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'Serenity'


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Jesse - Aug 22, 2005 5:19:18 am PDT #73 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is that like people looking like their pets?

No. It's part of my whole couple parity theory.


§ ita § - Aug 22, 2005 5:22:39 am PDT #74 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's part of my whole couple parity theory.

But then you're keeping people down! Shouldn't upgrades be possible?

The only only woman I've ever known that looks like me is my sister.

He probably looked more like me than my sister does. We knew a woman in university who looked more like each of us than we looked like each other. Sort of a missing link. So we both got mistaken for her, but were never mistaken for each other.


sarameg - Aug 22, 2005 5:23:39 am PDT #75 of 10002

I know I've said it somewhere before, but my brother and his wife look enough alike to be mistaken for siblings (moreso than their actual siblings.) And their kid looks startlingly like them in their baby pictures, even as their baby pictures don't look nearly as alike.


tommyrot - Aug 22, 2005 5:25:08 am PDT #76 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Police battle looters after beer train crashes

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Hundreds of looters battled police all weekend at the site of a beer train wreck in violence that left one woman dead, South African police said on Monday as they kept a heavy guard on the remaining alcohol.

The train carrying 180,000 crates of beer from South African Breweries derailed on Friday night near Waterval Boven, 124 miles east of Johannesburg, Superintendent Izak van Zyl said.

By Saturday morning, police were battling up to 200 people from the nearby township trying to make off with crates of beer.


vw bug - Aug 22, 2005 5:25:48 am PDT #77 of 10002
Mostly lurking...

Theodosia, are you around? If you are, could you please check your e-mail or jump on AIM?


Jesse - Aug 22, 2005 5:26:06 am PDT #78 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But then you're keeping people down! Shouldn't upgrades be possible?

It's about more than looks, but I do think one person in a couple shouldn't be "better" than the other one, overall. And I, personally, don't want to be with someone who is significantly dumber or less funny than I am (or whatever), so I figure it's best that we're the same level of attractiveness. Not that we look alike.


§ ita § - Aug 22, 2005 5:29:22 am PDT #79 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I do think one person in a couple shouldn't be "better" than the other one, overall

For internal assessment of "better" or external?

Me, I figure if you can get together you should be together as long as you can healthily stay together. Everything else is distraction, and relationships are hard enough as they are.

I'd hate to think I shouldn't date someone intensely bright or funny or not athletic, for instance. I mean, what with my current hit rate, if I start putting more restrictions on paper, I'll be aloner for longer.


bon bon - Aug 22, 2005 5:33:07 am PDT #80 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I'd hate to think I shouldn't date someone intensely bright or funny or not athletic

I'm sure it compensates in other ways. Not that I'm familiar with that or anything.


Jesse - Aug 22, 2005 5:35:18 am PDT #81 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm totalling everything together. So maybe one person is funnier and the other is more athletic, or one is better looking but the other makes more money, or whatever, but it all works out in the end.


§ ita § - Aug 22, 2005 5:35:39 am PDT #82 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Allyson, if your phone does Bluetooth, you need this.

I'm sure it compensates in other ways.

At which point the definition of "better" starts to crumble and fall apart.

Unless you're using a spreadsheet or Crystal Reports.