Um, yeah, sounds like the Cabbage Patch.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Jesse - Nov 20, 2002 1:06:52 pm PST #454 of 9843
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Min - Nov 20, 2002 1:36:53 pm PST #455 of 9843
Is that Narrative Causality or Historical Imperative or just plain weird?
curtsies at Betsy and swings her around the thread, googles Cabbage Patch
Yep, that's the one. Technically it's only performed when I predict something and it happens, and then I bounce around being smug and obnoxious. Though I'm sticking with my name for it, because cabbage patch? Why? This is one of those Confuse the UnAmericans things, isn't it?
I will resist Natter until I finish grading, I will.
victor infante - Nov 20, 2002 1:39:17 pm PST #456 of 9843
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
That would be the Cabbage Patch Dance I think. Can I get ruling by Jesse?
Heh. When I played Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, we used to cabbage patch backstage at rehearsals and shout, "Whoop! There it Doth!"
Ahem.
Jim - Nov 20, 2002 1:40:59 pm PST #457 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
OK, I'm officially jonesing. God, these shows rule all. Still unsure about Firefly, but I was right about it being Blake's 7. Only with no Avon
DavidS - Nov 20, 2002 1:43:32 pm PST #458 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
because cabbage patch? Why? This is one of those Confuse the UnAmericans things, isn't it?
I think it was named after the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls that were popular back when. Why? I don't know. It is the generic dance of mildly obnoxious celebration.
Min - Nov 20, 2002 2:52:35 pm PST #459 of 9843
Is that Narrative Causality or Historical Imperative or just plain weird?
Oh Victor, my friends are going to strangle you for putting "Whoop! There it doth!" in my head. Luckily they're geek enough to enjoy it the first few times.
Now I'm all curious to see if Jim follows the Buffista path of Firefly love. "Ok. Oooh. Yay! WOO!"
Oh! Cabbage Patch Kids, I vaguely remember them, though I think I was a little too young to actually want one. Freaky chubby toys with a permanent smirk/grimace and bright hair?
10 more papers to go, to go. 10 more papers to gooooo.
Hil R. - Nov 20, 2002 4:04:36 pm PST #460 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Freaky chubby toys with a permanent smirk/grimace and bright hair?
Yep. The hair was made out of yarn until sometime in the late eighties when they started making some with regular doll hair. They hit really big in 1983, and it was one of those impossible-to-get toys because they weren't making nearly enough to keep up with the demand. My mother managed to pull some strings, I have no idea how, and bought two for my sister and me several months before almost any of our friends were able to get them. When she brought them home, they weren't even in the display boxes; they were still in the cardboard shipping boxes. I was almost three then, and I took mine everywhere with me, and suddenly all the "Oh, what an adorable baby!" comments to my mother switched to "Where did you get that doll?"
Allan Lang - Nov 21, 2002 5:59:06 am PST #461 of 9843
'And on that tragic day, an era came to its inevitable end.'
That's all there is.
Ok good news first. Today's (November 21) Media section in The Australian has an article mentioning BtVSwith a picture of DarkMagic Willow.
Allan Lang - Nov 21, 2002 5:59:34 am PST #462 of 9843
'And on that tragic day, an era came to its inevitable end.'
That's all there is.
The Frogurt is poisoned
It's illustrating an article "Industry Fights Rearguard Action as Culture Comes Under Attack"
How to stop the slide towards what one speaker depicted as a "Buffy/Raymond/CNN society" - that is one dominated by inane US sitcoms and ubiquitous news programs - emerged as a central concern at last week's Screen Producers Association of Australia conference in Melbourne.
This person was apparently an idiot Senator named Marise Payne who declared
"We have to be very alert, very cognisant of the challenges and those who oppose the view we take - those who want the world to be a Buffy/Raymond/CNN society.
Which I think we all agree would be pretty objectionable."
Jon B. - Nov 21, 2002 6:25:22 am PST #463 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Everyone knows we should be striving for a Buffy/Angel/Firefly society.