Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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.
From Dude, Where's My Precious?
Jars: Ah, Judge Judy. Her word is law. And so my crisis is over. Is there anything she can't do? Apart from reach products on the high shelves?
Aimee: Bris. She can't do a bris.
MechaKrelboyne: Reach products on shelves of moderate height? Throw her little hammer at people? Figure Prominently in Slash?
Kathy Astrom: ....AAAAnd, we're back on topic.
Aimée: Working on resume. How does one write, "gets money from deadbeats without use of smacking around"?
Hil R.: "Excellent people skills."
Amber B., from Angel spoilerly:
Gotta love that Angelus - he's well-read, insightful, witty - if it weren't for that insane mass murderer thing, he'd be damn near perfect.
billytea in bitches reporting his younger brother's reworking of 'Oh Tannembaum':
O canteloupe, O canteloupe Why do you taste of grapefruit? O canteloupe, O canteloupe You've ruined my best dinner suit O lovely ti-i-iny canteloupe You're smaller than... an antelope... O canteloupe, O canteloupe Why do you taste of grapefruit?
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connie neil in Previously: "speci-fic: one of the hundreds of fics that you've read that had a fairly cool idea that you wish was canon so you could use it in your own fic"
Angel, spoilery:
Jesse:
He did NOT just say "big, hard, thing."
amych:
He did. And yet, I was on giggle-delay about the line. It failed to sink in at first, because I was so expecting him to say, "It's a description of the beast. It says big... rubber... disco... satan."
Please tell me I'm not the only one.
edited to spoiler font for Opera
Nonspoilery, in Angel:
PMM: <pause pedantic, because we all know that pedantic doesn't have an /.>
Please note -- Opera closes formatting tags with a new paragraph. So if you use double-enter between the lines of your quote, you're going to have to close and open your font tags each time.
Grrrrrr. Thanks, ita.
DXMachina, in Dude, Where's My Precious?:
I agree that fantasy (and SF) worlds must have a set of underlying rules that can't be broken, but I'm not sure that the rules have been broken here. Middle Earth has the same physical laws as this Earth. Water still flows downhill everywhere we see it, and a waterfall acts like a waterfall. Still, it's also been shown in the books that, given enough magical power, some of those physical laws might be nudged a little here and there. If Manwe did have a reason for wanting Boromir's corpse to make it unscathed down the falls, then I suppose it could happen. However improbable, there was already a minute chance that it could make it down intact. Magic can be seen as the ability to make the improbable probable.
It's no more improbable than Gandalf surviving his plunge with the Balrog. How improbable was that?
Aragorn: But I saw you fall.
Gandalf the newly white: Didn't I ever tell you about Balrogs, boy. Balrogs bounce!
Natter:
Shrift: I don't want any part of a contest that I can't win with apathy and snark.