Crazy science - drugs to erase traumatic memories
Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.
'Origin'
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.
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.
JZ - Mar 20, 2007 6:51:27 am PDT #7963 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.
And I can't believe that the guy had a SECOND dose. How fucked up is that?
I'm so boggled by that that I hardly have room left to be boggled, and irrevocably skeeved, at the fact that at the time he was working for the school district (not directly working with kids, but still -- FUCKED UP).
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2007 7:13:17 am PDT #7964 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He didn't just have a second dose--it was a whole new drug. Just monumentally wrong.
Crazy science - drugs to erase traumatic memories
But they already do that! Well, to some degree. I have a cousin who was given a memory killer before they set her arm. They needed her to feel the pain for the procedure so they could be sure they got it right. They just fixed it so she wouldn't remember it. Then her mother told her about it later and she totally freaked out worse than she would have, probably, had she retained her memory.