paperdol: I'm compulsively vanity googling.

Polgara: Are you the one who keeps jacking up the stats on my knitting blog?

Zenkitty: Does the iPhone vibrate? Because really, that's all it needs.

Cashmere: Then the iPhone would replace every device you'd ever need. Including the Rabbit.

Ginger, in Natter:

I have long advocated that typing an exclamation point should give people a shock, so they only use one when they really need one. Ideally, the more exclamation points you typed at one time, the stronger the shock would get.

shrift in Natter:

I've never accidentally done anything too catastrophic, although I've often had a computer raise its eyebrow and ask what I thought I was expecting to accomplish by touching it there.

shrift: I am now laughing like Muttley.

Miracleman in Bitches re: living in sin

And the sin part was great! The living...well, once we got a place that was bigger than a matchbox, worked out just fine.

In that little shoebox apartment we lived in, the living became not so fun, which meant the sin suffered.

"Can't you do dishes?"

"Can't you stop leaving your shoes in the middle of the floor?"

"Why do you have so many books?"

"Why do you have so many clothes?"

"Why can't you shower without spraying water all over the bathroom?"

"Wanna have sex?"

"God, no!"

"Me either."

Miracleman: Yeah, I miss the IMing across the apartment.

Actually, I just miss the apartment.

Actually, not the apartment per se, but I do miss territory that was MINEMINEMINE and I only had to clean if I felt like it.

Actually, I only had to clean when you felt like it.

The inimitable Erikaj in Bitches:

The word that I pronounced most clearly when I was a little kid was "Asshole!" Actually, I'm not sure I've changed that much.

Daisy Jane, in B'crazy, because it was a beautiful metaphor:

Daisy Jane: I think I understand!

There's a concert called Boxed Set with a bunch of different bands. Quirky British pop, folksy artsy stuff, and old school rock with a taste for pain.

So the last band has gotten a pretty decent following, they're a little more interactive and they are massively adored by their fans.

Fans of the other bands love it when fans of the OSRWATFP band seem to be enjoying it so much, and keep meaning to buy the new album, but just have too much other stuff going on.

However, at this latest concert, the cheers went on for a while because everyone was having such a good time listening to OSRWATFP, that some of the other bands on smaller stages were drowned out a bit.

So the organizers of the concert decided, "Hey OSRWATFP has gotten kinda huge! You could barely hear any of the other bands. Too bad we had to cut them off before the 4th encore. Maybe we should organize something where they headline! 'A Night with OSRWATFP' we'll call it!" "Brilliant!"

"Wait a minute!" says the fans of OSRWATFP. "We loved that concert gathering. We loved wandering from stage before our guys were up and listening to other bands. We are always on the lookout for another band to fill our hearts like OSRWATFP, or if we're really lucky, like that band we all used to listen to with the little tough blonde lead singer and the backup guys with the skin problems. Those were our peeps, and now you're kicking us out of the party?"

And fans of the other bands are all, "Well it was kinda hard to hear the music we like. We're happy your guys have been successful, and we love seeing y'all all excited, but we kinda want to hear our guys too."

At least that's how it's playing in my head.

JenP: My (not biologically related) aunt is phenomenal at the listening to two things at once thing. I learned this at a restaurant one day when we were chatting and she suddenly piped up with why the financial advice that some guy was giving to his dining partner at another table was completely wrong. I was all, "Huh?" And then she revealed her superpowers of hearing to me. I was, and remain, in awe.

lisaha: oh, yeah, I can do that (...except without the ability to give any sort of financial advice).