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	copperbadge 2009-04-20 07:28 am UTC (link)
	I would hit you back with another song lyric but I'm imagining Rodney McKay doing a booty dance and weeping with laughter. Mostly at the horrified looks on his fellow teammates' faces. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	squeakytoy 2009-04-20 07:34 am UTC (link)
	You just made me choke on my lemon-honey tea. My keyboard hates you. My need-for-a-laugh loves you. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	copperbadge 2009-04-20 07:36 am UTC (link)
	It's the eternal dichotomy. Technology versus man! Irrelevant to whumping, your icon makes me LOL. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2009-04-20 07:37 am UTC (link)
	I thought it was technology vs nature? Wait are we talking about ancient Greece or TV? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	copperbadge 2009-04-20 07:39 am UTC (link)
	Probably not ancient Greece, unless someone got dumped off a deus ex machina once and we never heard about it. Talking point, which is worse: Death by having a turtle dropped on your head, or death by literal deus ex machina? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ari_o
2009-04-20 07:43 am UTC (link)

It would depend on what aspect of machina were talking about and if the turtle is a small god. Or you know if it is a giant sea tortoise... I don't know I think it's pretty easy to consider tortoise-blunt-trauma an instance of deus ex machina.

I'm so tired I want to write some sort of horrible Aristophanes tortoise tribute fic and then complain about how no one understands my genius.

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	copperbadge 2009-04-20 07:48 am UTC (link)
	Aeschylus, dear. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2009-04-20 07:50 am UTC (link)
	No. Aristophanes wrote the comedies. I translated Aeschylus. He was not funny at all. There would never be tortoises bonking people. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	copperbadge 2009-04-20 07:50 am UTC (link)
	Aeschylus was the one who supposedly died by turtle, however :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2009-04-20 07:51 am UTC (link)
	That was never proved! >_> (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	copperbadge 2009-04-20 07:51 am UTC (link)
	I kind of hope it's untrue. I like Aeschylus a lot and I hate it when my literary heroes die in excruciatingly hilarious ways. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2009-04-20 07:53 am UTC (link)
	Tycho Brahe still has the most sadly hilarious death ever--but of course he was an astronomer. His bladder exploded at a state function. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	copperbadge 2009-04-20 07:58 am UTC (link)
	I think exploding bladders do trump turtles, it's true. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	squeakytoy 2009-04-20 07:47 am UTC (link)
	If you want to use, feel free! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	copperbadge 2009-04-20 07:50 am UTC (link)
	Apparently I'm somewhat non grata in the fandom, actually, so I think that might be baiting wank. But I certainly intend to appreciate the hell out of it in your comments. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	icarusancalion 2009-04-20 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	You are? For mocking it? But didn't some of the biggest SGA fans say from the get-go, "I love my stupid show!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	copperbadge 2009-04-20 11:33 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I personally thought it should have been obvious that something attracted me to it, considering I wrote 40k words of fanfic and grew rather attached to Keller. I will caveat that what I know of my status in SGA is hearsay; nobody's been at all rude to me and those SGA fans who were on my flist have been very gracious about it. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	icarusancalion 2009-04-20 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	I really have to bookmark your recap of SGA. I nearly smothered myself trying not to laugh out loud in the library. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	copperbadge 2009-04-20 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	I had fun doing it :D Okay, except for a few episodes. I would hope people would see that there was some genuine affection there in with the mockity. But I did get wind that it was not well received in some corners, and I don't want to harsh anyone's squee. Which is why I'm hesitating to present Three Things About Another Scifi Show I Just Watched.... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	icarusancalion 2009-04-21 01:10 am UTC (link)
	Some people are no fun. (Which show? Bonus points if you say "Battlestar Galactica." Which I love, but critical acclaims requires some ribbing.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	copperbadge 2009-04-21 02:06 am UTC (link)
	I do have BSG, both the original and the remake, waiting to be watched on my portable hard drive. But no, different show. If I can get my Big Bang act together for TARDIS BB, I will post SOMEthing about new show soon... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	risha 2009-04-21 12:59 am UTC (link)
	That's news to me, actually. Then again, I'm not a BNF, so I might be out of the loop. I was about to make a "so I obviously didn't get the newsletter" joke, but I do get the newsletter, and therefore it totally wouldn't work. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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