Hi, I'm davers, but answer to bj. This is a terrific thread, it's like having a posting safety net. Or training wheels.
I share a house in Central Florida with two cats, neither of which is orange. I started following BTVS on TT and followed the migration to WX and then to the b.org board, where I've lurked since. The board moves so fast, it's always been too daunting to try to hop on mid-spin, especially since anything I might add has usually been said...and said well.
You are an amazing group of people, the source of some of the biggest laughs and the most eclectic information in my life...in no other venue would I have learned, among others subjects, about teabagging, corsets, slash, or the intense and incomprehensible anti-cilantro constituency. I'm a better person for knowing these things.
I just re-watched Buffy S1 – S7 and have begun Angel again, currently at S2. Season 5 promises to be especially exciting because I have not seen all episodes, so there will be New Angel in my future.
I'm pro-olives and muffulettas, ambivalent about the serial comma, and inordinately fond of the ellipsis. I've never tried Fernet and have learned not to click Buffista links when accompanied by a warning.
Hi, davers! I share your... fondness for the ellipsis. Welcome!
It's so cool to meet these lurkers who have been on the board way longer than I have!
And I agree with everyone else who chimed in about it, olives are wrong it's really interesting to learn new things about people I've known for so long.
I'm anti-muffaletta due to a serious dislike of olives. *shudder*
I'm pro-cilantro (or corriander) and was trained out of the serial comma in journalism class in high school.
But where do we stand on the one space or two, post-period? I was trained in two spaces in grad school and have stood firmly by the habit, but lately, I've been hearing mutterings of it being as outdated as organdy aprons.
I was trained in two spaces in grad school and have stood firmly by the habit, but lately, I've been hearing mutterings of it being as outdated as organdy aprons.
Oh my good god, NO. This is a leftover from typewriters, babe. NO need for it now. I take out all those extra spaces, every manuscript I edit, and grumble about it the whole time.
I was originally trained in two spaces, but have used only one for a couple of decades because of electronic typesetting.
::sigh::
Darned grad school.
I will begin training myself out immediately.
ha! apparently even when i use two spaces, it doesn't show up that way on the board, but it was drilled into me and that's what i always do.
as for the muffaletta and cilantro, i'm a picky eater. so no muffaletta for me, thanks. cilantro i can't ever really taste. so...
i'm anti-serial comma and also anti-capital letters when i type.
what else ya got?
