Archived comment by peegee:
Hmm, I prefer losing as a sarcastic art. Really.

Archived comment by tim:
Ahh sarcasm...a lost art really

Archived comment by daen:
Ever the charmer...

Archived comment by tim:
I'd prefer to deal with you in private Ms. daen.
But..since you asked..
Back into your library you coquettish Canadian
: )

Archived comment by daen:
And what if I had pointed it out instead, tim?

Archived comment by tim:
Back in your lamp you chattering chimera.
: )

Archived comment by Joe Napalm:
tim "Threadkiller" timmyson.

-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist

Archived comment by tim:
Well I'm glad Someone liked it.
I thought I'd murdered another thread.

Archived comment by PGS:
ZOOM!
Nice one Tim.

And hey, I've got no problem being second string as long as the bench is heated.

"PGS: Number Two in the rotation, Number 460 in your hearts"

Archived comment by tim:
So That's what they mean when they say Denise is a real sport.

; )

Archived comment by Social Neanderthal:
Denise, sports teams do it all the time. They bring in a new guy as 'second string' to get the first string guy to do better.

And if he doesn't improve, they've got the new, highly motivated, guy. After all, he knows how he ended up with the job to begin with.

Archived comment by Denise:
I have Peaches email addy somewhere... just gotta look for it...

I don't think Kory would object to a male roommate so much as it being someone I referred to as the "First Runner Up".

I'm pretty sure the "unable to fullfill his duties" comment would make him laugh, though...

Archived comment by Noyock:
Okay, that is actually correct. "Crisis" is "weiji" and is composed of the first character of each of the other two words. So I guess the person at the meeting just mangled it.

Archived comment by Jon:
[Self deleted comment about a sitcom]

So, what's special on the menu today?

Archived comment by ParU:
Or Denise you could ask your faithful assistant to track him down. Or he could just email you his phone number, but that's too easy. And the new BF would object to you having a male roomate? How provincial.

Archived comment by Denise:
Call you?

Using the famous monkey method of randomly poking at numbers until someone with a Wisconsin accent answer to Plastic Green Soldier?

Well, I suppose... the next time I have 8 or 9 hours with nothing to do I could consider that an option.

Moving only 9 blocks away but to a cheaper place that is SUPA cool.. lots of woodwork, etc. Not until August, thankfully. Not seeking a roommate at the moment,darlin'... the boyfriend would object I imagine. Justly so...justly so....

but you can certainly be First Runner Up!

I've decided to keep him...but if for some reason he is unable to fullfill his duties...

waaaait a minute... that doesn't sounds very....

Who's a little fear demon?
Who's a little fear demon?
Stop taunting the fear demon.
Why? Can it hurt me?
No it's just tacky.

Archived comment by PGS:
And Denise, you have a cell phone and yet... you never call me? That's not right.

And where are you moving to? You need a house-mate? I eat a lot, but I'm only kinda messy, and I'm good with kids.

"You were a Boy Scout?" "Parts of me were"

Archived comment by PGS:
Yeah... who didn't like that t.a.t.u. number? Obviously Puffy and Ashton did.

"Sometimes I think about two girls doing a spell, and then I do a spell by myself."

Archived comment by Saint:
Hey, I liked the t.a.t.u. number. Well, I liked the dancers, anyway.

Archived comment by Jon:
Don't forget another opportunity to see Jennifer Garner in a skimpy dress...

Archived comment by marinerd:
I mean the show, not the Gollom clip (which was the highlight of the whole thing--I was really hoping he'd win).

Archived comment by marinerd:
I watched it, but I don't know why.

Archived comment by Paul:
So go to my link posted below and get one of the highlights of the awards ceremony, at least...

Archived comment by Denise:
You know what, Noyock... I looked those symbols up, myself, a couple hours ago... and you are right.. they are completely different (well, the last character looks vaguely like a house on each one.. except one looks more like a Victorian house and one is more of a rambler...anyway...)

Then I read somewhere else that it's actually the word "CRISIS" that is a combination of the words "danger" and "opportunity" - but the site I went on to look up the characters didn't have the word "crisis" in their dictionary.

Soo... duped again.

I still haven't seen the MTV music awards...but I'm not worried. I have..what?... 75,000 more opportunities over the next 3 months?

Archived comment by Paul:
Sometimes they don't until it's too late... (namelink work safe)

Archived comment by Noyock:
Denise - no, someone made that up (the Chinese thing). The characters for "danger" and "opportunity" (actually, each word is composed of two characters) are completely different. "Danger" in Mandarin is "weixian" and "opportunity" is "jihui" (apologies for lack of tones), and they don't look AT ALL the same, so I can only conclude that someone is full of shit. Why is it that when people try to come up with random new proverbs and the like, they always attribute them to China? Is it just because they figure no-one will catch them at it?

Archived comment by Paul:
And here it is...

Archived comment by Paul:
When I'm not behind a firewall, I'll post a link to a video clip of that. Freakin' hilarious.

"But... Dobby likes me!"

"Dobby?!? He's a f***ing f*****!"

Archived comment by Jon:
I enjoyed that too, Paul. Too many lame acceptance speeches, and then BAM! Gollum lets 'em have itzzz.

Ok, so my Gollum-speak doesn't work as well typed out...

Archived comment by Paul:
And there is much to be learned from Gollum, too. Did you see his acceptance speech on the MTV awards?

"And I'm certainly not going to thank Peter Jackson, that f***ing hack. Shame on you! Shame on you! F*** off! No award can compensate for the suffering of working on this f***ing film! MTV sucks! You're all bastards! ...Good night..."

Archived comment by Denise:
...and there is also that box from Buffy that the mayor had.. that had all those huge, nast, brain-sucking spiders in it...

HA! And you thought there would be no further Buffy-talk after the series finale.

There is much that can be learned from Buffy.
see name link.

Archived comment by tim:
Looks like your collection is one short Paul
( not work safe)

Archived comment by Paul:
I've always been amazed that the Pandora story has never been made into a cheesy pr0n movie...

Archived comment by Saint:
Ah, Pinhead isn't so bad...absolutely warm and cuddly compared to the other Cenobites. And the the steady trickle of Hellraiser movies keeps Doug Bradley employed, so consider it a charity when you open that box--cause what else have you ever seen Doug Bradley in?

The Pandora story always confused me. Okay, all the bad stuff of the world is sealed up in this box, so humans don't have to suffer. Pandora opens the box, and all the bad stuff gets loose. The only thing left in the box is hope. So...hope is the only thing that is not set loose on the world? Hnnn...okay. I mean, it's still trapped in a box which supposedly keeps it locked away so humans don't have to deal with it, right? (Of course, if hope wasn't already loose in the world, why did Pandora open the box to begin with? She couldn't have hoped it would be something cool.)

Archived comment by Denise:
Box curiosity is an opportunity... I mean, dangerous...

I'd rather find fear or hope or Lara Croft or a moldy wine cork..then..oh say.... Pinhead.

See?

Opening boxes = danger.

..and I'm moving in a month...

Archived comment by Social Neanderthal:
Trent-She just wanted to wave you closer to make sure you heard her. Evidently it didn't quite work out.

Denise-Feel free to Love your Cell Phone. Technology and Communication are wonderful things.

Marinerd-I love everything I hear about Seattle except for the weather and the riots. I may visit, but I'll never move there. I spent 3 years in the drizzle of a German mountain top and that experience only made me want to come back to the heat of Texas even more.

All together now, "It's the heat AND the humidity".

99 degrees, 99% humidity, for 99 days in a row. I just love the summers on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Archived comment by Jon:
Matt, actually it's worse than that. Pandora opened the box, and let out all the crueler emotions and nightmares. It's only because she finally closed the box that Hope was sealed inside, giving humanity something to rely upon.

If Lara Croft were inside Pandora's Box, I might open it. Rowr. : )

Archived comment by Paul:
It's sad, but although I quote that ad all the time I couldn't tell you which company it was for.

And I pronounce it para-diggum now and then to emphasize when I feel someone is full of shit. You can tell who's seen the ad then by seeing who starts making strangling noises and turning red...

Archived comment by Matt:
Damn. That really should've been "forethought." Oh well.

Archived comment by Matt:
I would probably shoot, without foresight or malice (okay, maybe malice), anyone who pronounces it para-DIGGUM.

And, technically, it was Pandora who looked inside the box, but found only Hope. Which (somewhat ironically) has to be one of the most depressing stories I've ever read.

I mean, come on. It's said that, "Fear is the mindkiller." Fear isn't the mindkiller. Hope is.

Archived comment by Denise:
but Paul...

what if there is something EXCELLENT in the box?

and if I only think outside it.. I might be missing the modern age miracle.

or Pandora.

one of the two.

anyway, it would be enlightening, don't you think?

someone said in a meeting today that the Chinese symbol for "danger" is the same as "opportunity". I still don't know if that's cool.. or a line of crap.

Archived comment by Paul:
DENISE!!!

Move away from the box...

Archived comment by Denise:
Allright..dadgummit... I'm gonna say my piece about cell phones.

I have a cell.

I love my cell.

It is the most reliable means of reaching me...for my son, my friends, my family...

It's not a great cell. It doesn't have fancy rings. It doesn't have a color display or the ability to take or send pictures..but we've been through a lot together. I try not to use him in the car... I never use him in restaurants or hospitals... but sometimes he comes to bed with me and I feel bad when I don't charge him and he makes that plaintive chirping.."I'm dying" sound when the battery is low..

8 year old shouldn't have cell phones.. in fact the only people who should have them are people old enought to pay their own bills. If I were a teacher, I would not allow them in my classroom.

But as a single parent, it eases my ever-concerned mind to know that my son can reach me whenever he needs to.. besides that my cell phone # is a million times easier to remember than my home #.

Oh.. and text messaging?? I LOVE it... I try not to do it while I'm driving..but during meetings? It's the best.

and NO... I never say PARA-DIGGUM.

Archived comment by ladydilee:
Maybe she was waving to the person she was talking to on her cell phone...

Archived comment by Trent:
*sigh* The rain comments are making me miss the winter...I'm a big fan of gray rainy days. We don't see a lot of those here in Davis (although it's fairly windy today to atone for the heat), or in my hometown....

Most drivers here are pretty decent, too, although this afternoon I pulled up to a 4-way stop, waited a bit for the woman who had been there before me, & then she waved me on. As I drove past her, she evidently called me something not-so-nice (my passengers heard it but I didn't). I just wonder what her thought process was on that one.

Archived comment by TheEileen:
Yes, yes. Listen to marinerd. It's is grey and overcast and raining today. Yes, raining, raining hard, pouring really, an absolute deluge. And it's only 50 degrees F. And not gonna get any hotter this summer. Nope, cold and rainy. And it is like that every day. Yes, every single day. Seattle, pooh, yerk. No one should want to move here. I'm only here because I can't get out because of all the rain. Yeah, that's it.

psst mari, do you think they bought it?

;-p

Archived comment by Noyock:
Heh. And Quebec almost isn't - no wonder our drivers are so bad. Not to mention our completely inadequate road signs. And the fact that you can turn right on a red light everywhere in Quebec except on the island of Montreal. Completely confuses everyone.

Archived comment by peegee:
Polite drivers, eh ?

But then again Seattle is almost in Canada...

Archived comment by marinerd:
My experience driving in Seattle is that although we have as many dumb drivers, psychos, and Q-Tips as anyplace else, you use your turn signal so that people will know you want to change lanes, and someone will slow down and let you in.

No, I'm not kidding. We have some of the most polite drivers in the country. But don't move here, please. It's way too crowded as it is. And it's grey and cool today. (typical June!)