Who knew saints were so funny?
DavidS: I like the really grotesque saints. Like the woman who carried her amputated breasts on a tray. That really made a statement.
billytea: Yeah. "Would you like fries with that?"
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'Objects In Space'
Coffee On My Monitor
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.
kat perez - Jul 25, 2003 9:15:13 am PDT #4058 of 10000
"We have trust issues." Mylar
kat perez - Jul 25, 2003 9:22:24 am PDT #4059 of 10000
"We have trust issues." Mylar
It's "Fun With Religion" Day at Buffistas. From Spoilers, but non-spoilery:
amych: There's a car full o' Kristian Krap that parks in the same lot as me at work -- and one of this person's bumper stickers says "I know the ending - GOD WINS". And every day, I'm like, dude, whitefont!
Glamcookie - Jul 25, 2003 9:23:33 am PDT #4060 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
From Natter:
billytea:
At age 21 she was pronounced dead, but suddenly recovered during her funeral and levitated to the roof of the church (one may be grateful she didn't wait till they got to the cemetery).
DXMachina:
Sounds like somebody got an Urn of Osiris for Christmas...
Katerina Bee - Jul 25, 2003 9:23:48 am PDT #4061 of 10000
Herding cats for fun
No martyrdom until you turn 16 young lady!
But Daaaad, everyone's getting multiple arrow piercings.
Penny B., adding to the funny saints in Natter...
billytea - Jul 25, 2003 9:43:43 am PDT #4062 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Aimee, sharing MM's livejournal musings on Easter:
"Hey guys...I'm back."
"UNDEAD!! KILL IT!!"
"No! Guys...it's me! JC! Son of God? Remember?"
"GET THE TORCHES!"
Ellen S. - Jul 25, 2003 10:40:53 am PDT #4063 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
Anne W.:
...one of the early popes (Gregory, IIRC) advocated creating certain saints to replace all them feelthy pagan gods. Ergo, Demeter became St. Demetrius, Dionysus became St. Denis, and so on. Statues of Mary replaced statues of Cybele and other goddesses. Basically, Gregory approached evangelism as if it were a brand-awareness campaign.
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edited to add:
Also the octupus tried to kill me. Jealous bitch. - Lisah (whom I’m now imagining with 10 arms)
Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2003 11:55:41 am PDT #4064 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Lisah: Not that it would have solved everything, but having some kind of help from an uninterested, qualified party I think would help them start to rebuild their lives on more stable ground then they are now.
Billytea: I agree wholeheartedly, especially where there's a child involved. But 'an uninterested, qualified party' gives me a mental pictures of our therapist smoking Gauloises and exclaiming "God, don't you two have any interesting stories?"
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And, Shrift, I think "Even middle management knows I'm feral." should be your new tag.
Fay - Jul 25, 2003 12:34:28 pm PDT #4065 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
DON'T get ita's name wrong. Really. Don't do it.
I am not Anita. Or Rita. Or Sita, Mr. Spammer. It used to be short for something, but once I got, it's all it needs to be. It's a "t", like in ... let me think ... "tee". And it will keep being a "t", thanks. I know it rhymes with lots of cute things. I also know how to kill you. And if they could find a jury of my peers, I'd get acquitted. It's only three letters. And some of them are vowels! I'm not asking much.
(in Natter)
Theodosia - Jul 25, 2003 1:57:48 pm PDT #4066 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jess PMoon:
I've never seen an Ophelia I liked, on film or onstage. I might have liked Kate Winslet, but the blinding light from Kenneth Brannagh's ego hurt my eyes, and I had to turn the movie off after the first half hour.
Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2003 1:58:04 pm PDT #4067 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
kat perez: Co-worker has played Celin Dion's rendition of "All By Myself" three times in a row. Ima start checking for still growing nail clippings because obviously homechick's a demon.