In the Onion book Our Dumb Century, there's a fake ad for some patent medicine that has a big list of all the old-time-y diseases and conditions that it cures - stuff like TB and consumption, and what-not. But my fave thing it cures is "the screaming shits."
Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.
'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[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.
tommyrot - Mar 18, 2009 11:22:49 am PDT #3926 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Beverly - Mar 18, 2009 11:23:49 am PDT #3927 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I think I've had those.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2009 11:24:23 am PDT #3928 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
OK, I just spit water on my keyboard over this. The line under the photo.
SuziQ - Mar 18, 2009 11:25:05 am PDT #3929 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Shakespearian types...is Macbeth too much for a 12 year old?
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2009 11:25:16 am PDT #3930 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Herbert seems to think that what Elsie thought was "I'll marry you if Papa say it's all right, and he'll probably say no," was actually, "Yes, I'll marry you! Once I get the tiny matter of my father's permission out of the way." And Elsie isn't sure she wants to marry him, because she wants to belong to her father for a bit longer, but she's afraid that her father will pity Herbert and so say yes.
amych - Mar 18, 2009 11:25:27 am PDT #3931 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Agreed on "limb", but the skirts on table legs thing is pure urban legend -- the sort of thing where someone snarks "oh, she's so prudish she'd probably do x..." and the next person picks it up as "she actually DOES x". It is true that 19th century decorating taste tended to the extravagantly swaggy, but that's more a matter of "look how sumptuous I can afford to be in our shining new industrialized middle class!"
Toddson - Mar 18, 2009 11:26:34 am PDT #3932 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
drat! can we just pretend it's true? (Elsie would probably put skirts on the furniture ... if papa told her to. And didn't insist she do the sewing on Sunday.)
amych - Mar 18, 2009 11:28:28 am PDT #3933 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
can we just pretend it's true?
No. Sorry. It's a bit of a twitch of mine. But I'll totally go along with your Elsie hypothesis.
Atropa - Mar 18, 2009 11:31:03 am PDT #3934 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
No. Sorry. It's a bit of a twitch of mine.
high-fives amych
ION, I need to whine about some shallow first-world stuff.
Dear Editor and Marketing Persons, answer my emails! I need to determine the text for my promo postcards! Plus, it freaks me out that I haven't heard from any of you for a week.
Dear Ebay UK sellers I've emailed: would at least ONE of you get back to me about if you'd be willing to ship to the USA? Please?
Polter-Cow - Mar 18, 2009 11:32:41 am PDT #3935 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Shakespearian types...is Macbeth too much for a 12 year old?
Well, there's all sorts of murder and betrayal and whatnot, but I think I was reading Agatha Christie around that age, and it's no worse than that. Okay, maybe a little worse.