Corwood Industries in Music:
This was easily the geekiest rock crowd I've ever seen. Outside, we looked like we were waiting in line for free 20-sided dice.
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
Anya ,'Touched'
Coffee On My Monitor
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.
erinaceous - Aug 29, 2005 12:48:25 pm PDT #8023 of 10000
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Fred Pete - Aug 29, 2005 4:38:28 pm PDT #8024 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Plei in F2F, context be damned:
Magic 8 Ball also sez that sez is too easily typed as sex.
Lyra Jane - Aug 29, 2005 5:25:49 pm PDT #8025 of 10000
Up with the sun
Steph L., in Bitches:
Jen, I'm honestly not making light of your statement, but it made me giggle b/c I remembered my rant about commercials with anthropomorphized food -- I mean, take Charlie the Tuna from Starkist Tuna. Here we have a sentient fish that talks and wears a little hat and eyeglasses that call to mind Charles Nelson Reilly. But he talks, and hangs out, and knows other fish -- he's involved in the undersea community. BUT HE'S GOING TO BE LUNCH. And the thing is, he seems really happy to be Starkist tuna, which in turn makes him happy to be someone's future lunch, which would involve, one assumes, his death at the end of a hook. This is really disturbing.
Or the "Get Popcorn With REAL BUTTER!" clip that runs before movies -- these commando droplets of butter are going to great lengths to fling themselves onto a bucket of popcorn, to ensure that the viewer has REAL BUTTER, rather than whatever butter-flavored grease product other movie theaters use. But in doing so, they're GOING TO BE EATEN, which means they're going to die! And they seem really happy about it.
I don't like knowing that my food is (1) sentient, (2) suicidal, and (3) happy about its impending death. It feels too much like cannibalism.
And to illustrate how freaky anthropomorphized food is, I offer you this picture, which is an actual watermelon box at my local grocery store: [link]
I mean, look how happy they are! And they're holding slices of watermelon! That would be like me holding up a human leg, and smacking my lips. Freaky, y'all.
Trudy Booth - Aug 30, 2005 12:42:06 pm PDT #8026 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Tom Scola: If you should happen to read a news story of someone beating a coworker to death, shouting "INDOOR VOICE! INDOOR VOICE!", that would be me.
Jesse - Aug 31, 2005 11:40:23 am PDT #8027 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In Natter:
Perkins: Quick, tell me the first thing that comes to mind that you like about yourself.
bon bon: The first thing that came to mind was facility with arguing, and then my brain tried to talk me out of it. I made some excellent points against myself.
Kat - Aug 31, 2005 4:37:53 pm PDT #8028 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
In Natter:
Cashmere
I read where Heath Ledger said making out with Jake Gyllenhal wasn't that much fun.
Maybe for HIM. But I'M certainly going to enjoy it.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 01, 2005 3:00:54 am PDT #8029 of 10000
What is even happening?
shrift: I got up early enough this morning that I didn't understand the function of my alarm clock. And it was dark. And there was fog. And other people were out there, driving around, and I hated them a whole lot. The highway made me hate them more. And I had to drive to work really, really fast, because they had coffee there, and oh my god, coffeeeeeeee.
I'm avoiding the desks of certain morning people coworkers, because I seem to be all id, and I think my id has kung fu grip today.
Anne W. - Sep 01, 2005 9:19:37 am PDT #8030 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Allyson's suggestion for a new color-coding system to be used for (I think) natural disaster assessment:
A brown alert will mean the shit has hit the fan. Blue will be water up to our eyeballs, red will be the oceans turning to blood, green will be the locusts and frogs, yellow will be, "the POTUS just pissed himself when he heard the news."
Topic!Cindy - Sep 02, 2005 12:52:50 am PDT #8031 of 10000
What is even happening?
Maria, September 1, 2005: In somewhat happier news, today is exactly ONE month before I marry the only man in the world who could possibly love me enough to think my neuroses are cute.
JenP - Sep 02, 2005 5:20:26 am PDT #8032 of 10000
In Minearverse:
Cass: There should be a Web site to sign up for adoption. Sugarparents.com or something. You check off whether you want a pretty pink pony or a pool boy and one click later... Granted, not sure what you do if you want both.
Matt the Bruins fan: If you're willing to give them grandchildren my parents might be in the market...
Cass: If I was willing to give them grandchildren, my parents might be in the market too.
Topic!Cindy: Define give.