'War Stories'
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.
ita: While I'm pictorially minded, I saw this pic of Beckham and Posh Spice, and wondered what they'll say to their kids about it (suggestive, but completely clothed). That's kinda weirder than "Daddy and some model," or "Mummy and an actor."
DavidS: "Daddy was giving Mum a backrub."
DXMachina: I was thinking "Bend it like Beckham."
Raquel:
Sigh. You don't want my answer, as right now it would involve lurking around my house being futless.
Lee:
Definition?
Raquel:
Having no fut.
Actually, it's Hawaiian slang for wanting to do something, but not knowing what you want to do, and not wanting to do any of the things you know you should be doing, and not really being that interested in pursuing any of the things you could do.
It's a more active and less gothic ennui.
KristinT, on the likely outcome of having to take DayQuil in the middle of her teaching day:
"And so the end of Midsummer Night's Dream, like many Shakespearean comedies, ends in multiple weddings and happily ever after. In this case, the addition of the fairies makes it...Oooo SHINY!"
crickets
"Ummm...Ms. T.? Why are you under that desk?"
"I think I saw a fairy! Or a quarter, not sure. But now that I'm down here, I'm having a hard time getting up again. Everyone do a vocab exercise or something."
tommyrot, in Natter:
Major salad fiasco!
Madrigal Costello: Ezzle would be an Australian gangsta-rapper, probably have a song about pouring a 40 and vegemite on a homie's grave.
Gus screws with someone's mind:
A fellow came up as I was leaving the grocery store today. He was trying to sell some kind of raffle ticket. I spoke to him in Bantu. He tried louder English. I responded with a shrug. He thrust the tickets at me and shook them as he loudly announced, "Buy! You buy. You buy!"
So, I gave him the big smile and said "Bye!" and waved as I left.
These are the moments one lives for.
Allyson in Firefly, on the multi-faceted talents of the Buffistas:
We send rocket ships to Mars, we teach courses on How to Kill People, we write books on Bubblegum Pop. We are in NASA, we teach Jr. High, we're on Jeopardy, we're writing for television. We're adding words to the Oxford Dictionary RIGHT NOW, and inserting sublimal messages in the New York Times Arts and Leisure section. We've infiltrated the highest levels of government. We're set to take over the world, but alas, we are lazy and shirking our world-take-over plans by posting here.
And DX's followup to the above:
Procrastination is a harsh mistress.
Today is the Empress' day:
In Movies, on prejudice in Harry Potter:
ita
The blond thing? What is coincidence, what is deliberate, and what is a point we're missing?
Miracleman
Waaaaait a minute! ita's blonde!
DON'T TRUST HER! SHE'S TRYING TO LEAD US ASTRAY! SHE'S OBFUSCATING J.K. ROWLING'S CLEAR WARNING! AAAGGGGHHH!!
Sorry. Sorry. Better now.
Aimée
ita kraver and the Prisoner of Kravkaban!!!
And then, in Natter, regarding currency:
some quoted thing about currency
$1,000 bill with a portrait of Grover Cleveland
Aimée
However, they skipped the $2,000 bill and put him back on the $3,000 bill.
<rimshot>
Raquel, in natter:
So I guess it depends on the size of your flag and the length of your pole.
As does so much in life.