Nutty:

You know, when I was in the third grade, I was jealous of the girl who skipped a grade to fourth. But now I think back about it, I'm like, HELLO, grade school is not a race. I was habitually the youngest in my class (September cutoff) and pretty small, until puberty. And really, did I need to be more of a know-it-all egomaniac than I already was?

Sometimes I despair that it's my brain that leads the rest of me around.

billytea, in Bitches

I don't see [the French] saying "ah well, zat's ok by us, and we 'ave an island in ze Sout' Pacific you can use for testing if you're interested".

Partly because to my knowledge, France is not being run by the cast of 'Allo 'Allo, but for other reasons too.

Perkins:

I was trying to imagine where I'd be if I stayed the course, and can't imagine. Possibly still in San Francisco, but that's the only plus I can come up with. Of course, I can't imagine what I would be doing if I had waited, and things turned out pretty well, so I guess it all evens out eventually.

billytea:

Yeah. I generally feel that the whole 'what if I'd done XXX instead?' is one of those "That way lies madness" moments.

Er. Edit: 'XXX' up there is just being used to mark a variable. I wouldn't want anyone thinking that becoming an actuary meant closing the door on a possibly lucrative and fulfilling career in porn. Or being Vin Diesel, shouting at terrorists or otherwise.

Edit again: On the grounds that there really were no offers on the table, not because it's perfectly possible to combine a career in financial services with ambitions in the erotic video industry. Though for all I know it is.

Edit 3: Not that I was seeking offers, you understand, it's just--

Damn. Well, I guess at least it's clear why I didn't date seriously until I was twenty.

Fay:

Oh, incidentally - you haven't seen a white person until you've witnessed me singing along to Missy Elliot whilst driving. "This is for my people/My motherfucking people/ This is for my people/ My ecstacy people/ Come on/ Yeah.....mumble mumble rhubarb rhubarb... Bitch! Ho!........mumble mumble...rhubarb rhubarb....my people! Yeah! Come on!" etc etc.

amyth:

I will totally whitegirl mangle Missy Elliott with you any time. You should hear me rap "Ladies First." I do both the Queen Latifah and Monie Love parts. It makes me looks at once like someone overly white, spastic and suffering from a multiple personality disorder.

Gus, Beckettising Voting Discussion:

ESTRAGON:
You gave me a fright.
VLADIMIR:
I thought it was three.
ESTRAGON:
Four?
VLADIMIR:
Godot. No. Monkey.
ESTRAGON:
Pah! The wind in the reeds. 'Twas six.
VLADIMIR:
I could have sworn I heard shouts.
ESTRAGON:
And why would three shout?
VLADIMIR:
At his horse.
Silence.
ESTRAGON:
(violently). I'm hungry!

Daniel C. Jensen in Natter:

News Item: Former VP Al Gore has joined the board of Apple Computer.

I didn't realize they were interested in robotics.

[editorial: If I didn't have quick lips, this would have literally been COMM. I'd just taken a sip.]

Context? Bah.

Steph L.: I don't mind public feedback, as long as the phrase "illiterate git" is used sparingly....

Cindy on religion in Natter:

If there aren't cookies, it isn't a holiday, even if it pretends to be. The best a non-cookie "holiday" can hope to be is a day off.

[editorial: If I didn't have quick lips, this would have literally been COMM. I'd just taken a sip.]

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Madrigal Costello:

It's the Netherlands, like the Netherworld, but with more tulips.