Comments on: Sorry, I’ve been so stoned since October!

By: stevie w

stevie w — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:34:00 +0000

A Trillion here, a Trillion there, pretty soon it adds up to some real money.

By: pdq

pdq — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:41:00 +0000

Same with my husband. I am fortunate to find the one skinny nerd with a liking for roundish annoying butches.

By: Kuromisa

Kuromisa — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:32:29 +0000

Speaking of, I was telling my English teacher about this section of the thread (because of course 12th grade lit is code for “sex education”), and he said that it’s thought that Lewis Carroll had an–erm–inappropriate interest in the real-life Alice. Just a footnote.

By: AtlasShrugged

AtlasShrugged — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:20:09 +0000

OK then; “I love the smell of napalm in the morning…”
Happy, Oliver!?

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:03:30 +0000

And if either of you cheats, like my wife, who is a dirty, dirty whore……well, I am just gonna snap.

By: Captain Wow

Captain Wow — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:41:34 +0000

Miss Lippy’s car… is green.

By: zombie pdq

zombie pdq — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:36:41 +0000

Hmpf. Just for that, I’ll put you on my menu
*wanders off moaning,’GRAAIINNS!!!’*

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:21:39 +0000

She had just turned eight at the time. That
sounds old enough to comprehend death,
but (to me) not to understand its true impact.

I lost interest in Steve Irwin back in 2004,
when he held his baby son, Bob, while
feeding a crocodile. [LINK] He may have
accumulated much in the way of animal
knowledge, but P.T. Barnum he wasn’t!

By: Kuromisa

Kuromisa — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:05:43 +0000

How old was she? That’s a big thing for a kid to grasp, that Daddy’s not coming back. Poor thing.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:19:21 +0000

I remember being dazed and amazed at
Bindi’s demeanor shortly after her father’s
death, especially during her eulogy. It was
sad to witness, in a way, as it wasn’t clear
whether she understood the permanence
of his departure.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:07:21 +0000

C’mon, Dave–Open up!! I think the cops saw me!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:46:03 +0000

They’re both Native American, and both have those beautiful, wide
cheekbones. On closer inspection, I think your likeness is closer,
especially through the nose. LaDuke has a more prominent nose hump,
and a narrower face than Sainte-Marie.

Either way, I would be surprised if the lady in the photo weren’t Native
American.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:28:15 +0000

LOL!! “Would you like the lamb, or the kid?”

By: jules is now punkinqueen

jules is now punkinqueen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:06:18 +0000

Hooray!

By: jules is now punkinqueen

jules is now punkinqueen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:03:39 +0000

I’d say that’s a downgrade in my opinion.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:40:49 +0000

The inspiration is drawn in part from dark places, but the reader has the privilege of exploring those same dark places without taking the risk the author has. Put another way, the reader gets to go on chemical vacation without having to “pay for the trip.”

It’s easily argued that one learns more from edgy reading topics than from gentle ones.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:01:13 +0000

We can’t have Grannies forever, but you are
lucky to have the memories you do. Not
everybody gets to have a Granny who was
such a corker! I still love the “which one of
you had the heart attack” story.

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:15:38 +0000

I think it was that slightly blackened undertone that never quite allowed me to relax into enjoying the book. There’s nothing you could put a finger on (don’t you dare say it, Unc) directly, unless you follow Maxwell’s theory further down, but there was something there that was a little more creepy than I was expecting.

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:38:50 +0000

When she gets old enough to smell “manipulation” (or even spell it) there’s going to be tears for someone.

By: Tessie

Tessie — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:51:10 +0000

“I swear to God it was THIS BIG!!”
“Dude, no way!!”

By: eponymous

eponymous — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:23:42 +0000

My children loved th Croc Hunter and I have to admit, I watched (although it was the kind of like watching a car race just hoping for a crash)…But I still say that he whole “Bindi the Jungle Girl” thing reeks of, well…

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:44:10 +0000

Someone noted the stoner-gal somewhere above… Siona?

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:40:43 +0000

Oh indeed they did. To evince my opinion about the vacuous, bony, waste of resource until well after 4th Qtr 1998 was to invite a knife fight.

I’d agree, with humans, Irwin was more than a bit of an idiot. However, his handling of the domestic (in the sense of Australian Reptilia) animals that were his core expertise was done with their best interests at heart, rather than it simply being ‘good’ television. I still wince at him carrying that boa.

and his death showed just how badly things can turn out when you’re REALLY out of your environment. I’m no underwater biologist, but I know that is something has a ‘barb’ you cut if off and get help, not pull it out.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:35:17 +0000

I can see that…

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:35:15 +0000

No doubt he was likeable – he used to make me laugh a lot, and, as you say, his knowledge was formidable. But he was still a bloody idiot (you can be likeable, smart and an idiot… they are not contradictory), and it’s somewhat less than honest to blank out some of his stupidity post-mortem.
The Poms had that with Di, didn’t they? (Being mindful of your own views of her and seatbelts…)

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:33:29 +0000

Yes, but I was thinking she looked like Winona LaDuke.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:27:35 +0000

Yeah, well, the tall poppy thing is fine until it lands on Flander’s field. Then folks get dewy eyed and maudlin.

Irwin, in terms of his knowledge of cold blooded Australian fauna was pretty good. He was also a founder member of the Australian Vertical ‘Mountain’ Rescue, who specialised in getting people out of those benighted inverted ‘V’ gullies that seem to have no discernible bottom.

If he’d cut the barb off, rather than tried to pull it out to save the fish, he’d still be alive (and mocked) today.

I liked him.

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:19:49 +0000

Nope – you’re welcome to take all the swipes at Steve Bloody Erwin as you like. He was a charming idiot, who, post-shuffling-off-mortal-coil, seemed to be elevated above Mother Theresa. A year before his death he was ridiculed, lampoones and generally treated by the Australian media as a charming meathead. [Link] For some reason, we aren’t permitted to remember him as such – he must be immortalized better than he really was.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:15:10 +0000

I think pittypat zapped her with some sort of
device…

By: viking gal

viking gal — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:08:04 +0000

I grew up with my mother’s annotated ‘Alice’. The annotations are as fascinating as the source material. Wild stuff!
@ OMG–yeah, some books are worth restoring.

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:07:44 +0000

Get hold of the Just So Stories, read them to children. If you both walk down the street reciting “How The Whale Got His Throat” then life will indeed be good.

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:04:29 +0000

The very same. Granny Meg to the world in general. Had a wicked penchant for blowing up paper bags in inappropriate places. Writing a eulogy both worthy and appropriate was not the work of a moment, and giving it was one of the lowest and highest points of my life. Everybody deserves to have someone like her in their lives at some point.

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:59:49 +0000

My bad – I should’ve read above more carefully.
*Pictures the Wicked Witch of the West rubbing hands, muttering “poppies” with a wistful smile…*

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:57:45 +0000

I’m looking forward to reading the link – unless it was this ‘un.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:54:04 +0000

According to the link, it was prescribed for
everything, even given to babies!

By: froofrou

froofrou — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:52:39 +0000

If I also recall correctly, laudanum was prescribed as a cure for headaches, or something. (I’m desperately trying to remember my British Lit classes from college)

By: rhorho

rhorho — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:50:05 +0000

Yes, according to this source [LINK]:
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Notable addicted literary figures include: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who miserably battled his addiction for much of his adult life; Thomas de Quincey; Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley, who suffered raging laudanum-induced hallucinations; Charles Dickens; Lewis Carroll; and Charles Baudelaire. There were also political figures (Wilberforce, Meriwether Lewis) who used the drug.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:42:23 +0000

Jane my dear… I require tutoring Billy Madison style

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:41:43 +0000

Tell that to the Steve Erwi- …. aww I made myself sad with that one..

By: rhorho

rhorho — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:39:45 +0000

Was she the same grandmother you told us
about, who died a year ago?

By: froofrou

froofrou — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:38:48 +0000

….Because they’re FAST.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:38:19 +0000

Stop looking at me, Swan!!!

By: froofrou

froofrou — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:37:40 +0000

(Not to break up the puns), but did you know that Tilapia is a type of ciclid, which I have many of in a fish tank in my house? Tilapia are considered trash nusance fish, while Oscars are desirable ‘house fish’. Related to the piranha. I don’t have the Oscars anymore…..they got big, laid eggs, and got mean, but I have a bunch of African ciclids that are just beautiful.
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Now back to your regularly scheduled puns.
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STINGRAY!

By: Kuromisa

Kuromisa — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:31:46 +0000

O_O

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:29:15 +0000

The fun part, I played the March Hare in our theatre production, and the director
gave me that as character note… in private…. and told me not to tell anyone
that was my inspiration… I made Alice feel VERY uncomfortable.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:23:43 +0000

C-C-C-Combo….. psychotic breaker?

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:23:34 +0000

You somehow made the story better for me… Bwahahahaha.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:20:37 +0000

Just a little sidenote since we’re bringing the strangely pedophilic(sp?) Alice in Wonderland into this. The March Hare… a strange fellow. Because male rabbits go
into the female equivalent of “heat” in March. They become jittery, and often behave almost as if they were insane, trying to mate constantly with just about everything.
So the next time you watch Alice in Wonderland or read Through The Looking Glass… try not to notice that odd, hard determined stare that the March Hare has… and how often he looks at Alice

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:14:01 +0000

Are there any better types?

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:11:10 +0000

Two congratulations are in order, mothergoose. One, for the foot and good healing. Two, for you (and possibly a daddygoose gets a little cred?) – you raised that one right. Well done. Well done. Anyone who can dent Fester’s festerness by simply being herself deserves all the blessings that can be bestowed… and so do the ones that raised her.