Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.

Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'


Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness  

[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.


amych - May 27, 2008 10:35:34 am PDT #693 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

So walking the plank is offboarding?

Works for me.


Frankenbuddha - May 27, 2008 10:35:40 am PDT #694 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

So walking the plank is offboarding?

AND waterboarding, in a sense.


Sparky1 - May 27, 2008 10:47:19 am PDT #695 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

sparky your niecephew is amazing! How old are they?

She's almost 12 and he's almost 16. (Note to self: buy birthday presents) All their musical talent comes to them from their father, while their mother seems to have contributed a love of roller coasters.


Toddson - May 27, 2008 10:50:08 am PDT #696 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Another one that I could happily never hear again? "Perfect storm". Usually misused ....


sumi - May 27, 2008 10:53:24 am PDT #697 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Nora - TWOP forums appear to be working - although I'm still not getting notifications.


Fred Pete - May 27, 2008 10:59:45 am PDT #698 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

"Perfect storm". Usually misused ....

It isn't one I use, but I'm old-fashioned enough to hestitate before using "in the loop."

If I were to use "perfect storm," it would mean that several things, each unpleasant in itself but not inordinately so, combine to create an epic mess. Yes/no/maybe?


Frankenbuddha - May 27, 2008 11:04:12 am PDT #699 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

If I were to use "perfect storm," it would mean that several things, each unpleasant in itself but not inordinately so, combine to create an epic mess. Yes/no/maybe?

We could probably leverage that definition.

runs away


Toddson - May 27, 2008 11:06:38 am PDT #700 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

As I understand it, the technically correct use is that a number of factors come together so that the final result is greater - far worse - than any of the individual factors.

Also - I can remember when people came on TV/radio and "commentated". They later became "commentators" (which is OK, so far). Unfortunately, this spawned a new verb, "commentating". ick.

And I also really hate the use of "task" as a verb (except as Melville used it). Also "authoring" - what's wrong with "writing"? And I really, really hate when someone decides to use a "big" word (again, in a usage that misses its exact meaning) rather than something less pretentious but more straightforward. sigh.


Laga - May 27, 2008 11:33:22 am PDT #701 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I dated a guy who liked to reclinate in a recliner.


Volans - May 27, 2008 11:36:19 am PDT #702 of 10001
move out and draw fire

I also do not understand the rise of "gifting" when we already had "giving."

Giving: The desire to do something nice for someone else, because their increased happiness is important to you.

Gifting: The desire to be recognized as better than other people, because you spend money.

The idiom that's been bothering me is possibly a regional VA thing; it's not Bureaucratic Bullshit Bingo anyway. It's dropping "to be" after "needs" but not adding an "-ing" to the second verb.

Like, "the dishes need done, the car needs washed, and dinner needs cooked."