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

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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!

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!

From Natter:

billytea: If I ever get a cat I want to name it Monoxide. I think this is one of the reasons Bec won't agree to getting a cat.

DXMachina: My friend Tom used to have a dog named Carbon.

billytea: I think we can all be grateful that it will never mate with my hypothetical cat.

In Literary:

Angus G: Just don't get me started on why we should all learn to say "homodiegetic" and "heterodiegetic" instead of "first-person" and "third-person".

erikaj: Whoa, Angus! You are hard-core!

Jess PMoon: swoon

Steph L: You know how people are ashamed of their past as prostitutes who whored for drugs? I'm ashamed of my past reading badly written end-times books.

John H:

Completely random post, but did anyone see an article which stated scientifically that redheaded people are more sensitive to pain?

Professor [mumble] of [mumble] University, who's professor of Anesthesiology, tested people and found that given the same pain stimulus (any excuse to administer electric shocks to undergraduates, eh?) redheads needed twenty per cent more anesthetic before they no longer felt it.

I read that and I was all THANK YOU!

Now it's offical.

Instead of people saying "oh for god's sake stop whining John you are such a fucking baby!", perhaps they'll say something more like "oh for god's sake stop whining John you are genetically such a fucking baby".

Jess PMoon, on rival cellphone commercials:

I just want to see the Sprint guy and the Verizon guy get into a fistfight...

"Can you hear me NOW, bitch???"