The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by James J Murray:

The story, supposedly handed down through generations of Delaware Indians, gibes with the account by Hudson’s mate Robert Juet

Whence comes, O Fluorsphere, this conflation of jibe, gibe and (in some instances) jive? Wondering if anyone out there has insight in this linguistic creep (not a euphemism).

Ladies and gentlmen, I give you James Hollaman's "Precocious Moments":

He's been doing them for years, and the just keep getting better and better.

Maya Con Dios: Chicxulub in 2012 -- It's the End of WorldCon as We Know It!

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This is what happens when we're left at home to our own devices.

Xopher, the chipotle-lime chocolotls sound divine. Xomeday . . .

CHiP, I did indeed commit the NESFA buttons, and that would have been at Boskone in 2003 (it was one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" things, possibly inspired by something here). And here I am on post #491, which is a prime number. I like primes as an auctioneer, because the help move the bidding along more quickly, though I am thinking of trying to get everyone to switch to Fibonacci numbers to really pick up the pace.

Serge @ 3: That sounds like the premise for an Astérix story.

Or a Monty Python bit:

Arthur: If you're Romans, what are you doing in Siberia?

John Cleese: Mind your own business!

So, there was this ship, like, full of Romans, and they were sailing along, minding their own businesses, and then suddenly the ship was torn apart, and they woke up on a beach, and like some of them were dead, and others missing, and it turned out they were on an island, and they thought it was empty, but there were other people on it, who took some of their women and the children, and then the rest of the people who were on the back end of the boat showed up, and they had been on the other side of the island, and, um, season three or something.

There was, however, no sixty year old scotch, damnit.

Because misery (and Missouri) loves company, I thought I'd share with everyone that our house here in KC was broken into this morning, while I was up here in my office getting ready to go to work. Paula had gone over to our friend John's to continue her archaeological work at 9a, and when I came down at 10 to put on my shoes to go to work, I found the front doors open, the air conditioner in the living room window on the porch and the bucket of change on the side table missing.

I retreated upstairs and called the authorities, then Paula, who asked after her laptop. It was, of course, gone. I figure the burglar had grabbed it when they heard me moving upstairs and scrammed, thus missing the camera on the floor under the desk, and not getting a chance to go through Margene's office.

Everyone, including the felines, are fine, if shaken. Paula will be back posting here once we get her a computer. Getting real tired of this crap.

I would nominate Erik V. "Every state should have a volcano, if yours wasn't issued one, make your own!" Olson as our Jamie. For obvious reasons.

Well, that didn't take too long, after all. And well worth the trip. Thanks again.

So first you take away a month of nights with Sluggy, then a good week and a half with Questionable Content, and now this!?! Does your sleep deprivation depravity know no bounds?!??

Thank you. This is good stuff.

And second the recommendation on Erfworld.

Lois, we have always been at war with Turabia.

any butterable pasta will do

Out of curiosity, what pasta isn't butterable? Inquiring minds (and the ghost of Marlon Brando) want to know.

That's not right!

No, seriously, the unicorns aren't pooping the rainbows, so that's just not right.

People should do some damn research, grounch, grounch, grumble.

Teresa@79:

Y'know, when I carried a sign that said WE WILL NOT GET OVER THIS at the inaugural protest in January 2001, some stupid fuck in a Confederate uniform jeered at me for holding a grudge.

The appropriate response would be "YR DOIN' IT WRONG!" Flaming bag of cat poop to the head optional, but so tempting.

Thanks so much for all the effort you put into this.

Freedom Membership isn't free, clearly.

Freedom Membership's just another word for you got cash to lose.

Same here, Jon.

182: That's pretty much waht McCain said, Bruce.

And CO for Obama. Beyond deluge.

Now the deluge. And the down races

Olbermann is almost breaking up as he announces NBC has called Obama President

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