Of course no sooner did I post this then:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=184503
So, I would really hate to get a huge pay raise and decent office. Honestly. [sits back and waits. . .]
Oh, alright then. Damn Naz…ah, hell, now I can’t even say it anymore.
[cliche]stomps off, muttering under breath[/cliche]
Word. This one is very much overdone.
On preview, I see that Waverly is a heretic, and must be burned alive. Nothing personal.
Gotcha ya will never make the book of cliches. It’s all we’ve got left of the Wildest One, and it still slays me every time I see it.
The art of a smartass or sarcastic comment involves leaving the listener (or in this case, reader) to figure out if it is, in fact, sarcasm.
I also favor losing the D & R tag.
lol
Thanks, but I was being serious.
No, no, that was my vote. People that use lol should get turbo noogies.
When I see “In which Somebody does Somethingorother” I think of old book chapter titles. A.A. Milne did this. “Chapter 69 - in which Pooh Gets His Big Fat Self Stuck In Rabbit’s Hole, If You Know What I Mean.” I’ve never seen “Almost Famous” and got really confused by “Penny Lane,” even after the explanation. Maybe I’m slow.
The. Comic. Book. Guy. Punctuation annoys me, too. Mainly because it reads so wrong. I speak with The. Comic Book Guy. Punctuation. out loud sometimes, but I do it the way I just wrote. If I wanted to say that something was the best “your mom” joke ever, and I was going to write it like the people who use this punctuation on the boards, it would be:
“That was the. Best. Your. Mom. Joke. Ever.”
But if I said it out loud, or punctuated it myself using my brain, it would be:
“That was the best. “Your Mom” joke. EVER.”
With dramatic pauses at the periods, you know? Putting a “stop” punctuation where there is no “stop” pronunciation annoys me.
Much like my ramblings about punctuation annoy everybody else! Yippy skippy!
I weep for the loss of literacy among today’s youth. There is nothing wrong, I suppose, with associating the opening of chapters by “In which. . . .” with the character Penny Lane. However to miss the fact that Penny was, herself, repeating the formulaic opening of each chapter in the picaresque novels of earlier times (notably Don Qixote) is disheartening.
My favorite: cite?
…and I was practicing my craft 
Yep, I have started “In which . . .” threads, and I patterned them after chapter titles in 18th-century novels. You know—Richardson? Fielding? Never saw Almost Famous, and the only Penny Lane I know is the Beatles song.
tomndebb,
Would that I were still a youth, or that I had literacy to loose.
I was citing the source of current popular use, not the origination, which I agree can be traced to chapter titles. I do not believe you would see the proliferation without the movie quote, would you not agree?
I don’t know if weeping for me is cliché, but it sure is disturbing.
My cat’s breath smells of cat food.
Og Smite! will live forever!
There are a few of us curmudgeons who truly do eschew smileys and other signs of humor, but who, because of our generally humorless natures, have found that mild forays into such terra incognita have the unsettling result of causing the recipients of our humor (such as it is) to take insult at what they perceive to be stodgy criticism. While I agree that ::: d & r ::: (and those abominable smileys) are, indeed, blemishes of the worst sort on a message board, I will continue to employ them on those occasions when I believe the target of my comments may take undue umbrage or when I fear to inflict unintended pain. (Pain should never be inflicted unintended.)
(And you can’t stop me! So there! nyah, nyah, nyah!)
… on second thought, maybe those not busy wishing they were Scylla are emulating Eve and her thread titles.
If anyone comes in here and says, “Emulating Eve… Band Name!” I will devote the remainder of my life to flaming them.
Band name!
No, wait, I wasn’t doing that as a response to you - I was just adding that to the list. Really! I promise!!