They peed on me in terror.
NATLBSB.
Or not.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
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.
tommyrot - Aug 25, 2007 7:15:28 pm PDT #6846 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.
bon bon - Aug 25, 2007 7:16:10 pm PDT #6847 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Compositional is closest so far.
dcp - Aug 25, 2007 7:17:27 pm PDT #6848 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Authorial? Editorial? Syntactical?
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 25, 2007 8:29:01 pm PDT #6849 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Grammatical?
sumi - Aug 25, 2007 8:32:19 pm PDT #6850 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Liese S. - Aug 25, 2007 10:08:13 pm PDT #6851 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
And it comes in a faux suede fleece lined bag! Guess I know what I'm asking for for my birthday! I was gonna ask for this down robe, but now I dunno. Northern Exposure, yay!
Consuela - Aug 25, 2007 10:58:50 pm PDT #6852 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oy. Went to a party, had great food, had great talk, had nice wine, drank my first Pimm's.
And discovered that one friend has become a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Into total tin-hat territory: that the towers were brought down by demolition, that the planes weren't commercial airliners and the passengers were taken elsewhere, that it was all arranged by the Bush administration.
W. T. F.?
People believe this? This administration can't find and kill the one guy in all the world they want dead; you want me to believe that in less than 9 months after Bush's inauguration they arranged the biggest Wag-the-Dog scam in modern history? And in the six years since nobody's breathed a word of it? Not one pissed-off aide or resentful girlfriend calling the Post, no emails forwarded accidentally or backups reviewed by the IT guys?
No. Way. are these guys that competent.
Go pull the other one.
Theresa - Aug 25, 2007 11:06:06 pm PDT #6853 of 10001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
Yeah. I actually would love to believe it. That would mean our government was a bunch of Jason Bournes, when in fact, they really are a bunch of Inspector Jacques Clouseaus. Damn.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2007 3:41:54 am PDT #6854 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Some people are nuts, that's all.
Nutty - Aug 26, 2007 4:45:22 am PDT #6855 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
And discovered that one friend has become a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Into total tin-hat territory
I was going to say: you've diagnosed the problem right there. Conspiracy theories are a strategy for coping with powerlessness: they say, we know what really happened; we have power over that historical event; we will agitate to set things right because nobody else will. Arcane knowledge of details, a built-in mission of virtue, a paranoid sense of persecution and/or apathy in the general public? Total built-in ego-stroke.
Also, I tend to think conspiracy theorists are people who suffer from too structured a frame of reference onto the world. The theory always hinges on a couple of random details that are unresolved, or don't make a lot of sense, or are just weird and random. Better to leap into conspiracies than to admit that sometimes weird and random and hard-to-explain things happen! There is no such thing as events in real life that don't make a lot of sense!