Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.  

[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.


beekaytee - Jan 21, 2015 6:27:00 pm PST #16118 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant

That is just beautiful, JZ.

What a kind and understanding soul.

This reminded me of an amazing moment, related to a person who had passed, but not a ghost story.

When I was in Lockerbie, after Pan Am 103, I spoke with one of the mothers of a Syracuse student. The young woman's name was Wendy.

When Wendy's mother went to the field where she fell, a man stood near the mourners, quietly offering presence. After he heard Wendy's mom cry, he walked up to her and asked if she carried anything that belonged to Wendy. The mom took out a necklace that had been one of Wendy's favorites.

The man put out his hand, silently and Wendy's mom handed it over without a word. He walked to a tree a short distance away and hung it on a branch, near the trunk.

He walked back and said, "My family has been on this land for 400 years. As long as there is breath in my body and in that of my children, we will care for her spirit here.

I can never think of that stoic and certain kindness without crying.


Zenkitty - Jan 21, 2015 6:36:16 pm PST #16119 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I can never think of that stoic and certain kindness without crying.

Me neither, now. That's lovely.


SailAweigh - Jan 22, 2015 2:44:04 am PST #16120 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

That is absolutely lovely. I do something not quite similar, but I like to think it binds the benevolent spirit of my brother to the family. I haven't done it in a while, but for many years after my brother passed I would buy my daughter an angel ornament for the Christmas tree in his memory. She loved the thought and any year I didn't buy one, she'd be disappointed. We haven't done it for a few, I think it may be time to add another to her collection.

The mispronounced word I remember the most as causing me the most embarrassment (and shouldn't, I was around 10) was epitome. I was reading aloud to my mother in the car and came across that word and pronounced it EP-i-tome. When I found out it was ep-IT-o-mee I was quite upset. After that, I started looking up any word I came across that didn't seem to have an English origin and followed a similar pattern. And I didn't find out until I was in my 30s that ennui was AHN-wee and not EN-you-eye. Those damn foreign words that sneak into our vocabulary.


Callaluna - Jan 22, 2015 4:44:27 am PST #16121 of 30002

Both JZ and Bonny's stories were lovely.

Hil's story about Coke on FB made me think of something else ridiculous I saw on FB the other day (ok, really, I see something ridiculous daily). You know how people will post pictures of some "old" item like a floppy disk or a washboard or some such and then say, "Like and re-post if you know what this is." Its supposed to make us feel superior for being old, as far as I can tell. Anyway, someone posted one that was a picture of potato mashers. Granted, they looked like they were old ones, but the technology hasn't exactly changed. You can go to Walmart and buy they exact same thing (albeit with plastic handles instead of wood). I was mystified that someone might not be able to identify that, doesn't everyone have a potato masher? Ever since I saw it I have been wondering if there is some newfangled way to mash my potatoes that I am missing out on.


Steph L. - Jan 22, 2015 4:45:39 am PST #16122 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I have been wondering if there is some newfangled way to mash my potatoes that I am missing out on.

You don't use your Food Network-approved brain implant to mash potatoes with the power of your mind? Man, Europe is *weird.*


Sophia Brooks - Jan 22, 2015 4:47:52 am PST #16123 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I saw one of those that was a paper cutter. I used one just like it a couple of days ago in the copy room at work.


Toddson - Jan 22, 2015 4:54:37 am PST #16124 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I have a really, really old "Webster's Instant Word Guide" that I lifted from a previous job. It's small and a terrific resource to check spelling and where to hyphenate words (which I occasionally have to do manually). I've seen people look at it and try to figure out what it's for (it was created for people who were using TYPEWRITERS, which didn't automatically spellcheck and hyphenate words for them).


Java cat - Jan 22, 2015 5:39:33 am PST #16125 of 30002
Not javachik

The Lockerbie and the elderly Chinese gentleman story brought tears to my eyes. and the little white dog story. (are the spouses of all police officers required to carry guns?)

When I was a kid, when we first moved to Pennsylvania, and while my parents were building their house, they rented in a residential area that was called the park because it was park like and abuts a huge State Park at the base of the big mountain that the entire area is named after. All us kids were allowed to play anywhere in the park. One day we all went beyond the boundaries over closer to the base of the mountain. There were all kinds of things that we hadn't seen before, there were some caves, and it just was different and wilder. One of the girls, a Catholic, said that she saw a white figure and we all shrieked and ran away. She told her parents, who took her to see the priest, and she described it all to him.

the Catholic family and the priest came out to the edge of the park and went into the woods where Heidi had seen the white figure and, since I didn't go with them, I don't really know what they did, but the implication was that he was going to check out what it was and help it move on or help determine what it was. it was such an extraordinary thing to us Protestants that a) Heidi was taken seriously and b) the head of local church came out to do something about it. Pretty cool.


Java cat - Jan 22, 2015 5:41:17 am PST #16126 of 30002
Not javachik

and it blew the cover that we were outside of the park and over at the base of the mountain, which we were all promptly forbidden to do again. In retrospect that's probably where the very few bears that hadnt been shot yet hibernated over the winter.


JenP - Jan 22, 2015 5:47:58 am PST #16127 of 30002

Both JZ and Bonny's stories were lovely.

Yes.

I have often wished for a typewriter again when I just want one label, but I don't feel like going through a whole rigamarole with the printer and Word label, and which number are these labels? I just want to label a file. That's all.

...and now I'm that person. Wow.