Toronto Trim's Hotel Cum Drop-in Centre

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
On a Monday?

TM

That's how Good it was. I shudder with Flowerish electric tinglings of sushi pre-gasm to think what it might taste like on a Friday.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by ironweed
Watching your child-like hope and eager optimism being slowly and thoroughly crushed under a mudslide of banality is one of the things that keeps me coming back here day after day. Don't go changin'!

I keep reading your stuff too. What can I say? I'm an optimist.

TM

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ironweed
That's how Good it was. I shudder with Flowerish electric tinglings of sushi pre-gasm to think what it might taste like on a Friday.

How's the plankton?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
They're coopting everything.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/people_dy...BhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

(Starbucks to exclusively market '62 Dylan recordings at the Gaslight)

Bah. Starbucks Times claims Dylan approached the chain. Check it out at www.starbucksnews.com.

While you're there, check out Dominick Dunne's piece on the social impact of the Sumatra revolution on the Jamaican Blue Mountain crowd. Riveting.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Bah. Starbucks Times claims Dylan approached the chain. Check it out at www.starbucksnews.com.

While you're there, check out Dominick Dunne's piece on the social impact of the Sumatra revolution on the Jamaican Blue Mountain crowd. Riveting.

You got me. I clicked on the link. I was eager to see their Fair & Balanced Blend.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by ironweed
When I was in grad school I briefly dated a marine biology PhD candidate who was writing her dissertation on plankton. We broke up, on relatively amicable terms, shortly before Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving, I didn't go home, but rather had two friends from the English Department over for a fabulous, if I say so myself, shrimp marinara (Hi Fringey!). We got really drunk and started gossiping about people, including my ex, who was a college friend of one of my guests. At some point we started mocking her dissertation topic by substituting the word plankton for key words in every title or line of prose or poetry we could think of. You know --

The Sound and the Plankton,
Call me plankton;
Ask not for whom the plankton tolls, it tolls for thee;
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of plankton;
All happy plankton are alike;
Margaret are you grieving over Planktongrove unleaving;
Gather ye plankton while ye may;
Shall I compare thee to a summer's plankton, though art more lovely and more temperate;
Things fall apart, the plankton cannot hold; ...


And on and on and on. Having taken the English Literature GRE only about a year before, we were still loaded up with quotes to use. And every time we thought of another one, we laughed so hard we nearly cried. There were even moments were we were hitting the floor with our hands. Mind you, we were wasted. But still, even in our wasted state, there was one moment, rather suddenly, where hilarity no longer ensued, and we ceased.

Ancient zen koan #481:

Who is the greater fool: he who posts stupid fucking post with a recycled schtick or he who responds to stupid fucking post with a recycled retort?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
You got me. I clicked on the link. I was eager to see their Fair & Balanced Blend.

You're the dumbest...

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield


Jesus, how in the fuck did anyone live to be 50 before all the fucking do-gooders started teaching us how dangerous living was?

Fuck living to 50. How the fuck was anybody ever born?!

(I want sushi, and I want beer, and I want it now.)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Ancient zen koan #481:

Who is the greater fool: he who posts stupid fucking post with a recycled schtick or he who responds to stupid fucking post with a recycled retort?

It wasn't a schtick! It was a true story, and a happy memory from my not-reckless-enough youth when I still believed I'd be an English professor. It was precious, and to see it treated this way really fucking hurts.

Originally posted by robustpuppy
It wasn't a schtick! It was a true story, and a happy memory from my not-reckless-enough youth when I still believed I'd be an English professor. It was preciuos, and to see it treated this way really fucking hurts.

Nah, he's the schtick, you're the retort. No wonder you never made professor, with parsing skills like that.

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
How's the plankton?

It made me fat.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield Jesus, how in the fuck did anyone live to be 50 before all the fucking do-gooders started teaching us how dangerous living was?

Again, my life is turned around. I too live my life under this kind of principle. Way back before all that "aerobic exercise" crap got studied, only poor women got exercise. If you had enough money, you sat on your ass eating.

Also, the whole "bathing is unhealthy" thing was in vogue. I subscribe to that view too.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
It wasn't a schtick! It was a true story, and a happy memory from my not-reckless-enough youth when I still believed I'd be an English professor. It was precious, and to see it treated this way really fucking hurts.

Translation: "Plankton" sounds funny. Plankton. Ha.

TM

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by ironweed
Nah, he's the schtick, you're the retort. No wonder you never made professor, with parsing skills like that.

Most.correctest.Ironweed.Post.Ever.

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Again, my life is turned around.

So it's a full 360, and you're back to eating an entire marshmallow-frosted devil's food cake in one sitting? This is tough on those of us scoring at home.