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jessicat: smokeandacoke: I don’t think I’ll adopt another dog...

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:09:27 -0500

smokeandacoke:

I don’t think I’ll adopt another dog until I find one that requires an eye patch.

williac: bebelestrange: internetd: allcreatures:...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:53:14 -0400

williac: bebelestrange: internetd: allcreatures: peetypassion:

Wild dogs that commute from suburbs to scavenge in city The clever canines board the Tube each morning. After a hard day scavenging and begging on the streets, they hop back on the train and return to the suburbs where they spend the night.

Experts studying the dogs say they even work together to make sure they get off at the right stop — after learning to judge the length of time they need to spend on the train. The mutts choose the quietest carriages at the front and back of the train. They have also developed tactics to hustle humans into giving them more food on the streets of Moscow.

Dr Poiarkov told how the dogs like to play during their daily commute. He said: “They jump on the train seconds before the doors shut, risking their tails getting jammed. They do it for fun. And sometimes they fall asleep and get off at the wrong stop.” The dogs have learned to use traffic lights to cross the road safely, said Dr Poiarkov. And they use cunning tactics to obtain tasty morsels of shawarma, a kebab-like snack popular in Moscow.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,..."

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:16:20 -0400

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

- Robert A. Heinlein

"Wait. I just looked up ADD and that doesn’t sound like me at all. Apparently I’m just really lazy...."

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:47:03 -0400

“Wait. I just looked up ADD and that doesn’t sound like me at all. Apparently I’m just really lazy. We don’t have an acronym for that but it’s crippling.”

- The Bloggess

tally-ho

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:24:00 -0400

The first episode of the Silverhawks, which I watched today, has some amazing quotes.

“Partly metal, partly real…”
- Narrator (describing the Silverhawks)

“Born of a time beyond time.”
- Narrator (referring to the Silverhawks and the 29th century)

“…and you will be rewarded with wealth beyond wealth!”
- Mon*Star (following the X beyond X trend while attempting to bribe his guards)

“There’s a problem with the fourth and fifth heart— the twins. We’ll have to fit mechanical ones.”
“Hehehe, now their codenames really fit: Steelheart and Steelwill.”
- Exchange between the Professor and the General. (Paraphrased for length, but the General does joke at the need to replace the twins’ hearts with mechanical versions)

“The first thing you gotta do is know your way around the universe.”
- Bluegrass (explaining how to fly the Maraj to The Copper Kid)

“I’ll teach you all there is to know about the universe.”
- Bluegrass (assuring The Copper Kid that he will teach him everything there is to know about the universe)

They lose quite a bit when converted to text, so if you have thirty minutes to kill, consider taking a trip down nostalgia lane (or curiosity street) and checking it out on YouTube.

Fucking hero.

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:44:00 -0400

Fucking hero.