With notes by queencallipygos: Sexuality wank on Metaquotes. The day clearly has a Y in it
So Metaquotes exploded again. With classics like "I'm sorry that you don't find my humour funny", a few cries of "douchebag", and a whole lot of comments about whose parents are/n't gay/bi. Fun for all the family!

EDIT: Thanks.

OP, in a thread about the heartbreak of psoriasis (I'm not making that up), says something mildly amusing about how psoriasis is tough enough, but it could be worse, she could have been straight.

Someone else riffs on a doctor diagnosing heterosexuality, and that gets metaquoted. General hijinks ensue, and

shaysdays has a bad day, which she rectifies by starting a macro war.

And

queencallipygos introduces the fantastic concept of diplomacy via unrelated British Music Hall song interludes.

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	big_bad_wolf 2008-04-21 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	I saw that! I was so impressed with your diplomacy that I read it out to my other half. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

queencallipygos
2008-04-21 05:52 pm UTC (link)

Thanks. :-) I got the idea from a college classmate who said that she and her friends had a tradition that, if someone in their group did something that was mildly embarrassing, someone else would start acting silly to divert attention away from them (usually by shouting something like "hey everyone, look at me!") so they could recover.

Plus they're just fun songs.

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	big_bad_wolf 2008-04-21 05:59 pm UTC (link)
	Ooh, we used to do that in my theatre studies class. Usually by pointing to something random and shouting, "LOOK! A DISTRACTION!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chaimonkey 2008-04-21 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	My fencing club employed the catchphrase "So, fencing..." whenever things got awkward. It was used a lot. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	deliciouschaos 2008-04-22 12:32 am UTC (link)
	My cluster of friends is a fan of going "Awkwaaaard." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	deliciouschaos 2008-04-22 12:32 am UTC (link)
	ARE FANS. ARE FANS. YOU SAW NO EPIC GRAMMAR FAIL HERE. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blue_penguin 2008-04-22 03:21 am UTC (link)
	Actually, I think you were right the first time, since cluster is a singular collective noun... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	queencallipygos 2008-04-21 05:56 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and if you want to hear the tune as well -- I first heard "Any Old Iron" on a live album released by the Chieftains, being sung by Roger Daltrey. Odd, but fun. (I think the same album has an Irish folk arrangement of "Behind Blue Eyes.") (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	big_bad_wolf 2008-04-21 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	Oh I have heard many, many renditions of said song. ;) We sang it in primary school once. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

queencallipygos
2008-04-21 06:01 pm UTC (link)

Huh. We usually ended up singing Billy Joel songs from the current top 40, reading along to mimeographed sheets of lyrics (which were incorrect, because the music teacher had "learned the lyrics" through the "listen over and over and type what you think you hear" method). Hence my singing "bold Brahma baby" instead of "Beau Brummel, baby" in "Still Rock'n'Roll to me".

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	big_bad_wolf 2008-04-21 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	No fair! We never got to sing Top 40 hits. We got Music Hall songs and hymns and that was it. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nekoneko 2008-04-22 12:01 am UTC (link)
	I first heard it on The Muppet Show DVDs. I think it's Fozzie singing it? That was a bit odd for me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shaysdays 2008-04-22 06:47 am UTC (link)
	It was Kermit, Fozzie, and two Fraggle-esque critters. I believe it's included on the season 2 DVD. But I'm not actually here so you can't trust anything I say. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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