Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.  

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.


Melpomene - Jun 17, 2006 4:27:42 pm PDT #2556 of 10002
Ever fired your gun in the air and yelled, 'Aaaaaaah?'

Jesse - Jun 17, 2006 5:34:07 pm PDT #2557 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, now I wish I had the A/C in. Bleh.


Strega - Jun 17, 2006 6:08:58 pm PDT #2558 of 10002

Asking for alliteration assistance: what's a word for parentage that starts with S?


erikaj - Jun 17, 2006 6:10:21 pm PDT #2559 of 10002
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

"strain" "siring"? not quite it, are they?


msbelle - Jun 17, 2006 6:11:37 pm PDT #2560 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

source, SURPRISE!, stork


Jesse - Jun 17, 2006 6:14:00 pm PDT #2561 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Spawn?

I guess that's the opposite.


Strega - Jun 17, 2006 6:16:07 pm PDT #2562 of 10002

Hee. "Surprise!" Strain almost works, but not quite.

This may or may not help, and I guess I should have posted in Boxed Set, but for context: "Scorpius's Scarran/Sebacean _____"

Maybe there's a ps-- word.

Edited because I can't spell any of these damn made-up alien races.


Tom Scola - Jun 17, 2006 6:18:12 pm PDT #2563 of 10002
hwæt

Sire.


§ ita § - Jun 17, 2006 6:21:22 pm PDT #2564 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'd totally go with sire.

This is terribly creepy. Enough that I may choose to disbelieve it.


Strega - Jun 17, 2006 6:30:27 pm PDT #2565 of 10002

But sire implies that his father is a Sebacean/Scarran hybrid, I think. One parent is Sebacean, one is Scarran.

The dog-brain-cells playing Quake made me go "coooool" first, and then I thought about it and went, "creeeeeeepy." And then I started the countdown till someone writes a cyberpunk story based on it.