I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


§ ita § - Feb 14, 2013 7:10:57 am PST #11320 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Consuela, 1 and 3 in the same list are bad ju ju. Just sayin'...

American recently let me check a bag for free

It depends on the price of your ticket. The ticket I bought going to Jamaica included free checking of my bag, the one coming back to LA didn't. And no, I saw nowhere in the legibly sized print of kayak.com or wherever I bought it that told me this. In fact, I'd been assuming that international got you bags. Ah, no.


Consuela - Feb 14, 2013 7:15:52 am PST #11321 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I can't believe people are STILL replying to that test message! OMG.

American recently let me check a bag for free

I'm flying to Denver next week to ski for four days, and Southwest will count a ski bag and a boot bag together as one bag, which is awesome. So I don't have to pay extra to fly my gear.


sumi - Feb 14, 2013 7:23:07 am PST #11322 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

It looks like I'm right on the border of Sangamon and Gary.


tommyrot - Feb 14, 2013 7:25:24 am PST #11323 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.

The state Chicago's in is Gary?

Reminds me of the Pootie Tang movie, in which it is revealed that Pootie grew up in suburb of Gary called Chicago.


sumi - Feb 14, 2013 7:42:42 am PST #11324 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Yes, Chicago is in Gary.


Hil R. - Feb 14, 2013 7:43:36 am PST #11325 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I think Chicago is its own state -- aren't the all-caps names the state names?


Jessica - Feb 14, 2013 7:57:19 am PST #11326 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Hivemind, help me with a research project. Can you think of any impromptu speeches (i.e. not written in advance), or any speeches that could inspire empathy? Has to be post-1950 (i.e. has a chance of being found in a broadcast news archive) and nothing from MLK since we've already pulled all of his that we can use.

We have a decent list already, but I'm hoping the brilliant Buffistas can add to it.


DavidS - Feb 14, 2013 7:58:09 am PST #11327 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

or any speeches that could inspire empathy?

Rodney King's "can't we all just get along" speech.


Consuela - Feb 14, 2013 7:59:22 am PST #11328 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

...and the emails are still rolling in. "Please take me off this distribution list!" Interspersed with the occasional desperate "STOP REPLYING TO ALL!"

It's amazing. You could take down the entire DHS this way, I suspect: even when the volume isn't apparently slowing the system, we're all watching the parade with gleeful shadenfreude.


Jesse - Feb 14, 2013 8:09:05 am PST #11329 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

...and the emails are still rolling in. "Please take me off this distribution list!" Interspersed with the occasional desperate "STOP REPLYING TO ALL!"

That shit is classic.

Can you think of any impromptu speeches (i.e. not written in advance)

I'd be surprised if there were many of those post-1950, really.