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Nov 11, 2009 06:52

[Public to all but JD]I'm moving Jason Dean to the dinner shift to make desserts. Try to compliment the man ( Read more... )

morgan, i'll take food analogies for 500, wardening, jason dean

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[Private] gimmethemap November 11 2009, 06:48:17 UTC
...I am so sorry, Rube.

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[Private] onderhaus November 11 2009, 06:49:26 UTC
Did I hit the nail on the head?

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[Private] gimmethemap November 11 2009, 06:54:12 UTC
Yeah.

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[Private] onderhaus November 11 2009, 06:56:54 UTC
Then don't apologize.

I can deal with bacon.

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[Private] gimmethemap November 11 2009, 06:59:56 UTC
You weren't and I don't know if you really can.

But I'm sorry for lying to you. It was choosing between doing that and being with and around you again, or sticking to the truth and having it be worse than you not being here at all.

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[Private] onderhaus November 11 2009, 07:06:24 UTC
Morgan, it's not about dealing with-

Have you read any poetry by Ogden Nash?

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[Private] gimmethemap November 11 2009, 07:08:12 UTC
No.

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[Private] - Mistakes in the first one are Rube's. onderhaus November 11 2009, 07:14:56 UTC
He's from my time. Popular guy. He wrote this poem - Well, it started with Christopher Marlowe in the 1500s, you follow? This guy wrote a poem romanticizing love. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, I think it was called. It went something like ( ... )

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[Private] gimmethemap November 11 2009, 07:17:37 UTC
...So you think I'm going to "up and cut your throat"?

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[Private] onderhaus November 11 2009, 07:20:59 UTC
No. No, you're missing the point.

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[Private] gimmethemap November 11 2009, 07:22:38 UTC
I'm listening.

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[Private] onderhaus November 11 2009, 07:26:39 UTC
The poem is talking about love in unideal situations, like the Depression. Or aboard a prison ship where people routinely are murdered or disappear.

It's a nice escape, you get by for a while, and it ends in one big fucking mess.

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[Private] gimmethemap November 11 2009, 07:30:27 UTC
Rube, there are a lot of things here -- murders, disappearances, what have you -- that I don't know I could have gotten through with sanity if you weren't here.

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[Private] onderhaus November 11 2009, 07:33:10 UTC
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Okay.

I'll tell you what: I'm going to go think about this, while it's quiet and no one's finger-painting their mirrors with body fluids or getting sucked into fucking storybooks.

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[Private] gimmethemap November 11 2009, 07:34:21 UTC
...All right.

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