Say! look at you! You look just like me! We're very pretty.

Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

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.


Jesse - Aug 20, 2007 10:37:27 am PDT #5656 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

People, if you're going to use French, use it right. Do you want to give the cheese-eating surrender monkeys more excuses to sneer at us? C'est la vie.

I hear you. There are a couple of those that make me nuts.


Dana - Aug 20, 2007 10:37:58 am PDT #5657 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

t dumps document on Vortex's head


Nutty - Aug 20, 2007 10:40:24 am PDT #5658 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

People, if you're going to use French, use it right.

Okay, I knew c'est la vie. But, is today the day to confess I can spell neither horse's ovaries nor toot sweet?

Uh, hors d'[vowels]vres. I can't guess the second one, since all the candidates seem way too obvious for those cheese-eating vowel-monkey French academicians.


Glamcookie - Aug 20, 2007 10:42:12 am PDT #5659 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I think my niece is going to be Cass when she grows up. One of her most favorite activities is to go into the candle store in the mall near her house and sniff every scent they have. She's not yet 3.


brenda m - Aug 20, 2007 10:43:50 am PDT #5660 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I have a sixty-page document that I have to review for double-spacing after periods and use of serial commas.

Electronic, I hope? Do a global search for period-space-space and comma-space-and. The spacing can also be globally replaced by searching for ^w and replacing with a single space.


Dana - Aug 20, 2007 10:44:00 am PDT #5661 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

But surely Nutty knows "oeuvre", as in a body of work.


Cass - Aug 20, 2007 10:44:02 am PDT #5662 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

But she'll grow up knowing the value of a good smoke detector. That's reassuring, right?

I do love candles. Fluttery flames of happiness, they are.


Dana - Aug 20, 2007 10:44:59 am PDT #5663 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Unfortunately, I have to put the serial commas in. But I also have to fix the language, so I might as well go through the whole thing. Which I have, once. I'm now on my second pass.


Steph L. - Aug 20, 2007 10:45:27 am PDT #5664 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

nor toot sweet

Tout suite.


brenda m - Aug 20, 2007 10:46:25 am PDT #5665 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Segway! No rest for the weary!