Wow, Patty Duke died, and she was only 69. What is it about that age recently?
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
Willow ,'Him'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
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.
Dana - Mar 29, 2016 9:29:53 am PDT #18569 of 30003
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Jesse - Mar 29, 2016 9:30:21 am PDT #18570 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Patty Duke died. [link]
Shocking thing from that obit -- her real name, Anna, was "too ethnic" for Hollywood?!? Does that mean Catholic?
Jesse - Mar 29, 2016 9:30:39 am PDT #18571 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jinx.
Connie Neil - Mar 29, 2016 9:33:34 am PDT #18572 of 30003
brillig
her real name, Anna, was "too ethnic" for Hollywood?!? Does that mean Catholic?
Maybe Catholic, maybe too Eastern/Southern European. Good Anglo-Saxons are called Ann/Anne.
Dana - Mar 29, 2016 9:39:00 am PDT #18573 of 30003
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Too Irish?
Maria - Mar 29, 2016 9:46:06 am PDT #18574 of 30003
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
Liese, I'm so sorry.
Scola, enjoy your unexpected freedom!
Woo hoo for plumbing!
Sophia Brooks - Mar 29, 2016 9:47:42 am PDT #18575 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am so sorry for your loss Liese.
Jesse - Mar 29, 2016 9:47:52 am PDT #18576 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I guess "ethnic" is always non-WASP, right? (Whichever letter you focus on.) Anna just seems so innocuous to me. It's not like her name was Saoirse or Agnieszka.
Toddson - Mar 29, 2016 9:50:10 am PDT #18577 of 30003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It was the '50s, wasn't it? the great bland wasteland ... popular names were Cathy/Kathy, Karen, Linda, Susan, Mary ... and perkiness was probably a factor.
Steph L. - Mar 29, 2016 9:51:32 am PDT #18578 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm having impostor syndrome SO badly that now I'm laughing at myself and realizing that maybe I'm just actually good at my job.
The freelance coordinator has sent me consistently fantastic feedback (using phrases like "excellent editing" and multiple exclamation points) over the last couple of weeks. And I have brushed it off with the following excuses:
1. Well, I edited that while I was hopped up on migraine meds, so maybe I need to be tripping balls to edit well.
2. Well, I've been tapering off my Lexapro for the past 2 weeks, so maybe it was making my brain fuzzy while I was taking it but now that I'm going off it my brain is working properly and I'm editing well.
[NOTE: Numbers 1 and 2 kind of contradict each other. Either I'm a good editor because of drugs or I'm a good editor because of not-drugs.]
3. Well, really, the articles she's given me in the past 2 weeks were easy ones, even if they were long.
4. Well, I'm probably more alert because it's spring and there's more sunlight, so I'm editing better.
By the time I got to #4, I realized how completely ridiculous I sound and that, DAMN, lady, you have impostor syndrome big time and maybe shut up and accept that you're good at what you do.
(Though I still secretly think it's the drugs. Seriously, I was tripping BALLS last Thursday, and that was the article I got 4 exclamation marks on.)