The last time we went to Ikea, we bought so much stuff that... we had to make "Baby got flatpack" our new theme song.
Stop means no. And no means no. So . . . stop.
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
TomW - Mar 28, 2006 7:45:09 am PST #6614 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
kat perez - Mar 28, 2006 7:45:34 am PST #6615 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Things I did not do at my wedding: take my husband's last name, toss the bouquet (It was pretty and I wanted to keep it), have DH toss the garter (It was pretty and I wanted to keep it), jump the broom, light "unity" candles or any other such thing, do the cake in the face smash, have a money tree/bag/pin money on the bride (although this I might've liked), ask anyone to make any sappy reception speeches (although that didn't stop my cousin from making one anyway), get announced as Mr. and Mrs. X (due to the whole no name change thing).
I did have my parents give me away (both). And we did feed each other cake (no smashing it in each other's faces thank heavens). And of course, there was the Electric Slide, which is the one true wedding ritual.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2006 7:47:11 am PST #6616 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cake in the face is a wedding tradition? Yucks.
I don't know from the Electric Slide, but I do a mean Macarena.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 28, 2006 7:50:00 am PST #6617 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My question for the children with both names-- which is their children's name?
So John Smith marries Jane Winters-- their child is Julie Winter Smith. When she gets married will her child be Jeff Winter Smith husbands first last name husbands last lastname and have four names?
juliana - Mar 28, 2006 7:50:09 am PST #6618 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Things I did not do at my wedding: take my husband's last name, toss the bouquet (It was pretty and I wanted to keep it), have DH toss the garter (It was pretty and I wanted to keep it), jump the broom, light "unity" candles or any other such thing, do the cake in the face smash, have a money tree/bag/pin money on the bride (although this I might've liked), ask anyone to make any sappy reception speeches (although that didn't stop my cousin from making one anyway), get announced as Mr. and Mrs. X (due to the whole no name change thing).
Same here. Well, we did have a money dance. That was fun, if only to watch the bidding wars.
Consuela - Mar 28, 2006 7:53:07 am PST #6619 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Could be as early as next week.
Awesome! We should have a Buffista party on the day Shrift gives notice.
I started the looking-for-a-new-job process by sending a whiny email to a former cow-orker who may have some advice for me. Gotta make a lunch date.
TomW - Mar 28, 2006 7:54:11 am PST #6620 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
We ate cake and Nora had a full complement of old, new, borrowed and blue.
I think that's about as far as we went on traditions.
No wonder we still fight about Macaroons.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2006 7:54:13 am PST #6621 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Awesome! We should have a Buffista party on the day Shrift gives notice.
TOTALLY.
sarameg - Mar 28, 2006 7:54:24 am PST #6622 of 10001
It helps that most Scandinavian-American family names were assigned at Ellis Island, and therefore don’t have much history attached to them.
While mine didn't get assigned at Ellis, it was pretty much chosen at random a generation or two before. And given the number of people with it, I've come to the conclusion that the swedes of that era were not a particularly creative lot.
Ailleann - Mar 28, 2006 7:54:30 am PST #6623 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Ok, so what is it with the thing where you hear a word that you've never heard before, and within 48 hours you'll hear it again? I've never heard of Bakelite until someone mentioned it in GWW... and now it was just in the book I was reading over lunch. I'm mildly wigged.