Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.

Lorne ,'Time Bomb'


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.


DavidS - May 05, 2021 1:02:14 pm PDT #6133 of 29425
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

TCBITW is engaged so there's that.

Congratulations! That's very exciting.


dcp - May 05, 2021 1:07:31 pm PDT #6134 of 29425
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

...email .sigs at work. They are huge....

Lots of advisory/disclaiming text, or big graphics?


-t - May 05, 2021 2:08:09 pm PDT #6135 of 29425
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Graphics, I guess. There's a block of information about me + corporate wedbite address and then our corporate logo and then our mission statement (or something similar) and then all our brands - the logo and brands are graphics, I think. It all stacks up to basically fill the mini-window gmail gives me to compose email in if I scroll down to the bottom.

When I could make my own I think I had 4 lines of text and that included my pronouns.


JenP - May 05, 2021 3:03:44 pm PDT #6136 of 29425

Wow, congratulations, Gud - on the promotion and the engagement! (Also, we love our Instant Pot)

Speaking of our IP, I need to go make something happen with it right about now...


Sheryl - May 05, 2021 3:20:59 pm PDT #6137 of 29425
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Congrats, Gud.

Yay for vaccinations!


Topic!Cindy - May 05, 2021 3:39:18 pm PDT #6138 of 29425
What is even happening?

TCBITW is engaged so there's that.

Congrats and best wishes to them, Gud.

I get vaccine #1 in about an hour!

Any additional new superpowers yet, Teppy?


shrift - May 05, 2021 4:04:44 pm PDT #6139 of 29425
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

ION, I was watching a cooking video with Carla from BA and now I desperately want a Brocco Taco and you will too after you see this video

I do want a Brocco Taco, and I'm wondering if I can achieve similar results without buying a grill press or whatever it's called that she's using. Ooh, and I could use the hatch chile corn tortillas that I have!

For dinner, though, I've already planned to make refried beans from pinto beans and put a bean burrito in my face.

I'm not saying all these things are of equal importance.

I LOLed.


Steph L. - May 05, 2021 4:23:37 pm PDT #6140 of 29425
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

I get vaccine #1 in about an hour!

Any additional new superpowers yet, Teppy?

Is intolerance to spicy food a superpower? I'm eating leftover shrimp biryani (that was a bit too spicy to begin with, but cooled down with raita on it) that seems to have gotten WAY spicier in the fridge. Or possibly I have become even more intolerant of spicy food in the last 8 hours. Dang it, Moderna!

So far, no side effects, though I didn't really expect any this early. (I have read about some people developing side effects within a few hours, but that's more on the outer edge of the bell curve.)


Calli - May 05, 2021 4:40:50 pm PDT #6141 of 29425
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Congrats on the promotion and engaged offspring, Gud!

I helped moderate a symposium session today, and all my coworkers decided to go out for Mexican food after work. On May 5. I wished them well and ordered delivery. ‘Cause I wouldn’t have been willing to deal with that crowd before the pandemic.


DavidS - May 05, 2021 4:48:10 pm PDT #6142 of 29425
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

and I'm wondering if I can achieve similar results without buying a grill press or whatever it's called that she's using.

I think you could just smush things with the back of an iron skillet or something similar.