There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
When she was good, she was very, very good,
But when she was bad , she was horrid.
And of course there's the alternate last line favored by Mae West "And
when she was bad, she was better.".
Xander: We already played rock/paper/scissors,
my hands cramped up.
Rock/paper/scissors is a children's game often used to settle a dispute.
Two players each pick a hand signal for one of the three items and display
them at the same time. Rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper and paper
beats rock.
Ms. Calendar: I did Burning
Man at Black Rock.
Burning Man is a "radical
communal experiment" in self expression. The festival is held yearly
on the Labor Day weekend in the Nevada desert. The festival culminates
with the burning of a giant human shaped statue.
Cordelia: Oh look, it's the Three
Musketeers.
From the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas. The historical novel deals with 4 heroes and their
exploits in protecting the King of France. The three friends Athos, Porthos
and Aramis are joined by d'Artagnan.
Xander: I would have gone with stooges.
If attempting to insult a group of three, it would certainly be better
to compare them to the Three Stooges rather
than the Three Musketeers. While the Musketeers where "cool" heroes, the
comedy
team of the Three Stooges played bumbling
idiots. The group made over 200 hundred short films between 1934 and 1959
alone.
Cordelia: Whatever is causing the Joan
Collins 'tude get over it.
The British born actress
Joan Collins is best known for playing bitchy
women with the prime example being her stint in the 1980's as Alexis on
the television series Dynasty.
Cordelia: Embrace the pain. Spank your inner
moppet, whatever, but get over it.
A play on the idea of an inner child common
in pop psychology. The word moppet is a synonym for child.
Buffy: Should I say undead
American?
Buffy teases Angel's vampire status and pokes fun at the politically
correct labels people use. In an attempt to label a group with a non-negative
sounding word, political correctness has crafted a whole new vocabulary.
For example disabled becomes differently-abled. To the extreme, dead might
become breathing-challenged or vampire could be undead American.
