This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


Toddson - Feb 04, 2015 5:55:44 am PST #18248 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

This was a slightly startling juxtaposition:

... fiberglass goats?

I hate it when that happens.

DC did a couple of these - one year it was pandas, another it was donkeys and elephants. Some of them are still around - once they were all painted, they were auctioned off for some cause; they're in yards around town, many of them worse for the wear.

Juliebird, could you take one of the fiberglass goats and use it to mould pieces of the chicken wire around? then use a different wire to hold the pieces together. It would probably be a bit sturdier than trying to do it freehand.

And, for your amusement, last summer a local nursery had a "compost appreciation day".


-t - Feb 04, 2015 5:55:54 am PST #18249 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I just changed a "whom" to "who" in a Google doc. I'm pretty sure no one will notice, but I am giddy with righteous grammar correction.


-t - Feb 04, 2015 5:56:28 am PST #18250 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I appreciate compost!


Steph L. - Feb 04, 2015 5:57:38 am PST #18251 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Some of them are still around - once they were all painted, they were auctioned off for some cause; they're in yards around town, many of them worse for the wear.

We had pigs, and it's amusing to drive down a residential street and see a giant fiberglass pained pig on someone's porch. A lot of businesses bought them, too, and put them in their lobbies.

I just changed a "whom" to "who" in a Google doc. I'm pretty sure no one will notice, but I am giddy with righteous grammar correction.

I hear angels singing.

I appreciate compost!

Me, too! It's awesome! And since we started composting food waste, our trash output is pretty small and (most importantly) doesn't stink up the kitchen. We loved vacationing in California, because of the compost containers in the rental places we stayed. The owner of the cottage in Mendocino was tickled that we were so excited about her compost bin.

We are dorks.


-t - Feb 04, 2015 6:06:38 am PST #18252 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

::compost nerd high five::


Connie Neil - Feb 04, 2015 6:14:35 am PST #18253 of 30000
brillig

Oh, the arthritis is bad today. If you're going to storm, just do it already! I need my hands! And my shoulder. And my hip.


aurelia - Feb 04, 2015 6:22:21 am PST #18254 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Meara, if you're near Kitchen Table I recommend it. [link]

I feel like my neck and my skull are engaged in a blood feud.


Calli - Feb 04, 2015 6:25:20 am PST #18255 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I love having a compost bin out back. Twice a year I harvest the stuff on the bottom for my garden. It's not quite optimized on brown-to-green composition and moisture, so I usually end up with eggshell-speckled mud to smear around the perennials. But my rose is growing like some sort of mutant monster, and my salvias couldn't be healthier.


Maria - Feb 04, 2015 6:34:19 am PST #18256 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

You know what sucks? Flying with an incipient migraine, accompanied by nausea. I can't figure out if it's because I dared to have 2 drinks last night, ate too much, or didn't eat enough. How's that for narrowing down the possibilities? One more flight to go.


tommyrot - Feb 04, 2015 6:34:59 am PST #18257 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

On the farm, all leftover food stuff that was not suitable for the barn cats was put in the manure spreader and used to fertilize the fields.

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