These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.

Jayne ,'The Train Job'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

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


brenda m - Nov 17, 2010 6:29:06 am PST #5861 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I'm sure your average dry cleaner ignores a lot of crap every day.

Given Sophia's tales of the things she has to deal with for costumes people wear for a couple of hours, I'm quite sure this is the case.

Thinking about it, I feel better now about all the dog hair. That's the least of their worries.


tommyrot - Nov 17, 2010 6:30:29 am PST #5862 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.

For the first time ever, a robot plane committed suicide, without any human telling it to.

Darpa: Now We Know Why Our Mach-20 Ship Crashed

The Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2 — a 12-foot, 2,000-pound wedge packing a three-stage Minotaur booster — launched without incident from California on April 22. It climbed to the edge of space for a planned 30-minute, 4,000-mile jaunt toward Kwajalein in the middle of the Pacific.

But nine minutes into the flight, controllers on the ground lost contact with the HTV-2. The culprit, according to Darpa’s Engineering Review Board? “Higher-than-predicted yaw, which coupled into roll, thus exceeding the available control capability at the time of the anomaly.”

In other words, the HTV wobbled too much. Rather than risking an out-of-control flight, the bot self-destructed. On the bright side, according to a chipper Darpa release, the failed test “demonstrated successfully the first-ever use of an autonomous flight-termination system.”


erikaj - Nov 17, 2010 6:31:10 am PST #5863 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

"You're not a dancer here. You're an elf. Wear underwear."


Spidra Webster - Nov 17, 2010 6:33:27 am PST #5864 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

The lawnmower has now switched to leaf blower.

Toying with the idea of taking the Metro to Amoeba since I'm up so early today.


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2010 6:38:32 am PST #5865 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Mandatory charge for plastic bags in unincorporated LA county.

Man, today is a high pain day. This is not going well.


msbelle - Nov 17, 2010 6:46:50 am PST #5866 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

(not a bad advertising slogan for a dry cleaner: "We don't ask, we just get the spots out.")

Takes me to an American Psycho place.


DavidS - Nov 17, 2010 6:49:20 am PST #5867 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Watching Sesame Street this morning while I got Matilda dressed I discovered that Outkast had repurposed one of their songs.

So I dedicate Get Up to smonster and Teppy.


Jesse - Nov 17, 2010 6:51:23 am PST #5868 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This might be the cutest picture ever: James Wilkie Broderick gives Emma Watson a note. [link]


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2010 7:06:25 am PST #5869 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ryan Reynolds sexiest man alive. I'm willing to go with that for a year.

I have no clear idea how to fake it through today. I'm having a hard time seeing straight.


tommyrot - Nov 17, 2010 7:09:08 am PST #5870 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.

I have no clear idea how to fake it through today. I'm having a hard time seeing straight.

You can do it!

Wait, would cheerleading help you, or just annoy? Anyway, good luck.