Mighty fine shindig.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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.


Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2011 12:00:58 pm PST #11336 of 30001
brillig

Well, our corporate lines are 800 numbers. Hopefully no one calls in hoping to get phone sex from me.


JenP - Dec 13, 2011 12:02:40 pm PST #11337 of 30001

I brought ginger cookies and still have half a tin left. They are NOT coming home with me.

Shove 'em through the intertubes!

But in both of their cases, the issue isn't perfectionism, the issue is not wanting to do homework.

Ha! Yeah, I guess that's true for me, too, some portion of the time.

when I failed to count properly to ten

Glad Nora asked, because I was... concerned, let's say.

I just ate a big bowl of pasta with tomato sauce, and I know that tomato sauce gives me indigestion nowadays, but I did it anyway. Dumbass. Was good, though.


Kathy A - Dec 13, 2011 12:03:55 pm PST #11338 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The party I went to on Saturday had a White Elephant exchange, but most of us missed the point and brought quite nice gifts. I ended up with a slightly older but still perfectly useful iPod alarm clock dock (that was after I swapped out the Mrs. Santa Claus cookie jar that I couldn't use since I don't eat cookies anymore). My contribution to the exchange was an ornament I had just finished cross-stitching the night before. Turns out my hostess was the one who drew my number, and she was able to add that ornament to the other two I had made for her Christmas gift.

I came home with my iPod dock, the leftover chocolate/peanut butter bark I had brought to the party, and the leftover lemon bars she had made. I'm bringing them into work tomorrow, and probably will continue to do so the rest of the week, at least.


§ ita § - Dec 13, 2011 12:17:01 pm PST #11339 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's a guy at work whose email signature contains a graphic of Santa body slamming a blue-garbed Santa into the ground. There is *no* way that's allowed by company branding guidelines.


brenda m - Dec 13, 2011 12:19:57 pm PST #11340 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

Is the blue a competitor color? Or is this some kind of "War on Christmas" statement? Weird.

Man oh man, this is going to be a hard adjustment. She's not even out yet and I've been working all day and am getting antsy to go for a walk.


Theodosia - Dec 13, 2011 12:28:01 pm PST #11341 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Regretsy had pictures of X-rated XXXmas ornaments. It was completely NSFW and even the glimpse I got probably risked Santa-themed PTSD.


§ ita § - Dec 13, 2011 12:44:14 pm PST #11342 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He says it's Judo Santa beating up Fake Santa.

That's a thing? When did it become a thing?

And we're explicitly barred having images in our sigs. I just checked branding in case there was something I was missing.

But, hey, if upper management isn't saying anything, I got nothing.

But I want violent sigs, dammit!


le nubian - Dec 13, 2011 1:28:26 pm PST #11343 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

NSFW

naked archeologists calendar.

[link]


Ginger - Dec 13, 2011 1:48:43 pm PST #11344 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Romney camp, failing to perform the common Google, uses "Keep America American" slogan previously used by the Know-Nothings and the KKK. [link]

Google would have fairly quickly offered up the Know-Nothings, as well as the fact that it was the slogan of one of the groups that worked to prevent Jewish immigration prior to WWII.


le nubian - Dec 13, 2011 2:00:28 pm PST #11345 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Jesus, Ginger.