If they could come up with variations to call the eightymillion different Saras, they could just use those variations instead!
Angel: I can stay in town as long as you want me. Buffy: How's forever? Does forever work for you?
'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jan 16, 2006 12:35:08 pm PST #461 of 10002
Jesse - Jan 16, 2006 12:35:35 pm PST #462 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It was Ye Olden Tymes, people.
I have shit to do after work Tues, Weds, Thurs. I do not enjoy that, although I should enjoy each of the things. Bleh. Too much time off leads to lethargic Jesse.
Jessica - Jan 16, 2006 12:36:41 pm PST #463 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
OMG these commercials are so great! They're like little mini-episodes of 24!
amych - Jan 16, 2006 12:41:30 pm PST #464 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
new names hadn't been invented yet?
It took the internets to come up with "Brytteni".
Strix - Jan 16, 2006 12:49:29 pm PST #465 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
One of my favorite Yeats poems:
WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars
Hil R. - Jan 16, 2006 1:05:36 pm PST #466 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
A lot of little kids exchange L and R sounds pretty frequently (several kids I babysat would sometimes call me "Hirraly" until they were about three years old), so I can see Sarah and Mary becoming Sally and Molly pretty easily. As for how to get from Molly to Polly, I'm not sure, but there's also Margaret to Meg to Peg, so there's some M/P exchange going on somehow.
Jessica - Jan 16, 2006 1:15:33 pm PST #467 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Well, M is the a voiced version of the P phoneme. (Whether that has anything to do with how nicknaming works, I do not know.)
Now someone explain how the Russians get "Sasha" from "Alexander"
[edit: Whoops, forgot about B.]
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 16, 2006 1:19:45 pm PST #468 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Is it just me, or was last night's GA not quite as good as normal?
I fell asleep during, but the early bits with everyone but Meredith hating the dog and Dr. McSatan waiting outside the elevator to greet her and Derek as they exited seemed pretty good.
kat perez - Jan 16, 2006 1:29:28 pm PST #469 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Nicknames are tricky things. How do you get Lalo from Eduardo in Spanish? Or Pancha from Fernanda?
ION, the second Bridget Jones movie is really, really bad. Bad.
Sue - Jan 16, 2006 1:33:16 pm PST #470 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Is it just me, or was last night's GA not quite as good as normal?
It wasn't just you. I thought it was thoroughly average.