It's got to be a hard concept to grasp, that people die but videotape goes on forever. It's kind of like the story a friend tells. When her daughter was about 8, she was watching an old black-and-white movie on TV and turned to her mother and said, "What was it like when the world turned colored?"
It broke my heart when my nephew, after watching a rerun where a character that had been killed off was still alive, turned to his mother and asked when his daddy was coming back. There's an age where children understand the finality of death and until it is reached, there is no such thing as dead and gone. TV reruns sure as heck don't help it come any sooner.
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Today is my Buffistaversary! One year exactly, in approximately three or four hours.
Our baby Polter, all grown up.
Happy Buffistaversary P-C!
(I'm glad to see you're still alive, too!)
Catching up:
Thanks for the wedding comments. AmyLiz, I have a feeling this one is going to be just as soggy. I stuff tissues up my sleeve for that very purpose. I always ask the intendeds, "If you start to cry and want to stop, is there something I can do to help?" Most of the time, no one takes advantage of that option. I think the tears are the best bit. The challenge is keeping them down myself!
I love the idea of a paddleboat Robin. And this ceremony is on the Eastern Shore! I'll make that suggestion.
Mom's heckling is not an eventuality I ever considered ita. Jeez. What would I do with THAT? "Mom will be here all week folks. Try the veal."
Juliana, if you can share it...what possible quote would combine Krusty the Clown and Hitler? The mind boggles. And good on ya for having a great sense of humor. I always try to inject at least one laught in every ceremony. Not always appreciated by the gathered, but the intendeds usually like it.
And a big HUH to "I Started A Joke" being about Jesus. I. Did. Not. Know. That. makes sense now that you mention it though
Buffiversaries. Mine must have been in February some time. Jeez. Time flys!
I feel better that some wicked smart people didn't know the whole "I Started a Joke" thing.
I don't even know the song, though I'm now tempted to Google the lyrics.
Beej, I don't have the text in front of me, but it was along the lines of "As that great sage Herschel Krustofski once said - 'Marriage is the most fakataked thing one can do.' Many famous people have been married, such as Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, and Adolf Hitler."
HUGE paraphrase and misspelling, but you get the idea.
Happy Postiversary, P-C!
Mine must have been in February some time.
Mine was, too! I could check the original Great Write thread, I guess. If I weren't way too lazy.
I feel better that some wicked smart people didn't know the whole "I Started a Joke" thing.
I don't think I count as one of those, but count me among the people who had no idea. Now I need to listen to it again.
Wait, somebody dumped Kate?
WTF?
