Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.

'Bushwhacked'


Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.


Calli - Oct 11, 2009 1:13:18 pm PDT #989 of 3094
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

::Leaps merrily into the delurking thread, eager to greet the lurkers who came forth in the 64 posts since I was last here::

::Reads a 64 post debate about the serial comma::

::weeps::

I use to care about the serial comma, people. And you've broken me. Broken me.

::Wanders off to see if anyone's delurked in Bitches by mistake::


Shir - Oct 11, 2009 1:18:58 pm PDT #990 of 3094
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

does punctuation go INSIDE the ) or outside the )?

According to my university: English - inside, Hebrew - outside (as I'm used to write). They mostly follow Chicago Manual of Style.


msbelle - Oct 11, 2009 1:21:10 pm PDT #991 of 3094
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I will get a taser and start using it, people.


beth b - Oct 11, 2009 1:21:27 pm PDT #992 of 3094
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Scones, we have talk of scones in Bitches.


Shir - Oct 11, 2009 1:27:01 pm PDT #993 of 3094
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I will get a taser and start using it, people.

And deprive of the world the future generation of the analytic philosophers of the comma?


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2009 2:25:28 pm PDT #994 of 3094
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And deprive of the world the future generation of the analytic philosophers of the comma?

Yes.

We can just link them to the above conversation.


Fay - Oct 11, 2009 2:41:03 pm PDT #995 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

See, when I woke up and saw the explosion of posts here, I actually thought people had delurked! I thought Sying had caused a small avalanche of delurkage overnight!

Nope.

I love you guys, though. Never change. (And I love that there is talk of scones in Bitches too, apparently.)


WindSparrow - Oct 11, 2009 3:46:38 pm PDT #996 of 3094
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Scones, we have talk of scones in Bitches.

Come to Bitches, Lurkers - we have scones. Also, bonus points for singing that to the tune of "Kenya".


Zenkitty - Oct 11, 2009 4:00:59 pm PDT #997 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Oh, great, now I have the Kenya song in my head.

Also, I must give you all great thanks, for my lifelong indenture to "proper" punctuation has finally been broken. I no longer give a crap, fuck or damn about the serial comma. I am free, liberated and released! Sorry, Tep...

(I still love ellipses, though.)


DavidS - Oct 11, 2009 4:21:19 pm PDT #998 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hec, I'll prouldy support you and order a t-shirt in size large, please!

::Makes out with Sail on the pretext that we agree about punctuation but really has baser motives::

I no longer give a crap, fuck or damn about the serial comma.

Who gives a fuck about the Oxford comma?