ahem....

This should be:

ita: I have a pragmatic view of animals -- they're food, or workers, and sometimes fun. Some of them do amazing things, like save people or help the blind, etc, but hero? Too much anthropomorphising for me.

tommyrot: I'm now picturing a kangaroo wearing tights and a cape....

Beverly, because it's wonderful:

Ooh! I just looked out my front window. The willow oak has fully leafed out, the sun is in high after-noon position, and it's just like being in a room with translucent green walls! So pretty. I forget how gorgeous it is with leaves on, and how wonderful, secretive and safe the green shade makes me feel.

oops- holy accidental post in wrong thread, Batman! Nothing to see here, move it along...

Aimée: I guess that sucking noise I heard wasn't my day, but Jilli stealing all the pretty!

In Natter, on Marcia Gay Harden's children:

Jesse:

I'm sorry, but Julitta? Eulala?

Miracleman:

Names picked by throwing Scrabble tiles into a blender.

"We'll name our first-born...Qctoxzeuwanker! He's worth 400 points on a Triple Word Score square! He is blessed!"

Ginger, with the question in every home owner's head:

I'm not sure if I need a plumber, an electrician or an exorcist.

And MiracleMan, with helpful advice:

Are the walls bleeding?

If not, you have some time. At least until the full moon.

amyparker: Why did they cover so few useful things in Home Economics? Kenny gets that class, and it has stuff like "Here is the main water shut-off. Here is the gas shut-off. This is the breaker box. This is why sanitizing the kitchen drain is important; this is how you do it. Balancing the checkbook is more than just useful arithmatic practice."

Betsy HP: You sanitize the kitchen drain?

Uh-oh.

[Oh. Whew. My husband sanitizes the sink with bleach reasonably regularly, sanitizing the drain in the process.]

ChiKat: How does one sanitize a kitchen drain?

deborah grabien: I clean my kitchen sink once a day with Clorox cleanser. I also spray it down the drain and let it sit about ten seconds. Then everything gets thoroughly rinsed with the hottest water I can generate.

amyparker: ChiKat, I put a gallon of really hot water in the sink and add 3/4 of a cup of chlorine bleach and a tablespoon of powdered laundry detergent, let it stand for about five minutes, then pull the plug and rinse with more hot water. I do that about once a week. I clean my sink every night with Clorox spray cleaner, which seems like a bit much (except to people with new food handler's licenses), but if I smell dirty dishes in the morning, I can't eat.

ChiKat: Thanks! I do run bleach down my drain fairly regularly, so I guess I'm okay!

Steph L.: Sanitize the sink?

Are you people making this up just to fuck with me?

t wonders how to sanitize the sink when it's never empty....

In Angel -

Polter-Cow, re the pagers in tonight's Angel : Maybe Ben and Joss were on them, and Ben would be writing, and it would go *beep-beep*, and Joss would say, "Give Illyria more speeches," and Ben would sigh in exasperation and write more speeches, and as he was done, it would go *beep-beep*, and Joss would say, "On second thought, cut down on the speechifying," and Ben would sign in exasperation, and *beep-beep* "Can you maybe change the order of the speeches?" and by the end of the night the entire script was just full of these *beep-beep*s.

Or maybe that's not how it happened at all.

(excessive whitefont added, probably quite unnecessarily, for a minor plot point in tonight's Angel.)

Ginger, in F2F, on shy Prom-goers running out of room to congregate -

The middle: it's the new corner.

Laura in Angel:

As much as I have enjoyed AA the last few eps it certainly would have upped the drama level to have her explode.