Thank you for checking in, msbelle. Glad you're out of the chaos.
Saving two million kids is good. Otherwise? Knock it off, universe.
Also, best healing vibes to Strix.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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.
Beverly - Apr 18, 2013 10:26:58 am PDT #19314 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Scrappy - Apr 18, 2013 10:43:58 am PDT #19315 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Quick healing vibes for Strix.
Hil R. - Apr 18, 2013 10:45:20 am PDT #19316 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oklahoma state representative uses "Jew me down" on the House floor. Then "apologizes" by saying that Jews are good businessmen. Is this 1955? [link]
Jessica - Apr 18, 2013 10:50:21 am PDT #19317 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Best comment on that story:
I knew there was a time difference between New York and Oklahoma, but I didn’t realize it was 60 years.
JZ - Apr 18, 2013 10:51:05 am PDT #19318 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Re Hil's link, oh UGH. Fuckin' people, man.
I've heard people use that expression twice in my hearing: The first one, when called on it, explained hastily and in Oklahoma-statesmanlike fashion that it was meant in an entirely complimentary way, because she has always had great admiration for the Jews -- after all, they're so thrifty!
The second person insisted that, gosh, it was just a homophone coincidence and it had nothing to do with Jewishness at all; when I insisted that yes, it really did, she said cheerfully, "Well, one of my best friends is Jewish, and we're hanging out tonight. I'll just ask him about it!" I bet that was one fun cocktail hour.
Toddson - Apr 18, 2013 10:52:52 am PDT #19319 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'd heard the expression years ago, but I was under the impression that it'd fallen out of use. Guess not.
shrift - Apr 18, 2013 10:53:11 am PDT #19320 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
There was that NH state rep who referred to women as "vaginas". Oh, excuse me, "vagina's" [sic]. It's all so charming: [link]
Hil R. - Apr 18, 2013 10:54:11 am PDT #19321 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The last time I heard that expression, I think, was when one of my college friends told me that she'd told her mother to stop using it.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 18, 2013 10:54:50 am PDT #19322 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was about 20 before I realized it wasn't "chew". I said something to my mother the next time she said it, and it turned out she was SAYING "chew" because that is what she thought it was too!
tommyrot - Apr 18, 2013 11:01:28 am PDT #19323 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.
I learned the phrase as a kid from my older brother, who was into buying and selling beer cans at flea markets. I don't know where he learned it--probably not from our parents.