This Is The Thread Where I Say Pt 24: Baby Making ? Hot Sex or Business Arrangement?

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This is the thread where I say pt 23: We had to go home...blah....

We don't have to go home no more...but we can't stay here.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Nice thread(s)!

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago)

So, tell us more about your balls and their recent evacuation.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago)

We don't have to take our clothes off, but it helps & is less mess!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago)

YOOOOOOGE

http://www.nodice.ca/theapprentice/images/donald.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I imagine it to be like this...
http://www.neystadt.org/john/album/NZ/Hong-Kong-Sydney-Bangkok/DSCN0272-Hong-Kong-Fountain.JPG

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I still don't understand what "yooge" means - unless you're like she was "omg it's YOOGE" when you played hide the salami.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago)

spot on....

close mark, but she would have realized the salami was yooge a long time ago. lets just say the evacuation, as you put it...was filled with glee.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Canadian bukkake:

http://www.buffalocvb.org/images/photogallery/Niagara%20falls.jpg

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago)

YOOGE = D. trump's pronun. of HUGE maybe?

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago)

or is that not even relevant what with all the gushin' here :)

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Thats how the Donald pronounces huge.

xpost

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago)

if and when my wife gets pregnant this child is going to be a mess. the music its dad puts on for loving is going to screw with his head. last night was Mad Cobra's 'Flex'. all 4:04 of it.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Was it urgent and key to finish before the next track came on?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago)

yeah it was Black Sabbath "War Pigs"....i had hit shuffle on Winamp by mistake.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago)

it's morning.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Good morning.

When I just got to my desk, it was COVERED in new job folders, notes from coworkers (Please do this, that, and the other...), and a box full of samples. Meanwhile, a coworker is asking me about an invoice. Then a book almost fell on my head. Then I opened my work email and ay ay ay...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

My desk was also covered. It's not anymore. I hate my desk, I want to see it burn!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Now I have a more u&k question, has anyone got some cake I can have?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I have an apple! And 5 clementines!

I want cake too :(

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Go get some, you lazy man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I should open a bakery. The market seems to indicate there's sufficient demand for sweets.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I might get a Starbucks cake/pastry today - they have a selection that really does look delicious, even if the 4 different ones I've tried have mostly disappointed. I had a mini-tiramisu for pudding at lunchtime, which was v nice. Hmm, am Bridget Jones all of a sudden. Weight 176 pounds etc etc

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I have satsumas, (there goes another one) but I want some cake, or maybe something savoury?
x-post
I'm going to see Bridget Jones tonight! mmm popcorn!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

I haven't even opened my doors and I've already lost my best customer to some faceless chain!

xpost

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Dude, if you had a bakery, I think you'd be even more sexy! Aslong as you stocked maple & pecan danishes!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

CAN HUCK GET ANY SEXIER?!?!

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Huck, what's your real first name? Or is it Huck? Or a secret?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago)

CAN HUCK GET ANY SEXIER?!?!
Of course! Huck just has to work it out for himself!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago)

His real name is Tom, but he prefers to be seen as the bad boy Huck.

I really like the new Bridget Jones. I'd read the book. I mean, it's almost exactly like the first one, but I really liked the first one. But I won't spoil anything for you.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I have decided that Steve Dahl and Jim Derogatis are the same person. Dero is clearly just an old, fat, pock-marked Dahl.

No, no, I like Dahl! He may be a rockist, but he no longer makes a living at it -- for the past 20 years, he's done talk radio. And he's pretty funny sometimes. Also, his favorite band ever is the Beach Boys, so I can't complain too much. (Also also, Dahl is at least 10 years older than DeRo and a hefty guy, too, maybe not as big, though.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

(That quote is Kenan's from the Pt 23 thread -- can I do that??)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Lady if you have to ask...

I really like the new Bridget Jones. I'd read the book. I mean, it's almost exactly like the first one, but I really liked the first one. But I won't spoil anything for you.
Oh I've read the book! I didn't like it as much as the first, so I guess the film will be the same!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I was about to stick up for Dahl, too, but figured the moment had passed. He's like a bazillion times more likable and humorous than DeRogatis. It's very unfair to judge him on one thing he did for publicity 25 years ago, and using today's anti-rockist filter.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I am going to see the new Bridget Jones movie with my mom this weekend as break from making PIES! (apple & pumpkin)
BTW-jaymc I had no idea you had a blog, I really liked reading your article on SMILE, esp. the Stool Boom reference you snuck in their. Kenan I'm a big fan of Gigantic as well.
Which ILXor does Radio Free Narnia? I can never remember.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Also, John, he never really made a living off it, I don't think. It's just that, outside Chicago, Disco Demolition is all he would be known for, if he's known at all.
xpost

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)

there not their. An English degree is totally worthless.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Bingo, congrats on breaking the testicular dam.

In other news, I might go see M4r!lyn M4ns0n tomorrow night!!! PROSTHETIC TITIES FOR ONE AND ALL.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn, it's the wonderful Mark Sinker who does Radio Free Narnia.

Haha - you try having an Italian degree :|

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, Update your blog!

Jaymc, I gave you a shout out on mine because I really liked that entry too.

Pink, Edge of Reason (the book) was a bit depressing and dramatic, but they gloss over it in the movie. You'll see.

Also, would you like some of my cupcake? It's a coworkers b-day today and she brought in chocolate cupcakes with white frosting and little candies on top.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago)

thanks Jeanne... ;)

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Pink, Edge of Reason (the book) was a bit depressing and dramatic, but they gloss over it in the movie. You'll see.
Yeah? I found it all a bit far-fetched tbh! (i haven't had a chance to respond to your email yet, hopefully tomorrow!)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Far-fetched? Yeah, that too.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I can only vaguely remeber the book though, so it's all good!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I am annoyed because my boss is gone today so I was just going to relax but someone else gave me a stupid project to do oh well. But I did take the time to write a miniature absurdest Western story for Invisible Crutch.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Oops -- I think Dahl actually did spin records back in the 70s, which I assume were what we'd now call classic rock?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

N/A, that is like "The Dead" of miniature absurdist Western stories.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago)

In other news, I might go see M4r!lyn M4ns0n tomorrow night!!!

Does he google his name now? ;-)

Tonight, what IS tonight for me...oh right, helping in friends Y and Guy's garden. :-) Then after that I don't know, probably clean up some reviews for the AMG and catch up with some listening and reading.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm looking through this recreational products catalog because the government has a dire need of PINBALL MACHINES. I didn't realize cues could be so expensive. $600?! WTF?! Also, all ladies need this T-shirt that says RACK across the chest.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Do people want links to their Livejournals on my blog? For some reason, I decided long ago not to link Livejournals because they tend to be more of a "private" endeavor than other blogs. But there's at least a half-dozen I read and like, and if you don't mind the publicity, I'll link ya. (My blogroll mostly serves as a reminder for ME to keep up, anyway.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

(That goes for Diaryland, too. I'm looking at YOU, McLusky.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

i haven't updated mine since the red sox lost the alcs last year.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Link me, Baby!

So, you can buy flights with marijuana drawings on them (for your darts) under government contract. Awesome.

This catalog is reminding me of the Mr. Show sketch "Educating through Billiards." Was that season 1?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I love Huk-L. I think we got into a fight once.
Does anyone have a futon frame?
Futons are very old millenium.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

jaymc, I'm ok with you linking to Invisible Crutch, but let's get an ok from Huck first, since he tends to write more personal stuff than I do.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

can someone please poke me in the ear with a red hot poker? i've actually taken a liking to the damn blink 182 song that made me cry when i was hung over. WTF!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I ain't updated my blog in a while. I've been trying to update it in a yooge way, with a complete overhaul and a new photo section and all, and I got bogged down in that, and forgot to write even small, silly entries. Thanks for noticing, though... really. I like to be missed.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you were crying out of deep emotion, Mr. Bingo. (That said, I do agree that's a bad sign, you must escape.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I wrote one personal thing! One! The next one is going to be about Batman's sci-fi closet, so link away!

If we ever fought aimurchie, it's long forgotten now!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Blink 182 isn't that bad. The newest Fake Fictions song has an intro that sounds like Blink 182, and for a while I would annoy my bandmembers by playing that part and crooning "My feeelings...insiiide meee..." in the whiny Blink 182 voice. But Sarah has a crush on one of those dudes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)

i honestly think i am more depressed about my sister and her bf breaking up than she is. its like i broke up with him...granted we had nothing in common but i really liked him.

YOOGE

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Baby making? Yes yes, for a couple of months. We haven't figured out HOW to do this yet. Tips please.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Chris V, I've been attracted to the lead singer of Blink 182 several times, so I understand in a way.

Kenan, your photos are great, so that's a good idea. Ha ha - you're getting bogged down by a blog. The blog bogs.

aimurchie, I know what you're saying, but futons are still f'n expensive for something that's supposed to be out of style. I know because I had this fantasy of converting the second bedroom into, well, a bedroom.

Dee, sorry for coppin' your style, yo.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago)

You tell me? I've been trying for almost a year. Maybe Mad Cobra will do the trick. At this point Im about to break into the vaults for some Peabo Bryson and Gregory Abbott....eeeeinee meaneee mineee mooow.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago)

i mean seriously about this blink 182 stuff.....that one line where lip ring says "please come home and stop this pain tonight" makes me think of J@y my sisters bf. Maybe I feel bad because she pulled a move on him that reminded me of what my long time ex did to me. And he calls my sister crying... i feel bad. she's outta here.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Baby making? Yes yes, for a couple of months. We haven't figured out HOW to do this yet. Tips please.

*gets anatomically correct dolls*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago)

my wife usually throws her legs up on a few pillows when we have finished to increase the angle of swimmy sperms. if this doesn't work this time im going to hang her by her feet from the ceiling like i just bagged me a 125lb tuna after we finish.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Kenan is Captain Underpants.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

i went to kon tiki last night and now i feel sick. oh god.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

But what about Captain Butter Underpants? (xpost, thank god)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

xpost

I am.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Check THIS shit out. Now the same sales rep wants me to quote out a Dance Dance Revolution game. Guess how that's approved under GSA funding?? As exercise for kids!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I like "I Miss You" -- is that the song you're talking about, Chris V? I can see you liking that. The cello is pretty awesome on that, actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)

xpost Also, ketchup is a vegetable.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)

i don't mind blink 182 but that song drives me bonkers cos i can't STAND the way dude does that dumb accent in it. "moi 'ead"? ARGGGGHHHH.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago)

he's being British. bob's yer uncle mate!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)

thats the song Jay. Its not that bad really.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

i went to kon tiki last night and now i feel sick. oh god.
Hey Di! What's Kon Tiki?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

awlroight guv'na?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I quite like that song too. But not as much as I like the (shameful confession) Nelly + Xtina song.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

i just also found out the my new cell phone number is elf luv 4.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

4 WHO? 4 U?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn -- I want to like that Nelly/Xtina song more than I do. Most of what I like about it is the Curtis Mayfield sample. It was pretty hot at the MTV Video Music Awards, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

hi pink! its a hawaiian themed bar. they make the drinks really strong - one should not feel this rotten after TWO drinks, and trust me i can handle my liquor.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

SIZZLING, even. I should say "sizzling" more.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)

You should go to Sizzler, too.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I think part of what I like best about it was the whole Roaring 20s presentation of the MTV awards.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)

some people just shouldn't try to sound british, i am so embarassed for that guy.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Everytime I drive by Luna from now on, Remy, I'll think of you.

Chris - all crossables crossed that the great sperm surge of 11.16.04 was the one!

Sarah, I'll trade you a bite of cupcake for some hershey's kisses!

Meanwhile, I had a sort of sex dream about one of my co-workers last night. Mostly it involved us trying to coordinate a time to do it and there were condoms being waved around. I have weird dreams.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

hi pink! its a hawaiian themed bar. they make the drinks really strong - one should not feel this rotten after TWO drinks, and trust me i can handle my liquor.
Lady, I never doubted it! ;-) Are you still on your trip or are you back home now?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)

thank you for the unwavering faith in me! i am still in tucson.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Gah, I missed a rush. You lot always have more fun when I'm not around.

I've sort of written off the rest of today, which is dumb, as I got a heads up earlier from one of my bosses. Oh, and there's still 90 minutes to go. Whatever.

I seriously want to start blogging again but I'm searching for that ideal format. Lately I've been thinking I'd blog an Ideal Xmas Present per day - then people would have a reason to read it without expecting anything in the way of quality writing.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Where she has conquered the whole town! It will now be called Lurexville. (xpost)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago)

i had a dream i had sex with my best friend the other night, it was so rude we did it all over the place. i felt quite guilty when i woke up.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Cool, I'd totally visit Lurexville for the cocktails!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago)

xpost that sounds like an issue that needs to be addressed.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

the bloody marys are on me.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

It isn't.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)

it's an issue that needs to be undressed

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago)

PERVERTALIST

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

yeah, sex dreams about people you don't actually want to have sex with are k-weird.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago)

IMPORTANT QUESTION: Today, for lunch, I brought a cup of minestrone soup and a Philly Cheesesteak Veggie Burger which came for free with our regular veggie burgers and which seems to essentially be a veggie burger with cheese, onions, and peppers in it. MY QUESTION: Should I crumble the PCVB into the minestrone soup, or will that just be gross and weird? I'm kind of tempted to do it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Markelby, Where's your blog?

Di, Hello! I want cocktails!

I am the only one eating these f'n delicious cupcakes because the rest of my office is trying to lose weight.

x-post - DON'T DO IT NICK! GOOOODDDDDDDDDDDD,,,,, NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago)

PEOPLE: It is only an hour and 10 minutes until my lunch time, I NEED ANSWERS!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

um, nick, that sounds kinda gross.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

OMG nick i can't answer that you grossed me out. I have to go eat some meat RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN'T FAKE CHEESESTEAK PEOPLE!

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Kenan.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm looking at pages like this today for work. I want the medieval joust gear.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, I'm not telling you as I have written maybe 2 entries in the last year (and the archives are probably just an embarrassment) :)

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago)

They actually do a pretty good vegetarian cheesesteak at the Chicago Diner, they use seitan or something and mmmmm I want one for lunch. But these things aren't really trying to replicate cheesesteaks, they're supposed to replicate burgers that mysteriously taste like cheesesteaks. The free veggie burger used to be the Fiesta Burger, which replicated a burger that mysteriously tasted vaguely of Mexican food, and which even more mysteriously was pretty tasty.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

So, I'm writing about art again. Gosh, art is colourful.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, this thing looks SO cool:

http://www.funequipment.com/images/big/rock_em_knock_em.jpg

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Now I want a cheesesteak for lunch, but there is no such place nearby.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Time to move to Philly.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

This might be impractical.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)

A good lunch is never impractical.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

For some reason now I have MotownPhilly stuck in my head.

I hate you, Boys II Men!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, fuck you too!

― BoysIIMen, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, this thing looks SO cool

(Nick, we need a bigger apartment!)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

It took me a minute to realize those weren't little model people in that photo.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was some sort of elaborate cake

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago)

and what's with the blue pillow near the center bit? maybe it's equipped for NAPPIN'.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I found this for the Locusts thread, but it reminded me of you guys:
http://home.mho.net/dougc/zor2.jpg

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago)

xpost If you don't miss TV much, you could live in it.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Don't do it, Nick. Minestrone soup is interesting enough, don't you think?

The "cheesesteak" at the Chicago Diner is good, but it tastes nothing like cheesesteak. It's more like Italian beef.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Who doesn't want a jumpy castle in their living room? Or *as* their living room?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Imagine the hijinks!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

escapades, even

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Huk, does he remind you of us just before we get zapped?
many xposts

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

SEXCAPADES!

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

WOOHOO!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

And now the thread has come full circle.

http://www.neystadt.org/john/album/NZ/Hong-Kong-Sydney-Bangkok/DSCN0272-Hong-Kong-Fountain.JPG

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago)

gives a new meaning to "Jumping" the bones.
*bounce*

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago)

It's the freakin' weekend
Baby I'm about to have me some fun

Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I just read the Ebert review of the Spongebob movie.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago)

I think that may have killed the Sexcapades.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)

and...

xpost

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm assuming Ebert knew he wasn't cheese...

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I returned from lunch one day when I was working in a physics lab to find one of my workmates purple with laughter while looking at a catalogue:
http://www.sciencekit.com/images/250/77/77002-32.eps.JPG
You are supposed to put a altimeter in the pockets and then take your class on a Fun physics outing! to the park.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Huk, where did you read that review? rogerebert.com doesn't seem to have it up.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Ebert liked it (3 out of 4 stars), but seemed to miss the point a little by questioning some of the movie's logic.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago)

xpost, the paper I work at runs his reviews (since there are no advance screenings of anything on the prairies). I can usually find the next week's (sometimes month's) worth of horoscopes.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago)

You interrupted sexcapades for ROGER EBERT?

That is the least sexy thing ever.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Slightly more sexy: Ebert really liked "Kinsey." I hear it's great. And kinky!

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Sorry.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I am all for the sexy. I am all for the kinky.

I am NOT all for a sentence that includes both of those words and 'Ebert.'

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

How do you feel about Spongebob undies?

http://www.outlet4toys.com/SpongeBob/New%20SITE%20PICTURES/Mens%20Boxers/yellow.JPG

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh sure, Spongebob is sexy as hell. Ebert, not so much.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

you could Spongebob a bigger nose, if you so wish.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago)

** This does NOT mean someone needs to go out and invent a Spongebob dildo.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago)

And... I'm awake.

Should I admit that I have removed a man's Spongebob boxers in order to gain better access to what lay beneath them?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago)

His Spongebob briefs?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

SpongeBob Mythos : A Ritual
Ever wanted to read the History of the Devil? Anyway, I heard a rumour that the following may only be performed on 31 December:
INTENTION
To summon Spongebob and enact your desire
TOOLS
A seafood pizza
Shells (preferably crab)
Fork and knife
A plate
A pair of square pants
A glass
A pineapple
A jar (ensure that the jar is large enough to contain a submerged pineapple)
PREPARATION
Cut two windows and a door into the pineapple. Ensure that the pizza has been heated to approximately 250C. Place the pizza on the plate. Adorn the edges of the pizza with shells. Put the knife to the left of the plate, with the fork to the right.
RITUAL
Formulate your statement of desire, before issuing a banishing laugh. Incant spritefully, while fixedly examining the tools, “Krusty Krab Pizza is the pizza for you and me”. (Repeat this operation seven times). Place the square pants upon your head. Look up and laugh loudly. Recite, “O’ Supreme God of Underwater Sun, hear my voice - Yellow spongeling of shallow waters, hear my call. I implore ye Spongebob, Lord of Liquidity, grace this table with your squashy form.” Half fill the glass from the jug. Submerge the pineapple in the jug. Pass the glass from hand to hand, while intoning the Krusty Krab Melody as before. Use laughter to banish any unwanted Demons of the Deep that may think of coming along in place of the spongy one (Who knows Cthulu could be listening?). Look at the Pizza of Bikini Bottom; blur your vision through squinting. Make out the form of Spongebob in the pattern of the pizza and meditate upon your statement of desire. If his form is not obvious then use the fork and knife to create eyes, nose, and mouth to facilitate phenomenisation. Repeat this process until you make out the form of the spongeling, blurring vision again if necessary. Visualise the spirit of Spongebob exiting the door of the pineapple and moving toward the pizza, occupying the pizza through the base first. Chant, “Spongebob! Square Pants!” Do this eight times. Remove the square pants from your head and stuff the bottom half of the pizza in them. Place him firmly on the plate. Insert the knife into one side of Spongebob, while stabilising him with the fork. Shake him around with the fork and knife. Meanwhile, sing, “Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Krusty Krab pizza”. Banish with Laughter. Consume the pizza and dispense with the other tools in the manner you deem most appropriate. To summon the intelligence of Spongebob on a later occasion, simply recall the ritual in your mind’s eye.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Poor innocent Ned.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

No, in fact, Ned, I was going for his cock.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago)

yow

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/roundbob.jpg

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Jesus Piss Christ... I go away for a while and when I come back people are talking about how Blink 182 is okay?

Principles, man! Even if the that shit it catchy it's important not to admit it! I'm no Alternasnob (or whatever the holier-than-thou-and-your-music-sucks types are called now), but this is BLINK 182!

Now, Weezer on the other hand...

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Hellllllllooooooooo, Martin!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago)

It's okay, I'm currently obsessed with Har Mar Superstar.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago)

But Blink 182 actually have some PUNK ROCK CRED, meaning they put out a few independent albums before striking it rich, and they've always sounded pretty much the same. AND TEHY R TEH CUTENESS!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.harmarsuperstar.com/harmar_gallery/albums/album27/VIP.jpg

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I think I saw Har Mar in a porn movie once. And if not, someone very very like him.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)

He just looks exactly like Ron Jeremy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Though not quite as hairy. But yeah, same basic idea.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Also, HI MARTIN M.!!!!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Martin M, man of mirth.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

YOU MY DOGGG, BOO!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

And now he will leave ILX again.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago)

And it will all be your fault. Shame. SHAME!

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago)

It's okay, I'm currently obsessed with Har Mar Superstar.

Man, Har Mar fucking rules. Anybody who does a split 7" with Atom and his Package has to rule.

But Blink 182 actually have some PUNK ROCK CRED, meaning they put out a few independent albums before striking it rich

!!?

By that logic there are folk acts who have punk rock cred.

The only thing I've ever read about Mr. Cute-Lead-Singer Boy that made me kinda like him is that he said the first show he ever went to see was a They Might Be Giants gig. Now, TMBG is my favorite band, so I said "Yay."

On the other hand, saying your first show was TMBG instantly and permanently disqualifies you from ever having punk rock cred, no?

Eh, whatever. Maybe I'm not the one to ask. I just like being a contrarian and pissing and moaning like a less-about-to-have-an-aneurism Lewis Black.

Ask kingfish about punk rock cred. He told me he "became punk" in 1997...

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Also, hey what's up guys? What did I miss?

Hey Nick. Booyah.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago)

How are the cats?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago)

He told me he "became punk" in 1997.

I choose to interpret that statement to mean that Kingfish came to be the one, true embodiment of all punk ever in 1997. Sort of like, um, Swamp Thing.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Swamp Thing totally sold out when he signed to Atlantic. Anyways, I only like his first album. But even that wasn't as good as his unreleased demos.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago)

So, I'm working on an article on this singer whose music I've never heard, who had nothing to say for herself in an interview yesterday, and who is friends with someone who annoys me. I should have just told her to leave me alone, but she called me twice. I tried to fob her off on the person who claims to be the main music writer, but he was on vacation.
I have absolutely no direction to take this article in, but I already told my editor I'd have it for him today.
ARGGGGGGGGGG.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago)

can you blatantly make stuff up?

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago)

OMG got a book in the mail. Naughty Spanking: Stories from A to Z. Check it:

"You think you can make me cry..." I dare, and that's all it takes. James is
instantly in motion, pushing me roughly onto the seat. He stands next to the
car looking in at me as he slides his belt free from the loops. My heart
thrums at an insane speed as I watch every move.
Without a care that people might see us, he hauls me over the back end of
his car and begins to wield the belt with a graceful finesse. He knows how
to hit the mark, how to make me shift from one foot to the other. When he
admonishes me, I realize that I'm honestly trying to stay in place for him,
but unable. Pain blooms with each stripe of the belt. Images before me seem
clearer, as if suddenly the world has come into sharp focus: the smooth
lines of the Cadillac, the rough gray gravel beneath my feet, the ruby red
neon sign of TJ's. Pain is clarifying. James knows.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Nothing else today will rule this much.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Write about how annoying her friend is and explain how you doubt it had any influence on the artist's music but encourage readers to get the album and see for themselves.

xpost

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Did you get this in the mail randomly, or had you ordered it?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago)

From one of those book publishers that sends us everything they publish whether we ask for it or not.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Sarah the cats are doing well. They are both still crazy and both still super.

One plays fetch and the other one will rip anything cardboard to shreds quickly and efficiently. Both leap and can catch toys in the air.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

With a list of famous friends ranging from XXXXX XXX rocker XXXXXX XXXXXXX to local XXXX XXXXXXX, XXXXX singer-songwriter XXXXXXXX XXXXX knows a lot of people.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

What are the chances you can get decent money at a used book store selling them a brand new copy of Naughty Spanking?

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)

But of all the mutual friends I share with XXXXXXXX XXXXX, XXXXXX XXXXXXXX has got to be the most annoying person I've ever met.

Here's why:

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Not going to sell this one, I don't think. But decent money, I guess. A backpack full usually gets you about $30-$40.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

sarah! i had to run away cos all the talk of cheesesteaks was making my stomach heave! please forgive me, here is your very own Lurexville strawberry daiquiri.

thank fuck i don't want to hurl anymore.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Second draft:

Whether she’s duetting with XXXXX XXX rocker XXXXXX XXXXXX or sharing a bill with local XXXXX XXXXX, one thing’s for certain: XXXXXX singer-songwriter XXXXXXX XXXXXX knows a lot of people in the music industry.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago)

I spoke with several people in the music industry about XXXXXXX XXXXX, and here's what they said.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Arg.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

One thing is for certain, however: XXXXXX XXX plays music.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

"XXXXXX XXXXXXX? I don't know. I never heard her music. She's probably okay though. Not like that friend of hers... What's her name? XXXX XXXX? XXXXX XXXXXX? Something like that... I dunno, but she's a real piece of work."

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Are you writing for VH1's "Behind the Music" now?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

And so this reporter looks forward to XXXXXX XXXX's nightmare descent into cocaine addiction.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago)

and then, like, XXXX found god, y'know?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

XXXX's new album, XXXXX, is her first since XXXXX, which makes XXXXXX her second album.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I wish I was just joking around.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Depending which one you like better, you could actually say you like early XXXXX or late XXXXX. There's really no "middle era" XXXXX yet, cause she only has two records.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago)

And of course you have to mention the sophomore slump.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago)

the live shows are "transitional", you can realy here XXXXX finding a new sound.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago)

hear, even. (that was embarrassing)

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago)

One interesting thing about XXXXX's new album XXXXX is that it doesn't actually have the letter X in any of the songs, in her name, or in the album title. Or even in the liner notes. I asked XXXXXX XXXX about this mysterious exclusion of the letter X.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Webster's Dictionary defines XXXXXX as "XXXX XXX XXXX XXX XXXXX XXX XXX XXX XXXXX XXXX" and the music of XXXXX easily fits within that definition.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, have you been reading ebay auction descriptions again?

"I am selling this record palyer AS IS BECASE IT DOESNT WORK RIGHT. I shook it up and you can here something inside but I am not a fixer so it is AS IS"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago)

If you Google "XXXXXX," you get over 200,000 results. Clearly, this says something about the popularity of XXXXXXX.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago)

How can i type and spell when there's so much naughty spaking going on?

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)

i rest my case.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago)

[primal scream]

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago)

So Huck is getting spanked by a singer named XXXXX.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I once bought a book in a secondhand store called Spanking The Maid. The cover had a pair of lacy panties on it. Not a flicker of reaction from the clerk, which impressed me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Robert Coover!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm done. I'm so ashamed of myself. I'm gonna go home and take a scalding hot shower.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)

There was an episode of Jackass where the hefty dude got spanked by these two doms whilst wearing nothing but his tightie whitey underwear. The safe word was "Oaklahoma." He got so angry (I guess they were spanking too hard) and he was shouting "Oaklahoma!" mixed in with beeped-out cuss words. I laughed so fucking hard.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)

All of the episodes that feature that dude in his skivvies rule.

I especially like the one where he's running down the sidewalk chasing Wee Man (who is also in his tightie whiteys) yelling at him to "get back here!"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago)

My boss is back from his business trip.

*sobbing*

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago)

So, none of you guys have yahoo messenger and wanna add me?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago)

not yahoo... have instant messenger

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago)

sorry.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago)

AIM forever, baby.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago)

I have yahoo, but I'm too embarrassed to tell any of you what my screenname is.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago)

TheFutureMrsTaylorHanson@yahoo.com?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Damn. He's good.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago)

GangstaBitchHottiePants@yahoo.com?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago)

No no, that's msn.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I have decided that the eventual FF album should be called "Ill Noise," or alternatively, "Ill Noize." What do you think?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, my yahoo name is im_dyin. I'm on now. Might step out for a smoke, though.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago)

I also have a feeling that the other FF members will veto this idea.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Call it IlI Noize in a font where people can't tell capital I apart from lower-case l, and everyone will THINK it's Ill Noize but you'll know the truth, and the hardccore true FF fans will be like the ILI brigade or you'll have a lot of 1-51 references that seem all mysterious and stuff.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago)

The safe word was "Oaklahoma."

And now I have the song from the musical 'oklahoma' in my head, and a very amusing image in my head to accompany it. like, a dom scene, where all of a sudden in the middle of spanking and screaming, they all burst into song.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago)

ok ok it's not THAT bad - my yahoo is she_sins and I'm on now, too.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago)

He was grunting and shouting "OKLAH-- OW *bleep* OMA." It wouldn't have been at ALL funny if he weren't so irate. DUDE, you're getting spanked with paddles -- it ain't gonna feel like a prostate massage. xpost

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago)

"Ill Noise," or alternatively, "Ill Noize." What do you think?

Tep's suggestion is pretty good, but I think you should stick an apostrophe in that bitch so "noise" is a verb.

I'll Noise

You could make the title track have the parenthetical extra part like so many grebt rock songs: "(Step the Fuck Back or) I'll Noise"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago)

!! Martin is absolutely correct, that would be so great.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago)

How could there not already be a noise collective called Illinoise?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma,
Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin' lazy circles in the sky.
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine,
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.

maybe the "Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!" fits, anyway. um, okay, the "yeeow" anyway. i don't remember how that fits into the tune, i just have the chorus in my head.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago)

There is one song on the planet that once i get it into my head, I cannot get it out. Not for weeks and weeks and weeks. It's there when I wake up, go to work, all day, driving home, going to bed, and when I'm dreaming. It is insidious and horrible. CARE TO GUESS WHAT SONG IT IS?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago)

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Growing up, we had a sing along book for the Oklahoma soundtrack. My parents didn't like it when my sister and I sang "Can't Say No" and we couldn't understand why.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Clambake, motherfuckers!

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Nick, don't ever stop using FF when you're talking about your band. I said it on the other thread, but I also have a feeling that the other FF members will veto this idea. makes me think, "yeah, Ben Grimm hates noize."

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Sarah = The Invisible Woman; Nick = Reed? Johnny? Namor? Wolverine?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I guess Sarah could be Crystal, Medusa, or Ms Marvel, too.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna start a band called The Fake Fictions UK.

So fuck y'all.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago)

And just do Mission UK covers, o' course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, and I'll be able to abbreviate my band's name "FFUK"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago)

My band will be called Fake Fictions Laotian Anglican Ministry and will perform nothing but minstel ballads from the land of Prydein.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Minstrel, dammit.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha ha. FFLAM.

It's funny cause I hear it said in Emeril's voice.

FFLAM!

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Mine will be the Jonathan Frake Fictions. We will sing slash songs. And do Slash lead guitar lines.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago)

(so so sorry luna)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago)

The Jonathan Frake Fictions' first record should totally be called Riker's Island.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago)

(you should be! I've been singing this all afternoon!)

(well ok you shouldn't be, you didn't know)

(but I have been singing it)

(I really hate this song)

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago)

OMG nick and sarah you totally missed that boat. Better than Kathleen Turner Overdrive!

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we can replace it, Luna.

"I got the horse right here / His name is Paul Revere / and there's a guy who says that if the weather's clear / can do, can do..."

Working yet? Maybe something intensely annoying from Gigi?

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago)

but not as good as Jesus Christ Superfly.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Nothing gets Oklahoma out.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Worst euphemism ever.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Luna, have you seen the Sesame Street skit where Grover is starking in "Oklahoma" but he keeps getting it wrong? First he bounces and and sings "AAAAAAAAA-klahoma!" and then he sings "EEEEEEEE-klahoma", etc., etc. It's one of the funniest things they did in the 90s.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Best band name I ever heard was a funk/punk/ska outfit called Roscoe P. Soultrain.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Then there was Jesus Christ Superpimp

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit! It's Wednesday! In my horror/relief at doing/having finished the XXXXXX XXXXXXX article, I totally forgot I have my radio show tonight! tune in at 8 p.m. CST on XX.X FM, or on the internet at XXXX.ca

shit, what am I gonna play?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago)

XXXXXX?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago)

I will probably listen tonight, so you had better play good stuff! Play stuff that sounds like Willie Nelson's version of "Blue Skies". Or play a bunch of people's versions of "Blue Skies". That would be nice.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Play XXXXXXX UK.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Okay. I'll dig out some "interesting" stuff if Casuistry's going to listen.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:33 (twenty years ago)

I have no suitable for airplay ODB. This makes me sad.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Damn you all! A whole new thread and already nearly 300 posts!? Forget all of you who sit around in front of 'puters all day.

I tried to scan and saw lots of Oklahoma and a Jackass mention. My bro and I stopped at a casino/conveince store in Oklahoma in the middle of the night on the way home from Detroit (far too many prepositional phrases). It was so fucking creepy. Everybody we interacted with (like the guy with a prothestic leg wearing shorts and his crackhead woman) had this hungry look in their eyes that just made my skin crawl.

I'm manic today and just dropped $99 at Target. Thank god my favorite store is a bargain retailer for times like this. I got a great car coat-length black raincoat-type jacket with a really cool retro print inside, a khaki Issac Mwhatever skirt suit and a silk sweater (these were all on sale).

My most inane purchase was another pair of pale pink fishnets. I already have a pair and can't really wear them anywhere. I got away with it at school a couple of times but won't try it now and they're too pale to wear out. HOWEVER they are so awesome I decided I'd better have a pair to put away for the future. nuts no?

I'll be back later. I'm washing all the linens now.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh boy! 8 minutes!
Jeez, dude, quit playing so many sweary songs!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago)

I bought a dozen pair of socks today, and six pair of underwear. This, sadly, was actually the highlight of my day.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, though -- brand new socks are a great feeling.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago)

underwear isn't?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Not compared to socks, no. New socks, if they're good socks, are the best.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:24 (twenty years ago)

"I bought a dozen pair of socks today, and six pair of underwear. This, sadly, was actually the highlight of my day."

Captain Underpants!

― aimurchie, Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago)

I just ate a Drumstick ice cream. Do you think I'm doing myself any undue harm or committing a sin by eating another?

Kenan, new socks cannot be as cool as new tights/stockings.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Kenan in new tights. Hmmmm.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Orbit, answer my question. My stomach's on pins and needles.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Eat the ice cream.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago)

Sam, everyone knows ice cream doesn't have calories after Labor Day!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago)

I have been rejected entirely by computer!!!

Thank you for your interest in employment with RAND. Your application for the PhD Poli Sci - Rel Disciplines job has been reviewed, and we have determined that there is not a match between your qualifications and our current needs.

This letter was automatically generated by RAND's employment application system. If you receive more than one letter like this, it's because you applied and were considered for multiple jobs at RAND. Each application is processed independently without regard for parallel applications.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago)

wanna guess which american city is the unsafest?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago)

gary? camden? compton? flint? nope, good old st louis! we're number one!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago)

or so says my aim popup

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm staying away from you murderers, then.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:36 (twenty years ago)

fuck! sam! so good to see you posting!!!!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 18 November 2004 06:17 (twenty years ago)

Huck, the connection was sucky and there were too many pauses, so I barely listened to your show.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:00 (twenty years ago)

my elbows are really dry. i bought some udder cream to soften them up...its not working. maybe i should rub it on my udders.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 18 November 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago)

udder cream?! made from udders?!?!

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago)

haha. no its a cream that was originally made to heal chapped udders....since it worked so well on cows they decided to market it for humans.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 18 November 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago)

You can read about it here.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Just keep applying it all of the time & it should work. e45 cream is really good for this.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys. Haha, I offended an American by mistake on my blog. IMAGINE, I'VE BEEN A RACIST ALL ALONG!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Bloody racist. Can you let me have your blog address so I can go and shout at you? (I know I should have it, I'm sorry, I don't at work)

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago)

http://archel.blogspot.com

(although the person who took exception to me actually did it on yummywakame.com, who quoted my post.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I always knew it archel! ;-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile, do any of you know any actually useful online personality test things, linked to what career to choose etc? Matt's having a bit of a think about life n work at the moment...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I liked your rebuttal in the comments on the other site, Archel.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Archie, Sarah and I tried to find a decent one a few months ago - did we actually find anything worth recommending hon?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago)

You could try the classic Briggs-Myers test (where you are turned into a founr letter code)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Thanks. I suddenly panicked and though that maybe I WAS being really awful and unthinkingly racist. xpost

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I suggested that one already jocelyn. I think M's web skills must be crap though because the only site he found where they let you take the test free, they phoned you at home afterwards with your result???

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

xpost--nah, America-bashing happens and it can be annoying to Americans of course, but really, bashing of anywhere happens and we ought to take it with humor when it's truly intentioned as such, I think. Generalizing, as a country America bashes enough aspects of its own population and the world on a regular basis that we should be a little more broad-minded about a joke about tea :)

Mark, I think the ones we found were all demanding money for the privilege of taking them. I did the meyers-briggs online one, but that didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. I'll have a look on my school's careers site to see if I can turn up any good free ones.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I mean, Americans shouldn't go OVERBOARD about a TEA joke, geddit? Huh? Huh?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)

When I did my careers test at university I was told I should be a chiropodist.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago)

heh. xpost double heh!

This was the only thing I found via school:
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/What_jobs_would_suit_me___Prospects_Planner_/p!epkbi;jsessionid=139501100789096265

Maybe the site will be helpful in general. Everything else, looks like you have to come into the college office to take the actual tests.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

That's too bad, Casuistry. It was a particularly fine show.
I'm in the library today, and for the next two weeks, doing the job of someone who makes about 4 times what I do while that person takes that person's 5th and 6th weeks of holiday this year (i get none). I also have to do my job. And I get to do it all at my regular rate of pay in the same amount of hours I usually work! They must think very highly of me. Screw them.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Mark, did that careers test specifically ask you if you like playing with feet?

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

damn. why does this day suck so much. (xpost, Huk, that sucks more than my day.)

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

It's almost 9 am here and I haven't slept yet. I was up all night feeling very anxious and shitty, thinking too much about the past and how I'd been slighted. Should've taken sleeping pills at midnight instead of trying to sleep on my own. I should probably just try to stay awake until tonight.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Embarrassing confession -- I have a huge tin of udder balm and I'm wearing some right now...on my lips.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 18 November 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Udder balm?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit. I just checked Bingo's link, and it's not the same thing. My thing has a much more horrifying name.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh god, I missed Bingo's post. Oh god. Oh. god.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne, I was gonna ask, "you're gay, right?" but then I remembered that I should think before I post.

Fuck.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Hi Archel, I read your post and it's in no way racist or even un-American. That person who was offended was a dumbass. And you can tell them I said so.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, Jeanne. I guess I could've just screamed BAG BALM or something instead. It should be fairly clear that I'm an ass.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Also in the "Isn't My Life Awful Today?" category, I seem to have lost my bus pass, and I just spent my last dollar on coffee. Fortunately, today's payday, and I finally got last month's freelance cheque today, and it's roughly the same amount as my paycheque, which sadly says more about the abysmal nature of my dayjob than the wild success of my writing career.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Bryan... I don't get it. Uh, yes I'm gay. (I'm obviously missing a joke or something.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)

It was an awful lips on a bag joke, the sort that only a half-wit mothbreather like me can make! Anyway, BAG BALM?!??!? *skulks off into the shadows*

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I breathe moths.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Finally, the perfect supervillain to fight Closet-Man!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Huk do you need some bag balm? or udder cream?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago)

the catchphrase for my udder cream is Udderly SMOOth

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Eggnog latte you are burning my esophagus!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I just went on the Chipotle website to find the Chipotle nearest to my office. That's kinda sad. But I really want a black bean burrito. Unfortunately the nearest Chipotle is just far enough away to be inconvenient to walk to.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I had an Amy's black bean burrito (microwave meal) for lunch yesterday. It was pretty good. It had tofu cheese!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I barfed this morning in a church courtyard. It was the tea. Black tea does that to me sometimes -- ok, more often than not -- but I was out of coffee and decided to risk it today. After one half a cup, I decided I'd much rather be drinking coffee, so headed for Starbucks. This is the way it always happens: I'm feeling fine, maybe very slightly vaguely woozy, and then all of a sudden I HAVE TO PUKE RIGHT NOW. So in the bushes was my best option. Horrible, just horrible. Funny, too, since I have an iron stomach for coffee, but six fluid ounces of black tea turns my guts to jelly. I can't imagine why that is, and I don't know anyone else who has that reaction.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago)

There's a special corner of Hell for people who puke on churchgrounds...it has waterslides!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.neystadt.org/john/album/NZ/Hong-Kong-Sydney-Bangkok/DSCN0272-Hong-Kong-Fountain.JPG

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago)

What about people who mug people on church premises? Grr.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm drinking some tea right now. Mmmm.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I *like* tea. Vomiting, not so much.

I switched now to a high-caffeine, light-roasted, high-acidity coffee, black. My stomach is totally settled.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

What does black gatorade to you?

Something's up at work today. The head honchos are all in a tiny office together having a screaming match with the door closed (there's a window so we can see them all looking very animated but can't hear them). Apparently, two of my coworkers are getting busted for clocking in too much overtime even though they have to in order to get their jobs done.

I guess I should try to be a good worker today. What a bother. Ha ha.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Good thing you have a JOB INTERVIEW on MONDAY!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago)

If I drink tea on an empty stomach first thing in the morning, it makes me nauseous.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I also decided last night to just leave this job in january with or without a new job. I will be able to collect my pension which is around $8000 and should be able to get by until I've found something else. The wife makes enough to cover my ass for the time being. im just worn out mentally from this place (7 years and counting) and in the time i've been here i've gotten no satisfaction money wise or knowledge wise. there is also no opportunity for advancement in my dept. i've said it before i think, but i seriously think i have a great case for reverse sexual discrimination.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago)

OMG I forgot to put my TRADER JOE'S BURRITOS in the freezer! I hope they're still good to eat.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I also keep forgetting to use my new name, it appears.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

you have to change it in your profile, my Irish-Indian friend.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Of Scottish, maybe.

Tell us, Sanjay, how did your parents meet?

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Or Scottish, maybe.

Tell us, Sanjay, how did your parents meet?

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago)

DAMNIT!

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago)

My father is Scottish, yes.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

The story isn't very interesting, though.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

So I went to the bank, and I am rich! Not really, but getting my f/l cheque a week late meant that I briefly had a very large sum of money in my bank account. Now I have a slightly less large than before sum owing to Visa.
And I had lunch at your people's restaurant, Sanjay, as it was right beside the bank. McBurgers are disgusting, by the way. You should look into that.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I know a little boy called Sanjay. But he is probably not so little anymore.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Is it you????

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I used to know a ton of people named Sanjay, but then I used to live in India, so there you go.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago)

If there are any Red Sox fans in the house besides myself and Luna...you should check this out.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Sanjay McDougal looks a bit like
Sarah McLusky!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Hm, Firefox doesn't seem to like it. Did you download any of the 99-cent digital downloads from MLB.com? I went a little nuts on them the day after the Series, but what the hell.

Nearly all of my Christmas presents this year are Sox-related, I predict.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago)

see i forget lots of things....like TEp being a huge sox fan.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I come and go, though, both on this thread and ILE in general. I didn't feel left out :)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Sanjay McDougal looks a bit like
Sarah McLusky!

UH-OH!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)

the catchphrase for my udder cream is Udderly SMOOth

Awesome. That's the shit my mom uses.

I barfed this morning in a church courtyard.

Don't worry Kenan, I don't think that's technically punishable by any kind of god... Once when I was in college I stumbled back into my hotel room in a drunken stupor and fell down between the beds just as I started puking. Reaching out for something to hold myself up with, I somehow managed to open the drawer of the bedside table and puke directly on the Bible. I don't mean I got some on the Bible. I mean every bit of vomit coming out landed directly on the Bible until it was sitting in a good sized pool of it.

After that I closed the drawer and passed out on the bed. Didn't find out what I'd done until the next day.

Haven't been struck by lightning yet, and it's been I dunno 6 or 7 years now.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)

wow martin.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

God will get you when you're least expecting. He's in no rush.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm not half as worried about desecrating the church as I am about passersby thinking I'm a wino.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, you have email and text message. I'm beginning to get paranoid.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Talkin' to me, markelby? Or sgs? Or Pink?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago)

(oh whoops! sorry, will write back)

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Is PinXor's real name Sarah as well? I feel left out.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

yep it is. Sarahs all up in your grill!

(sorry.)

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

It's my real name, too.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Yep. Same here.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah? Well ... well, it's my middle name too! Sarah Sara. As a nickname, people just hiss at me.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

TITTWIS = This is the Thread Where I'm Sarah

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

My last name is actually my first name. I used to complain about it, but I figure, so it goes: K. Sarah Sara.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Why does this place always turn into Ziegfield Follies in the middle of the day?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

As opposed to the music thread it is in the morning? Who cares?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't complaining, I was just trying to find a way to illustratively groan about Tep's pun.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Now for whatever reason I have an image of the Icecapades in my head.

Ah, Snoopy...

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

No wonder I never feel welcome. My name actually is Martin.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

My name is actually Buford.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago)

We'll only talk to you if we can call you mush.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I won't ask what you want to call me.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Well see that's the thing of it... Nicknames based on my last name have always bugged me.

A lot.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I actually didn't know PinXor's name until just now!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I won't ask what you want to call me.

Saint Luna, the Virgin Princess

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago)

St. Luna of the Eternal Computer

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Our Lady Queen of the Saints of the Everlasting Thread

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Blrrrrrrghghghghghgggghhhgood morning.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Good Morning!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Blrrrrrrghghghghghgggghhhgood morning.

Mind you don't do that on the Bible.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago)

That wasn't a "pukey" blrghgh so much as a "man it's difficult to wake up sometimes" blrghghgh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago)

*bemused*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Does my pain amuse you?!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Casuistry and Bryan seem to have opposite conditions. You still out there, Bryan? You still up, man?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago)

No, it BEMUSES me, you punk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Saint Luna, the Virgin Princess

hahahahahahahaha.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

My sleep schedule is just all kinds of fucked right now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I need to ask to leave early tomorrow (to go to Wisoconsin!) and come late Monday (job interview!), so I'm thinking of asking two different coworkers (Dad, can I do this? Mom, can I do this?) That way no one will suspect I'm a bad little worker bee (Um, until they notice I'm not here very much).

I can feel my hose ripping up further and further. It kind of tickles.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

My hose are slowly sliding down to my knees. Damn weight gain.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

It may just be a good excuse to go to Target tonight to get some more.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago)

That's funny, ladies, my hose is rising.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

WOKKA WOKKA WOKKA.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

have I ever said anything in any of these thread that any of you think could be turned into an engaging personal essay? just out of curiosity.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago)

I love buying tights. :-)

B-but jocelyn, losing weight makes hose fall down too - because last time you wore them you stretched them out and now they are baggy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago)

You've complained about your job a lot. Also you were a lumberjack.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)

(That was for Huck, but I hope Sarah posts something like "How did you know I was a lumberjack!")

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago)

That's all I do here, really, complain about my job, right? Damn. I NEED IDEAS, PEOPLE!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago)

I'll be back in a hour to see what you've come up with.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Did I mention that in my NaNoWriMo story, the hunky Canadian's dad made all his money in maple syrup (per your suggestions)? And, as their last name is Mann, it's called Mann's Syrup?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago)

EW!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Better than Mann's Bag Cream.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Mann's Hot Meat Delivery

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, I happen to think of udders as like, cow tits, not a lady cow wang. So in a sense, the "bag" is the "boob." And so a boob balm applied to my lips isn't really that ill-fitting for me. Thanks. Carry on.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Either way, I'll see you on the dark side of the moo.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Something is seriously fucked up with the cataloguing I've been doing all day and the person who's supposed to be available if I run into any problems isn't answering his phone. I swear, I should really just quit. I'd be so much happier. And broke.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Problem solved. But while I was waiting for the IT guy to do his thing, I got to peruse a new book written by someone who works in the same building. It contains an Author's Note, then and Introduction, then a Foreword, all written by the guy who wrote the rest of the book. Is that just not right? And then there's the dedication and the acknowledgements. Sheesh. Talk about egomaniac.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Holy mother of fucking strength -- there is some hippy dippy chic chick in the office talking about how she's macrobiotic and is totally spiritual and is going ON AND ON about brown rice, sea vegetables, and seaweed and how she eats so much food and feels so wonderful. She sounds like a brainwashed member of a cult.

I wish I were wearing a suit made of bacon and ice cream. I would gleefully tap dance on her bleach-blonde head.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Dude, don't quit, but do confront your boss on how ridiculous it is that (a) interns are making more than you [while presumably doing fewer hours of work?] and (b) you're regularly asked to cover for people who make much more than you while still being expected to do your own job. Tell them that you are not interested in doing other people's work for free, and demand that they either increase your salary or not give you the other people's work. And if they refuse, say that you are no longer going to cover for other people.

Because what are they going to do, fire you? You've been waiting for them to fire you for ages. You could get another job pretty easily, and it couldn't be a much worse job.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Actually, thinking it over you might not want to mention the intern thing. Just focus on one point.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Or set fire to somebody's desk. That is always fucking cool.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago)

My boss just came out of his office for our daily meeting, but the supe covered all that stuff already with me while he was gone.

BOss: ARE YOU READY, SARAH?
Me: FOR WHAT?
My supe from the other room: SARAH DOESN'T NEED A MEETING TODAY!

Bwah ha ha

That probably doesn't make any sense to any of you. Whatever. I'm happy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Mmm soup.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I want soup!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago)

No soup for you! One year!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Sarah Doesn't Need a Meeting Today sounds like the title of a Fountains of Wayne song.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Hey!

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Thursday, 18 November 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember why I'm called Ol' prune face. It doesn't do much of a selling job on me, I fear. And realistically, I have a face that's more like, say, an egg, an egg with sizeable nostrils.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Thursday, 18 November 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember why I'm called Ol' prune face.

It's in your user settings.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

My roommate brought home all this Russian candy. I'm trying to figure out what it is. But I don't really know Russian. I can pronounce it (badly) but I don't know the words.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago)

It's KOMMYHAPKA brand, I guess. It also says ИPИC a lot. Don't know why. Also something called a БAPБAPИC. "Barberries"? It has a drawing of what might be some funky berries on it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

I mean, they still taste like candies. But it's exciting.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

I got accidentally drunk on RUssian candy as a kid. I just kept eating it and eating it, not quite realizing the potency of the liquour inside.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago)

NPNC is IRIS. The other one is Barbara (Varvara)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Nope, sorry, Varvarees.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne: a dumbass joke like the one I made above will never be made by me again, you have my word. Sorry if I caused you any grief.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago)

So far there's no liquor inside these. They're named after women? This one is called ЛEДOK -- Ledok?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:57 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago)

That's a lady's name?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't think so, I am only just learning.
Why am I still online at midnight? Normally I'm reading. I think I'm lonely.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 05:00 (twenty years ago)

It's a kind of reading, I tell myself.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 19 November 2004 05:04 (twenty years ago)

My messages get more Pinefoxian, I think, the later I am online. It is a kind of reading, but it's not an ooh curled up in a bed with tea and book. I think it's because the book I read earlier in the evening made me feel slightly dirty. And I am certainly not a prude.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 05:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't think Italian art comics are for me.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago)

What a strange night.
First, it wasn't even night yet, I came home and fell asleep watching a music video channel. It was a Good Charlotte video. That, added to the fact that I've been listening to the new Eminem album for reviewery purposes, informed one of the strangest dreams I've ever had. I was going around taking care of children, or youth, not little kids, but I was taking kitchen knives away from them and hiding them in my comic books, because comics aren't just for kids anymore, in fact, they're not for kids at all! But it was all I could do, I kept racing from room to room in this weird dormitory, taking knives away from kids. It was the only way I could keep them from hurting themselves. What's GC rebelling against? As far as I can tell, from the two songs I've really paid attention to, all they're against is "YOU". Em, it's pretty clear he's afraid of women.
Oh, and my dream took place in the 30th Century, classic home of the Legion of Super-Heroes (I think they're in the 31st C now). The LSH didn't actually appear in the dream and there was nothing especially futuristic about the dream, and nobody was speaking InterLac, I just had a vague awareness of it being the 30th C. Maybe the dormitory was a spaceship, I'm not sure.
Writing this out, it reminds me of Holden Caulfield's Catcher In The Rye misinterpretation, and goddamnit, I'm 27 yrs old, and that's too old to have HC-based dreams.
Then I went and saw a comedian. A pretty good one. Technique-wise, a brilliant one, but material-wise, a little, um, libertarian, I guess. (is libertarianism sort of the default ideology of comedians these days?)
then, home, and did the dishes. Then I went out to get a cup of coffee and have a cigarette. At the coffee shop, the lady who always seems surly, and I've always figured she didn't like me--and hell, who could blame her, it's got to be a terrible way to make minimum wage, slinging graveyard shift coffee a block away from the psych. ward--so her demeanour was as sour as usual, but she told me my medium to go was "one million dollars...and twenty-five cents."
I smiled like a moron and she didn't even look at me.
Also, the harvest is in. You can tell, because there are now as many pick-up trucks cruising for hookers as there are town cars and minivans.

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 05:14 (twenty years ago)

xpost

jocelyn, don't be lonely! Look, I'll juggle for you!

http://giganticmag.com/images/waycool.gif

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 05:18 (twenty years ago)

is libertarianism sort of the default ideology of comedians these days?

I think it's a way to pretend they have a 'stance' while really just bitching about everything.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 05:20 (twenty years ago)

good point.

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that's limited to comedians.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 06:16 (twenty years ago)

Hello. Talk to me, someone?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago)

whutup, OPF.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago)

or maybe you wanna talk to someone you don't, like, SEE all the time.

I should go get ready to leave the house.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:54 (twenty years ago)

What up boo. I can deal with talking to YOU, sweet thing.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago)

i wish you were here now to help me pick out what to wear. I think it's time to unpack the Jumbo Fun Bucket of winter clothes.

Also, it looks like I will make it into town about your lunchtime today, if you fancy getting a bite avec moi.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago)

I'd be delighted to! Anything in particular you fancy? I'm at your beck and call (as per usual ;)).

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking of busting out the Heavy Winter Clothing Artillery: my norwegian sweater. I don't want it to get all pubby-smelly tonight though. This is why I hesitate to rock the look.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:12 (twenty years ago)

NORWEGIAN SWEATER? Have I ever seen you wear it? And can't you just hang it up to air afterwards, like you showed me how to do? I want to see this sweater. maybe wear it for lunch and then zip it up in an airtight bag outside the pub.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago)

I will pack saran wrap then.

It's not a very sexy sweater, just...Norwegian. And meant for skiing attire. My mom made it. I'll try to find a pic of something similar.

And hahaha I like that there's now a picture in my head of me telling you how a coat hanger works :))

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:27 (twenty years ago)

http://i1.sell.com/0/228/9408/1/229/122629-m.jpg

This is the closest I could find. Mine has better patterns and an embroidered collar thing though. It would probably replace a coat--it's pretty heavy.

Blondness not included.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago)

You could get your hair dyed in advance?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago)

TITTWIS = This is the Thread Where I'm Sarah
I think we have our next title!
x-post
you two should totally have your own board!

― YesitisSarahdawg (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago)

my wife is norwegian, she has about 10 of those things.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago)

bryan and i could have our own board too.

this is the thread where i shit

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Hehe - sorry for hogging the board chaps. Sgs, if you're still there, text me where you want to go and what time you'll be getting here.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago)

ok will do.

Sorry, y'all, I really need to get some sort of those messenger programmes like the kids have these days.

I will try to take a picture of the actual sweater sometime. It's an amazing piece of work.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago)

did i ever tell you guys how i want to punch my sister in the mouth. going on three weeks of her living with me and its killing me. all she does it complain about this new boy she's seeing....if you can call it that. he hasn't called in a week...probably because she drove him up a wall in a week. she acts like she is 15, its sickening. get one life.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago)

you did tell us C, now tell us how you kicked her ass to the curb!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago)

What up, buttercups and margarine-asses?

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Just had a Thai lunch with sgs. It was very nice indeed - I had beef with "garlic chilli oil" and pepper and Sarah had a seafood noodle thing, both of which were heavenly. I also had a bottle of Singha, which means I will be doing almopst no work all afternoon.

How are you, Huckles?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

hey huckalicious!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I am awesome. It's Friday, I've got a lot of hard work to do today, and then I'm off for a last-minute road trip with my brother to unexciting places!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

That sounds tasty, OPF.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Hey gang
Today is me & Sarah's sixth anniversary as a couple. Say congratulations.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago)

We are celebrating by going on tour in Wisconsin.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago)

You can buy her a foam cheesehead as a nice gift. Screw jewelry or flowers.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago)

congrats!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Bonne Anniversaire, Nique et Çarah!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I should explain what the phrase "screw jewelry" just conjured up for me.

(Jocelyn, it was great. I wish having a decent lunch didn't knock me out with such force about 30 minutes after finishing eating)

Nick and Sarah, babies'll be next.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago)

awww congrats you two! (actually i knew!)
no, no, no. they are not having babies next, i want babies next, you hear, me, me, me!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago)

You want babies next? tell me about it.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

aww sorry dude, I did actually mean after you. :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

;) im grouchy today! watch out pink! i kill you!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Isn't it whoever catches the placenta is the one who's going to have babies next?

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/images/245/baby_crying_closeup.jpg

Sorry to hear that, hope you feel better soon, I don't want to be killed!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

This Is The Thread Where I Say Pt 1: WTF?

unofficial!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

After reading the latest tell all thread about having babies, I don't mind moving to the back of the line.

But yeah, happy anniversary to me me me! (ha ha, and Nick too I guess)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't really want babies, but yooge ejaculations sound great.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Sarah got me this T.Rex/Roxy Music DVD of them playing on some German TV show, and it's awesome because Brian Eno is still in Roxy Music and they play like all of my favorite Roxy Music songs and Brian Ferry is SUCH A DORK OH MY GOD! and Brian Eno looks all freaky and cool.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm doing work. I'm a good boy.
(i want to go home)

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)

me too, only two hours left!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Congrats Nick + Sarah!

Here's the top 10 films for the weekend you started dating:

1. The Rugrats Movie
2. Enemy of the State
3. The Waterboy
4. Meet Joe Black
5. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
6. The Siege
7. I'll Be Home for Christmas
8. Antz
9. Pleasantville
10. Celebrity

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Sanjay!

Our first pseudo date before we were going out officially was to see a concert on campus. I'm thinking maybe it was Q & Not U? Nick, verify. (Hey, so did you start watching that dvd this morning?)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago)

It might have been...Dismemberment Plan? I seem to remember L1nda from the radio station being obsessed with the singer and bending over and showing us like 75% of her ass by accident. Was that that show?

Today I got to wear jeans because I have this "big project" today of moving a bunch of boxes around in our storage room in the basement, and they've been scaring me all week by saying "It's going to take all day" and when I asked to leave early today at 3:30 to go to Wisconsin they were like "OK, but only if you finish moving those boxes, otherwise you have to stay until it's done." So we just went down there and moved boxes for like 45 minutes and it's basically all done. Ha ha.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago)

EAT MY CHEESE LOG BOSSES!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I was going to skip lunch today, because I have a shitload of work to do, but now I'm really hungry.

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago)

We are getting sammiches from the Deli for lunch at work! People brought chips and dip and cookies. (We had to pay for it, though.)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Today I am dressed in red and black and thinking dirty thoughts.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago)

im always thinking dirty thoughts.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago)

well yeah, me too, but I'm not always wearing red and black, see?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

luna clearly needs to post more pics of herself. Clearly.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Kenan otm

I'm always thinking dirty thoughts too, unless I'm distracted by worrying, which happens more than it should.

I got pulled into a meeting this morning that I just got out of it that I didn't really need to attend after all. Whatevs.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I ate lunch!
Now I'm back at my desk for the first time in two days. Having done someone else's job I now have 2.5 hours to do the work I should have been doing since yesterday! Lucky me!
Also, I have two interviews scheduled for this afternoon! Ha!
I need to quit my dayjob. It's holding me back. From wearing red and black and thinking dirty thoughts.

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Don't they ever learn? SARAH DOES NOT NEED A MEETING, PEOPLE. xpost

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

There will be no picture posting.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

boo!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago)

I keep wanting to take pix of my walk in to work, but then I forget to bring along Nick's digi cam. One of these days though... Of course, this morning, it would have included a pic of this guy running after me screaming, "LADY!!!! LADYYYYY!!!!"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, that was Lionel Richie.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I am one giant dirty thought. Can't help it.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago)

My mom would be so jealous if you were right, martin.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/afhra/wwwroot/photo_galleries/woodi_ishmael/01080910/WebImages/images/01080910_022_jpg.jpg

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I am autumnal to the maxx today - brown cords, red shoes, grey and red sweater. I look quite good, except my trousers are a bit *too* brown and not *quite* long enough. And they're from Gap.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I am wearing a skirt that is probably not safe for work, striped knee socks, and 3 inch heels. I think I may be pushing the boundaries of working in a library.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm working in a library and I'm dressed like, um, like I'd rather not be.

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I've been saying for the last couple months I need new autumn clothes, except it won't be autumn much longer!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago)

But now you can just skip to wooly winter clothes and hats!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago)

What am I gonna do in Saskatoon tonight? And maybe tomorrow night?

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago)

I am wearing a skirt that is probably not safe for work

I hope you don't mean NSFW in the ILX sense. Cause that would mean you were essentially bottomless, which would be cold as well as embarrassing.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh look, Joel Plaskett Emergency is playing...oh, crap, they're opening for the Tragically Hip at the hockey rink. I could make a phone call and probably get tix, anyone wanna come?

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago)

No, it's just probably a bit too short. And I forgot there are construction workers in the stairwell today.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I hope you don't mean NSFW in the ILX sense. Cause that would mean you were essentially bottomless, which would be cold as well as embarrassing.

And really sexy for a librarian. (Kenan, when did you become all frigid n' shit?)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

hey kids. it's friday. tomorrow's a two day week. fuuuucccckkkk yeah.

I wish I were wearing a suit made of bacon and ice cream. I would gleefully tap dance on her bleach-blonde head.

I've been eating pretty much nothing but ice cream dinners for weeks now and the other day I bought a size 8 skirt. . .and it didn't fit. I haven't been able to wear a size 8 in a couple of years and now it appears I'm a 6 or 4. Mmm. Ice cream.

If she's so healthy why is she bleached blonde?

Last night I was out and this mod boy told me all teachers were incompetent, it was our fault the educational system was a farce and if I didn't like the condtions of my job I should just quit instead of expecting better. . . .

I tied a roped btw his ankle and his vespa then threw them both over a power line. He was a puny little stick boy so he's probably still there. Damn mods.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

(Kenan, when did you become all frigid n' shit?)

haha no. I might actually meet jocelyn one day. Have to go easy on the perving.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Congrats to Nick and Sarah!

Huck, you mentioned going to unexciting places just to tease and excite me! (xpost Oh, wait, it's just Saskatoon?)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago)

told me all teachers were incompetent, it was our fault the educational system was a farce and if I didn't like the condtions of my job I should just quit instead of expecting better

That's not a mod. That's a fuckin' asshole.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago)

are they getting married or having a baby?

xpost - sorry, get them confused.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Saskatoon and points north, Casuistry, but not too far north. Up to visit the old grandpaw. If I had had a lighter week, I would've made a radio doc out of it, but uh, bleurgh!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

N and S are having an anniversary. 'Cause they're cute.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Could you at least take pictures?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

(Although I guess I have a pretty good sense of what Sask looks like at this time of year.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I need to get a digital camera, but not before I get a mini-disc recorder and audio editing software.

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago)

(i may have dropped some big clues about my new career move)

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)

You're going to become a famous Canadian concert pianist?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Electronics junkie? I'm one already. There's no money in it.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

The Marissa Marchant of the North!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

They'll call you Sam Silvour. Or maybe Barry Brounze.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Does anybody in LA have a used bass amp before I plow thru The Recycler?

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago)

craigslist, maybe. It's a life saver.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I've been developing numbness and pain in my back/shoulders from having to twist to the left in order to use the computer. Then just now it occurred to me that there was absolutely no reason for me to do this since all I had to do was move my laptop directly in front of me. Now I can sit comfortably at my desk in a normal position. Plus I don't have to worry about a kid spying on me checking my MySpace email.

Fantastic yet I feel like a moran at the same time. Maybe that modasshole was right.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago)

fuck him.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I mean... that came out wrong.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago)

But my back. . .so nice. *sigh* i'm operating on three hours sleep here and it's becoming nearly impossible not to laugh at the kids. I keep telling two to be quiet and now they're throwing the "loser" sign at each other.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago)

haha no. I might actually meet jocelyn one day. Have to go easy on the perving.

haha, yeah, oh boy

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Um...

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could operate on 3 hours sleep like I used to. Now I have to have 8--it's not an option. My brain refuses to function.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I had four or five and I'm braindead. I'm never getting out of here.

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago)

My body is all tired and shit from moving all those damn boxes. But it did end up making the morning go by faster than usual, and now I have less than two hours of work until I go home and go on "tour"!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Sleep, sleep is good. I shall catch some in a box.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

I fear becoming older. I don't sleep now, and my dad says he hardly sleeps at all. I will be a zombie.

In a cardigan.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago)

oh Orbit, it's not much of an option for me anymore. If it wasn't for an eventful week inc. another chewing out by my principal and being cornered by the special ed mafia I wouldn't have went out last night. besides, it kind of already feels like the holiday. at least it does for me. i'm brain dead. . .only two more periods.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago)

C'mon, you can aim for more than a cardigan, Luna.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)

j: ;-)?

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Fine. A cardigan AND a cane.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago)

cardigans are great. you blaspheme.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Rock and roll cardigan:

http://www.robertcrosbie.com/evandando/images/cardigan.jpg

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)

I didn't say there was anything wrong with them - I own more than one now.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)

i saw this cardigan I wanted: it was pink and had white, oh what do you call those pirate skulls, on it. real punk rock. But it was at urban outfitters therefore 1200 and, oh the shame, from urban outfitters.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

SMcD ;-)!
I know someone who models for Urban Outfitters. She is a sweetie.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Luna, you might be reverse aging. I sleep all the damn time and I think that's a more certain sign that Father Time is banging me in the ass, so to speak.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I just spent five minutes trying to figure out who SMcD was.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Hey, guys. Less than 1.5 hours left for me at work. La ti da.

Sam, it's our 6 yr anniversary (N & I).

Jocelyn, ;-) .

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://web.ics.purdue.edu/~carlsokd/Noodles%20&%20Turbo%20(sm).JPG
My friend Emily's cats. Her Boyfriend wanted to name them Schroedinger and Uncle Jesse. She named them Noodles and Turbo.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://web.ics.purdue.edu/~carlsokd/Noodles%20&%20Turbo%20(sm).JPG

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Okay never mind.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I want a crotchless cardigan.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Because I'm getting really crotchety.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

All my cardigans are crotchless, baby.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Hey, question for those more computer-savvy than I -- on a PC, is there any way to view the URL of an image someone posts here without viewing the entire page's source code? On Macs, I'm able to just drag the image into the URL bar. Now when I do that (on the PC at my new job), the URL bar displays the name it would give the file if I were to save it to disk.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Right-click -> Properties.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Those cats are pretty adorable.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Ah, thanks, Chris! I am having to get used to this right-click business, too. And with reaching my pinkie further to hit Ctrl instead of the (non-existent) Apple key.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Right-clicks (ctrl-clicks) are pretty great on Macs too, of course.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I have to adjust to a new keyboard and mouse every night when I come home, and every morning when I come to work again. I've gotten a lot better at it.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

I still can't get it to work for me. :-(

So, I was just reading the baby thread some more, and some folks brought up cats having kittens. And so, that reminded me that I've been wondering if cats have periods. Because, um, I always thought that they did since they are mammals and have the organs (unless they're spayed), but I can't find anything online but porn. And I just realized my last search phrase for it is showing at the top of my screen. ha ha

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I used to know this. But I've completely forgotten.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago)

There's nothing but porn under "cat menstruation"? Stop the planet, let me off.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

AGH!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I guess maybe there isn't, because all I've learned is that catnip can cause (human) women to menstruate.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Neat!

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I'll stop talking about that now.

(48 minutes left!)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm never going to leave!!! NEVER!!! I need more time!
SOmebody build me a time machine, pls!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Good news! An article I wrote a week or so ago is being picked up in a different province! Woo hoo! I think I'm getting like $3 for it.

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Here you go, Huck:

http://www.nabusu.com/clock%201.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago)

If only it really was that time!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I just bought two pounds of sheep's milk butter, not entirely intentionally.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/TIME%20MACHINE%20MAIN.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I think I have a crappy freelance contract.

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Maybe your article about XXXX XXXX will be picked up as well!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Huckleberry Mann is "The Syndicated Boy".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I made you all an e-card.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm still here!!!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago)

yay!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago)

But I don't want to be! And now I can leave!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago)

aw, thanks, casuistry!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Hey people. At least a few things have been moved back into my bedroom, and surprise surprise, the computer is one of those first few! Still waiting on the furniture, though; can't have it until the new set is delivered. Anyway, I think I'm more thrilled about getting to sleep in actual appropriate nightwear than about getting back online, but that's only because it's been insanely annoying sleeping in my work/school clothes so I wouldn't appear slovenly to the people who would come in early to work on my bedroom.

I've only had time to quickly scan the thread; I have to say that some of those puns upthread were aMOOsing. (Get it? Get it? Huh? Huh? Huh?) I hope all of you are doing fine. I need to update my LJ with these temporary journal entries I created whilst away. But first... dinner. And since I haven't eaten since breakfast, I'm starving, so TTYL!

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 19 November 2004 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Dammit, my great mood has crashed completely. I just went into my library to put some comics away, and one of the comic bookcases has collapsed - looks as if the crap support pieces for the top shelf gave way, making it drop onto the next one, and so on all the way down. The right side came away from the nailed-on backboard and bowed outwards badly, and I think the bookcase is defunct. Many comics twisted and partly crushed.

I was just talking a couple of days ago about maybe buying some more bookcases. Looks as if that has just become more urgent. I shall be careful not to get such badly designed ones again.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh Martin, my condolences. I hope not too many were mangled irreparably.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)

No, nothing fatal, just annoying. I was also saying the other day that while it takes a lot to get my mood up high, bringing it down low again is very easy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Here, perhaps my desktop pattern will cheer you:

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/cstarrcstarr/takanawa.jpg

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

How come the ihttp thing works on some photos and not others? Is it related to file size?

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago)

I think it's the actual image size, but I don't recall the limits.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago)

"jack frost" is on television and it is the most fucked up thing i've ever seen.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Saturday, 20 November 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Michael Keaton movie, horror movie, or Rankin Bass special?

I'm watching Clue and weirded out that I never before recognized Colleen Camp (Yvette the maid) from the dozen other movies I've seen her in (Reese Witherspoon's mom in Election, Tackleberry's love interest in the Police Academy movies, one of the playmates in Apocalypse Now, etc).

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Is it the Jack Frost that was MST3Ked?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 20 November 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Things I learned while I was away:

1. It can be good sometimes to step away from the Internet, even if only for a few days, explore my own personal universe, see how incredibly dull it can be, and then be grateful for all this wonderful culture, easily within reach and almost literally at my fingertips.

2. I should've been ashamed of myself for assuming that I should land on any "list". Yeah, it is fairly easy to slip into the assumption that one has spent a lengthy period of time on here and thus should have made a real impression on a number of individuals, when in reality that impression has only been slight. No worries. No one is entitled to anything.

3. As much as I missed the Internet, its volumes of information and discussion opportunities and its key to this huge outside world, it's not exactly the best thing for someone who has so little self-esteem that she feels compelled to compare herself negatively to every single individual she encounters. Though moderation could do wonders to stop that unhealthy line of thinking.

4. I committ myself to step away completely from the Internet -- going so far as to unplug my computer -- for three days every month. It may seem quite harsh, but I recognize that this is what I have to do until I can build up enough self-esteem to not feel compelled to rely on others for my own happiness.

These are some temporary journal entries I wrote while I was away. Happy reading.

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 20 November 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Dee, you did make some lists on that thread, for what little that means!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 20 November 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago)

I am on set, directing a big ole film crew and we are spending more time ordering food than we are setting lights, and it's driving me fucking batty. Am I the first ever on-set ILX poster? I hope so.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 20 November 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago)

No, you just missed the "OMG you guys Bertolucci is SO WEIRD" thread that Michael Pitt started last summer.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Sunday, 21 November 2004 00:54 (twenty years ago)

"On-set"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 21 November 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago)

I just finished! A 14-hour on/off commercial shoot. We logged 48 minutes of footage, 11 camera setups, two crew-member freakouts, a craft-service disaster (no kosher food, eight Jewish actors / crew members), seven lights and a surprise visit from the employer -- which necessitated a Remy on his best, most professional-behavior shoot schedule and authoritative directorial presence. I AM A MOTHERFUCKING JENIUS!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago)

BINGO!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:30 (twenty years ago)

I am going to go drink while the teamsters clean up. This is the greatest job in teh world.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago)

Yay for Remy!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago)

I am going to go to a party now and get drunk ... except I just downloaded a bunch of Annie songs and really just want to listen to them all night :)

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago)

Anyway there are a bunch of ILX posters who have made movies of various sizes. I suspect you're not the only one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:36 (twenty years ago)

But ON-SET, Chris. ON-SET.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:42 (twenty years ago)

OK, I'm really going to go now.

I mean it.

I'm going, OK?

I'll be back, though.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:42 (twenty years ago)

Ha! I want to feel professional. All day long I was thinking to myself ... how the fuck am I qualified to tell a bunch of people who do this for a living how I'd like their skills applied? so I just smiled a lot and made fun of my AD, who's a good friend and appreciated the attention.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:47 (twenty years ago)

"ON-SET"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 21 November 2004 04:37 (twenty years ago)

"ON" Set.

I wish I were a poren director. I would like my actors to ask me any of the questions with which they bothered me today:

What's my motivation?
How do I feel about this?
What need to I have?

all of which I would answer with "You want to bust a big load on her forehead."

― ron remy, Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago)

No, t's! C on her t's! Haven't you learned anything around here?

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:28 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/nalrax/Jocelyn.jpg
HI!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago)

God I always seem to post in the middle of teh wrong conversations

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:33 (twenty years ago)

Just when I was thinking this thread was getting good!

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:35 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn, that SO belongs in the What Do You Look Like therad. Everyone needs to know.

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago)

That I have giant teeth?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:39 (twenty years ago)

No, that you're pretty and like to drink margaritas. And what you look like.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:48 (twenty years ago)

SMcD: When you come back bring pie, 'kay?
I am making pie tomorrow. I just got back from Shaun of the Dead and I'm seeing zombies everyone. Wait there's one outside right now...

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:49 (twenty years ago)

oh fun. since i'm very lonely(and flat fucking broke) in my new town, my parents have suggested that i go find some local evening church services to attend, or "look in the paper" for some social events to attend.

not to be a snide hipster-type, but sometimes it can be difficult to explain the subculture one inhabits to one's parents. since i'm in a subculture that's heavily reliant on cultural consumption, I can't really do it much, and thus meet others in it due primarily to a lack of funds. So i stay in at night, play "Baldur's Gate II", fuck about about message boards, and feel horrible about it sometimes.

I should start/find a thread: "Well-meaning but damn-near-useless parental advice"

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:19 (twenty years ago)

If you can afford a half-pint of something strong, you can be a part of my subculture.

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:37 (twenty years ago)

pints of PBR are my usual poison

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:40 (twenty years ago)

Ok, but that's won't do the job for a night's worth. You buy the pint of PBR, and I'll buy some decent whiskey.

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's time for a better subculture? One that doesn't require so much bling?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Real subculture never requires bling. That's why it's subculture.

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:43 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but i'm imaginative(or motivated, really) to do that...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:46 (twenty years ago)

oops. check that. NOT motivated ENOUGH, it should be

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:47 (twenty years ago)

Hiya folks! Yesterday we had a huge snowstorm in Helsinki, the first one this winter. Now everything's covered with white, which always makes me inexplicably happy. I already saw the first snowman of the winter too. I hope the snow'll stay, so I can go sleighing with my friends. Can't remember where I put my sleigh last winter, though, I hope it didn't get lost when I moved.

On the downside, I have a largish hangover, and I'm supposed to write an article on bling bling and capitalism today. I was at a student party last night, got massively drunk, and then tried to get touchy-feely with an uni mate. (I don't remember much of this, but so I was told.) She didn't seem to mind (our relationship has always been somewhat flirtatious, but she prefers, in her own words, "real men"), but I feel kinda ashamed, I'm supposed to be grown up by now...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 21 November 2004 12:23 (twenty years ago)

That is the best timed photo anyone has ever placed on ILX, Jocelyn! Was it deliberate?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 21 November 2004 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I don't think she's that kind of girl, Martin. I could be wrong though.

Sarah is downstairs hoovering. I've tidied up my room and I'm loudly lamenting that Football Manager 2005 keeps crashing once I get to a certain point in the game. There seems to be nothing I can do to make it work. Can anyone help?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Sunday, 21 November 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago)

When I woke up it was beautifully sunny and I was depressed; now it's cloudy and I'm in a good mood.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

hey kids hope you had a good weekend.

i'm exhausted and did nothing productive. :( here's the most recent pic of me (thurs night:)

http://www.askforjanice.com/photos/brightsm.jpg

I've decided to only take pictures of my stockinged legs from now on. No one needs to see my face anyway.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)

after the legs I might.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Goodness! Sam's Gams!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago)

TITWIS is full of foxes! Look out for out-of-work English hounds!
I have seen the prairie.

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't worry about being overrun with foxes. There'll be a lot fewer of them once they figure out that shooting a fox takes 0.1% of the time, effort and money hunting one does.

(though I don't suppose many of the urban foxes will be getting wacked - there are SO many of them in SW London, them and their noisy, agonised fucking. How I hate them. When they're fucking, I mean, they're cute most of the time)

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago)

i quit smoking on saturday it sucks arse. my friends had their little baby on Friday. I want one.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry your quitting smoking sucks. (But hey, health :)) And it will get better. I used to be a smoker many years ago and then had to move back in with my mom, and couldn't take sneaking off to the grocery store parking lot in the cold new england winter every time I wanted a cigarette. It was downright undignified.

I just found out my earlier class today is cancelled due to flu/departmental mistakes--this probably shouldn't make me so happy...they're planning to do a longer session next week which I won't be able to make since I have another class immediately afterwards, SUCKAS.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:25 (twenty years ago)

im on the patch so it isn't that bad, but christ am i hungry. this is about the 5th time i've tried to quit. im really hoping its the last.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago)

good luck! Hope it succeeds. It really took a feeling of great indignity and paranoia for me to stop, but I'd only been smoking regularly for about a year at that point. It helped that I had moved away from all my smoking friends also.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Hurrah for your mum, your paranoia and you lack of friends!
;)

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Mm, paradox. I hate undoing the cellophane wrap from CDs and DVDs, in an almost phobic way, BUT at the same time I like it, because it's like Christmas. I just opened Belle Epoque, Basque Ball, Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and it's very exciting, even though they're all for work...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Good luck BBB. Don't worry about putting on weight, because love handles are easier to get rid of than tumours. That's what I've told myself each time I've tried to quit and become gluttonous.
I need to quit before the end of the year because the whole province is going smoke-free, and my apt. is already smokefree and, yeah, what sgs said about dignity and all. And also the money.

xpost

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, good luck Chris. I was totally useless at empathising when Matt gave up though, I think I have the least addictive personality possible. Sorry :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Between my wife and I we spend around $8000 a year on cigarettes. RIDICULOUS.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago)

not to mention that im sure the fact that both of us are heavy smokers doesn't help in the fertilization dept.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago)

You'll be spending it on a gorgeous bouncing baby soon though Chris! best of luck my friend, if I can do it, anyone can do it!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago)

So the local paper publishes opinion pieces by people under 20 every Monday and there's a great one today about how Gay Marriage shouldn't be allowed because it makes it harder for parents who have to "explain to my children why some kids have 'two mommies' or 'two daddies' instead of a 'mommy and a daddy'."
The whole idea of GM "disgusts" the writer and "scares the - and excuse me for saying this - hell out of me".
I'm sorry BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS means you have to talk to your kids? Isn't the fact that you seem like you have more than one child and you're under 20 going to require some 'splainin' too?

This town, I tell you, it scares and disgusts me.

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Are you sure the spot's not for 'IQ under 20'?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago)

In all fairness to my shitty town, the article is juxtaposed with another article in favour of GM, that concludes by asking if gay and lesbian couples are lobbying against straight marriage. "No, they are not."

It's probably my favourite part of the paper each week.

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago)

BACK FROM TOUR. HI!

So Sarah had a job interview at 7:30 this morning and I haven't heard from her yet. It's almost 9:30 here. That could be a good thing, right? Or maybe just her cell phone is out of batteries and so she couldn't call afterwords. But I'm hoping it's a good thing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

OK I'm talking to her now. SOUNDS GOOD!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, exciting! But what the hell kind of time is 7.30am for an interview??!!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

So I come into work and all of a sudden I'm knee-dip in bullshit! All kindsa things got fucked up on the weekend, and people are making all kindsa demands of me, and I'm all like, um, do you realize that none of that is actually my job? Because none of it is. And the stuff that is my job, I'm like, hey dude, what's happening? You good? Yeah, I knew you were.

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Good luck to Sarah!
Huck, I recommend you start bringing whiskey in a flask to work and surreptitiously adding it to your coffee when no one's looking. Or add it to the office coffee so people chill out a bit.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I feel really crappy today, i just wanted you to know.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

This dude who we stayed with in Madison had strep throat, so it's pretty much guaranteed that Sarah and/or I will have strep throat over the entire Thanksgiving weekend.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Because we were making out with him.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Just kidding.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

But we met Jordan!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

And made out with him!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Just kidding.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

What's up, Pink? Anything specific or Monday malaise?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm almost ready to quit my job here anyway. I mean, emotionally, I've been ready for a long time, but over the last couple of weeks, my career as a writer has really blossomed and the necessity of a soul-crushing dayjob is fading away. In some ways, that should make the inanities of being here easier to take, y'know, like, pressure's off! But today--maybe because I barely slept all weekend, not because of partying, but because I had to share a very uncomfortable futon with my brother who snores like you wouldn't believe and in EVERY position--it just seems to be making me sad and bummed out that I can't spend these, the most productive hours of the day, on something that actually does me some good.

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Cheer up, Pink! 'Tis the season! (or at least they are already playing Christmas music at the radio station at work)

Yeah, so I feel like my interview went pretty well considering I sounded like Marge Simpson (early morning + possibly getting sick). I'm supposed to hear something Wednesday - that's so soon! Ay ay ay! Anyway, I would be working in this new office really close to the Merchandise Mart. The view is spectacular.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I want to get into the Christmas spirit, but i gotta study! :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Good luck with the studying Pink, I know how you feel! And I hope you feel better soon.
http://www.sluggy.net/sz/uploads/Photos/036-1594-icon.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

aww cheers! how are you archel?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

The best thing about Thanksgiving that isn't pie is that it provides a very clear delineation for where the Christmas season should begin. Otherwise, madness! chaos! anarchy! the malls would get all confused and put Christmas decorations up in March, after Valentine's Day and Mardi Gras had passed, advent calendars would be the size of pantries, and "Christmas in July" would have to become "Christmas on December 28th"!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm ok. I have free sandwiches just now! But I am finding it very difficult to be out on my own since the mugging, I've realised. Which is poo obviously.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

One of two things is going to happen shortly: my head is going to exlode and take out whomever is in its way OR i'm going to vomit really hard. I think I'm allergic to corporate jobs.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Do you get to POWERDRESS, Je4nne?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Can someone e-mail me some health insurance?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I guess that's my cue to strut my sexy citizenship again, huh?

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.eccnet.com/fourwinds/graphics/nurse.jpg

(incidentally, if you're at work, don't imagegoogle "nurse")

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago)

What be this "powderdress"?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago)

The lower part of the sleeves look detachable!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I just downloaded the first season of the Muppet Show, so I have something new to watch today while I'm sick and in pain in bed.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)

oh, i hope you feel better soon!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago)

oh and some other news....the wife is experiencing some unusual "monthly bill" symptoms about 1 week and a half before she is supposed to get the bill. most of them seem to be typical early pregnancy signs....

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

hooray! ooh fingers crossed Chris!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

yes she didn't tell me until this weekend because she knew i would jump to conclusions. apparently the boobs have been extremely tender (beyond regular monthly tenderness) for about a week....thats approx 2 weeks before she is due for the bill.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)

well let's hope it's all for the right reasons this time! My am so hoping that you guys are good to go this time!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

i have everything crossed.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully this is the real McCoy, Chris.

(I didn't know you could call it "the monthly bill"... In Finland we call them "lingonberry days".)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago)

X-post
I bet! me too oddly!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

more fingers crossed for you, chris!

hope that casuistry and pink are feeling better.

i worry too much sometimes. i might just drive myself insane.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

It was that yooge load, I tell ya.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago)

You go BingoSpooge!

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)

See im good with babies...although im nervous when they aren't mine and get confused holding them. this is my good friends baby girl who was born on friday night.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/cmvenuti/AlexaandUncleVenuti.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh meh goodness! SHE IS SO TINY. And you're doing a perfectly excellent job of holding her. She looks very content and snuggly.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago)

she is 4lbs 4oz and two weeks early...friends wife is tiny.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago)

OMG "lingonberry days"! That's awesome!

Good luck, Other Chris.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm writing a tour diary but I'm worried it will be end up being boring.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I used to think 'lingonberry juice' was something Ikea invented--since the furniture names mean nothing apparently. Now I'm more than a little wary.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, I need to call a song "lingonberry days", that's the greatest.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

This is either a refreshing berry drink or the most disgusting thing imaginable.

http://www.partyman.se/print_etiketter/vodka/Lingonberry_Vodka.jpg

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

It's sloe gin time againnnn...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Un flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Well, obviously that's just one nickname for it, some of the others are less graphic.

About quitting smoking... After I quit, I ate sweets on regular basis for months. I guess you gotta receive that oral pleasure from somewhere... Good luck you quitters!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago)

'oral pleasure', huh?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago)

That's a big part of smoking, yes.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

well, there's a way for chris to quit that would make his wife very happy, i would think...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

It's a big part of everything.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm outta here.

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't compare the pleasure of cunnilingus to the pleasure of smoking. The former pleasure is of the altruistic sort, while the latter is purely hedonistic.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I am anti-oral pleasure. although i throw it into the repitoire evervy once in a while if the stars are aligned.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Not at all! If you're just being altruistic, then you're doing it wrong. It's the most sublime of pleasures.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

i take it your a connoisseur

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, I've always thought oral sex is (to the active party) about getting pleasure from giving pleasure... Could you elaborate on this sublimeness a bit, Mark?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Anti-oral?

I FEEL LIKE I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

(Ignore me, stressed and I need coffee).

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I FEEL LIKE I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU.

Carnally?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I've got the late November blues.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Well, that obviously is a significant part of it, Tuomas, but I dunno, I just get a huge amount of pleasure from every sensual aspect of doing it - each of my senses gets treat after treat.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I wrote about our weekend in my blog.

I am sleepy, but mostly I think I'm getting strep.

I'm excited for you, Chris!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Well, not that the taste is entirely unpleasant, but still... Someone once described it as "a cross between iron and butter", which kinda nails it.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I guess in not anti...its not my fav thing to do, thats for sure. it could be made of chocolate and it wouldn't change my opinion. but i'll do it.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago)

as if cum is some sort of sweet nectar? but it's still pleasurable tasting it, for other reasons. (xp)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago)

it tastes like a battery.

hey, im not really a big fan of the beej either. never have been. i prefer the fucking.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Julia, I wasn't suggesting a popularity competition between the two, merely making an observation.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I, however, AM suggesting a popularity competition between the two.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, sperm's kinda tasteless compared to the female version. Sperm leaves me indifferent, whereas the other - for better or worse - doesn't.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

didn't mean to come across as argumentative, just making a bit of a counterpoint was all, tuomas...

it's just, y'know, an interesting topic.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it is, and I'm eager to some other opinions/comparisons.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

"eager to hear"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't it make more sense to compare it to cock?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago)

it isn't tasteless, it tastes like baking soda with a hint of bleach.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but "kinda tasteless compared"...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I disagree.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

We need comparisons from people who've tasted both, cuz I haven't.

It's too early in the morning for me to think about this.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, maybe it's just the succumbing of the whole tongue, titillating all taste buds, which makes the sensation feel more expansive.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

er, what did i stumble into...??!!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear, did I just write that sentence?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I wish I would've used a word more poetic than "expansive"...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago)

"engorged"?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Sounds good!

"As my titillated taste buds engorged the iridescent fluids of her lower body..."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I need to stop before I get carried away!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Okay, tittwis advice signal GO. Is it incomprehensibly rude for me to not go out and do things with my girlfriend's sister and father while they're here? The situation real quick:

1) They were invited to come for Thanksgiving -- sort of after they invited themselves, because her father made plans to fly down and spend Thanksgiving with girlfriend's sister at college, and I doubt she would have been up to making the meal;

2) They notified us a few days ago they would be arriving this past Sunday instead.

3) We frantically pointed out that we both had immense amounts of work, that L would be gone all day Tuesday from 8 to 6, that it was the end of the semester, that we had carefully planned out meals that did not include them, etc

4) But they're bored, say they, because sister is at OleMiss, which is in a small town in the middle of nowhere; they say they'll stay in a hotel;

5) Over the next few days, they change the specifics of their plan four times, including who is showing up, and when;

6) The final plan was for them to arrive late tonight or sometime tomorrow before lunch, because they were going to stay in TN or KY or somewhere and sightsee;

7) They called us FROM THE ROAD at 12:30 to let us know they would instead be here today at 3:00. L has a haircut appointment, we have grocery shopping to do, she was in the middle of a paper due tonight when they called, etc. We told them go to your hotel, we'll call you when we're free, they got huffy.

In short, they've been immensely inconsiderate, and while doing that once is one thing, doing it after we've pointed out the imposition is another thing altogether. I'm normally good at these situations -- but in this case, I can't do anything really, because it's not my family, it's hers, and while I feel she caves to them too often to avoid fights, that's really her decision. This time it happens to affect me.

I'm as concerned that I'll flip my lid at them as I am for the lost time. I haven't taken a full week off since the 90s, and have no intention of changing that. I'm strongly considering begging off any plans until Wednesday night, and reminding them for a fourth time of my workload. I know this will come off as somewhat rude and standoffish, but will it come off as incredibly rude and standoffish?

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

I think I would suggest in the most polite manner possible that they have to entertain themselves for a few days, as they arrived unannounced and with the knowledge that you and L had a ton of work to finish before T-day. Perhaps you could have dinner out with them tonight, then give them a map of Bloomington and tell them to go explore the town.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Act as if it's all working out as it should, and it should be fine. If you feel angry or bad about it, it will be bad. It's like a Jedi mind trick.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Stick to your plans - they're the ones who are imposing, let them figure it out.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Looks like I might be going to a clinic! Whee! I am bleeding as I type!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Tep that's kind of like cousin Randy showing up at the Griswold's. You're Clark. This is not cool.

― "Shitter's full!!" (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Whoopsie -- replace "Randy" with "Eddie." You get the idea, damnit.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm having the damnedest luck googling up tips to sop bleeding.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Stop, not sop. I'm sopping it up just fine.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

what have you done, chris?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Chris, that's normal. It happens to a woman once a month. It goes away in 3 to 5 days.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Um. You don't want to know, trust me. (I didn't do anything idiotic, mind you.)

xpost You know it occurred to me not long ago that I don't have a very good sense of what menstruation is actually like. In terms of how much, etc.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

well, how can we tell you how to stop bleeding if we don't know what's bleeding?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)

however, ice helps, elevation helps, pressure helps

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago)

That subject nearly caused me to have a royal FIT in 8th grade. We had some lady come in and do a presentation on menstruation and when she showed us how much blood we lose, I walked out of there thinking I had serious internal injuries because in my situation, I was losing HELLA more blood than what that lady showed us. xpost

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Geez, at least I'm not bleeding!

You're all right, I think; I have to Jedi myself into realizing that yes, I am on the side of good and right, but no, nothing good would come from a lightsaber fight. See, this is why I advise people to avoid family Thanksgivings, because this is exactly the sort of stress I have been able to prevent.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Tep, Nick will totally get your back on this one. My family, and by taht I mean my mom and sisters, are completely unreliable/inconsistant. They thrive on changing plans at the last minute and then being late to them anyway.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I GOTS YR BACK DAWG.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Chris is being seen to on a separate thread. Tep, stick to your guns (and survive the weekend! I'd give you some of my relative sanity here if I could!).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Tep can you send them to Nashville to go antiques shopping for the day?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago)

COVER ME! I'm going in!

(They will be here in a few minutes. I can't blow them off much tonight, while they're in my apartment, but we'll see where things go after that.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago)

I think they just came from Nashville, or somewhere near, but we're going to suggest they go to Indianapolis tomorrow. I'd kind of like to go to Indy myself, although not tomorrow, so on the other hand I also want to say "go drive around for ten hours tomorrow, and then Wednesday we can all go to Indy, since I was taking Wednesday off anyway."

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Bleeding seems to have stopped. I'm waiting for the folks at the clinic to get back from lunch.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Family situation seems to be a matter of cluelessness more than deliberate lack of consideration; her father keeps asking things like "do you guys have a quiz to study for?" when "we will be busy" is brought up. (L is getting her PhD in Classics and teaches Latin daily; I'm in my final semester of coursework, have fifty pages worth of papers due, and write full time on the assumption that it's a prerequisite to being paid full time -- we're not exactly at the quiz stage of the tadpole's journey.) I have to assume L's Sister's Master's program (in physical training or something) is not very rigorous.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Menstruation, eh? The lumps were a shock.

I went for dinner with my friend Jackie from university and she showed me her pictures from her recent trip to Venice. I don't know whether it's unreasonable/pretentious idealism, but when I see pics of Venice, I feel a powerful, real link, one that pulls me towards it with scary insistence.

I love my dad's hometown.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't seem to be anything approaching unreasonable or pretentious idealism -- just strong pride for the land of many of your relatives, including your father. There's nothing wrong with that. If I could find reasons to feel the same about Mexico, I would. (As it is, I do feel a bit of strong pride about Spain, and I can be a Mexico apologist if need be.)

Tep, I hope you were able to work out something that would be beneficial to all parties involved. Though I don't doubt for one second that you WILL find a rational and logical solution that will leave everyone happy.

Menstruation. Ugh. I mean, yeah, it's a normal part of our everyday womanly existence and all, but... ugh. Negative connotations, that. And I first started getting it at an early age (11), before the topic had a chance to be covered in school. Not that they did end up covering it; I think it was touched upon in freshman-year health class, but only as a part of the reproductive system and cycle.

(All of my concern toward Chris is found on the appropriate thread. I say this because I wish not to risk repeating myself.)

So I'm cold, it's close to bedtime, my bedroom's starting to get back to normal, I just yawned, and I think I might be facing a long day tomorrow. "Good night"? Probably, yes.

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 08:14 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I drifted off for just a second or two and I actually found myself slipping into what seems like dreamland. This is a sign sleep is needed.

Obv.

(I'm prob not even going to make any sense of these posts tomorrow, I just know.)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 08:16 (twenty years ago)

Blimey! I have missed loads of stuff.

Chris - have you stopped bleeding?
Tother Chris - do we have a baby?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:13 (twenty years ago)

WHICH CHRIS IS WHICH??!?

Chris P would make a great dad too, tho.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Lady if you have to ask...

(You know which ones prune head!)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago)

Not sure yet. We will see if she gets her bill in a week.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Are you just gonna wait then? I think I'd have to do a test. Then again I guess you've already spent a fortune on tests!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago)

we'll wait and see. i guess you can't do a test until its around 4 days to your period....what the hell do i know.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Very patient! I think you are supposed to wait til the day that you are due to have your period, but that may have changed.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago)

So far, so not so bad. The Cousin Eddie thing is what I'm keeping in mind, because Cousin Eddie is never malicious, see. (And L told me her grandmother called the other night and said something -- not intentionally related to this -- about L's dad often not considering other peoples' plans, schedules, etc., until after the fact. Someone else in the family confirming what I'm complaining about, that's reassuring.)

Meals got worked out, I bought a chicken and will make chicken vesuvio tonight; we'll order pizza tomorrow night and probably go somewhere for lunch prior. I have at least until three today before seeing them, and hopefully longer -- they're wandering around campus and whatnot, and were originally planning on tagging along to L's class (the one she teaches, not the one she takes), but I suggested that perhaps following your daughter to work might make her look slightly less professional, and I think that got through.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Last night I went to bed with the nicotine patch on....hilarity ensued in my sleep.
I dreamt that I was putting on an ice skating exhibition in Toronto with Bryan, Huck and Sean...it was set to xmas music and was beautiful...people cried...until Bryan vomited all over his tights.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago)

those nicotine patches work wonders i tells ya.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I FUCKING HATE NTL, STUPID FUCKING WANKY INCOMPETENT FUCKERS! YEAH I'M TALKING TO YOU FUCKER DUMBASS OF A CUSTOMER RELATION CALL GIRL. YOU ARE NOT LISTENING TO ME & YOUR COMPANY IS WANK!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I concur. Dump'em, and make sure they've stopped charging you when you do.

I have been 13 minutes back at my desk after lunch, and OMG I WANT MORE FOOD AND DRINK AND COFFEE and I don't want to work, I want to recline and read Kate Atkinson and listen to Snoop.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Grr. Maybe all of the TITTWISers (nay, all of ILX) could tie up all the NTL phone lines with heavy breathing or 'wrong numbers' or something?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I guess that could happen, Chris. I probably got a look at myself in the tights, huh? I just woke up from a dream where I was in a 7-11 wanting to buy a chocolate bar and a Coke, and I think some sort of pastry, but a couple of police officers were doing a theft prevention workshop with the two staff members in a closed office. This was silly as they left the store unattended. I patiently walked around waiting then made fun of the worker guy while paying for my crap but I guess I was just as stupid for not loading up.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I concur. Dump'em, and make sure they've stopped charging you when you do.
Dude, I did dump them on 7th Oct!!! 30 days to cancel the account (for which I refused to pay - nice, 30 days of free cable) & told them they had to refund all of my line rental right back to when I moved in (mid August). So come the 7th Nov, they cancelled our tv & then proceeded to send us a bill for the coming month. Fuckwits! Even if I was continuing with my service as per usual, they had got the charge wrong by double billing me. The mistake they have made 3 months in a row now even though I have told them each time! FUCKERS!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Phone/cable companies are all horrible horrible fuckwits, they never seem to cancel anything in a reasonable period of time. Maybe you could ask for a cancellation confirmation code and the rep's name.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I have a long list of people's names & dates to go with them, for the all the good it has done me. Now I have to wait another 3 weeks to get a cheque from them!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Nicotine patch dreams are the scariest part of quitting smoking. I think that's one of the reasons why I have never liked the patch. Though that doesn't sound like that scary of a dream.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I slept really well last night thanks to some Nyquil. mmm... cough syrup... I did have one really f'ed up scary dream though, and I think mine beats Poops McGee there. A wild boar was chasing my sisters and I and trying to rape us. It ended well though. Someone caught it and then I relayed the story to a big crowd of people as though it were hilarious. "Oh my god! You should have seen me! I was running like THIS...."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I hated nicotine patch dreams, they were awful!

Sarah - I got your letter (thanks) & I will reply after next wednesday when dreaded exam is over!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Is it wrong that I have the urge to punch something when I wake up every morning?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Is this why no women want to sleep with me?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Are you Adam Sandler, Je4nne?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Adam Sandler has a new movie coming out Y Tu Fatty Tambien or something like that. Where he plays a fatty with a fatty kid and a latina maid. All of worcester will be lined up to see this but me.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago)

There is a man outside smoking a cheroot in a holder. He has a ponytail and is wearing a leather vest. A cheroot!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I used to smoke cheroots! I had a leather vest and ponytail at the time. Maybe you're the Terminator!

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Shhh...

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

No, don't Shhhh..., I need to stay awake!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

whats a cheroot? is that like a backwoods?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.photofactory.nl/images%20medium/Burma/cheroot%20lady.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)

The preview for that new Sandler movie, "Spanglish," is weird. It looks like a "dramedy," with more of the emphasis on the drama. Nearly every scene in the preview had someone crying. I think this might be a Punch-Drunk Love situation where the typical Sandler fans are going to be disappointed.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Ahh. . .only four more classes till five days of heaven.

from dee (who I'm glad to see, oo that rhymed.)

If I could find reasons to feel the same about Mexico, I would. (As it is, I do feel a bit of strong pride about Spain, and I can be a Mexico apologist if need be.)

bbut, aren't your relatives from Mexico instead of Spain? Come on girl, brown power!

I am fascinated with vintage menstruation paraphanlia and have old framed ads in my bathroom (oldest, kotex, 1926), boxes, little "growing up" booklets from the 50s, and a speculum. The latter isn't really period-related but extends to my slight medical fetish. I'd love to have an old-style medicine cabinet in my house filled with vintage tampons and things - great conversation piece! Alas I have more important things to spend my money on. . .

Also U&K, visit to the Museum of Menstruation

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Spanglish is directed by James L. Brooks, who has only made four prior films, but three of them were nominated for Best Picture. (Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, As Good As it Gets)

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I hated "As Good as it Gets". The first time I watched it I ended up falling off a couch onto a glass and slicing my arm open. Then someone sat me down and forced me to watch it, knowing I didn't like it, and then kept pointing out why it was good.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I hate redemption.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I hated that fucking movie too. I paid to see it in a theater and man, was I annoyed.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

So sorry to bring up the Fake Fictions once again, but we need your creative input. We are going to be developing some merch, probably stickers, buttons, etc. and hopefully we'll have a little cd soon so we'll need a cover for that too. We're trying to come up with some kind of loose theme for everything so that there's something similar between them, either a subject theme or a stylistic theme. We don't really have any ideas though. Thoughts?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)

no cliched fonts like 8 track or stereofidelic please. .

hmm, I'll think on this. right now I'm taking any options other than faking past lesson plans.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I usually like really simple, classic fonts, or hand-written/drawn letters.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

What was his fourth movie?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Just make sure it looks nothing like the other FF band logo. I don't like Franz Ferdinand's font anyway, it's very static and ugly.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

nick, wanna fake some lesson plans?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I didn't enjoy As Good as it Gets either. The dude's sexist and creepy, so it didn't touch my heart that much.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

I think Broadcast News is the only one of those I've seen all the way through. I watched part of As Good as it Gets. I like Greg Kinnear.

I KNOW NUFFINK ABOUT FAKING LESSON PLANS. Is it anything like writing about shitty indie rock albums from 10 years ago that no one else cares about?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

exactly Sarah. And then there's the dialogue.

"Look! Warm buns!"
gag.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Although it is not as bad as that joint Jack Nicholson being creepy/Adam Sadler being creepy movie that I watched part of the other day.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago)

faking lesson plans basically means going back and trying to reconstruct lessons taught on oct 5. Which basically means making something up b/c I don't remember. I've been horrible w/LPs since day one. They are the band of my existance. when planning for my own purposes I scribble notes down on the back of scrap paper for the following week and it works fine. This formal shit typed up though . . .

do the fake fictions want to rule out book imagery?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

for the Fake Fictions theme: how about typewriters? this probably sounds kind of cheesy, but I am thinking of something like how round underwood keys look, or the long metal letter bits on stalks. old typewriters have great profiles.

There's probably a reason why I don't design things like this.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I think it's a great idea sgs. You could make the font look like old typewriter typeset, complete with the unique wear on the keys aspect.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.the-forum.com/ephemera/images/underw1.jpg

and

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/collections/underwood-keys.jpg

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago)

thanks jocelyn!

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, interesting. One thing I was thinking though is that, especially for the cd cover, instead of just having one object or thing, I want to have an interesting contrast, like a couple of objects that don't really go together or an object and a cool design or something. I drew a cool flier recently with a scary snowman and an eagle on it, so something like that. So maybe typewriter + ?.
I don't have a problem with book imagery, but I have trouble thinking of interesting book imagery, like besides just books.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Thank you, Vicodin, for the only full night's sleep I've had in weeks.

Nick, replace the letters on the keys with other icons.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

when planning for my own purposes I scribble notes down on the back of scrap paper for the following week and it works fine.

This is what makes us geniuses, Sam! ;-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Typewriter and radio, or iPod even! words and music. Typewriter and pomegranate! Typewriter and boobies, because everyone likes the tits.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm bored and I think I'm going to walk around at lunch and take pictures of LA. Any requests?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Something obviously fake, like plastic trees (already a radiohead thing, though) or snow?
Do NOT image search "fake" at work, even with safe settings on.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago)

What part of LA will you be walking in, Luna?

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Does it display easy ways of playing your favourite hair metal power ballads?

xpost

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

What is the CD going to be called?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, I think the majority of the band has decided against the album name "Ill Noise," so I don't know what it will be called. You can make suggestions for that too if you like.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I've already dibbed "Lingonberry Days".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Quit the band, Nick. If they don't appreciate Ill Noise, they're doomed to make it.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago)

The Miracle Mile, Orbit

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago)

It might snow here tomorrow.

I told the VP I wanted to leave early because I wasn't feeling well and he got mad at me. WTF?! It's not like I get paid sick leave, the bastard!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago)

But you get to hear from your job prospect tomorrow, right?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but I don't wanna get my hopes up.

ha ha, when they call me to tell me about the job tomorrow I'll sound like Marge Simpson.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I just took my first tentative step INTO THE FUTURE.
Gravy Train, don't forget to stop at my station!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, just go in his office and cough in his direction a lot. I'm serious. I think his attitude will change quickly, or you'll give him strep throat and he'll be gone all next week. It's a win-win situation.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I also was not amused by As Good As It Gets.

Brooks' fourth movie was I'll Do Anything, with NICK NOLTE.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago)

He's not even here right now! He went out to meet someone at a job site. I think he's mad because I left early Friday and came in late yesterday, but those were because I was in Wisconsin - totally different! Plus, like I said, it's not like I get paid when I'm not here.

I might just leave anyway.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago)

JUST COUGH ON HIS PHONE AND THEN LEAVE, YOU ARE SICK!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago)

here, im bored
http://webpages.charter.net/cmvenuti/images/ipod.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago)

How about a picture of the Tar Pits with the Japanese Pavilion in the background, or is that too far west?

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, but as much as I love the iPod, I'm not putting it on a cd cover. Thanks for the work though Chris.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago)

oh i know, i was just messing around. steve jobs would own yer ass.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago)

No, no Nick, Chris is proposing the marketing coup of the fortnight! Instead of releasing the album on outmoded tech like CDs, just get a bunch of iPods and load them with FF songs and then hand them out at your shows!

xpost, damn.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps the next tM3 album will be 40 days long and will be released straight to 40 gig iPod. That's the sort of thing that could qualify as "art".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

According to the major arts funding organization in SK, nothing that takes place in a nightclub is Art. Football stadiums, on the other hand...
Seriously, I hate this city.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago)

This was the closest font I found to what sarah was talking about. ff

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Cool, those might be good for sticker/button. Interesting, but still easy to read.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I like those. They'd be good on a blue t-shirt.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago)

I just got a "tsk, tsk, tsk" from my pretend boss because I didn't do an interview with a supposed Metal God he had asked me to interview while he was out of town. I called the Metal God's supposed publicist and left a message and she never called me back. And I couldn't be bothered trying to chase this down because I was already really busy with the XXXX XXXXXX story. Fuck him and his judgment.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Did you tell him "You're not the boss of me!"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Hey dudes. We're watching "Crime Scene Academy" on Channel 5, having had a delicious dinner of filet steak fondued in oil, puy lentils cooked in garlic, shallots and vegetable stock, and roasted garlic peppers. We are full and happy.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh jolly! You'll never guess who I just got a thank you email from! Good ol' XXXX XXXXXX.

I just wanted to say thanks again for doing the interview- I thought it turned out really well and I appreciate your help in getting the word out on my show. It was a small, but very supportive crowd, so I hope to have the chance to play in XXXXXX in the near future. I'll be sending out XXXX XXXXXXX applications in the next month, so wish me luck!

Aw, shucks, 'tweren't no big deal. No really. You think 'twere, but 'twasn't and 'twon't ever be. 'T's my job, and soul-crushing one at that. Please don't misinterpret what was a quite ordinary, entirely fact-stating article (ref: "XXXX XXXXXX sure does know a lot of people.") as any sort of endorsement and put my name in your press kit. I understand that your high school guidance counselor probably told you that George H.W. Bush got to be where he got in life because he always wrote thank you notes, but having a rich daddy and controlling the secret police probably played a bigger part.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:28 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations, Huck, on writing a piece so well that it managed to fool XXXX XXXXXX into thinking that you actually enjoyed and was enthralled by the interview you had with her. You are a master and you must celebrate your mastery.

bbut, aren't your relatives from Mexico instead of Spain? Come on girl, brown power!

I do indeed have relatives from Mexico, and my grandparents were immigrants from Mexico, but my maternal half never fully became "Mexican"; they intermarried with other Spanish immigrants for the relatively brief time they spent in Mexico and as a result remained fully Spanish. I know, complicated, but it's the truth.

("brown power"... ? Um, hello, you're talking to Ms. "I stay out of the sun as much as humanly possible to have as pale a complexion as I can get" here. *laughs*)

Thanks to luna, BTW, I've got Missing Persons' "Walking in L.A." stuck in my head, which I suppose is a slight step up from The Supremes' "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" considering I got that Supremes song stuck into my head because I heard it just now while watching Bridget Jones's Diary (for the first time ever, BION) just now.

(Yeah, I too think the Missing Persons mention was a bit... terrible. Cringeworthy. Shameful. Oh well.)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh good gosh, how vile and cynical have I become? I've just ridiculed someone for being polite and possibly considerate. I disgust me.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:17 (twenty years ago)

Honey, it's so easy to be "vile and cynical". So incredibly easy. I think the ease of it makes it to where almost anyone at all falls for its charms, its promise of "hey, you'll never be disappointed if you already express disappointment". So, because of that, you should not be disgusted of yourself, but rather endeavor to be self-protective at the same time as you're optimistic about others. I know, it seems next to impossible, but I know at least one person out there who's like that, and if she can do it, I think you and I and almost anyone else out there can.

(This was something she and I discussed earlier this evening, BTW, this whole thing about reactions and human interactions and cynicism and walling oneself off to the hurt and pain in this world. Very interesting discussion that's gotten me thinking about things.)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:33 (twenty years ago)

(Uh-oh. I just committed an ILX Cardinal Sin -- a Post Too Serious For ILX! *gasp*)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:49 (twenty years ago)

Nah, you're OTM. It's a life's task for me to see the good in all people.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:56 (twenty years ago)

So far, I'm about 1/3 of the way there, I think. And I'm about 1/3 of the way to my grave, so that's par.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, DQ.
I'm just, ahhhhh, I'm at end of my music writing tether. I've let it drain me of the very enthusiasm for listening to music that led me to the field in the first place.
It's been my entire adult life, and I've gotten back so little compared to what I've invested in it. I don't even know if I like music anymore. I mean, I know bad music when I hear it, and I think there's a part of me that still reacts, instinctively, to good music (like, say, tM3 or FF, no really), or maybe interesting music is a better term, because, like Nietzche, I'm Beyond G & E (and also general electric, but don't tell NBC).
I just want to have a week go by without a do or die deadline, or someone acting as if I owe them an interview.
I believe what I need is called a holiday. I should think about taking one.

xxxpost

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:00 (twenty years ago)

It's nice not to have to have an opinion on everything.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:08 (twenty years ago)

Honey, the fact that you're still endeavoring to "see the good in all people" means that you haven't let the world win yet. I think this is a good thing and that you should keep this up, even if you slip up, which is a totally human thing to do.

(I think I err too much on one side or another, either by being too trusting and letting my guard down too much or by being too guarded and trusting too little in others.)

(xpost)

Huck, it does inded seem as though you might need a change of pace, even if it's a temporary one. Perhaps this is a sign you might want to concentrate at least some of your creative energies on something not musically related, or perhaps this is a sign you need to take some time off and, during that time, not listen to any music whatsoever, or some other solution that you yourself can conjure up. I do hope that, whatever you do, it will end up recharging your batteries and making you remember what it is about music that you love(d) so much, esp in the past.

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago)

(Having opinions on a large number of things is good, though. Certainly better than not having a lot of opinions would be, at least in terms of trying to interact with people who operate on some sort of intellectual level. I'm sorta speaking from experience here.)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:14 (twenty years ago)

(I'm sorry for making this thread serious again. I always do that.)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm just sitting here, at 1:25 a.m., less than 7 hours before I have to be back at work, writing up an interview and, um, gosh, wouldn't it be great if there was more to life than this?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Then make more Huk. For one thing everybody feels like they're giving up their soul for work at one time or another. But if you feel that way most of the time then find something else.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:25 (twenty years ago)

What more do you want, exactly?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:43 (twenty years ago)

I'd like a hummer, but not automotive kind.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:48 (twenty years ago)

Not you.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:52 (twenty years ago)

I think Chris's question was a serious one, not a snarky one.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:53 (twenty years ago)

i hate hate when worrying about guys takes over my mind. i was absolutely fine w/out a boyfriend, wasn't worried about getting laid or anything. Then in the past couple of weeks, two guys from my past have popped up on the radar and are already getting my tied in knots.

arrrghhh! (i'm trying to get my mind off it to no avail. sleep. maybe it will come.)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh, whoops. My apologies. This is what I get for not reading all the new responses before posting to teh thread. Huk, I relate to what you're saying. The extended, extended, extended academic rigamorole is the same way. From night to night -- and as a fully functioning adult human being -- I wonder to myself "wouldn't it be nice NOT to have a Damoclesean 'assignment / paper / writing project' due for the following day? to be able to fill in the need for external validation from a source that doesn't view me as a student but as an equally intelligent, equally engaged, human being?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:58 (twenty years ago)

remy, do you think that would happen in your average job?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago)

Well.... I guess it didn't. I mean, remembering myself as a teacher. And my struggles with other teachers. But in an ideal world, yes.

-----

(xpost myself)

Also, Sam -- I realized the other day I have always been single on Christmas. I've been spending a lot of time lately on the topic of 'want' vs. the topic of 'need' -- that is to say 'want' = external, easily articulable, and tenable goals vs. 'need' intrinsic, difficult to define, and intangible desires, and I can't, for the life of me, figure out which one my obsession with 'finding a non-psychotic girlfriend' might be. I really, really, really hate that this preoccupies me, but I'd be mendacious as all sin if I didn't admit that it did. I know what you mean.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Remy, you are forty-five and I claim my $5!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:05 (twenty years ago)

bbbut I didn't want a boyfriend. then all these suitors start popping up and twisting my head around.

also re: equality on job: people can be righetous and condescending and assholes no matter where you are. B/c of my relative youth (I'm 30 - or 31 in about 2 weeks - but am often thought around 25) I sometimes feel like I'm barely treated like more than a student by my fellow teachers.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago)

Dye your hair grey.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Cas -- we will eat lunch together one day, and the universe will be good!

Sam -- I was 22 when I started teaching. The kids treated me as a kid, teh teachers treated me as a kid, and I think I saw myself as a big kid. Not so much fun. I bet you're really good, and I'm sure that the old-biddy faculty contingient (every school has one!) f34rs you more than anything else because they realize you have talant and drive, and they're held only by their tenure and denture glue.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:11 (twenty years ago)

then all these suitors start popping up and twisting my head around.

Well, then fuck them. Sounds like you're already pretty convinced that they're bad news.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:12 (twenty years ago)

c, i have to dye my grey hair back to youthful tones.

I'm not that good and have no problem admitting it. But I hate being treated like some naive young thing fresh out of college. I have had an entire other career before this one and when I get treated like I don't know how to handle myself as a professional or it's assumed I'm a pushover I get grrr.

xpost. they're ok guys i was just ok with no guys. :( I'll shut up now. not a complaint to some.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:15 (twenty years ago)

I also want to say that I really think pears are yummy and Kenan is making me very cross with his new moniker.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago)

I hate being treated like some naive young thing fresh out of college. I have had an entire other career before this one and when I get treated like I don't know how to handle myself as a professional or it's assumed I'm a pushover I get grrr.

If they're not respecting you, it's less likely that it's something you're doing than that it's some indefinable thing about you that they've collectively decided is not as good as they are, rather arbitrarily. Teachers are in the schoolyard, too, it seems. I was kind of accepted into some teaching social circles after high school (I kind-of dated my Sophomore english teacher after I graduated), and the petty backbiting that went on was shocking. Not at the time, but later. At the time, it made perfect sense. It was just like high school.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:21 (twenty years ago)

xpost: i had a pear and blue cheese woodfired pizza on saturday night, i really have to say it was a bit like heaven on earth.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Kenan is making me very cross with his new moniker

Tough titties.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago)

(I love pears. It's an Eddie Izzard quote.)

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:23 (twenty years ago)

This meme that there is some aspect of life which is not like high school is an interesting one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:25 (twenty years ago)

haha... yeah. But my point about Sam's coworkers holds.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:25 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I've worked in offices that were just like high school, too, and I quit. There's something to be said for cold corporate iron-fisted management.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:27 (twenty years ago)

I've totally avoided the faculty politics until this year. Right now I'm being harrassed by the special ed department basically b/c I stood up to them and refused to just pass kids along instead of making sure they're getting the actual services they need. NOw they're coming up with something every single day to try and get me in trouble with. It's always coated with sugar and the implication that b/c I'm so young and new I didn't know any better.

What they don't realize is I don't give a shit. So far, they haven't caught me in any serious mistakes and even if they did, fuck 'em. I could have a better paying job before the school year was over.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:29 (twenty years ago)

Huk to thread.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:31 (twenty years ago)

Well, I can certainly tell I had onions with last night's dinner.

Dee, don't ever worry about making this thread serious. I like it when it gets serious - it's nice to know that we can all relate properly rather than solely firing off hilarious one-liners. Balance in all things.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago)

im bored.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/cmvenuti/ff1.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/cmvenuti/ffback.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago)

those are the insides of a dollhouse.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago)

You twee fucker :)

(why are you always online so early, Chris? Not that I'm complaining, it's a joy to see you)

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Im at work at 5:30am Mark.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago)

One More
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/cmvenuti/typewriter1.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Ooh I like that.

I woke up at 01:10 this morning and reading my watch upside down thought it was 06:40. Matt got up and started making breakfast... D'oh. Then I had loads of weird dreams and now I'm really tired.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago)

My mom told me last night that we're having Thanksgiving AT A STEAKHOUSE because the work is just too much for her. I understand, believe me, I do. But holy shit if I didn't want to start crying on the spot. A steakhouse?? What fresh hell is this?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

my mother brings up this option every year and i put up a stink. i always offer to do it at my house but like i said before she thinks my cats will shit in her turkey.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Did Kenan dis me?

Ha ha ha, Thanksgiving was sooooo six weeks ago. Get with the times, homeys.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Chris, I really like the dollhouse ones, especially the front cover. That's actually a serious option right there.

So Sarah's at home sick today. She sounds like crap and her stupid work doesn't give her sick leave so she is not getting paid today. I can't wait until she gets a new job with a, you know, NORMAL company.

My kinda boring tour diary is up on the Fake Fictions page. Read it if you dare, or if you're bored.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

If my mother tries to get us to say grace in the restaurant, I'll knock her off her chair.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Kenan what's with the pear hate? What did the pears DO to you?!!

Sam, be careful, those people are ENTRENCHED in their stupidity and pettiness and there is no way to change them.

Chris: the typewriter one was nice

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

just get up and sing the national anthem

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago)

nick if you can throw out some more ideas i can come up with some more. it makes me happy to do these things rather than actual work.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

I like those dollhouse ones too.

I posted this lil' story on the dreading the holidays etc thread but it occurred to me that I would rather ask y'all what you think. so tell me, WWTITTWISD?
So my mother calls me last night, and lets me know that it'll be totally fine with her if I make my own christmas plans and don't actually make the trip to arkansas for the holidays. (I fully believe that this isn't some kind of ploy on her part.) I have to go to america on the 15th anyway (non-changeable ticket) so now I've got like a blank canvas after my arrival at my mom's house in Massachusetts. I could just stay there for a week and then come back to the UK. I could go elsewhere abroad or in the states. I could still visit my family for a stupid amount of money and airport/xtreme weather hassle around xmas. Thing is, despite griping and the inevitable dysfunction that would play out over the time-cramped holiday, I'd miss seeing my grandmother and uncle and cousin and mom over the holiday. We're not too big on tradition, but the few we have are nice, and I'd hate to tell my grandmother I won't be there.
I dunno. Maybe I should take the opportunity, as my mom says, to "spend the money on going somewhere nice for a change, while you can"...I dunno now.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Come to SK and gain a new understanding of pain and suffering as the wind chill dips below -60 Celsius! It's character-building!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago)

ho hum
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/cmvenuti/typie.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

omg I have just written 1600 words on bibliographic standards and indexing and my eyes are falling out of my head. 2400 on thesauri and classification to go...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

urgh.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I think have become unbelievably boring by osmosis.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Try Ozzmosis.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago)

BEEP BEEP WHO GOT THE KEYS TO THE JEEP? VVRROOOMMM!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

If it were me, sgs, I'd go somewhere warm -- I don't envy you flying into Logan (I assume?) that time of year, it's why I stopped visiting my mother in winter.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)

JEEPERS CREEPERS I AM READY FOR THE WORK DAY TO BE OVER!!! I think I'm going to buy a new video game and play it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to buy a new CD and listen to it on the way to my dad's. What should I buy?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago)

LeTigre

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Mmm..."Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)" by Brian Eno?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago)

WHOAH TIGER-RELATED XPOST HOLY SHIT!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Tygers of Pan T.... WOAH WEIRD XXX-POST!

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Is "taking tiger mountain" better than "Here Come the Warm Jets"? That one's already on heavy rotation in my car.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

"The Tyger," William Blake (book-on-tape) -- WTF!!!!!!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

They're both at about the same level of awesomeness.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Buy Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits. End of story.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Hey, just to backtrack to yesterday and last night's whinging about my lot in life, I just want to say that my editor here is a saint. He's great. And, really, that makes a huge difference. So, I'm not a complete jerk.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it's Logan Tep. I've got to fly in and out of there though, there's no way around that leg of the trip--I had this great idea in the summer that I would come home for xmas since I didn't last year. The storms I've had to deal with around e. Texas are actually worse. In two recent christmases there were 1) an ice storm that cut out power to my grandparents' house for over 2 weeks and 2) a massive thunderstorm that stayed in place and delayed my flight out by over 2 days. Not fun.

Maybe I'll just come back to london after a couple of days and then fly to I dunno, Elba or something.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)

whoops I meant somewhere with TIGERS.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Elba!! What a brilliant idea!!

*stops looking for 4-day Venice breaks on the internet*

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago)

eeeeeeeeeeeee!!

http://www.papertigerproductions.com/Personal/Baby-tigers.jpg

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Let me reiterate that my dream job is to be the person at the zoo who is in charge of playing with the baby tigers.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Joni Mitchell - Hejira or Blue

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Halloween, Alaska

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago)

my manager is letting everyone go two hours early today but me...i would be home by now. i don't report to my manager, i report directly to the VP...and he's a cock sucker.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Matt and I are going to Amsterdam in January. First flying since Sept 13th 2001 which as you can imagine was joyous...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago)

haha this was so an xpost.

call him a cock sucker and leave.
scald him a sock cooker and cleave.
cull him a yuck fucker and heave.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago)

but seriously now. where did you go sept. 13th archel? and don't worry, I fly often and there may be tips I can give to make the trip easier, if you like.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)

We flew to Croatia. It was actually fine considering. And Amsterdam is an even shorter flight so by the time I've unpacked my travel Scrabble we'll probably have landed and I won't have a chance to worry.

It's airports that I'm really phobic of, alas.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Sgs, if you've never spent an Xmas away from your family, and if none of your relatives are ill to the point where you might not see them again, then perhaps you shouldn't go home for Xmas. Otherwise, it sounds like you kinda want to.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, did you notice my email? I expected some kind of response...

Chris, sarah spent last Xmas with me and my family.

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Well then you should have gotten her a gift!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago)

She didn't go last year though, C. Sarah, I think you should go home since you planned to, and if you don't go now you might not enjoy what you do instead quite as much.

xpost

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago)

But but I did!

(I think)

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Casuistry, I've spent 3 total xmases away from them due to being overseas (and I'm 26). My mom tells me she thinks my grandmother's not going anywhere for a while yet, although her decline in the last year has been sharp. You're right, I kinda want to, but I think there are better times for me to visit than this xmas.

I think my mom's mostly encouraging me to go elsewhere while I can because she and I never took an actual holiday when I was growing up--any time off, no matter what time of year, any vacation was spent down there, in exactly the same way. There was no other option. I don't think my mom has ever really had a vacation on her own terms, and only in the past few years have I been able to really vary my usual going-home times.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago)

that was an xpost. Mark, I haven't received an email from you today. And you got me numerous lovely gifts!

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Aha! You and your mum split and go on a road trip together!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Ah knackers, I didn't mean email, I meant post. About looking for Venetian post-Xmas breaks. In the Gritti Palace. Maybe :)

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I'll probably only go to see my mom in MA for a week this time, and go see my grandmother, uncle and cousin in the spring when I have more time to stay. This is my latest thought. I don't know, I can't figure out if missing them/family guilt will compensate for the hassle it will be for me to get there to stay for a small and stressful time. Thanks for the input everyone, I appreciate hearing your thoughts.

Our usual method of getting from new england/DC to arkansas was a road trip, 2 or 3 days each way. This was only ever fun once, when we took an extra day and did a detour in kentucky. My mom's driving down there this year--I don't think I'll be joining her on that. I'd rather deal with flying.

I missed that mark, will go look.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Would you want to bring your mother along on a holiday elsewhere?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago)

She wouldn't go on one for several good reasons. I've been bugging her to visit me for 5 years and she never has. I'd love her to--we'd have a great time.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago)

WOOO HOO! My sister found an apartment.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Congrats Big Baby, this almost as good as two blue lines (if I know my home preg tests, and I don't).

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

So in twee news, over the last few days my cat, at age five and a half, has decided to start sleeping under the covers. So far she only does this when I'm not lying in bed. I have no idea what prompted this sudden change of habit (I tried to get her into it when she was a kitten, with no luck) but it's very cute and I'm all for it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

She's not peeing in there is she?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh I finally got all the huge gross mats out of Lucy's fur. She wouldn't let me cut them out, so I had to pick them out, one by one, by seperating them with her fur using my fingers. At first she let me do a couple in a row, but I guess then her skin got too sensitive from the fur-pulling, so I had to kind of work at them whenever I could catch her until she started clawing me. But I eventually got them all out and now she has beautiful unclumped fur!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago)

She's not, oddly enough. Although I have to remember that she's there. I keep lying down on her.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)

If Lucy doesn't like to be brushed (to keep her shiny and soft after your hard work) you can try a soft rubber curry brush as it doesn't seem to irritate their skin. This is what I have to use on my elderly cat as she hates having her back end by her tail touched.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago)

She actually really likes being brushed, I just wasn't good about doing it before and then all of a sudden there were these huge gross clumps in her fur. But yeah, she rubs up against the brush and purs and then bites it and we have a great time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago)

She wouldn't go on one for several good reasons. I've been bugging her to visit me for 5 years and she never has. I'd love her to--we'd have a great time.

Sarah, make her make her make her. My mom had never been *anywhere* outside of TX except a brief stint in NC when she was married to a Marine who beat her. (We also never took vacations as a family.) So when I moved to NYC I made her drive up there with me and my stuff. That was the most she's seen of the US and the week she spent with me there. . .she was like a little kid, constantly big-eyed at the things she saw. I 'm sure you're mother's not that insulated but still I was really happy to be able to give my mother an experience she wouldn't have had otherwise. I'm sure yours would love a trip to the UK.

nick, how bad were the mats? Qtip has them too, it started with just a couple and now there's more. :( I bought fancy grooming tools - no go. tried to cut them out - not too good. i'm afraid I might have to take him to be sedated and then shaved. :(

I don't brush them like I should b/c of allergies but they've gotten so fat they can't groom themselves all the way around so I've got to get on it. *sigh*

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm... off to see a specialist!
A specialist in these things.
I hear that he's especially special,
This specialist in these things!
There never was ever a specialist
A third as specially special as this,
As special as this special specialist!
Inspect all the specks of special he spits!
I'm off to see a specialist,
A specialist in these things!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

How very special that is, Chris
Chrus how special, yes!
We hope you the best
at the specialist
There never was a thread
standing on its head
That wish you special luck
In dealing with the muck!

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Also, I still don't have any health insurance.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Sigh. You want me to marry you? Is that what you want? I warn you, it'll be nothing but a marriage of convenience. I'll be cold and distant and the kids won't trust me. But, what the hell.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago)

At the very least (along with healthcare), you could get material for a Virgina Woolfish novel.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago)

*weeps*
you've given your sexy Canadian-ness to another!

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Evening. There was an interview earlier on telly with an injured US marine called Catcher Cutstherope (sic).

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago)

That's better than Optimus Prime.

Relax, Orbo, there's plenty of sexy Canucktitude to go around!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:37 (twenty years ago)

He asked me, he asked me!

In other news, I am not dead.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago)

that's always good news. being undead.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Way to go on the whole being alive thing. By sort of coincidence, I'm currently listening to "This Way Out" the international Gay & Lesbian radio magazine. Some interesting journo-type pieces, but the music they're playing is almost uniformly not good.

xpost

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:48 (twenty years ago)

The specialist was this great voodoo doctor. If you're ever in Portland and you die and you want to do something about it, I have her number.

― Zombie Casuistry (Chris Piuma), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Are you doing your show tonight? Do nothing but queer musicians! And don't tell anyone.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I have enough queer musicians' albums. Hmmm, your stuff, Gentleman Reg...do the Kinks count? Oh, I have a female country singer who might be. I ggl myself frequently and there's an article I wrote about her up on lesbian site.
I should probably start walking to the station soon. I'm soooo sleepy though. It's cold outside and warm in here.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago)

That's a travesty! Well, not really. I don't think I have enough queer music for two hours of programming. (Well, maybe.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago)

(Certainly I don't have enough QueerCanCon, though.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Have you heard Gentleman Reg? He's got a new album out (that I haven't heard), and he's also involved in Broken Social Scene and Hidden Cameras. He's got a really exquisite voice, and he's not just gay, he's albino, so like, he's got a right to sing the blues, as the rockist saying might go (though is rockism queer-friendly? there might be a case for and against that and probably this is neither the time nor the place for that discussion)(and he's not a blues musician).

If it makes you feel any better, I have a woeful amount of female artists in my collection too! I'm an all-around not-inclusive-enough fellow! I feel bad about this, and concerned, but not enough to buy music I don't actually like just because, yknow? It's like, what's the right thing to do? I don't know. Anyway, Gentleman Reg is really good (his new record might suck, but his last one sure didn't, but I just want to cover my ass in case it does).

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago)

how are you certain you don't like it?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago)

I forget, doesn't the radio station have a library?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago)

man, a friend of mine just told me he was fired from his brand-new 60k tech job b/c his pee test came back *too* clean. ain't that a bitch?

Yesterday the teacher across the hall told me we were going to start having DEA agents make surprise calls to test desks and students' ID badges for drug traces. They have some little kind of machine they
swipe across surfaces which can pick up trace amounts of drugs (wtf?).

This made me a little nervous, I mean it's been awhile since I engaged in such misuse of my time and life but still .. how long do trace amounts stick around? I could see the DEA agent asking me to act out with him what he was about to do for the students and request my driver's license. Or maybe wipe his dealy on my laptop. . . "No thank you, I've already had my civil liberties violated today."

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Future In-Law situation has worked out more or less fine, all things considered: they're both perfectly happy to just hang out and watch TV while they're here (sister upstairs with L, father downstairs with me, I don't know why -- I have barely seen sister this week, maybe she's mad I cooked a bunny), and I can work with a TV on without any problem. I spent six hours tonight/this afternoon writing comic book pitches (it's a just in case thing). Thanksgiving prep is done, but because of basting, I'll relocate to the kitchen table in the morning, which gives me ample work time there, just getting up every 45 minutes or so to say hello to the turkey.

So I am thankful for when inconveniences turn out to be not nearly as bad as they could be.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Sam that sounds like a Supreme Court case! That is a textbook violation of our Constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I thought it was decided that students don't have any rights? Or was it just their First Amendment rights that aren't for reals?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)

And of course their Second.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Yes but didn't the supreme court already decide that civil rights don't apply to minors?

xpost

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Actually there is precendent for challenging locker searches without probable cause. The ACLU is all over it.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago)

I pretty sure that the one about only serving two terms still holds, though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago)

Civil rights absolutely apply to minors. The IDEA and ADA are civil rights legislation also.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago)

well, the agent came to her room that day so I'll wait and see if he makes it 'round to mine. It does seem a bit extreme doesn't it? Although when I thought about it recently I was really surprised that they don't do the dogs in my school like they did when I was in junior high. (my brother who dealt in school said he would hide his in the middle of a can of coffee in his locker to put off the dogs.)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Would people actually cooperate with that? I'd tell them to get lost, and I'm not even a bolshy teenager...(sorry to butt into your thread)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Civil rights absolutely apply to minors. The IDEA and ADA are civil rights legislation also.

Yeah, but it's hardly clear-cut -- their rights are essentially held in trusteeship by their parents unless it can be demonstrated that their parents are poor trustees (it's a financial analogy, but it works in the main). The specifics are always a matter of what's gone on most recently in higher courts, and precedent isn't preemptive -- there's usually a long lag time between "such and such court made a ruling that we can use to support our case if we bring you to court" and "what you're doing is illegal enough that you're not going to try to do it anyway."

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't know. . .I mean I'm sure if the kids say no, that will be taken up as a discplinary issue and look suspicious.

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I'm curious to see exactly how this pans out. Granted I'd say that 2/3 of our kids use drugs (at least) and about a quarter of my batch have PO officers. Although those are just as often for violent crimes rather than drugs.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago)

And beyond that, doesn't it seem totally impractical? Do the kids only use one desk, and I'm sure traces of drugs can end up all over the place without you partaking.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Tep, the kids have the rights under IDEA.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago)

But that's one act and it's not a very broad one.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

The idea is the same. A child's civil rights can be violated in exactly the same way that a child can be victim of a crime. Being a minor limits your right to enter into contracts, it doesn't abrogate rights of citizenship.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Of course it does. The idea -- so to speak -- isn't the same at all. In loco parentis assumes pretty obviously that the parents are the primary delegates of the child's rights, or it wouldn't be necessary to begin with. It's why parents can "violate" their child's rights by grounding them, sending them to the corner, whatever; it contributes to our ability to make education mandatory; etc. Now, a parent can still sue on their child's behalf and argue that a school has abused or stepped outside the bounds of in loco parentis, but it isn't the same argument as an individual arguing against the abuse of their own rights.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago)

what is idea? Yes Kevin, it seems impractical to me for that reason. I have a hard enough time trying to figure out which kid carved on a certain desk, never mind who left traces of coke behind.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:30 (twenty years ago)

I didn't think the children arguing was the point in question, but rather the legal question of whether their rights could be violated (which they can't be) under the law.

For example, I am a special education advocate right now. The child has civil rights, and ANY individual, not just the parent, can bring a violation of rights to the attention of the Office of Civil Rights, or identify the child for evaluation if they suspect educational rights are being violated. Parental status is not the key, the violation of the child's rights is the issue.

The legal principle of in loco parentis you describe operates in lawsuits and in civil law; but the practical question of can a child's *civil* rights be legally violated--the answer is no they can't. There is no Constitutional right or law about being grounded, so this analogy doesn't work. I feel we are talking past each other somehow.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:31 (twenty years ago)

i still just find it bizarre that DEA agents are making surprise inspections at junior highs.

orbit, when and if I actually witness it, trust me, I'll see what can be complained about.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago)

I think we are, cause if you look up, remember that I said that the child's civil rights were largely held in trusteeship by the parents. The child, whether they want to or not, delegates their rights to the parents; the parents, whether they want to or not, delegate or share their rights to the school. Just as a child has no protection against a parent reading their diary, they have no protection against a school making what would otherwise be an illegal search. It isn't a matter of their rights being violated as such, because they have essentially consented.

Except where we've ruled or otherwise decided that they do have those protections -- such as locker searches, maybe (that'll be fought back and forth for awhile), and desk searches might be objectionable on the same grounds. And in both cases -- child delegating to parent, parent delegating to school -- there are cases where an argument can be made that the trustee has abused or neglected their power. But those are after the fact arguments, it's rare that they can be used to prevent something.

In any event, my point was never "this search is perfectly okay," it was "these situations are not clear cut." Legal arguments can and have been made both ways, and they'll continue to be because it'll be a long time before we have a Supreme Court decision that settles the matter in terms broad enough to cover all the areas and specific enough to cover all the instances.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago)

(I caught part of a West Wing rerun the other day that said something about privacy being the big, recurring legal issue of the next fifty years, which I think is the smartest and most accurate thing I've heard on television lately that wasn't related to sports.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago)

I think I see the confusion. One point though: Parents don't delegate a child's rights to the school at any point. Schools do not hold student rights of any kind. The claims schools make to justify searches are not rights-based, they are criminal law claims about due process and probable cause. The school isn't asserting civil rights when they order a search, the are asserting the criminal code.
Maybe this is the point where we agree to disagree?

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago)

I think we pretty much agree on specifics and disagree on implications of the specifics, so at that point we just wait to go to trial :)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:55 (twenty years ago)

On that note, I wanted to add that when people said their mouth tasted of ass, I thought it was a figure of speech. Now I know it's a literalism.

(NB I have not been eating ass or coming into contact with ass in any way)

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Wha?

God, I hate the atmosphere in this university. It's like people sit there stewing in their offices, always expecting the worse, and when they get it losing no time in telling EVERYONE (via email obv) exactly how unhappy and angry they are and how unfair everything is, and generally revelling in feeling hard done by and being proved right in their low opinion of everyone else.

I mean, yes there are probably major problems. But does the entire school (including the students for unprofessionality's sake!) need to read the argument going back and forth on email ALL DAY? No. Just fuck off and get a job somewhere else if you hate it so much.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:33 (twenty years ago)

does someone have really really really bad breath, mark?

or (aaargh) digestive problems resulting in reverse parastalsis (i think that's what it's called, when everything's fucked up and things go in completely the opposite direction (puking up....stuff that should be going out the other end)? (which makes me very happy that i don't have much in the way of digestive problems). now THAT would be literal. eww.

i woke up to the sound of snowplows at 4 am. the joys of winter... snow is pretty though.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah one of the residents at Matt's work had that or similar, she was basically so constipated that her breath smelled of shit. Lovely.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Major backtracking:

how are you certain you don't like it?

-- Miss Misery (texan...), November 25th, 2004.

Good point. I probably should have added that I've never NOT bought something just because of the gender or orientation of the performers, either. It's definitely a slippery slope once you get on it. In my list, I also forgot to mention that I love Jr. Sr. (who I played last night), but they're only half queer, so do I get partial marks? And my comments about the new Gentleman Reg album should not be interpreted to mean that I think it's no good. I just haven't heard it yet. I'm sure it's as brilliant as Make Me Pretty, which was one of my favourite albums of whatever year it came out, 2002, I think? And it's very much a queer album. In one review, I think I said that this album should be to coming out what Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is to divorce.
I haven't been divorced, nor have I come out (not that there's anything for me to come out about), but I still like to hear songs/albums about things that don't relate specifically to my experiences. I definitely related to a lot of the insecurities and desires to be loved on the G. Reg album. Damn, now I've talked about it so much, I think I'll have to buy it next week.

I forget, doesn't the radio station have a library?

-- Casuistry (chri...), November 25th, 2004.

Yes it does, but aside from a few donations (including many, many from me) it really only goes back three years.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Why's everyone so quiet today? Why's ILE in general so quiet today? It can't just be Thanksgiving - I thought family holidays meant even MORE time in front of computers posting banalities to get away from drunk/lecherous/tedious rellies.

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Hey Americans, GET OUT OF BED!!!

So, remember a week or so ago, I posted about the op-ed piece from the young woman about how she thought gay marriage was wrong and how would she explain it to her children?
There was a response in today's letter page that kicked ass, basically equating the equal right to marriage with women getting the vote and how many people offered similar arguments, like "what next, dogs voting?"
It was a great letter. It also asked if the woman thought explaining to her children why so-and-so has two mommies was difficult, how about explaining why all people aren't given fair and equal treatment by the law.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I have a headache that won't quit. I wish I had thanksgiving food to eat.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Get Mark to make you these:
http://www.woolfit.com/pumpkincranberrymuffins.html

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago)

thanksgiving, easter, etc. are always really really quiet on the internet, when it comes to americans, it seems. people are being forced into watching football and spending Quality Family Time and all of that.

hey, hi, i'm out of bed! i might just consider that my accomplishment of the day...

(those muffins sound yummy)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)

YUM. archel those sound so good! I wonder how they cook the 1 cup of pumpkin though. It's questions like that which prevent me from being a chef. I just woke up from a nap thinking of pecan pie. I'd planned to cook a big dinner tomorrow but if I feel this cack I don't know that it'll happen.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Boil it? I wish the quantities weren't in cups, too, but that's my Englishness obviously.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

heh yeah, it's hard for me to translate recipes sometimes.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Hey sweetie, are you okay? Still feeling crappy? Give me a call if you want - and as for tomorrow's dinner, I don't mind doing most of the actual work if you want to tell me what to do :)

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/jan02/images/looking_01.jpg

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Huck, I don't got nothing interesting to say.

Or have I... no, nothing's coming to me. If you're bored, you might like this golf game (honestly, it's really good).

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I can moan a bit more about work if you like. Actually though, the latest email in the string is from my psycho boss... and it's completely reasonable, tactful, sane and helpful! I'm in shock.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Archel, I think what's going on at your workplace absolutely sucks, and yeah, you're right -- those people with issues that they feel the need to address shouldn't be doing that en masse. It *does* smack of unprofessionalism.

I've been up since 9 a.m. I finished making this concotion featuring cranberry sauce, cream cheese, and Cool Whip, and my hands got really sticky until I washed them. I'm not cooking any turkey right now because we're scheduled to go to at least two different places today -- three if we end up going to yet ANOTHER place "just for dessert and coffee". It's been pretty much the same routine for the past five years; we go to one relative's house for the big dinner and another's for the dessert. We don't exactly come empty-handed to either, though -- we always provide at least one or two dishes for each place. Today, we're carting over half of the cranberry slop, the canned corn (the Wal-Mart brand I prefer), and some dressing (just for Mom and me) over to one place, and the other half of the cranberry slop for the other place.

I really should be downstairs, though. Have to leave the house at some unreasonably early time, as per you-know-who's wishes. ;) I've got the VCR set to record some "Queer Eye" specials that are going to be running throughout the day because I am a lame fangirl type, thanks for asking, and the only thing I need to do now is put on a little makeup (special occasions, you know). Hope you guys have an awesome day!

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

You too, Dee!

I wonder why we Brits eat turkey at Xmas? I'm sure the answer is extremely easy to find in internetshirre, but I'm not going to look as I'd like some kind ILXor to tell me. I am suspecting TURKEY MARKETING GONE MAD as it's a pretty dull, inconvenient meat. I think Sarah* is going to do us chicken tomorrow night. I am excited.

*or me, if she's feeling too under the weather.

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I need to get off my ass too. Promised myself that I'd mop the bathroom before I left.

This is the first thanksgiving I've done in four or five years. My mom asked me to please come and I was going to b/c my friend was going with me but then she cancelled out at the last minute. D'OH!

Fucking hate holidays. Don't even like eating. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I hope your day turns out MUCH better than expected! If you don't like eating, you could always pick at the food while listening in on the conversation.

Mark, isn't turkey some sort of traditionalish holiday meat selection or something? I mean, not like I have any idea; all I know is that we (Americans) got turkey from the English settlers who brought it along with them. Or something. Trying to remember what that whole story was.

I've officially gotten my first wardrobe veto of the day. Mom disapproved of my slightly casual appearance, because, she reminded me, we ARE going over to that second relative's house, and if you look up "one-upmanship" in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of THAT set of relatives. Yeah, so I have to look better than usual. That's why I'm up here again. Which means I need to get moving. Ugh.

(I wish we could stay with that first set of relatives throughout the day. Gack.)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)

HOW DARE YOU BLASPHEME TURKEY! Suffer my wrath!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Turkey used to be less dull and less inconvenient -- it's actually both of those things because it's traditional, not the other way around: turkey breeding has for hundreds of years resulted in turkeys with ridiculously large breasts compared to non-domesticated ones (it's been going on long enough that it's true even for most heritage breeds), which makes the turkey the wrong dimensions for proper whole-bird roasting. Hence all the "tricks" to keep the breast from drying out while the thighs finish, most of which -- cooking in a bag, covering with foil, etc -- involve not actually roasting the turkey. (Brining works better.)

I suspect the tradition is simply because turkeys are large enough to feed many people without limiting the meat portion, and poultry in general used to be much more expensive, more of a luxury -- even less than a century ago, "a chicken in every pot" wasn't a promise of the bare minimum, it was a promise of a nice and comfortable standard of living, like promising "a steak every Sunday" now.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Well, I rather like Thanksgiving. But I have been too tired to cook, and I don't think I'm feeling up to going, even. Bleh. But in a few weeks we're hosting a "friendsgiving" or whatever, just inviting everyone over for a potluck, so that will be nice. I have that to look forward to.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago)

So in the TV listings magazine this week, which is done up mostly by unseen Ontario hands, under the Soaps sum-ups there's this amazing line for As The World Turns: "Jennifer falls asleep in Mike's anus, and as Mike tells the absent the absent Katie be hopes she's happy." SIC

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm missing a "friendsgiving" tomorrow night by going to Austin. It was a hard choice.

Thanks for the wishes Dee and I hope yours goes well too. I just don't do family. period. I'm going to try and grin and bear it for two hours and then hightail it back to Dallas.

Guess I'd better get going to. Have put it off long enough. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Huk that is the best summary ever.

I am feeling better! Headache is still here but I took a shower and got a temp. job offer and these have cheered me.

I'm not hungry, but I should be. I wonder if I should eat before I go out. So far today I've had bran flakes and hard-boiled eggs and lots of sick meds. Blech. Maybe I should get a 'turkey and stuffing' sandwich on the way into town.

Good luck with your thanksgivings, everyone.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, I put an extra "the absent" in that summary , but it's not like that's the part you care about anyway!

Hmmm, it's so nice and dark and warm in here, I think I'll just rest my eyes.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago)

getting totally addicted to this golf game mark linked to! i really suck at it though.

except i got a hole in one once! but keep losing overall.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Isn't it great, Julia? I got to level 9 once [brag brag]. It's so addictive I've played it in open sight in the middle of the office during proper work hours. I R hardcorx0r.

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago)

That was frustrating. Why did the direction meter move so damn fast? Was the golfer doing the rhumba before swinging?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, the wind change has only swung right round lots on one game - maybe it only happens when you get quite advanced?

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Not the wind direction, the direction of my swing.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Well, I got a call this morning and my great aunt Ruby has died Thanksgiving morning. She was the last of that generation in my family to go, except for my granddady, who is still alive. What a month this has been.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 25 November 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Oof. Were you close to her?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear that, Orbit.
I spent last Saturday hanging out with my Grandfather, who'll be 90 in February. Before going to visit him this past summer I hadn't seen him in nearly 10 years. I don't know why. At first I just missed opportunities, and then I was scared to see after so long. Shitty of me. But since the summer I've been 2 or 3 times, making special efforts to get up (he lives about 5 hours away, in a town I have no other reason to visit) there.
The first thing I think when I see him is that he's looking pretty rough, and then I remember he's almost 90. He looks rough for a 70, 75 yr-old, but when you consider he's 89, he's in great shape. Especially considering he's never really taken that great care of himself. But he still drives around in his town of about 2000, and only just last week got a hearing aid (though he's needed one for a while--"I'm still not sold on it," he told me, despite the fact that he previously couldn't talk on the phone.)
His wife of about 35 years is in the hospital for the second time in 2 months, and probably doesn't haven't much left in her. He's really scared, partly for selfish reasons. "I'm not a very good bachelor," he told me as he struggled to figure out how to make a frozen pizza.
He's a pretty remarkable guy, and I need to make more time to visit with him. He started telling me about his WW2 navy experiences and seems to have a lot more to tell. He keeps asking me if I've started writing my book. I'm sure he wants to read it.
Old people are weird. Frightening and sweet.

After work (in about 10 minutes) I'm gonna go downtown and buy the Spongebob sndtrack. Maybe I'll see the movie this weekend.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine was getting excited about the Spongebob movie, and I said how I couldn't think of anyone who had seen it yet and didn't have any sense as to whether it was considered good or not, and my friend said, "Who do you know who would see the Spongebob movie?" and I could only think of one person.

Other than him, of course.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago)

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