Have things calmed down a bit in TSAland? My flight a week ago was the first I can recall in quite some time in which I didn't see or hear anything like "The current threat level is CHARTREUSE, or moderately elevated" at any of the airports I went through.
Reflective numbers... what a nice idea.
When I moved into my house, it had tarnished matte-finish brass numbers on the medium-blue pilaster beside the door. Lousy contrast, hard to see, and polishing the brass probably wouldn't help much. I marked the house number with black electrical tape on the white mailbox beside the door -- kind of tacky looking, but at least it was visible.
I've recently painted the house trim in a darker blue. And I've bought white retroreflective self-adhesive tape, which I'll apply to the brass numbers. That should give good visibility against the blue, day or night.
Just to make sure that everyone catches Jim's reference in the thread title... there was an edition of L. Sprague de Camp's novel Rogue Queen that had that typo in the title on the spine. I'm not having any luck finding a picture of it on the web, alas.
I can imagine that an upscale establishment might prefer to exclude Sandpeople and Jawas, if there's been a history of trouble. "We don't serve their kind in here."
Shilling for one of Fletcher's fleeces.
I seem to recall someone mentioning having gone for a brain MRI, trying to spend the time in the machine by focusing on recalling a play or some-such thing, and getting told off by the MRI technician because that focused brain activity was messing up the scan. Can anyone point me to details?
A similar effect has recently been reported in scans of people suffering from PTSD.
Debbie @ 779 -- I tried making marshmallows once, some years ago, unsuccessfully. I was trying to do them using agar instead of gelatine, so I don't know if my proportions were right. And my mixer isn't very powerful. At any rate, what I got was rubbery vanilla-flavoured glop.
Ginger @ 748 -- if a cat is on the counter when no human is there to see it, does it really matter?
Depends on the reasons for wanting the cat not to be on the counter. If it's something like wanting to be able to keep things on the counter that the cat might damage, or not wanting paws that have been in a litter box contaminating a food-prep surface... yes, it does.
Re: Lee @ 683 -- Okay, either Robertson is confused, or I am. I thought that Allah, worshipped by Moslems, was the same deity as worshipped by Jews (JHWH of Torah/OT) and Christians (Robertson's Jehovah God of the Bible), though with different practises and different names.
Bill Higgins @ 153 -- Am I correct in thinking that a "fire-engine", in that context, would have been a device for generating fires?
Xopher -- abi posted a link to a captured version here.
As I understand it, the person who compiled the list went through a long list of "kink tropes" and declared that all of those elements were intrinsically kinky and therefore forbidden. She doesn't seem to grasp that, for example, although "courtesans or geishas" can be kinky, they aren't necessarily even erotic. "Games of Russian Roulette"? "Possessiveness or jealousy"?!
I'm pretty vanilla myself (I don't understand some of the things in the list) -- but I still think that the list compiler is seriously short of clues. Oh well, lock her in a room with "Ferret" -- "groping a woman's breasts isn't erotic!" -- and see what happens.
"When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd!
I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man..."
Andrew M @ 126 -- That list in the TV version didn't help me; I wasn't familiar with any of the car names.
Terry Carney @ 635 -- At the moment, that link doesn't work for me; LJ reports that the journal has been deleted. "If you are kinkfreezone, you have a period of 30 days to decide to undelete your journal."
Epacris @ 124 -- I first heard HHGttG via an nth-generation audio tape only a few years after it was broadcast, probably in 1982. (The tape recording had the original name of the worst known poet, so may have been a dub from the original broadcast.) But I've never paid much attention to car makes and names.
Andrew M. @ 119 -- I only found out about the car a few years ago. Until then, I'd assumed that Ford was clueless about British naming conventions and had selected a random respectable surname and a minor title to go with it.
Pendrift @ 555: I notice that the "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed" list on that page includes Duncan Hines Classic Yellow Cake.
Serge @ 108 -- That episode was "The Royale", with the action taking place on a planet notable for its surface temperature of -291C.
"'It was a dark and stormy night'... not a promising beginning..."
Michael Robets @ 425 -- A number of Lois McMaster Bujold's novels have a significant level of romance in them. Her last series, the "Sharing Knife" tetralogy, has a fantasy setting, and the plots are partially fantasy-based, but they're intended to be largely/primarily romances. (I also found them weaker than her other novels, but your mileage may vary. They're good, but they lack the plot complexity of her previous books.)
Jim Henry @ 9 -- Would Emma Bull's Bone Dance meet your criteria?
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