Aug 03, 2007 07:30
(Whoops. Let's try that again.)
[ electroboy] infrastructure collapse is good for business.
[ scottydont] and people call my line of work heartless!
[ stankow] Soulless, scotty. There's a difference.
[ scottydont] I've made very little profit from the deaths of others
[ Ajax-] Except dinosaurs.
[ scottydont] yes, but that was force majure
[ scottydont] the Lord smote them
[ Ajax-] So you're a grave-robber, rather than a dinocide.
[ electroboy] we just get to say "i told you so."
[ scottydont] hey, man, michelangelo did it too
[ electroboy] the representative on npr said they had inspected and found fatigue in 2001
[ scottydont] or was it da vinci? one of those italian guys dug up graves.
[ electroboy] frankenstein
[ scottydont] BRIDGE FATIGUE BAD!
[ electroboy] grave robbing was pretty common practice for medical students until the 20th centure
[ electroboy] century
[ electroboy] centaur
[ Ajax-] That’s because autopsies were illegal.
[ scottydont] for the last time, no one wants to read your fantasy romance stories
[ electroboy] everyone wants to read my Clash of the Titans/Frankenstein crossover fanfic
[ scottydont] I wonder if medusa would be able to turn the undead into stone.
[ electroboy] you'll find out if you read my fanfic
[ scottydont] the new cohen bros. movie looks really good too
[ scottydont] based on the cormac mccarthy book
[ electroboy] you didn't like The Road?
[ scottydont] haven't read that one.
[ electroboy] oprah liked the road
[ scottydont] I didn't like all the pretty horses, mainly
[ electroboy] i liked the road
[ electroboy] ajax probably doesn't like the road
[ scottydont] he wouldn't know.
[ electroboy] why don't you like it.
[ Ajax-] *does not read mainstream fiction.
[ scottydont] it doesn't have wizards or spaceships
[ electroboy] see?
[ electroboy] it has an apocalypse
[ scottydont] was it caused by wizards or spaceships?
[ Ajax-] It's all boring shit about 20th century people coping with banal tragedies.
[ Ajax-] Boo hoo, we're poor. Boo hoo, incest. Boo hoo, I had a gummy leg.