I don't think there's a gramatical argument for it. It's just a question of clarity and flow.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Dana - May 20, 2008 8:28:26 am PDT #9823 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Pix - May 20, 2008 8:30:29 am PDT #9824 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Thanks, Dana!
Beverly - May 20, 2008 8:31:53 am PDT #9825 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
In cases like these, I chicken outgo for the diplomatic option of rephrasing: "The fight she had with her father..."
Typo Boy - May 20, 2008 8:39:13 am PDT #9826 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, I think it was flirting. Meara with rumpled hair = hot.
meara - May 20, 2008 9:06:23 am PDT #9827 of 10001
Heh. Sadly, meara with rumpled hair, glasses, pajamas, off an hour long conference call, and PRECOFFEE?? Not quite the glamourpuss or tousled tease you might envision.
Though given some conversations I've had about the Seattle aesthetic and attitude, recently, I suppose it might go over better than I'd anticipate or prefer...
Atropa - May 20, 2008 9:07:50 am PDT #9828 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
{{Raq}} I'm so sorry.
Sean K - May 20, 2008 9:09:56 am PDT #9829 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
PRECOFFEE??
That's just uncalled for.
::shoves coffee through interwebs for meara::
But the rest of it sounds like the standard meara-spheric levels of HOTT.
Atropa - May 20, 2008 9:10:10 am PDT #9830 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Though given some conversations I've had about the Seattle aesthetic and attitude, recently,
HEY! Oh, wait, the rest of Seattle is like that, isn't it? I will restrain my indignant "hmmph!"
I suppose it might go over better than I'd anticipate or prefer...
Well, you're gorgeous. Of course the rumpled pre-coffee look is good on you.
meara - May 20, 2008 9:21:29 am PDT #9831 of 10001
Well, Jilli, it's especially prevalent among the dykes. The whole crunchier granola hipster grunge dirty hippy I don't comb my hair I'm cool because I pay someone to cut my hair to make it look like my hair hasn't been cut in six months kinda look. All that jazz. What can I say. We were in Portland, where it's even MORE so, and me and my J-Crew-East-Coast self were mourning the culture shock. I was all "Where's my dykes who look slick and fierce and like to hang out with fancy gay men who want nice things and fancy drinks??"
Fear not, Sean. I have coffee now. With an extra shot, even, thanks to that barista. :)
Polter-Cow - May 20, 2008 9:24:46 am PDT #9832 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My ex Michelle, when she moved from Minneapolis to DC (er, this was after we broke up), was going to the coffee shop in the student union all the time, and kinda though the manager of the shop was flirting with her, but wasn't sure, and was mentioning this to us....and then the girl was like, GIVING HER FREE COFFEE, and we were like "Dude, that's flirting with you"....and finally the girl was WRITING HER NUMBER on Michelle's coffee cup!! We were like "Michelle, do you need a bigger sign????"
Ha, that's straight out of a How I Met Your Mother episode!