I feel so unwelcome here.
But she was naked! And all... articulate!
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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aurelia - Feb 24, 2004 2:10:22 pm PST #6825 of 10005
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2004 2:12:16 pm PST #6826 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Isn't spaz terribly rude? Am I missing something?
SuziQ - Feb 24, 2004 2:19:09 pm PST #6827 of 10005
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
In my head it is referring to Band Candy and Snyder's quote.
JohnSweden - Feb 24, 2004 2:25:19 pm PST #6828 of 10005
I can't even.
It has also become Deathmatch Culture for a superior quote being beaten by an inferior one.
ETA: Due to the demise of the Snyder quote.
JenP - Feb 24, 2004 2:28:00 pm PST #6829 of 10005
Well, in the context of Quotables it means a quote has been robbed of its rightful OTQ status ... got spazzed.
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§ ita § - Feb 24, 2004 2:29:34 pm PST #6830 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ah. I was just going with short for "spastic." Which ain't so pretty, sans context (and even then ....)
Wolfram - Feb 24, 2004 3:49:47 pm PST #6831 of 10005
Visilurking
I really like spaz in the context, but even dictionary.com labels it as "Offensive Slang" (as opposed to just Slang.) So I got to vote against it.
Jesse - Feb 24, 2004 3:53:38 pm PST #6832 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
how about more quote context? Like, "Summers still drives like a spaz" or something. Or, more obscurely, "Istanbul got spazzed!"
sj - Feb 24, 2004 3:54:37 pm PST #6833 of 10005
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
"Istanbul got spazzed!"
I like this.
JenP - Feb 24, 2004 4:02:45 pm PST #6834 of 10005
"Istanbul got spazzed!"
Love that.
ETA: I did go to dictionary.com after reading Wolfram's post to enter a bunch of other words that I thought were more or less on the same level of insult, but nary a one of them except for spaz got the offensive slang callout. So, I guess I learned something today.