I guess I'm a little oversensitive on people taking The Onion seriously - had another go 'round with the girl in my office who seems to think it's a serious news source. She can't figure out why I won't post their stories on our website.
Patron: That girl is a witch. Mal: Yeah, but she's our witch.
'Safe'
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.
Toddson - Sep 29, 2011 1:01:58 pm PDT #471 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2011 2:25:10 pm PDT #472 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Raq, I think it's closer to kruhv m'GAH. That penultimate "a" is totally swallowed.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2011 2:48:45 pm PDT #473 of 30001
brillig
I often spell Lucius as Luscious--had to correct it just now. Which has led to some interesting Internet discussions of the elder Malfoy. Fortunately, I think he is.
My mother always pronounced the name Nelson as Neltson. Always. My sisters and I had great fun mocking her.
beekaytee - Sep 29, 2011 2:52:08 pm PDT #474 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
My step-mother pronounced the word 'embroidery' as emBOYdry and 'shrimp' as srimp.
You'd be amazed how often those two words came up in conversation and how annoying it could be.
Cass - Sep 29, 2011 7:26:43 pm PDT #475 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.
My father cannot EVER pronounce the drug Ambien properly, even though he's taken it for years. He always, every time, says "ambience." Not on purpose; that's just the word that got installed in his brain first, and it wins every time
Well drugs are named in ways that lend themselves to other words. Marketing and psychology, yo. Which, in our post-Harry potter world makes Levitra funny to me.
I don't think I ever type psychology or psychic without mentally thinking P - S - Y. I just did it twice. I can type physics without mentally spelling ... Oh, no, I can't. Dammit. But it's at a lower volume. p - h - y - s and not P - S - Y. Huh, learn something new about yourself every day, apprently.
Burrell - Sep 29, 2011 7:29:27 pm PDT #476 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I am really quite a weak speller. Always have to spell out psychology and any other psych- words too. And receive. I actually have to say the rule silently in my head: "i before e, except after c."
Strix - Sep 30, 2011 1:20:27 am PDT #477 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
This is the third time this week my husband as woken me up at 4:30 am with cuddling. In theory, this is lovely. In practice, it wakes me up, when I have a hard time getting and staying asleep, and I don't feel romantical about it; I am starting to feel slight homicidal.
That is all.
Signed, Fucking Up Early and Not Loving It, I Started Freelancing So I Could Sleep Better
Ginger - Sep 30, 2011 2:04:13 am PDT #478 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I woke up a 5 without cuddling.
billytea - Sep 30, 2011 2:13:25 am PDT #479 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 woke up at 4:00 to terrified screaming. Ryan was vomiting uncontrollably, and it was freaking him out. (It freaked out WB too, as when she first got into his room, she thought all the vomit was blood.)
Strix - Sep 30, 2011 3:06:15 am PDT #480 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I invoke the FPC. I know it's not a terrible to wake up, per se; but it's made me cranky as hell. THREE TIMES this week! 4:30 am!
I have very much sympathy for anyone who woke up earlier than they wanted to this morning, for whatever reason.