Buffy. When I saw you stop the world from, you know, ending, I just assumed that was a big week for you. Turns out I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of 'apocalypse.'

Riley ,'Potential'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

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.


Atropa - Aug 01, 2012 9:42:00 am PDT #16342 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I've never heard it as another *think* coming. The -k sound at the end of "think" and the hard -c at the beginning of "coming" just don't work for me. Clearly, it's "thing."

I am Steph. In fact, until this discussion it never would have occurred to me that it was "another *think*" coming".


§ ita § - Aug 01, 2012 9:42:01 am PDT #16343 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have no idea what a Google ngram is (Seriously, do they just pull applications out of their asses? What is the justification process?) but since they clearly agree with me, they must be a good thing.

Pike is like turnpike, right?

Yes.

My god, I can't believe how many of you are wrong about "another think". I really thought this would be a bastion of sanity in the imbroglio of wrongness that is the Internet. It seems I have nowhere to turn. I must ask my sister--if she's not with me, I will stand with just the few right-speaking Buffistas, but proudly nonetheless. And the ngrams (Is that a Google Scientology thing? I'm still reading stuff--the contingent of practitioners that have left the main church because they feel it no longer hews to LRH's words is fascinating--they still believe, but Miscavige is a bad man, so they practice the old way, among themselves)


Liese S. - Aug 01, 2012 9:58:14 am PDT #16344 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Think and pike! Wrongheadedness, other people!

In unrelated news, isn't there an app for OMG I've been dead stopped on the interstate for forty fucking five minutes now, how can I route around the apparent motherfucking semi on motherfucking fire some mythical four miles ahead?


-t - Aug 01, 2012 10:00:45 am PDT #16345 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Why? It's new, and you apparently like those fancy newfangled things, hmm??

Pretty sure my second sentence explained my position. I feel no need to maintain consistency vis-a-vis old vs. new fangledness. Or, as autocorrect woold like me to say, fang lewdness.

Although, in my head, the "pike" referred to is the fish. No, I dont know how that works, but that's my association. "Thing", of course, can be anything, including a thought. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Tep, I don't know how I feel about Dora and Tai, but I'm probably more for than against. They've been flirting for forever, and I kind of like Marten without a love interest (although that can't last, can it?).


Amy - Aug 01, 2012 10:03:08 am PDT #16346 of 30001
Because books.

fang lewdness

This is the entire definition of True Blood, I'm pretty sure.


msbelle - Aug 01, 2012 10:04:40 am PDT #16347 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

- t, ignore ita. She's trying to fence us in. But she cannot. We are like Honey Badger, we don't give a shit.


Atropa - Aug 01, 2012 10:05:41 am PDT #16348 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Or, as autocorrect woold like me to say, fang lewdness.

Hey now (hey now now), I haven't worn my fangs since last week.


-t - Aug 01, 2012 10:07:48 am PDT #16349 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above...


flea - Aug 01, 2012 10:17:29 am PDT #16350 of 30001
information libertarian

Google Ngrams searches the content of Google Books for word or phrase frequency. Very useful for things like the current topic. More: [link]


Calli - Aug 01, 2012 10:19:27 am PDT #16351 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I suppose "another thought coming" is out of the question.

I'm agnostic on pipe/pike. Either one would make sense to me if someone said it.

Down the pole is right out, unless you're referring to a stripper or a fireman.