I, for one, wasn't looking forward to starting my day with a slaughter. Which, really, just goes to show how much I've grown

Anya ,'Sleeper'


Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!

Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.


JohnSweden - May 18, 2005 7:45:48 am PDT #850 of 10458
I can't even.

And if you're beating your horse with a sledgehammer, I really hope you got off it first, because I think you'd hit yourself with the hammer.

Is there a cheetah? Does it have a knife?

Good question, Perkins. I'd say Willow because she was the closer friend (the crush always being a small barrier between X and B), although Xander and Willow are probably the closest friendship.


Jessica - May 18, 2005 7:46:23 am PDT #851 of 10458
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Well, Jessica, you don't just randomly awlk up to a horse-corpse and start beating it. I imagine there's a reason the horse is dead.

Maybe you don't....

No, that's a good point. Obviously I'd never given it much logical thought before.

And I pick Xander. I don't know why.


-t - May 18, 2005 7:46:24 am PDT #852 of 10458
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

my impression is that you work the horse to death, but keep beating it in order to (unsuccessfully, naturally) get it to keep going.

Mine, too.

I think Xander was important to buffy because of his normality and all that that meant to her. I also think that WIllow was important because she went dark and came back. I"m having trouble pinning down why I think that was so important, so maybe that means more to me than to Buffy...


Frankenbuddha - May 18, 2005 7:49:31 am PDT #853 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Is there a cheetah? Does it have a knife?

Heh, and I was just thinking that Nutty wouldn't be beating a dead horse, she'd be jumping up and down on it on a squash court.

Random related aside - anybody see the commercial (I think it's for a soda) where a woman catches up to and passes a cheetah going full tilt? My thought when watching it was "Watch out! Nutty's comin' to getcha."


Nutty - May 18, 2005 7:50:07 am PDT #854 of 10458
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

my impression is that you work the horse to death, but keep beating it in order to (unsuccessfully, naturally) get it to keep going.

That is logical. Although it doesn't really answer the question as to whether you know the horse is dead or not. Alas, ambiguity.

We are like an autistic linguists convention, aren't we?


Nutty - May 18, 2005 7:51:59 am PDT #855 of 10458
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Heh, and I was just thinking that Nutty wouldn't be beating a dead horse, she'd be jumping up and down on it on a squash court.

Dude, have you ever looked at a horse's skull? That is a brain the size of an apple, wrapped in a watermelon's worth of bone. I don't know how effective my jumpin' boots would be. Also? A cheetah's head is a lot closer to the floor.


-t - May 18, 2005 7:53:08 am PDT #856 of 10458
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think that sometimes you don't know the horse is dead (and probably have to be told) and sometimes you know it's dead but you are just so damn frustrated that your cart is just sitting there not moving that you can't help yourself from beating the corpse. It's a flexible saw.


§ ita § - May 18, 2005 7:54:27 am PDT #857 of 10458
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's a flexible saw.

You're beating it with a saw? That's really gross.


Frankenbuddha - May 18, 2005 7:59:59 am PDT #858 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Dude, have you ever looked at a horse's skull? That is a brain the size of an apple, wrapped in a watermelon's worth of bone. I don't know how effective my jumpin' boots would be. Also? A cheetah's head is a lot closer to the floor.

Details, schmetails.


-t - May 18, 2005 8:01:21 am PDT #859 of 10458
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Better than trying to saw it with a riding crop.