Literary:

DX: Ooh! I know! I know! (Waves hand in the air )

Darn, I never get called on...

Literary:

DavidS: > sounds like the paper I wrote on The Tempest.

Whoa. That sounds intense. I can't even figure out how you tied it together.

DavidS: [clears throat] Thesis was that the imagery in the Tempest predicates an ontology of actuality moving into possibility which I tied (with a very loose slipknot) to big bang physics and (more relevant for the topic) to Shakespeare's notion of morality being explicitly tied to the ability to imagine. With Caliban being the pivotol figure and redeemed by his ability to hear voices and whatnot.

Hayden: My god, does this make me want to smoke some pot.

Literary:

Kathy Astrom: Betsy and Micole, did you read Ann Maxwell's Timeshadow Rider? This one still blows my mind every single time I read it. Actually, the first time I read it, I had no clue what happened at the end, so I started rereading it the next day, and the lightbulb finally clicked on about three-quarters of the way through.

Betsy Hanes Perry: I liked that one better than the furry/smoothie books, actually. My favorite, though, was the one about the culture where duels to the death were the principal method of population control. To get married, the bride and groom sat down in front of a table with a knife. If they both survived, they got married. Very ita.

[I think it was Name Of A Shadow .]

meara: Er...they duelled each OTHER? I'm thinking if you really want to get married you're not exactly going to be trying your hardest. Unless you're ita.

Natter 8:

Jesse: I swear, I will NEVER get sick of the "How do YOU do it?" game.

ita: As opposed to the "How YOU doing?" game, which gets old real fast.

Am-Chau, in Precious:

I live to link.

No, that's Nilly...

I live to Google "slash"+"Lord of the Rings"+"quiz" and actually read the results?

I was born to slash, and bash, and Google for beautiful poetry?

Sean K: Though, having spent a good chunk of my life in rural middle-America, I'd have to say you'd be surprised how many people fit that stereotypical generalization. There are actually large chunks of people who are scary and bigotted.

amyparker: I'm related to many of them.

msbelle: Are you talking about my ass? I know it has strong opinions, but I think calling it bigotted is a little harsh.

billytea: (resolves to prod next American I see till large scary bigotted chunk reveals itself)

Natter 8:

BHP: When I was a kid, I ate out with my parents at a restaurant that had little flags. When you raised your flag, you wanted your waiter's attention.

Ever since, I have looked hopefully for the flag.

I'd settle for a little buzzer.

Or even a teeny tiny remote-operated cattle prod.

Herah: Pancho's Mexican Buffet had those flags. I was about 10. The waiter came over three times before I figured out the connection.

billytea: I like the sentiment, but it assumes they will actually approach your table at some point. You really want something that can attract their attention from across the room. A blowgun maybe (bonus feature: you could get it to fire darts with radio transmitters so you can track them, should it become necessary; and it will become necessary).

edit to add billytea's.

Knut in BBaBB, context be damned:

I tell you, us lazy people, we need a lobby.

Aww. I've fallen off the face of the earth.

While I'm at it (and to disguise the shameless slumbernutting):

Schmoker (in Firefly of all places):

Wolfram in COMM:

It's fun being snarky in COMM. It really eliminates the middleman

Wolfram:

I'd COMM your COMMing of my post in COMM but I have to draw the line somewhere.

One of these days, the silly Australians are going to put up a fence. We lose more of them that way...