Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


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.


billytea - Feb 07, 2012 8:04:44 pm PST #20870 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Let me tell you a little story about the garter snake. Common garter snakes live further north than any other snake (save possibly the European adder). During the winter, they go dormant in a process akin to hibernation. They mate en masse when the Spring wakes them up, with a single female potentially attracting 25 males in a writhing mating ball (picture Fleetwood Mac at Clinton's inauguration).

The males wake first, warm themselves up, and then have at any females that emerge. However, as is the way of things, some males always wake up late. This puts them behind the curve - not only do the other males have a headstart in chasing the snakey wimminz, but they're not even yet warm enough to do anything about it (being ectothermic and all).

Fortunately, they have an ace to play. They start emitting female pheromones. The males use the pheromones to find the emerging females; and are easily duped into chasing pretty much any snake that's wearing the right perfume. They engulf the cross-dresser, both pulling them off the pursuit of a genuine female, and also allowing the late riser to use their body heat to warm his own self (termed kleptothermy. I just like that they actually have a name for it.)

I'm pretty easy-going about Christians selling all they have and such; but I really want to see them taking a stab at being wise as serpents.


Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 8:11:43 pm PST #20871 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Kleptothermy!

Oh, that's just marvelous. There has to be a story in that.


Polter-Cow - Feb 07, 2012 8:22:52 pm PST #20872 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I busted out with "Your argument is invalid" at work today (without any actual precursor, just that phrase on its own) and my co-worker was like, I like that, I'm going to use that.

Sometimes I forget that normal people aren't aware of Internet memes.


Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 8:25:52 pm PST #20873 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So long as you don't claim that the lurkers support you in email, or that they're interrogating the text from the wrong perspective, I think you're okay.


aurelia - Feb 07, 2012 8:40:04 pm PST #20874 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Random information for the evening... if you leave the space out of "got it" autocorrect changes it to "forbid".


meara - Feb 07, 2012 8:46:25 pm PST #20875 of 30001

Yeah, P-C, unfortunately I discovered that when I used the phrase "epic fail" a few years ago and a coworker got super offended.


billytea - Feb 07, 2012 9:29:09 pm PST #20876 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Random information for the evening... if you leave the space out of "got it" autocorrect changes it to "forbid".

Forbid.


Ginger - Feb 08, 2012 2:32:31 am PST #20877 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

if you leave the space out of "got it" autocorrect changes it to "forbid".

It's working its way up to "exterminate."

I am in love with kleptothermy.


le nubian - Feb 08, 2012 2:41:27 am PST #20878 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Catholics do not have a deep moral objection to contraception.


brenda m - Feb 08, 2012 2:58:30 am PST #20879 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

Related to that, with all the hubbub over the requirement to cover birth control in health plans, I learned yesterday that it is actually the law already in like 28 states. So all the sky is falling outrage from the church - they're already doing it all over the place.