I think this was my first COMMed filk. But I should point out that beth b had the original idea:
now I am going around the house singing " mr. Man - squito.." to the tune of goldfinger....
The rest, as they say, wrote itself....
Ginger:
Maria's dress has caused me to wonder whether a bride can be too beautiful. Suppose the caterers drop things? The men start an impromptu auction to see if they can buy her away from DF? The women faint from jealousy? It could be ugly.
In Firefly, a conversation about zombie-preparedness:
Matt: Would a sledgehammer be the best weapon to have for a zombie attack, assuming limited/nonexistent supplies of handgun ammo?
tommyrot: It depends on how fast the zombies are at evading attack. If they're really slow, then a sledgehammer would work well. If not, then I think some sort of sword (used for decapitation) would work better. Maybe a Samurai sword?
Matt: Hmmm. I frankly wouldn't be very confident of being able to decapitate a standing opponent very easily, particularly if the opponent was fast-moving.
brenda: Grenade.
Nutty: But, you can only use a grenade once. I am thinking, something like a long-handled broom, with something spiky on the end, to make the zombies keep clear of my personal bubble. Because, depending on the Rules of Zombiedom, just one touch could be the thing that turns you undead.
Maybe one of those Asterisk-on-a-Chain dealies, like the Witch-king had. What are those?
ita: Are you thinking of the morning star flail?
Nutty: That was what I had in mind. Although, looking at it, I wonder how you ensure that the asterisk part, upon gouging into zombie body, does not get stuck upon same and render the weapon immediately useless.
But maybe that is a problem with all stabby weapons, huh?
tommyrot: I just wanna walk onto the train in the morning carrying one of those, with a crazy look in my eyes....
ita: The advantage to using it on zombies is that they're a bit looser than the not-ever-dead. Bits come off much more easily.
In more seriousness, in a knife fight it's very easy to get cut and not even know it until later. So the weapon getting stuck hasn't proved to be an overriding consideration.
Nutty: I think if you did not notice you'd been smacked by a giant steel asterisk, you would have to be a zombie.
But, point taken. Just because I can inevitably get a knife stuck in a carrot while trying to chop said carrot does not mean that this is inevitable for everyone under all circumstances.
But, when the carrots attack, don't let me be the one with the knife.
Brand new Buffista
Almare
with the set up and
Tep
with the followthrough in Natter:
Almare:
I thought being a Buffista means you don't go to heaven. You go to a Buffista heaven
Tep:
Also known as the Special Hell.
DavidS:
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Monday that California can no longer justify limiting marriage to a man and a woman, a legal milestone that if upheld on appeal would pave the way for the nation's most populous state to follow Massachusetts in allowing same-sex couples to wed.
Go us! Though, this would be a lot more important if this decision came down in Alabama. Still, I got no complaints about being on the vanguard of essential civil rights decisions.
connie neil:
Alabama doesn't allow vibrators, they're not going to be first in this battle.
Bureaucracy at its finest (edited because it kept getting funnier):
DXMachina:
It's up. And yet nobody seems to be posting.
P.M. Marcontell:
You didn't linky dinky in the old one.
Jon B.:
DX is still stinging over the fallout from the last linky-dink.
DXMachina:
Bite me.
Frankenbuddha:
It's a stompie smackdown. And it's hella amusing.
DXMachina:
Pipe down, Frank, unless you want your user name changed to something really unfortunate.
something really unfortunate:
whimpers
I'll be good.
Sean K:
I knew it was only a matter of time before DX went mad with power.
You should mention that DX turned my user name into "something really unfortunate" for a time.