Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.

'War Stories'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DebetEsse - Dec 15, 2014 6:19:52 pm PST #12706 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Ginger, me, too on the Frost from L'Engle!


erikaj - Dec 15, 2014 6:40:10 pm PST #12707 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Unfortunately, TV stuff probably took up a lot of my poetry-memorizing faculties. I totally think of Coach in re Albania also so whatever my mom thinks, I'm not really like Rachel Maddow. I did just quote that Homicide thing about Montel Williams to Montel Williams, for what that's worth.


-t - Dec 15, 2014 6:48:07 pm PST #12708 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I did just quote that Homicide thing about Montel Williams to Montel Williams, for what that's worth.

For real? What an age we live in where such things are possible.


§ ita § - Dec 15, 2014 6:50:00 pm PST #12709 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I see nothing wrong with spreading myself around!

I was the only one of us two that got spread, so...

TMI? Yeah.

Tone Loc's Spunky Cold Medina just came on, and after said ex-roomie tried to bang my BF on his way out of Montreal, I caught up with him, staying in my cousin's house near the Spadina metro stop. Oh, we sang. Spunky cold spadina!

(she's the friend that knew Zoe and posted here for sec).

As for memorisation, I do remember committing the hobbit songs to memory on a driving trip from London up through the Lake District and southern Scotland. I think I even knew my parents were driven to life-ending despair. But I was 15 at the most, so I didn't care.

I can't spell it right, but:

Ash nagz durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nasg thrakasomething, agh b-something krimpatul.

What? It's hard.

eta:

What an age we live in where such things are possible

It is miraculous, cf wondrous man poem from whoever.


dcp - Dec 15, 2014 7:30:02 pm PST #12710 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

it sure is nice to have "official" tunes to go with most of the songs!

When I get to the Lake-men singing "The King beneath the mountains" I always hear it to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."


erikaj - Dec 15, 2014 7:41:06 pm PST #12711 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

t, it's true, but if he hasn't heard of it, I may look crazy, even if we are now pissed off at the same jerky Senator.


meara - Dec 15, 2014 8:02:16 pm PST #12712 of 30000

There was a recipe on the back of the butterscotch chips for what I think were called "Scotch Oaties." My mother used to make them.

Oatmeal scotchies! They're good, though I find them almost TOO sweet. Sometimes I add semi-sweet chocolate chips to cut it.


Zenkitty - Dec 15, 2014 10:35:41 pm PST #12713 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

It's percent volume, and it could be high because you have more red blood cells or because you have less plasma.

Thanks, -t, that makes sense, then, that both dehydration and hypoxia can cause it. Not sure which one it is for me, but I think I'll start drinking more plain water.


§ ita § - Dec 16, 2014 1:09:58 am PST #12714 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My shoulder feels like I'm being stabbed repeatedly. What is my life?


sarameg - Dec 16, 2014 2:43:41 am PST #12715 of 30000

checking

Nope, still hating everything.