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Posted on entry Open thread 132 ::: November 24, 2009, 01:24 PM:
Lee 305: Holy chocolate, Batman! What would it take to get you down here for Chocolate Decadence this coming year?

Um...is that a cake, or an event like Southern Decadence? Either way it sounds pretty good!
Posted on entry Restoration Hardware et al. vs. the TSA ::: November 24, 2009, 12:06 PM:
meredith, that sounds like a note of pride for the New York Metropolitan Area! I'm supposing that by "lax" you mean "least inclined to follow the mindless idiotic TSA rules."

Of course, if you really want LAX security, we all know what airport has that...
Posted on entry Restoration Hardware et al. vs. the TSA ::: November 24, 2009, 11:03 AM:
Perhaps at some point I will be able to come up with a comment that isn't incoherent sputtering about the stupidity of the TSA and all its works, but not yet. So for now this will have to serve as a placeholder: DEATH TO THE TSA!!!!

And by 'death' of course I mean I want the organization disbanded, not that I want the people who work for it killed. Just to be clear.
Posted on entry Open thread 132 ::: November 23, 2009, 09:56 PM:
David: YAY! Thanks for telling me that.

I'm making that recipe as a two-layer cake with orange ganache frosting for Thanksgiving.
Posted on entry Open thread 132 ::: November 23, 2009, 07:02 PM:
Clifton 290: Because they cook down so much

I measured one time when I was making a BUTTLOAD of carmelized onions. Came out to about six to one (that is, I started with six times the volume of raw onions that I ended up with carmelized).

Pendrift 291: It's "Unformatted Text" on the Word I have open right now (which calls itself Word 2003 (11.8106.8107) SP 2).
Posted on entry Unclueful Rogue promo ::: November 21, 2009, 03:44 PM:
Today on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! they asked the panelists what Palin's next book would be called.

One, subtitled A Favor for the American People, was titled Going Away.
Posted on entry Open thread 132 ::: November 20, 2009, 08:14 PM:
Earl, AFAIK the Quakers don't actually throw people out. And I believe some Quakers did make some kind of statement saying that he certainly wasn't behaving as most members of the Society of Friends prefer to, or something else very SOF like that.
Posted on entry Open thread 132 ::: November 20, 2009, 06:41 PM:
Seems to me that Ozark, Arkansas needs to be added to the list of Detestable Towns that already contains Gretna, Louisiana and Georgetown, Deleware.
Posted on entry Unclueful Rogue promo ::: November 20, 2009, 02:20 PM:
-dsr-, read the thread, don't just search for the phrase. Misspellings'll getcha ev'ry time.
Posted on entry Unclueful Rogue promo ::: November 20, 2009, 12:47 PM:
I think Tilting at Rogue Windmills sounds like a great title for a memoir or a progressive-rock album.
Posted on entry Open thread 132 ::: November 20, 2009, 12:27 PM:
Judi Dench is a Quaker? That's wonderful! Yet another reason to like her.
Posted on entry RWA Walks the Walk ::: November 20, 2009, 12:20 PM:
Wyman, it was never going to be on the imprint. Now it's not going to be on the bait lure promotional materials for the vanity press.
Posted on entry Unclueful Rogue promo ::: November 20, 2009, 12:18 PM:
Downfall
Ruthless People
Liar, Liar
Posted on entry Scraps. Bad. [Update: Doing better. See below.] ::: November 19, 2009, 06:00 PM:
Velma, that sounds like a pretty good foundation to me. And I've been on Lexapro for years, and my bad days are still bad, but nowhere near what they were without it. I've been accused of being CHEERFUL sometimes. It's a good drug.
Posted on entry RWA Walks the Walk ::: November 18, 2009, 07:10 PM:
Yeah, whoa, that's truly impressive. My jaw, it droppeth.

If I ever decide to write romances (under an assumed name, I promise you), I will have no hesitation in joining RWA.
Posted on entry Scraps. Bad. [Update: Doing better. See below.] ::: November 18, 2009, 11:02 AM:
Velma, I wish you the happiest birthday possible under the circumstances.

And I don't know Scraps as well as you do, but I agree with Paul. I'm sending good energy your way.
Posted on entry Open thread 132 ::: November 17, 2009, 06:36 PM:
Linkmeister, how about "AllWorkAndNoPlayMakesJackADullBoy, AllWorkAndNoPlayMakesJackADullBoy, AllWorkAndNoPlayMakesJackADullBoy, AllWorkAndNoPlayMakesJackADullBoy, AllWorkAndNoPlayMakesJackADullBoy..."?
Posted on entry Open thread 132 ::: November 17, 2009, 06:30 PM:
Mary Aileen, knowing someone personally (mod the web, you know what I mean) who would have died had the new protocol been in place at the time is powerful. It's not data, exactly, but it's deeply evocative of the downside of their new "greatest good" calculation. I for one appreciate your bringing it up.
Posted on entry Rouge Queen ::: November 17, 2009, 03:22 PM:
The most famous fannish example of a typo preserved was of course Lee Hoffman's Quandry.
Posted on entry Technically American ::: November 16, 2009, 08:37 PM:
Smallville DOES NOT COUNT. Honestly. Kid doesn't even FLY. Doesn't where the butt-hugging red-and-blues either! Come ON. Hell with frakking Smallville!

More seriously, a different borough of New York City doesn't make ANY sense. There's a city center in both. They each have a mayor! They each have a chief of police. They are both major cities. It's not like Metropolis could be Manhattan and Gotham could be Brooklyn. Not possible.

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