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.
Lindsey: Why--why did you... Lorne: One last job. You're not part of the solution, Lindsey. You never will be. Lindsey: You kill me? A flunky?! I'm not just...Angel...kills me. You...Angel... Lorne: Good night, folks.
'Not Fade Away'
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.
Steph L. - Dec 14, 2002 11:53:52 am PST #1272 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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?
Fay - Dec 14, 2002 12:58:18 pm PST #1280 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
tottering back from the BRQG, giggling madly.
Bwahahahaha! Damn, I love you. All of you. Mwah!
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 14, 2002 1:02:26 pm PST #1281 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
DX, did you just hit the BRQG over and over until you got it?
Because I still struggle with Buffista abbreviations, this is accompanied by a most wonderful graphic.