I'll say one thing, this thread has largely cured me of the urge to make "me too" posts. They're hard to resist sometimes, but what in conversation would be one person saying something and a bunch of others nodding comes off as way more aggressive and loud in this context, which contributes to the hurty and/or hostile tone that people sometimes feel.
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
'Help'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
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brenda m - May 12, 2003 5:10:53 pm PDT #1878 of 10005
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
billytea - May 12, 2003 5:38:50 pm PDT #1879 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Jacqueline Zahas and David Smay announce their engagement to be married.
We don't have to vote on that, do we?....
Pfft. Of course we do. And I believe I'm just the person to propose it, since that means it can be... preferential voting!
So, it is proposed:
Hec and JZ have announced their engagement, to riotous fanfare and more than a few broken hearts. What do you think? Please rank the following options in order of righteousness:
A: It's a BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY, alright?
B: I bet the music at the reception will kick ass.
C: NOOOO!! They were meant to marry MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
D: "WE ARE THE ZMAYHAS. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."
E: "You can lose a wedding ring, but not a wedding ring tattoo."
F: Won't somebody think of the children?
G: Mole rats! ("The Queen! Protect the Queen!")
H: Billytea spent his social capital on this??
I: SPOOOOOOOON!!!
Any seconders? (Don't be shy.)
Wolfram - May 12, 2003 5:51:47 pm PDT #1880 of 10005
Visilurking
H: Billytea spent his social capital on this??
Bwah. Too funny billytea.
victor infante - May 12, 2003 5:59:31 pm PDT #1881 of 10005
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Billytea, that was hysterical.
And HEC!!! JZ!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Betsy HP - May 12, 2003 5:59:40 pm PDT #1882 of 10005
If I only had a brain...
What about the moratorium? Should I let that quietly die, or should I formally propose it and bring it up for a vote? (I'm not trying to back out; I still approve of the idea, but I don't want to drag my Buffistas through any more hedgerows unnecessarily.)
P.M. Marc - May 12, 2003 6:13:52 pm PDT #1883 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
E: "You can lose a wedding ring, but not a wedding ring tattoo."
Dude, my SiL and now-former-BiL did this.
Seven years later, they divorced.
Bad. Idea.
Jesse - May 12, 2003 6:27:54 pm PDT #1884 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Speaking only for myself, I'd love to address the moratorium issue before we do anything else.
Lyra Jane - May 12, 2003 7:04:14 pm PDT #1885 of 10005
Up with the sun
Patrick's hippy-dippy friends in Eugene have wrist tattoos instead of rings. They seem happy.
Then again, they also had a ceremonial bong hit inplace of wedding cake.
amyth - May 12, 2003 7:06:37 pm PDT #1886 of 10005
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Then again, they also had a ceremonial bong hit inplace of wedding cake.
After which they craved wedding cake?
Lyra Jane - May 12, 2003 7:08:39 pm PDT #1887 of 10005
Up with the sun
After which they craved wedding cake?
Ya know, I have never asked that question, Amy. I should.
(They're actually very sweet people -- the male half just sort of smokes pot the way people in the '50's smoked cigarettes.)
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