Yikes, Stephanie.
That cat story was hysterical.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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 - May 16, 2012 3:27:53 pm PDT #5358 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
flea - May 16, 2012 3:28:33 pm PDT #5359 of 30001
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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.)
Tom Scola - May 16, 2012 4:00:41 pm PDT #5361 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It hinged upon demon and daemon and UNIX and eunuchs sounding the same
You know that the name Unix was supposed to be a pun, right? It was MULTICS with the balls cut off.
Jessica - May 16, 2012 4:07:19 pm PDT #5362 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And the phrase "fire drill" was used.
I can't even tell you how long it took me to realize that this was a figure of speech. Like seven or eight rescheduled conference calls before I finally just asked.
§ ita § - May 16, 2012 4:07:27 pm PDT #5363 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know that the name Unix was supposed to be a pun, right? It was MULTICS with the balls cut off.
I doubt I knew it at the time, and I'm pretty sure he didn't. It was the gripping story of a computer nerd getting in over his head because he invoked a demon when he was supposed to be running a daemon, and he doesn't understand what the strange people are saying about his OS.
And then I (woefully underaged) (named Ethelerita, but always called ita) get acid thrown in my face. I still shiver.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 16, 2012 4:30:24 pm PDT #5364 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
And the phrase "fire drill" was used.
I can't even tell you how long it took me to realize that this was a figure of speech. Like seven or eight rescheduled conference calls before I finally just asked.
I'd always heard the expression with a very un-PC "Chinese" on the front.
§ ita § - May 16, 2012 4:50:03 pm PDT #5365 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Magically, I have gotten this far and I don't think I've ever had that used in a meeting I was in. Or, well, not in any context in which I could have (or wanted to) worked out what it meant.
Blissful sort of ignorance, this is.
However, a Chinese fire drill was always the game you played at the lights were everyone got out the car and went in a different door.
tommyrot - May 16, 2012 4:54:48 pm PDT #5366 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.
For us, a Chinese fire drill was when everybody got out of the car and ran completely around the car and then got back in (the same door one got out of).
amych - May 16, 2012 4:58:28 pm PDT #5367 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Granted, I'm not so much the corporate type, but I was completely unfamiliar with "fire drill" other than (a) Chinese, with car doors, or (b) the literal kind which used to happen several times a week at the looni, usually mid-meeting.