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lilmissanthropy in dfwtx:

Sometimes I pray for people like you to have accidents with your guns instead of your reproductive organs.

From a friends-locked post by tania, in which she was relieved that her monthly complaint did not start until after a weekend-long trade fair.

"As it turns out, it waited 'til the trade fair was over. It waited 'til I was back in Brisbane; waited 'til I'd had my nice anniversary with Robbie... and then started when I woke up today.

I feel like giving my uterus a standing ovation. THANK YOU, UTERUS! :D"

From darkangelbella in a friends locked post (with permission)about her cat.

I don't know if he inhaled to much glitter or what but he is jumping at all types of invisible little people. Maybe they look like my sister.


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Meta found here; hellpaladin2183 makes an excellent comment on The Da Vinci Code.


I liked the story, but the writing needed work. Not work like "Oh I think a few sentences need rewriting, akin to the facade of a building needing fixed", but work like "The structure is full of termites, the HVAC is rusted over completely, the windows are broken, half the siding is missing, and someone has parked their car in the kitchen while using the living room as a driveway". Dan Brown needs to learn foreshadowing. "He would get exactly what he wanted in a few short hours" is NOT foreshadowing.


WORD.

In a recent post wax_jism considers the proliferation of eccentric geniuses in television:

These geniuses are neurotic, obnoxious, arrogant, lecherous, dysfunctional, blunt, deathly sarcastic. They're also often a bit outside the central casting beauty standard, physically, in some cases extremely so...It's where they feel safe to cast personalities instead of faces, since there's no pretty clause...Of course, they're always going to be my favourite characters...

Alas, in this illustrious group, Charlie¹ is by far the least appealing to me. Sorry, Charles, you're just not weird enough. It's really not enough that your hair is so very curly and your eyes so very mournful and your voice so very bedroom. I'm choosing Dr Data² over you! Or, by choosing, I mean that Dr Data is closer to the top of the genius pyramid. (The apex of such a pyramid, in this and all other universes, is Rodney McKay.³ He's being held up by a lecherous, dashingly handsome dwarf⁴ and a triple-PhD FBI agent right now.⁵ While the demented, tormented Cylon collaborator⁶ looks on and giggles hysterically.)

1. Mathematician Charles Eppes (David Krumholtz), NUMB3RS
2. Dr. Nigel Fenway (Brent Spiner), Threshold
3. Astrophysicist played by David Hewlett, Stargate: Atlantis—see icon
4. Mathematician/linguist Arthur Ramsey (Peter Dinklage), Threshold
5. no idea
6. Evil(?) genius Gaius Baltar (James Callis), Battlestar Galactica

...and want to share their stories and their memories, there's a cross-fandom message board set up here. It does require registration, but the process is very simple and any information will be kept strictly away from spammers and the like. Her friends thought it would be a fitting tribute to a woman who managed to create communities wherever she went, to have one central place where people can share their LJ posts, and talk and learn more about the sides of her they didn't know so well.

Thank you for your time and apologies for the spam.

Rossi.

If the litter box and surrounding areas are any indication, I think one of my cats exploded.

-innamoramento in statements

karentraviss posts an interesting news story, and in a comment, adds: The Royal Navy did experiment with trained seals for a while, I understand.

To which stimarco replies: I take it the seals preferred to go out clubbing?


(He also posts an amusing parody sketch in reply to one of my comments, hee.)

Over on Scans-Daily Teh_No has been posting Flash scans of Linda Park being possessed by an ScottishIrish Ghost.

stuart1 laments about the lack of Scottish characters in comics.

*cut for a naughty word*.

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It's still not safe to let me open a new bag of flour. ::looks vaguely like an I Love Lucy skit::

- dragovianknight makes buttermilk pancakes.

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Here, ellixis has a problem with the Lima Beans...


The bag of lima beans says "100% GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY BACK." Guaranteed to what? Explode in a fiery ball of doom?

"Dear Vons Corporation:

The lima beans I bought at your store this past week utterly failed to detonate explosively, before, during, or after cooking. I am deeply disappointed. As per your guarantee, I would like my 83 cents returned to me.

Sincerely,
A valued customer."

Sleep is required by brain, under penalty of dur de-durrr!

In silver_whisper's journal, said by her husband olde_skool.

From the churchoferik community.

...we agreed that obviously women came before men, theologically and biologically, and she observed that of course we all come from the Giant Spaghetti Monster, with which I had to agree. So women came first of humans, but the Giant Spaghetti Monster came first above all.

But obviously Erik comes above all else, and he's male, so that screws up my feminist theology.

Of course Jerrod Hogle points out that Leroux presents Erik as having androgynous qualities (the siren in the lake, etc), so I suppose I'll just have to see his Divine Presence as being beyond gender.

Phans, eh?

I'm one, so it's okay if I make fun...

Found in angryletters, by batlev...

Dear My Ass,

We're on a diet now, please stop growing. Thank you.

-Me

PS: Pass the message to my thighs and stomach, we don't talk much anymore.

la_vita_nuova responds in customers_suck...

One of my friends used to say that "the essence of 200 years of foreign policy can be expressed as 'grab your 9 and drop them hatas as you ride'"

Full post (Mine, but not qouting myself, so eh) here.