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You know, I really try to make the Zen contribution to these boards by *not* posting inane crap in threads which contain useful information.  So if I have read something and can't think of anything to say rather than "wow, cool" or "yeah, I agree", I don't make any posts at all.

Do I need to start, so that you can tally postcounts both for and against to determine your time-worthiness, or can you accept that some of your fans are trying to respect you by lessening the chance of thread drift?

I can already tell I need to set aside some serious time for this one.  Thanks for the tip!

Obviously if she wants to distract from the last name, she needs to give him a girl's first name so everyone focuses on that.

I recommend "Genevieve".

Its spelt "Wykkans".  Because i is a letter of male oppression.

Oh hell yes it is!  I mean, it looks like a spurting penis and everything! :P

Oh, I do have to confess to buying particular menu items from Jack-in-the-Box because I thought the radio commercial was particularly clever.  The strawberry-banana milkshake was the king of that phenomenon.  I can still make my sweetie giggle by quoting the punchline to that spot.

EDIT: I consider it just another way of paying for entertainment.

If they're paying with credits, that is a far too fucking easy way for them to be tracked down.  By which I mean I will be seriously disappointed if nobody does track them down, or at the very least the punchline is that they were really not all that important of people to begin with.

That's a relief.  I was wondering why that baboon was sniffing your crotch.

Actually, it's an orangutan:



(And actually, that's my husband in the picture.  Portland Zoo, July 2003.)

In part, they're selling you your identity. Our culture is obsessed with the individual. We think it's great to build up the individual in all these unique and personalized ways, and companies are trying to cash in on that. They want you to identify with your gum brand or soda choices. They want your car to be a part of you. And in doing so, they're watering you down.

People have been doing this in some form or fashion for aeons.  Do a websearch for the term "metonymy".

I buy brand X because the Sunday paper had a coupon that my local supermarket will double and allow me to pick it up at 64% off normal retail.  About the only exception is toilet paper, and that's because my husband has picked a favorite and insists on it.

And no, I'm not one of those obsessives that painstakingly scrutinizes every circular and coupon insert.  I pay someone else to be!  http://www.thegrocerygame.com/

I try to refrain from posting commentary in threads like this, because eventually when you post more chapters, I will want to read them all in rapid succession, and the chatter kills the flow.

And never ask me to critique writing, 'cause I don't know what I'm doing either.

    * Keep a diary of a fictional character.

I think I would need to take this one step further and make it a MySpace page or LJ or something like that.

Thats the shit I do for a living.. we're building home visualisation software. I like to spice it up with interesting household items, theres not really any quality assurance so they always get in.

My boyfriend works for a company that prints up plaques and I.D. badges and nameplates and stuff.  He got asked to put together some samples for the catalog, so he picked out webcomic characters and made name/title plaques for them.  And since a couple of the webcomic authors will be in town next month, he may well snag those samples (since it's not like they can use 'em) and give them away.

"Often, what is often not objectionable is what one says, but how one says it"
- Nietzsche

I also like this one:

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word.  The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

And then there's this one for the whole "I hate you even when we agree" feeling:

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

ahem: "jesus christ vampire hunter*

Oh hell yes!  L, you've gotta include some reference to killing off lesbians!

"Where have all the lesbians gone?" is what one of the vampires says on the phone after the first successful "kill" in the movie.  Maybe use that line.

Sorry...the thing I find most annoying is that stupid assertion in the V:tM sourcebooks that claims the feeding process is sexy.  They call it "the Kiss".  Sorry, but I donate blood on a regular basis and I cannot imagine it being remotely enjoyable.  One of my RPG characters has a vampire boyfriend who feeds on her 'cause she has accelerated healing (meaning he can take a pint every night w/o hurting her), but it ain't sexy.

That and the VLARPers who settle fights via rock/paper/scissors.  Fuck that!