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'The Message'


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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.


Kat - Mar 15, 2005 12:38:31 pm PST #7689 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm with Brenda and msbelle.

Sumi, AH! That makes more sense about the Sloane/Jack thing. Well not the slash thing per se, but the two of them fighting crime again. Or something like that. I think I was spoiled on who will play Elena, but now I can't remember any more.


JohnSweden - Mar 15, 2005 12:38:39 pm PST #7690 of 10002
I can't even.

Dude, I'm calming myself down by basically imagining the death of every single person now extant in this world, and you're trying to harsh that mellow? I really don't think that's the road you want to go down just now.

brenda, I have to say, I'd had the thought too. Them later folks will suck too, worse, they won't know the books or movies I know, so they'll be culturally-illiterate. It's a shame, really.

What nationality (if any) does the phrase "We be jammin(g)" evoke for people?

Victorian. Isn't that nice Marley chap written up in Dickens?


Kat - Mar 15, 2005 12:39:39 pm PST #7691 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

US Virgin Islands can't get their own freaking identity

Do they have the same shared heritage of patois? Also, they can't get their own identity cause someone already has Virginians covered.


Jesse - Mar 15, 2005 12:40:55 pm PST #7692 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But you're ignoring the common linguistic roots. Patois, especially when spoken by Rastas does use that same construction of the verb to be.

Not ignoring, just ignorant. (Speaking of common roots, huh.)

Poor Virgin Islanders, they've got nothing.


§ ita § - Mar 15, 2005 12:41:19 pm PST #7693 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Victorian.

When did that become a nationality? Or is it Victorian in the same way Bride and Prejudice is?

Do they have the same shared heritage of patois?

They may have a patois. They're unlikely to have a shared heritage of Rastafarians, though. Unless I missed something big.


msbelle - Mar 15, 2005 12:43:36 pm PST #7694 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Poor Virgin Islanders, they've got nothing

What are you talking about?

1) they are US - obviously the bestest country ever - God loves the US - listen to W.
2) they are virgins - God loves virgins, not to mention their value on the black market
3) they are islands - islands never cry.


brenda m - Mar 15, 2005 12:44:21 pm PST #7695 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

brenda, I have to say, I'd had the thought too. Them later folks will suck too, worse, they won't know the books or movies I know, so they'll be culturally-illiterate.

But they'll be fucking things up for other people, and therefore not my problem. Which makes all the difference. What do I care if a magazine editor of the future sits on copy that was submitted more than a month previously suddenly sends the first proof and wants all the approvals on text and design from my firm's higher-ups, the president of a major university system, and assorted other poohbahs in the next two hours so that she can get her mag to the printers today. I don't, that's what. They can go to town. My vengeful wrath will be sated on the blood of the current generation - that's just the kind of giving person I am.


Kat - Mar 15, 2005 12:45:01 pm PST #7696 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

bahahah!

msbelle, as ever, you are so cute.


§ ita § - Mar 15, 2005 12:47:27 pm PST #7697 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

2) they are virgins - God loves virgins, not to mention their value on the black market
3) they are islands - islands never cry.

Aha! It all makes sense now ...

it’s loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

Not to mention the lack of penetration.


JohnSweden - Mar 15, 2005 12:57:21 pm PST #7698 of 10002
I can't even.

When did that become a nationality? Or is it Victorian in the same way Bride and Prejudice is?

That must be it! You know, I had no idea Bob Marley was in Bride and Prejudice. Another reason to see it soon.

They're unlikely to have a shared heritage of Rastafarians, though.

Is this happening because of the Jamaican resorts that use Jammin' (Sandals? Hedonism?) to market sun and sand, so the USVI are coat-tailing along on that?