John H. in Natter, on why he's in no hurry to see The Hours: Plus, the whole Virginia Woolf thing. When I was at university, there were the Woolf fans and the Joyce fans, and we were like the Sharks and the Jets. Only without the fighting. Or dancing. Or singing. You know what I mean.
Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?
'The Message'
Coffee On My Monitor
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erikaj - Mar 24, 2003 9:08:59 am PST #3100 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
kat perez - Mar 24, 2003 12:26:17 pm PST #3101 of 10000
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Rio in natter on the white man's need for flavored bagels:
the bagel thing fits in with my larger theory about white people and muffins. I don't have time to go into detail right now, but basically the thing is: White people just want to eat muffins 24/7, but they are ashamed of this fact, so they take totally good yummy foods like bagels and coffee and ice cream and turn it all into muffins. Hence stuff like the blueberry bagel. The caramel latte. The chunky chocolate-almond-caramel-fudge ice cream. JUST EAT A FRELLING MUFFIN, WHITEY! That is what I say.
Jon B. - Mar 24, 2003 12:56:13 pm PST #3102 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
kat perez in Bureaucracy on preferential voting (it's funny 'cause it's true!):
The PV people are like Sam I Am. "Try it, try it. You will see." It's so cute.
amyth - Mar 24, 2003 1:09:16 pm PST #3103 of 10000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
TomW in Natter:
I laugh at bagel puritanism.
I cannot think of a variety of whacked-out, frou-frou bagel that I will not try at least once. If they launched Skittles bagels, Guinness bagels, or bagels with little chocolate beagles baked right in, I would be first in line.
Madrigal Costello - Mar 24, 2003 1:47:47 pm PST #3104 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
Nutty:
Why, I remember when people beat the shit out of eachother without any assistance! Back in the day, it was none of this wire-this and fly-around-in-circles-that! We had stuntpeople and camera tricks, and that was all! And if we needed a guy to kill ten baddies at once, why, we gave him a baseball bat and told the baddies to come at him one at a time.
You youngsters. Don't undertsnad the value of a good baseball bat.
Holli - Mar 24, 2003 2:09:33 pm PST #3105 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
In Movies:
Amber B.:I'm sorry, I must be drunk. Did Eminem really just win an Academy Award?
And I'm not sure who said this, but it made me giggle:
Aw, Ling Mao, finding a Hollywood insider against the war is like finding a confused teenager.
DXMachina - Mar 24, 2003 2:15:48 pm PST #3106 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Sheryl , in Natter X:
Once again I am amused by the food likes/dislikes. I mean, people can post that they use kitchen appliances as sex toys and they'll get "Dude, I'm using them now AIFG!" But mention odd bagel flavors and you get "Cheese bagels? Eeeeuuuwww, that is so sick!"
erikaj - Mar 24, 2003 2:20:07 pm PST #3107 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Why I'm Fay's Minion reason #37, in Bitches: Love the story about Crazy Bag Lady. Of course, I'm of the opinion that anyone who would pay three figures(or more) for a bag is insane. For three or more figures, the bag would have to carry itself. And laugh at my jokes. And cook me breakfast. And give great head...IJS.
DXMachina - Mar 24, 2003 2:32:52 pm PST #3108 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
TomW , in Natter X:
Raisin Bagels never hurt anybody. Apart from that one guy, but frankly he had it coming and most experts agree that the same thing would have happened with a sesame bagel.
John H - Mar 24, 2003 2:33:15 pm PST #3109 of 10000
Gus, my new favourite Buffista, or at least my favourite new Buffista:
An utterly humor-free bureaucratic functionary (think "Willy Loman", without the bouncy personality) came to the lab today to inspect an x-ray spectrometer. He was with the Wisconsin Radiological Oversight Department (WROD). The acronym was printed across the front of his cap.
He came and stood in front of me to drone out his findings. I found that I could not take my eyes off the cap. I was transfixed by the cognitive dissonance, the sheer mustnotlaugh-mustnotlaugh mantra-ness of it all.