Steph:
Oh, Cary Grant. He invented foamy.
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
'Soul Purpose'
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.
Theodosia - Oct 27, 2002 6:43:37 am PST #545 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"
Jen - Oct 27, 2002 12:20:45 pm PST #546 of 10000
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Caroma:
I do have to say that the main thing that strikes me about Inara is--well--she seems to be a total male fantasy.
billytea:
Yeah, she is a bit. Except possibly the part where she gets to choose whether she'll have sex with you.
(from Firefly)
amyparker - Oct 27, 2002 2:19:50 pm PST #547 of 10000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Billytea, in Natter, on the etymology of "avocado":
I do rather like the idea of it arising from a conversation something like this:
"What'd the Spaniard say?"
"He wants to know what 'ahuacatl' means."
"Um... It's the fruit. He's holding one, fer crying out loud. Is he retarded or something?"
"No, he wants to know if it means anything else."
"So... 'It's a fruit' isn't good enough for him? (Sigh) These guys are crazy, you know that? ...Ok, look, tell him it's our word for goolies. That oughta shut him up. Man, Axtacla's going to get a laugh out of this..."
billytea - Oct 27, 2002 5:28:41 pm PST #548 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Steph, in Natter:
I have to say, working out to Jaws is a little disturbing.
Connie Neil - Oct 27, 2002 5:41:52 pm PST #549 of 10000
brillig
Again, the lovely Teppy and her feelings for "Jaws"
And I always root for Quint to be a shark Hot Pocket.
It's a COMM two-fer!
P.M. Marc - Oct 27, 2002 5:47:10 pm PST #550 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dude, I slash everything from M&M commercials to Disney fiilms. Nothing is sacred.
However, I do think programming like Everybody Loves Raymond is safe, because although I'm sure everybody does love Ray, I really don't want to see everybody love Ray, y'know?
shrift in natter.
Nutty - Oct 27, 2002 6:13:11 pm PST #551 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Steph L.: Jaws update: they're gonna need a bigger boat.
DXM: Jumped the shark, did they?
billytea - Oct 27, 2002 6:18:45 pm PST #552 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hec, about Emmett, in Bitches:
We walked through TFAW and Emmett's eyes bugged out when he saw the talking Sauron action figure. He had a huge internal conflict at that point between his Rampant Love of Money and His Insidious Attraction To All Things Evil. Evil won, and he parted with the $20 he got from my Dad for his birthday. This lead to the weird sight of my son literally skipping through the breezeway with Sauron intoning "Build me an army worthy of Mordor!"
And also this brief conversation on the train home...
Emmett (holding up Sauron): Does this dude ever sleep?
Me: I don't think you're allowed to call the dark lord of all evil "dude."
DXMachina - Oct 27, 2002 6:50:45 pm PST #553 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Betsy, in Bitches -
Daughter, Friday night: "So, what did you do all day? Anything interesting?"
Me: "Uh... wrote some stuff, talked to some people, went to some meetings, nagged some people about reviews, uh.... and defused the nuclear bomb in the trunk of the car."
Daughter, disappointed: "Oh. You noticed."
Son, to daughter: "Ah! Your evil plan had a fatal flaw!"
Betsy HP - Oct 27, 2002 6:51:10 pm PST #554 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Billytea, in Natter:
IIRC, the Adirondacks got their name from the name of the Algonquins, and was supposed to commemorate them. The hitch was, it wasn't their own name, but what the Iroquois, which had rather a low opinion of them, used. It means something like 'bark-eaters', and referred to their supposed inability to hit any faster-moving prey even if it was tied down and sedated.