I know Eddie Izzard's dress-wearing has come up here, a long time ago, and I just noticed this on IMDB:
I am a card-carrying transvestite. Always have been, always will be.
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
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 5:52:53 pm PST #394 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Nov 12, 2009 6:03:26 pm PST #395 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Thank god!
It's not like it's something you outgrow.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2009 6:11:15 pm PST #396 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
More importantly, it's hot.
DavidS - Nov 12, 2009 6:12:29 pm PST #397 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
More importantly, it's hot.
That would be the main thing.
There aren't a lot of guys in eyeliner who rank as one of the ten funniest men on earth.
erikaj - Nov 12, 2009 6:30:53 pm PST #398 of 30000
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
He is also really smart.
beth b - Nov 12, 2009 6:42:30 pm PST #399 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I read through everything -- I come from a non-swearing family. And I wasn't allowed to insult my sisters. Respect was the word for our house. In fact , my father once said something to me which I felt was completely disrespectful to me as a teenager. I looked at him , and left the dinner table. and I did not come back until he apologized.
But then sj said this:
I tend to care more about the tone than the words themselves.
If you ever heard my Dad spit out the word "jerk" you know that he could have called you every name in the book and it wouldn't be worse. Of course, he rarely says it directly to anyone.
The other word he sues is nummy. for people with numb brains. so maybe it should be spelled numby? But that is one I use because it is so much more descriptive than stupid.
eta: work ate my brain
Pix - Nov 12, 2009 7:44:42 pm PST #400 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I use crazy, but I do have a mental illness. Does that matter? I love the word crazy. Because we all are a little crazy, I think, diagnosed or not. And maybe also because crazy isn't a negative word to me most of the time. My crazy friends, my crazy life--wouldn't have it any other way.
Anyway. I have just taken an Ambien in hopes I will get a decent night's sleep and be able to ignore the obnoxiously loud neighbors. It's Thursday people, seriously.
WindSparrow - Nov 12, 2009 8:03:44 pm PST #401 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.
My mother is both crazy and also has mental illness.
I'd forgotten about cheese-paring, but the discussion of losing the richness of the language brought it to mind. Yeah, I'm a bit sad that niggardly isn't the best choice for every day conversation, but nothing beats cheese-paring, and frankly if the cows are offended, then by-gum, I'll offend 'em.
billytea - Nov 12, 2009 9:15:25 pm PST #402 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Because when I hear someone use "gay" to describe anything other than a gay person
How about if it were used in reference to a bar, quite possibly by Electric Six?
WindSparrow - Nov 12, 2009 9:20:30 pm PST #403 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.
I'd like to state my firm opinion that rumba sleeves may qualify as gay in the old-fashioned sense of the word.