I am sure he was a building employee
Yes, it worked!
I mean, no doubt.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
-t - Jul 16, 2019 7:30:43 am PDT #9563 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
-t - Jul 16, 2019 7:32:50 am PDT #9564 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So, I have to say this somewhere and where better than here? Joe Biden is turning into Jack Palance.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2019 7:55:36 am PDT #9565 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh. Sigh.
I am just avoiding working and having random thoughts, so: My mother the English major claims to have never heard of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery! What?!?!
chrismg - Jul 16, 2019 7:58:33 am PDT #9566 of 30019
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
I can see it.
EDIT: Biden, I mean. I've never read The Lottery but I've certainly heard of it.
Steph L. - Jul 16, 2019 8:11:25 am PDT #9567 of 30019
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
So, I have to say this somewhere and where better than here? Joe Biden is turning into Jack Palance.
I *really* want to see the push-up challenge happen. Is that wrong?
(Look, in this hellscape we're living in, I'm taking my entertainment where I can get it.)
Jesse - Jul 16, 2019 8:17:26 am PDT #9568 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I hear that, Steph.
Kate P. - Jul 16, 2019 8:18:39 am PDT #9569 of 30019
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jesse, that is bizarre! Has she heard of Jackson at all?
Jesse - Jul 16, 2019 8:19:12 am PDT #9570 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Apparently not! I was like, ???????
meara - Jul 16, 2019 8:20:03 am PDT #9571 of 30019
I was about to say maybe she was an English major before it came out but then googled and it was published in 1948 so....???
Dana - Jul 16, 2019 8:21:03 am PDT #9572 of 30019
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Not even The Haunting of Hill House?