Kids and I are getting ready to play Carcassonne. Let the Medieval hijinks ensue!
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 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.
Cashmere - Sep 08, 2010 4:41:36 pm PDT #22895 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Jesse - Sep 08, 2010 4:43:36 pm PDT #22896 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And I wanted to pipe up and thank whatever Buffista had the invisible things theorem, because it was really helpful! I was all, okay, now we have to see the invisible things. And we did!
Oh man, I finally got a months-old pile of mail off my kitchen counter the other day, and coming home is SO MUCH NICER now.
sarameg - Sep 08, 2010 5:02:59 pm PDT #22897 of 30001
shit, lisah. Hope it proves to be a minor annoyance with no repeats.
sarameg - Sep 08, 2010 5:27:35 pm PDT #22898 of 30001
Watching Loki chase small bugs that have come inside is pure joy. He's very stretchy and limber. Amazing considering what a fatass he is.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 08, 2010 5:51:10 pm PDT #22899 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Health-ma to bonny. Here's hoping it's something the doctors can treat quickly and easily.
Cashmere - Sep 08, 2010 6:30:27 pm PDT #22900 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I found my Great Uncle Joe's death certificate online at ancestry.com. Mom and Dad told me he was killed back in 1937. The actual certificate says, "gun shot wounds" and "face, neck and back."
Family story is that it was a land dispute. Mom once told me it was a jealous husband.
Spidra Webster - Sep 08, 2010 6:40:55 pm PDT #22901 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
My family has some similar mysteries. It's what I find so fun about history and genealogy.
Zenkitty - Sep 08, 2010 6:51:30 pm PDT #22902 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
In my family, they're not so much mysteries as tales to be told with relish to test the mettle of newcomers.
Steph L. - Sep 08, 2010 6:56:34 pm PDT #22903 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My great-aunt was married 3 times. Her first 2 husbands committed suicide.
(1) If I were her, I don't think I would have gotten married a third time.
(2) If I were the third husband and knew about the first 2, I don't think I would have married her. I mean -- DAMN.
Spidra Webster - Sep 08, 2010 7:01:20 pm PDT #22904 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
We only finally started digging into the story of my great-grandfather. He was a pioneer in aviation and motorboat racing. He was killed before my mother was born. The legend was that a guy had taken his airplane to him to be fixed and he wouldn't release it because the guy never paid him. The guy shot him and got off because he was the governor's brother. That's the story. We finally got off our asses and wrote to a library in that county to look at newspapers from that time. We've got the name of the guy and he *was* shot in roughly those circumstances. Don't know about whether he was the governor's brother and how the subsequent trial went, though.