> Purity Test Question #354- Use the words 'orc' 'relationship' and > 'sapphic' in a sentence with a straight face.
"My relationship with that orc is indeed Sapphic," the lady Arwen said. "You mean, you write poetry and stuff?" Pippin offered, and was promptly beaten senseless by Gimli. "It must be said," Gandalf intoned at his intoniest, "that this surprising development -- foretold as it was by ancient scrolls --" "Which scrolls?" asked Frodo, who knew of such things only what his Uncle Bilbo had muttered during one of his Ring-induced episodes. "They are assuredly not in the open stacks," Gandalf replied with a touch of irritation and a long hit of Rivendell Gold. "As I was saying, the lady did drop her conversational cluster-bomb with a straight face." "Brilliant adjectival construction, old hatrack," Elrond said sourly.
John M. Ford Div. of Inappropriate Technology Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow Creators of SARUMAN AT KAMINO: "We do most profusely apologize, O worthiest customer," the unctuous customer representative said. "We are still new at mass cloning on this scale." "It's okay," the dingy white wizard replied. "My boss is not what you'd call an aesthete. Of course, this does mean you'll knock a few bucks off the net, right?" "Please! We're not Ixians."
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Date: 2006-09-26 12:18 pm (UTC)> 'sapphic' in a sentence with a straight face.
"My relationship with that orc is indeed Sapphic," the lady Arwen
said.
"You mean, you write poetry and stuff?" Pippin offered, and was
promptly beaten senseless by Gimli.
"It must be said," Gandalf intoned at his intoniest, "that this
surprising development -- foretold as it was by ancient scrolls --"
"Which scrolls?" asked Frodo, who knew of such things only what
his Uncle Bilbo had muttered during one of his Ring-induced episodes.
"They are assuredly not in the open stacks," Gandalf replied with
a touch of irritation and a long hit of Rivendell Gold. "As I was
saying, the lady did drop her conversational cluster-bomb with a
straight face."
"Brilliant adjectival construction, old hatrack," Elrond said sourly.
John M. Ford
Div. of Inappropriate Technology
Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
Creators of SARUMAN AT KAMINO:
"We do most profusely apologize, O worthiest customer," the
unctuous customer representative said. "We are still new at mass
cloning on this scale."
"It's okay," the dingy white wizard replied. "My boss is not what
you'd call an aesthete. Of course, this does mean you'll knock a few
bucks off the net, right?"
"Please! We're not Ixians."