Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.

Willow ,'Bring On The Night'


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This thread is for Buffista quotage. Posts that are profound, witty, or otherwise deserving of immortality go here. This is also Shrift's source for the BRQG, so be aware that if your words end up here, they'll also end up there. Finally, please note which thread spawned the quotage and please white-out anything that might be spoilery to Un-Americans.


beth b - May 20, 2003 11:28:12 pm PDT #3539 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Ginger in Buffy -- spoilerly:

I’m going to be sappy, because I’m drinking the small batch bourbon I bought for the occasion, because I have watched every single show since the first season, and because this seems to be the place to do it. I’m not one of these Johnny-come-latelys to Buffy. Joss Whedon had me at "I see you’ve seen the softer side of Sears." I was caught by the snark but stayed … for what? Mostly because Buffy, more often than not, met what I think of as the criteria for great writing -– the definition in William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize speech:

I decline to accept the end of man.... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Ave atque vale, Buffy.


Sean K - May 21, 2003 12:13:53 am PDT #3540 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

msbelle, in Buffy, non-spoilery (and again proof that msbelle posting drunk is possibly the funniest thing on the planet):

peopleneed to fucking DIE!

Also,I'm druink,so forgive the typing. Sommervillians are awewsome!


Calli - May 21, 2003 7:00:35 am PDT #3541 of 10000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Spoilery for Buffy, yet so very quotable.

Laura: Well, [Spike] was dead before last night, and yet hot.

amych: Also true. Really, the only difference is that "hot" now includes the special added "bursting into flames" meaning.


erikaj - May 21, 2003 10:30:09 am PDT #3542 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

Yes, Virginia, Bitch compliments are a little different: Hec, in Bitches: Thank you and welcome back[Elena].We've missed you. Ok, sometimes when we want to play Hunter S. Thompson and toy with the synergistic effects of multiple drugs and make sure we won't be brain dead, but also your warm, witty, gracious, and talented self.


Michele T. - May 21, 2003 11:15:57 am PDT #3543 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Beth, that's not really spoilery unless people still don't know the show is going off the air.


Ellen S. - May 21, 2003 11:33:24 am PDT #3544 of 10000
there is something to be said for the lyric and imperial attitude / believe that everything is for you until you discover that you are for it

Gus: I managed to get bitten by a monkey. This is especially wonderful, since the Republic of Congo has experienced the most recent outbreak of ebola virus; which virus being very large with hitch-hiking among the monkeys. Luckily, there are al sorts of WHO doctors around (we're visiting a WHO installation) that are sure there was no more than usual nasty monkey-bite crap going on.

I am applying for any open position in Cindy's No Monkey Brigade.

Madrigal: Wow, of all the things I've been bitten by, monkey is still not on the list. Sending quick healing vibes your way - though if that monkey were some genetically modified radioactive primate - you could end up with some nifty new abilities and be able to embark upon a new career fighting crime.

billytea - Not sure if there's really such strong demand for a superhero whose special power is hurling faeces...

Theo: billytea, with a super-power like that, what villain would be so stupid as to want to mess with Man-Monkey?

billytea - You'd think, but by the same logic no one should ever have kids, so...


sj - May 21, 2003 11:59:59 am PDT #3545 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

smonster in Buffy (non spoilery):

Leave it to Joss to know what I want better than I do.


beth b - May 21, 2003 12:28:23 pm PDT #3546 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Beth, that's not really spoilery unless people still don't know the show is going off the air.

just being overly cautious


DXMachina - May 21, 2003 3:07:58 pm PDT #3547 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

In Bitches:

Teppy:

I don't know if I'd let someone nibble on my scar.

Clearly I still have some healing to do, because my back just spasmed at the idea of being nibbled on.

Licking would be okay, though.

erikaj:

readies tongue. "No, Mom, all Buffistas say hello like that. They'll think I'm a jerk if I don't...it's a thing."


erikaj - May 21, 2003 3:13:04 pm PDT #3548 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

Betsy, being wise in Natter: Nothing is more touching than the beliefs of the pregnant about What Parenthood Will Be. Parenthood is what sneaks up behind you in dark alleys with a sock full of quarters.