Shrift:
An example of the cheery being inflicted on me:
Boss: GOOD MORNING!
Me:
t mumble
G'morning.
Boss:
t leans close
Did you say good morning?
Me: Yes?
Boss:
t sing-song
I didn't HEAR you!
Me:
t recoils in terror
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
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.
Trudy Booth - Dec 19, 2003 7:11:11 am PST #5093 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
erikaj - Dec 19, 2003 7:27:20 am PST #5094 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
further on the same conversation, shrift as my role model in the office: Well, I'm not actively homicidal. I just want to get on the intercom and scream "Freaks! Freaks! Happiness pie freaks! I declare this office Misanthropy Land and none of you may venture within its borders!"
Theodosia - Dec 19, 2003 8:27:47 am PST #5095 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"
A two-fer -
Trudy Booth, to a habitually snarly Buffista:
Shrift, you should come to New York where you'd be considered chipper and folksy in your wholesome midwestern ways.
Katie M:
I knew this girl in grad school who was from a small town in Ohio, and had then lived in the same New Jersey town as me for a couple of years (though we didn't know each other at the time).
ME: How did you like it?
HER: Well, it seemed a little unfriendly. I mean, I'd say hello to people and they wouldn't say hello back.
ME: People? Like... random people on the street?
HER: Yeah!
ME: Um, you realize that they thought you were probably crazy, right?
erinaceous - Dec 19, 2003 8:39:45 am PST #5096 of 10000
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
ita, in Natter:
My mother sent me a joke forward. It was funny -- her taste is pretty good.
She also sent it to my father and sister. Both of whom she lives with. In fact, she shares a PC with my sister. Computers are killing the family.
smonster - Dec 19, 2003 8:59:52 am PST #5097 of 10000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Words of wisdom for the ages, from Cindy:
Matt, remember, if you ever have to go on the lam, you can't take a sofa with you, but a leather coat is de rigeur.
Kat - Dec 19, 2003 9:31:36 am PST #5098 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
From Angel:
Gleebo:
I would give my left arm and a kidney for the bucket Wes used with Justine.
Wolfram:
The lack of both may make it a bit more difficult to use.
beth b - Dec 19, 2003 11:17:27 am PST #5099 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
shrift:
But I don't think the special hell has Cheetos
Katie M - Dec 19, 2003 11:38:30 am PST #5100 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
Holli in Natter:
I'm very excited about techinically being an adult. I can get arrested! I can buy porn! In some states, I can get arrested FOR buying porn!
Theodosia - Dec 19, 2003 12:07:31 pm PST #5101 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"
erikaj:
When I went to a psychologist last time I wrote my dad and sm this big old letter, thinking we were gonna have this big moment...right? I sweated and agonized like the Bayliss Girl/ Virgo I am, trying to get it right and then we went to dinner, they made fun of it and really? I could have saved myself the stamp. But, it was good for me to say my piece, and that is why the psych. suggested it, I think. I was the one who thought it would Fix Everything and it so did not. I got a little material attention for the next months, because my dad thinks the Beatles were wrong about buying love, but...
Cindy:
(I suppose it is wrong that I wish some of the emotionally deficient people in my life had tried to buy my love. I just got the frustration.)
Trudy Booth - Dec 19, 2003 12:14:49 pm PST #5102 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
Steph: I'd rather sit with him and listen to him drone on about British bands I know nothing about than listen to the fundies talk about Jesus.
Gudanov: I know what you mean. Those conversations just kinda boil down to:
"Jesus is really cool."
"I had this experience yesterday that made me realize how cool Jesus is."
"Yeah, I think Jesus is cool too."
"Wouldn't be be great if everybody though Jesus was a cool as we do?"
"I took this great class where we learned about how cool Jesus is."
"That's cool. Well, not as cool as Jesus, but you know."
It gets old. Nothing against Jesus, it's just yeah you like Jesus I. get. it.