It would have been Mr. and Mrs. John Smith until into the '80s and later in some sections unless "John and Jane Smith" was specifically requested. Today, it's John and Jane Smith, and the second reference is Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith, unless Jane Smith requests to be Ms. Smith.
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ginger - Sep 06, 2011 7:11:42 am PDT #16251 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Toddson - Sep 06, 2011 7:14:37 am PDT #16252 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Or, with the way things have gone, it might well be "John Smith and Jane Jones-Smith" with their adorable toddler, "Joshua Jones-Smith".
sumi - Sep 06, 2011 7:36:03 am PDT #16253 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Ooh, the very first Miss Silver mystery is on kindle for $1.99.
smonster - Sep 06, 2011 7:49:14 am PDT #16254 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
So Amazon had a Kindle deal for the Parasol Protectorate, and I got the first three books for $10. Finished Soulless last night.
Hey, that's still going! This would be my first Kindle purchase.
megan walker - Sep 06, 2011 8:41:10 am PDT #16255 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
and the second reference is Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith, unless Jane Smith requests to be Ms. Smith.
Seriously? That's just seems wrong.
Ginger - Sep 06, 2011 9:21:22 am PDT #16256 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Times may have moved as far as Ms. Smith unless she requests to be Mrs.
Consuela - Sep 07, 2011 6:25:02 am PDT #16257 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So Orson Scott Card rewrote Hamlet so that Hamlet's father was a gay pedophile and abused Hamlet, Laertes, Horatio, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, and that's why everyone is fucked up.
And then Scott Lynch (author of The Gentlemen Bastards) mocked him by similarly rewriting Henry V. Sort of: [link]
hippocampus - Sep 07, 2011 7:59:03 am PDT #16258 of 28282
not your mom's socks.
hah.
There is also some talk about rewriting Ender's Game ...
erikaj - Sep 07, 2011 9:04:59 am PDT #16259 of 28282
Always Anti-fascist!
When I was a teen, I would have included Heathcliff/Catherine but now I think that's fucked up.
Steph L. - Sep 07, 2011 9:31:28 am PDT #16260 of 28282
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I posit that Heathcliff and Catherine deserved each other. That way the fucked-upped-ness is self-contained and doesn't have to spill out onto other unfortunate people.