late night convos amuse the hell out of me

[ursamajor]

Me, reading Geek Feminism headlines aloud: "Will you be a sexy witch, a sexy bee, or a sexy girl-geek for Halloween?"
hyounpark: "Because whatever it is, it's gotta be sexy! Like, how about a sexy ... entomologist?"
Me: "Oh, like Bambi?"
hyounpark: "..."
Me: "On the X-Files."
hyounpark: "..."
Me: "She was an entomologist! And Mulder couldn't stop staring at her chest!"
hyounpark: "... you aren't making this up, are you. Oh, boy."

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Also, this came across my reading path elsewhere, and it amused the hell out of me, and I totally need to iconify it:

"Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse."

Comments

[jadelennox]

You did follow the link and see sexy Elmo, right?

"Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse."

♥

[ursamajor]

Wait, what? I only saw that quote, no link!

Oops, nevmind, comprehension confusion. Thought sexy Elmo was having to do with one's Uncle Jack and a horse. (Hadn't actually read the GF story yet, just the headline.)

[ursamajor]

... and now we have seen the sexy Elmo costume, and are Disturbed. And then we found the Tickle-Me-Elmo and Cookie Monster videos, and the Tigger and Elmo videos, and ... yeah. Rule 34.

[jadelennox]

Those I haven't seen and didn't want to know about but... yeah. Rule 34 indeed.

[azurelunatic]

So I see "...entomologist, and Mulder couldn't stop staring at her chest!" first, and my brain fills in: "Oh, Bambi!"

I may be in need of an intervention.

[ursamajor]

hyounpark: "Wait, somebody else agreed with you?!"
Me: \o/ :D :D :D \o/
hyounpark: *goes hunting* "Wait, this was a TOP TEN EPISODE?!"
Me: *looks at that list* "Eh, I'm not sure I totally agree with it - I mean, I loved the MeMo arc and One Breath and Humbug, but where the hell is PUSHER?!"

(it is late; we are speaking in punctuation extremes.)

[azurelunatic]

Nothing will replace Bad Blood in my heart.

[kerrypolka]

Although I think the baseball one with Jesse L Martin might be my actual favorite of all time? On the other hand, it's Bad Blood. THIS IS HARD.

[ursamajor]

The Unnatural! And yes, oh man, Jesse L. Martin. I watched Ally McBeal for him for a season. >_> I don't know how Bad Blood didn't make that list. But yeah, a top 10 of XF is hard ...

[yvi]

I saw sexy entomologist and thought of that, too :D

Though I don't think he was actually staring at her chest.

[ursamajor]

WE ARE LEGION. :D

And yeah, probably not; Mulder was usually a lot more subtle than that. He was attracted to her, IMO, though!

[yvi]

Oh, he was completely smitten with her, yeah.

[lithiana]

i've never been much of a fan of capitalisation. i don't think it avoids ambiguity, since the real meaning is always clear from the context, and the standardised capitalisation we take for granted nowadays is actually a recent phenomenon -- only a couple of hundred years ago, people would capitalise pretty much randomly, inserting capital letters all willy-nilly wherever they felt like it.

unfortunately, eschewing capitals seems to be such a departure from modern standard english (my spell-checker is underlining "english" with a wavy red line) that many people will assume you must be illiterate, or just stupid, or in some other way not worth paying attention to. i must therefore subjugate myself to the whims of the language imperialists, and litter my writing with your so-called standard capitalisation.