Everyone curls!
I don't!
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Sue - May 26, 2003 6:30:41 pm PDT #4886 of 9843
hip deep in pie
Megan E. - May 26, 2003 6:32:37 pm PDT #4887 of 9843
Haha! Sue, we need to trade (and you need to curl!)
You're Nova Scotia. People have spread rumours about you and you have suffered from stereotyping. Few people take the time out to get to know the real you. You hate labels. You are patriotic and loyal.
billytea - May 26, 2003 9:00:04 pm PDT #4888 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Not to be difficult, but isn't Turkey technically Europe? If not, what is it - Africa or Asia?
Just to expand a little on what others have said, Turkey is mostly Asian, and indeed the entire continent of Asia is named from the Roman province by the same name located in Western Turkey; which itself derived its name from one single town (Assos, IIRC) on the Turkish coast. (And the Turkish peninsula is still known as Asia Minor.) However, Istanbul and the rest of Turkish lands across the Bosporus are in Europe; so it's one of only three countries to straddle two continents. (The others, of course, are Russia, as mentioned already, and Egypt.)
§ ita § - May 26, 2003 9:01:19 pm PDT #4889 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have an accent question. The lead chick in "Tipping The Velvet" -- is her accent consistent? She sounds awful to me, and not like the other people in her family.
Fay - May 27, 2003 1:36:13 am PDT #4890 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
She sounds awful to me too, ita. Really, really awful. In fact, she sounds like nothing so much as Dame Diana Rigg's daughter with a headcold pretending to be common and vainly striving for butchness.
....ah.
(But she's still pretty.)
Am-Chau Yarkona - May 27, 2003 1:58:18 am PDT #4891 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Apperently, I'm British Columbia. Well, the first part's right.
Jim - May 27, 2003 3:33:05 am PDT #4892 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
What Fay said about diana Rigg's daughter. Her accent is atrocious.
And I can't believe no-one mentioned TaTu in the Eurovision chat. Two Russian teenagers, pretending to be lesbians, dressed in schoolgirl outfits, managed by a former lecturer in mass psychology and produced by Trevor Horn. Yet another example of life imitatating cyberpunk.
Leigh - May 27, 2003 3:42:52 am PDT #4893 of 9843
Nobody
Is 'Tipping the Velvet' worth watching? Because it will be on here in Oz in the nearish future, and a friend of mine really liked the book.
Fay - May 27, 2003 4:19:12 am PDT #4894 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Is Tipping the Velvet worth watching? Hmm. Well, I haven't read the book. I suspect that if I'd read the book, I'd have been weeping into my beer. As it is - well, it's got some remarkably pretty girls having the Big Gay Sex, which is always fun. And the costumes are nice. But it's not great television, I'm afraid.
Leigh - May 27, 2003 4:35:52 am PDT #4895 of 9843
Nobody
As it is - well, it's got some remarkably pretty girls having the Big Gay Sex, which is always fun. And the costumes are nice
Yum, never enough of that on television. I'm currently watching the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and while lacking in the gay sex department, the pretty people + costumes are quite entrancing, to the point where I can't decide whether it's actually a good show or just distractingly shiny.