Right? I used to say, "I wish."
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[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.
JenP - Sep 28, 2011 11:46:56 am PDT #408 of 30001
amych - Sep 28, 2011 11:49:40 am PDT #409 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, there are a whole lot of people in the world who still think "any relation to Jimi?" is an original line.
Steph L. - Sep 28, 2011 11:54:08 am PDT #410 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I have a 4-letter German last name in a goddamn German town, and I cannot begin to tell you how many people get it wrong. I pretty much think people are just stupid.
My company's name is BigBoss's name, followed by "Books" -- like "John Smith Books Co." And when I tell it to people, they go "Whuuuuuut?" and I say "[John], like the name, [Smith], like the name, Books, like the things you read." And then they suddenly get it.
Again, I'ma go with -- people. stupid.
le nubian - Sep 28, 2011 12:03:55 pm PDT #411 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I have a very common last name that was prominent several years ago because at least one famous person had that last name. Said famous person is White. I am not.
As a teenager, I kind of got fed up with the way one joker asked, "any relation?" - with a smirk - (as if I had *never* heard that joke ever before) that I just said to him, "I suspect his ancestors probably owned mine."
And that was that.
Cass - Sep 28, 2011 12:04:08 pm PDT #412 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Books, like the things you read.
Optimism!
Ginger - Sep 28, 2011 12:04:45 pm PDT #413 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have to spell "Ginger" more often than you'd imagine, even after I say, "Like the spice. Like ginger snaps, gingerbread, ginger ale."
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2011 12:05:17 pm PDT #414 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So far one person has said "As in the brothers in Supernatural?" And that was a Colombian hotel desk clerk.
Which reminds me, I need to call Dean the technical support guy for a favour today. It's much lamer to ask someone based on their *first* name, but tech support Dean is indeed a fan of the Winchesters, so dork points scored there.
meara - Sep 28, 2011 12:06:08 pm PDT #415 of 30001
I have to spell "Ginger" more often than you'd imagine, even after I say, "Like the spice. Like ginger snaps, gingerbread, ginger ale."
Do they all think of the Duggars and their child with the heinous name "Jingur"?
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2011 12:07:51 pm PDT #416 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"I suspect his ancestors probably owned mine."
Snap.
My sister and I loosely plan to visit our ancestral clan home on our father's side in Scotland at some time, and plead kinship based on either blood or or ownership. We did use to wear the tartan from time to time.
askye - Sep 28, 2011 12:12:32 pm PDT #417 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
My last name is tricky. 5 letters but tricky. Sounds like it starts with an L not an E so that throws people off and there's a Z in there,.
The other day I was trying to do something and spelled my name wrong, and the person didn't understand what I said so I went with "E as in elephant, L as in lion, Z as in zebra, I as in ice, E as in elephant." and I get back "Is it spelled TFGIT?
Because it's pronounced LZ people try to throw an L at the beginning. So when asked for my last name I usually say "I'll spell it for you".