Yay for Sox!sister! Both for the race and the.....other stuff.
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
Angel ,'Sleeper'
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.
chrismg - Sep 25, 2013 12:47:01 pm PDT #6637 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
le nubian - Sep 25, 2013 12:51:37 pm PDT #6638 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Connie lays down the gauntlet:
Try the joke on us and see if we laugh.
The setup: [link]
Someone replied with:
Career man must sort through 300 pairs of jeans to find ones that perfectly fit his girlfriend to earn her marriage proposal
To which I replied:
"Reader, I married him!"
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2013 12:52:22 pm PDT #6639 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Even I get that joke. Come on!
shrift - Sep 25, 2013 12:56:59 pm PDT #6640 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am the onerous taskmaster today.
shrift - Sep 25, 2013 12:58:22 pm PDT #6641 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Wait, there are people who DON'T love a "Reader, I married him!" joke? I don't want to know those people.
msbelle - Sep 25, 2013 1:08:35 pm PDT #6642 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am stuck in onerous task hell today.
Sue - Sep 25, 2013 1:09:30 pm PDT #6643 of 30000
hip deep in pie
"Reader, I married him!"
How can you not love a "Reader, I married him!" reference.
You know, somedays I get kind of depressed that I feel permanently single. Then I read about people like the 300 sandwiches couple and I swear I will never date again. Jesus Christ, I would set that guy on fire.
Juliebird - Sep 25, 2013 1:15:32 pm PDT #6644 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Work this week sucks. I'm still sick, am trying to finish designing and submitting the spring bulb order, and I can't get anything done. Why? Because as awesome as I find new boss lady, she's a fucking storyteller. I think I've probably lost two or three hours to listening to her ramble about lectures she's attended and other garden's philosophies.
And if I was healthy, I'd just compensate by working late, but I am still so rundown that I can barely work a full 8 hour day, let alone quickly, because I'm just really not all here yet. And I also feel like a jerk because I can't spare time for the intern other than "go do that".
Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2013 1:24:12 pm PDT #6645 of 30000
brillig
I was reading the comments on the 300 sandwiches story, and one said, roughly "Ace casting on Benedict Cumberbatch. But who for the artisanal butcher who was there for her the whole time but she didn't realize it?" "Mark Ruffalo" was the reply.
I thought of us.
brenda m - Sep 25, 2013 1:26:12 pm PDT #6646 of 30000
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
The story is like something out of a fairytale, one of those weird old German ones you can't read to kids, where an peasant girl's stepmother forces her to make 300 sandwiches for the Devil, and then a series of horrible things happen to the girl, and at the end of the story she freezes to death.
Love this.