Hope there's a brother Harry.
Excuse me? Who gave you permission to exist?
Cordelia ,'Beneath You'
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.
msbelle - May 21, 2019 10:46:51 am PDT #7973 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jessica - May 21, 2019 10:47:26 am PDT #7974 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You guys get me.
Amy - May 21, 2019 12:08:29 pm PDT #7975 of 30019
Because books.
::applauds::
Connie Neil - May 21, 2019 12:22:32 pm PDT #7976 of 30019
brillig
A department-wide memo went out reminding people that customers can hear us over the phones when we swear at each other. Apparently the new phone system picks up background noise much better than the old one. All the geekboys are looking at each other guiltily. A couple of them sent anxious messages to find out if they were the ones who'd been caught. The response was "You'd already know if you were."
It does get pretty R-rated in here, but it's swearing for punctuation and emphasis, not anything else, so I just give them the Eyebrow of Inappropriateness when I hear it. "Old Enough to Be Your Mom or Grandma" has its advantages. I'd much rather deal with excessive emotion about how hard the latest update is for Final Fantasy or whatever than other things.
Sheryl - May 21, 2019 12:56:50 pm PDT #7977 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Weather's a little cooler than yesterday, but still nice.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 21, 2019 1:03:22 pm PDT #7978 of 30019
"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
The last time we went to my grandmother's grave we drove by her old house and saw that the owners were renovating it, which is nice. I like to think of that ancient house being a comforting home to new generations of people. The houses my folks and I have lived in, not so much (one is in disrepair and being advanced on by the woods behind it; the other is in an increasingly sketchy neighborhood).
Topic!Cindy - May 21, 2019 1:07:09 pm PDT #7979 of 30019
What is even happening?
I read too quickly sometimes. If anyone else suffers from this problems, Matt did not drive by his grandmother's grave to discover the owners renovating it.
House, Cindy. House. He drove by the grave and then by the old house.
Una - May 21, 2019 1:23:16 pm PDT #7980 of 30019
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Y'all just forced me to go sigh over my grandparents' 100+-year-old house on realtor.com (not for sale, but they've got the photos from the last time it sold). If I'd had different finances, I would have bought it when we had to move my grandma to assisted living, and turned it into a bed & breakfast. So many happy memories in that house; I still dream about it.
meara - May 21, 2019 1:26:46 pm PDT #7981 of 30019
Lol, Cindy yes that would be much weirder!!
My dad's farmhouse he grew up in was torn down many years ago (in my teenage years maybe?). My mom's parents house, I rememebrthe street but not the number so I don't think I'd be able to find it (it's in Chicago)
Theodosia - May 21, 2019 1:32:32 pm PDT #7982 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"
At some point I should check out Zillow and Google Street Maps and see what the buyers did with the empty lot where my aunt's rambling and lovingly eccentric beach house was -- destroyed by Superstorm Sandy. Most likely it is going to be some soulless McMansion with all the salt-tolerant trees that survived the storm dug up.
Not that I'm angry or anything.