Home! On couch! A/C is running! Fan is running! Not looking at the fridge yet!
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Dana - Jun 10, 2019 9:35:54 am PDT #8642 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Fred Pete - Jun 10, 2019 9:40:15 am PDT #8643 of 30019
Ann, that's a ferret.
Joining Jesse with the Stockard Channing love. Even if the idea of Grease makes you physically ill, check out (at least in audio) "There Are Worse Things I Could Do." Where the good-bad-but-not-evil girl shows that she has feelings, too.
sj - Jun 10, 2019 9:41:02 am PDT #8644 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I love Grease, and I justify the end by the fact that Sandy sings to Danny at the end that he has to shape up and he did get the letterman sweater for her. And what Sophia said about everyone changing after high school.
Jesse - Jun 10, 2019 11:08:09 am PDT #8645 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I justify the end by the fact that Sandy sings to Danny at the end that he has to shape up and he did get the letterman sweater for her.
True! She didn't need to start smoking after all!
Home! On couch! A/C is running! Fan is running! Not looking at the fridge yet!
Woooooo!
billytea - Jun 10, 2019 11:26:19 am PDT #8646 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.
True! She didn't need to start smoking after all!
I've lately been reading Asimov's Foundation trilogy to Ryan at bedtime. Two things which seem ubiquitous to a modern reading - the casual chauvinism, and everyone lights up at the drop of a hat. (All in all, interesting how little Asimov could actually envisage changing from his current society.)
Shir - Jun 10, 2019 11:33:37 am PDT #8647 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Grease: I cannot remember if I've seen it but the soundtrack was present in my life. And since I never ever hear the lyrics correctly (or bother to check them if I'm not really into the music), I thought for years it was "I got shoes/they're multiplying".
You know, less rapey, more Imelda Marcos.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 10, 2019 11:51:33 am PDT #8648 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
"You better shape up/'Cause I need a man/Who can keep my soles supplied"
Jesse - Jun 10, 2019 12:00:39 pm PDT #8649 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't feel like Grease actually is rapey, right? Everyone is an eager participant?
I mean, a hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card!
Fred Pete - Jun 10, 2019 12:32:13 pm PDT #8650 of 30019
Ann, that's a ferret.
Well...there was the guy that tried to slip the aspirin into Marty's Coke.
-t - Jun 10, 2019 12:33:39 pm PDT #8651 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Glad to hear it Dana!
I am also home, where we apparently have an excessive heat warning in effect until Wed morning. Ugh. But bearable, I'm sure.