Archived comment by Kat:
"By the way, what is "Kids In the Hall"? "

*falling over in horrified Canadian shock*

That is so wrong..... *weeping for the children*

Archived comment by Obsidiana:
I adore Kids in the Hall. Especially Simon and Hecubus. And the old man with the monkeys.

"People thinks I got the power, 'cause I got the monkeys. But I got the power 'cause I'll let 'em out...people, they understands monkeys."

Archived comment by Paul:
I read that book as well, Apple. I liked it a lot, although there were plot turns she took that annoyed me because they were so completely unrealistic- basically the whole going-to-Hollywood thing. But it was a very good read overall.

Archived comment by Apple:
I taught my nephew to "crush people's heads" when he was four.

I loved Kids In The Hall.

*grin*

Archived comment by marinerd:
Oh, and Kids in the Hall were so funny! I adored the Chicken Lady. And the sketch where the boys were wishing they were women.

Crushing your head! Crushing your head!

Archived comment by marinerd:
I have a very faint scar on my forehead. I fell out of my high chair when I was a little one (it's my earliest memory!). I fell on my head.

Which explains so much...

Archived comment by Noyock:
I don't have any major scars, but I have a pattern of freckles on the back of my right hand in exactly the shape of the constellation Libra (the trapezoid one). The size of the freckles even corresponds to the relative magnitudes of the stars. And Libra's my birth sign. Weird...

Archived comment by Saint:
Booze and scars go together, in my experience.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
man I can't believe that we abandoned booze for scars again ;)

Archived comment by Apple:
Thanks! :^D

It makes for one of the amusing stories that always end in somebody calling me a weirdo (or something like that) or saying that it could only happen to me. I seem to have a lot of those.

*grin*

Archived comment by Cebu:
See, once the pain started I would no longer find anything funny. Weirdo. ;)

Archived comment by Apple:
Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner. Very good book, in my opinion anyway. YMMV.

Thanks again, IG! Scars notwithstanding.

*grin*

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
What book?!?!
I need reading material suitable for a lonnnnng plane ride. Amusement is a must. I don't care if the guy sleeping next to me thinks I'm nuts. I'm used to that.

Oh, you get the point, too. heee.
"Or maybe it's THIS one!" *picks up gigantic box*

Archived comment by Apple:
Monica from Friends.

*grin*

I have a very recent scar. But, it's not from cutting anything. It's from where they were trying to put an IV in my arm and I was laughing too hard because I was reading a book that IGirly recommended. Hee!

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
I had lunch at a couple from church's house yesterday, and before everyone was at the table I looked at a friend of mine, picked up the salt and said "A tiny saltshaker!!"
Hee! I love popculture humor.
Uh...one pop culture point to whoever can name the quote.

Archived comment by Jon:
Heh. Not knowing about cable shows isn't so bad. I have friends who don't watch any TV, so when I make a pop culture reference, it falls on deaf ears. It works for them, but it makes telling jokes more of a challenge. :)

Archived comment by Cebu:
Yeah, but they were just ... known, I guess. They also had a movie in theaters.

Archived comment by Mia:
That would be precisely why I never heard of them, Cebu. I only had cable when I was in middle school (pre-1996), and I have very basic cable now in college. I watch a total of maybe eight or nine channels: Weather Channel, AMC, USA, TNT, FX, Oxygen, History Channel, TLC, A&E. Out of sheer boredom I will turn on BET, VH1, or MTV. Maybe Comedy Central or (God forbid) the Disney channel. Or is it Nickelodeon?

TV Guide Online is my friend. It tells me when to catch my "Law & Order" shows (and variants), or the USA and A&E original movies...marathons over holidays and weekends. I enjoy the MonsterFest on AMC during Halloween and the preceding week. I wish they would show "The Ghoul" or "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir". Perhaps "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken". There was another one I watched over Easter one year..."Annie and St. Anne" or something like that. It was about a girl who was always praying to St. Anne on behalf of other people, but never for herself. Great movie. I just wish I knew what the exact title was. -sigh- Memory fails me.

Archived comment by Cebu:
That's very odd to me, you not knowing Kids in the Hall. They were huge! On HBO and then Comedy Central. I actually downloaded something from them just today. A skit (my pen!) that I hadn't seen (my pen!) in years. (my pen!) I'm pretty excited about it. :P

Archived comment by daen:
Oh-- accidents. I have a scar on my knee from an art project. See, we made these mosaics by gluing broken glass to plywood, and mine was lying on my bed, and I figured that instead of crawling around it, I would just go over it, and...
I was young. And wrong.

Archived comment by daen:
Kids in the Hall was a sketch comedy group (Canadian, no less) with a thoroughly twisted view of life. I didn't watch them much, so I'll let the experts explain them in real detail.
Oh, wait. They did a movie-- think it was called Brain Candy.

Archived comment by Mia:
Most of my scars are from dancing. I get marley burns on the tops of my feet, as well as the odd fingernail gouge out of my hand or arm. The one on my right forearm actually looks like a smiley face...if you see it from the right angle, anyway. My knife incidents are few and far between. Just that one time I was cutting up a pineapple...didn't stop bleeding until the next morning.

By the way, what is "Kids In the Hall"?

Archived comment by Obsidiana:
I took a huge slice out of my left middle finger with a pair of scissors while putting rivets for laces into the back of a dress. My rivet punch had broken, so I figured it'd work to use the scissors as long as I was really careful...

I basically skinned part of my finger. So much for being careful.

Archived comment by Jon:
Ditto to what Josie said. I believe that is where my (slightly excessive) fear of sharp objects originated.

Archived comment by dave:
And here I was thinking that I was possibly the only person in the world to try and cut a finger off in the efforts of cutting chocolate .. I blame the swiss.

The toblerone piece was about 6 inches high and the swiss army knife I was using to cut it stopped at the bone of my thumb. I knew those bones were good for something.

It doesn't help that I was looking at what I was doing and thinking, "you know, that probably isn't the smartest way to cut that .... ouch!"

Archived comment by Shizuku_san:
I once chopped off the tip of my finger trying to slice chocolate. Have a cute scar now...

Archived comment by Josie:
I stapled my finger once.

Archived comment by penguinchick:
Talk about timing...not five minutes ago I somehow managed to gouge a chunk out of my finger with my fingernail while I was typing.

Archived comment by Kat:
Hey hey! My name was brought up in conversation! (sorta) Bah, all this talk about "proper" wines and beers. Shut up and drink, already! It's a fluid, not a political movement.

And we've had this discussion before... and before and before and before and before....

ad nauseum (slitting my wrists).

How about you talk about the wounds you have suffered due to stupid accidents? I always found those funny! And getting injured while making an ass out of yourself is a conversation EVERYONE can contribute to.

Archived comment by Ishuku:
...*blinks*

*waves*

Archived comment by Hazel:
My sole interaction with wine in any restaurant is to adopt a French accent and mock the outrageous descriptions in any given wine menu.

Yes, I know not all wines are French, but it's my best accent.

I also know this makes me some sort of wine heathen...but, it's still fun.

*grins*

Hazel

Archived comment by Matt:
I flashed back to the Kids In The Hall sketch where they spoof on the pronunciation of the capital of Saskatchewan (hi Kat!) that summarily involves Orangina and the female genitalia. I still chuckle when I see bottles of Orangina because of it.

Archived comment by That Weird Chick:
My first thought on seeing this:

"Would you like lemonade or orangeade?"
"I'll have marmalade"


(You're never too old for Paddington)

Archived comment by Matt:
Well, okay, Eve, but keep in mind you're talking about an exceptional hef combined with an exceptionally light-feeling pizza. I was thinking about the more run-of-the-mill pizza varieties.

But since you brought up local food, I popped open a Merlot when a friend brought over a spinach and mushroom Zachary's and it was a big hit.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
not true wine is for all sorts of times just like beer. While it may seem that wine and beer are resolved for certain times I'm sure that one of the other IP'ers could tell you a proper beer or wine for just about any occasion.

Archived comment by Cebu:
Wine and pizza? Sheesh, pizza is supposed to a casual food, not a goes-with-wine food.

Archived comment by Obsidiana:
*waves to Ishuku*

You don't know me, but you drew my friend Maeve's livejournal icon. Small internet, isn't it? *grin*

Archived comment by Eve:
Say what you like about wheat beer not going with pizza, Matt, but Jupiter makes a damn good hefeweizen, and I think it goes pretty well with their more vegetable-ful pizzas.

Archived comment by Jon:
Having recently had hard cider with pizza, I can say that works for me. In fact, I'm off to warm up the pizza leftovers right now. :)

Archived comment by Apple:
And it isn't Pizza Hut.

*grin*

Archived comment by Ishuku:
Never thought it mattered, as long as it ends with a nice buzz.

Archived comment by Matt:
Red, but not just any red. With most pizza, a cabernet sauvignon has too much punch and pinot noir has too little. Merlot is a nice middle ground; even a beaujolais would work. Red zinfandel would be okay, if you're into that kind of thing.

In the same way with beer, lagers and wheats are going to be too wimpy, generally, and pales will be too much. And stouts and porters tend to be too malty.

This all assumes, of course, that one gives a crap in the first place.

Archived comment by Obsidiana:
Pun point for daen!

Archived comment by daen:
I sense another beer snob discussion brewing...

Archived comment by miss_doobie:
beer goes with everything!!!

but then again, I am australian...

(and no, not fosters)

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
I thought beer went with pizza.

Archived comment by meeglit:
i always prefer a glass of arsenic, myself... :oP

Archived comment by Junket:
It's the perfect mix!