I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.

Mal ,'Trash'


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 - Feb 13, 2011 9:40:39 am PST #22644 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

Once again, not 'shipping the pairs, necessarily.

I passed on using Moist Von Lipvig and Pump 19 from Pratchett's Going Postal due to its obscurity. But that pairing is one of my favorites.


Typo Boy - Feb 13, 2011 9:49:10 am PST #22645 of 30001
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.

Well not a matter of shipping. But unless you are referring to the Burton or SyFy don't see where Alice/Hatter comes from. I assumed your pairs are intended to refer to cases where some sort of argument can be made? In canonical Alice, Alice has a really brief quarrelsome conversation with the Mad Hatter when crashing his tea party. Nothing at all that makes them a "pair". Unless your intention is to just make random pairs out of people who happen to both be in the same work. But then why are all your other pairs either canonical or people for which a decent argument can be made?


billytea - Feb 13, 2011 9:49:36 am PST #22646 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I'd suggest Batman/Robin. But then I'd also suggest Milo/Otis. Ooh! Rosencrantz/Guildenstern! Nixon/Kissinger. Milkweed/monarch butterfly. ("Do you travel a lot?")


beekaytee - Feb 13, 2011 10:04:15 am PST #22647 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

Rosencrantz/Guildenstern

Using it! Good one.

Milkweed/monarch butterfly

That is so precious, I can hardly stand it. Do you travel alot? Awesome.

Typo, the pairings are no deeper than pop culture adjacent conversation starters. I could have used Alice and the White Rabbit, or the Queen of Hearts. (which might be better, now that I mention it) I didn't put that much thought into it.


Strega - Feb 13, 2011 10:26:31 am PST #22648 of 30001

I can pick ones that are more likely to be identifiable by the demographic that shows up.

I've missed the context -- do you know anything at all about who's attending? In order to answer the yes/no ID questions people have to be reasonably knowledgeable about the characters or it's going to be an exercise in frustration. I feel like characters from cartoons & comics are a safer bet because even if you've never read/watched them, you know who Superman & Lois Lane are well enough to answer some basic questions about them.

Rosencrantz/Guildenstern
Again, I'm thinking of how many questions I'd have to ask of someone else familiar with the play before I'd come up with this. I realize the goal is to get people talking but... characters who are basically ciphers don't give you much to talk about.


aurelia - Feb 13, 2011 10:55:36 am PST #22649 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Okay, this is just cool. [link]


§ ita § - Feb 13, 2011 11:01:31 am PST #22650 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Once again, not 'shipping the pairs, necessarily.

But Hatter/Alice is just two people in a book. Why not Mad Hatter/March Hare?

What phone did yo get, bon?

Brenda mentioned she zooms b.org on her phone, which is mine (G2), but I don't usually. But I'm not using the default Android browsers.


meara - Feb 13, 2011 11:44:38 am PST #22651 of 30001

Oooh, those liquid crystal glasses are pretty cool sounding! Someday in the future we'll all have them in our eyes or something.


bon bon - Feb 13, 2011 11:46:43 am PST #22652 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

What phone did yo get, bon?

Verizon iphone. Got a matching set for the bon Bobs!


DavidS - Feb 13, 2011 11:54:03 am PST #22653 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Unbelievable, they fit 17 people together at the Haight Street Pork Store. Waitress said it was a record.

Here's Matilda, JZ, the movie star and the poker player.

In this picture you can see Zmayhemi, one of the best known drag queens in San Francisco (Peaches Christ), the producer of (500) Days of Summer, a World Series of Poker Champion (the photographer also having a bracelet), and the screenwriter who created (and later directed) the Chucky horror movies.