Hot, tired, and reading fic 'til Globe Trekker starts...

[ealgylden]

Thanks to the vast popularity of Harry Potter and co., fandom is tetchier than ever about Britpicking, dialect policing, providing cultural tip-sheets and all those other corrective goodies that give stories the proper tone. I get it, I do, and I sympathize with the impulse. Because it's just as annoying going in the other direction. By which I mean to say: if you're going to have Buck "knocking up" Ezra, stick a warning on that story. 'Cause over here? It doesn't mean what you're thinking it does.

Oh finally, my show's on. This day has been endless. And far too hot. It's sad when the high point of my day is lying around like a blob, watching other people having travel adventures. Hey, Ian's in Tuscany. Good episode to blobify to. Mmm, Tuscan food...

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[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Cause over here? It doesn't mean what you're thinking it does.

Laugh of the day, that one. Thanks!

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

By which I mean to say: if you're going to have Buck "knocking up" Ezra, stick a warning on that story. 'Cause over here? It doesn't mean what you're thinking it does.

*bursts out laughing* The British postdoc in our lab found that one out the hard way when he told a femlae friend he'd be around in the morning to "knock her up." Heh.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

By which I mean to say: if you're going to have Buck "knocking up" Ezra, stick a warning on that story. 'Cause over here? It doesn't mean what you're thinking it does.

*snickers madly* Where did you find this gem of a story? *g*

[aithine]

I know we've had this conversation before, but word. *vbg* *So* tired of Starsky opening the "bonnet" on the Torino or parking it at the "kerb" or or or... *g*