Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

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.


Cass - Oct 16, 2020 5:10:23 pm PDT #27761 of 30019
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Cass, argh. I am rooting for your triumph.

My ballot is in the mail to me! I can log in, track and everything. I get email updates now.

That was a shitty experience and I honestly think it would likely have made me vote provisional at best and that's not good enough this year. Or any year.

Cass, the WaPo would love to hear from you. [link]

Absolutely.

I always do the headphones in for even cleanings with my amazing hygienist. Real dentistry gets both earbuds.

When I last gave blood, the nurse doing my intake looked up my history and saw I had an incomplete donation the previous time and says "was it me?" and I told her how everyone kind of pitched in to t try to get that pint out of me but we couldn't do it, and then as I was actually donating another nurse came by and "my" nurse told her she was paying special attention to me because of the previous time and she immediately says "was it me?" So, hoping Epic's jerk learns from her bad experience as that seems to be the norm and expectation

I'm always so happy when people who do human or animal medical things try to make it better and honestly feel like they want to improve if they blow a vein.

and instead got a whole spatchcocked chicken, and she put it in her crockpot, and I am so sad for her!

Such a lost opportunity to roast.

fuuuuuck insurance I am going to be on the phone all afternoon

All the ~ma I had, Dana, is yours.

You guys, they are experiencing higher than normal call volumes. Also, I should listen closely, because their options have changed. And for the trifecta, I should check their website, which answers most questions.

Exactly none of these are true. They do not care about your call, you're already waiting, their options are the same and there is not a damn thing you can do on their website or you, a sane-ish Buffista, would have already have done so on the website.

For we are not the call just to listen to hold music kind of 'fistas.


Cass - Oct 16, 2020 5:13:01 pm PDT #27762 of 30019
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Now BallotTrax Notifications is stalking me.


msbelle - Oct 16, 2020 5:19:25 pm PDT #27763 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

My Ballot has been retrieved and scanned from the drop box!!!


Dana - Oct 16, 2020 5:21:06 pm PDT #27764 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It's always "the options have changed" that gets me. Everyone's options have always changed! How is that possible?!? How has every single business always just changed their options?


Cass - Oct 16, 2020 5:45:39 pm PDT #27765 of 30019
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

At my office the options are still 1. Leave a message and 2. Don't leave a message but then bitch we never called you back. Lots of people are fans of 2.


Katerina Bee - Oct 16, 2020 7:11:08 pm PDT #27766 of 30019
Herding cats for fun

Spatchcock chicken + cast iron frying pan + hot oven = fantastic supper. I can DIY with poultry shears! So once this infernally hot weather finally ends I will want to do that again.


JenP - Oct 16, 2020 9:54:26 pm PDT #27767 of 30019

I love the word spatchcocked. I also love the result of doing one right, but the actual word is just the best. I think I only learned the word and the method within the last five years, maybe? So much lost opportunity.


aurelia - Oct 16, 2020 11:12:06 pm PDT #27768 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I had never heard of spatchcocked before today.


Theodosia - Oct 17, 2020 12:31:20 am PDT #27769 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Spatchcock is definitely one of those words that Tolkien would have loved.


Calli - Oct 17, 2020 3:10:32 am PDT #27770 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Doesn't it sound like one of the smaller Hobbit villages? Spatchcock, over in Eastfarthing. Ol' Gammer's brother moved there round about 75 years ago.