Why "A shirt"?
I think it's the basic shape of them, to distinguish from a "T shirt."
I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2009 7:05:14 am PST #204 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 12, 2009 7:05:38 am PST #205 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Why "A shirt"?
I think either short of "Athletic Shirt" or because it is shaped sort of like an "A". I actually used to call them singlets, which I think might also be right, but no one knew what I was talking about and thought I meant wrestling garb.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 12, 2009 7:08:40 am PST #206 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Also, I never really understood wearing an A-shirt as underwear. It seems to me that the undershirt's job is to protect your outer shirt from your armpits, and the A-shirt does not do that!
ChiKat - Nov 12, 2009 7:10:53 am PST #207 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Fuck the persimmons!
Did anyone else go to an American Pie place? Just me?
Steph L. - Nov 12, 2009 7:12:36 am PST #208 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Fuck the persimmons!
Did anyone else go to an American Pie place? Just me?
I *did* say "not literally" to forestall you pervy people! I see it cannot be forestalled. It is a force unto itself, like El Nino.
ChiKat - Nov 12, 2009 7:21:48 am PST #209 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I *did* say "not literally" to forestall you pervy people!
You said it in the next line, though. By the time my eye moved to the next line, it was way too late.
DavidS - Nov 12, 2009 7:24:33 am PST #210 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Do you jew people down in negotiation too?
No, but I never used the word "jew" in that way.
DavidS - Nov 12, 2009 7:26:11 am PST #211 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fact is, that you will make people do a doubletake when they hear it even if they know what it means. If using the word is that important to you, fine.
I did address these issues noting that I wouldn't use the word where it would misheard or misconstrued and I wasn't insisting on it to the exclusion of all other considerations.
Laura - Nov 12, 2009 7:28:56 am PST #212 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Happy Birthday to Jessica!
Have nothing to add, except giggles, to the doubletake word discussion.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2009 7:35:56 am PST #213 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I never used the word "jew" in that way.
I'm assuming you have no problem with it, though.