Well, babe, we only have your word that it is. And you're biased. Wouldn't want to get in "contrapment"
You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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."
erikaj - Mar 20, 2005 7:50:10 am PST #7293 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 22, 2005 2:37:37 pm PST #7294 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Okay, show of hands. Which of the two characters on this book cover is speaking the title sentence?
Strix - Mar 22, 2005 3:06:17 pm PST #7295 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
No book title should ever have "Uh..." as the starter word.
Betsy HP - Mar 22, 2005 3:30:53 pm PST #7296 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
You both know that's a Photoshopped parody, right?
DXMachina - Mar 22, 2005 4:15:52 pm PST #7297 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
How can you tell?
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2005 7:59:08 pm PST #7298 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because of this.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 22, 2005 8:58:21 pm PST #7299 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
You both know that's a Photoshopped parody, right?
Oh yeah... after Susan posted the link to that legitimate cover vote, I went back and found the spoof cover website we'd laughed about way back when. Lord of the Hissyfit and so forth...
Brynn - Mar 23, 2005 3:29:28 pm PST #7300 of 10002
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
*pops in* Have a literary/nattery type question: "The love that dare not speaketh its name"... Is that Oscar Wilde, and does anyone know from where it originates?
Ginger - Mar 23, 2005 3:32:23 pm PST #7301 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"The love that dare not speak its name" was a phrase used in Oscar Wilde's trial for homosexuality. I suspect it has an earlier origin.
Brynn - Mar 23, 2005 3:35:17 pm PST #7302 of 10002
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
Well, I that phrasing sounds sort of biblical... Or at least like a paraphrasing from the Bible. Maybe I will try to Google Scholar it. Now that it's confirmed Oscar, I should be able to nail it down. Thank you.