My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.

Mal ,'Shindig'


Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds  

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.


Beverly - Aug 25, 2008 8:27:53 am PDT #5206 of 10003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

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tiggy - Aug 25, 2008 8:32:18 am PDT #5207 of 10003
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

beth, that link was fabulous! i'm now watching all his other vids.

to be clear about what i said about Usain Bolt, i'm less referring to his reactions after his races than i am the way he acts beforehand. directly after the races, i didn't really see anything i would call showboating.


§ ita § - Aug 25, 2008 8:35:50 am PDT #5208 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

prepare yourself for this, looked around toward the end of the race?

He also waggled his baton and made the #1 sign and kissed it as he crossed the finish line. In my opinion you aren't #1 for winning a heat unless you have some record in hand when you do it, and even then it's indicative of poor planning. Y'aint #1 till you walk away with the gold, so be careful.


tommyrot - Aug 25, 2008 8:38:33 am PDT #5209 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe

MALIA, Greece — Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.

They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.

“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,” Malia’s mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. “It is only the British people — not the Germans or the French.”

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Local officials say the blame lies not just with the tourists themselves, but also with the operators of package tours promising drinking-and-partying vacations, and clubs offering industrial-strength alcohol at rock-bottom prices. For about $50 in Malia, tourists can go on unlimited-drinking pub crawls.


Lee - Aug 25, 2008 8:42:39 am PDT #5210 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Company X grants to Company Y lisences on the effective date of this Agreement.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's that straight-forward.


DavidS - Aug 25, 2008 8:43:08 am PDT #5211 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,”

Sounds like San Francisco.


meara - Aug 25, 2008 8:43:43 am PDT #5212 of 10003

I read that article, tommyrot...I thought it was sad. I mean, I've been known to drink too much on occasion, but...dude. What kind of vacation is that, just drinking til you puke every damn night and all day? How can that be fun?? I mean, beyond being safe, or healthy?


Jesse - Aug 25, 2008 8:45:35 am PDT #5213 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

made the #1 sign and kissed it as he crossed the finish line.

OK, I didn't see that part. That sounds somewhat douchey.


Steph L. - Aug 25, 2008 8:54:09 am PDT #5214 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Y'aint #1 till you walk away with the gold, so be careful.

Fair point; you can thump your chest and hoot and holler, but making the #1 sign could bite you in the ass.

The bronze medalist in men's hurdles is from Cincinnati, and he kept chanting "5-1-3" after the race was over, and it seriously took me a full minute to realize it was the Cincy area code. I was thinking it was how he placed in his previous 3 races or something.

Duhhhhhh.

(I've just never heard people chant an area code as a sign of city loyalty, is all. Some people call Cincinnati "The 'Nati," but I think it's ironically.)


tommyrot - Aug 25, 2008 8:56:01 am PDT #5215 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Some people call Cincinnati "The 'Nati," but I think it's ironically.)

SO if we ever get another Teppy here, we can call you Nati!Teppy?