I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


beekaytee - Jan 28, 2011 5:49:57 pm PST #19845 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

Oh, and I use, "That word does not mean what you think it means," pretty much every single day.


tommyrot - Jan 28, 2011 5:51:22 pm PST #19846 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.

"Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Gilder to frame for it. I'm swamped!"

"Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything."


tommyrot - Jan 28, 2011 5:55:18 pm PST #19847 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.

"Fezzik! Fezzik! Listen! Do you hear? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when Rugen slaughtered my father. The man in black makes it now."


askye - Jan 28, 2011 5:56:06 pm PST #19848 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

Anytime someone says "Bacon" I have an almost irresistible urge to say "I Can't READ!" (from the beggin strips commerical)

And "now you know" has to be followed with "And Knowing is half the battle."


Beverly - Jan 28, 2011 5:57:52 pm PST #19849 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

You know, all this TPB quoteage has remembered me. Usually when the girlfriends were introduced and forced to watch movies at our house, the first test they had to pass was a double bill of TPB and Pirates of Penzance (from which I can liberally quote, oh yes).


Aims - Jan 28, 2011 5:59:04 pm PST #19850 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Ok, the TPB quotes are really funny because the priest at my sister's MiL's funeral today sounds JUST LIKE the dude in the movie. I'm glad I was in the cry room, so they could n;t hear me.

BTW - cry rooms are pretty freaking awesome.


beekaytee - Jan 28, 2011 6:03:23 pm PST #19851 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

BTW - cry rooms are pretty freaking awesome.

This saved me at my grandmother's funeral precisely because I wasn't crying. Hard to explain why a 14 year old's heart has been blackened.

The thing that DID make me cry was all the very old people who made such an enormous effort (physically) to attend rites for a woman who had grown into a person who would have gleefully spit on each and every one of them.

It made me wonder if she had ever been decent, or if these folks came from an era where funerals were the thing that is 'done.'

The Eastern Star really did a lovely service...which had nothing to do with the deceased. Still, quite nice.


§ ita § - Jan 28, 2011 6:03:23 pm PST #19852 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have two quotes that seem to be mine alone, and they make me sad panda. "Bacon gotchya, eh?" was from a Canadian bacon ad, where the mother finally gets her son downstairs after she starts frying the bacon. I want to say it when someone finally comes round.

And "Your bullets cannot harm me! My wings are like a shield of steel!" from Batfink to describe my obvious invulnerability to everything.


beekaytee - Jan 28, 2011 6:05:39 pm PST #19853 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

Your bullets cannot harm me! My wings are like a shield of steel!

You should totally have this tshirt...or maybe a tattoo.


DavidS - Jan 28, 2011 6:10:21 pm PST #19854 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And "Your bullets cannot harm me! My wings are like a shield of steel!" from Batfink to describe my obvious invulnerability to everything.

Well, I've at least seen Batfink and might recognize a reference to wings of steel.