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On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

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meara - Feb 12, 2006 7:17:02 am PST #6683 of 10002

Damn, it's gotta be hard to be an Orthodox lesbian? Can you imagine how small THAT community is?

Heh. There's a movie (documentary) out there about Orthodox gays...(edit: I expect it's the same one Nilly is talking about!--Trembling Before G-d?)

finding someone you're (one is) compatible with is hard enough, without having to find that person in your own community

Sigh. Amen. Not that there aren't plenty of fabulous lesbians out there, but sometimes, man...

Strix - Feb 12, 2006 7:18:17 am PST #6684 of 10002

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

(more rare.)

Ugh. It hurts my head to think about having to deal with the fucking POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS of falling in love.

I'ma gonna have to bitch-slap the world again, aren't I?

Jessica - Feb 12, 2006 7:20:07 am PST #6685 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I went out to get coffee this morning.

It's still coming down really hard. HOORAY FOR DEATHSNOW!

Trudy Booth - Feb 12, 2006 7:21:53 am PST #6686 of 10002

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I heard the thunder this morning and didn't belive it. Dude.

So, do I bundle up and try and see a matinee? Or do I get some take out and watch olympic coverage?

Fred Pete - Feb 12, 2006 7:22:40 am PST #6687 of 10002

Ann, that's a ferret.

Jessica, I got a "Bad Link" message.

Snow has stopped in DC.

Nilly - Feb 12, 2006 7:23:07 am PST #6688 of 10002

Swouncing

Trudy, I would probably have responded to the snow like the little kids. Also, completely without connection, you were in my thoughts a lot last week, what with all the family hardships. You're back home now, right?

meara, I guess we're talking about the same documentary.

How come it's "more rare"? Is it because "rarer" looks like somebody didn't know what letters to use and just put "r"s in all the places they could think of?

Hil R. - Feb 12, 2006 7:24:47 am PST #6689 of 10002

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hil! Congratulations on the internship!

Thanks!

I'm fairly certain that "rarer" is OK.

§ ita § - Feb 12, 2006 7:25:07 am PST #6690 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't think that "meeting the person" is up to statistics alone

I don't believe anything's up to statistics. A one in a million chance means it does happen.

amych - Feb 12, 2006 7:27:15 am PST #6691 of 10002

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

"Rarer" is okay, but a pain in the ass to pronounce -- I suspect that's why people tend to use "more rare". Which is also awfully R-ish, now that I look at it, and yet still not as bad.

Trudy Booth - Feb 12, 2006 7:27:52 am PST #6692 of 10002

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Thanks, Nilly. Yes, I'm finally home. My Mother is still with her sister and will be spending an extra day there due to the weather which is good -- now that the hub-bub has died down its really sinking in for them that their Mother is gone. I keep alternating between being sad about my Grandmother and then remembering that Mimi is gone too. (Oh, "Mimi" is short for Miriam. My Grandmother and her siblings were David, Paul, John, Ruth, Miriam and Esther).

The reason it is "more rare" as opposed to "rarer" is that English is random and weird.

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