In Bitches:

Sean K:

If I didn't want to talk during sex, I'd just go masturbate. Even then, I'd probably talk.

Nutty, in the context of a lengthy Natter discussion about jock straps and other buttless articles of clothing:

Logically, then, butted chaps are the sole province of the cowboy.

Nutty: Men always underestimate the power of the VPL.

Emily, in Bitches, on exes:

Actually, despite my joking, I'm really living in the happy fantasy that purely coincidentally, after we broke up they found the woman for whom they were destined. And in fact that they were slightly wistful over not settling down with me, but that they knew they couldn't give me the life that I really deserved and so they shouldn't hold me back.

Yes. Also, I have violet eyes and an entrancing singing voice, and I could get the ship back to the Alpha Quadrant by snapping my fingers. No, literally! I'm Q's niece!

in Angel:

ita:

Good point. Then how the hell did Doyle pass on the visions to her/Angel?

Katie M:

I suspect it was an about-to-die thing. I mean, it's visions, not mono.

msbelle in Natter:

I feel the need to inform some of the more disturbing hares that may be present that my ignoring abilities are legendary. I actually went pro on the ignoring circuit in 1989. Rankings in the sport are a little difficult since by definition we aren't paying attention, but non-involved parties have told me that I have a honed and well developed disregard.

Susan W in Buffistechnology on the intricacies of software:

If my community college renamed its advanced Word course "Making Word Your Bitch" I'd so be the first person to sign up.

In Natter, Daniel Jensen:

Sometimes when I think of two girls googling, I google myself.

Fay has a word with the Secret Service, in Natter: Dear American Seekrit Service. Stop lurking, damn your eyes! I know we're jolly sparkling conversationalists and it's probably more fun loitering around here and claiming that it's all for the good of National Security, but shoo! Go do some real work! Despite the fact that many of us have swords or crossbows and others have mighty sharp tongues, none of us would really advocate killing of anyone. Even really really Bad people - you know, people who have so devoted themselves to the service of evil that they get the prefix Darth and a really good medical & pension plan. We'd maybe talk them to death, but not even ita would kill them in cold blood.

signed Really Not Happy About This War Malarky At All, But Not Pro-Assassination Either. Of Blighty.

Not exactly funny, but really true. John, in Natter.(And I've just realized most of my COMMS are Unamericans. Maybe I should start a Domestic Comm project.)

Thinking more broadly about that annoying HIM guy, I come across this a lot, and I mentally catalogue it as High-School thinking, as opposed to University thinking.

At highschool, you're told stuff. It's the truth. If you remember it till the end of term exams, that's it, you write it down again, and you're going to pass.

At university, it ought to be different. You ought to be challenging, analysing, comparing viewpoints on and examining the agenda of the people who tell you everything.

I realise that people's highschools may be much better than that, but I also sadly realise that, conversely people's universities may not be doing that job.

People like HIM end up with a brain that just goes "the word NEWS comes from the points of the compass. Huh. Cool fact" and doesn't bother to think "can that be true?", and in fact, reacts with annoyance to people saying "if you thought about it for a second, you'd see that it's unlikely".

See also that "aren't we lucky we don't live in the 1500s" thing...