Lungs get phlegmatic -- they're both necessary and pissy.
Well, yeah, because there are TWO. You have a spare! And phlegmatic is appropriately moderated pissy.
Willow: That's a work ethic! Buffy, you're developing a work ethic! Buffy: Do they make an ointment for that?
'Beneath You'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Feb 25, 2005 9:41:33 am PST #1240 of 10002
§ ita § - Feb 25, 2005 9:42:19 am PST #1241 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's the adage? Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
I think they're talking about an owner's right of possession, not just that stealing things is okay.
Topic!Cindy - Feb 25, 2005 9:45:16 am PST #1242 of 10002
What is even happening?
But how did he not give her the semen, ita?
If she did what he alleges, it was morally reprehensible, and maybe there even should be penalties exacted against her. Why should the child give up the right to parental support?
Frankenbuddha - Feb 25, 2005 9:45:32 am PST #1243 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Everyone leaves the appendix alone, though. I guess they deem it so completely useless as to be pitiful.
No, they leave it alone because they know it can cap all their asses if they piss it off too much.
And now the image of internal organs having asses is simultaneously grossing me out and amusing the hell out of me.
-t - Feb 25, 2005 9:49:01 am PST #1244 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Spleen~ma to your friend, Frankenbuddha. Or Spleenless~ma, whatever's appropriate.
§ ita § - Feb 25, 2005 9:50:36 am PST #1245 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But how did he not give her the semen, ita?
He challenges that she deceptively collected it. That doesn't sound like giving, but I wasn't there.
Jesse - Feb 25, 2005 10:06:08 am PST #1246 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This just makes me wonder that I've never heard of this kind of story -- I wouldn't have really thought it was even possible to collect any useful amount of semen out of a condom after the fact. But then, I guess the notable part is the part where she's looking for child support. Usually, if you're going to want help with the kid, you're going to want the guy to know he's involved with making it, wouldn't you?
Edit: What I mean is, the semen-out-of-the-condom trick seems like a decent plan for women who are planning to be single mothers, but don't want to buy sperm.
-t - Feb 25, 2005 10:09:32 am PST #1247 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You'd have to use condoms without spermicide.
Whichever of these two is lying is pretty imaginitively bad, I'd have to say.
Jesse - Feb 25, 2005 10:13:13 am PST #1248 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
::takes notes, revises plan::
§ ita § - Feb 25, 2005 10:16:01 am PST #1249 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think it's something that is supposed to happen to pro ball players and the like. But I think the assumption is that there was actual mutual groininess going on -- it's still hella shady, but at least it's a potentially procreative process.
Two of my co-workers are huge Chappelle fans, I just discovered. I'm thinking it's really irritating to be subjected to "And then Wayne Brady said!" sort of conversations in the vicinity.
Which just means we won't do it again. Damned fun to participate in. Oddly, one of them apologised to me when I said I knew him. Kinda weird.