Allyson sets up but Billytea delivers...race, in Natter.

I don't think I need Andrew Ti to help me with this one:

Coworker: I had a really bad morning. There was a truck blocking me in my driveway for a half an hour! It was one of those guys picking through the trash for cans.

Me: Did he at least apologize?

Coworker: Well he was black.

Billytea: So I was running for President, right, because duh, I have the best hair, and my opponent just ran these relentless negative ads that made me look like a heartless plutocratic ideologue who's out to oppress women, Latinos and the poor and middle class. Mostly by quoting me."

"Did he at least apologize?"

"Well he was black."

Discussing the twin pillars of all human society in Natter:

Connie Neil: The grape and the pig--where would civilization be without them?

-t -: Doing fine with beer and goat, I bet.

Discussing the complexities of programming grammar in Tech:

ita !: I'm being shocked in the other direction by someone on IO9 who's trying to tell me that fixing your code so that it says 1 second instead of 1 seconds during a countdown is introducing dangerous levels of complexity and that the change is too expensive.

Jessica: If {timeleft} ==1 then {word after timeleft} = "second"; else {word after timeleft} = "seconds"

....or am I missing something?

(Caveat: Not a professional programmer! Entirely possible I've introduced something dangerously complex here! Read at your own risk!)

ita !: I'd answer your question, Jessica, but it seems you've crashed the internet with your cavalier use of conditional plurals.

I'd like you to go to your room and think about what you've done.

There's a lesson here for all of us.

Jessica: I...I'm sorry. This is why I can't have nice things, isn't it?

ita !: One nice things.

In Bitches, Scrappy with the setup, and billytea for the win

She just sent my Jewish husband and atheist self a Christmas card which wished us "more Jesus in your life." Really? REALLY?

Ginger also had a pretty good response to Scrappy:

Honey, you can keep the Jesus. You need it more.

In Boxed Set:

Dana: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, and Michael Gambon are combining to make one wizard-telepathic-mutant British starship captain.

Jesse - The "wrong" names make me irrationally angry. I'm going to go up to some Girl Scouts on the street and yell "Two Samoas and one Trefoil!!!"

...and then I'll go to Starbucks and order a medium coffee.

billytea, in Natter.

There are plenty of sites devoted to odd-looking animals (such as my sister's wedding photos on flickr).

In Natter, ita ! has opinions on Judge Dredd's sexuality:

Someone on IO9 is excoriating me for being a perv who wants Judge Dredd gay because I have established a long history of forcing sexual attraction readings and fanfic onto canon. The conversation? "Judge Dredd is too fascist to not be asexual." "Why would fascism make you asexual? Here is a book with famous fascist sexual perverts" "Oh, so now you're saying all fascists are gay? Are all environmentalists furries?" "No, I said they can have erections." "FANFIC PERVErT" "Hitler and Lenin had sex drives" "STOP SHUTTING DOWN DISCOURSE WITH FAKE GAY" "I think I need to go now."

In Natter:

Cashmere sets it up: "And tomorrow, I get to jump in a frozen lake!..."

And Le Nubian hits it out of the park: "OMG that is super cool."