Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


Hil R. - Jul 24, 2013 8:47:45 am PDT #222 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

To white land-owning women, yeah?

White women, at any rate. Preferably educated ones. I think the land-owning thing was a separate issue, since in a bunch of states, women weren't allowed to own land under most circumstances. (I think that they could inherit it from a man, but couldn't buy it themselves, or something like that.)


Jesse - Jul 24, 2013 8:48:15 am PDT #223 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh yeah, le n, that sounds excessive, but better than the no-info way of things?


Amy - Jul 24, 2013 8:48:42 am PDT #224 of 30000
Because books.

(I think that they could inherit it from a man, but couldn't buy it themselves, or something like that.)

That sounds right, I think.


§ ita § - Jul 24, 2013 8:55:03 am PDT #225 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I read that before I asked, Tom. But after that, the article notes she also supported interracial marriage, sent congrats to Douglass against the advice of Anthony, etc. She seemed to be really offensive about jockeying for position (but also claimed black men already had the vote), which is why I wonder what the impact was, because the stuff she was pro put her ahead of the pack--but if she damaged the lives of black people then it makes more sense.

There are black women ditching "official" feminist movements because they can't get what Stanton apparently took for granted:

Speaking on behalf of black women, she stated that not allowing them to vote condemned African American freedwomen "to a triple bondage that man never knows," that of slavery, gender, and race.

That's why I ask.


Jesse - Jul 24, 2013 8:55:18 am PDT #226 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

ISTG. I had six hours to do stuff today including write a cover letter, and have used up five of them doing nothing! This is why I'm no good at staycation -- I am way too good at procrastinating.


Hil R. - Jul 24, 2013 8:57:41 am PDT #227 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My tasks today are to unpack suitcases (ugh), go through mail (not ugh, but boring), and work on putting together a scrapbook of my France trip (fun!) I think I'll do the mail first, just to get it out of the way and have something done. I've made a rule that I can't start working on scrapbook stuff until all my suitcases are unpacked.


flea - Jul 24, 2013 9:22:03 am PDT #228 of 30000
information libertarian

Bow before my librarian-fu: The patron approached wanting to know the name of a "country singer who died recently of throat cancer." Said singer had a song about falling out of bed and everybody laughing. He played the guitar and wore glasses.

The correct answer? Robin Gibb. (No, I never found out what the song about falling out of bed might have been.)


WindSparrow - Jul 24, 2013 9:28:44 am PDT #229 of 30000
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.

That is mighty mighty librarian-fu, flea.


Fred Pete - Jul 24, 2013 9:32:03 am PDT #230 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.

The correct answer? Robin Gibb. (No, I never found out what the song about falling out of bed might have been.)

The song was almost certainly "I Started a Joke." Although falling out of bed, hurting his head was from a different part of the song than when he started to cry, which started the whole world laughing.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 24, 2013 9:38:01 am PDT #231 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Is Robin Gibb a BeeGee?