Aimée: Working on resume. How does one write, "gets money from deadbeats without use of smacking around"?
Hil R.: "Excellent people skills."
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Coffee On My Monitor
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.
Trudy Booth - Feb 05, 2003 11:19:15 pm PST #2286 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Theodosia - Feb 06, 2003 4:21:40 am PST #2287 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
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.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 06, 2003 4:56:48 am PST #2288 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
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"
Dana - Feb 06, 2003 6:46:47 am PST #2289 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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
Jessica - Feb 06, 2003 7:46:01 am PST #2290 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nonspoilery, in Angel:
PMM: <pause pedantic, because we all know that pedantic doesn't have an /.>
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2003 8:20:20 am PST #2291 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Dana - Feb 06, 2003 8:24:36 am PST #2292 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Grrrrrr. Thanks, ita.
Theodosia - Feb 06, 2003 8:43:07 am PST #2293 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
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!
Jessica - Feb 06, 2003 9:42:44 am PST #2294 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Natter:
Shrift: I don't want any part of a contest that I can't win with apathy and snark.
DXMachina - Feb 06, 2003 9:53:28 am PST #2295 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
From the same post as above:
Shrift: In my hometown, the bowling alley is the happenin' scene. Social hotspot. It's a dark, smoke-filled skank of a bowling alley where old men are curled protectively around their beer and the women's hairstyles are proof that the '80s are still hanging on by their Lee Press-on Nails.