I will stick by the serial comma til death do us part.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
Allyson - Oct 23, 2006 9:04:26 am PDT #5012 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
Kathy A - Oct 23, 2006 9:05:33 am PDT #5013 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
high fives Allyson!
Frankenbuddha - Oct 23, 2006 9:06:08 am PDT #5014 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
On an unrelated note, while verifying that THE DAILY SHOW and COLBERT REPORT are in re-runs this week, I saw that the George Lucas / Green Screen Challenge winner Colbert episode is on Weds/Thurs. Which means the Salute to the American Lady is on as well (I think that's tonight/Tue, but I'm not 100% sure).
Allyson - Oct 23, 2006 9:09:29 am PDT #5015 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
My sistah in serial!
Who else is with me?
P.M. Marc - Oct 23, 2006 9:10:03 am PDT #5016 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm with you!
Serial's the way to go!
Kathy A - Oct 23, 2006 9:10:42 am PDT #5017 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I hate today. I'm very sleepy, even though I slept just about all weekend (all that stuff I was going to clean in my apartment over the weekend? Nada!), have a nagging sinus headache and accompanying stuffed up nose, the Diet Coke I just drank has not kicked in and woken me up yet, and my boss is on vacation and I therefore can't claim wooziheadedness and take a half day off.
Damn.
Four more hours, and I can't concentrate worth a damn.
vw bug - Oct 23, 2006 9:11:01 am PDT #5018 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
I'm totally with you!
Amy - Oct 23, 2006 9:12:31 am PDT #5019 of 10001
Because books.
Serial comma lovers unite!
bon bon - Oct 23, 2006 9:13:19 am PDT #5020 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
No serial, it's often redundant to "and."
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2006 9:15:27 am PDT #5021 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My former boss used to fastidiously remove my Oxford commas because they were wrong, telling me she could see how I'd make that mistake, having been educated in England.
Which meant I even more fastidiously put them in.