Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

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


§ ita § - Mar 25, 2010 1:25:45 pm PDT #18634 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Huh. I was just the first person to look up "futless" on wordnik. I don't think I've ever had a wordnik first before. Though now I'm tempted to try it out with Patois.

I had no idea it was Hawaiian. Where the hell did I pick that up?

Kat, I can't quite see why a teacher would prevent a kid from doing academic decathlon. It would irritate me.


Kat - Mar 25, 2010 1:26:31 pm PDT #18635 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I am so irritated.


sarameg - Mar 25, 2010 1:27:52 pm PDT #18636 of 30001

Give the teacher the dog and take the kid. Preferably before the canine gastroentological explosion arrives.


Kat - Mar 25, 2010 1:31:38 pm PDT #18637 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

java, is the infection almost over yet?


Polter-Cow - Mar 25, 2010 1:31:40 pm PDT #18638 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I had no idea it was Hawaiian. Where the hell did I pick that up?

Here.


Laura - Mar 25, 2010 1:31:50 pm PDT #18639 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I think I first saw futless used here by Raq. It is a perfectly wonderful word. And my browser didn't know it either. Huh. Be gone red squiggly.

eta: Shiny! P-C verifies my memory.


§ ita § - Mar 25, 2010 1:33:45 pm PDT #18640 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's been in my vocab a little longer than that, P-C.

Speaking of time passing, mandatory carding at Bev Mo today. Like mandatory mandatory. I was buying Izze and I got carded. She was all "thank you for understanding." Bullshit I was understanding. I was snippy, is what I was.


shrift - Mar 25, 2010 1:36:05 pm PDT #18641 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I've been banhammering all day. In the dark.


Barb - Mar 25, 2010 1:36:16 pm PDT #18642 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”

Give the teacher the dog and take the kid. Preferably before the canine gastroentological explosion arrives.

I'm in favor of this plan.


flea - Mar 25, 2010 1:39:16 pm PDT #18643 of 30001
information libertarian

So, Casper got a cast on her broken thumb today. She picked blue. [link]

I kinda like this one, where she's eagerly showing the x-ray to our neighbor (who's an ER nurse.) [link]