So, on my way home from work there was a police checkpoint--they were ticketing everyone who was not wearing a seatbelt.
Of course, I always wear my seatbelt. But I haven't seen a police checkpoint in decades....
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
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 - May 16, 2012 2:36:43 pm PDT #5351 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.
Theodosia - May 16, 2012 2:47:56 pm PDT #5352 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
On the way home there was an ultra-fancy sportscar-coupe, which I couldn't figure out what kind it was. All it had for an emblem was a rearing horse, which I don't know. Clues?
Jesse - May 16, 2012 2:50:25 pm PDT #5353 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ferrari? [link]
§ ita § - May 16, 2012 2:54:29 pm PDT #5354 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd have told him to wait and see how he likes the e-mails I'd be sending to whoever was in charge of student e-mail privileges and academic honor codes at the university
He went on to TA me a year or so later, and I clearly remember being given 2 points on one the last assignments with the note "Merry Christmas!"
I was an amoral enough little shit at that time to take the extra grade and run with it, because he'd been trying to make me feel guilty for disliking him (I was young--I thought honesty like "I am not interested in you. I don't even like you as a person." would suffice to end the pursuit). So, yeah, I thought the bump of grades was the least I deserved.
I'd do it differently now, though. I'd have shut him down much more harshly (although I still don't know how that would be possible), and I'd have spat the spare grades back in his face,
All it had for an emblem was a rearing horse, which I don't know. Clues?
Theo? Ferrari?
tommyrot - May 16, 2012 2:59:03 pm PDT #5355 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.
Speaking of exotic sports cars, have people seen this?
Lamborghini crash video becomes YouTube sensation
Guy pulled out from a traffic light making a left turn, but hit the gas too hard and spun into oncoming traffic.
flea - May 16, 2012 3:10:42 pm PDT #5356 of 30001
information libertarian
My former coworker's cats made the NBC nightly news: [link]
Stephanie - May 16, 2012 3:22:36 pm PDT #5357 of 30001
Trust my rage
Some city workers were laying fiber optic cable near my house today and broke a gas line. Sammy and I have been "evacuated" for two hours with probably two more to go.
Jesse - May 16, 2012 3:27:53 pm PDT #5358 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes, Stephanie.
That cat story was hysterical.
flea - May 16, 2012 3:28:33 pm PDT #5359 of 30001
information libertarian
Where are you, Stephanie? At a friend's house or something?
Stephanie - May 16, 2012 3:31:22 pm PDT #5360 of 30001
Trust my rage
I'm at my parents' house. And they are in MN because of my grandmother. So we are actually fairly comfortable - just not at home. I have like two diapers with me but I can always break down and buy disposables at the store. Mostly, it's just inconvenient as long as nothing actually, you know, explodes.
(I think an explosion might break the windows on my house, but I can't see it turning into a giant fireball. But I'm wondering what keeps the explosion from traveling up the pipes to the houses.)