Tea and Dragons

"Find the nearest book to you, turn to page 45, and read the first sentence: this describes your sex life in 2012."

Since I don't have a sex life, this is purely for amusement purposes. And it's plenty amusing. I'm sitting right next to a full bookcase, so nearest doesn't exactly apply. Have a selection.

The lady in black and her friend had always been very fond of the Città Vecchia. -- Which is eh enough, except that the book was published in 1897. Giovanni and the Other, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Anne's stunning announcement put my brain on HOLD.  --  *snerk*  Who's Anne?  Magnificat, Julian May (the UK paperback)  

Who was that man?  --  *howls with laughter*  Tales of the Restoration, David & Karen Mains, Ill. Diana Magnuson  

New species these days tend to be invertebrates.  --  Now that's just disturbing.  Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time, Richard Conniff

"You'll never make a jeweller," he whispered to her.  --  Well, no, probably I won't!  The Door into Sunset, Diane Duane 

And that's enough of that. 

1.  I love watching Hotch smack people with his baton.  I like even more watching his expression when told not to use his gun. 

2.  He was the only person in the Florida heatwave not sweating.  

3.  I spotted a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on someone's bookshelf in The Perfect Storm.  

You all have seen this by now, right? XD

Did you know you can purchase a boxed arc reactor replica? Just as if Pepper gave it to you...

I went to my credit union today, nothing out of the ordinary, but they're renovating so everything is changed around.  I could see over the counter to the drawers on the other side.  And was deeply amused to see, among drawers labeled "General Supplies" and "Business Cards", one labeled simply "Lollipops". 

Okay, I have other opinions about the Ninth Doctor, many of them centering around Dalek.  I am only partway through the first new-series season, given a lack of cable (thank you, public television).  But I just watched The Doctor Dances (dumb title) and Rose tells him he's beaming like Father Christmas.  His response is "Who says I'm not, red bicycle when you were twelve?". 

I have long maintained that Santa Claus is a Time Lord.  *beam* 

How did I never notice before that the Sheriff of Nottingham is in the Max Headroom TV-movie?  This is big.  *snerk*  Yet more proof that the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine.  

Pure reason does not trump brute force but surprisingly few people know what hot
peppers look like when the teacher asks if you have enough to share with everyone. --James D. Nicoll