None of it means a damn thing.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


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.


Burrell - Dec 02, 2009 1:17:04 pm PST #22500 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ooo, I want the koi boots too!


Sheryl - Dec 02, 2009 1:18:25 pm PST #22501 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Once again I am under a cat. I don't really mind, as long as she isn't trying to eat my hair, or my buttons, or my earrings...


Jessica - Dec 02, 2009 1:21:00 pm PST #22502 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Dear lord, the Brooklyn real estate site I read just had the mother of all Godwins: [link]

BWAHAHAHA! Oh Park Slope, don't ever change.


tommyrot - Dec 02, 2009 1:58:37 pm PST #22503 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Abstaining Blue Footed Boobies Get Sexier

Now this is a new angle on abstinence, at least, in the kingdom. Male blue-footed boobies who abstain from sex for a year develop a brighter, more attractive shade of blue in their feet.

From our friends at National Geographic:

A new study shows that while attractiveness of the blue feet diminishes with age in males that reproduce each year, if males skip a breeding season and dont mate, they displayed a more attractive foot color and had more green chroma....

They concluded that its likely the sabbaticals from reproducing offspring may allow the male boobies to physically recover and display brighter feet in their quest in finding a mate.


Scrappy - Dec 02, 2009 2:03:25 pm PST #22504 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

It's the car show here in town and we are having a half dozen auto journalists over to dinner. We are ordering in barbeque, so I don't have to cook, but I am grumpily not looking forward to strangers invading my home, even though all auto journalists I have met tend to be entertaining and good sorts of people.


DavidS - Dec 02, 2009 2:04:24 pm PST #22505 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

On the plus side: BBQ!


Scrappy - Dec 02, 2009 2:08:53 pm PST #22506 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

True dat!


Cass - Dec 02, 2009 2:23:38 pm PST #22507 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

On the plus side: BBQ!

Dude, on the plus side: auto journalists!


DavidS - Dec 02, 2009 2:28:39 pm PST #22508 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Dude, on the plus side: auto journalists!

I'm gonna have to go with BBQ in this instance. You can have all my auto journalists, though.


aurelia - Dec 02, 2009 2:37:05 pm PST #22509 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Tonight, federal and Illinois officials will begin poisoning a section of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in the hope of killing the invasive carp that may have moved north of an electric barrier designed to keep them out of Lake Michigan.

I thought they'd found Asian carp DNA on the electric barrier and that none of the fish had been seen beyond it.