ok. me for bed. everyone behave.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
msbelle - Dec 03, 2006 8:07:39 am PST #4203 of 10007
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Liese S. - Dec 03, 2006 8:08:28 am PST #4204 of 10007
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hi msbelle! Sorry about the fleas, fleas are miserable.
Can you get some rest?
eta: Ha, evidently you can! Good night!
Lee - Dec 03, 2006 8:08:40 am PST #4205 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Boo Fleas (of the not Casper kind).
YAY Mac Soon.
I have already been to Target and Bed Bath and Beyond and had very good pumpkin pancakes, and now it may be going back to bed time.
Tom Scola - Dec 03, 2006 8:08:53 am PST #4206 of 10007
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
msbelle!!!
JenP - Dec 03, 2006 8:11:43 am PST #4207 of 10007
Tony v. Paul
That was so cool and must have taken for. ev. er.
I don't have anything useful to add about beauty.
SailAweigh - Dec 03, 2006 8:11:50 am PST #4208 of 10007
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Mmmm, pumpkin pancakes. And bed. Sounds like a winner.
I, on the other hand, am finally going to see Casino Royale. Then, I'll be able to go enjoy the whitefont in Movies.
Laura - Dec 03, 2006 8:13:18 am PST #4209 of 10007
Our wings are not tired.
msbelle! Sleep tight! don't let the bed bugs bite Crunchy yummy salad soon. Son sooner!
JenP - Dec 03, 2006 8:14:35 am PST #4210 of 10007
Missed msbelle. Son tomorrow. That's just... wow.
Sue - Dec 03, 2006 8:20:35 am PST #4211 of 10007
hip deep in pie
msbelle!!!
Anyone having oddness with WX?
It was inaccesssible for me almost all of Friday and has been intermittently slow since, but I am seeing all my know posts. (That I know of.)
Trudy Booth - Dec 03, 2006 8:25:12 am PST #4212 of 10007
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
Beauty as indicators of status or wealth or value to the family is, I posit, a practical definition and using physical traits as shorthand--we're back to dowry and ability to bear children expressed visually
The western values you're contrasting them to likely have similar inspirations... pale women didn't have to work out doors because of their wealth, a shapely figure meant she'd be good for carrying babies, etc. And the fertility argument only goes so far... a woman who's had kids would be at a PREMIUM if that's what "beauty" was short-hand for, but you certainly don't see much in story and song about the lucky guy who snags a widow.
"Once upon a time a man had six really fertile daughters. One was more fertile than the next. And boy could they thresh! The eldest was exceptionally funny and would make a husband a happy man by making faces and whistling through the gap in her teeth that she lost while killing the largest boar the village had ever seen. Her tall sister with a limp had three fat sons and though she could not thresh, she could weave fabric that brought a high price, etc. The youngest sister was exceptionally lovely but only ever talked about her hair and shoes but her father was confident she's wed eventually (albeit dead last) since odds are she was a fecund as the rest -- put pitty the poor son-in-law who was married to that dope."