I'm still reading, but just wanted to say that I'm quite expecting the electricity to go out any minute... all my candles are lit. So if I disappear, that's why.

Simpsons is on - Marge just drank a LIIT. Made me think of Marian...

Marian, will remember.

Tree...gah.  Everyone else seems to be having fun 'n nonfreezingness...hmph!

Not that it's freezing down here any more.  It reached 17 on the weekend...whee!

Stop laughing at me...heh.

*claps hands over eyes*

Even though it's a minor tale, could you guys make a "Story" topic for it if you'd like to discuss it?  Sorry to be a pain in the butt, but I like to keep these things isolated from the mainstream conversations.

Tharankasay Ee-oooie! (as a guy I used to know was prone to say.  Don't know why -- maybe it was a tumor or something.)

It's okay Shads, we avoid spoiler discussion in these realtime rooms.

I'm reading, still. I know, I'm slow. I read every line two or three times... not because it's unclear, just because I like the rhythm of it.

Kehv, oh! I loved that Simpsons! I first saw it right after the list discussion on LIIT, and laughed 'til it hurt.

Marge [wistfully]: "It's too bad Long Island isn't a real place..."

*scrawls notes*

ahhh, ok. thanks Shads ;)

Tad: wow, thats really hard to say outloud.

Heya Boon!  Welcoooooome....

*wanders around house hunting down books*

Now if the '72 Canadian hockey team could meet the '66 English World Cup football team, then the hopes of both countries could be dashed when they played to a nil-nil draw.

At something other than football or hockey, of course, so it would be fair.

Water polo...?  Of course, the players would be pretty old by now, so some of them might drown or something...

Water Polo, now there is a sport I could just watch all day!

seriously

i'm not being sarcastic *G*

*L*
Wiked, you're cruel.

Tad wrote:

Now if the '72 Canadian hockey team could meet the '66 English World Cup football team, then the hopes of both countries could be dashed when they played to a nil-nil draw.

Sounds fair.  That'll put us braggarts in our place.  Either that or I'll be 84 and harkening back to the great Intercontinental Bingo match of ought-four.

  Y'know, that's the best thing about living through the turn of the century to me.  Being able to say goofy things like, "Back in ought-two, I was fishing fer salmon in chestwaders bigger'n you are tall..."  And I'll be saying these things next year. :)

Also originally posted by Tad:
[b]At something other than football or hockey, of course, so it would be fair.

Water polo...?  Of course, the players would be pretty old by now, so some of them might drown or something...

Hopefully not a contact sport.  The carnage would be absolute... bunch of old hockey and football players trying to bash each other around... hips and dental work failing at every turn... they'd have to bring half the team onto the field on stretchers...