Jars, many people have that problem. We call them hipsters.
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
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.
amych - Aug 17, 2010 11:37:00 am PDT #18480 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jessica - Aug 17, 2010 11:37:30 am PDT #18481 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm now COMPLETELY OBSESSED with what the FUCK the vikings have to do with anything?? Because has anyone denied that they were in the Americas before Columbus?
Also, didn't they, you know, leave after they decided it would be a lot easier to just colonize Iceland? Is someone trying to build a Muslim community center on the site of a former Viking settlement?
Ginger - Aug 17, 2010 11:37:57 am PDT #18482 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The issue of free state versus slave state as states were created from the territories was the main thing that pushed South into seceding. The proximate cause was that the South started shooting. The original goal of the North was to preserve the Union, not emancipation. There were a lot of money issues involved, certainly, although the biggest one probably was that the slave holders simply could not see a way to survive economically without slavery.
In other words, what everyone else said, except the Viking part.
Steph L. - Aug 17, 2010 11:37:58 am PDT #18483 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
and it went to Hel from there.
t rimshot
javachik - Aug 17, 2010 11:38:15 am PDT #18484 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I love you all so much. Thank you for existing.
Steph L. - Aug 17, 2010 11:38:48 am PDT #18485 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Is someone trying to build a Muslim community center on the site of a former Viking settlement?
Vikings don't have mosques! They worship Capital One credit cards!
t edit I have to note -- those commercials crack my shit up. Every. Time.
Aims - Aug 17, 2010 11:41:50 am PDT #18486 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
And now, I'm worried as hell about Emeline for tonight. She's modeling for the Girl Scout council kick-off party and the woman who is organizing the girls is Muslim and wears a headscarf with "regular" clothes. She's my Big Boss in GS World and I adore her.
I worry because earlier in the summer Emeline FREAKED OUT at the Mennonite stand at the Farmer's Market. I'm hoping she doesn't freak out at Y's scarf.
Also? I'd be just as worried if Y was wearing Viking horns.
Fred Pete - Aug 17, 2010 11:42:27 am PDT #18487 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
My high school mascot was a Viking. Except our sports teams weren't the raping and pillaging type. More like the finish-sixth-in-the-conference type.
And why are they trying to build a mosque in my parents' neighborhood anyway? THEY'RE LUTHERANS!
Which branch of Lutheranism?
Atropa - Aug 17, 2010 11:43:27 am PDT #18488 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
All the Civil War! Vikings! talk just makes me think of that one ridiculously awesome SF movie that was essentially Aliens vs. Vikings.
Connie Neil - Aug 17, 2010 11:45:43 am PDT #18489 of 30001
brillig
rimshot
grins