I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.

Willow ,'First Date'


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.


shrift - Apr 12, 2017 6:53:00 am PDT #9757 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I have to come up with two little-known facts about myself for an icebreaker. I'm failing to come up with anything interesting that people don't already know, though.


Dana - Apr 12, 2017 6:54:04 am PDT #9758 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The Canada border story? In an abbreviated version?


Sue - Apr 12, 2017 7:03:30 am PDT #9759 of 30002
hip deep in pie

You coined the word slounge?


msbelle - Apr 12, 2017 7:21:22 am PDT #9760 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

In college you trained a squirrel to eat out of your hand and attack people on command. NO ONE WILL KNOW!!


Fred Pete - Apr 12, 2017 7:37:36 am PDT #9761 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.

I was in a class once where we each had to make three statements about ourselves, but one of the statements had to be false. The rest of the group had to guess which one was false.

They believed that I owned six cats. They didn't believe that I was a track star in high school.


meara - Apr 12, 2017 7:51:38 am PDT #9762 of 30002

Two truths and a lie. I kinda hate that game but can usually come up with random stuff. Like going skydiving.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 12, 2017 7:53:45 am PDT #9763 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Ha! I stumped my entire circle of extended co-workers during one of those getting-to-know-you-better exercises our former president was fond of by putting "I once won a free vacation in an athletic competition" on my slip. (The shooting accuracy competition I won in '97 where the prize was going to see a Washington Capitals home game.)

So it looks like the Impostor in the White House is throwing Bannon under the bus. I'll take it as a good thing because I don't think Ivanka and Jared are nearly as dangerous.

I'm torn because I really think it's out of line for family to be advising the President in any official capacity, but Ivanka and Jared are clearly the angels on Trump's shoulder opposite Bannon and the other scum he's surrounded himself with.


brenda m - Apr 12, 2017 8:03:54 am PDT #9764 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Two truths and a lie. I kinda hate that game but can usually come up with random stuff. Like going skydiving.

Climbed a volcano?


Amy - Apr 12, 2017 9:28:36 am PDT #9765 of 30002
Because books.

A moose once bit your sister?


Connie Neil - Apr 12, 2017 9:29:08 am PDT #9766 of 30002
brillig

For those kind of icebreakers, I like to use "Faced down an army in medieval armor with a bow and arrow." Though anyone who's known me for a while generally knows that true. I need something boring and typical as my untruth, like having two kids or I was born in California.