The Boy of Typos, in Natter:
My feeling is that if we don't have more nude peace rallies, the terrorists have already won.
Reynolds, I'm a dangerous-minded man on a ship loaded with hurt. Now, why you got me chatting with your peons?
Womack ,'The Message'
Coffee On My Monitor
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Nutty - Nov 19, 2002 8:49:24 am PST #906 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Steph L. - Nov 19, 2002 9:03:16 am PST #907 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
In Buffy, non-spoilery for S7:
Amber B.: Buffy died to save the world and was resurrected. How much more Christ figure can she get?
Jess PMoon: Well, Xander's a carpenter who saved the world with a message of love.
billytea: If ever they had children, the birth would be attended by elderly women dressed in black hissing "It is the Kwisatz Haderach!"
erikaj - Nov 19, 2002 9:14:27 am PST #908 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
And DX, with the musical conclusion:
Earwormed now:
If I was a carpenter,
And you were the Slayer,
Could we save the world anyway?
Could we stop the flayer?
Betsy HP - Nov 19, 2002 10:08:49 am PST #909 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Billytea, with more exciting news from the world of biology:
Or there's the antechinus, an Australian marsupial of remarkable sexual appetites. Every year you can hear dads explain the facts of life to their newly mature sons: "Well son, it's almost July and you'll have noticed that your testicles are now as big as your head." Or at least you could hear that, if not for the fact that all their fathers are dead.
Theodosia - Nov 19, 2002 10:35:26 am PST #910 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jen:
Being an agnostic is so much less complicated. I just shrug and say, "beats me," and that's the end of the conversation. ;)
Jesse - Nov 19, 2002 10:36:06 am PST #911 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
From Natter...
erikaj: I know little about my ancestors, except that one great-grandfather had an upsetting tendency to fall for get-rich-quick schemes that failed.Trying to raise cattle when he'd barely ever seen a cow, stuff like that.(they all got some bovine disease and died, of course.) And that was after the Worst!Mercantile!Ever!. I dearly hope I didn't inherit his business sense.
Nutty: erika, could be worse. Your last name could be Ponzi.
Betsy HP - Nov 19, 2002 10:55:42 am PST #912 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
In the Buffy thread, a fine point of Christian theology is hashed out:
Steph: That [Christ] was human meant he could die in substitutionary atonement.
Jen: Wow. It's like algebra, only with grace instead of letters.
Cindy: But there is big debate as to whether you have to show your work(s).
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 19, 2002 11:53:21 am PST #913 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
billytea is so goddamn cool.
Vortex - Nov 19, 2002 12:12:21 pm PST #914 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Rebecca Lizard, in Buffy
Dative of disadvantage! It's pretty cool. One of the double datives. Nepos is full of it.
The food was for aid to the troops, is the example my teacher gave. The second dative can be explained by DoD and turned to a "to" in English.
It can also be the dative of advantage, and I actually like to call it that way better, but then you don't have any fun alliteration.
But cooler are the dative of possession, the genitive of object. It's like there's been miscegenation between the cases.
I don't understand what it means, as I never learned grammar, but it just sounded so cool!
DXMachina - Nov 19, 2002 12:52:56 pm PST #915 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
From Buffy 1, non-spoilery:
Jen: I suspect many people I know and consider dear friends will end up in hell along with me, which might make it bearable.
Emily: Oh, yeah. Almost everyone I've ever met, in fact, and probably heaven'd be kind of boring. It's just, I'm not sure how much company y'all are gonna be when we're, like, writhing in a lake of fire.
On the other hand, I bet the devil can quote shooting scripts.
dareva:But they'll be from really horrible episodes.
Jess PMoon: And only Riley's lines.