Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.

Mal ,'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.


§ ita § - Jul 02, 2013 10:50:28 am PDT #27925 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

there is a real person named "Tuppence"? Like Tommy and Tuppence?

Sister to Ha'penny Farthing.

True story.


shrift - Jul 02, 2013 10:50:46 am PDT #27926 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

So... this is filming near my workplace.

Seems like a weird place to film something like that... oh, unless they're going for the dank, apocalyptic underworld toilet that is Lower Wacker.


Jessica - Jul 02, 2013 10:51:31 am PDT #27927 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

perhaps this belongs in white font, but I want to know how soon into the movie Sean Bean's character dies.

Aw, poor Sean Bean. That was my first thought too.


Jessica - Jul 02, 2013 10:52:52 am PDT #27928 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The Kitchn takes on the great Do You Switch Your Knife And Fork When You Eat? debate:

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Tom Scola - Jul 02, 2013 10:57:21 am PDT #27929 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Sean Bean should do an episode of SNL, where he gets killed off a third of the way through every sketch.


Theodosia - Jul 02, 2013 11:09:00 am PDT #27930 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I'm always charmed by the knowledge that traditionally the Stanley Cup gets shared around in turn by the members of the winning team -- meaning they each get to have that gaudy shiny thing in their living rooms, or put it in the passenger seat of their cars and drive around or whatever.


Liese S. - Jul 02, 2013 11:10:48 am PDT #27931 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Habits are crazy things. The SO & I have been successfully working out every day except for three scheduled off-days at the gym we joined for the summer.

It's actually going to really really suck when we go home. We will either need to join the gym that has maybe a half of the equipment of this one and really crappy pissy rude trainers and a general gym environment of oneupmanship, or the one that has probably a tenth of the equipment of this one and neutral people. We will really miss this one which has amazing equipment, but even more amazing, friendly, helpful, encouraging trainers.

But I've been really surprised we've been able to establish and keep up this new habit, even when our schedule has changes every week, and sometimes every day.

I still need to do more regular rehearsals, and I need to get the office work more up to speed. And next week will be disruptive because I'll be traveling, but not in a hotel, and the SO won't have the car. So we'll have to figure something out there.


Theodosia - Jul 02, 2013 11:11:35 am PDT #27932 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Sean Bean's string of early movie deaths is even more impressive in that he's not playing a villain usually, who are most likely to get whacked by the hero.


Liese S. - Jul 02, 2013 11:14:53 am PDT #27933 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I know! I am waiting for them to send me the Cup for my day with it. I'm pretty sure I've been following the Blackhawks for longer than some of the players.


askye - Jul 02, 2013 11:16:11 am PDT #27934 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

Not just put in their car - drink champagne out of it, eat lobster from it, let their dog eat from it, try to throw it in a pool (I think that's caused some damage), put kids in it, baptized a kid in it. And it's been temporarily lost.