Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


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.


Steph L. - Jan 05, 2012 8:12:04 am PST #14515 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

And as our scaling of Octopus intelligence keeps going up, I expect they could easily do some heart surgery.

That's another secret Big Medicine is hiding from the average person. You get anesthesia before you undergo bypass surgery, so it COULD be a cephalopod fixing your heart. AND YOU'LL NEVER KNOW.


Lee - Jan 05, 2012 8:15:20 am PST #14516 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I kind of hope it is, actually. All those extra arms should be good for something.


Jessica - Jan 05, 2012 8:15:43 am PST #14517 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

How many people here always (at least try to) type "Doctor Who" and not "Dr. Who"?

*raises hand*


Jesse - Jan 05, 2012 8:20:54 am PST #14518 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Anyone have girl with dragon tattoo they would let me borrow?

I think I have the third one you can have, if you get that far. (I'm always doing this -- reading the first in a series from the library, liking it, and then not wanting to wait for later ones from the library!)


Toddson - Jan 05, 2012 8:24:44 am PST #14519 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I have, alas, pretty much given up on the library. At one point I racked up some sizeable fines for overdue/missing books ... which I'd returned but they hadn't been checked in properly and had been reshelved in the wrong places, so there was no way to prove that I didn't still have them.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 05, 2012 8:24:56 am PST #14520 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

(I'm always doing this -- reading the first in a series from the library, liking it, and then not wanting to wait for later ones from the library!)

This is why I am trying to contain myself from buying the third Huger Games one. Seriously, I can wait a month, but I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW!!!


Fred Pete - Jan 05, 2012 8:25:05 am PST #14521 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

You get anesthesia before you undergo bypass surgery, so it COULD be a cephalopod fixing your heart. AND YOU'LL NEVER KNOW.

I, for one, wouldn't want to. But cephalopods are my Particular Squick.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 05, 2012 8:26:22 am PST #14522 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have, alas, pretty much given up on the library. At one point I racked up some sizeable fines for overdue/missing books ... which I'd returned but they hadn't been checked in properly and had been reshelved in the wrong places, so there was no way to prove that I didn't still have them.

How long has it been? Because my library seems to lose all data when it goes to new library cards every ten or so years. (At least twice I have had this situation, except I lost the books. When I finally went in to own up, they had no record of me)


Jesse - Jan 05, 2012 8:32:54 am PST #14523 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This is why I am trying to contain myself from buying the third Huger Games one. Seriously, I can wait a month, but I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW!!!

Yeah, I've told more than one person, when they told me how much they liked the first one, not to even start the second one until they had the third on hand. It's bananas!


Toddson - Jan 05, 2012 8:33:06 am PST #14524 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

It's pretty much a permanent problem - I'd check out books, take them back, they'd be put on a cart and shelved elsewhere. Then I wouldn't be able to check out more until I paid the fines. I could go back ... but it would just be starting the cycle over again.