VERY nice.
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
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.
Scrappy - Jul 04, 2013 3:11:24 pm PDT #28241 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
§ ita § - Jul 04, 2013 3:27:51 pm PDT #28242 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm curious as to how the reportage established that the baby was in fact a tasty one
Toe sampling. It's like you've never seen babies.
That looks great, sarameg!
I have a number of shirts that require inspection--not least of all because some of the text faces down, and sometimes right and left--the "Speak slowly, I'm a natural blonde" one is especially impacted by the terrain. But my Karma Chameleon shirt takes some people some processing time (as does my Dark Knight in chess set, etc). Coincidentally, last time I wore my Wonder Woman shirt with bon/bob I was asked if it was wrestling-related.
The cheek! Sheer, unadulterated, cheek!
Jesse - Jul 04, 2013 3:28:34 pm PDT #28243 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sorry about your grandmother, Jesse. Seems like a bad day to have to be at the ER with all the firecracker and bbq-related injuries.
It's just her throat thing, which is better than her heart thing, and it sounded like they got seen right away, so not the worst. But seriously, my poor mother!
DavidS - Jul 04, 2013 4:00:12 pm PDT #28244 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Shameless begging for anyone with clicks to spare. My Dude now gets paid 10 cents a click for every repeat visitor to his blog site at Forbes. He used to just get paid per visitor--and he did all right on his own. If you feel like visiting five times every single day from now on, that would be fabulous. Or, you know, once or twice a week.
Ten clicks! Slap my hand up high!
Typo Boy - Jul 04, 2013 4:27:32 pm PDT #28245 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
When conversation turned to Brendan Behan, it occurred to me that he was one of the few people I knew of who could engage in extended self-deprecating humor without it sounding like pride in being a jackass on the one hand, or self-hatred on the other. Then it occurred to me that maybe the Irish, and Scots, and Brits and Welsh are better at that than Americans. Bob Newhart managed it sometimes. Do any other names (literary, stand-up comedian or whatever occur to you? Any nationality - not limited to English speaking.) Who else can do self-deprecating humor well without self-hatred or pride in jackassery?
WindSparrow - Jul 04, 2013 4:44:27 pm PDT #28246 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
sarameg, that is a lovely garden!
§ ita § - Jul 04, 2013 5:12:04 pm PDT #28247 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Louis CK does self-deprecating humour. Dave Chappelle does too. I've never thought of it as something restricted to a population more defined than "pulls off self-deprecation." I have suddenly forgotten the name of every other comedian I would normally think of, but I'm sure you could throw a rock at female comedians and hit quite a few that use it--and a few that use it as a crutch.
(Who is Behan, and when did conversation turn to him? I'm kinda missing a leadup here.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 04, 2013 5:13:54 pm PDT #28248 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Who else can do self-deprecating humor well without self-hatred or pride in jackassery?
Mike Birbiglia would be a prime example.
WindSparrow - Jul 04, 2013 5:15:02 pm PDT #28249 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Kate P. - Jul 04, 2013 5:31:00 pm PDT #28250 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Dear neighbors, if the VERY LOUD firecrackers you are setting off in your driveway set my house on fire, or more importantly, wake up my kid, I will stuff the next one down your pants and then light the fuse.