Damn. DX beat me.
Also, I've always absolutely read "trannie" as transsexual or transgendered.
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
Coffee On My Monitor
This thread is for Buffista quotage. Posts that are profound, witty, or otherwise deserving of immortality go here. This is also Shrift's source for the BRQG, so be aware that if your words end up here, they'll also end up there. Finally, please note which thread spawned the quotage and please white-out anything that might be spoilery to Un-Americans.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 14, 2002 11:45:48 am PST #1270 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 14, 2002 11:48:45 am PST #1271 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Angus:
Unamerican here who embraces the serial comma.
Correction: drunk Unermciarna who ermbraees the serioal com mma.
Steph L. - Dec 14, 2002 11:53:52 am PST #1272 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
ita, in Natter:
Me, I don't get boys, and I hardly believe in men, and I think it's majorly counterproductive how they can make you feel when you're just trying to go about your grouchy business.
Fay - Dec 14, 2002 11:54:24 am PST #1273 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Unamerican here who embraces the serial comma.
Ah! So the serial comma is an American institution? Is it? Or not? Because I've embraced it since I entered fanfic, but I had it drummed into me in school that one absolutely shouldn't follow a comma with an 'and'. And indeed that one shouldn't start sentences with an and; and indeed that one should follow semicolons with one.
In retrospect, however, that teacher was a silly cow, so why on earth I've always believed her on the handful of grammar points she bothered with escapes me.
t /natter
Angus G - Dec 14, 2002 11:57:47 am PST #1274 of 10000
Roguish Laird
Oh, what the hell, there should be more natter in COMM.
FayJay, the Chicago Style Manual has a big ejaculation type yay!!! thing over serial commas, so I interpret it as an American thing.
Which means I do it, because I'm an academic (can't you tell?) so naturally I write for American publications because there aren't any others! (Generally speaking)
Steph L. - Dec 14, 2002 11:58:20 am PST #1275 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Someone -- and right now I can't remember who -- is immortalized in the BRQG as saying the reason the serial comma will never die is the following sentence: "I'd like to thank my parents, God and Ayn Rand."
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 14, 2002 11:59:18 am PST #1276 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
She is a silly cow. On all those points.
Forget the anti-serial-comma! Joinnn us!
/badbadnatteriness
brenda m - Dec 14, 2002 12:14:33 pm PST #1277 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The god and Ayn Rand thing is sort of the classic serial comma defense. Effective, too.
DXMachina - Dec 14, 2002 12:22:03 pm PST #1278 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Someone -- and right now I can't remember who -- is immortalized in the BRQG as saying the reason the serial comma will never die is the following sentence: "I'd like to thank my parents, God and Ayn Rand."
It was Lysana.
Steph L. - Dec 14, 2002 12:31:03 pm PST #1279 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
DX, did you just hit the BRQG over and over until you got it?