I sometimes wish members of my family spoke a language I didn't understand.
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Ginger - Nov 19, 2009 6:18:55 pm PST #20402 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Kat - Nov 19, 2009 6:20:53 pm PST #20403 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
My redundancy is a sign of my extreme exhaustion (or at least it is this time). Sorry.
In ninth grade we smuggled in vodka to drink at lunch the day we had rolling skating in gym!
Two words: Jello. Shots.
Zenkitty - Nov 19, 2009 6:21:25 pm PST #20404 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I sometimes wish members of my family spoke a language I didn't understand.
Some of mine do: CrazyTalk.
my brother took Russian in school and speaks it with a Southern drawl.
I'm imagining this, and it's making me happy.
billytea - Nov 19, 2009 6:25:08 pm PST #20405 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I sometimes wish members of my family spoke a language I didn't understand.
MASTER!!! OF 99 LANGUAGES!!
CREATOR!!! OF 98 LANGUAGES!!
DavidS - Nov 19, 2009 6:27:18 pm PST #20406 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Bob bob's father didn't want him to learn Greek b/c in the 70s he thought it might adversely affect his integration into US culture. Now my in-laws use it (or Italian) against us both.
WTF? You married a Greek philosopher?! Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Bob Bob?
sarameg - Nov 19, 2009 6:28:30 pm PST #20407 of 30001
Cracks me up when MK goes an instigates a wrestling bout with Loki. He's 16, he tires of it easily, gets knocked sideways with a simple stroke, but it reassures me he's doing OK. Old and wobbly, but OK.
God, I don't have much time left with him.
Kat - Nov 19, 2009 6:28:49 pm PST #20408 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Hey, Bon, I've been meaning to ask how the budget cuts have been effecting Bob bob.... is he doing okay?
§ ita § - Nov 19, 2009 6:34:21 pm PST #20409 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The closest my family comes to another language for hidden expression is teaching the kids to swear in patois so they wouldn't get in trouble in American society.
A couple cousins married Swedes, and one's daughter is being raised by the Swedish father. So we're acquiring language.
Kat - Nov 19, 2009 6:35:58 pm PST #20410 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Holy moley... I just read the Gingerbread Man story. That shit is fucked up, yo!
Burrell - Nov 19, 2009 7:28:20 pm PST #20411 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
It totally is Kat. Most of the fairy tales are quite brutal. They make Franny cry.