Steph L.: Jaws update: they're gonna need a bigger boat.
DXM: Jumped the shark, did they?
Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
'Trash'
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.
Nutty - Oct 27, 2002 6:13:11 pm PST #551 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
Betsy HP - Oct 27, 2002 6:57:58 pm PST #555 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
ita, in Natter (boy, has it been a great day, or what?)
Today's partner (in Muay Thai) punched himself in the jaw when he did anything wrong. Which sort of leaves me with nothing to do.
Kat - Oct 27, 2002 11:43:40 pm PST #556 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Alibelle in Angel:
This post has been brought to you by the people who like to agree. And me too.
Trudy Booth - Oct 27, 2002 11:49:05 pm PST #557 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
Kat in Angel:
"I wonder if she had breast implants while she was on a higher plane?"
Nilly - Oct 28, 2002 1:22:43 am PST #558 of 10000
Swouncing
From Natter:
Alibelle: Do I know what that sentence that I just typed means? No, no I don't. But I think I've finally triggered the paper-writing gland in my brain which spits out long winded sentences that mean little to nothing.
Trudy: It's a delicate balance of sleep deprivation and caffine.
Theodosia - Oct 28, 2002 4:36:05 am PST #559 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"
billytea, on anti-alcohold ads in Oz:
We also had ads with the slogan "If you drink then drive, you're a bloody idiot", which is, admittedly, not entirely inaccurate. After a while, and the slogan became part of the national consciousness, they shortened it on some billboards to read "Drink. Drive. Bloody idiot." A couple of radio wags noted that this ran the risk of being taken as a command, directed at the segment of the population no doubt least able to resist it. And, of course, if the trend continued eventually we'd be left with billboards reading simply "Idiot."
Theodosia - Oct 28, 2002 5:04:23 am PST #560 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"
Typo Boy, in Angel, non-spoilery:
I have a theory about the C word.
The native language of the Powers That Be has a word that happens sound just like one of our English words. It is pronounced and spelled like "Champion". It means "chewtoy".