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05 December 2005

I really want to start a thread, but I can't think of anything to say.

post by: mudpuppie at: 14:51 | 50 comments

Me neither, but I'm glad you started this thread because I wanted to post a comment and now I don't feel so silly.

posted by panoptican 05 December | 14:53

Thank you for validating my post, panoptican. I hereby validate your comment.

posted by mudpuppie 05 December | 14:54

I need a nap. Does that help?

posted by chewatadistance 05 December | 14:55

You said it, mud. Whatever it was.

posted by goatdog 05 December | 14:56

Say, "Twenty dwarves took turns turning handstands on the carpet."

posted by me3dia 05 December | 15:00

This thread was perfectly necessary. It comes between a thread about kissing and a thread about bitching on your work. It's the middle of a date in reverse.

posted by pliskie 05 December | 15:05

*awkward silence, studies fingernails*

posted by Frisbee Girl 05 December | 15:10

*studies mudpuppie's fingernails, whuffles inside of her wrist*

posted by Specklet 05 December | 15:14

So how about this weather? Oh, yeah, the Canucks looked back in form last night but they'll probably revert to their lazy play against Ottawa, Friday.

posted by porpoise 05 December | 15:18

I'm sorry, has anybody seen my silence? I had it when I was in here a minute ago...

posted by pliskie 05 December | 15:33

...hmm, that'd odd. It...won't...fit through...the door...

posted by pliskie 05 December | 15:41

The Two-Headed Calf

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
as he stares into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual.

-Laura Gilpin

posted by sciurus 05 December | 15:43

I think I'm getting a cold. I spent Saturday night up north and sang "Ring of Fire" and "Tained Love" karoke. It is not typical of me.

posted by tr33hggr 05 December | 15:44

Tainted. Stupid head cold . . .

posted by tr33hggr 05 December | 15:51

So. How bout them Cubs?

posted by dhartung 05 December | 15:51

How bout them Bears?!?

posted by tr33hggr 05 December | 15:54

How bout them Ursa Major 5 Lemurs?

posted by porpoise 05 December | 15:58

*studies mudpuppie's fingernails, whuffles inside of her wrist*
posted by Specklet 05 December | 15:14

That virtual whuffle gave me real-life goosebumps.

posted by mudpuppie 05 December | 16:04

I won two medals in swimming yesterday--first and second.

Of course, I was the only person in my age group in one race and one of two in the second, so my medals are for last place. But I got 'em.

posted by dame 05 December | 16:08

I'm totally posting this as an FPP to Metafilter.

posted by Edible Energy 05 December | 16:17

*drags in sleeping bag, liquor and pillows, becomes huge pile of sloth on the floor of the thread*

It's snowing out! Who wants to curl up with me and get toasty?

Congrats on the medals dame!

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 16:29

Also, Paula Dean made the most sickeningly decadent eggnog on her show the other day and this is really the perfect evening for it. I'm surprised that there wasn't any butter in it. Paual Dean puts butter in everything. But there IS bourbon. Which I hate. But not when it's in nog form! Who wants nog?

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 16:32

Nog in the sleeping bag? All of us?

posted by pliskie 05 December | 16:36

All of us. It's a big sleeping bag. It has Gremlins on it. Pile in. And have some nog.

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 16:46

Nog over here, please! I need nog, now!!

And may I add my down comforter, two fluffy blankets and quilt to the pile? Oh, and my pillows. Can't have a proper sloth-off without my pillows.

There, now, see how nice this is?

posted by Frisbee Girl 05 December | 16:48

Radio, y'all.

posted by mudpuppie 05 December | 16:51

*hands huge glass of nog to Frisbee Girl and turns on the radio*

Oh yes. More blankets and pillows. And someone put a log on the fire.

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 16:55

I'll go get some more firewood. We want birch or oak? Which way we going with this?

posted by pliskie 05 December | 17:01

I've been burning my neighbor's cherry tree. It smells sooooo good.

posted by mudpuppie 05 December | 17:05

Good radio mudpuppie! It sounds like home. pliskie, some nice seasoned oak would be lovely. Or some dry fir maybe for the smell.

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 17:09

[Thanks, Lee Jay, I didn't mean to sound so demanding, I was just so excited, you see.]

Great set, pup!

posted by Frisbee Girl 05 December | 17:27

Thanks!

posted by mudpuppie 05 December | 17:29

Oh yeah, Nina Simone.

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 17:33

OK, so I'm sitting here looking out the window at the snow falling and for some reason Sway seems to fit my mood perfectly. Thanks, mudpuppie.

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 17:37

Leej, you didn't even need to ask. Here's Sway: http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19RLWFXCZQ7AD2ZQ1EDRPK9UIV

(It's one of those songs that makes my stomach feel funny.)

posted by mudpuppie 05 December | 17:45

Thanks, mudpuppie! I appreciate it.

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 17:47

Sorry. My DSL just burped.

posted by mudpuppie 05 December | 17:48

Congrats dame, that's awesome!

That virtual whuffle gave me real-life goosebumps.

Hmm, maybe there's something to this virtual make-out thing. Nina Simone? Uh huh. *whuffles more*

Can I have some nog too? And some cherry wood smoke?

posted by Specklet 05 December | 17:55

One more song, then I must go hide from a migraine.

Thanks for listening, y'all, and thanks for the whuffles, Specklet.

The playlist:

Cat Stevens - Can't Keep It In
David West/Tom Corbett - Proud Mary
Mumbo Gumbo - That Chick Is Twisted
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Noise Brigade
Michael Penn - Weeds
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Cry Cry Cry - Cold Missouri Waters
Sam Bush - Last Letter Home
Carbon Leaf - The Boxer
Amritahuni Goda 6/10/03 (Specklet!)
Aimee Mann - She Really Wants You Live at Largo
Unknown Album (6 - Soulfully
Carla Bruni - Raphael
Melissa Auf Der Maur - Taste You
Secret Agent 8 - Beer's OK
Joe Jackson - Happy Loving Couples
Ike And Tina Turner - Let's Get It On
Nina Simone - Cotton Eyed Joe
Bic Runga - Sway
Pedal Steel Transmission - Amy
Kaki King - Frame
Michelle Shocked - VX FX DX
Toni Price - Richest One
Lisa Germano - It's Party Time

posted by mudpuppie 05 December | 17:57

*peeks out from under covers and pillows*

Specklet, Schmoopysaurus Rexina, I wouldn't mind a whuffle or two if you have any to spare....

posted by Frisbee Girl 05 December | 18:15

*wuffles Fris enthusiastically*

'Member when you wuffled me and tole me I smelled good? Woo!

posted by Specklet 05 December | 18:20

If I pass out more nog and/or bourbon, might I get in on the whuffling action?

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 18:29

Oh I do, Speck, I do!!

*grabs LeeJay for whufflerompgiggle action*

posted by Frisbee Girl 05 December | 18:31

Yes! *collapses into whuffling-pile*

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 18:41

Whuffle party!

And, um, stuff.

posted by mudpuppie 05 December | 18:46

Hee heeeee! Yay! *whuffle whuffle*

posted by Specklet 05 December | 20:02

I love that image search mudpuppie.

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 20:08

It occurs to me that I could post the same comment to both the kissing & the work thread, and that comment would be:

*cries*

posted by mygothlaundry 05 December | 23:10

Aw, mgl. :( Would you care for some nog and whuffling?

posted by LeeJay 05 December | 23:25

Nog, nog, whuffle, nog?

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 December | 00:40

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