And Polter-Cow delivers on the bad pun in F2F:
Gus: It is like being Catholic and buying a Papal Bull.
P-C: It's more like a PayPal Bull.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Coffee On My Monitor
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Kathy A - Jul 12, 2005 9:10:05 pm PDT #7825 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2005 10:04:15 pm PDT #7826 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't forget the setup:
Gus: Here is the deal.
I am lowlife scumbag for promising a F2F then wandering off and forgetting my Buffistas.
If you can accept that I am a lowlife scumbag who forgets promises to his Buffistas, and forgive me, I will PayPal you a dollar
Nutty - Jul 13, 2005 4:41:29 am PDT #7827 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
On sequellae to Gladiator:
Polter-Cow:
Will it be called
Friend of Gladiator
?
ita:
Another Gladiator.
Polter-Cow:
I Know What You Did to the Last Gladiator.
Frankenbuddha:
Gladiator 2: Electric Bugaloo.
Gladiator 2: This one's for ita.
Gladiator 2: Hose him down.
D. Griswold:
Gladiator: Bigger, Longer, Prettier
Anne W.:
Gladiator and Gladiatorer
flea - Jul 13, 2005 5:56:31 am PDT #7828 of 10000
information libertarian
And my personal snort moment: Corwood Industries: 2 Glad 2 Iator
Edited - thanks, P-C, because it's actually much funnier, you know, right.
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2005 6:06:36 am PDT #7829 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Actually, that was 2 Glad 2 Iator.
Tom Scola - Jul 13, 2005 6:12:24 am PDT #7830 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
In Bitches:
sj: I needs some Goth advice.
Raquel: Black.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 13, 2005 6:24:27 am PDT #7831 of 10000
What is even happening?
Gud: The best line I've heard about Rick Santorum is "The 'p' is silent".
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2005 6:57:20 am PDT #7832 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
In Movies --
tommyrot: Keyser Soze is Bruce Wayne's brother.
Atropa - Jul 13, 2005 10:44:31 am PDT #7833 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Gudanov in Natter:
If Jimmy has an apple and adds a negative apple, how many apples does Jimmy have. Answer: The answer is moot as Jimmy has been vaporized.
Kate P. - Jul 13, 2005 11:13:07 am PDT #7834 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Okay, someone had to capture all this for posterity. In Natter:
tommyrot: Astronaut power walk: [link] Except there shouldn't be waving in a power walk. And maybe they should have swords.
-t: Astronauts should not have swords. Not with fabric pressure suits.
tommyrot: That's why the exterior of the suits should be chainmail. But it'd be some high-tech chainmail, made of titanium or carbon fiber.
Jessica:
Astronauts should not have swords. Not with fabric pressure suits.
I think I missed something, unless someone's having a Rennaisance-themed wedding in space, in which case I heartily approve and demand to be invited.
-t: Swords for astronauts, titanium chainmail for all!
tommyrot: If I get married, I want to have a Rennaisance-themed wedding on Mars. I'll dress up like Ming the Merciless.
JohnSweden: That's one expensive wedding party, even without the multi-billions for the space travel.
Titanium costs big. Even stainless steel welded or riveted chainmail is very expensive these days (time-consuming for the crafter).
-t: I think once you accept the premise of a Renaissance themed wedding on Mars, cost had better be no object.
JohnSweden: Fair enough.
To haul out the pedant for a moment, unless the people from the Renaissance are having an "Olden Tymes" party, chainmail is pretty much gone from the armoury by then, depending on where you are and when. Transitional plate and full plate has replaced chainmail almost everywhere by that time (depending on how you define Renaissance and where/when you are). Both would still be reasonably effective at protecting an astronaut suit from swords, to bring the discussion back to the purposeful and sensible origins.
-t: Well, to be fair, the chainmail requirement came before the Renaissance theme. But I'll leave it up to tommyrot which is more important. It's his big day on Mars, after all.
tommyrot: Damn straight!
Also, ice on Mars will need to be melted, or else water brought from Earth, so my sweetheart and I can honnymoon in a nice cottage on the shores of a Martian ocean... We'll sail there in a gondola pulled by a genetically-engineered dragon.