erikaj in Natter:

As a phone volunteer, I'd prefer to get your machine than your spleen. So to speak.

Frankenbuddha

I still remember what a shock it was when they killed Farley the dog in FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE.

DavidS

I cried when Snoopy got taken to the vet to be fixed.

Corwood Industries

I looked away, but then they came to take me to the vet to be fixed.

Kristin:

Student: We have to go to drug ed today? Oh man, I hope it isn't corny like Nightmare Before Puberty.

Me: ...Nightmare before puberty...?

Student: Oh yeah. Dance and acting troupe about puberty. They'd spray-painted the walls with fake grafitti and "told us like it was" for an hour. It was horrifying.

Me: <stunned silence>

Student: Yeah, that's the look we had on our faces, too.

We have to include Frank's filk in response, because it nearly killed me:

Boys and girls of every age
are you feeling something strange
Come with us and you will see,
this is your time of Puberty
This is Puberty, this is Puberty,
disturbing dreams in the dead of night
This is Puberty, everybody gets acne,
sulk or scream till your parents are too tired to fight

And Aimee's addition:

What’s this? What’s this?
I’m growing lots of hair!
What’s this? There’s acne everywhere!
What’s this? My hormones are all raging
and my breasts are so engaging
My face I feel it aging
Fuck it isn’t fair!
What’s this?

Damn, Kristin, could you add an "is" in between "this" and "your". I'm going to edit my original.

Also, since Kristin was too modest to add her own addition:

There are pre-teens hitting puberty
instead of hitting balls,
They're busy doing make-up,
and cruising through the malls,
There's stubble on every boy now
Oh I can't believe my eyes,
They can feel it in their boners,
Even though they're mini sized...

Things are getting desperate in Shrift's office:

Printer still spewing. Paper so hot in the tray it burns my fingers. Toner beginning to fail.

In Natter:

Cashmere: Aren't all chaps assless? Otherwise, wouldn't they be pants?

Jesse: I think you only call chaps "assless" when there are no jeans under them.

Cashmere: Of course, in that case, there is ASS! The term is verra misleading.

In Bitches, on the word "problematized":

Gloomcookie

What a great Friday! I just got this feedback on a presentation I did in class (appropriately enough on tagging, blogs, wikis, and participation inequality [thanks, Jessica!]):

Looking at my notes, you did very well. You brought in outside readings, engaged the readings, problematized the topic, and provided good analysis. We don't have hard-coded grades yet, but based on my notes, you received high marks.

ChiKat

Is this a real word??

Yup.

From Websters: To propose problems.

It's no woobify.

Woobify is a perfectly fine word. Problematized hurts my head.

Ginger

So is "solutionatize" a word?

Steph L.

Sounds perfectly cromulent to me.

Polter-Cow

If you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the precipitatizing.

tommyrot on the ultimate voting machine: It could only be improved if each voting machine came with a monkey that started shrieking once you placed your vote.

Topic!Cindy And risk his voice before he delivered his acceptance speech?

Allyson (who needs context?)

He has socks and underpants?

What the hell else is there to do? Are you knitting him a bike?