Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.

Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Calli - Aug 13, 2014 3:31:54 am PDT #4064 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

How awful, Scrappy.

No fishing off the company pier. No dipping your pen in the company ink.

I need more modern euphemisms.

No shaking the company toner. No leeching off the company wifi. No steaming up the company cubicals. No meshing the company benefit plans. No rumpying the company pumpy.


Jesse - Aug 13, 2014 3:44:16 am PDT #4065 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Holy crap, Scrappy. That's terrible.

No leeching off the company wifi.

This one.


billytea - Aug 13, 2014 3:44:57 am PDT #4066 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

This company follows a strict policy of union-busting.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 13, 2014 3:48:20 am PDT #4067 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Wow, how horrible Scrappy, it could have been so much worse.

Sad about Bacall. To Have and Have Not was one hell of a movie debut.


-t - Aug 13, 2014 4:09:12 am PDT #4068 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

No leeching off the company wifi.

Yes, that is what I was looking for! Genius.


Jesse - Aug 13, 2014 4:14:26 am PDT #4069 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You guys, there is a person at my office who I've never spoken with, but thought was a woman. Apparently, he is a man! This is some real Pat-level shit. I thought his name was a woman's name, and he is totally androgynous, physically. People in the world! Confusing.


Laura - Aug 13, 2014 4:20:02 am PDT #4070 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I am sure I never could have pulled off an androgynous look. Even more sure that DH couldn't manage it. There are only a few people that I have met that could do so well.


tommyrot - Aug 13, 2014 5:08:49 am PDT #4071 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

These are always fun:

The 2014 winner has been crowned in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which writers compete to construct the worst opening line for a novel.

2014 Contest Winners » The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

The runner-up for crime fiction might be my favorite:

Hard-boiled private eye Smith Calloway had a sinking feeling as he walked into the chaotic crime scene, for there, as expected, was the body dressed in a monk's habit; there was the stuffed cream-colored pony next to the crisp apple strudel; there was the doorbell, the set of sleigh bells, and even the schnitzel with noodles - all proclaiming that the Von Trappist Killer had struck again.


chrismg - Aug 13, 2014 6:24:49 am PDT #4072 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

all proclaiming that the Von Trappist Killer had struck again.

Now there's a killer with real dedication to his theme.

No steaming up the company cubicles.

I think this one's my favorite.


meara - Aug 13, 2014 7:00:54 am PDT #4073 of 30000

Hah--Jesse, that reminds me of a friend of mine also named Jesse, who apparently confounded some coworkers when marrying his partner Jamie--she's a girl, but they were apparently unsure, with the gender neutral names, whether he was gay or not. I guess this had already been confusion and then the wedding (after gay marriage was allowed) didn't help, he got some weirdly phrased congrats, he said!