Gud, in Natter, helping Kat with her syllabus (I can't believe this wasn't posted here yet):

"In a world where bad grammar and appalling spelling have smothered the ideas of humankind, one course will make a stand, one course will overcome the odds, one course will teach..." ?

Allyson in Natter,

God. The OSHA of the Old Testament.

More religion in Natter --

Frankenbuddha: I'm trying to think why someone would think hitching a donkey and an ox to the same plow would be a good idea.

Jesse: You've got one ox, you've got one donkey, why not? It's worth a shot, anyway?

flea: Note to self: when farming, do not take Jesse's advice.

amych: note to self: don't farm

brenda m: Now we know where those crop circles all come from.

In B'crxy:

Nutty:

I think, generally, that telling a Buffista, "No you may not argue on this topic" is a proposition doomed to lose any way you slice it. Talky meat will find a way! Even if talky meat ends up substituting the codeword "left-handed fork" to mean "politics."

Jessica:

I propose that from now on, the word "proliferation" be replaced in all instances with "left-handed fork."

Antiproliferationistas will hence forth be known as The Right-Handed Fork Brigade, and spoilerphobes shall be called The People Of The Spoon.

amych:

What about those of us who hold our forks with the left AND don't love the prolif? Huh? YOU'RE OPPRESSING ME!!

brenda m:

And the path to enlightenment is a long and difficult one, but someday we shall achieve nirvana Spork.

More road to enlightenment in B'crxy

Ginger: New shorthand styles for Lightbulbs --

Tivo font: I watch shows after they're aired and don't want to be spoiled.

Spoiler whore font: What's the big deal about spoilers?

Willy nilly font: People should be able to open threads on their own.

Proliferation font: A thread for every show! A chicken in every pot!

Antiproliferation font: More threads = less community

Clarifying my position font: Hey, guys, that's not what I meant at all.

Clarifying someone else's position font: What she really meant was...

on atheism in Natter:

tommyrot : A post on PZ's blog:

And this blog confirms what I have found in almost every atheist blog I've visited: atheists lose their moral foundation, when they jetison God, and eventually end up foul-mouthed, pornographic, hate-filled, humorless individuals.

Hey, I'm not humorless!

shrift : Personally, I jettisoned God. And this dude left out "pedantic".

tommyrot : If I wasn't so hate-filled and humorless, I'd tell you that was really funny.

Jars : Three out of four ain't bad. Gimme a few years and I'm sure I'll jettison humour along with everything else.

brenda : HA HA! You guys crack me up!

Shit! Does that mean I have to start going back to church now?

Raq in Bitches:

Our high-tech conference room reservation system is a calendar taped to the conf. room door. Apparently someone said they hadn't reserved it because they didn't have a pen with them. So the secretary taped a pencil to the door, and put a yellow sticky reading PENCIL --> next to it.

That kicked off a flurry of sticky notes on the door, including "HINGE -->," "HANDLE -->," and "CARPET."

Then someone put a sticky pointing to those that reads "IRONY."

So I crossed that out and wrote "SARCASM." My colleague plans to add a "PEDANTRY" pointer to my note. "BUFFISTA" would obviously work just as well, but not make sense to anyone else.

Sarameg speaks for so many of us:

I think my mental space at this moment can be summed up thusly: coworker walking by the door, talking about some random thing: "weebles wobble but they don't fall down." I call out "Unless I SMASH THEM."

Lost thread

Erin obscure:
And what was that strapped to Keamy?

Juliebird:
My only guess on the device on Keamy is that, where it looked like it was near an artery, that maybe it was some bomb or a trigger for a bomb in case he died? Otherwise it seems that he expected the captain to fear his sporty iPod.

That should probably be spoiler fonted?