More Massachusettsisms: You are thirsty? There's a bubbler over there.
The Bubbler: small New England bird nearing extinction due to local human custom of tearing off the heads of the birds and draining the body fluids.
Clam Chowder - a creamy white liquid that is served in a bowl
and the obligatory introduction to the thread follows:
Yet Another Kill This Thread!
The following rules were established by Kent at the start of the first 24-hour version, adapted from the original rules by EDE:
The rules:
1. The Basic Idea: Post to this thread, if no one posts after you for 24 hours, you win!
2. Posts that are not direct responses to one of the five preceding posts are ineligible to win. The topic can drift, but no complete non-sequitors. Posts that are responses to non-sequitors are also ineligible to win. Posts that are responses to responses to non-sequitors, and response nses to those posts, etc., become eligible, however.
3. In the event that this thread is locked, there shall be no winner unless a new thread is started for the contest. Furthermore, any post that results in the banning of the poster shall also be ineligible to win.
4. So, more precisely, one wins if one makes a post, and then no one makes another post that's eligible to win for 24 hours.
Okay, time to kill!
I - walkwithcrowds (7-day version)
II - none
III - none
IV - Quislet, Esq
V - Rockhopper Lad (the first 24-hour version)
VI - Rockhopper Lad
VII - cleome
VIII - Rockhopper Lad
IX - Rockhopper Lad
X - none
XI - none
XII - none
XIII - Invisible Brainiac
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - Invisible Brainiac
XVI - Invisible Brainiac
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - cleome
XIX - cleome
XX - cleome
XXI - Jfposey
XXII - Invisible Brainiac
XXIII - jfposey
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - Paladin
IB declined the bread bowl for his chowder. I don't know if he knew what that was.
Oh, I knew. But I also knew I wouldn't be able to finish the bread bowl AND my hangover sandwich in one sitting!
Why we had to go for a walk afterwards. But we didn't have time to stop at Dunks for an ice coffee in a double cup.
Blaze was able to try McDonald's coffee, and Starbucks coffee, but sadly not the Dunkin coffee.
I think they're all pretty cawful.
The bird pun confuses me.
Sometimes I just need some caffeine to dip my beak in.
Ohhh! thanks Lardy, now I get it
my vocabulary has expanded!
Look no feather than Legion World to learn something new.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
You say that like it's a bad thing
Still, we don;t want to repeat ourselves. That would be more than anyone could Swallow.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
And the more they stay the same, the more they change - Reep goes Minimalist in trying to get back into the Legion with no powers.
Minimalism began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. It derives from the reductive aspects of modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and a bridge to postminimal art practices.
My art history knowledge has greatly increased!
So glad to have expanded your mind.
You'll be able to enjoy those Brotherhood of dada Doom Patrol issues that little bit more.
That was too much of an expansion
Drowning pyramids exultant!
Moses expanded the Sea of Reeds. Not sure if the Pyramids were caught in the waves.
Moses expanded the Sea of Reeds.
Watching another thousand clones of himself being lined up, Reed Richards realised that Kang had been impersonating Moses. He had to find a way back to his own time.
Judy Collins sang "Send in the Clowns" which has been used to title stories about clones as "Send in the Clones"
I heard that playing in the background during the Star Wars Clone Wars.
Are the music charts in the Star Wars Universe a waste because millions of cloned troopers, with the same taste, download the same songs?
This does represent a good opportunity for artists who fit the clone troopers' tastes! You have billions of customers right away!
Ed Sheeran's chart success explained!
Hush, thoth! If even one fan sees this...
Clone fans also explain Boy Bands.
There's no accounting for taste, sometimes.
Accountants don't have taste? My mother and stepfather will be crushed when I tell them this. They never should have gotten their CPA licenses.
Oh, they do have taste. They just can't quantify and record it as easily as they do business transactions.
well saved Ibby
thanks thothy
savings things is part of the job
Here I come to save the day!
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way!
Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right,
Mighty Mouse will join the fight!
On the sea or on the land,
He's got the situation well in hand!
Mighty Mouse and Atom Ant would make a wonderful team-up.
I guess they could put their differences aside to battle a common foe... but not without the obligatory superhero fight first!
Let's get B'wana Beast to combine them and see.
Mouse + Ant =... Mant? Anouse?
There's already Gato Negro brand wine, so there's probably beer with a cat logo out there, too.
Well, why not? I just saw a bottle of wine with a hen for a logo. I don't get the connection, but...
I wonder what happens when cats drink beer...
I would suppose that it gets drunk.
I wonder how drunk cats act.
The only thing the cats in my life could get drunk on is power.
And scratching your legs.
Be careful not to get the cat scratch fever. Or Ted Nugent.
In good time for Hallowe'en.
I want to experience Halloween in the USA, and Guy Fawkes Day in the UK!
I was looking out at fireworks catalogues just an hour ago ahead of Guy Fawkes Day.
My birthday falls on Guy Fawkes day. another way to celebrate it with a bang!
In case I miss it or some reason, have a Happy Birthday!
My aunt ended every birthday car with "Health & Happiness Always!". After considering what the wish means, I now end all my birthday greeting with it.
That's a good greeting to give, Quis!
And thank you for the early birthday greetings, thothy!
Are they early or really really late for your last birthday?
My aunt ended every birthday car with "Health & Happiness Always!". After considering what the wish means, I now end all my birthday greeting with it.
I take from it that the "always" indicates that I'm immortal and that the "health and happiness" means that it will all be about me for the forthcoming aeons, ensuring I'll be fine regardless of what happens to anyone else.
Are they early or really really late for your last birthday?
[sniffily] While I'm
sure I paid the due respects at the time of Mister Brainiac's celebration, I see no reason why it can't be both, therefore celebrating the time between celebrations. [/sniffily]
Thoth doth sniff too much!
I hope I'm not coming down with the sniffles
Have some chicken soup, thothy
Sit on the sofa, wrapped in a blanket. The TV is on. There are Kleenex handy.
I have some ginger tea to help get rid of that nasty cold
I hear Gilligan can make a mean coconut cream pie himself.
I wonder what ingredients he uses.
A secret recipe like KFC. Probably very much like it
Maybe I can get the Professor to analyze it.
And Element Lad to reproduce it.
Could Chemical Kid help Jan in some way?
They could work together.
With Kid Quantum II. And Kinetix. and the White Witch and Dragonmage, to be sure.
With Brainiac 5 to supervise.
Are we trying to kill this thread with Legion fanfic?!?!
most fanfic is not my cup of tea.
English Breakfast is my cup of tea.
I actually don't like tea. So tea is not my cup of tea.
Iced tea for this southern gent, baby!
Have a little tea with your sugar?
In the rain slicked neon streets of Legion World, a frantic call gushes like arterial blood from a post-a-thon booth. Across town, the Murder Phone Operator stirred his cup o' java with his pen... and listened.
I wouldn't recommend stirring your hot cup o' java with your penis!
Ohhhhhhhh...pen. Nevermind.
It was supposed to be a steaming hot cup o' java, so just as well
Ouch. That would make for uncomfortable sitting down.
Beanbag chairs are not that comfortable
My friend's leather couches are so deep that they too are uncomfortable to sit on or get out of. Life is a struggle, but that is obnoxious.
I dislike obnoxious people
I wonder if some people like obnoxious people. Maybe other obnoxious people?
We should study this.
Pick a reality TV show to watch.
Reality shows hardly show reality
Are those people nice and friendly in real life?
I don't know them in real life.
Do you read any of the gossip mags where presumably they appear even when they're not on a show?
I don't read those magazines. The most I will do is look at the covers while I am waiting in line at the grocery store.
Which covers do you like looking at?
Covers by Brian Bolland or George Perez
Very hard not to buy anything with such good artwork on the front. It was sometimes a bit disapointing to realise they didn't do the interior art too.
I think some people felt that way when Alan Davis began doing covers for the Reboot Legion
That worked for me as I picked up a few of them. Did Adam Hughes ever do Legion covers?
Did you know beforehand that Davis only did the covers, thothy?
For me, if it not a book I regularly buy and the cover attracts me, I flip through the book before buying it.
I'd have bought it for the cover anyway. This would have been back when the comics were bagged... and presumably when I was either too rushed or thick to look at the credit box on the cover
I used to buy solely back issues because they were cheaper. This was when the Internet was new and issue summaries were not common. I would have to use the cover to guess whether I wanted an issue.
It also left a lot of holes in my collection that took a while to fill...
How much dirt is in a hole 25 feet deep and 10 feet wide?
You don't need geometry to solve that riddle
Enough to dispatch Mordru.
Geoetry is Mordru's weakness
Jimmy Olsen's silly hat collection is Mordru's real weakness. That's why he invaded Earth and went back in time. And since when was there dirt in a hole anyway?
Jimmy sure is earning his keep as a Legionnaire...
Jimmy stole the dirt? Was he trying to get some "dirt" for a story with Lois?
He was getting the dirt on Superman so he could run off with Lois - Jimmy Olsen's Blues
I thought he was trying to prove he was the ancestor of The Mess.
After being rejected by the Legion, the Mess started a janitorial service. He soon had as much money as Lester Spiffany.
He also had as much dirt on him as Trump does.
At least the Mess' dirt is organic.
Indeed,and he is undeniably a good guy.
Maybe he should get his own book.
Trump's fetching tan always reminds me of the orange Arm Fall Off Boy. So now comic options include:-
Trump Tot - This little rascal causes all sorts of problems for the Legion. Will they ever find out that he was responsible for the lack of immigrants to Earth on the team.
Democracy Fall Off Boy - Not even a wall around Fortress Lad could prevent the farcical end of the UP and the takeover of the Dominators.
Top Trump - The Royal Flush Gang attack Ventura with a new man behind the scenes controlling them.
He could also be Turns-Everything-Orange Trump
you just know he will keep his name as part of his code name...
Trump Lad - Able to emit super-farts, usually from his mouth!
(Trump is an English word for fart, just in case that's not known the world over)
It wasn’t. I have a lot of friends who would be pleased to know that
As toot is another word for fart, instead of it being another tweet from Trump I always say it's another toot from trump.
Malodorous and vile. Apt comparison
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
Although that applies to politics everywhere
The world's shortest sad story:
For Sale - Baby clothes, never used.
I'm trying to remember who I heard that attributed to recently. It wasn't Hemmingway, it was someone... nope.. can't recall... brain...cell ...shutting...down...
Why can't it just be an unwanted, but expensive, gift because the kid is too big? Some people are Gloom Merchants :-)
Snopes says that it was not Hemingway
Nopes. It was the memoirs of an author on the radio and he mentioned that as an example of something. I'm sure he said a name to go with it.
On the contrary, I've stated throughout that it
wasn't Hemingway. I would never doubt the word of Snoopy
Snoopy is a very credible reporter...
He's had a long career in the industry. I heard that he covered Woodstock
Makes me want some pizza! YUM!
Ooh, I miss eating pizza!
Having never (as far as I know) eaten pizza, I do not miss it.
sure. Apple, Pumpkin, Squash, Chocolate, Custard, Coconut Cream, Banana Cream, Lemon Meringue, Key Lime, and Boston Cream Pie. Although that last one is really a cake.
I was going to say I was fond of Rhubarb pie, but then I remembered it's a tart. But it's just the same as the Apple Pie I get.
I always did find it odd that rhubarb was so sweet. It looks like a leafy veggie to me.
I believe the leaves are poisonous. A quick Google search proved me correct.
Thank goodness for Google! Imagine if someone had tried the leaves...
When I looked it up this particular tidbit came up:
Humans have been poisoned after ingesting the leaves, a particular problem during World War I when the leaves were mistakenly recommended as a food source in Britain.
I remember when such things would weed out people from the gene pool. Bloomin' Google!
From this years Darwin Awards:
(March 2017, England) What's that smell? A burglar removed a few roofing shingles and climbed into the roof of a chemist shop in Queensbury. On his way down, the man became stuck and was strangled by his own clothes. The asphyxiated pill seeker was found several weeks later and well into decomposition.
Perhaps he should have climbed down naked
Obviously his prescription had...expired.
The bare cheek of the man.
but clearly there was no cover up.
or so THEY would like you to think.
Gasp! the authorities would never do that!
Of course the authorities wouldn't. I'm talking about the puppet masters
Punch wnd Judy men rule the world?!
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you'll never never never never need it
One headline why believe it ?
Everybody wants to rule the world
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
I only heard the Tears For Fears single Head Over Heels for the first time a couple of years ago. If I didn't happen to catch the charts for a few weeks I'd miss everything.
I'm not up to date on music either. I used to listen to the charts on the drive to work back home, but now I don't really have an opportunity to do so.
I spend my commute to school reading handouts and cases for class.
I read on my way to work. Right now I am reading about Edwin Stanton who was Lincoln's Secretary of War during the Civil War.
That is one advantage of not having to drive to work!
If I find myself on the train without a book, I will take a word form one of the ads and see how many other words I can make with the letters
I've put lots of classic sci fi on my phone to read over the next few months.
Call me a Luddite, but reading books or stories on a phone is not something that interests me.
I also like the real book. Although I can see an advantage if one was going on a long trip to not having to carry a heavy book.
Indeed, that's one reason I prefer electronic copies now.
I have never actually used electronic media to read a book yet.
I think the first one was Dracula when I got stuck away on a business trip. It saved me from complete boredom, and I didn't mind the format even on a smaller screen pre smartphone. The book was probably on there for ages before I tried it.
I get a few magazines digitally now too. I like having a choice of what to read on the way in. The Twomorrows mags are good for reading in and out of work.
Most of the stuff I have to read for class is online as well. Usually we get PDF files and Powerpoint slides. I read them on my laptop to save paper, I can make highlights there anyway.
Technology has made summarising a breeze.
Well now, they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
Are you telling us you've got wind?
Lardy is going to huff and puff at you, thothy!
It's which bit is going to huff and puff I'm having an issue with.
Perhaps we need to have the fainting couch ready, just in case!
Maybe a fainting beanbag? Or did we establish that those are too uncomfortable? :confused;
I don't think bean- anything should be mentioned anywhere near wind thank you
Those fainting beanbags need to be very sturdy! Imagine if Monstress or Blok suddenly fainted!
Would you try a Mexican Jumping Beanbag chair?
If you paid enough lobbyists, the Mexican Jumping Beanbag chair would become such a perceived threat that the height of Trump's wall would have to be adjusted
But we can’t utilize Mexican Jumping Beans! the wall, you know?
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
A lot of teachers have given me a tough time over the years. Some have been great, but some have been terrible.
One time I was five years old, and I had to hand in a letter to my teacher from my mom. The letter was explaining that I had to be absent for a week for family stuff. The teacher asked me for our home phone number, which I did not know (it had never seemed important to me to know, I was five and someone always dropped me off and picked me up at school, and the phone number was on most of my school books and notebooks; so the number was handy, I simply never memorized it).
The teacher gets angry, accuses me of lying, and demands that I tell her. I keep trying to explain that I didn't know. She drags me from class to the faculty room and keeps questioning me. Another teacher had to intervene to get her to stop, but by then I was sobbing and cowering in the corner.
And to this day, one of my hot buttons is being accused of something and not being believed when I deny it.
So what was your phone number?
I can remember, actually. But posting it here would reveal my identity
right now in the us to call another phone, you have to dial 10 numbers. When I was a kid, to make a local call, you only had to dial 5 numbers. To dial within your area code, you only had to dial 7 numbers. Beyond the area code, you had to dial all 10 numbers plus a 1 in front of it.
So what was your phone number?
Bad Quis. Bad.
right now in the us to call another phone, you have to dial 10 numbers. When I was a kid, to make a local call, you only had to dial 5 numbers. To dial within your area code, you only had to dial 7 numbers. Beyond the area code, you had to dial all 10 numbers plus a 1 in front of it.
Oh, oh, telephone line, give me some time, I'm living in twilight. - ELO
I wonder if you have to add extra digits for the twilight area code as it's international, or if local twilight codes are available.
ah, the misadventures we have had dialing foreign phone numbers...
I'm stunned that Telephone Directory monthly didn't become more of a success. Probably a mistake going through the characters in order. I think "Summer Blues: The Aaron A Aaronson story" was a precursor to Bradbury's Something else else Wicked This Way Comes. Still, it was retitled to save on costs and Crossed Wires did give us zany love stories as Cupid became a telephone operator. Happy days of alternate universe reading.
Stalkers loved it though!
You know what I love? Coconut.
Coconut juice is common in the Philippines.
I have not tried coconut water.
I don't like it very much. I prefer mangoes or pineapples.
I probably eat more bananas than any other fruit.
I eat a lot of clementines and mandarin oranges. But I love peaches best. Strawberries are a close second.
Pears would be towards the top of my fruit choices. Peaches are nice though.
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat me a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat a lot of peaches
Peaches come from a can,
They were put there by a man
In a factory downtown
If I had my little way,
I'd eat peaches every day
Sun-soakin' bulges in the shade
Now *they* were Presidents of the United States of America.
I rank them in the middle of the list of presidents from best to worst.
But there are some presidents who are undeniably terrible.
Is that why the band split?
That would make a lot of villain groups break up.
Should we get Yoko Ono to infiltrate villain groups in order to break them up?
Although given Yoko's age, maybe not nearly so effective.
I'm not a fan of Ono's music, but I've always figured they were grownups who were responsible for their own lives and the demise of their own band.
Always thought the "Yoko ruined it" thing was pretty sexist.
Sadly, I bet a lot of fans have an idealized vision of the group.
Surely half the band turning more into studio musicians rather than members of the group must have played a part.
It does seem like a factor.
Do you think the show "The X Factor" in the Marvel universe is about young mutants trying out for the X-Men?
Going back to the origin of the X-Factor group I think it's a show that glorifies the identification and subsequent incarceration of mutants. Young Timmy getting national recognition for finding Mutants in his barn. He's still on a high from that when the authorities arrest his parents for harbouring them. Caught on the wave of attention he denounces his folks on the following week's show.
So little Timmy's mutant power was detecting other mutants?
I think Caliban of the Morlocks had that power.
Caliban was originally supposed to have the power to "project portions of his own powerful life force into inanimate objects... imbuing them with life." His costume is really a vehicle for his smaller form. So pretty much a proto-Quislet
That was back when John Byrne pitched a few characters for a second string of X-Men a while before the New Mutants were launched.
I wonder if Caliban ever joined the Taliban?
He was recruited at an Ichiban.
Ichiban? Well scratch it!
Mentioning Old Scratch as the name of the devil would have been a lot more appropriate around Halloween.
There are 355 days until Halloween
How close do I have to get before I can mention it appropriately?
Please wait until after Arbor Day.
When I read that, I just think someone with an accent is saying 'arbour day and that we should all go and look at some boats.
I like going to Georges Island in Boston Harbor
Sydney also has a nice harbor.
I'll be able to see for myself in a couple of months
I take a walk down to the harbour every weekend... Well a lot of weekends when I'm up early enough... there's a harbour that's within easy walking distance...
In Manila, the bay has a beautiful sunset and is a decent place for a stroll.
Many offices have Manila folders
While it can be scenic, you don't get much exercise walking along a manila envelope.
I worry I might tread on a lost Imskian expedition who thought the envelope was an endless blasted wasteland.
Or talking ants. Those things will not be happy.
Aunts, as much as other family members, can talk a lot leading to tension during the festive period.
Do you cry uncle to get uncles to shup up or do uncles cry after you've told them to shut up?
Some uncles sure seem sensitive.
People could buy them a couple of the million skincare for men packages that have invaded the aisles of all my local supermarkets.
A man's got to keep his youthful glow.
Radiation Roy is giving free hugs?
Only to those suffering from cancer.
Have robots taken over to the extent that they are buying skin care products for their fake skin?
Don’t robots need some help to be all shiny?
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their asses
The humans are dead The humans are dead
Their system of oppression,
What did it lead to?
Global robo-depression
Robots ruled by people.
They had so much aggression
That we just had to kill them
Had to shut their systems down.
The humans are dead, but somehow this thread is still alive. I need to be around more to help kill threads.
Penguins are among the best thread-killers!
Even more so with all the humans being dead and the robots discovering that the skin care products cause rust.
Penguins are practically chicken!
Hoboken!!!! Ooo, I'm dying!!!
Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?
Sometimes, I hate myself.
I leave you alone for a little while, and look what you get yourself into!
I love to sing-a
About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a,
I love to sing-a,
About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,
Anything-a with a swing-a to an "I love you-a,"
I love to, I love to sing!
I was born a singin' fool-a,
Lah-de-dah!
Ol' Major Bowes is gonna spot me,
Got through Yale with boula-boula,
Lah-de-dah!
Old microphone's got me!
I love to sing-a,
I love to wake up with the south-a in my mouth-a,
And wave a flag-a,
With a cheer for Uncle Sammy and another for my mammy,
I love to sing!
Bugs: Say, doc, are you trying to get yourself in trouble with the law? This ain't wabbit huntin' season.
Elmer Fudd: It's not?
Bugs: No, it's duck huntin' season.
Daffy: That, sir, is an in-mitigated frab-rication. It's wabbit season.
Bugs: Duck season.
Daffy: Wabbit season.
Bugs: Duck season.
Daffy: Wabbit season.
Bugs: Duck season.
Daffy: Wabbit season.
Bugs: Wabbit season.
Daffy: Duck season.
Bugs: Wabbit season.
Daffy: I say it's duck season. And I say fire!
Loved that series of episodes.
Warner Brothers did a series of Hollywood celebrity cartoons. The Three Stooges appeared in one of them.
We used to watch those cartoons with our parents and they'd explain all the caricatures and references to us.
I guess no one needs parents now that there's Wiki, though.
I think current parents would need Wiki to explain those reference.
but not all parents know how to use wiki
I was raised in the wild by wikis after my browser crashed.
I was found floating down the Amazon in a hatbox.
Wild Haggis stormed the village where I was born and kidnapped me back to their Highland tribes.
Oh so you had Wild Haggis. I cried myself to sleep wishing for Wild Haggis.
Yeah, we used to sit around dreaming of the day we could own a hatbox that floated, despite the weight of our bitter disappointment in life, never mind one that floated down the Amazon.
We would take turns. One would sit for a few seconds on another who would have to hold them above the flooring of nails, while getting cut to bits. Then we'd swap.
Oh you had someone to help you?
Ha! Help indeed. We used to have to fight in the pit of broken glass to see who got to sit first. Annie Lennox, also raised by Wild Haggis, got the inspiration for her song "Walking on Broken Glass" from this. In later years, we would gladly suffer the injuries of our society, as at least we didn't have to listen to it.
She is waiting for "the sun to come out tomorrow".
Until then, it's "here comes the rain again"...
Bet my bottom dollar it will
You're on! (Now to finish my Sun-blotting machine)
Quis is Mr. Burns from the Simpsons!
Does that make IB Smithers?
That puts a new spin on things
He does have a huge Malibu Stacy collection
I wanted Stacy’s boyfriend though
Her boyfriend has new shoes!
Like you care about mens shoes.
I care about what’s in them
Barefoot in the Park with Invisible Brainiac
Not sure if all manly feet qualify as kinks for you, Ibby, but you might want to avoid googling Shaquille O'Neil's feet.....
Aw Lardy, now you know I got to do it!
(for the record I’m just joking about the feet thing - though I did once date a guy who was very into it...)
I hope he handled the defeet of not continuing together with you well
He didn’t make me feel like a heel
That is because you are a good sole
Now that Ibby is with Blaze, the guy is just a footnote in Ibby's life.
Whoa, let's not toe the line here.
Uh oh. Quis is arching his eyebrows. Perhaps we should move on before this thread is plucked from the board.
I wouldn’t want this thread to be cleaned up.
Threading eyebrows is a new trend.
I thought it was done in ancient times
Not when I was a kid. And I am feeling pretty ancient these days.
You're only as old as you feel, so I generally try to avoid feeling the elderly.
There are days when I just feel weary and tired.
Are there days when you're too tired to post to Kill this thread?
[clears throat]
I don't know what you're talking about, Lad.
Oh you can call me thoth, Cleome. It's nicer sounding than all the other names I get called.
Can I call you 'Frank'?
Why 'Frank'?
It's a nice name. Richard Nixon's got a hedgehog called Frank.
If you need to be called nice names, you can revive The Victorian Flirting Thread.
Why Miss Cleome, a good person does not flirt.
My governess has to recover from diphtheria before I can be allowed to venture near the Victorian flirting thread.
Why my dear Mr. thoth lad, that is so caring of you. You must be so tired. Why don't you come sit down on the divan next to me.
Despite my newly-discovered status as LWWW*, I believe I shall hie to the kitchen and prepare us a proper tea. Scones and Pettis Fours, and perhaps some cucumber or cress sandwiches, too. I do hope Mavis remembered to launder all the linen napkins and get the silver tea service polished before accepting Sunday as her day off this week.
*Legion World Wicked Woman
Why Miss Cleome, Cook will not like you messing about in her kitchen, Relax with a glass of Aunt Ida's Special Lemonade.
My good sir. I should stress both the fact that it is my governess, and not I, who has diptheria and that it would be highly irregular for me to be seen unchaperoned near any furniture, let alone a divan.
Are you not nursing her back to health?
It is to my great regret, that my chaperone, who would have to accompany me on any visit to the sick bed of my governess, is presently suffering from dropsy.
Heavens, have I traveled back in time? I suddenly feel quite faint.
Lay down on the divan. I will fetch a glass of medicinal sherry for you.
My word, that is so very kind of you, Mr. Quislet.
Kindness had nothing to do with it.
If you can kill with kindness, why isn't there a bigger public awareness campaign to stop people being excessively nice?
Is there anyone you would like to kill with kindness?
Me. But would that be suicide by kindness?
Wouldn't that be a good way to go?
Joke I heard:
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
"When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?"
I’ll show them. I’ll show them all!
Funny thoth lad, very funny.
And IB, flashing is a crime.
Er, that’s not what I was planning to show...
What were you gonna show us? The way? The money? The state?
The way, the truth and the life
That's life (that's life) that's what people say
You're riding high in April
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune
When I'm back on top, back on top in June
I prefer the dodecahedron of life
That could work. Many sides to life
Sure are. Including side-boobage!
I think we know what Lardy is thankful for
Perhaps it is lack of sideboobs
I don't think I'd ever heard the term "sideboob" before the show "Scrubs".
I watched a couple of episodes of Scrubs. I liked its more lighthearted tone. Grey’s Anatomy, on the other hand...
I just finished watching the last season of Downton Abbey.
I am rewatching Orphan Black now
I get bored easily, so watching TV series is not ideal for me. I prefer being more active/
I await your all-male version of "The Women"
Oooh that would be interesting
Who would you cast in the Joan Crawford/other woman role?
Matt Dallas and his dreamy eyes
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
“I want to live!” - Robin Nico
"It's alive!" -Victor Frankenstein
"It's undead!" - Count Dracula
Interjections (Hey!) show excitement (Hey!) or emotion (Hey!).
They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,
Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.
Interjections show excitement or emotion,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah... YEA!
Darn! That's the end!
- Schoolhouse Rock
That’s a great grammar lesson
You probably never saw them. They had ones for math (multiplication), grammar, history, and science.
There are those of us who can only recite the Preamble to the US Constitution in song.
The context of learning (learning in song versus learning without) helps with memory
Proven by Sesame Street and the Electric Company.
I still don’t know how to get to Sesame Street
But do you know the way to San Jose?
I think I have to make a left at Albuquerque.
Drat, now I have to go back
Hello, Dolly,
Well Hello, Dolly,
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
Dolly is a good name for a doll
Esmerelda would be a better name. Not so derivative.
I hate studying derivatives. All the computations that go into them... Finance really isn't for me.
Me neither. I do have a flair for customer service, even if I do say so myself.
Having met you, I can imagine that you do!
But did you really meet me or the actor I hired to play me?
Darn! Oh, these mind games!
Daylight, alright
I don't know, I don't know if it's real
Been a long night and something ain't right
You won't show, you won't show how you feel
No time ever seems right
To talk about the reasons why you and I fight
It's high time to draw the line
Put an end to this game before it's too late
Head games, it's you and me baby
Head games, and I can't take it anymore
Head games, I don't wanna play the...
Head games
Foreigner had a lot of catchy hits!
I want to know what love is...
I believe I won this round.
My post: December 1 5:51pm
Paladin's post: December 3 6:47 am