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?

Not having any idea what that was talking about--that covers the spoilery point, right?