NIck Nolte--bah!

[cosmolinguist]

irrtum and stealthmunchkin bonded over the conviction that it's perfectly reasonable to do the laundry with washing-up liquid and things like that. "I decided I had too many bottles in my bathroom," she said. In her view, things are either Detergent, or Grease. Shampoo is detergent, moisturizer is grease, conditioner is grease. It amused me unreasonably.

The Manchester Evening News's front-page headline was BOY DIES MAKING A SANDWICH. sablin1975 told me he apparently stabbed himself with the knife, which seemed a bit dubious to us.

demiurgician told me she's a carrier of gayness. While not gay, she makes people around her gay. "I'm like Typhoid Mary!" She also let us use her pen, which was shiny and overpriced and had a quote from Gandhi on it ... in Latin or Italian, or one of those things.

belladonnalin and stealthmunchkin found they'd both performed marriage ceremonies for people they'd not met in real life until the wedding. There was general talk of how strange the Internet was and the weird ways we're connected. I got to tell demiurgician that the first time I posted a comment on her journal, I noticed the one above mine had been left by chia_rhino, whom I haven't met but have heard a lot about, as she was the high-school friend of one of my best friends in college, setharoo.

I have to be careful not to think about stuff like this too much or my brain will overheat and explode. (Also, I think I owe my social life to tjej, for which she deserves some thanks.)

Oh, and somewhere in there was a pub quiz. The only thing I contributed was "Jenny."

Wait--that's not true. When the whole team was mystified by one of the questions, Andrew said I should answer it, since I hadn't suggested anything yet. I said I hadn't suggested anything because I hadn't heard the question. "Why do pirates wear eyepatches?" he told me. I thought for a second. "So the parrots sitting on their shoulders don't peck out their eyes!" I thought it was a good answer! It wasn't right, but it did make belladonnalin laugh, which is at least as good.

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[ex-humanfema327.livejournal.com]

bitte schön!

[cosmolinguist]

It's true; irrtum started talking to me because she saw you on my friends list. And because of that, I get out and do things occasionally now! Excellent.

[ex-humanfema327.livejournal.com]

She's my best friend by the way... are you going to try rollerblading?

[cosmolinguist]

I made the mistake of telling her that I own some (they're not here) and she said she's going to get me some so I can fall on my ass to the amusement of Mancunians. Something like that.

[belladonnalin.livejournal.com]

It actually IS totally reasonable to do laundry with the washing-up liquid - did you know that washing up liquid, detergent, and shampoo are all made of essentially the same thing? Means you can just bring one bottle of something and use it for all three things when travelling.

And it was awesome to meet ya'll last night!

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

That's what I keep telling her. And my hair smells lemon fresh ;)

[irrtum.livejournal.com]

I put mine all in the same bottle and smell of apple, lemon and ocean breeze. I'm like a cheap Hawaiian cruise. Your trivia Rules.

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

So why DO they wear eye patches? Don't keep us in suspense here?!!!

[cosmolinguist]

Some crap reason like looking through telescopes, or not staring at the sun. I didn't catch that, either. :-) One of the others may be able to tell you--stealthmunchkin, probably. (Honestly, I did pay attention most of the night, but you'd never know it from my rendition of events. This was at the end, though, and I was overheated and hungry and sick of being inundated with loud music; I suppose my wits weren't as sharp as they were at the beginning. Bet the two rum and Cokes didn't help all that much, either. :-))

[irrtum.livejournal.com]

It's so they can see at night-time too. Does that sound right?

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

no...?

[cosmolinguist]

I know; I told you, it doesn't make any sense.

[noltecide.livejournal.com]

Whaddya mean, "Bah".

I hurt.

[cosmolinguist]

I mean there's no way we'd ever guess that the picture of someone with half his face in deep shadow and the other half seemingly obscured by a cowboy hat was Nick Nolte. We knew our best guess (Donald Sutherland) was way off, but had nothing better to write down. We always suck at the picture round, though.