in BaBB ...

Dana: Once I reloaded the home page and that slash went away, everything was fine.

msbelle: I always knew slash was a problem.

ita: Who are you, and what have you done with Dana???

Laura: No wonder the board didn't recognize her.

Frankenbuddha: So it was "buffistas.org, now with extra slash"?

I didn't think that was even possible...

Dana: Wow, four posts in a row making fun of me. That might be a record.

Nutty in Boxed Set:

In the real world, it's possible to make somebody a bowl of soup, and still not want to have sex with that person, or even necessarily like him/her very much. That is how funeral buffets work, right?

aurelia: Since we are now over 1000 posts into Natter, perhaps it should be changed to The Thread With No Name, or The Thread Which Shall Not Be Named, or It's A Freak Without A Name.

Kristin: Ha! I LOVE "It's a Freak Without a Name".

aurelia: Two for, none against. How many bulls does it take to shit a consensus?

Shrift in Natter:

He didn't give me a chance this morning. He just shuffled past, dug in the ashtray for butts, and then hocked a loogie. I stood off to the side behind a pillar, my eyes rolling back and my eyelids fluttering in the universal sign for OMG That's Like So Gross. Unfortunately, according to TV medical dramas, it also seems to be the universal sign for OMG I'm Having A Seizure Call 911.

HA! I was just coming over to post that very thing.

I want to post the long cheetah-fu from Natter, but couldn't decide where to start and end, and then I started to wonder if it was really funny or if I just liked it because it mocked my sister (with love) or if I was crazy after reading 700 posts so I didn't.

But, people with free time who like cheetahs, I encourage you.

Natter:

flea: I met Kara and Aidan this weekend, and they were cute. Possibly outcuted by the river otter, but I am well known for my susceptibility to the otter kind. But then, the otter didn't put its hand trustingly in mine or play with my daughter.
amych: I think we've finally isolated the exact moment of fatal cute explosion.

[Edit: it's the combination of the cute and the snark and the otter, I guess. As well as the image of an otter putting its hand (or whatever an otter will treat as a hand) in flea's]

Attempting to re-create the cheetah-fu --

Robin: According to a story in the LA Times this weekend, Cheetahs are themost docile of wild cats. They think this is because their incredible speed means they can get away from anything and so don't need to fight for turf or food or whatever as much. This was illustrated by a photo of a pet cheetah licking his owner.

KristinT: Sharpies can write on ANYTHING.

Steph L.: Even a cheetah.

Sean K: WANT A PET CHEETAH NOW!

KristinT: You could get a discount lion really big stray cat and then draw the cheetah markings with a Sharpie. IJS.

beathen: Make sure it's a short hair - otherwise grooming will be a bitch.

Nutty: Sometimes you people scare me.

tommyrot:

Make sure it's a short hair - otherwise grooming will be a bitch.

Long-haired lions are really dogs?

Gudanov: Really, it's easiest to draw on a cat after it has been shaved.

Betsy HP:

This was illustrated by a photo of a pet cheetah licking his owner.

It was trying to decide which wine to order.

ita: Or checking to see if he was ripe yet.

Steph L.: Or fully cooked.

DXMachina: And it was thinking, "Run. Go ahead. Make my day."

sarameg: My brother once tried coloring our siamese with a red sharpie so she could be an imperial guard (from one of the star wars things.) Poor thing had red blotches for months.

tommyrot: For some reason this makes me laugh muchly....

I mean, coloring a cat to look like Vader makes more sense.... why an imperial guard?

Sean K: Those guys were always so intriguing to me. Just how bad ass were they that they were selected for the Emperor's personal guard? What deadly secrets were hidden under those red robes? Why the funky long helmet that would seem to preclude head-turning?

Gudanov: Find out in the video "Imperial Guards Gone Wild!"

Steph L.: Eyes in the back of their heads, yo.

Sean K: See! So many unanswered questions.

tommyrot: For all we know, there could be cheetahs in those costumes.

Sean K: Cheetahs who can't turn their heads.

Gudanov: You know, there is just a TV series just waiting for Joss, "Nutty The Cheetah Slayer".

tommyrot: I'm thinking a sitcom about a family of cheetahs. Being raised by a single mom cheetah. Who works as an Imperial Guard for the Emporer.

In the pilot: the cheetah kittens get into mom's Sharpies....

Cheetah:

Cheetahs who can't turn their heads.

Like we need to. Pffft.

ita: IIRC, cheetahs find prey by sight, not smell, so if you did remove their ability to look around, Nutty might just get the advantage.

tommyrot: Cats in general have a wider field of view than dogs or humans.

Nutty: So, the secret to my winning is to make all the cheetahs wear blindfolds or blinkers. Check.

Teppy in B'crazy: (context? but why?)

"Oh, I've been through the desert on a freak with no name...."

Ah, I can say I knew her when she was loudly claiming to be the vanilla-est.

In Natter:

Nilly: OK, in what ways does a trash talkin' penguin's wave different than a regular penguin wave?

tommyrot: The wave is the same, except its expression is, "OK, normally I'm too cool to wave, but for Nilly I'll make an exception."

Plus the penguin is wearing sunglasses.