Next time Nilly visits, she has to come to Seattle. IJS. Maybe I can find out what academic associations she's a part of, and start lobbying them to have their next annual meeting here.
Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
F2F 2: Is there anybody here that hasn't slept together?
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: New Orleans! May 20-22, 2005!
Susan W. - Sep 01, 2004 3:19:23 pm PDT #8617 of 9999
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Pix - Sep 01, 2004 3:25:29 pm PDT #8618 of 9999
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
P-C, you made me blush. Thanks for the compliments!
This made me laugh, though:
And one thing no one's mentioned is her voice, which is not one you'd usually expect from a teeny little blonde woman. It's a tad low, and the only word I can think to describe it is mature. She both looks and sounds mature.
And by mature, he means porn.
Well it kinda sounds like it, doesn't it?
DavidS - Sep 01, 2004 3:35:35 pm PDT #8619 of 9999
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well it kinda sounds like it, doesn't it?
You're full of porn, I'm sure.
Pix - Sep 01, 2004 3:46:07 pm PDT #8620 of 9999
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I wasn't very clear. I meant "it kind of sounds like that's what he meant", not that I think my voice sounds like porn. Which it may, normally; I don't know. In either case, it didn't offend me or anything--I am amused! Obviously I know that's not what he really meant.
At the moment with the laryngitis, I sound a bit like Carol Channing.
Disturbing, and porny only to those with a Hello Dolly fetish.
Liese S. - Sep 01, 2004 3:51:39 pm PDT #8621 of 9999
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I am sad that the Nilly is gone. But I am glad that she came.
Astarte - Sep 01, 2004 4:06:48 pm PDT #8622 of 9999
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
I love a man who will strip on command.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 01, 2004 4:08:34 pm PDT #8623 of 9999
What is even happening?
You must love a lot of men. I don't think I've ever met one who wouldn't.
Hil R. - Sep 01, 2004 4:12:40 pm PDT #8624 of 9999
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oh! I totally forgot the other cool thing we found at the museum -- pigeon-guided missiles! Skinner actually got funding to develope them. He trained pigeons to peck at certain parts of maps, and then these were designed with three pigeons inside, with little harnesses attached to the pigeons' heads, and there were wires that would measure where the pigeons were pecking and guide the missile based on that. Eventually, the army cut off funding, because they decided it was impractical.
SailAweigh - Sep 01, 2004 4:38:14 pm PDT #8625 of 9999
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Darn! They could have called them the BCPMs. Behavorant-conditioned Pigeon Missiles. What the world will never know, alas.
Rick - Sep 01, 2004 6:28:25 pm PDT #8626 of 9999
Eventually, the army cut off funding, because they decided it was impractical.
Skinner showed that it was practical (for bombs, at least, during WWII, I don't know about missiles). It was more like this: if you invest in a new electronic bomb sight, and it doesn't work, it's too bad, you try the next thing; If you invest in Skinner's pigeon idea and it doesn't work you are the laughingstock of the whole country. No one in the Army had the guts to try it.