PMM:

Gram's mother was from a family where you were either a high-ranking military fellow, or a high-ranking Church of England fellow. Unless you were a woman. Those were just expected to marry one or the other. (But in reality, occasionally married charming acting types or insane people from Belgium, thus adding layers, depth, and the shame of bad poetry to the family tree.)

shrift:

I did feel a bit uncomfortably conspicuous, though. Wearing jeans, a black leather coat, sunglasses, and using cell-phone. It was like I had, "Hello, I'm a godless whore of Babylon who writes gay porn about wholesome cartoon characters in her spare time!" written on my forehead.

Betsy HP in Natter:

What constitutes "scandalous baby clothes"? A mini bustier and fishnet diaper-cover?

Sean K:

And let's not forget one of my favorites: A Christmas Story, which is about a Christmas gone horribly, horribly wrong, which is only truly saved at the very end by the kid getting a weapon.

Liese in Great Write:

However, I did cook our favorite casserole dish, wash the dishes, clean the kitchen, go grocery shopping, check the post office, bake bread, sort the laundry, register my domain names, look for shoes, and buy a doghouse. So yay for procrastinating. How else would I ever get anything done?

NoiseDesign:

I really need to stop wearing antlers. It's a bad habit, and I know it, but I like having my one real vice.

Aimée:

Well, aside from not eating right and never sleeping.

NoiseDesign:

You're really dead set to take it all away from me aren't you? You'll leave me with no love in my life at all!

Madrigal Costello:

Didn't you read? He can't sleep or pause to feed or the hunters will get him. It's NoiseDesign season, fluorescent orange is out of fashion, and the whole downtown area is a salt lick.

Jacqueline Zahas:

And the recreational cross-dressing and the popcorn buckets. Really, antlers is kind of tame. I expected more of you, ND.

msbelle, covering the bases:

one of my favourite revisited Buffista topics: to sift or not to sift.

oh my.

I always wear my seatbelt, I don't feel strongly about silverware handling, serial commas are the one true way, highschool did not define me, I forgot how I feel about multiple answers on voting, banning is sometimes good, skinny does not equal evil in real life or for celebrities, however, airbrushing is the work of the devil, and last but not least, I'm the nicest one here. Oh, I almost forgot, ignoring is a necessity, practice makes perfect.

Dammit, vw! I was just about to post that!

Nilly, doing her thing when people asked about how "HSQ" came to be (in Previously):

The genesis of a Buffista term:

Right afrer "The Trial" (Dru vamping Darla):

Anya G: The ending of this episode had the "Holy shit!" factor of Buffy when it's good.

Stephanie A. Johnson: HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! Drusilla!!! I had no freakin' idea! THIS is why I dont' read spoilers. Because I love the feeling that I get when I am so in shock surprise and amazement at the brilliance of the show that I can only get out a strangled "oh. my. GOD!!!"

Bob K: I also yelled "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!" at Dru's entrance. Soooo glad I wasn't spoilered on this.

David J. Schwartz: I must add my "HOLY SHIT!" to the general chorus.

Right after "Reunion" (people cellar):

David S: And the ending ranks up there just behind "Becoming 2" for "Holy shit!" Quotient.

And right before "Redefinition" (Dru and Darla on fire):

David S: I agree with Hines on this. The HSQ (Holy Shit! Quotient) on Angel has been much, much higher than on Buffy this year. In fact, the last two episodes of Angel both rang up huge HSQs.

And right after:

Suela Clabby: But yes, we are nice people. Tim likes us! OK, so maybe he likes the leg-humping mentality he gets in the three hours after an episode with a high HSQ (like that acronym, I'm going to use it more).

meara: Sad that Angel is feeling so much better than Buffy this season (and am so going to use "HSQ" in the future...)

David S: Cool, that's two votes. I think we're on our way to a coinage. Just what we needed: more obscure initials to baffle casual viewers and posters.

And it was good. and there was evening, and there was morning (you know, different timezones) of the second AtS thread on TT.

Susan: My brother, who received hand-to-hand combat training as part of his West Point education, once told me that love is like a knife fight--the only way to survive and prevail is to accept that you're going to get cut and fight anyway.