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Lila Anderson

@lila2004.bsky.social

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Part of #TheResistance. Fierce Democrat. Staunch LGBTQ ally. Voracious reader. Reluctant emoji user. Have a jukebox for a brain, so may respond in song lyrics.

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Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 1d

--no-preserve-root

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the thought was free and it spread like fire
though it didn't please you and it didn't please me.
It was banished from the land by the King's desire
and the boat pulled out, but the thought stayed free.
Not only did this troublesome thought prevail,
but worst of all . . . one thought bred more.

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 1d

Watching THE CELEBRITY TRAITORS and the following filk came to me (to the tune of "Girl Scouts Together"):

Traitors and Faithful, money and greed;
working together when there is a need.
Back-stabbing evil at the table round.
Faithful, will all of the Traitors be found?

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 1d

He may have seen an episode of New Zealand's sitcom called "Warren's Vortex," where Warren and his daughter travel through vortexes that lead to parallel realities, trying to get back to their home (low-rent version of "Sliders"). There was a war-torn reality w/cardboard houses and stores. Possibly?

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 2d

Those look AMAZING!

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 2d

Clearly, you need to show him "Star Trek" immediately! You can never start too early!

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 2d

there. They just fit the rhythm, you know?

"'Cause there is always something there to remind me,
and it's so stupid . . .
Always something there to remind me,
and it's so stupid . . ."

Anyone else do this?

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 2d

Heard an oldie today, "Always Something There to Remind Me," and was singing along when my wife suddenly looked at me oddly, saying, "Why are you singing that? There are no words in that part of the song. It's just music." I stopped, surprised. I had always sung it that way; those words SHOULD be

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 3d

What a wonderful rule!

"You make me feel like dancin'!
Gonna dance the night away . . . "

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 3d

"Meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
meet me at the fair.
Don't tell me the lights are shining
anywhere but there . . . "

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 3d

Well, at least your experience ended better than mine! <grin>

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 3d

I lived there for 18 years. Not once did I hear anyone use only 2 syllables rather than 3, no matter how they pronounced it!

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 3d

me, and of course I had not thought to ask. Holding my breath, I got the cow halves into a bag and into the outside garbage bin. <shiver> Now I think they should do a show called IS IT CHEESE? (Check those re-gifted candles you receive as presents carefully!)

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 3d

moving out for college, and the bookshelf gets bumped, causing the cow to fall to the floor, breaking in half. A horrifically foul odor filled the room. Upon investigation, I discovered what I had thought was a candle was actually a cow-shaped, wax-covered lump of CHEESE. My friend had never told

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 3d

While watching an ep of IS IT CAKE?, I'm reminded of a present from my friend for my 14th birthday. It was a large, funny wax cow candle; I looked for a wick, but couldn't find one. Since I had no intention of burning it, it went up on my bookshelf and stayed there for years. Fast forward to

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 4d

"loo-uh-vul"

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 4d

In Kentucky, if you say the names of two cities 'correctly,' you're not from aound here:

Versailles -- not 'ver-sigh,' but 'ver-sayles'

Athens-Boonesborough -not 'aath-ins' but 'ay-thins'
(pretty much everyone gets 'boonz-burro' right)

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 4d

My funniest spam call was where this woman claimed to be calling for my son, who supposedly had been arrested and needed bail money, which she swore to get to him *in jail.* I leaned over to my son, where we were watching a movie, and said, "So, which jail are you in, my boy?" She hung up so fast!

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 4d

Foil balls skitter great, but when caught, kits tend to chew on them, resulting tiny pieces of aluminum being swallowed. With paper balls, they may swallow bits, but the wood pulp dissolves and is easily passed through. MUCH better than foil!

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 4d

ANY cat parent could have told you this before you wasted all that cash. Ask first -- save your dough! (BTW, a crumpled up ball of paper will give them hours of cheap fun! Roll it across your kit's path and watch them chase!)

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 5d

When the power went out and then came back on in the middle of the night, the printer on the desk in my bedroom scared the SHIT out of me by RATTLING, WHEEZING, BUZZING and running the printhead back and forth *19* times in the darkened room. That fucker stays unplugged until I need it!

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 6d

It's called 'a sleepmask, earplugs and no-guilt sleeping 'il you're slept out' care. You take care of you, boo. You can rejoin the real world later. It'll still be there.

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 6d

"Just an old, sweet song
keeps Georgia on my mind . . . "

"I'm in a New York state of mind . . . "

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 6d

"Julie, Julie, Julie, do you love me?
Julie, Julie, Julie, do you care?
Julie, Julie, are you thinking of me?
Julie, Julie, will you still be there?"

Lila Anderson @lila2004.bsky.social · 6d

You'd then smile as you remember you're one of the "No reflection in mirrors, turning into a bat, being afraid of crosses, garlic is deadly -- NONE of that is true!" vamps and dig into that amazing garlic bread!