I thought it was explicitly a climbing term.
I've always heard it in the context of hard-boiled, Chandler-esque use, a la The Big Sleep.
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 30, 2005 6:29:51 am PDT #4477 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Betsy HP - Sep 30, 2005 6:36:55 am PDT #4478 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Huh. Learn something new every day.
"Luca Brazzi sleeps with the ponies."
Nicklas - Sep 30, 2005 6:40:13 am PDT #4479 of 10001
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
Why can't Luca Brazzi sleep in his own room like the rest of us?
Frankenbuddha - Sep 30, 2005 6:49:11 am PDT #4480 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Why can't Luca Brazzi sleep in his own room like the rest of us?
Because given the condition of his hand, he'd bleed all over the place.
Nicklas - Sep 30, 2005 7:55:34 am PDT #4481 of 10001
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
Because given the condition of his hand, he'd bleed all over the place.
That's no excuse to throw him out! He can pay for the dry-cleaning bill like the rest of us.
Consuela - Sep 30, 2005 4:58:35 pm PDT #4482 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sorry, I'm not here much. Not a climbing term I'm familiar with.
Betsy HP - Sep 30, 2005 5:09:14 pm PDT #4483 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
That's okay; I was just being wrong.
Allyson - Sep 30, 2005 6:38:34 pm PDT #4484 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
So, on the way home from picking up supplies to make Tim a bday present (because I am cheap) I saw a small sportscar completely engulfed in flame, and not a firetruck or cop in sight. It was throwing off so much heat I could feel it two lanes over on the freeway.
But then, I decided I would like some fresh bread to go with my chicken soup for supper, so stopped at the grocery store. While trying to remember if I needed milk, I overhead a very angry young man having an argument: "...Joss Whedon didn't want it to be that way. Tudyk was allowed to play it like that because Tim Minear said he could."
I have no idea what the fuck he was talking about, but it was so fucking surreal that someone was arguing about Tim next to the dairy case at the Albertsons.
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2005 6:40:27 pm PDT #4485 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Did you check to see if it was actually Tim? Maybe the power has gone to his head, and he's all third person.
Allyson - Sep 30, 2005 6:43:27 pm PDT #4486 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
No, it was three people, all who looked like...well, I could describe them, but can't do so without being offensive.
Tim, handsome.
These people, not so much.