I've used "not unless I was abducted by aliens" in answer to the "any chance you're pregnant?" question.
I often use "unless there's a star rising in the east, no"
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Vortex - Jun 10, 2005 8:14:36 am PDT #1050 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Ginger - Jun 10, 2005 8:19:45 am PDT #1051 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I use the "Is there a star in the east?" one too.
Rick - Jun 10, 2005 8:19:58 am PDT #1052 of 10001
In my research we sometimes get people drunk in the laboratory. The ethics board requires us to get a pregnancy test for all women before giving them alcohol, no matter how convincing their belief that they could not be pregnant.
For a while I thought that this was needless interference, but it turns out not everyone can be trusted to know these things. For instance, a woman may be so embarrassed that she recently had sex with her hated ex-boyfriend in a moment of weakness that she "forgets" about it when telling the assistant that she hasn't had sex in the last year. And in a college population, being a self-identified lesbian doesn't seem to preclude having unprotected sex with men on occasion. So we just use the pregnancy tests on everyone.
bon bon - Jun 10, 2005 8:21:19 am PDT #1053 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
In my research we sometimes get people drunk in the laboratory.
Soooo, Rick, where do you work again?
Sue - Jun 10, 2005 8:21:48 am PDT #1054 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Do you pay these people to get drunk?
tommyrot - Jun 10, 2005 8:22:19 am PDT #1055 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Soooo, Rick, where do you work again?
Beergoggles Inc?
(sorry)
Hil R. - Jun 10, 2005 8:23:23 am PDT #1056 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've used "If I were, people would start building altars pretty soon" when a doctor just would not believe me that there was no chance I could be pregnant. And this was after I'd already answered "no" to the "Are you sexually active?" question.
Scrappy - Jun 10, 2005 8:24:42 am PDT #1057 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Once again, the lying few make it uncomfortable for the honest rest of us. Dang it.
Rick - Jun 10, 2005 8:26:54 am PDT #1058 of 10001
Do you pay these people to get drunk?
Sure. $8 an hour. But they have to do lots of tedious stuff while getting drunk, and worse, lots of tedious stuff while sobering-up. It's one of those things that seems like a great idea until you have been through it once.
ChiKat - Jun 10, 2005 8:28:03 am PDT #1059 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
There's a test I have to do once per year that involves a small amount of radioactive iodine. They make me take a pregnancy test before I can take the pill. Even when I had been celibate for a very long time. They just don't trust patients to tell the truth and they don't want to be sued later.