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???"

Madrigal, Natter:

My problem wouldn't probably be that it was phone sex, but more that it was probably really boring mundane phone sex. During my first semester in the dorms, a girl in the room next to mine had a bf she was quite fond of, and often, and usually around midnight, but the major annoyance was the fact that she only used two words to express this. I kept wanting to shove a smutty vocabulary book under her door.

from BBaBB:

ita

When the revolution comes, I don't want to be shot.

Jon B

Fair enough. I can relate. I don't want you shot either.

ita

Good. Because I was thinking of standing behind you.

Betsy, in Natter:

Any moment now, Shrift will start writing G&G slash.

Gallant always uses a condom.

Goofus goes into public restrooms and takes on all comers with bloodplay.

I think that was my first COMM quote! Even though it was as the straight man, I'm still all choked up.