One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!

Mal ,'War Stories'


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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.


esse - Oct 28, 2002 6:02:55 pm PST #582 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

In Bitches:

BHP: I hate all bras. They all fall apart too quickly.

Except for the gungy slightly-too-small overwashed-gray bra that lurks in the back left of your underwear drawer. That one is immortal.

The perky pink ones? Forget it. Shredded into confetti.


Theodosia - Oct 28, 2002 6:36:57 pm PST #583 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"

DavidS, in Natter, on prospects for future cute kid stories:

I am hoping that one day Emmett crawls into the bloody carcass of an elk and refuses to come out, thus becoming a part of Internet lore forever.


Rebecca Lizard - Oct 28, 2002 9:34:30 pm PST #584 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Nutty:

I like to think underwear should be invisible and effortless, like manners, and like manners, underwear's tact is often shown in its absence.


Java cat - Oct 28, 2002 11:42:41 pm PST #585 of 10000
Not javachik

From literary:

ita: From reading this whole litfic discussion, I realize I really don't understand what it means.

DavidS: So what. You're now a moon in an imaginary future that's on TV.

ita: Right! Imaginary moons don't read books!

As you were.


Trudy Booth - Oct 29, 2002 12:57:47 am PST #586 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 L: My left underwire broke and is currently jabbing straight into my boob, possibly going for the heart.


Trudy Booth - Oct 29, 2002 1:28:21 am PST #587 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

billytea: (Edit: ok, that one came from memory. But, I mean, they're painted dogs. They tend to stick in your mind.)


Nilly - Oct 29, 2002 1:43:12 am PST #588 of 10000
Swouncing

From Natter (hey, I got to pretend-I-can-catch-up):

Julie: spelling counts. just not in a maths way.

~~~~~

ita: Boys are the weirdest gender god ever made. Good thing she made some of them so damned cute.

~~~~~

Steph L.: does anyone know where I can find my needles and thread?
Betsy Hanes Perry: Walk barefoot across the carpet. You should find several pointy things. Pick up the one that drew blood and see if it has an eye in one end. Then unravel some thread from the hem of a blouse.


Steph L. - Oct 29, 2002 5:38:17 am PST #589 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Plei, in Natter:

I rarely talk to spouse when at work. Unless it's "Bitch! Get me a pot-pie!"

Cause, you know, I wear the Vanilla Soft Pack in the family.


billytea - Oct 29, 2002 6:07:09 am PST #590 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.

Allyson, in Firefly:

When come back, bring chowdah and a Kennedy.

Alibelle, same thread, a little spoilery:

Aww, Burrell, that's so sweet! I like you, too! Don't slam yourself in the heart with a giant hypodermic! Kisses!


Jessica - Oct 29, 2002 7:34:43 am PST #591 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Rebecca Lizard, in Natter:

A few months ago I was trying to figure out, once and for all, whether the idea that the plural of "penis" is "penii" had any merit at all. It'd always driven me bugfuck when people said "penii", but I started to wonder if I were actually wrong about its being wrong. Because, I mean, it's definitely a Greek word, just look at it, but the Romans *did* more than occasionally just coopt Greek words and decline them in funky ways. But then again that usually meant *third* declension, so could there actually *be* Latinate plural of "penis", but it not be the commonly-held-idea "penii" at all? Oh, the irony!

So, seriously overthinking the question. I was entering "penis" into all these Latin search engines (because do my dictionaries talk about genitals, darling? No). I felt like also zinging a note to the webmasters of whatever sites they were, stating that in case they looked at the logs of queries for their search engines, I wanted them to know I wasn't just a dirty-minded bored teenager-- okay I AM a dirty-minded bored teenager, but that wasn't why I was querying that particular word!