Sorry! I really read that weird.
I would also like to note that after this week, my brain is mush.
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
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.
Cashmere - Nov 12, 2009 8:02:46 am PST #218 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 12, 2009 8:12:08 am PST #219 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
"If sir wishes, I will indeed consent to being 'scanned,' as it were, by the Magnetic Resonance Imaging apparatus."
GENIUS.
If possibly one too many levels of postmodern. Heh.
Shir, I too am impressed by your chutzpah (a word I love, and learnt from The Girl) with hanging that painting on your wall. And it's fab.
And then I scanned posts, 'cos tired. Back to work now.
WindSparrow - Nov 12, 2009 8:14:11 am PST #220 of 30000
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.
Cash, it's good to see you here. I'm hoping you are back to feeling somewhat better after your bout with flu.
That's not the point, which I suspect you already know. The point is that "jew" and "gyp" are exact parallels, synonyms for "cheat" which embody negative cultural stereotypes about Jews and Gypsies, respectively. Both are in current usage, though "gypped" seems to be more common.
I confess to having used the word "gypped" freely in my youth, as it was commonly heard. Not having seen it written out, I imagined it spelled as "jipped". When I did see it in print, realized it was less savory than I thought, I released it from my vocabulary.
Jessica - Nov 12, 2009 8:14:14 am PST #221 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
chutzpah (a word I love, and learnt from The Girl)
Living in Brooklyn, it cracks me up that "chutzpah" would ever have to be explained.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 12, 2009 8:19:28 am PST #222 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Living in Brooklyn, it cracks me up that "chutzpah" would ever have to be explained.
I'm British... :P
Jessica - Nov 12, 2009 8:23:30 am PST #223 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
You Brits, with your lifts and your lorries and your extra u's and your lack of Yiddish slang.
tommyrot - Nov 12, 2009 8:24:42 am PST #224 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.
You Brits, with your lifts and your lorries and your extra u's and your lack of Yiddish slang.
And spanners! Only a Brit would throw a spanner in the works.
eta: And torches! Brits have electric torches, somewhat like our flashlights....
Typo Boy - Nov 12, 2009 8:26:40 am PST #225 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The Girl thinks he should play a dead patient. This would be something of a waste of his genius, though.
He does not have to start out dead. Have him do a death scene.
Gudanov - Nov 12, 2009 8:27:37 am PST #226 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
You Brits, with your lifts and your lorries and your extra u's
You'd think that as long as they've been using English they'd have it right by now.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 12, 2009 8:29:01 am PST #227 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I am giggling at the Brit-bashing.
Admittedly, this is because I'm half Irish.
ETA:
Only a Brit would throw a spanner in the works.
Do you actually throw a wrench in the works? That just sounds odd. (The Girl, being an American citizen, is always talking about AJs. The first time she asked me to pass one, I thought she was taking the piss.)
ETA again: She's just told me that AJ is not American. Never mind. Friends and I regularly laugh when she says things like "make a left" (what, dig up the road so as to make one? It's turn left) and similar.