You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


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.


beth b - Nov 10, 2012 10:28:54 am PST #301 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

the only forms of birth control that are 100% are abstinence and surgery to stop fertitltiy. So it seems to be logical to be prochoice.

I've pretty much been and education/environmental voter . I didn't think I needed to be a civil rights voter. But I do.

good luck sarameg.

glad you didn't blow up meara

today is one of the first cold days in the bayarea - so that means beef stew !


brenda m - Nov 10, 2012 10:29:13 am PST #302 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Plus a jack russel staring down a gang of kangaroos. Must be hard to be a terrier out here.

If cartoons have taught me anything, that dog is in some trouble. (If knowing JRs has taught me anything, he don't care.)


sarameg - Nov 10, 2012 10:31:01 am PST #303 of 30001

I think he must be stuck until people run them off (I love long walks at sunrise when I'm not at home.)


Cashmere - Nov 10, 2012 10:39:09 am PST #304 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I'm sharing this here because I am still glowing.

This is the conversation I had with Owen this afternoon on the way to bowl with the cub scouts:

Owen: "Mom, what was Othello's flaw?"
Me: "What?"
Owen: "Othello. Most of Shakespeare's lead characters have flaws."
Me: "Well, I'd say it was lack of trust. He didn't trust his wife and it made it easy for Iago to trick him into killing her."
Owen: "Oh. I know what Hamlet's flaw was. Indecision."
Me: "You're exactly right."
Owen: "What's your favorite film adaptation of Shakespeare's plays?"
Me: "Romeo and Juliet. Franco Zeffirelli did a great job with that."
Owen: "The one from the 60s with Leonard Whiting?"
Me: "Yes. Leonard Whiting played Romeo and Olivia Hussy played Juliet."
Owen: "Yes. In 1968."
Me: "But I also loved Kenneth Brannaugh's Henry V."
Owen: "You know, Kenneth Brannaugh is SIR Kenneth Brannaugh now. He was knighted."


le nubian - Nov 10, 2012 10:40:27 am PST #305 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

So, I'm reading more about Petraeus and his affair with his biographer Broadwell and this whole situation is a trip. Apparently, Broadwell became jealous of another woman (not P's wife) who he was close to and sent this woman threatening email messages. Said woman "was so frightened that she went to the FBI for protection."

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What.a.clusterfuck. Homeboy has a real life "fatal attraction" going on.


le nubian - Nov 10, 2012 10:41:16 am PST #306 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Damn Cash. that is pretty awesome.

When is going to get to Mark Twain? :-)


Cashmere - Nov 10, 2012 10:48:07 am PST #307 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I'm still freaking. He then told me how Richard the III made the audience feel sorry for him at the end because he had lost everything and was dying in battle without a horse, shouting, "A horse, a horse! My Kingdom for a horse!"


Atropa - Nov 10, 2012 10:51:41 am PST #308 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Okay, who wants to go shopping with me? I need to buy a couple of pairs of shoes and a couple of jackets or cardigans for work, and I don't want to do it online.

CURSE THIS LACK OF TELEPORTATION.

Awww, Owen! So awesome!


sj - Nov 10, 2012 10:53:11 am PST #309 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

How old is Owen again? t boggles


Cashmere - Nov 10, 2012 10:54:28 am PST #310 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

He is a 42 year old trapped in an 8 year old body.