Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.

Tara ,'First Date'


Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


Burrell - Sep 28, 2002 12:29:30 am PDT #314 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Also: so this is the place we choose NAFDA thread titles, right? Won't that be spoilery for UnAmericans?

Well, since they will likely see the threads on the main page, it would be a good idea to keep them unspoily if possible. Most funny lines out of context aren't spoily.


Kat - Sep 28, 2002 12:29:48 am PDT #315 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Hmmm...

My name's part of that sentence and my mind is in the gutter...

Will whore though fuck up people's ablility to view/read/access at work?


Kat - Sep 28, 2002 12:31:10 am PDT #316 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I like the " " cause you know, silence, not spoilery.

Oh. If the word whore is gonna set off bell's and whistles maybe it should be

"And did I mention there's a companion?"

Frankly I find whore funnier. Cause you know, whores, funny. Companions, NSM.


§ ita § - Sep 28, 2002 12:32:09 am PDT #317 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Companion's only funny when the whore is implied.


Burrell - Sep 28, 2002 12:33:36 am PDT #318 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Cause you know, whores, funny. Companions, NSM.

True dat.


Kat - Sep 28, 2002 12:34:45 am PDT #319 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

It's quite a conundrum. Whore, still funnier. Even with the implied.


Rebecca Lizard - Sep 28, 2002 1:02:58 am PDT #320 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

since they will likely see the threads on the main page,

Well, if they use the message center, and read new, they never have to see the main page! Okay, unless you're having that funky thing where it redirects you to the main page. But that isn't happening to *me*, so I don't really care about it! la la la

But, seriously, won't that still pose a problem? Like if they see "Buffy 16: Uh Oh, Daddy's Home" people might unwillingly go nuts trying to figure out what context *that* came out of. And other people, like Fiona, will be annoyed during Grave when a great line is interrupted by their minds going, "Oh, so that's where the title came from!" or even "Where did I read that before? It's really familiar. Is Willow quoting the title of the latest Britney Spears song, to show she's really evil, or something?" I mean, not with Grave, obviously, because it's all aired, but...

... there's no way around that, is there?


Michele T. - Sep 28, 2002 8:23:07 am PDT #321 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I really, really like "Oh my God, I'm a hack." Show-specific, writing-related, a Jossism, but in no way spoilery since it was something he said on the set rather than in a script.


Rebecca Lizard - Sep 28, 2002 9:11:04 am PDT #322 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

t crosses arms I want the monkeys.


Laura - Sep 28, 2002 9:45:44 am PDT #323 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

I truly deeply love

Jayne: " "

but in the long run I think

"And did I mention there's a whore?"

works better. Whore funny.