From Literary, an exchange which mysteriously was unrepresented here:

Penny B:

If you're going to call yourself a sleuth, you'd damn well better be driving a roadster. IJS.

Right now I'm reading books about Uncle Tom's Cabin, in preparation for my Magic Negro presentation. It's very, very interesting. Stowe got a lot of hate mail.

Betsy Hanes Perry:

Mmmm, roadsters.

Kathy Astrom:

Those last two posts have caused my head to explode, because I just pictured Little Eva in a red Miata, zooming across the ice like the last James Bond flick.

Penny B:

I just pictured Little Eva in a red Miata, zooming across the ice like the last James Bond flick.

AHAHAHAHA! Then they push Legree into a tank full of sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads.

Betsy Hanes Perry:

Then Topsy strolls out, dressed in black leather from head to toe, and says "Looks like I just growed some more!" She and Eva kiss passionately, then tear off toward the sunset in the Miata.

Teppy: I don't get how Y Tu Mama Tambien got nominated for writing. Was there a special "Pretentions, Anvillicious, Preachy Teenage Road Movie You'll Think Is Arty Because It's Foreign" category?

Erika: Dude, Teppy, have you seen the Oscars? Of course there is.Along with the "It's Boring, but it's Period" category. And the "We Missed You When You Made A Better Film" category and the "It Takes Courage to Play Ugly or Crippled" category.

Natter 8:

amyparker: When did that start? I came back and everyone was swearing at everyone else.

Jesse: Blame it on Rio. Or the bossanova, I forget which.

Natter 8:

Aimee: For those of you on the edge of your seats in agonized wonderment....

I GOT MY PLATE HANGERS!

Nutty: Why hang plates? What crimes have they done??

Are they safer from being inspired by earthquake to jump to their deaths if they're on the wall than in the cabinet?

meara, in Natter:

Maybe when I understand the bossanova, I can blame things on it, rather than the rain.

kat perez, in Buffy (non-spoilery)

(and context be damned)

And you can always top a slut.

In Buffy, non-spoilery:

Ted R.: What I want is a reference before the season-or series-ends to the fate of MKF

Anne W. : Well, if money was tight, I'd imagine that getting enough protein to supplement their diet became something of an issue.

BUFFY: More meow-goo-gai-pan, anyone?

Nutty, in Natter:

Efficiency is like the ATP of the business cycle -- once it's used up, you have to go away and make more before you can get anything done.

Nutty, again:

You were so sneaky I suspect I caught you in midsnog. Or maybe that means I'm sneaky? It's very hard to act like a secret agent with a finger in one's bellybutton.

Damn you people are making me laugh today:

in Buffy: (non-spoilery)

Aimee:

Betsy, if I came to your house, I'd put a toy on a string and walk around your house hoping he would follow me so I could sing "I'm being followed by a Moonshadow." I'm wierd like that.

billytea

I think I'd keep on picking him up and saying in a baby voice, "Do you know what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Yes you do, don't you?"