(I realize that was not the point of the story.)
Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.
'Get It Done'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2010 2:41:01 pm PDT #14160 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
JZ - Jul 22, 2010 2:41:42 pm PDT #14161 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I have always wanted a pet octopus to sit on the tip of my finger. No, it's true, ask H. Ever since he's known me that's been a true desire, once I heard there were octopi that small. Cyuuute!
Now I'm imagining you with the tiny octopus of your dreams playing teeny-tiny handclapping games and doing high fives with Emmett and the finger monkey of his dreams, and I'm dying of the imaginary cute.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2010 2:41:56 pm PDT #14162 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I went to college with a guy who was trilingual, and apparently had a shitty accent in all three. At least, that was the word on the streets. I couldn't judge his accent in Spanish or Hebrew.
tommyrot - Jul 22, 2010 2:44:37 pm PDT #14163 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From the death report of a 13-year-old boy who died in 1854:
Killed by being swung around by the heels by a circus clown
bon bon - Jul 22, 2010 2:46:17 pm PDT #14164 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I think it's weird that Eugene Mirman has a slight accent despite immigrating at four.
Kat - Jul 22, 2010 2:46:40 pm PDT #14165 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I don't even want to look at that as clown's are terrifying!
Beverly - Jul 22, 2010 2:47:41 pm PDT #14166 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh, JZ, now I'm imagning that, too. Tiny heaven!
JZ - Jul 22, 2010 2:47:43 pm PDT #14167 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
One of my former supervisors once met a guy at Harvard who had grown up in NYC's Chinatown, the only child of an immigrant family who was determined that he would Make Good if it killed them all; even though literally no adults in his neighborhood spoke English and he was the only English speaker in his family, his parents forbade him to learn Chinese because he had to be an American or else, even though it meant none of them could really understand each other.
He grew up speaking fluent English with a strong Chinese accent that he could not train himself out of no matter how he tried. Apparently at not quite twenty he was already deeply tired of having to explain that no, he couldn't translate for you and yes, he knew he had the accent but no, he really couldn't speak Chinese.
Beverly - Jul 22, 2010 2:49:09 pm PDT #14168 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh, that's just tragic. O'Henry sort of tragic.
-t - Jul 22, 2010 2:55:00 pm PDT #14169 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My dad immigrated at age 5 and learned English in Elementary school via immersion and luck has no accent (or, I suppose, a California accent) but his younger brother who must have been 3 when they got here has quite a strong Russian accent. So IDK.