You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

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.


msbelle - Mar 26, 2018 1:43:13 pm PDT #23786 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Clearly tear down the current cabins, build a multi-story.


msbelle - Mar 26, 2018 1:47:29 pm PDT #23787 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Also houseboats.


Una - Mar 26, 2018 3:58:42 pm PDT #23788 of 30002
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.

Birthday Happies to Allyson and her super shiny hair!


Pix - Mar 26, 2018 4:43:14 pm PDT #23789 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.

Two acres is not a lot of land.

Or at least not for all 50-100 of us...


WindSparrow - Mar 26, 2018 5:59:46 pm PDT #23790 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Happy birthday, Allyson!

I find the cabins charming, but not really practical for the lot of us.


Consuela - Mar 26, 2018 8:22:14 pm PDT #23791 of 30002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

That cottage on the island looks marvelous. Can I spend the summer there?


Shir - Mar 27, 2018 1:47:55 am PDT #23792 of 30002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Happy belated birthday, Allyson.

Over here, a few weeks ago I agreed of having the Seder with my extended family and not with friends as usual. That was probably my first mistake. The second was worse. After a few Seders with friends with a humanistic and chopped Haggadah with nice and more contemporary bits on freedom, I have sadly forgotten that suggesting a few additions to the traditional text with my extended family is the equivalent of starting a land war in Asia.

I especially loved that one of the notes on a line that paraphrased Jewish sources from the past 700 years and included the words freedom and solidarity was "it is taken from the French motto". Oh yes, those wacky Eastern European/Middle Eastern Jews and their French ideas of freedom and solidarity.


Dana - Mar 27, 2018 7:49:11 am PDT #23793 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Dear NYT:

In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Hogg said they had been singled out because of their prominence and emphasized that ad homonym attacks would not end school shootings.

I don't think that means what you think it means. It only sort of sounds like you think it means.


Steph L. - Mar 27, 2018 8:01:38 am PDT #23794 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

ad homonym attacks

Damn, high standards over there at the Grey Lady.


-t - Mar 27, 2018 8:16:25 am PDT #23795 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

There's this [link] which seems like a useful term but is almost certainly not what they meant.