BHP:

Or [Connor's] the Beast prophesied in Revelation. (Which Revelation? Pick one. The Revelation of Colonel Sanders.) He could perfectly well be there to bring on the End Times.

PMM:

Now I'm picturing Connor covered in Seekrit Herbs N' Spice Girls.

Thank you very much.

The Buffistas, proving again that childhood traumas explain everything: (Angel, but spoilery for Buffy)

Madrigal: I see tptb as a sort of parent in the front seat of the car, and the First Evil is one of the kids in the back seat. They're going to allow for some squabbling, various forces of good whining about how the forces of evil are breathing on them, etc. But if one side is doing too much damage, or beating up too much on another, they'll stop the car and try to even it out a bit.

Deena: Goodness. Madrigal just took me back to childhood. Now I know - FE is based on my older brother!

Narrator: So is the First Evil acting up because it needs to go to the bathroom?

Kat: Or because the First Good, if there is such a thing, keeps trying to creep across the invisible line dividing the back seat.

In Dude, Where's My Precious:

amych:

And Carla? You can keep Haldir. Really. Because he looks like Tori Spelling.

SA:

But a cute, blonde, GAY Tori Spelling.

ita: I'm startled that so many people care *so* much, and are so unhesitant to polarize themselves and mischaracterise each other, and just keep carping.

Dana (being BOFQ-ish): I'm sorry, have you met fandom? That's practically the motto on the fannish coat of arms.

Heh.

Long one, but good payoff. Discussion of Andrew, In Buffy:

Madrigal Costello:

For some reason I'm seeing a part of the last episode showing Andrew five years later trying to market a comic book or tv series called Bonnie the Vampire Slayer based on everything that's happened on the show.

Deena:

Hah! I can see that. Or, selling the story to the Enquirer. "Hey, I was THERE man!"

Cindy (see below for hive mind with me)

...Or trying to sell a brilliant TV show about a crew and their spaceship, set 500 years in the future, but getting the axe so that Joe Millionaire could reign over the airways.

Madrigal Costello:

Or maybe they'd show him in a comic book store trying to convince all the girls who are devoted fans of the series that he is the Andrew who created it and he'll give autographs to anyone who'll give him their email addy.

Cindy:

girls?

Deena:

"Well, yeah, okay, SURE I look buffer in the comic, but, you know, drawing adds ten pounds. Really! And I'm a lot tougher than I look! You should see me in my trenchcoat!"

Despite the jokes, I think Andrew would take a girl. He might prefer a big, tough guy, but if the girl could kick his butt? He'd take her.

Madrigal Costello:

I'm presuming that Andrew kept it true to what happened, and did his research for the previous years, so that it wasn't just some girl with anti-gravity boobs and tight shirts hacking things, but a smart, funny, dark, roman'ic sort of comic. It's like how almost all of people I know who are fans of the Sandman and other comics of its ilk are women.

ita:

Andrew would be anyone alpha's minion.

Daniel C. Jensen:

Actualy, I see him in a similar situation, only he sells a screenplay. After the production screws with the story too much, he revamps (sorry) the storyline into a TV series and sells, then produces it as a mid-season replacement...

PaulJ:

So, you people are saying that Joss is actually a hero-worshipping sociopath who's still in the closet?

victor infante:

Well, yeah. What show have you been watching?

aimee (on the perks of living chez MiracleBorn) - Popcorn! Elves! Boobs!

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ita - I'm a terrible student. I'm not the lean forward and "Uhuh. Uhuh." sort of student that gives the presenter feedback. I'm the lean back and "You really think so?" sort of person. So when the trainer looks around for validation, my face is painted with "As if. I am stank. I disdain multitudes." where a simple nod would suffice.
I'm congenitally designed to think they're going too slowly. Even when I'm completely out of my depth, I'm out of my depth too slowly.

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Steph, quoting Egregiously Stupid!Co-worker: "I don't understand when I walk down the street in winter and see young women with their coats open. Why? Do they do that to say 'Look at my large breasts!'?"

Rio:
Also the reason that women walk down the street is to make our boobs bounce and drive men insaaaaaane because we are EEEEEEVIL.
And the reason we drive cars is so we can take our coats off in the winter and you can see our boobs better.
In fact the reason we leave the house at all is to drive men wild with our BOOBS.

Madrigal:

I just went to a sort of "Velvet Goldmine"/"Gods and Monsters" sort of place. It's fun there.

Calli: Heh heh. Sounds like the supposed "crisper" drawers in my old fridge .

Cashmere: I guess calling these drawers "the rotter", which is what really happens in there, wasn't such a good sell.

Billytea: I have fallen off an exercise ball, and 'safe' is not necessarily the first adjective that would have occurred to me.

ita: Have you compared it to falling off conventional chairs?

billytea: Yep. I have found there to be much more control in the latter case.

ita: I'm interested in your technique. I've found that with a ball it's more like rotating, less like falling, and just flows right into a backward roll.

Yes, I did just validate that.

Penny: Hey, I'm falling off my exercise ball right now. . .

Billytea: More flailing (I think this probably goes without saying, and incidentally I have in the past won games of squash because my opponent was laughing too hard to see straight by the end of it), and less ability to translate "Oh, crap, the coffee table!" into a coherent plan of action.

ita: Hmm. This I cannot speak on. From normal chairs I just expect to hit my head and be done with it.

In Bitches --

Betsy: Full frontal nudity might actually have redeemed Star Wars Episode I.

"Dude, you call THAT a lightsaber? Check out THIS!"

ita: Look! Itsa penisa!