He doesn't travel well. He's like fine shrimp.

Anya ,'Touched'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Feb 24, 2010 12:37:33 pm PST #10570 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

lori is id #1, isn't she? It's gotta be her.

Actually, id #1 is a super user account. (i.e. all-powerful.) It's what a stompy would use when regular stompy powers are not enough.


§ ita § - Feb 24, 2010 12:38:16 pm PST #10571 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I didn't do it! None of it! Gus started TV Tropes all by himself. People might have done some heavy lifting later, but he started it himself, IIRC. Got contributions from folks here. I'm pretty sure I did some typing.

I'm totally traumatised by that article. In so many ways.


§ ita § - Feb 24, 2010 12:38:43 pm PST #10572 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, I'm #2, and lori is #3. She's sneaky fast. I'm just sneaky.


aurelia - Feb 24, 2010 12:38:56 pm PST #10573 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Eta: Yeah, if people want to talk about this in bureau, not that I'm saying there's lots to say, we can move it there.

Unless there is something to propose, isn't it more appropriate here?


Jessica - Feb 24, 2010 12:39:24 pm PST #10574 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

(Was joke. Carry on.)


aurelia - Feb 24, 2010 12:40:38 pm PST #10575 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I edited for context. Sorry.


bon bon - Feb 24, 2010 12:41:07 pm PST #10576 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I don't know! I don't know if Gus is a sore spot still.


Kathy A - Feb 24, 2010 12:41:25 pm PST #10577 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I wrote up the initial entries for MASH and Magnum, PI for the tropes site. Most of my stuff is still there, surprisingly enough.


Jesse - Feb 24, 2010 12:41:53 pm PST #10578 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't remember the creation of TV Tropes involving any other buffista, certainly not two more who had known Gus for decades, and who were there since Salon. The whole story is false, I'm saying.

I'm pretty sure I'm burned out on Gus-related drama still.


Trudy Booth - Feb 24, 2010 12:42:48 pm PST #10579 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

...I don't get it. Why? I mean...how do women access a submarine different from men? Or is it that the men on a submarine don't ...have a bathroom with a door? I'm assuming they have at least one regular toilet that is not a urinal, since men have to shit too. So, that's out. Showers? Only one shower...area? They can't just say "OK, the girl is in the shower now, wait til she's out"? Do the men all sleep in one bunk area? And so they'll have to give women and men space to change clothes? ...I'm really failing to see how this rises to the level of "numerous". Or maybe I'm just assuming that men and women can work together and deal with the differences in their bodies for a little while without freaking out, by being adults. Maybe. Um. ?

They have to put those "whitehouses" in the bathrooms? They take up space. Space is precious on submarines, there may not be room for menstruation.