily, the manager on duty that night loved us, and thought it was hysterical, and so did the customers (we were pretty competative.
Cashmere - Sep 27, 2012 4:58:29 pm PDT #23757 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Today while I was volunteering in Owen's class, his teacher asked me, in the course of conversation, if I had ever heard of Rumchata. She and I are going to get along just fine. Also, I know what to get her for Christmas.
meara - Sep 27, 2012 5:21:29 pm PDT #23758 of 30001
What is rumchata? Autocorrect wants it to be "rum hats". Which would be a great Christmas present. I'm picturing it like those hats at football games that hold two beers and have straws to your mouth. Only with rum. And maybe a Santa hat.
Cass - Sep 27, 2012 5:36:22 pm PDT #23759 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I'm picturing it like those hats at football games that hold two beers and have straws to your mouth. Only with rum. And maybe a Santa hat.
And a warrant for your arrest. Inevitably.
But I also don't know what Rumchata is. (I want to scream, "Let's get ready to Ruuuuummmchata!")