ita in Bitches:

I've had martial arts like other women have had relationships. Before I hit puberty, I looked wistfully at judo and wondered what all these feelings meant. I popped my cherry on Tae Kwon Do, and still remember it with a smile, although that part of my life is gone. Capoeira stole me from TKD, and I didn't look back. It was love. It still is love, really, a big and overwhelming feeling that scares me so much that I've backed away until I feel ready. In the meanwhile, I've had a couple of really bad hookups with arts whose names I don't even remember, some good "with benefits" time with Muay Thai, and I'm right now in the middle of a tumultuous and heady relationship with krav maga -- but it's kinda open, and I don't feel guilty about my kickboxing assignations, or my wistful looks at the capoeira roda.

Men are confusing in comparison

From Atlantic Canadians, because context is for the weak.

Sue:

The mall has been full of insane curlers all week. I am very afraid!

Moonlit, in Bureaucracy.

Sorry for being so wordy but remember that even Greek (birthplace of democracy) politics no longer works as smoothly and democratically as it did when only male citizens were allowed to participate and political assassinations or incarcerations were popular ways of clarifying the discussion.

Am, in Bitchy Fic:

GVSP may have saved my life, but GJSP may yet kill me.

GJSP

I'm almost afraid to ask...

Bitches on fairy dust:

Betsy: Made from real fairies. And let me tell you, pulverizing them ain't easy.

DX: Wrap them tightly in a plastic bag first. Keeps them from squirming so much.

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Knut: the Thread-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Jess PMoon: You mean there really is a Riley's Bitch thread???

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J for Jedi. thinks Yes, "afraid" is a good reaction.

Zoe Finch, right here in COMM:

John H is Buffistechnology:

I'm sure she meant in, but really, it's too funny.

scrappy, in Natter:

Don't you remember Hamlet says "Thou messenger in brown, bringst me this package from the murky depths of hell? Where do I sign?"

Teppy, in Bitches:

I *do* fear the Devilbunny.

Oddly, I don't fear the reaper.

Hil R. in Ff, R, W + E:

I was just reading a published book in which someone was waiting for something with "baited breath," and I got annoyed at the typo, but then I realized that the thing he was waiting for was fish, and I got confused as to whether it was actually a typo or just a really bad pun.

I think the familiarity makes it funnier.