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What, no bass?

According to Dan, stronger. I'll take his word on it. Not sure what exactly "shorter and taller" did?

“But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.” No, but it does provide an excellent example of the trope. (Do not make me link to that site...oops, too late!)

Not on topic in the source thread, this seemed a more appropriate place. Just a gripe about the current use of the word "poetry." To me, what Tomoe posted was an excellent essay. But it wasn't a poem. A poem has the sound of the words as its focus, their rhythm, their rhymes and assonances and alliterations, the shapes they make, the number of syllables and the patterns of their ending words. They don't all have to rhyme -- I've written cestinas and haikus and various other poems which are based on other things -- but there need to be rules or patterns or some other form beyond whatever comes into one's head in whatever order it comes. The poem about a cat where the words form the shape of a cat is a poem for the eyes rather than the ears, but to my mind it counts. Why on earth do people seem to dislike the word "essay"? Is it because that was the name given to what they were forced to write in school? I have a similar gripe about rap being called "music" except in the opposite direction. Rap is poetry. It doesn't have a melody but it has rhyme and rhythm and wordplay and alliteration and everything else that defines classic poetry. It's closer to Greek choruses and recitations than to music. But I guess the cultures rap sprang from think "poetry" is stuffy and nothing to do with their culture. Good rap is a real art form and deserves to be known as such, but it grates on me to see it stuck in the wrong category! Okay, rant over. But surely I'm not the only person who feels this way?!?

My sister's pills live in a small blue backpack. The anti-rejection drugs have to stay in their blister packs until she's about to take them, so that makes things a bit more bulky. She has two different week-long AM/PM pill organizers for everything else, plus a couple of different gummy vitamins (a format I've adopted too now). When she flies, the backpack is always her "personal item" instead of a purse. If she's going to be away from home for more than a week, she has to bring the various bottles so she can refill the pill organizers, making the backpack a lot fuller. Some meds are heat-sensitive, so if we're driving and stop for a meal, she has to remember to bring the backpack with her if it's at all warm or sunny. But, that backpack holds what keeps her alive and relatively healthy, keeps her with us, so I love her blue backpack. :-) *Gives Prof's shoebox a nice pat* Thank you, shoebox, for keeping our Prof with us.

Nah, it'd be perfectly legal for me to diagnose and treat them. Might do better to get an Avian Practitioner, though, they're the only ones who have significant experience treating dinosaurs, although they might find a T-rex more familiar.

For anyone with the clearance, or skills, to see it....

If you "swish and swallow" you're swallowing the active ingredients. If you swish and spit out, then you're at the least exposed to a whole lot less of them. We do occasionally see a little steroid get absorbed through the skin or mucous membranes, enough so that they don't recommend doing any steroid-related or altered-by-steroids tests while using, say, a steroid ear medicine on inflamed ear infections. We don't routinely see steroid side effects when using them topically (eg drinking and peeing a lot), so most pets don't absorb a clinically significant amount. YMMV with that one weird species, I can't say anything about those.... So, yeah, don't stress if you're not swallowing it, but keep it in mind if you do see any ill effects developing.

My impression from past experience is that the insurance company would have a hand in going after someone they felt was liable for an injury. I know that's not a hard and fast rule, but when my car was sideswiped by one with four teenagers trying to merge into an already-occupied left turn lane, the insurance companies sorted it out among themselves, and when my mom's leg was broken at the dog park she carefully didn't find out whose dogs it was that ran into her, but the impression the insurance company gave was that they would have been the ones to get payment if she had known.

They can turn quite a ways to either side, giving full coverage, but they can't go from dead center, through 360°, all the way back to dead center. And to lick between their shoulder blades, they're doing more than just rotating their necks, they're twisting and bending in other ways too. The back of their necks is too close to the back of their heads for the tongue on the front of their heads to reach it no matter how they bend and twist.

Eh, to be fair, sometimes it really is due to someone else's negligence or malfeasance, like ignoring safety rules at work or letting sidewalks fall into a complete mess that could trip up a healthy person, let alone someone with poor balance or a cane or such. Threat of being sued over it is the only thing that keeps some people doing the right thing and taking simple measures that can save huge amounts of pain and hassle in others. As long as she was polite, and accepted your answers without fuss, I can't blame the company for at least checking whether someone else should be paying for this stuff.

Based on her hair color and surly look, I think the girl next to Ashley is her goth friend, possibly hit by the same spell as Kitty's friend was. The third panel, Ashley is holding the same girl but shrunk down to doll size.

But only on the plains....

I can definitely see someone who has authority but who doesn't know Tedd's a Seer, deciding that if Magic has changed, they need all the tech they can get to tide them over until they figure out the new system, and ordering that all of Tedd's gear be confiscated. If Tedd's lucky, they'd only order that the TFGs and testing device thereof be confiscated, and they'd miss his glove and watches, but if his dad has been keeping them up to date they might grab everything. It would probably be a lot worse if they know Tedd's a Seer, given Pandora's assertion that the last person with Sarah's spell was strong-armed into government work....

Sounds like Revolution. It's my favorite for cats because of its broad spectrum of protection (including heartworms!), but if you don't get it up on the back of the neck where they can't lick it, apparently it tastes terrible and the kitties can end up drooling like crazy. Upset stomach might possibly be just a plain old side effect, or it could be the poor thing tasted a little and was smart enough to dilute it. ;-)

Is that just the smilies that appear when we click the icon while posting, or are there more that we can use if we know the secret names? If there are more, could someone point me towards a list of smilies we can use here?

Chicken Yaki Udon from the mostly-sushi place in our strip mall. Yummy, but too messy to try to eat noodles with a fairly runny sauce, while wearing the scrub top I'll be seeing clients and patients in the rest of the day. I finally just tucked a towel into my collar, telling the girls to laugh if they wanted to. Nobody did, they've all been in the same boat! Hmm, if only the empty restaurant next door would open up as....hmm, let's see....a place with a really good salad bar, healthy stir fries with lots of choices of sauce, and Japan-sized servings of ice cream. Yeah, that'd do it!

The next to last new Doctor Who of the season. Mixed feelings about this fact. Great episode, but I don't want to say goodbye to Peter Capaldi. Or to Bill or Missy.

Well, you could always go do counts for the NP and Sketchbooks if you're bored.... :-)

Ooh, you're putting me in the mood for my white ginger pear tea. It's in bags, not looseleaf, but still yummy.

It never does. No, really, I know absolutes are usually something to be avoided, but.... As for the edema and compression stocking, that's something my dad battled for years. If the stocking doesn't do the trick, my dad had a gizmo that wrapped around his leg and would inflate in sequence, from foot end to thigh end, to gradually 'milk' the excess fluid out. Mom put it on him every night -- it zipped up the side and was loose enough deflated to be relatively easy to put on.

Now I'm picturing the Mythbusters build team making a bust of Pandora made out of ballistics gel, and firing a Magus-bullet into it.

Crap. I just lost a post, replying to four different posts on this thread. No draft saved. Not sure how it happened, my keyboard (onscreen on my iPad) just suddenly quit working, and when I tried moving away from the page and back, my whole almost-finished post was gone. Not gonna try to recreate it just now. :-P

First off, love how Pandora looks in this comic. It's fairly close to how she looked and dressed with Blaike, which makes me think she's being especially open and honest right now. Not to mention stable, which is also good. Tedd just looks so....not exactly sad, it's more passive than that. Like he can't even muster up the energy and interest to be sad. He does look like he's definitely a boy, which fits with his decision to make sure he gets stuck as a boy if he does get stuck. It also shows that Da is getting better at showing the subtle differences between normal-male-Tedd and normal-girl-Tedd. Tedd might be trying to find a way to apply his watch tech to a lower magic field, but if so, he doesn't seem too hopeful about it. :-(