Aw, Dorothy Parker, well done.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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.
-t - Aug 20, 2015 5:24:27 am PDT #3679 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gudanov - Aug 20, 2015 5:30:33 am PDT #3680 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
Dorothy Parker bequeathed her estate, including the profits from her works, to Martin Luther King. Upon his death, they passed to the NAACP.
Which is why her remains are now in a memorial garden at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, after they were in her attorney's file cabinet for about 15 years.
Connie Neil - Aug 20, 2015 5:44:45 am PDT #3681 of 30003
brillig
Definitely against jet bridges not working.
When I flew into Vegas last month, the bridges at the gates were apparently not compatible with the plane, because they had a ramp down to the tarmac, then another ramp up to the jet bridge. Not what you want to discover at the end of a trip when you're arriving in the middle of a hundred-plus degree summer afternoon. On the way back, when my hip was hurting, I claimed "If anyone may need assistance boarding" early walk-on privileges because we had to do that whole mess again.
meara - Aug 20, 2015 5:56:36 am PDT #3682 of 30003
Neat, Dorothy Parker!
Apparently there were no stairs to be found--we could SEE some but they said "those are Delta's stairs, they won't let us borrow them". Ridiculous. Though a part of me was hoping for emergency slide!
No plans? Suppose that makes me think "success" might POSSIBLY be defined differently be different people?
Jesse - Aug 20, 2015 6:02:20 am PDT #3683 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Today's random bit of information: upon her death, Dorothy Parker bequeathed her estate, including the profits from her works, to Martin Luther King. Upon his death, they passed to the NAACP.
That's fantastic.
-t - Aug 20, 2015 6:07:08 am PDT #3684 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Suppose that makes me think "success" might POSSIBLY be defined differently be different people?
Hahahaha, what a silly idea!
I would think being stuck on a tarmac with no way to get off the plane would constitute an emergency, fwtw. And I'm generally pro-slide.
tommyrot - Aug 20, 2015 6:24:38 am PDT #3685 of 30003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Did you know that one of the hallmarks of a good computer programmer is laziness? It's true. My boss told me to create a SQL Server function that determines the start and end dates of Daylight Saving Time, given the year. I figured that someone on the internet must have written such a function, and I was right.
Go team laziness. (Too lazy for the exclamation mark.)
DavidS - Aug 20, 2015 6:59:42 am PDT #3686 of 30003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did you know that one of the hallmarks of a good computer programmer is laziness?
As I recall from the Cheaper By the Dozen memoir, that was the first thing the father did when he came to factory as an efficiency expert. He'd ask to see the laziest worker and he'd see how he set up his station so he expended the least amount of energy.
-t - Aug 20, 2015 7:21:04 am PDT #3687 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dang it, headache. That's unfortunate timing. I'm supposed to be playing miniature golf and laser tag today.
tommyrot - Aug 20, 2015 7:27:28 am PDT #3688 of 30003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dang it, headache. That's unfortunate timing.
Sorry, -t.
I'm supposed to be playing miniature golf and laser tag today.
At the same time? Because that would be fun.