Bwah!
Would it be possible to include thread names more often? For context, or just so I know if "spoilery for Angel" means spoilery from the spoiler thread spoilery, or standard NAFDA info.
Right, what's a little sweater sniffing between sworn enemies?
Riley ,'Sleeper'
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.
§ ita § - Dec 05, 2003 5:40:50 pm PST #5004 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Beverly - Dec 05, 2003 8:18:08 pm PST #5005 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm catching up in Bitches.
Hil R:
in my family, every female's will states that, although the husband will inherit almost everything, the jewelry, silver, and china are specifically mentioned as going to either daughters or nieces. My grandmother started this, because she was convinced that her husband would get remarried to a seventeen-year-old shiksa who'd take all of that stuff. It became known in our family as the "seventeen-year-old shiksa clause."
At Thanksgiving this year, my sister was setting the table, and my mother said, "This would be china you'd be happy to entertain with, right?" and my sister responded, "It's nice, but it's not really my style. You can leave it to Hil." Then a few minutes later, I walked through the dining room, and she asked me the same question. I replied, "Well, it's really more your style than mine." My father walked into the room then, and my mother turned to him, sighed, and said, "I guess the seventeen-year-old shiksa can have the china after all."
Trudy Booth - Dec 05, 2003 8:38:35 pm PST #5006 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
Emily: If a book jumps off the table, it doesn't mean there's a poltergeist. The book could just have come to life for a split second and committed suicide from the despair.
Theodosia - Dec 06, 2003 8:17:56 am PST #5007 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"
Emily, who was smokin' (as opposed to smoking) last night:
I'd like to go down in Buffista history, if necessary, as the first person to fail to get a degree because she couldn't play checkers. That would be a comfort to me in my straitjacketed rocking and mumbling. "Can't sleep... it'll forget who's playing red..."
Theodosia - Dec 06, 2003 10:12:34 am PST #5008 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"
tommyrot:
Re: wide-screen DVD hatred - I've heard tell that some people see the black bars above and below the picture and think part of the picture is "missing."
How these people get the DVD box open is beyond me.
Theodosia - Dec 06, 2003 5:36:14 pm PST #5009 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"
msbelle:
I think I am gonna write a DNR for the panda.
Nilly - Dec 07, 2003 8:42:49 am PST #5010 of 10000
Swouncing
Natter:
vw bug: I am going to have the smartest dog EVER. Emily is very patiently teaching him Complexity. I don't get it (which I think is why she's moved to explaining it to the dog), but he seems completely taken with the whole subject.
amych: Don't be fooled, vw. My cat understood poststructuralism quite well, but I never could get her to sit down and produce a dissertation.
Hil R. - Dec 07, 2003 8:51:05 am PST #5011 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Continuing that exchange:
Thomash:
It's true. Pets will learn everything they can from us, but only to their own ends.
(Rhode Island is secretly run by parakeets)
Volans - Dec 07, 2003 11:44:33 am PST #5012 of 10000
move out and draw fire
Raiders of the Lost Ring, in LOTR, DXM bringing the funny:
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"?
Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
Aragorn: I like "Strider."
Elrond: We named the *dog* Strider.
DavidS - Dec 07, 2003 7:52:38 pm PST #5013 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In Bitches...
Madrigal: Maybe the echidna skull could be useful in getting the visas back. There's the "I'm a voudun priest and I could wreak some major mojo on your ass" method, the "I'm the next Steve Irwin, you can't interrupt my travel plans" method, the "This is the skull of my country's first prime minister and must be returned to the national museum - yes, I know it's small, that's how you know it's authentic" method, and, "Dude, I got an echidna skull. That so outranks everyone else here with their gerbil skulls" method.
billytea: Hee. From now on, all my dealings with the US Consulate will begin with "Dear Gerbil Skull".