Lunch with S

[lwood]

And now, the following out-of-context conversational snippet, for your morning humor, because I'm insomniac today (whee!).

At lunch on Tuesday, S offered the following statement: "Now, Lorrie, you don't have a single mean bone in your body..."

Me: "Hey! I do so."

I mean, I do. It's not that, say, my entire ribcage is mean, more like one patella, some of those little ear bones, a couple random phalanges, and an ulna, or something. So several mean bones, but not, like, a quorum. Right? I'm reasonably honest about not being necessarily nice...

S: "Well, I mean you're not a vindictive person, unless someone really does something..."

I smile munificently. It's just safer, seeing as S has just defined "vindictive."

S: "Look, what I mean is, you're very charming..."

Lorrie, beaming: "Yes, that I'll agree with..."

-- Lorrie "but my mandible is often outright pissy!"

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[mephron]

"My 4th lumbar vertebra is outright hostile to people!!"

Gods, what a BIZARRE mental image THAT is.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I nicked it from Lois McMaster Bujold, one of the gods' true gifts to fen. One of her characters wonders at $group being named "the blood of the Imperium," at which point Our Hero wonders who gets to be the spleen...

-- Lorrie

[mephron]

In the D&D gameworld I've been putting together in my background moments, the general of the armies of the big empire has the title "Mailed Fist of the Empire".

One of the people helping me with editing asked if there were a set like that, which allowed me to slip in the fact that, while it's rarely used, the Official Food Taster is, in fact, officially entitled 'The Emperor's Liver'. Part of me wonders if he's a Bujold fan, and asked me that deliberately because a) he read that and b) he knew it would set off one of my mental cascades.

(Emperor Kalevan II, known as 'The Whimsical', issued a number of titles to people in his court, when he proclaimed that the Imperial House was an extention of the Imperial Body, and therefore required proper titles. This means that, in fact, those that maintain the privies of the Imperial Palace are sworn into the Order of the Emperor's Colon and Kidneys...)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

-- Lorrie

[lysana.livejournal.com]

So the king's sex partner(s) were in the Order of the Genitalia?

[dasubergeek.livejournal.com]

Unless he was, uh, finocch', in which case it was the Order of the Imperial Cock.

[mephron]

YOu know, I deliberately didn't go to that place....

[maewyn]

So several mean bones, but not, like, a quorum.

LOL!!

I nearly had to clean off my screen. ;)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I live but to serve. ;)

-- Lorrie

[pearlshadow.livejournal.com]

oh i agree, ("giggles") nary a mean bone in your bod, dear one, "however" there may be a couple of pints of "questionable blood" and i bet your toering could be meaner that shit if it were crossed.

lol

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

-- Lorrie