'Heart Of Gold'
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.
Perkins and billytea in Natter, re. the "Joe Millonaire" reality show:
What I keep wondering is if Joe Millionaire is a hit, what is the followup/female equivalent going to be? Let's put 25 men in a house and have them compete for a woman they think is a centerfold, but actually stuffs her bra?
Maybe they could have the guys thinking she's Pamela Anderson, but at the end they will be horrified to learn that she is in fact Pamela Anderson.
PaulJ:
I'm a bit worried, though, about Joss having Joseph Campbell in mind for Buffy's story (and I didn't know that he had made that comparison, at least not until now). I mean, George Lucas started wanting to make a Campbell-like saga for the modern times and look where it got him...
victor infante:
Well, I think there's a difference. Joss's film professor (whose name is escaping now) has written extensively on the heroes journey in contemporary film. It's a subject Joss has some obvious familiarity with, and knows when to put it aside and just tell the damn story.
Lucas, on the other hand, heard about it once from a guy at a party.
Firefly
Consuela: Television news is pointing people to us? Oy.
Mike P: Oh my... This might not be a good thing. ~shudder~
Allyson: Not believing it. Not believing it. Quick, everyone, start talking about cardboard making techniques, and don't stop.
PMM: Start with a character. We'll call him "Riley..."
Aimee: First are making plain cardboard or corrugated. And if corrugated, how do we make the little bumply wavy bits?
Heather Alayne: Crimping iron.
Aimee: Since we are going to make cardboard, can I have a box and make it into a transmogrifier?
Narrator: To make the bumply wavy bits, take the wet cardboard to Chicago in January. It will cause the bumply wavy bits -- it's the cardboard version of goose pimples.
Sophia Brooks: First you have to make the cardboard, then the box and THEN the transmogrifier.
Allyson: I think we'll need to take a vote, after we select spokespeople for the plain, and the corrugated parties. Then we'll need some philabustering.
Narrator: Can't the transmogrifier make its own box? I mean, if it can do all the other transmogrifier-y things, can't it do that?
Aimee: New question for the ages: Which came first, the transmogrifier or the box?
Laura: Can I have a hole cut in my cardboard to watch tv?
Katie: People, talking about cardboard in an endearing and entertaining manner won't help.
Narrator: Yes, do not look directly into the TVGuide Channel or you will burn your retina.
Allyson: Okay then, we need to be boring. Perhaps billytea and I can talk about various bird calls.
billytea: Maybe we could talk in birdcalls. Would that work?
Allyson: We could rename the Firefly thread something else. Plain Toast: Lively Discussion on the Latest C-Span Coverage of the Kleenex Budget in the Senate.
Allyson: killdeer!!!! chickadee! chickadee dee dee!!!!
thessally: I think you'd need to make up some new ascii characters unless you want to lose all the nuance, bopping around yelling, "TWEE!!!TWEE!!!" Or that's what Victor's bopping around yelling. I think he thinks it's a bird thing. I'm not sure. Send medication now.
Narrator: Plain Toast: Lively Discussion on the Latest C-Span Coverage of the Kleenex Budget in the Senate. That's some code for porn, right?
Mana: But sorry guys, they actually showed the address on the screen for the last 15 seconds while she made her closing comments. And she said it out loud and correctly.
Allyson: Can we make it point to a site about corrugated cardboard?
Still Firefly
Justkim: I have started watching my second hour of the TV Guide Channel. What? It's not like there's anything else on! The second hour is so far different from the first hour. And I just heard the 90-second life story of SMG. Synopsis: She plays Buffy.
Allyson: Maybe we should send you a stipend of some sort.
Aimee: I think we'll need to take a vote, after we select spokespeople for the plain, and the corrugated parties. Then we'll need some philabustering.
Aimee: Okay then, we need to be boring. Perhaps billytea and I can talk about various bird calls.
Aimee: We could rename the Firefly thread something else. Plain Toast: Lively Discussion on the Latest C-Span Coverage of the Kleenex Budget in the Senate.
As much as I'd love the credit, Allyson said these-I'm not nearly as funny. But thanks for thinking I am!!!
Ooops! Fixed. Thanks.
Music:
tedr: Okay, if people can bring up Opera, I can bring up film scores. :) John Williams: Jaws, The Cowboys, Jurassic Park
Aimee: Jurassic Park. MM wanted to use this as our wedding music. I said no. I didn't want to be walking down the aisle with people thinking about a huge ass dinosaur.
In Firefly (RE: proper pronunciation of 'Buffistas'):
FayJay: I pronounce it all wrong, apparently. It should be Buffeeeeeeestas, yes? 'Cause I always say it Buff-fisters. Er. which looks absolutely filthy now that I've written it down.
Bureaucracy: (not sure who said 'the Betsy's').
The Betsy's.
BHP: If there are two of me, I wish the other one would take over half the workload. Not to mention this head cold.
Dana: I volunteer to be a Betsy!
BHP: Don't have the head cold. Instead, eat something spicy for me. But with no tomatoes.
Steph L: I've suspected there are multiple Betsys, for the sheer volume of knowledge. Although the One True Betsy claims it's Google.
BHP in Bureaucracy:
If you're James Cameron, I'd like to discuss some of the mean things you said to Kate Winslet.
And by 'discuss', I mean 'disembowel with a butter knife'.