Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Apr 28, 2005 6:22:07 am PDT #9658 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

On the 22nd of December 2004, Kyle Van Horn taped a disposable camera to a piece of black foamcore and inscribed upon it the following message: "ATTENTION POSTAL WORKERS! Please help us with our project. As this camera travels across the country we want photos of all whom it encounters. Please take a photo before you pass it along. Thank you!"

That IS cool! Except many of the photographers seemed to ignore the flash button, which is unfortunate.


JZ - Apr 28, 2005 6:23:14 am PDT #9659 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

DX, I think JZ just called you old.

Dude! Stop putting words in my fingertips! A man who's willing to quote The Producers at the drop of a hat is forever young in my book.


Jesse - Apr 28, 2005 6:23:52 am PDT #9660 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My personal favorite moment of the entire show came earlier, though, when Stewart mocked the tee-heeing giggly us-girls ineptitude of the CNN co-anchors at the end of a serious, depressing story in which a spokesflackster had just lied on-air: he flailed, he giggled, he exploded into righteous expletive-laced fury. I would've had his baby right then and there.

OMG, I KNOW!! In Oprah magazine this month, there is a list of "five women we'd like to trade places with for the day" or something, and Tracey Stewart is on the list. For a minute I was annoyed that they couldn't come up with five women with their own merits, but then I remembered HOW FUCKING TRUE it is.


Topic!Cindy - Apr 28, 2005 6:24:12 am PDT #9661 of 10001
What is even happening?

JZ, you're a stompy suck up.


bon bon - Apr 28, 2005 6:24:53 am PDT #9662 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

My favorite was jailball. I was good at jailball.


Jesse - Apr 28, 2005 6:25:41 am PDT #9663 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My favorite was jailball. I was good at jailball.

Shouldn't you be a criminal prosecuter, then?


sarameg - Apr 28, 2005 6:26:06 am PDT #9664 of 10001

Tetherball, foursquare and kickball were ok.


Topic!Cindy - Apr 28, 2005 6:26:46 am PDT #9665 of 10001
What is even happening?

What's jailball?


tommyrot - Apr 28, 2005 6:27:24 am PDT #9666 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Poking my head in for a sec...

Today on the bus I saw an ad that said that if a woman waits too long to have a baby, she might not be able to. Something about how your 20's or early 30's is the best time to have a baby, as the odds of getting pregnant drop off after that.

I forget the name of the organization that did the ad, but I've seen something like it before. Is this some conservative religious thing?


DXMachina - Apr 28, 2005 6:27:26 am PDT #9667 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

but by the mid to late 70s dodgeball was a way for popular kids to fuck with unpopular ones with the teacher's permission.

I'm not sure a kid's popularity or unpopularity necessarily correlates with ability to play dodge ball, or any sports activity.