Ken Buddha:

Sorry people, until you drive in Massachusetts, you don't know what aggressive driving is really like. Lately, I've been noticing us having a profound affect on the surrounding New England states - Maine drivers used to be polite as could be (and generally still are off-season) but if there's a possibility that there might be any Mass-holes driving in the vincinity, Maine drivers turn into, well, Maine-iacs.

Factor in the fact that most Mass. drivers are also really, really BAD drivers, and that the road systems were mapped out by 17th century cows, throw in the lovely New England attraction that is the Rotary, and you have some of the most exciting driving in the country. And that's when it's not crappy weather-wise.

I've found it helps to treat it like a video game that can actually kill me.

Narrator, continuing the driving theme:

Texas drivers are aggressive, insane and armed.

Note to self: Stay out of Texas.

The Massachusetts drivers are armed too, and an RX-7 can be a lot deadlier than a 30-06 in the wrong hands.

Note to self: Stay out of Massachusetts, too.

Utah drivers are unarmed insane idiots with children, so they're OBVIOUSLY the most important people on the road.

Note to self: Well, you were never going there anyway.

Astarte: I wish I had something more to offer than cyberhugs and a sympathy thwump (hey, that sounds kind of suggestive, doesn't it? Your ponk or mine?) but that will have to do.

billytea: Y'know, it's really ok. I mean, it hurts, because otherwise I'd feel pretty silly calling it pain. I might call it 'whiffle-bat' or something, and then where would we be? "Oh, woe is me. Share my experience. Feel my whiffle-bat."

Emily:"The damn thing has Krypton in it for Pete's sake, how can it be lacking in cunt?"

(Funnier out of context.)

Catching up in Natter--

Madrigal: I think of all the Beatles except for John have done cameos on "The Simpsons" - and since then George Harrison and Linda McCartney have died, so maybe it wasn't such a safe choice for Ringo. There's quite a number of musicians and singers who've died after appearing on "The Simpsons": Barry White, John Entwistle, Tito Puente, Joey Ramone, Johnny Cash, etc. It's almost as dangerous as being a drummer for Spinal Tap.

DX:

Spinal Tap

Who also appeared on The Simpsons...

P.M. Marcontell:

Too much fucking chocolate, not enough fucking coffee.

In Bitches.

Cass: Arnold was just sworn in.

ND: That's what all the demonic chanting was about.

Teppy: Man, just ascend, already.

In Bitches, regarding a quote from GWB in London (for the record: "I am so pleased to be going to a country which says that people are allowed to express their mind. That's fantastic. Freedom is a beautiful thing.") -

Cashmere:

Does the irony escape him much?

Jaqueline Zahas:

The irony not only escapes him, it has leapt out the window, hopped in a cab and then sneaked onto an international flight, hidden for several years in Stockholm under an assumed name, returned home with a full set of beautifully crafted fake identity papers, settled into its new life, lived that life fully and richly, and died at an advanced age surrounded by its fat and snarky grandchildren, before he even notices that something ruffled his hair as it sailed over him.

In Tim's thread, some OC discussion:

Sumi:

No, no, no the only way Lady J can die, is if she gets to come back as a vampire.

Matt the Bruins fan:

Wouldn't that be redundant? She's already an evil, soulless thing that sucks the life out of others...