'Safe'
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.
I grew up knowing people who told elaborate lies, so I occasionally catch myself thinking about how easy it would be to pull a fast one. Not that I would.
Today I finally got information on my promotion regarding the compensation piece, and it was not disappointing. I see retail therapy in my future.
I see retail therapy in my future.
In Hawaii?
And besides, we already had a theremin playing actuary who went to MIT and a Gothic etiquette expert and a witty British woman teaching in Cairo and Bangkok and a Jamaican woman who was the child of a diplomat and a scientist, grew up in London and became an expert in computers and martial arts.
Yeah, that was the thing. How was a half-Irish black college instructor with a brilliant Korean chemist for a girlfriend and who got bit by a monkey in Africa that unlikely, compared to ita?
The conversation I had with him about my imaginary Encyclopedia of Lost Pop Cultural Tropes was something he found useful.
DUDE. I get so pissed off every time I see TVTropes linked in a major public forum. He didn't build that thing himself!
In Hawaii?
Sure! I only got to see one island, so clearly I need to go back and spend a lot of money on sushi.
In other news, someone who is, apparently, EXACTLY what he appeared to be: Married actor spends plane flight hitting on seat neighbor, who live-tweets the whole thing. To 13,000 followers.
Oh, that sounds like fun.
To read, anyway. Maybe not fun for the actor's seat neighbor. And not for the actor at this point.
Oh, SNAP. So freaking busted. That is a thing of beauty.
And I like her self-mocking when he calls her an artist.
And besides, we already had a theremin playing actuary who went to MIT and a Gothic etiquette expert and a witty British woman teaching in Cairo and Bangkok and a Jamaican woman who was the child of a diplomat and a scientist, grew up in London and became an expert in computers and martial arts.
Lori helped build the rovers and is a noted participant of Dog in Elk.
Emilyn was (is?) a NYT writer, right?
erinaceous put words in the dictionary.
jengod was on jeopardy.
This place is like MAGIC.
amych,
that's some good shit.
I wonder what his wife thinks. I wonder if he is back in AA.
The first lead carpenter I worked under claimed to be 30; to have parachuted into Panama and watched most of his comrades get shot out of the sky and then spent days hiding in the mud waiting for rescue; to be a LifeFlight pilot; to be friends with some country star and have met Reba McEntire; and on and on and on.
All lies, even his age. He was 27 and had a heart attack on the job site, and I started talking to the other guy (small company) and it was bullshit, every bit. I just didn't expect to be lied to. I'm less gullible now, but I still take most of what people tell me at face value.