This exchange isn't funny, but it deserves to be immortalized for its sheer awesomeness.

Cashmere:

Aimee, package JUST came!!!! It's huge. Owen and I are unpacking it.

Aimée:

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Cashmere:

The summer stuff and the pants will fit this fall--she's shorter than Em but she's growing. The shoes are her EXACT size!

Thank you so much.

My miniature Diva thanks the Princess.

Laura: The Buffistas babies wearing each other's handmedowns just warms my heart. "This is my favorite dress, it came from mommy's invisible friend."

Aimée:

The Princess says the Diva is most welcome.

I love the Buffistas Clothes Exchange, also. Burrell Passed on some GORGEOUS dresses to Em. Now that our clothes are here (YAY!!!), she can wear some stuff other that what she has been for the past 3 weeks.

Topic!Cindy:

It's a neat thing as a parent, and I haven't even done the handmedown thing, because everything was already gone. My kids know about a lot of Buffista kids, though. They always want to see their pictures. They know a ton about Owen and Olivia. They know about Lillian and Em.

They ask me about Grace and Noah constantly and remember them in their bedtime prayers every night. I'd had planned to prepare them for seeing the first pictures of Grace and Noah, because I didn't know if the tubes and stuff would scare them, but they came in one day when I was looking at lori's photos, so I just showed them, and they were totally fine with it and wanted to see more. They crack up at Grace's cranky faces, and have noticed how much they've grown.

SuziQ:

K-Bug follows the progress of all the buffistas sprog too. She still thinks that she is the princess. I'm just biding my time for Em to clue her in.

Stephanie:

I had this adorable pair of Robeez that i just loved for Ellie. The only way I could bear to part with them was to send them Olivia.

DavidS:

It's very fun putting Matilda in Buffista hand me downs, and we usually say, "This came from Ellie!" when we're getting her dressed.

She drools in appreciation.

Nora Deirdre:

aw, the Cindy sprog make me so happy.

Laura

My parents and kids have watched with interest the twins growing. I figure all the extra prayers can't hurt. My mother is the big prayer person in the family with the daily mass thing. When extra help is needed I put her on it.

SailAweigh:

Heck, all the Buffista sprog make my allergies act up. It's an amazing community that can bring so many people together in such a caring way. Okay, must go find kleenex.

brenda m: I'm still waiting for those computer chip implants the religious right keeps telling us are coming. Not terribly thrilled about the bar codes on our foreheads, but I guess you take the bad with the good.

Cashmere in Veronica Mars:

When I told DH of cancellation he said: "Honey, you're cursed with good taste and low marketability."

In Buffy and Angel:

Aimée (talking about her hatred of Drusilla): I have only enough room for one batshit crazy beautiful murderous woman with great fashion sense in my life, and I'm it.

In Bitches, a general discussion of Roman execution methods reveals that for patricide, the sentence was to be stuffed in a bag with an ape, a dog, and a snake, and thrown in a river.

billytea That was the punishment for the patricide perpetrator, though now imagine if someone did kill their father that way. Then the authorities would have to come up with something even worse to teach him a lesson. "Ok, so we stuff him in there with a lion, an ostrich and a rhino..."

In Heroes:

Sail Aweigh: When, oh, when will Hiro learn to fucking cut. off. Sylar's. head!!!1!!1

DXMachina: Exactly! Do they expect us to believe Hiro never watched Buffy?

shrift in Fanfiction

Starsky & Hutch was pretty much four seasons of hurt/comfort interspersed with cheesy costumes, dance numbers, and hookers.

amych in Natter, re: earworms (slackers, why did this take so long to get here!)

Earworm had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Earworm' he said. 'My name is My Milkshake; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Earworm, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Mahna Mahna. The real Earworm has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.'

SA in Fanfictiom II:

But it's how he knows he's alive again!!`~

How do you expect your (handsome, dashing male) protagonist to truly FEEL ALIVE if they don't do the hippy hippy shake?! Come on, now, people--be reasonable! Hippy hippy shake is its own medicine! Along with the Healing Penis of Comforting Love (TM, available in three sizes) and the Strong Arms of Protection (subject to bicep-width warranty) and ending finally in the Cuddle of Warm Fuzzies. These three combined will clear any rape-related trauma, defibrillator-induced chest pain, or returning-from-the-dead aches and pains!

Credit for coinage of hippy hippy shake in this context goes to Nutty

Dear Owen,

No pitching fits while mommy is nekkid. She has other things to do when she is nekkid.

Love,

ChiKat