Calli in Bitches:
I really don't think fish fondue exists, and if so, please don't anyone tell me.
Fish? Fondon't.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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.
SailAweigh - Jan 25, 2004 11:38:38 am PST #5290 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Gus - Jan 25, 2004 1:01:58 pm PST #5291 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Joss in Firefly...
Wait a minute, Gus! I just thanked Allyson for posting the message and then you went and did it! Now I have to thank a whole nother person? You think I got time to be thanking people all day? I mean, I'm a very important writer type! I have certain DEMANDS on my time but do you care, no, you just trundle about doing favors and making people thank you. Maybe it's time you thought about somebody else for a change, huh pal? Thanks -- for nothin'! -- except posting that message like I asked! Pal! Sheesh!
Trudy Booth - Jan 25, 2004 2:11:21 pm PST #5292 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
Gus: Race is apophenia run wild.
Susan W. - Jan 25, 2004 3:35:55 pm PST #5293 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Allyson, in the Firefly thread:
It's like, sometimes, when the whole world seems turned upside-down, and my faith in humanity has run into negative digits, and the path is filled with brambles, and all seems hopeless, i turn to face the mirror and ask, "What Would Buffy Do?"
And then I kick the crap out of someone and feed them their own spleen and fuck a really cute boy who is no damn good for me, everything becomes right with the world.
Theodosia - Jan 25, 2004 6:25:12 pm PST #5294 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"
Matt the Bruins Fan:
What I know of my genetic heritage is all English, Scottish, and Irish (presumably Black Irish), but a few years ago when I had a deep tan I was rejected for a date by someone who refused to go out with Hispanics on general principle. I started to argue the point before realizing that I wasn't terribly keen on dating a bigot whether the bigotry was misplaced or not.
Nilly - Jan 26, 2004 6:25:37 am PST #5295 of 10000
Swouncing
Natter:
tommyrot: My cat once killed a silverfish and then meowed at me to say, "fix it!" My cat apparently thinks I have the power to bring insects back to life. Hey, I can turn lights on and off, and open doors that my cat can't, so in his mind these things are probably equally miraculous as raising the dead.
Trudy Booth - Jan 26, 2004 6:42:47 am PST #5296 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
Rio: What's Young Americans?
Hil: Summer show on the WB a few years ago. Took place in a boys boarding school, where one of the boys was actually a girl, two of the boys were in love with the same girl, there was something about how that girl might actually be the half-sister of one of them, they spent lots of time shirtless for no reason whatsoever, would occaisionally all strip and jump into the lake in slow motion, and drank lots of Coca-Cola(TM).
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2004 7:23:45 am PST #5297 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
meara in Bitches:
For Burrell:
If I had a little baby Frannie, I would
kiss her little toeses
eat the little toeses
marvel at the tiny fingernails
make her hold onto my finger so I could marvel at how small her fist is
marvel at how big she's gotten
make zerberts on her tummy
ask her mommy if she's old enough to be tossed (not letting go!) in the air to make her squeal
watch her while she's sleeping
HAND HER BACK TO MOMMY WHEN I"M DONE
Frankenbuddha - Jan 26, 2004 8:33:53 am PST #5298 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
MechaKrelboyne, on the book's trip through Mordor, in RotK:
Just so. 'It's cold. We don't have much Lembas left. My shoulder hurts. This ring is heavy.' When I read it the first time I would keep stopping to wonder if Tolkien was doing it deliberately to try and make reading about it as mind numbingly horrible as doing something about it. Now, I'm just. 'Yeah, suck it up and march, Shire Boy. Let's get to the good stuff.'
RobertH - Jan 26, 2004 9:25:37 am PST #5299 of 10000
Disaffected college student
In the Firefly thread:
Kate P.: Re: languages in the Firefly 'verse, IIRC Joss or someone says in one of the commentaries that even the poorest/least-educated/lowest-class folks of all races can speak fluent Chinese (are we assuming Mandarin? I don't remember if it's ever mentioned). Am I overstating the case?
MechaKrelboyne: Nope. It was a very clear statement of 'everyone speaks chinese'. I think I recall hearing trailer trash referred to (which takes my mind to very cool COPS of the future place where the Feds are yelling "YOU ARE BOUND BY LAW!" While some scrawny guy tries to pull his gun while trying to get his stolen car out of the ditch, all the while yelling "Gao yang jong duh goo yang".)