Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


Laura - Jan 30, 2022 4:19:50 pm PST #12594 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

All here were. Now they we all for SF in this game.


Steph L. - Jan 30, 2022 4:29:09 pm PST #12595 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Now they we all for SF in this game.

Last time the Bengals went to the Super Bowl, their opponents were SF. That would be a rematch that's long overdue.


javachik - Jan 30, 2022 4:35:01 pm PST #12596 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

It’s very exciting for Cincinnati!


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 30, 2022 4:55:51 pm PST #12597 of 30000
"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

My next door neighbor is elated; he's been a Bengals fan since he was a kid. So yay! Bengals, I guess? I don't really care so long as Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers lose.


Beverly - Jan 30, 2022 6:27:57 pm PST #12598 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Returning for a moment to the employer rewards thing, my dad spent 42 years at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco company. He retired before the gov't vendetta against tobacco--which still makes me twitch, since alcohol killed, widowed, orphaned, and maimed way more people than tobacco ever did--but the alcohol lobbies were just far more powerful than tobacco. Don't misunderstand--I think both are ultimately detrimental to human health, I just believe alcohol is moreso. And yes, I enjoy single malt and Guinness every now and then. I am a confessed hypocrite.

Anyhoo, RJR was a very paternal company, very "family". They had an employment rewards thing that escalated in value the longer (and better) you worked there. I think it was 35 years my dad got a pecanwood chest with eight place settings of silverplate flatware, plus serving pieces--Reed and Barton's Dresden Rose. Which we wound up with as a wedding present. Very nice. Even nicer was the stock Dad got for later anniversaries. Yay for paternalism!


javachik - Jan 30, 2022 6:48:11 pm PST #12599 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Wow!! I’d love to see photos of those, Beverly!


Beverly - Jan 30, 2022 7:37:54 pm PST #12600 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

They're here, Javachik.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 30, 2022 9:29:18 pm PST #12601 of 30000
"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

Guinea pig herding


javachik - Jan 30, 2022 10:03:40 pm PST #12602 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Very nice, thank you Beverly!


Laura - Jan 31, 2022 4:38:12 am PST #12603 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Both Beverly's memory and picture, and Matt's video made me smile this morning.

Ah, Monday. Why you here already? I turned on my heat this weekend! I could have survived, but I figure it ought to be run once a year just to make sure it works. It does. I put the settings on 68 and 78. If under 68 heat runs, if over 78 AC runs. So AC 250 days a year and heat 2, and the rest the windows open?

I hope all the snowbound did okay this past weekend. Dang, that was some football. I was cheering for the 49ers, but they didn't deserve to win despite my encouragement.