Buffy Can Go Back to Sunnydale

[mabfan]

Apparently, there is no truth to the rumors that there are vampires at Boston Latin School.

Just, you know, in case you were worried.

Comments

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

I was of the understanding that vampires preferred elite prep schools.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

Button I picked up at Lunacon: "I told Buffy where the Cullens live".

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Oh, I want that button!

Also...funny icon.

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

One of the comments quotes "Headmaster Barnabas Collins" saying that the rumors are ridiculous. Somebody out there has it together. :)

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

Ha! I have the perfect icon for giggling at this article in your journal! :)

[sdelmonte]

And people wonder why no one appreciates newspapers anymore.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

What amuses me is that this is apparently "breaking news."

[sdelmonte]

The big problem is that when the zombie apocalypse finally comes, no one will believe the Globe is telling the truth.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. I remember that fairy tale. The newspaper that cried 'zombie.'"

[bitty.livejournal.com]

What amuses me is that this is apparently "breaking news."

I went to boston.com this afternoon to find something on the NH same-sex marriage passage. Nowhere on the front page. But! front and center was the vampire story.

I had to check the date. I think they ran this a week early.

[radegund-lj.livejournal.com]

Everyone knows that zombies are the real threat!

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

"silly" is much kinder than the tag I would have used

[ckd]

There are not 2,300,009 invisible vampire ghosts at BLS. (Nor are there 5,271,009.)

A Bester Fan

[stevetheyounger.livejournal.com]

Loves that number.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Remind me...?

5,271,009

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, Mike! (This is Steve from MITGASP by the way)

See http://thelastmanonearth.blogspot.com/2008/06/5271009-alfred-bester-1954.html

[ckd]

The original number (and "invisible vampire ghosts") is from Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times. (Rincewind the Great Wizzard[sic] is helpfully telling the besieging army that "there are no invisible vampire ghosts, and there are not 2,300,009 of them waiting to eat you".) 5,271,009 is a Bester reference that has since become a standard fannish "big number" as others have mentioned.

Blue shark of friendliness

[(Anonymous)]

Your name is also a cute reference I like. You probably would have killed Jason off (and countless screaming Argonauts) but in a different way...

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Well that's a relief.

[agracru.livejournal.com]

One thing about Boston Latin I never could stomach-- all the damn vampires.

Motto -- Sumus Vampiri

[(Anonymous)]

though that's not what they tell the mortals...

[laurens10.livejournal.com]

Thank you for alerting us to this important matter! Now that I work in Boston, I worry about my safety from the undead.

[sethg]

On the day that Mayor Menino makes a commencement speech, it might be prudent to leave town.

[laurens10.livejournal.com]

Haw!

[ithych.livejournal.com]

Don't believe it for a second -- it's clearly a nefarious government cover-up.

(My favorite part, I think, is the "student who likes to dress in the style known as 'Goth.'" What is this bizarre and unheard-of social behavior of which they speak?)