John Sweden: I have a buddy named Fernando. Guess how much he hates ABBA?
billytea I would guess that this would depend heavily on the extent to which he can hear the drums.
Patron: That girl is a witch. Mal: Yeah, but she's our witch.
'Safe'
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 - Jan 21, 2004 5:13:49 pm PST #5271 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
Trudy Booth - Jan 21, 2004 8:40:16 pm PST #5272 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
Elena: The first words out of my mouth when he got on the line were 'Just checking to see if you're dead.' - because 'dead' is my default assumption when I don't hear from someone.
Sue: I didn't know you were my mother! You've fooled me all these years.
Elena: Sue, you need to put on a sweater. I'm cold.
Nilly - Jan 22, 2004 5:24:22 am PST #5273 of 10000
Swouncing
Natter:
billytea: I mean, in Rome they honk as some sort of declaration of virility, and there's a pattern to that. (Challenges to one's manhood seem to include being overtaken - there appears to be a law in Rome that at no time may any vehicle be behind any other vehicle, and they're law-abiding folk; changing lanes; and not having the right of way at an intersection.) In Paris they honk as if to say "Alors! To ze barricades!", and then they speed up for a crowded pedestrian crossing or mount the pavement. (Apparently speed cameras never caught on in France, because you can guarantee that a driver will be affronted at this invasion of privacy, stop, dismantle the thing and take it home with him.) In Athens the message behind honking appears to be "This car is equipped with a horn".
[Edited because I left a town out]
Java cat - Jan 22, 2004 8:38:50 am PST #5274 of 10000
Not javachik
Ginger in Natter:
Perhaps I'm just longing for the good old days, when men were men and cars had names like Edsel.
Jessica - Jan 22, 2004 11:34:20 am PST #5275 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Betsy, in Natter:
My NeverLost was for a different universe entirely. It occasionally told us that we were in the middle of the ocean. I kept telling it that I would have noticed.
Theodosia - Jan 22, 2004 2:04:40 pm PST #5276 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"
sarameg:
Badly pointed headlights make me cranky. Except I think mine are a little high right now, and have been for years. And I know how to fix them, I just haven't. Oops. I annoy myself.
Ah, well, I guess that isn't news.
Steph L. - Jan 22, 2004 3:43:19 pm PST #5277 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Gudanov made me laugh so hard that my throat hurts, in Natter:
sarameg: Someone just asked me to explain the collapse & implosion of Yugoslavia. The short version.
Gud:
Dude, the Soviet Union is gone.
Cool, without the boot of Soviet power we can restore this country to it's Serbian glory.
No dude, you mean Croatian glory.
Hey guys, how about us Muslims?
Serbian!
Croatian!
Serbain!
Croatian!
You're going down!
Bring it bitch!
juliana - Jan 22, 2004 3:49:49 pm PST #5278 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Raquel, in Natter:
How did I not know Bush was going to be speaking in my home town today? In fact, at the school where all three parents teach/taught. Apparently he got a bit confused about which aliens he wants to legalize, and thus went to Roswell.
deborah grabien - Jan 22, 2004 5:22:28 pm PST #5279 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
erika in Bitches, context not needed:
I'm a recovering hypochondriac, anyway. Funny how not giving a shit reduces a woman's stress level.
Connie Neil - Jan 22, 2004 7:28:33 pm PST #5280 of 10000
brillig
I adore this thread, it's the Buffistas Greatest Hits, and I can bookmark all the good stuff I miss in skipping. Particularly Gud's terribly succinct summation of Central European politics.