Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

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


P.M. Marc - Jun 01, 2011 10:05:05 am PDT #10660 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It is official that Sheldon is ace? I kind of don't want him to be, because I don't like seeing non-NT and asexuality conflated. But we've had this discussion.

It's pretty strongly implied, even if they don't give him the official stamp.

And, as you know Bob, I agree!

ita, if you need a word, it's probably just aromantic sexual. Which is two words, I know.


Amy - Jun 01, 2011 10:06:14 am PDT #10661 of 30001
Because books.

OMG, PEDANT.

I said I was!


§ ita § - Jun 01, 2011 10:07:28 am PDT #10662 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

if you need a word, it's probably just aromantic sexual. Which is two words, I know.

Huh. Interesting. Thanks.

I do consider it a failing of mine, which I probably shouldn't, but there you go.


Steph L. - Jun 01, 2011 10:14:41 am PDT #10663 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

It is official that Sheldon is ace? I kind of don't want him to be, because I don't like seeing non-NT and asexuality conflated. But we've had this discussion.

It's pretty strongly implied, even if they don't give him the official stamp.

Yeah, especially this season. Hrm.

And, as you know Bob, I agree!

De-conflate! De-conflate!


Kathy A - Jun 01, 2011 10:15:32 am PDT #10664 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

But you needed a ticket to get in line to have a galley autographed, and I didn't have one.

The last time I was at BEA, I was one of the last people to snag a ticket for Julie Andrews. As I was walking away from the ticket booth, they made a general announcement that all of her tickets were gone, and there was a great groan of disappoinment from all those still in line. The advantages of getting there at 5:45 a.m. for the 7:00 ticket distribution.


Toddson - Jun 01, 2011 10:22:47 am PDT #10665 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

FCM: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver


Typo Boy - Jun 01, 2011 10:24:55 am PDT #10666 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.

F:Montreal, C:Toronto M:Vancouver


tommyrot - Jun 01, 2011 10:29:38 am PDT #10667 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.

I might F Montreal but I'd need to spend some time there first.


meara - Jun 01, 2011 10:33:31 am PDT #10668 of 30001

F Montreal (it's all sexy and French!), C Vancouver (hey, I've already got Seattle), M Toronto (...I have good memories. Very good memories)


Jesse - Jun 01, 2011 10:33:55 am PDT #10669 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Here's a thing about Canada and hockey and etc: [link]

Rene Rancourt is a Boston Garden Legend. Age Unknown, he has been singing the American and the Canadian National Anthems before Bruins games for 35 years. He is, quite frankly, The Man. In 2004, the Bruins' rivalry with the Montreal Canadians mixed in with politics in the first round of the playoffs. Montreal fans brutally booed the U.S. National Anthem during the first two games of the First Round of the Playoffs. In response, the Boston fans stood and cheered and knocked together those horrible thundersticks during Rancourt's stirring version of the Canadian National Anthem. I'm telling you, Rene Rancourt makes grown men cry with his Anthem singing. You may have heard the song a million times, but that dude bangs it out. I'm a much bigger fan of the Canadian National Anthem than the American National Anthem. I'm hoping at some point the U.S. could have an American Idol-like show in which we try to write a better National Anthem and everyone gets to vote. "American Anthem?" Janet Jones Gretzky could be a judge for symmetry's sake.