That's one of those mis-uses that is totally predictable and inevitable, and doesn't deserve to be called a mis-use.
Descriptivist dog!
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
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.
Steph L. - Apr 01, 2005 10:05:23 am PST #2374 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Wolfram - Apr 01, 2005 10:06:23 am PST #2375 of 10001
Visilurking
That's one of those mis-uses that is totally predictable and inevitable, and doesn't deserve to be called a mis-use.
I think that begs the question.
Aims - Apr 01, 2005 10:10:22 am PST #2376 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
oops
-t - Apr 01, 2005 10:13:36 am PST #2377 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think that begs the question.
What question?
t runs away
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2005 10:15:31 am PST #2378 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Apr 01, 2005 10:17:46 am PST #2379 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I would be so screwed if people had mikes on me. I would totally be that person smiling for the camera and then turning around muttering "motherfuckers."
-t - Apr 01, 2005 10:20:58 am PST #2380 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not the Prince I was expecting.
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2005 10:21:02 am PST #2381 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's some of the most human I've read Charles to be, despite some awkward phrasing.
I just thought of a problem -- I need lunch. And still have no doorbell. Or menus. I'll need to do some wrangling.
Nutty - Apr 01, 2005 10:22:15 am PST #2382 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well if the President can call a reporter a "major league asshole" on-mike (by accident), then anybody can, right?
Descriptivist dog!
Humph. Go yell at the laywers who decided it made sense to call a spade a snozzwhanger.
-t - Apr 01, 2005 10:23:11 am PST #2383 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's the most likable I've found him in years.