You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.

Simon ,'Jaynestown'


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.


aurelia - Dec 08, 2020 2:45:05 pm PST #755 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I lived in Cincinnati and never went to Skyline.


Volans - Dec 08, 2020 2:51:46 pm PST #756 of 30000
move out and draw fire

One of my friends, an extroverted single woman, was at the beach and saw a sign advertising SINGLES SHOTS and was like "Hell yes sign me up!" but when she got to the sign it was out in front of a CVS and had an H in it. (Having seen my DH go through shingles I was like "you should have gone in anyway!")

I still have never finished my Hep B shots, or whichever hepatitis it is that was 3 shots. I think Hep C was the gamma globulin golfball in the buttcheek; that was fun. In short: single shot yes please.


Amy - Dec 08, 2020 2:52:25 pm PST #757 of 30000
Because books.

Yikes, Amy. Hope the ex's eyes stay OK.

He said it doesn't really hurt? But he's weird.


dcp - Dec 08, 2020 2:55:59 pm PST #758 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

gamma globulin golfball in the buttcheek

Yes. I remember those. Not fondly.

The yellow fever inoculation put 10-year old me in bed for two days. But at least I didn't have to take another one. I was back in the US full-time before the 10-year period expired.


Calli - Dec 08, 2020 2:58:13 pm PST #759 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Dang. My yellow fever shot coverage expired two years ago, and it was only relevant once. When the pandemic is over I have got to travel more.


Steph L. - Dec 08, 2020 3:08:10 pm PST #760 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I lived in Cincinnati and never went to Skyline.

Damn it, we let one get away!


brenda m - Dec 08, 2020 3:35:55 pm PST #761 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I lived just up the road from that Skyline

Prolly shoulda warned Steph about the pipe.


flea - Dec 08, 2020 3:41:12 pm PST #762 of 30000
information libertarian

Our children moved to Cincinnati too late to appreciate Skyline (8 and 5). Mr. Flea took them there once early on and they were appalled.

Mr. flea was good friends in college with the sculptor of the fountain across the street from the Clifton Gaslight Skyline (where Stephanie earlier got hurt and failed to get her second tetanus shot.)

I routinely see Jessica’s grandparents’ grave on walks around my neighborhood (it is visible from the sidewalk) and always think of them and her fondly.

This concludes today’s Cincinnati news.


Susan W. - Dec 08, 2020 3:42:29 pm PST #763 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

The shingles discussion is so timely for me! I can't go ON my 50th birthday in (gulp) 3 1/2 weeks, because it's a holiday, but I mean to get one within days. I had a terrible case of chicken pox at age 18, and I'd rather not give that virus a second crack at making me miserable.


dcp - Dec 08, 2020 3:50:58 pm PST #764 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Susan W., check ahead of time to make sure local supply is available. It was a problem a year or so ago, and I haven't checked into it since.