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Here's a direct quote from the Weather Channel:

"A multi-day, multi-region potentially historic and destructive winter storm will unleash its fury beginning Monday and lasting through Wednesday. When everything is said and done, the storm may very well impact a third of the population of the United States: approximately 100 million people."

You know this is the mid-west...in January. It's snow. Get over it. And yet, people are buying milk like their one cow out in Pop Ingall's barn is going to go dry and the price of petrol has gone up 13 cents since this morning, and counting.

The LHOTP reference actually made me tingle a little. And wonder if I have scarlet fever.

When it snows, people turn into shrieking, terrified retards. Their brains spontaneously seize up like three-year-old computer hard-drives polluted with too much porn, and lose all of the information they've saved about driving safely since the last snow storm. They become frantic, weak willed and cold (as much in their souls as in their homes), and they entirely forget the universal certainty of momentum.

It's begining to look a lot like OH MY GOD A ROGUE PEPSI TRUCK!

My office isn't going to close. The four horsemen of the apocalypse could ride in to the waiting room and we'd be told to give them water bottles and advise them not to upset some of our more self-entitled patients.

We Julii always say that just before it snows, people stock up like the pass is going to be blocked until spring.

Does anyone remember the actual LHOTP episode called Blizzard? The school teacher decides to let the kids go home early and they get lost in a giant blizzard and get frostbite and all the Paws have to go out looking for them?
It's based on a real-life surprise blizzard that happened in 1888 in Minnesota that killed over 500 people, many of whom were children on their way home from school.
My original point up above was the this is not 1888, but now I think it might be more fun to spend Wednesday discussing favorite LHOTP episodes since we're all going to be snowed in.

I wish this ice-damning weather would just ease up for one ice-damning day, ice-DAMMIT.

Funny you should mention Nellie O. Just yesterday I was thinking of asking Dustin for a most hated women/girl characters in TV history random list and I was thinking that Nellie Olsen would have been top of my list. I hated her so much back in the day. I've since seen some interviews with the woman who played her and she seems really nice and centered and has talked about how much abuse she took from people on the street who couldn't separate the character from the actor, but she takes it all in fun, so good for her.

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS

(except the part where I'm going to be covered in more than a foot of snow)

Wasn't there a LHOTP that had someone (Carrie maybe?) falling down a well? In a field or something? God, it's been forever since I watched this show.

And wasn't Mary blinded by a fire? Or was there a fire after she was blind?

Looking back this show was kind of a downer.

Silly Pinky, everyone knows it was the dreaded Snow Chupacabra that blinded Mary.

And here I thought LHOTP was a boring show...

She knows enough to know that it's Chupacabrae, Ian. Doy.

I have an advanced degree in Chupacabra Husbandry and Study of Its Insides. So, you know. That's why I know Alot about them.

You fargin' ice-holes. I hope every single one of you bastiges forkin' freeze you sons of batches!!

Really, any excuse to quote Johnny Dangerously. Did anyone else read the painting part as:

"Hey, friends, nothing says winter blues like a blah wall color. Be brave! Try something bold! A nice crimson shade will really make the room poop."

No? Just me? I'll just let myself out then. Fargin ice-holes.

You have no idea how many times I read "LHOTP" and wondered what the fuck you people were talking about. LHOTP? What the fuck is LHOTP?

After reading it twice and studying it several times it clicked in my brain with "Does anyone remember the actual LHOTP episode called Blizzard? "

Little House On The Prairie. For those people with slow brains that hated that show (like myself). They are referencing Little House On The Prairie.

Oh, I read the book by the actress who played Nellie Olsen (Confessions of a Prairie Bitch). Poor kid had one fucked-up home life, but she kept her sense of humor and seems to have made it to adult hood pretty sanely.

She really hated that wig, though.

I wonder what will happen in Austin. They freak out here if it dips below 30 (last year it was supposed to snow and my company sent out urgent messages to production workers saying "Oh my god we'll pay for you to take a CAB just PLEASE OH PLEASE come to work tonight!!!").
Now, however, most of it is outsourced. I wonder if I can say that my internet got knocked out by winter wind.

I mean, sure, I'm not excited about the impending 17 degree weather (shut up Yankees, that's damn cold to me) but I refuse to lose my shit over it and act like we're going to have to ration our food. I have a gas stove and a French press. I can still have coffee and that's all that matters.

Well, you would know Figgy, since you attended the University of Sweet Ass Studies with me. And Ian? I ONLY slept inside a Chupacabra ONCE and that was for a project for my Look At The Insides 101 class.

U SASS. Yes. Our mascot is the Pilgrim Puncher.

LIES. My dog totally ate a chupacabra once. It was in our backyard.

The Pilgrim Puncher also involves a consenting adult.

The Packers and the Steelers arrived in Dallas today just in time for tomorrow's icepocalypse and 12 below zero wind chill. It'll be nothing to them, but if they were hoping for more temperate weather, well, sorry!

(it'll be fine by Sunday, though.)

It is skipping DC again. We are just supposed to get some more ice and sleet and rain. General grossness.
I was kind of sad about not getting more snow, then I remembered last winter and wading through hip high snow and being stuck in my house for a week.
Now I am okay with missing it again.

blacksred:

I was just watching a documentary about Jack Wrangler who was THE gay porn star in the 1970s. His first ever crush was on Pop Ingalls (but when he was in Bonanza, pre-LHOTP which I plan on using multiple times just to drive DeistBrawler insane)

my husband and i also got into a great debate about how charles from LHOTP was a man before his time because he was always super nice to the 3 black people EVER they had on the show.