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...

Alicia :A few of the folks I know insist on calling me goth, because I usually wear black, and listen to much of the same music (with notable exceptions, Cocteau Twins make me yack) but I don't know that I really have the soul of a goth.

I don't think about how pretty dead things are, and hang out in graveyards enough.

But I do own a black leather corset, so, maybe I'm just confused.

Aimée : Alicia, it sounds like you are bi-gothical. Or goth-curious.

In natter 8:

Brenda M. - Erika, I totally do this. I've been on planes before and thought "no way can this plane crash with my apartment looking the way it does right now. No way in hell."

billytea - So your ideal plane crash would involve a nosedive directly into your apartment?

"This is your captain. All engines have failed. I must ask all of you to assume crash positions."

"AIM FOR THE DRESSER!!"

In response to Java Cat's COMM-ing a series of posts involving bigotry and msbelle's ass above (COMM #2342) -- I don't remember what billytea said, but I do know that *I* said:

Msbelle, I would only ever say nice things about your ass.

I felt that needed to be included for the COMM to be complete.