Heh. It was one of the best (i.e. unexpected) character deaths ever.
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
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.
Theodosia - Apr 11, 2011 3:38:30 pm PDT #2812 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Liese S. - Apr 11, 2011 3:59:05 pm PDT #2813 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
my gramma lost a boot to an escalator and spent the rest of her life terrified of the things.
Because escalators are horrible awful machines that house a green monster. I don't know why no one believes me when I tell them these things! They are a hidden menace.
brenda m - Apr 11, 2011 3:59:11 pm PDT #2814 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
What's this about a possible serial killer?
What's weird is that I think they still haven't found the woman they were originally out there looking for.
DavidS - Apr 11, 2011 4:04:02 pm PDT #2815 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does anyone know anyone who has been hurt by closing elevator doors? Should I not be throwing myself between them so willy nilly?
I worked at a place where a guy got his hand caught in the doors, the doors didn't open up and the elevator then moved and mangled his hand pretty bad. So when new employees tried to catch the elevator doors we all heard this story. (And indeed, the doors did not retreat readily on catching a hand. It took a hard shove to get them to back off.)
Ginger - Apr 11, 2011 4:15:59 pm PDT #2816 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Because escalators are horrible awful machines that house a green monster.
I fell forward on an escalator once and cut my shins. Y'all probably already guessed that.
I also embarrassed my mother by turning one off when I was about 3. There were buttons. I pushed them.
§ ita § - Apr 11, 2011 4:23:07 pm PDT #2817 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I shall make sure, then, that I slap the lip of the elevator doors, or jam my whole arm in, for more safety.
I am one of the few people in the building that ever seems to try, though. Most people slow down when they see the doors closing, whereas I speed up and stick my foot in, or something. And then people look at me funny.
Make your protagonist want something. I need to reread Hitchhiker's. What did Arthur Dent want?
-t - Apr 11, 2011 4:28:18 pm PDT #2818 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
His house not be torn down, for one.
§ ita § - Apr 11, 2011 4:29:00 pm PDT #2819 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Did that last longer than a chapter?
-t - Apr 11, 2011 4:31:37 pm PDT #2820 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not in a practical it could happen sense, I guess. He mostly wanted terrible things to stop happening, I think. And maybe a cup of tea.
tommyrot - Apr 11, 2011 4:39:47 pm PDT #2821 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.
Also, he wanted what's-her-name.