Jilli: IMO, there needs to be some sort of intervention for goths when they have babies. Because naming your child Lillith Damia? Shouldn't really be allowed, no matter HOW damn goth you are. Same goes for naming male offspring Lestat, Damien, or Lucifer.

Anne: Amen. I feel the same way about people in my church who name their child Hezekiah or Dorcas or some such. People need to understand that there are cool, meaningful names you can give your children, and that there are cool, meaningful names you can give your pets.

Herah in Natter

I'm looking for a small piece of paper with an important phone number on it. My pocket contains:

A Macy's receipt (for the pan we had to buy at 9:30pm 12/23 in order to do the Christmas manicotti) A crumpled dollar bill, which I'm pretty sure is not mine A small brown sock

Much like my purse, which always contains a pair of 5yo's underwear, but often does not contain Kleenex, so that I have occasionally had to blow my nose on the underwear.

From Natter:

Shell: From where is Debbie, though?

Deena: Dallas?

Nutty (on her Tolkieniety):

I'm just knowledgeable enough to start an argument and just maladjusted enough try to win every time.

Askye:

Nude is art. Naked is clinical. Nekkid is fun.

Typo Boy in Literary: "Hey, stick with me kid, and you'll always be on the fringe."

Natter:

jengod: Birds are cool!

erikaj: yes. When I was 5, I wanted to be one. The school psych. had a problem with this "No," he said. "you can't." "Yes,I can," I was told I said "My mom says I can be whatever I want."

Gud, with minion in Sang Sacre:

"Isn't Cthulhu sort of...you know...evil?"

"You'd think that, but this pamplet is really pretty compelling. I'm thinking of maybe going to the bake sale."

Billytea, in Natter:

One time in Toastmasters, I was explaining the timing arrangements for a speech. Went something like this: "At 4 minutes the speaker will receive a green light. At 5 minutes the amber light will go on, and at 6 minutes the red light will go on. ...At 6 and a half minutes, if he's still talking, I'll start looking at my watch and shaking it to see if it's stopped. At 7 minutes I'll attempt to start a Mexican Wave. And at 8 minutes we'll rush the podium, chloroform him and fit him with a radio transmitting collar so we can study his migratory habits."

People actually stayed within time that meeting. Except for one of the older members who's... oh, look at that. He's now in Perth, apparently. Huh.

Hum. Dana (post #1720) already got part of this conversation, but I'm snerking enough I think it should all go in.

It's long, and I hope I've picked out all the right parts and attributed them correctly. There are many non-sequiters, as often found in the Ancient Writings of the Buffista.

Nutty:

I'd sort of suggest that anybody who wants to wear his own One Ring didn't pay attention to the plot of the book. Sort of like, if you were playing Dracula and wore a silver cross around your neck. The ring isn't something to admire, and there's just about no point in the books where it's, you know, cool.

I don't have a problem, e.g., with the wearing of elf-ears and/or all manner of weaponry (although security might).

It's shmucky not because it's fannish, but because it completely misses the point of the book.

Tom Scola:

Now I'm imagining Middle Earth PSAs:

Hi, Frodo here. I'm here to tell you that owning the One Ring is not cool. Just Say No to the One Ring.

This is your brain. This is your brain after looking into the Palantir. Any questions?

Holli:

My friend Shira has a One Ring. A bunch of her friends, myself included, have agreed to accompany her to Mordor should it become necessary. Though we do not know the way.

Cindy:

When you're leaving Rivendell, turn left.

Jess PMoon:

At the post-ring-destroying press conference...

Q: So Frodo, how did you find Mordor?

Frodo: Turn left at Rivendell.

Aimée:

Frodo and Sam pop out of a hole in the ground and consult a map whilst chewing on carrots. Sam points and says, "I knew we should have turned left at Rivendell, doc."

Okay, bad joke. Come back. I'll stop.

Cindy:

I just couldn't think of a snappy comeback, befitting the image.

Aimée:

I've also screwed myself because now I'm doing Lord of the Rings with WB characters in my head.

Frodo gets an anvil dropped on his head. The Nazgul leaving a pile of Hobbit Feed on the road.....

Pete Jackson at the end of RotK popping through the screen..

"buh-dee, buh-dee, buh-dee, That's all folks!"

Billytea:

The image of Frodo hooning up behind them and shouting "beep beep!" is going to be a serious impediment to my productivity today, I can tell.

Aimée:

It's the image of the Nazgul shooting straight up into the sky that is making me snort-laugh.

Betsy Hanes Perry:

Son--- ah say, Son-- bit of an empty hood here, don't you think -- you shall not pass!

Aimée:

Chicken Hawk is Saurman.

Holli:

Now I'm envisioning a whole troop of Uruk-Hai trundling off the edge of a cliff, all unawares, not noticing the abscence of ground beneath them until one unfotunate looks down and the whole bunch plummets, landing in a little puff of dust far, far below.

Billytea:

Y'know, now I think about it, the Nazgul do have that endearingly indestructible tenor of a WB baddie. I believe that if you look carefully in TTT, you'll notice that their winged mounts have "ACME" stamped on the side.

Anne W.:

"W-welcome to Ri-Rivendell, Mister B-b-b-Frodo."