Natter
Jessica: The 20 Most Important Tools of All Time.
ita: Gutenberg doesn't even rate?
bon bon: Ari Fleischman doesn't even rate?
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Natter
Jessica: The 20 Most Important Tools of All Time.
ita: Gutenberg doesn't even rate?
bon bon: Ari Fleischman doesn't even rate?
For sheer randomness, in Natter:
DavidS: What could possibly be cheerier than sandwiches?!?
Jilli VoiceOfReason: Pointy shoes.
More on the buckled drywall worship...
Matt the Bruins fan:
That image looks more like Bullwinkle squinting and lowering his horns than Jesus Christ to me.
Tommyrot:
"Watch me raise this man from the dead!"
"Again? That trick never works!"
The Toms go on an atheistic rampage in Natter:
Tom Scola: Atheists are "America's most distrusted minority".
TomW: I wouldn't trust us, either. We don't even support torture!
Oh well, back to my rampant materialism and cultural elitism. My gold-plated latte spoon makes me better than all of you! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
HA.
From the VM thread:
Tom Scola: I'm intrigued by Aquaman. Having never seen the Smallville episode in question, I have a hard time imagining how a live-action show about Aquaman could possibly be anything but horrible.
Perkins: HoYay?
joe boucher Shouldn't that be H2oYay?
Cass, in Bitches:
Pot --> kettle --> #000000
In Bitches --
meara: Good lord! Carrots really are breaking out all over b.org!
In Literary:
David S.: It is a sad comment on our society that so few aspire to be tango pirates anymore.
Strega: Some of the tango pirates were really privateers for the dancing queen.
TomW speaking culinarily in Natter:
I feel that chocolate is a big bully in most recipes. Stick any amount of chocolate into a sweet recipe and it muscles its way to the front.
It's a diva, it's a star, it refuses to play second fiddle to anything. You put a couple of chocolate chips in an oatmeal cookie and they sit there in your mouth shouting: "I'm still big, it's the cookies that got small!".
Raisins know how to work in an ensemble. I can work with Raisins.
A tangent in the discussion on the many wonders of Snakes on a Plane:
ita: She's in the middle of filming on a shoestring budget (what's the etymology of that??)
P-C: In the late 1930s, Phineas T. Grantula very quickly ran out of money for his first film, Snakes in a Zoo, and he had to resort to the barter system, trading his shoestrings for location shoots. He very quickly ran out of shoestrings as well, which is when he turned to clubbing people on the street and stealing their shoes. Rather than, say, their wallets. In the end, Snakes in a Zoo was a flop anyway, opening the same weekend as Snakes Not in a Zoo, which made 800,000 nickels on opening night.