I'm torn between thinking those were the best suggestions ever, and thinking those were the high standards that made him too good for this world.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Nov 28, 2011 9:44:55 am PST #16919 of 28285
Always Anti-fascist!
DavidS - Nov 28, 2011 9:47:07 am PST #16920 of 28285
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and thinking those were the high standards that made him too good for this world.
I was definitely thinking that too. I don't know if I'd say "too good for this world" but so sensitive and constantly self-conscious that he couldn't last long in this world.
erikaj - Nov 28, 2011 9:57:13 am PST #16921 of 28285
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, "too good for this world," is a bit of a maudlin flourish, but you feel me, right? Part of what I learned in college is to believe that my ideas were strong enough to stand up past Jerkoff Hands(TM) It was only a partial process then, that the internet has helped me complete, and it would have seemed like a blessing to the shy, blush-prone undergraduate that I was then if my instructor had been so fiercely anti-JOH, but I learned to persevere past them, which I think has greater real-life implications.
sumi - Nov 29, 2011 5:24:47 am PST #16922 of 28285
Art Crawl!!!
Excellent Game of Thrones poster.
Strix - Nov 29, 2011 5:39:20 am PST #16923 of 28285
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
But I didn't. So I think those are made of awesome.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 10:19:26 am PST #16924 of 28285
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2011 10:24:33 am PST #16925 of 28285
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What is the temperature at which silicon burns?
Burrell - Nov 30, 2011 10:41:30 am PST #16926 of 28285
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
I don't include the "I will CUT you" part, but I do include the rest of it. Because some of them do plagiarize.
Toddson - Nov 30, 2011 11:09:00 am PST #16927 of 28285
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It always amazes me that people (a) don't realize how easy it is to find out if something's plagiarized and/or (b) don't see anything wrong with it.
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2011 11:13:58 am PST #16928 of 28285
brillig
don't see anything wrong with it.
I wonder if some of that is the "nothing on the Internet is private" thing.