To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.

Anya ,'Sleeper'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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.


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2011 10:58:30 am PST #10534 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can't you do that with Spotify or some shit?

I don't understand these music apps. They're all on my lawn, confusing me.


DavidS - Dec 08, 2011 11:15:30 am PST #10535 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

You still make mix tapes?

"Used to."

I still make playlists all the time, and make them to burn on a CD-R.


Burrell - Dec 08, 2011 11:24:57 am PST #10536 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

That makes more sense. I don't think I have a working tape player anymore, but I still can't bring myself to toss out my old mix tapes. They feel like a piece of my history, and they don't take up much space.


tommyrot - Dec 08, 2011 11:27:42 am PST #10537 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've taken some old mix tapes that I love and made playlists from them. Usually I can download tracks that I don't already have on iTunes.


DavidS - Dec 08, 2011 11:28:34 am PST #10538 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

My mixed tapes are in a box under the bed.

But I had use for them fairly recently as the Geo Prizm we owned prior to this car only had a tape player. In fact, that's what got Emmett into listening to Harry Potter on audiobook with me, since I'd gotten those books on tape years ago when he was younger. And that's a fond memory I have, of Emmett and I listening to the whole series of books on tape with him over the course of a year or so.

Many was the time we'd sit there in the car waiting to get to the end of a scene before getting out, or him getting off from school and popping a tape into the deck before saying hello to me.

That's how I got him to watch Pushing Daisies with me too: "Jim Dale does the narrator's voice."

We also listened to Wee Free Men on tape.


DavidS - Dec 08, 2011 12:00:28 pm PST #10539 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yikes! Model gets out of small airplane and walks into the spinning prop. Hand severed, face and shoulder badly mangled.


brenda m - Dec 08, 2011 12:00:40 pm PST #10540 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 pretty sure she just leaves them in the strainer and does the "second pour" the same day.

In my experience Canadian tea bags can definitely make a decent second cup but American ones cannot.

(Not by Tom's standards of course.)


Zenkitty - Dec 08, 2011 12:17:39 pm PST #10541 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Anyone ever had a telephone survey taker ask for their home address and first name before?


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2011 12:19:05 pm PST #10542 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

In my experience Canadian tea bags can definitely make a decent second cup but American ones cannot.

Oh, I wasn't even thinking about tea bags. Just loose leaves.

Those articles about the "model" irritate me. Not that she doesn't deserve sympathy for the horrible accident, just that she's not a model so much as a fashion blogger and wardrobe person who's done some modelling. But apparently we won't care if they don't lead with beauty.


DavidS - Dec 08, 2011 12:21:00 pm PST #10543 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

But apparently we won't care if they don't lead with beauty.

It's our fault. Mangled Model definitely garners more hits than Traumatized Wardrobe Person. I'm sorry, Sophia, but it's true!