Congrats, Kalshane!
River: 1001. 1002. Simon: River... River: Shh. I'm counting between the lightning and the thunder to see if the storm is coming or going. .1005
'The Message'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Feb 17, 2016 4:31:20 pm PST #15706 of 30003
Jesse - Feb 17, 2016 4:31:22 pm PST #15707 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Congrats, Kalshane!
Sheryl - Feb 17, 2016 4:33:36 pm PST #15708 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Congrats, Kalshane!
Tom Scola - Feb 17, 2016 4:35:13 pm PST #15709 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Yay, Kalshane!!
Kalshane - Feb 17, 2016 4:37:07 pm PST #15710 of 30003
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Congrats, Kalshane! My brother and SIL did similar. Except, you did tell your family, right?
We told my immediate family ahead of time (my parents and my grandmother were our witnesses) but my-now-wife didn't want to tell her family until afterwards because they would have insisted on making it into a giant ordeal with everyone in attendance and she didn't want to deal with it.
sarameg - Feb 17, 2016 4:50:57 pm PST #15711 of 30003
See, my brother neglected to tell us for months. Dad and I went to Africa with him just after and didn't know. He was convinced he had the day of. He hadn't. And he always called my dad the absent minded professor...(We knew they were planning on marrying eventually. And now their eldest is 13.)
billytea - Feb 17, 2016 5:00:53 pm PST #15712 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Congratulations, Kalshane!
And I still like to remember the guy who, after Obama's first election, said he'd be moving to Australia because their president was a righteous Christian man ... overlooking the fact that (1) they had a prime minister who (2) was a woman who was (3) an atheist and a lesbian. (I think ... I may well be wrong)
At the time of Obama's first election, our PM was Kevin Rudd, who was a Christian man (I don't feel qualified to speak to his righteousness). Still a leftie though. Julia Gillard replaced him in a leadership spill on 24 June, 2010. She is an atheist, but not a lesbian. However, she and her partner, Tim Mathieson, are unmarried and childless by choice, so I'm sure that guy would still find something to complain about there.
Alas, at the next election, we voted in Tony Abbott, who fits that guy's requirements. Sadly for that guy, Abbott's also an idiot. He managed to alienate his party and astound the electorate with such brilliant moves as conferring a knighthood on Prince Philip. (Biyi's comment: isn't that a demotion?) He's since been replaced by Malcolm Turnbull, who in theory is a moderate, but seems to spend most of his time placating the conservative wing of his party.
In conclusion, please note that in the Howard government, the ministry really did contain two blokes called Abbott and Costello.
Kalshane - Feb 17, 2016 5:02:49 pm PST #15713 of 30003
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Wow! No. We told everyone today that didn't already know ahead of time. Took a lot of people by surprise.
Work will be interesting tomorrow since I didn't tell anyone why I was taking today off.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 17, 2016 5:04:04 pm PST #15714 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Congratulations Kalshane!
When I was a teenager I had a nightmare about some unseen but gigantic thing outside charging at my bedroom window like a freight train (thanks, Dunwich Horror!). I woke in the process of doing a rolling leap out of my bed and through the open door to the hallway. Thankfully sleep-jumping me has better coordination than I do when awake, or that could have turned out badly.
Connie Neil - Feb 17, 2016 5:17:42 pm PST #15715 of 30003
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I'm happy to report that a casino named Paris has kick ass French onion soup.