Bureaucracy 3: Talking Till We Can't Go On
I prefer this to the "Like X, only Y" structures. I'm pretty much over that.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'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.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
billytea - Apr 07, 2004 7:25:14 pm PDT #9519 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.
Liese S. - Apr 07, 2004 7:27:52 pm PDT #9520 of 10005
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
C'mon, billytea, it's continuity!
Kat - Apr 07, 2004 7:29:18 pm PDT #9521 of 10005
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I too would prefer moving away from Like X Only Y. But mostly, I just really like The Beatles and think that song is so very us.
billytea - Apr 07, 2004 7:56:52 pm PDT #9522 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.
C'mon, billytea, it's continuity!
At some point it becomes overworked. For me that point's passed. It feels like we're forcing it now.
Plus, I too like the Beatles (though I still prefer mine. Go kissing girls, choose kissing girls.)
§ ita § - Apr 07, 2004 7:58:16 pm PDT #9523 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Overworked? C'mon -- comedy loves threes!
Also, the Beatles mean nothing to me.
billytea - Apr 07, 2004 7:59:49 pm PDT #9524 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.
Overworked? C'mon -- comedy loves threes!
t blows three raspberries
Comedy also loves timing.
bon bon - Apr 07, 2004 8:22:51 pm PDT #9525 of 10005
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
comedy must have threes. I personally prefer a darkly comic title for this thread, rather than a descriptive one. YbureaucrazyMV.
DavidS - Apr 07, 2004 8:34:06 pm PDT #9526 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'll note that there were actual reasons for the first two Bureau titles. Kafka was just a good joke, since his bureaucracies were particularly hellish and ours was funnier. Sartre came up because at some point in Kafka we all became acutely aware that not only were Other People Hell, but this was the very room in which they were all trapped together.
"We can work it out" sounds too blandly optimistic to my ear, and doesn't have the knowing, wry, all-too-aware quality of the others.
P.M. Marc - Apr 07, 2004 8:38:38 pm PDT #9527 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
B'crazy 3: No One Here Gets Out Alive.
deborah grabien - Apr 07, 2004 9:01:51 pm PDT #9528 of 10005
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Maybe, Bureaucracy 3: Talking Till We Can't Go On.
(sneaks in)
Bureaucracy 3: Like the Beatles, but with much more detail...
(sneaks out again)