Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!

Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'


Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?

Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


billytea - Feb 14, 2019 1:51:55 pm PST #5297 of 8216
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

bt! I hug in your general direction!

Well that's only fair. There's a lot of cuddly critters in my general direction. (You might prefer to avoid the thorny devils though.)

Edit: I take it back, I checked with them and they are down with the whole hugs concept. [link]


Beverly - Feb 14, 2019 1:57:55 pm PST #5298 of 8216
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Congrats, Hil!

Happy anniversary, Deena! Handy holidays are good reminders--ours is July 3rd, or as I phrased it, DEpendents Day before Independence Day.


Laura - Feb 14, 2019 2:12:27 pm PST #5299 of 8216
Our wings are not tired.

DEpendents Day before Independence Day.

That's awesome.

I keep reading things about Opportunity's last message and I found this:

The entire adventure was so amazing, from the moment it actually landed safely. Science rocks!


meara - Feb 14, 2019 2:47:53 pm PST #5300 of 8216

Aww I like that hugging horny devil billy tea!


billytea - Feb 14, 2019 3:55:58 pm PST #5301 of 8216
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Aww I like that hugging horny devil billy tea!

I'm imagining him saying my tagline.


Deena - Feb 14, 2019 5:22:44 pm PST #5302 of 8216
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

My horny toad is happy to take hugs from your horny devil. (edit, oops: thorny devil) [link]

(That sounds all kinds of wrong)


billytea - Feb 14, 2019 5:27:00 pm PST #5303 of 8216
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

And now I'm imagining your horny toad saying your tagline, and it still kind of works.

Edit, for the record:

Thorny devil in compromising position: "Do you accept awkward hugs? Because mine are pretty damn unsettling, on multiple levels."
Horny toad, radiating scepticism: "How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me."


Deena - Feb 14, 2019 5:39:05 pm PST #5304 of 8216
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

I love that!

I just realized -- 19th wedding anniversary, and I've been on the board for over 16 years. You guys have held my hand all through this marriage thing. It's so weird. And such a long time. And it feels like a couple of years ago, at most, for both things.


DavidS - Feb 14, 2019 5:45:03 pm PST #5305 of 8216
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yesterday marked the final upload, less of a final poke but more of a kind 'goodnight'. They sent Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You" through space to no reply.

I keep thinking of Opportunity as the Steadfast Tin Soldier.

"Steadfast" is a virtue we don't see a lot of anymore.


meara - Feb 14, 2019 6:13:14 pm PST #5306 of 8216

Wow, that's so long, Deena! How is that possible??

Lol, bt, you knew what I meant.

I met up with some friends for drinks and tacos. Two of them were going to a concert, and two of them are at a nearby singalong at a movie theater, and I have their dog. They live far away so are spending the night here. So the dog is my valentine. I'm thinking about the Good Place version where the golden retriever was her soulmate...