misc. comments 3

[redbird]

To misia:

As I think I've mentioned, the only reason I've heard of Tertullian is that the Unix fortune cookie program, as distributed on SunOS, includes a quote from Jung discussing Tertullian. There are days I suspect that "eclectic" is, at least in my case, merely a polite word for "magpie."

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moominmuppet asked "What is your favorite coffee cup, and why?"

Right here next to me is my favorite, the bunny mug. The "bunnyfuck" mug if we're feeling long-winded or vulgar, and the "bun mug" if we're in a hurry or feeling silly. (Because it's fun to say "bun mug bun mug bun mug.") It's cream-colored, with a brown sketch of a rabbit orgy; it holds the right amount of tea (I'd guess about 12 fluid ounces), and the handle is the right shape for my hand. There's a very small chip in the rim, fortunately just left of where I naturally drink from it. We've had it long enough that I don't know where it came from and suspect that cattitude may have had it before we lived together (which would make it close to 20 years old); despite that, it's my mug by custom and consent. There are other mugs that each of us prefers, but the only other one that either of us has a claim on is the Hothead Paisan mug, which is his because I bought it as a gift for him.

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To stakebait:

It occurs to me that "easy people" is a relative term: someone who's easy for me may be difficult for you, and impossible for a third party. Also, simple and easy are very different things.

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Commenting to rysmiel's comment to moominmuppet's inclusion of an article on defining planets:

All you need for [disagreement with aliens about what counts as a planet] is different sets of rules--maybe we'll use the gravity rule, and the aliens would use a rule of size or location or whether it holds an atmosphere....

What this article doesn't mention--and really ought to address, one way or the other--is that the definition by mass also makes Luna and Titan and Ganymede and quite a few other moons planets.

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[cattitude.livejournal.com]

The rabbit orgy mug (bunmug, bunmug, bunmug) originally belonged to an old roommate of mine, Dr. Death. He left it behind when he moved out. Or maybe it belonged to his prior roommate, Dave Chapman, who was insect orgy crazy (bugfuck bugfuck bugfuck).

[rdkeir.livejournal.com]

It says "Taylor and Ng" on it, yes?

Years ago, a bunch of us were doing Sunday-potluck-and-Dr.-Who at my best friend's place. She was housesitting for her mom that summer, and routinely used one of those mugs. She'd never really looked at the design.

I still remember the moment when she started to take a drink, stopped, stared, and then grinned wildly and held up the mug to everyone else. "It's FUCKING BUNNIES!" It was her mom's mug, which made it all the funnier, but her mother was and is a cool woman.

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

There are days I suspect that "eclectic" is, at least in my case, merely a polite word for "magpie."

shiny things for your nest?

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*nodsnodsnods* Easy people is definitely relative, and different people are easy for me in different ways on top of it. And simple, for me, is seldom easy at all. I keep looking for the complications I expect, and eventually inventing them.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

"I was a difficult child; I became an easy adolescent."

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

I have the fucking hippos mug -- purple with a white hippo orgy. I keep waiting for my kid to notice what they're doing, but so far she's oblivious.