THE SPACE IS MAGIC. The space is the pause before the boom. You know what Lorne said about sustaining notes and music? Like that, except typographical.
(It's possible I had a lot of stress to work off today. Bear with me)
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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 § - Aug 09, 2011 4:45:50 pm PDT #27361 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Aug 09, 2011 4:49:16 pm PDT #27362 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
THE SPACE IS MAGIC.
It doesn't look like a space. It looks like an underscore.
ita_!
Ginger - Aug 09, 2011 4:51:26 pm PDT #27363 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I want to pronounce the ! with a sharp intake of breath
I want to pronounce it with a click, like the !Kung.
SailAweigh - Aug 09, 2011 4:54:44 pm PDT #27364 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I want to pronounce it like "ita bang". Say it quick enough, it gets pretty catchy.
itabangitabangitabangbangbang.
amych - Aug 09, 2011 4:57:47 pm PDT #27365 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
itabangitabangitabangbangbang.
I'm not the only one visiting the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang place right now, I trust?
Barb - Aug 09, 2011 4:58:11 pm PDT #27366 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I'm not the only one visiting the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang place right now, I trust?
Nope.
tommyrot - Aug 09, 2011 4:59:02 pm PDT #27367 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.
Now I'm picturing ita punching Dick Van Dyke in the face.
Amy - Aug 09, 2011 5:04:07 pm PDT #27368 of 30000
Because books.
itabangitabangitabangbangbang.
I'm not the only one visiting the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang place right now, I trust?
I went right to "Monica bang!" from Friends, actually.
-t - Aug 09, 2011 5:04:15 pm PDT #27369 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
De La @@
This I want to pronounce as "de la Rowr Rowr". Doing the eyebrow raise and the eye roll and enunciating the t properly may be too much for me.
Atropa - Aug 09, 2011 5:11:54 pm PDT #27370 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Now I'm picturing ita punching Dick Van Dyke in the face.
Pete would possibly pay good money to see that. He still has Mary Poppins movie issues.