Natter 12b:

Cass: am I italic?

Daniel: I thought I was italic one summer. I rode my bicycle at a slight angle and kept speaking with intensity.

Later that fall I tried being bold, but couldn't sustain it.

Theo, your Unknown Buffista is actually two: the first sentence was said by Shawn and the second by Penny B.

Thank you, Nilly - I shall correct now.

Erika making my day:

OK. Lesson 1: Wheelchair Bound is me and Gina Gershon in an adaptive equipment store. I am a wheelchair user(and apparently kinkier than I thought)

Emily in Bitches:

Your brain? Duuuude.

Interestingly, I'm not sure our brains are sufficiently complex to comprehend the workings of our brains. Partly because so much of it is taken up with the whole "flex this muscle," "inhale," "like oranges," "Ooh, I hate her" parts of life.

But it's (pardon me for this) so wicked cool! It's all multiple layers and backpropagation and vectors and completely counterintuitive groupings and... it's like discovering a bizarre new civilization within your own head and trying to figure out whether the rituals are asking for rain or sending smoke signals or praising the gods or just cooking some nice tubers while understanding just enough of the language to say "big happy" and "left"!

Damn. I'm a brain groupie.

Damn. I'm a brain groupie.

I think I'm also a brain groupie, and especially Emily's-brain groupie.

Ken in Bitches, putting newly acquired knowledge to good use.

now I can ask him how much he enjoys his "cow-piss enameled crunchy-treats".

Maybe it's my teacher's kid history showing, but I found this hilarious:

Madrigal Costello: I was thinking Kat and I could do a cross-country clue-shoveling of the people who've committed these wrongs in academia. The positives are getting to travel, witnesses being unable to identify us, and meeting new people, then whacking them with shovels.

Kat: But the downside is that asshat administrivia types in academia are a dime a dozen. We could strike one down with a shovel, Madrigal, and like a Heather, another would rise to replace it.

deborah grabien: I'd say there's all sorts of academia-related people who could use a cluestick smack. Kat, Madrigal, good grief.

Madrigal Costello: Okay, so we track down their red scrunchie of power, or their red scrunchie of power equivalent, and then destroy it in the fires of Mordor, or feed it to an ocelot.

DXMachina: Yes, but you'd still get to hit an incompetent boob with a shovel. That's an end in and of itself.

In Buffy, discussing people appearing in adverts:

Beverly:

And Robia La Morte is in a Wall Street Journal commercial.

Ken Buddha:

I thought she didn't want to play the first evil anymore?

smonster:

And KenSnerk Co., llc stock rises ten points due to a strong start in the new fiscal year.

Hmm - post seems to have been lost, but I wanted to say getting COMMed twice on my birthday is bestest present a boy could get.

Err, now if someone could put the "to" in that I should have put between "want" and "play" I'd be even more obliged. I corrected it in the Buffy thread.