While I suppose the term has spread through the mainstream without necessarily picking up any connotations beyond sugar daddydom, the acquaintance I mentioned earlier was pointing out the narrower usage in the context of his pal using the phrase in a cruisy San Francisco gym at a point in time when his genitals were within about 2 feet of the other person's head.
Hauser: You really think you can solve the problem? Come into Wolfram & Hart and make everything right? Turn night into glorious day? You pathetic little fairy. Angel: I'm not little.
'Just Rewards (2)'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 07, 2005 12:47:59 pm PST #6837 of 10002
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
Betsy HP - Jan 07, 2005 12:53:30 pm PST #6838 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Note that Mills & Boon is the company that publishes as Harlequin in the U.S.
justkim - Jan 07, 2005 2:07:08 pm PST #6839 of 10002
Another social casualty...
Re: "Who's your Daddy?"
Strangely enough, my local paper, The Orlando Sentinel, had this article about the phrase's origins today.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2005 4:16:49 pm PST #6840 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
justkim -- that's the article that started this all off.
justkim - Jan 07, 2005 7:15:40 pm PST #6841 of 10002
Another social casualty...
Well, that's what I get for
paying attention
skipping and skimming. As I said, it was in my paper today.
Nevermind.
brenda m - Jan 08, 2005 1:30:44 pm PST #6842 of 10002
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
As of a few days ago, at least, I know there were Buffistas out there intending to donate to tsunami relief but not yet sure where to direct their contribution. May I offer a suggestion, by way of a librarian friend who spent six months in Sri Lanka about two years ago setting up a community library:
Sri Lankan Libraries Need Urgent Assistance
Kate P. - Jan 08, 2005 7:29:17 pm PST #6843 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
As I said, it was in my paper today.
justkim, thanks for linking to the article. I don't remember if it was linked upthread, but I hadn't read it yet.
Lilty Cash - Jan 09, 2005 3:35:36 pm PST #6844 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Today I picked up Three Junes. Has anyone read it?
Jesse - Jan 09, 2005 3:54:43 pm PST #6845 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have not, but a friend of mine did, and said the first one was just wonderful, and the second two were to make it book-length, basically.
Polter-Cow - Jan 12, 2005 2:41:29 am PST #6846 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I read Dry and Magical Thinking over break, and I am now on the Augusten Burroughs love train. He kind of reminds me of myself, if I were an alcoholic gay advertising copywriter in New York. I need to get my hands on Running with Scissors.