Incredibly disgusting snorting client has left the building. Thank you, snotty baby Jesus.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Mar 20, 2007 5:44:33 am PDT #7953 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
esse - Mar 20, 2007 5:50:42 am PDT #7954 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
The New Yorker does Children's Interpretations of Grown-Up Conversations: [link]
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.
DAD: We all are.
MOM: Let’s talk about which kid I like the best.
DAD: (laughing) You know, but you won’t tell.
MOM: If they ask me again, I might tell.
DavidS - Mar 20, 2007 5:50:46 am PDT #7955 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
esse - Mar 20, 2007 5:51:56 am PDT #7956 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Oh, David, I read about that in a couple different places. In some european crazy futuristic tech robot magazine, the author took some kind of pills that had memory-loss side affects to see how much he actually could remember.
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2007 5:53:31 am PDT #7957 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't remember that.
Pix - Mar 20, 2007 6:09:39 am PDT #7958 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Whether you are for or against the serial comma, this is just crazy talk:
One use of a comma is as a replacement for "and" or "or," so to use a comma before the last word in a series is to say, for example, "the flag is red and white and and blue."
I agree. In fact, I'm afraid that she would fall into the dreaded GRAMMAR SNOB category, according to June Casagrande. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is the BEST grammar book I have ever read because it points out all of the inconsistencies from style guide to style guide. It's also laugh-out-loud funny. (Every Buffista should read and love it.)
JZ - Mar 20, 2007 6:38:43 am PDT #7959 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
"Your date's over, mister." - cool article about two women in a bar who spotted a guy trying to slip a drug into his date's beer.
I vote that when Daisy Jane comes to visit -- and, later, when Allyson makes it up for a weekend -- we all go to that bar and leave those women great whopping tips. They just seem like DJ and Allyson's kind of women (and in the alternate universe where Allyson is a bartender, I can totally hear her saying "Your date's over, mister," though I think she would punctuate the statement with a golf club or baseball bat upside the asshole's head).
(Possibly also brenda.)
Daisy Jane - Mar 20, 2007 6:47:50 am PDT #7960 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I vote that when Daisy Jane comes to visit -- and, later, when Allyson makes it up for a weekend -- we all go to that bar and leave those women great whopping tips. They just seem like DJ and Allyson's kind of women
Cool! And awwww, thanks.
Vortex - Mar 20, 2007 6:49:54 am PDT #7961 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Absolutely!!! And I can't believe that the guy had a SECOND dose. How fucked up is that?
One use of a comma is as a replacement for "and" or "or," so to use a comma before the last word in a series is to say, for example, "the flag is red and white and and blue."
I agree.
Not to mention that it's inconsistent. It says "ONE use of a comma". In her example, there is more than one comma.
Cashmere - Mar 20, 2007 6:50:27 am PDT #7962 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
They just seem like DJ and Allyson's kind of women
Yup. Although in Allyson's case, I'm pretty sure date-rapist would NOT have left the bar on his own two feet.
I love that story.