Carrots are good because nobody notices if one is missing.

Trudy, majestically and surreally closing out a vegetables-as-dildos conversation in Buffy 1.

Steph, in Natter:

Advocating my death is the new black

And Angus, in response to Erika, in Natter:

It's your birthday! No-one here thinks you're insufficiently grounded in the literature of Gay Hollywood, OK?

billytea:

And I just realised, the word ‘screeching’ is so sadly underrepresented in literary sex scenes. Does no one screech like a banshee at the moment of truth anymore? I blame MTV. It’s taken it out of the bedroom and into Aerosmith videos.

On which note (??), I walked out of my apartment this morning to the sight of two squirrels getting a bit of furry-tailed action on the footpath. It was an awkward moment. I stopped dead in my tracks, not really wanting to disturb them; they too froze in place, the one scrabbling to keep his balance, with expressions on their tiny faces very much like a teenager whose parents have come home early.

Sadly, I did have a train to catch, and they shot off up a tree as soon as I took a step. I can only hope they weren’t traumatised by the experience. *sniff* They grow up so fast. ...No, they really do. I mean, they’re rodents, fer cryin’ out loud.

IN Buffy:

Alibelle: Ok. Question: Vampires eat people. People eat meat. If a person has sex with a bull, for example, it would be bestiality. Does the same rule apply to human sex for a vampire?

Burrell: I'm getting a little worried about you, Alibelle. I don't think the fact that we eat meat is reason why sex with a bull is considered bestiality. It's considered bestiality because it's a bull. As in beast, not human. I't not like it's considered normal for a vegetarian to have sex with a bull, is it?

Allyson: There's nothing sexy about fucking steak.

Burrell: I bet there's a kink out there for it. I'll just go check my handy dandy fetish map.

I just got spam.

It was entirely in Italian.

I'm now concerned that I'm on a Sicilian Mafia mail-list and I'm starting to think I'd better not hit "unsubscribe".

MM

And billytea in response:

Much of my spam arrives in a language with which I am unfamiliar, which seems to have roughly eleven different expressions for 'barely legal' but none for 'please remove me from your mailing list'.

re: Tropical Storm Isidore

deborah grabien: Looks like a tropical depression with an attitude, ita.

ita: That used to be me.

flea:

An old roommate of mine named her car after me. It was a brown Lincoln town car, or something equally hello? You think I am a brown schmoozemobile?

Jilli:

My first name is from Stranger in a Strange Land. My late teen years were spent shouting at geeky boys "You do NOT grok me! And NO, I will NOT share water with you! Go away!"

(Edited 'cos I'm spacey and forgot "u" wasn't a quick-edit option.)

Randomly, I buy Dawn washing up liquid because it's the only detergent named after a Buffy character.

I imagine it saying "get out, get out GET OUT!" to the bacon fat on my plates...

JohnH, large with the funny.