Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

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.


Consuela - Jul 27, 2011 8:27:39 am PDT #18260 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So, the veterans lie on the applications too!

Everybody lies. But you have to submit a resume, too, so if the resume doesn't substantiate your answers to the questions, you shouldn't score as well. Me, I'm worried that my last-minute edits to my resume (because there was only room for 3000 characters in the box) screwed me up.


tommyrot - Jul 27, 2011 8:45:59 am PDT #18261 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.

A Handy Map of Hell


le nubian - Jul 27, 2011 8:56:33 am PDT #18262 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

the freeways are particularly accurate. How they don't have LA's 405 is beyond me.

They needed to have an area for "telephone on hold with Comcast"


Ginger - Jul 27, 2011 9:00:52 am PDT #18263 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

They don't have 285 either. The map is notably lacking a place where people are packing and moving.


tommyrot - Jul 27, 2011 9:09:14 am PDT #18264 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.

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (A contest for bad fiction.)

The winner:

Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.

Also, "At 26 words, Prof. Fondrie’s submission is the shortest grand prize winner in Contest history, proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy."

Runner up:

As I stood among the ransacked ruin that had been my home, surveying the aftermath of the senseless horrors and atrocities that had been perpetrated on my family and everything I hold dear, I swore to myself that no matter where I had to go, no matter what I had to do or endure, I would find the man who did this . . . and when I did, when I did, oh, there would be words.

Many more awards and runners up for different categories.


tommyrot - Jul 27, 2011 9:12:08 am PDT #18265 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.

Romance winner:

As the dark and mysterious stranger approached, Angela bit her lip anxiously, hoping with every nerve, cell, and fiber of her being that this would be the one man who would understand—who would take her away from all this—and who would not just squeeze her boob and make a loud honking noise, as all the others had.


tommyrot - Jul 27, 2011 9:20:42 am PDT #18266 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.

This reminds me of Douglas Adams:

The grisly scene before him was like nothing Detective Smith had ever seen before, but there were millions and millions of things he had never seen before, and he couldn't help but wonder which of them it was.


sumi - Jul 27, 2011 9:32:05 am PDT #18267 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid greeting fans in Shabbona, IL. Friend of a friend heard that Dennis Quaid joined a country club in Shabbona possibly this one.


Burrell - Jul 27, 2011 9:43:27 am PDT #18268 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

How they don't have LA's 405 is beyond me.

Well they have the 101. Really, not sure which is the most truly hellish of LA's freeways. I tend to hate both the 5 and the 405 with equal hate, although the 405 is far more useful to me.


le nubian - Jul 27, 2011 9:52:21 am PDT #18269 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Donner's Pass recreated with goldfish in NZ

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