you're killing tonight.

eta: sorry. You were killing it on the fifth. I'm behind in my cellar reading coz I've been so busy on facebook...

:lol: Nah, no imperiled babies -- just a crushing blow to my favorite love story on the show. After 30+ episodes I'm perhaps more emotionally invested in the characters than is mentally healthy. The basic premise of the show is that fairytale characters have been cursed to live in our world-- where there are no happy endings. I think I'm hooked because it appeals to the side of me that grew up on Disney movies (Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, etc.) AND the part that grew up watching Spanish language telenovelas (love and revenge! attempted murders! evil twins framing the good twins! etc.)

I really like Once Upon a Time!

Rumplestiltskin is teh awsum.

Dana--I had to do a study on Rumple. It's a thoroughly American tale back when the Dutch ruled New York and the Hudson Valley. There are a lot of interesting tid bits in the story that explain that it is NOW (20 years later after R. fell asleep) a New Country and not a colony of England. It's good stuff.

Trilby -- Rumplestiltskin is a German fairy tale. Are you thinking of Rip Van Winkle?

Dana -- Rumple's my favorite character on the show. I love how his search to find Baelfire is the catalyst for everything else.

I started off enjoying Once Upon a Time. We would DVR it, and the character limit or maybe our laziness made us list it as Once Up. So we always refer to it as Once Up.

But we stopped watching it because the story line, which started off so well, started getting so many twists and turns in it that it's taken the fun out of it. It would be good as a 6 hour miniseries, I think.

Ancient Chinese torture: sit next to a loud ticking clock... TICK...TOCK...TICK...TOCK...TICK...TOCK........

Terry Pratchett's cruel refinement, as designed by Lord Vetinari ...

Sit in the waiting room of his office, with a clock with a loud but slightly irregular tick.

TICK ... TICK ... TICK ...... TICK ... TICK ... TICK ... TICK ..... TICK ... TICK ... TICK ... TICK ..... TICK ...

Damn, sir, that is evil.

That is evil. I can imagine it. Feeling my BP going up. :thepain:

Maybe you just haven't listened long enough to discern the time signature...

I love our extremely loud ticking clock. The only time it's annoying is when it chimes the hour at night just as we're settling into a show on TV. The chime usually comes in that first 1 minute long segment with the joke that's supposed to pull you in to the show. Drowns out the tv.

Seattle's Best go out of business? Not every variety available in my store, so I had to go up one number ..

I haven't heard any news about Seattle's Best going out of business, though they were purchased by Starbucks. Another local coffee brand was recently sold out of bankruptcy--Tully's. The fella from Grey's Anatomy led the investor group that had the winning bid--despite the fact that the competing bid from Starbucks was $1 million more.

Starbucks is teh evil in England now.
They've been "legally avoiding" tax, ie not paying any due to fancy-schmancy accountants.

Went down badly among harried commuters.
The shops took a huge hit in sales. Oops.
Cue "voluntary payment even though we didn't break the law ever, not never."

Har har har sez I. Not allowed coffee anyway.
(Shel, I gave me card to my SIL - they're off to Alaska this year and she likes their cold drinks.)

I was pleased when I was in Canterbury one morning and the Starbucks took my US issued Starbucks card with $10 on it and deducted whatever the cost of two lattes was in the local funny money currency.