On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


billytea - Jun 08, 2019 4:48:46 pm PDT #8596 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I had the opposite confusion when everyone was SO! VERY! EXCITED! that my step-grandmother was going to Grease, and I was like, ... it's great, but... and I didn't figure it out until she said she'd be gone for 3 weeks.

Hah!

Incidentally, even leaving the confusion aside, looking back on it my parents were still proposing that Grease was suitable entertainment for an eight year old. What the hell, parents?


Hil R. - Jun 08, 2019 5:05:55 pm PDT #8597 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Incidentally, even leaving the confusion aside, looking back on it my parents were still proposing that Grease was suitable entertainment for an eight year old. What the hell, parents?

When I was a teenager, I was in a youth theatre group, and we were doing Grease. The younger kids were originally supposed to do Oliver that session, but they begged to do Grease instead, and the director relented, figuring she'd edit the script for them. (This was before those Jr. versions of shows were available, and I'm sure it was violating the licensing agreement.)

Anyway. She gets everything edited, had auditions and casting, and hands out these extremely redacted scripts to the kids for their first read-through. Everything's going great, until the eight-year-old playing Rizzo tells the boys, "Everybody out! What do you think this is, a gang bang?" Then turns to the director to ask, "What's a gang bang?"


sj - Jun 08, 2019 5:08:52 pm PDT #8598 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Atropa, I sent to your profile address.


Katerina Bee - Jun 08, 2019 11:31:51 pm PDT #8599 of 30019
Herding cats for fun

Isn't there a production company called Bad Monkey? Or am I thinking of Bad Robot?

I have heard of Anti Monster Spray. Apparently gullible little children think it's as good as an Acme product.


Jesse - Jun 09, 2019 6:55:08 am PDT #8600 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So I want a fast food burger for lunch, but we don't have that in my neighborhood. So maybe I'm going to get poke??? Ridiculous.

Hmmm. Maybe I'll actually go to the supermarket and make myself a burger.


Dana - Jun 09, 2019 7:41:25 am PDT #8601 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Good morning ish. I wave to the Chicago residents from the direction of ORD. We've been up since 3am Florence time.


-t - Jun 09, 2019 7:42:07 am PDT #8602 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I don't want to mock your dilemma, Jesse, but that's funny.

I am balancing how early I want to go have breakfast against how long I want to put off getting dressed. I don't think the temperature is objectively hot yet, but there is a quality to the environment that makes lying down with a lot of skin exposed to air conditioning seem highly desirable


Jesse - Jun 09, 2019 7:48:37 am PDT #8603 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't want to mock your dilemma, Jesse, but that's funny.

I know! Otherwise, it's all burritos, and I had a burrito yesterday.

I did go to the store and I did make a burger! And it was delicious. A+ recommend.


-t - Jun 09, 2019 8:08:21 am PDT #8604 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hi Dana!


Theodosia - Jun 09, 2019 8:28:40 am PDT #8605 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"

Psst, Jesse -- Boston Burger Company is in Davis Square. And I'm dead sure you can get a burger at Mike's, which is pretty fast (and delivers).

Your part of Camberville is not unlike a (Fast)food Desert.