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Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
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Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Allyson - May 09, 2005 12:04:26 pm PDT #2201 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
StuntHusband - May 09, 2005 12:12:31 pm PDT #2202 of 10001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I never, ever saw cantstopthesignal have live Fandango links for Portland.
It went from "please wait for online ordering" to "sold out", and the theater there had an automated recording saying, "Please contact Fandango for advance ticket sales".
Bah.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 09, 2005 12:27:14 pm PDT #2203 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
"It's sold out." click, dial-tone.
This is the sort of thing I make a mental note to talk to managers about.
Allyson - May 09, 2005 12:28:48 pm PDT #2204 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
In fairness to them, I am a whole lot nicer to clients when I'm getting paid 20 bucks an hour than I ever was at 4.25 an hour.
§ ita § - May 09, 2005 12:31:59 pm PDT #2205 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is the sort of thing I make a mental note to talk to managers about.
I don't want to imagine the sort of repetitive disbelief that anyone answering the phone had been getting for hours.
Allyson - May 09, 2005 12:34:15 pm PDT #2206 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Allyson: Thank you for calling Blockbuster, we're open until Midnight.
One of Thousands of Dumbasses: Are you open?
Sparky1 - May 09, 2005 12:38:54 pm PDT #2207 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
JZ, Betsy, others for the SF show -- I just got my email confirmation.
Polter-Cow - May 09, 2005 12:44:15 pm PDT #2208 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Allyson: Thank you for calling Blockbuster, we're open until Midnight.
You should worked for Empire Records.
JenP - May 09, 2005 12:45:35 pm PDT #2209 of 10001
So, today wasn't a good day not to be anywher near my computer. Ha! Yay for all of you who got tickets. Normally, I'd grumble and be bitter, but I seem to be in a good mood.
I have comic book store pre-order anxiety (which just makes me laugh and laugh). I know they can tell I'm a pretender. Well, at least I know where my local store is. I'm kind of proud of that.
Daisy Jane - May 09, 2005 12:49:58 pm PDT #2210 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I think that happens to everyone who works retail at one time or another. I know several who have done the "Thank you for calling _ your 24 hour superstore!" "What time do you close?" Of course conversly FE and I once went to a 24 hour grocery when it was closed. Apparently, they didn't mean in a row.