If you start killing people who break up with Buffistas, it's possible that the currently NGA will never GA ever again.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2005 8:45:24 am PDT #1199 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
JZ - Apr 04, 2005 8:52:36 am PDT #1200 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Count me among those boggling at anyone dumping Kate. If my Kinsey tilted that way, I'd totally consider her a prize and a catch that, once caught, ought to be treasured and delighted in.
P-C, happy Buffistaversary!
I am hee-heeing madly over your knowledge of The Bird, The Mouse and the Sausage. The story element that really pushed it into craxyland for me was not just that the sausage was swallowed by a dog, but that the dog, when called on it, had a whole elaborate justification for having done so. "It was a meatwad and I'm a dog" was not enough; "it was a talking meatwad and thus an affront to rational storytelling, and I'm a dog" was not enough. No, in the craxyland of this story, "It was a talking meatwad carrying forged letters, and I'm a dog." That's the kind of unexpected narrative brilliance that just leaves me breathless.
Also, the moral of the story is clearly something like If you ever dare to change anything about the way you carry out any duty whatsoever, you and everyone you love will die horribly, which is a marvelous insight into the Dark Ages Middle-to-Northern-Eastern-European worldview. I want to marry this fucked-up folk tale and have its deeply wrong babies.
Sean K - Apr 04, 2005 8:59:40 am PDT #1201 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
If only we Buffistas had a cabinet position dedicated to removing the clearly stupid from the gene pool.
Yes, this! We definitely need some kind of Minister of Kill the....
.... waaaaiitaminit.....
If you start killing people who break up with Buffistas, it's possible that the currently NGA will never GA ever again.
Now that's a lot of killing people, and I don't think even I advocate that much killing.
Jessica - Apr 04, 2005 9:03:05 am PDT #1202 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Who said anything about killing? A couple of kicks to the crotch with a steel-toed boot would do just fine.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2005 9:05:08 am PDT #1203 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Still would cut down on the prospects for the already unlucky.
vw bug - Apr 04, 2005 9:05:26 am PDT #1204 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Home from school. Skipping the class showing Deliverance. I feel like I should do something schoolish, but I think I'm going to nap instead.
Jen - Apr 04, 2005 9:07:06 am PDT #1205 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Wait, someone thinks it's a good idea to have students watch Deliverance in a classroom?
vw bug - Apr 04, 2005 9:07:47 am PDT #1206 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Yup. My Mountain Tales class is watching it today and Wednesday. I'm doing an "alternate assignment."
DebetEsse - Apr 04, 2005 9:08:48 am PDT #1207 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I don't think we need to kill them. Just thwack them and prevent them from procreating (at least temporarily).
Kate P. - Apr 04, 2005 9:10:07 am PDT #1208 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
t sniff I'm just so touched that you guys want to go around killing people for my sake. I feel truly blessed.
JZ, where might one go about finding this folktale?? I've never heard of it before, but clearly I must read it.