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Harmony: Somebody remembered to pick me up the sweetest unicorn. Guess someone was feeling guilty for standing me up in tenth grade. Brad: What? Had to get her something. She sired me. Peaches: Sire-whipped.
'Beneath You'
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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.
Trudy Booth - Jan 13, 2015 1:27:15 pm PST #14753 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Polter-Cow - Jan 13, 2015 1:29:00 pm PST #14754 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There was a My Name Is Earl about a memorial for a guy who had many friends online and I keep thinking about it.
I really liked that episode. It seems so rare for TV and movies to acknowledge that online friendships can be just as real and fulfilling—hell, moreso—as "real-life" friendships.
Nilly - Jan 13, 2015 1:32:25 pm PST #14755 of 30000
Swouncing
You know what I keep returning to, in Allyson's post?
Some of you guys posted upthread about how she was alone when it happened, and how it made things more difficult and more heartbreaking.
And Allyson wrote:
She found ita on the couch, with her laptop open. She had been reading her email when she passed.
And I don't care if it makes me a blind-spotted silver-line-er, but I can't help but think - no, not think, feel - that it somehow made her a little bit, a tiny bit, less alone, having the internet with her - not the technical parts of it, the computer parts, in which she was so good, but the people part, the way she connected through these technical and computer tools, with the hearts and souls of people.
I mean, we ache so much because there was such a connection, even for people who never met her in face-space. So I think it's not entirely my looking-for-any-sort-of-comfort in choosing to see this specific not-alone meaning in this line.
Sorry, I don't feel like I'm expressing myself properly. It's 1:30am here, and my eyes are burning from a combination of tears and can't-go-to-sleep-ness. This is not a good combination for coherent phrasing. Sorry.
Dana - Jan 13, 2015 1:33:35 pm PST #14756 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I thought the same thing, Nilly. It sounds like she just slipped away while online, and I find that comforting.
Polter-Cow - Jan 13, 2015 1:33:54 pm PST #14757 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Nilly, I wanted to make a similar comment, but I'm glad I just waited until you made it better for me.
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2015 1:33:54 pm PST #14758 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
She found ita on the couch, with her laptop open. She had been reading her email when she passed.
And I don't care if it makes me a blind-spotted silver-line-er, but I can't help but think - no, not think, feel - that it somehow made her a little bit, a tiny bit, less alone, having the internet with her - not the technical parts of it, the computer parts, in which she was so good, but the people part, the way she connected through these technical and computer tools, with the hearts and souls of people.
No, Nilly, I thought the same thing.
Ginger - Jan 13, 2015 1:34:04 pm PST #14759 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's true, Nilly. Because of y'all, I'm never feel alone as long as the computer is on and the interwebs are working.
Java cat - Jan 13, 2015 1:34:38 pm PST #14760 of 30000
Not javachik
I've cried a thousand times more than I did when my mother died two years ago, because: mom, a few weeks shy of 96 years old. This is so untimely.
erikaj - Jan 13, 2015 1:34:58 pm PST #14761 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
wrod.
Sheryl - Jan 13, 2015 1:39:47 pm PST #14762 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Checking in here now...
I'm stunned. I never met ita in person, but she was so much a part of this board that it's going to be weird here without her.
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