From Angel, context be damned:
amych: You're so un-thralled by the shiny blond thing. You make the Baby WB Marketing Department Cry!
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
Coffee On My Monitor
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kat perez - Sep 19, 2003 7:36:18 am PDT #4439 of 10000
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Beverly - Sep 19, 2003 9:02:12 pm PDT #4440 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
(Gods of the Phoenix: let this all fit in one post. And let all the tags be closed. Thank you.)
From Bureaucracy:
Sophia: I think we should make Allyson a verb to mean graciously collecting donations for charity.
ita: But you'll have opposition from those that want to use "Allyson" to mean "to wittily eviscerate". It could get confusing.
Cindy: I think "to ita" already stands for "to eviscerate." We could Allysonly ita someone, I suppose.
Hec: Really? I think of ita more as a head-kicker. Of course, we did just send her two knives.
Matt: What, Allyson can't have layers?
Allyson: I have many layers.
I also have a paypal account.
Allyson@davidfury.net if anyone would like to toss a few dollars toward Danny Strong's charity marathon thingie. I'll collect until next Friday, k? Should this go in Press?
Jon: Sure, put it in press, Allyson.
DX: Yup. We should always put our allysoning efforts in Press, because a lot of people don't read this thread.
Cindy: That's because of all the Cindying in here.
Hec: Ooh, look at that shameless fishing for gerundification.
amych: Yo, Hec, I think the word you're searching for is gerundage.
DX: No, amy, Cindy doesn't want to do a gerund, she wants to *be* a gerund.
amych: See, this is what making people into verbs leads to. The floodgates open, and everyone wants to be a part of speech.
PMM: Sure, just cause you have heckling in the bag... Rest of us have to work for our gerundage, babe.
ita: ITA.
DX: Sadly, the only thing my name could be used as a verb for is shortening overly long links, and I'd really have to kill anybody who tried to apply it that way.
Katie M: Well, you could always use it as a short-form for "miraculous end-of-story copout, perhaps involving a deity."
Cindy: Every time in the future that I have to put a pipe over a crowbar, to help me get leverage when loosening the lugnuts on a flat tire, I'm going to say I'm DXing it (because Theodosiaing it is just too difficult to pronounce).
Sean: Damn, Katie beat me to the really obvious joke...
Katie M: I'm not brilliant, but I'm fast.
Sean: Sadly, I appear to be neither. If I thought about it, I'd probably cry.
DX: So I'm going to be the verb of bad writing? 'Cause that's *so* much better...
Katie M: Well, you could always be Greek instead. I'm not sure if it counts as bad writing in that case.
DX: Oh, right. There's the whole "It's classical" loophole...
Gandalfe: Dear Stompies:
Here's a present for you! It's an Open Italics tag!!!!!!!!
Don't say I never did anything for you.
- Gandalfe
DX: Thanks ever so much, Gandalfe. I was ever so happy to have a chance to fix something. I'm the happiest stompy EVER!
Oh man, does my life suck or what?
Cindy - Sep 20, 2003 4:25:11 am PDT #4441 of 10000
Nobody
In NATTER 16: RIO'S MAKE-OUT DEN
DebetEsse: Ok, watching "Lie to Me". I maintain that sore thumbs stick out becasue when your thumb is sore, you don't want to press it against things you're holding, so you hold it away, and it literally sticks out. I'm looking for back-up. Anyone have an authoratitive voice I can cite to my roommate?
DXMachina: Sorry, want to help, but I can't. I've gotten caught in these religious brouhahas before, and they just never end well.
Cindy - Sep 20, 2003 4:31:07 am PDT #4442 of 10000
Nobody
Nutty lets us in on her plans for when she's king of the forest, in NATTER 16: RIO'S MAKE-OUT DEN:
I have spent many minutes dilligently trying to train Starbucksistas to say what they mean when they serve me drinks. Therefore, I ask for a small or a medium or a large, not a tall, taller or fricken ginormous. Also, when I ask for a cafe au lait, I damn well better get a cafe au lait, not a misto. Because the first time they did that to me, I stood around lost for 5 minutes while the guy yelled, "Misto??" and I was like, Dude, I am waiting for a cafe au lait.
This was in the Newbury St. Starbucks, but apparently word got around. The Boylston St. place says both now, when they finish making the drink.
Secretly, slowly, I am changing the world!!
flea: "So, that means you're really annoying and pedantic?"
Peanut gallery. I fly 100000 miles to have a peanut gallery.
aurelia - Sep 20, 2003 10:06:48 pm PDT #4443 of 10000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Perkins: I have a new tooth!!!!
Ken Buddha: The posters here are getting younger and younger, I tell ya!
smonster - Sep 21, 2003 12:26:01 pm PDT #4444 of 10000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Madrigal with dating tips in Bitches...
Discovery of the weekend: If you're looking for a way to completely weird out a guy you just met a party, try doing the Charleston to "Blister in the Sun" with another friend.
Katie M - Sep 21, 2003 5:41:18 pm PDT #4445 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
erikaj in Fan Fiction, on a Mary Sue:
After that, I had to stop reading, but I'm sure she sings like Kathleen Battle and can talk to her dog.
Nilly - Sep 21, 2003 11:50:52 pm PDT #4446 of 10000
Swouncing
Making the best of board's wonkiness:
Liese: But meanwhile, it's like gambling! Will I get a page header? error message? full text? Will my post go through or not? I could be the big big winner!
Kristen : It also takes numberslutting to a whole new level of fun and excitement. Will I get the number? Will anyone get the number? Will this thread say that it has 97 new posts when in reality it only has three?
victor infante - Sep 22, 2003 2:55:56 pm PDT #4447 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Cindy sets 'em up, and just when I think I'm knocking 'em out, DXM comes in for the kill.
CINDY: WHICH OF THE SOMERVILLAINS TOLD YOU ABOUT MY EARS!!!!
VICTOR: Wasn't me, because I haven't met you. Actually, I'm convinced you're an elaborate hoax being perpetrated on me by Nutty, DXM and Tom Warren, and don't exist at all.
CINDY: WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT THE ELABORATE HOAX?
DXM: The funny thing about this? Victor is totally the fictional construction of three small furry evil aliens posing as ferrets... t thwap!!
This is Victor's ferrets. Pay no attention to DX. He had to, er, step away from the computer for a second because he was telling scurrilous mistruths about our puppet master.
Theodosia - Sep 23, 2003 2:32:19 am PDT #4448 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"
aurelia:
A chicago millionaire (or zillionaire, who knows?) throws himself a birthday party each year inviting 600 of his closest friends. Several people I know worked on the setup of the stage, set and lighting which took over a week to put together. The estimated cost of this party? Around $5 million. Among the performers: Redmoon Theatre Co., a bunch of bodypainted naked people, and ...ELTON JOHN! Dude. I'll probably just watch the season premiere of 24 on my birthday.