Especially for Teppy: this is as good an argument for the existence of God as any....
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
tommyrot - Apr 09, 2013 5:25:24 am PDT #17781 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.
sarameg - Apr 09, 2013 5:26:31 am PDT #17782 of 30001
It's supposed to hit 85 here today. And 90 tomorrow!
We usually have one week in April that sees me breaking out the AC, only to not need it again until June. This might be it! But usually there is some ramp-up to it. Not so much this year....
Jesse - Apr 09, 2013 5:30:35 am PDT #17783 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Randomly came across this thing by someone who didn't like seeing Bert and Ernie on the marriage equality thing, and enjoyed it: [link]
Bert and Ernie are not gay.
Peppermint Patty and Marcie are gay--sweet fancy Moses, are Peppermint Patty and Marcie gay--but not Bert and Ernie.
Bert and Ernie are fundamentally good people who are too socially dysfunctional to form romantic relationships. Maybe they are queer, but not for each other. And that's an important message too. Kids grow up in a Noah's-Ark world. Little gay kids need to look out into the world and see themselves reflected, and so do little weird kids. Bert and Ernie showed that even awkward, unromantic people can aspire to a joyful domestic life. That you didn't have to find a prince to live happily ever after--just a pal. Marriage equality is important, but so is the equality of non-marriage: of friendship, of solitude.
That, to me, is what Bert and Ernie stand for.
Steph L. - Apr 09, 2013 5:32:25 am PDT #17784 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Especially for Teppy: this is as good an argument for the existence of God as any....
That's hilarious!
Marriage equality is important, but so is the equality of non-marriage: of friendship, of solitude.
That, to me, is what Bert and Ernie stand for.
Awww, that's pretty awesome.
Liese S. - Apr 09, 2013 5:37:00 am PDT #17785 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It's supposed to hit 85 here today. And 90 tomorrow!
It was 63 here yesterday! And it's still coming down in big giant clumpy flakes.
The wind blew the bird feeding station apart yesterday so I'd better get out there and reassemble. I was just thinking I was probably done with feeding for the year, but apparently not! Seriously, maybe half a foot of snow or so? Yay spring!
Amy - Apr 09, 2013 5:39:07 am PDT #17786 of 30001
Because books.
That you didn't have to find a prince to live happily ever after--just a pal. Marriage equality is important, but so is the equality of non-marriage: of friendship, of solitude.
So excellent. I think Bert would approve, too.
-t - Apr 09, 2013 5:42:01 am PDT #17787 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's take me until today to decide, but I think my favorite Sesame Street muppets must have been Cookie Monster and Oscar.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 09, 2013 5:43:29 am PDT #17788 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Ugh. We just had another round of layoffs here. Again, I dodged the bullet (as did everyone on my team - we're currently the revenue generators, at least for the foreseeable future), but it's still a gut punch. Some folks who'd been here quite a while too.
Burrell - Apr 09, 2013 5:43:58 am PDT #17789 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Marriage equality is important, but so is the equality of non-marriage: of friendship, of solitude.
She has a point about non-marriage getting unfairly dinged. As for Bert and Ernie, I always think of them as the kid version of The Odd Couple.
Nora Deirdre - Apr 09, 2013 5:46:29 am PDT #17790 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
We just had another round of layoffs here. Again, I dodged the bullet (as did everyone on my team - we're currently the revenue generators, at least for the foreseeable future), but it's still a gut punch. Some folks who'd been here quite a while too.
Wow, are things just not bouncing back for your industry, or is this a more generalized slash-and-burn corporate philosophy?