I think I broke something.

shenme shenme shenme - It's a cat!

david byrne
shenme shenme shenme - It's a cat!

hee hee hee. i've seen that sticker for sale. i went for a weird squirrel one instead.

There's somebody here at Rolla who has some kind of weird thing about squirrels - there are stuffed and toy ones in their car, along with a sign saying something like "Beware the Squirrel", and they've gone so far as to get a license plate "SQWRLY".

Bizarre, if you ask me. Reminds me a bit of Kathy Bates' character from Rat Race...

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

Could you explain anyway? It seems to tantalizingly familiar, but I just can't place it!

shenme shenme shenme - It's a cat!

It's an Eddie Izzard reference from his 1998 show, "Dress To Kill," while he's riffing on original sin.

"Vicar, I lust after my neighbor's wife."
"Mmmn uh. Heard it. I said an original sin!"
"Oh, terribly sorry."

"Vicar, I poked a badger with a spoon."
"Oooh, that's a new one."

shenme shenme shenme - It's a cat!

From across the pond (and thereby almost on topic) I'll pitch in a belated "Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Eve". To my great personal likening most Danish birthday songs stress the importance of getting, in addition to nice presents, lots of chocolate and cake on your birthday, and hordes of birthday guests to share them with. The former of which are full of evil carbohydrates and - no wait, that is another thread...

So how old is our site goddess now? And which one of us gets to give her the spanking and the pinch to grow an inch?

*elbowing aside Monk, tim, Ameroogie and a host of others*

Paul, the comment about you having no shame is so obvious, I'm not sure why I even bother.

23 or 24, I think.

But I think were Paul to try to pinch her he might end up with a sore face or other region. But she's often on the East coast these days (in Virginia too!) Paul, so maybe you'll run into her.
It's Amino world without Chemists

Well then, ParU, you have my personal info. Tell her to call me sometime and I'll take her out for a beer.

Is she selling intelligence agencies a way to keep track of all of the information that they overhear?

You're just jealous because you didn't post it first.

BTW, here's a comic specifically for this website, it seems...

Well, ParU, let me be the first to congratulate you on the anniversary of your becoming a father to a bonnie baby daughter! I know it's a moment you'll never forget.

Oh, and happy birthday to Eve, too! And many, many more!!

"We are sorry for any incontinence."
The accuracy of the statement Depends on what you sell in the store.
*grin*
"Serenity now!"

A Rim Shot point to Apple for that one! And a cool pt to shade for an on topic IP IRL post.
It's Amino world without Chemists

on that note, happy flippin' valentine's day, everyone. yech... if i see one more pink mylar heart, i'm gonna shove it up - uh - look, a link! plenty more where that came from, folks. consider it a jumping off point.

"remember the massacre!"

Chocolate and sex. What a great holiday. *gryn*

So who needs a holiday for that?

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"Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit." -- Edward Abbey, Vox Clamantis in Deserto

Yer my kinda woman, Desert Fox...

...or, in light of the topic, should that be Dessert Fox?...

Nah, Desert is much more accurate. I'm a whole lot drier than I am sweet.

Cheers

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"Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit." -- Edward Abbey, Vox Clamantis in Deserto

I read somewhere that there is a significant percentage of school-aged americans that can't understand why Alaska would be so cold, since it's an island off the coast of Mexico, right next to Hawaii. I met a lady on a plane that was convinced that the northern lights was a scam that was created to bring tourists to Alaska...

What can I say? I used to live in San Francisco and now I live here and I got started on Starbucks for two reasons. #1 - They had (and still have) the best pastry I can find (not too gooey, not all donuts, not all crappy cinnamon rolls) and #2 - I can sit there for six hours reading a book in a comfy chair and drink one cup of coffee and no one bugs me.

Oh, and #3 - I know the names of all the staff and they know me. It may be "corporate" training, but it brings me back. "Hi Eileen, do you want your usual today or would you like to try the chocolate crossoint this time?" Yes, it's luverly.

I sit in the silent majority here, cuz someone has to be drinking this stuff it there's a shop at every corner.

The Eileen
Take the road not taken - the leaves crunch that much louder!

I know someone who used to freely tell people she worked for "The Evil Empire." They knew she was talking about Starbucks.

Then she got a different job and stayed with Starbucks part-time because the insurance she had with them was good-- and she could keep it at part time status. Evil?

I'm not so sure. True, we don't have as many non-bookstore coffeehouses around as we used to 10 years ago, but then 2 local coffeehouse owners freaked out within a year of each other, and another... is a wonderful person but sucks as a manager. And, as far as human resources go, I couldn't get affordable insurance of my own for years after I stopped working in food or retail.

I remember when it was hard to get people in restaurants to even understand that I wanted hot tea (not iced.) And the only flavored coffee you could get had alcohol in it, and "coffee" was Maxwell House if you were lucky. It cost from 30 cents up to a dollar USA, and almost worth it. QYB.

Dolmena

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

"tea!! i just want some properly made teeeeeeeeea!!" instead? almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

Eeeeh! Douglas Adams!
I get so happy whenever someone quotes him! And I agree, starbucks is not a great place for tea-drinkers, but then, neither is Spain, where I spent the last few months. Getting a cup of tea in a Spanish cafe was always a challenge, as whatever I ordered was inevitably wrong. If I asked for "te," they would blink bewilderedly and say "infusion?" and if I said "infusion," they would blink bewilderedly and say "te?" Don't get me started on Spanish Starbucks, which are overwhelmingly awful at everything, especially tea.

"Sorry for the inconvenience."

If you work it right, it is entirely possible to have both tea and no tea at the same time.

I'm with you DF, but in regards to coffee. Denis Leary has an absolutely hilarious bit regarding his search for 'just coffee', coffee flavored coffee.
My kids think (know) my tastes are pedestrian, but I LIKE Dennys/coffee shop coffee. Starbucks/et al. stuff is what I call 'Berkeley coffee'. The stuff that they used to serve at Cafe Roma (called something else now - it's at Bancroft and College Ave). I used to look for the little tug boats with their oil slick booms in the coffee cup, the stuff had that much 'oil' in it.
Runs and hides from his daughter's righteous wrath

All of a sudden, I smelled... maple syrup in the car. Who spilled maple syrup in my car? I pulled over and realized... it was coming from my coffee! Someone spilled maple syrup in my coffee! So I took it back to the kid at the 7-Eleven and said, "Hey, buddy, someone spilled maple syrup in my coffee. "Naw, man, that's our flavor of the month, Maple Nut Crunch."

Maple. Nut. Crunch. Are you going to tell me that Juan Valdez is down in Bogota right now farming a field full of maple nuts? I don't think so! As a matter of fact, I bet my left maple nut that he's not! You don't know shit about shit and pull up your pants!

I want to use that last line on someone someday.

Granted, I'm not a big coffee guy, but I didn't know coffee came without oil. I thought that's just how it is. Ah well.

Juan Valdez actually drinks Costa Rican coffee. The ticos are very proud of this. Apparently, he imports it by the caseload. I'm generally coffee ignorant, but if Juan Valdez imports someone else's coffee, it's got to be good.

Matt - where'd you find it online? Of course the whole rant is better when you hear it. And the pull up your pants bit was a 'comeback' to the start of the bit.
It's Amino world without Chemists

I have a feeling Matt has probably heard the whole rant. I also have a feeling he could probably recite the whole rant from memory, with proper inflections and righteous indignation.

Wow! Yuri is just full of good and accurate feelings today, eh?

Okay, okay: confession time. No, I didn't get it from a website, I typed it from memory, except that I went back to my MP3 of it to double-check the syntax. It's part of a 15-minute file I have called, "Coffee, Beer, and The Pope."

Denis also has a great bit where he talks about being called into a parent-teacher conference because his son was heard singing "an offensive song that included repetition of an extremely dirty word." Denis needled her, but she wouldn't tell him what word. Finally she said, "Mr. Leary, the song is called, 'I'm An Asshole.'" Denis laughed out loud. "Do you know this song, Mr. Leary?" "Know it? I wrote it!"

Accurate feelings, yes; good feelings, perhaps not so much.