Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.  

[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.


Shir - Jan 23, 2009 1:29:52 pm PST #8813 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

{{{askye}}}

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1) The Swiss lived in a cold country and wanted to go somewhere warm.

2) The Swiss were poor (hence the low number of animals)

3)The answer is phrased like a word problem in math for extra humor.

Wow, this is not how I understood this, at all.

I understood it as "they were awfully bored. Enough to join the Pope's army". And the humping line? I understood it as a spin off on the "it's not always about the cuddling".

And the thing is, I know that correcting people makes me sound like a dick

Standing in that corner, though I have to admit that if I think someone I know and love/respect gets a word/fact wrong, I'll start with "say, isn't X a Y?". Also, it's a good approach in case I'm wrong about it.

Edit for being blunthead without thinking. Sorry!


NoiseDesign - Jan 23, 2009 1:32:52 pm PST #8814 of 10000
Our wings are not tired

Hugs and sympathy to you askye.


Kathy A - Jan 23, 2009 1:33:19 pm PST #8815 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

{{{askye}}}


Glamcookie - Jan 23, 2009 1:36:04 pm PST #8816 of 10000
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

{{{askye}}} Sounds like a lovely way to say goodbye.


sarameg - Jan 23, 2009 1:37:10 pm PST #8817 of 10000

Aw, askye, much sympathy from me.


SailAweigh - Jan 23, 2009 1:41:17 pm PST #8818 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

{{askye}} I'm so sorry, hon. That's a hard thing to do. How nice that you have traditional place for her final rest.


Laga - Jan 23, 2009 1:46:19 pm PST #8819 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I've been wondering if the people who bought the house I grew up in did any digging. There's three dogs, four hamsters and scores of gerbils in the front and back yard. The first dog we lost even got a headstone that was covered up by periwinkle within a few years. I hope they haven't decided to tear up that front courtyard and found the stone that says "Chico." That might freak me out if I didn't immediately realize Chico was a pet.


Sean K - Jan 23, 2009 1:51:53 pm PST #8820 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Now Perkins' vee-hick-ul thing has me thinking of John Turturro in O Brother, Where Art Thou saying OB-stack-uls.


Pix - Jan 23, 2009 2:14:13 pm PST #8821 of 10000
The status is NOT quo.

Much love, askye.

In pronunciation news, I'm going to have to take a completely contrary position. I love accents and dialects, so odd pronunciations even ones I think are "wrong" don't bother me usually. I love the ways words change on different parts ofthe country and world; plus, who can really say what the correct one is?more standardized, sure, but wrong? I think it just depends on your perception. I'm a liberal commie when it comes to these things, I guess.

Now that I've said this, of course, I'm going to think of a bunch of exceptions.


brenda m - Jan 23, 2009 2:17:14 pm PST #8822 of 10000
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

Well, there are things that are regionalisms or accents and things that are just wrong. They ping very differently.