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).

billytea is so goddamn cool.

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!

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.

In Buffy, unspoilery:

Jen: I'll be surprised if I meet a maker, any maker, on the event of my death.

Betsy: With my luck, it'll be FrameMaker. "Unresolved cross reference in Betsy at age 21."

Buffy 1 is comedy gold today:

Miracleman: If the Pope is right, I still ain't goin' to Hell. Nope, I'm gonna distract the guard, slip out of line and catch a taxi to Valhalla.

'Cause those fuckers know how to par-tay!!

Nutty: Yeah, right up until you have to get chopped up on the battlefield every day. I mean, every day? Couldn't you practice your Ragnarok skills on weekends, and just drink and eat and watch soap operas during the week?

Miracleman: There's a trick to that, too. Volunteer as quartermaster.

Nutty: They also serve who only stand and hand out dinner?

In Bitches:

Teppy: Mocking my secret boyfriend! For shame...

billytea: Hey, I say it with the deepest concern. Gandhi had similar issues. Of course, he never reacted by swapping faces with John Travolta and killing all the witnesses.

(Hee. Now I'm imagining a Gandhi remake by John Woo. ...And now, E.T. by Quentin Tarantino. *sigh* I really should get back to work, shouldn't I?)

erika: Yes! And ease up on the caffeine too, I think. :)

David S:

I swear to god, it is the most important thing to know before you get to Paris. Wear Your Good Shoes.

I wore sneakers for two days and got treated like an American. I put on my good shoes and local french-type peoples were asking me for directions. In French. I shrugged and made the French-shrugging face.

Hec in Angel:

Jesus, didn't they learn anything from having SuperPoweredGlory on Buffy? It makes for a terrible villain and it's not even a little scary. They'll either destroy its power center or cobble together the magic recipe: "I found the magic spoon which can scoop out its eyes!" "I've got the nasal inhaler of death!" "I shall deliver the coup de grace with this magically enhanced celery stick!" "All together now, attack in a close formation and make sure you apply each element in precisely the proper order. Ready...set...Lorne start singing!"

Billytea in Buffy:

Wow, you guys got chatty. Behold the meara of God.