The principal, Buffie Simmons-Peart, confiscates explicit romance novels with airbrushed covers, saying they have a they have a “dumbifying” influence.
As opposed to so many other things kids read? Bonus points for "dumbifying" though.
Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.
'Objects In Space'
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.
megan walker - Jan 04, 2007 8:38:56 am PST #9932 of 10007
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Kathy A - Jan 04, 2007 8:38:59 am PST #9933 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Stick to porn.
Hee! I do have my rubber chicken here--maybe I should just hang it up by its neck instead of its feet, and see if anyone gets the inference.
That's ridonkulous, Kathy.
I've had the damn thing up for over a month now, and I only get a complaint filed (with HR, for God's sake! Couldn't they have said something to me directly?) now that the printer right next to where I had it hanging is being fixed, and a few IT people and one outside repairman have been the only new people that I can think of that might have read it this week.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2007 8:40:56 am PST #9934 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
As opposed to so many other things kids read?
Seriously.
Bonus points for "dumbifying" though.
I don't know about that.
megan walker - Jan 04, 2007 8:42:49 am PST #9935 of 10007
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don't know about that.I think anybody named Buffy with an -ie should get serious props for being able to say dumbifying with a straight face.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2007 8:43:32 am PST #9936 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, maybe.
Kathy A - Jan 04, 2007 8:45:24 am PST #9937 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Betty/Henry 4EvAH!!!1!
She should totally drop Walter (who at least is trying, but he just doesn't get her new life) and hook up with Henry! He was dorkily cute at their Halloween sushi lunch, but smoking hawt in that red sweater at the Xmas party.
I started reading romances in 6th grade, and my friends in junior high would mock my reading choice, but it wasn't until high school that I had a teacher do the same. My English teacher junior year would occasionally take the Silhouette book I had on the top of my stack of school books on top of my desk and read a page at random out loud. That didn't bother me so much as the fact that she would fold the front half of the book to the back to do so!!! I hate it when people do that with their own books, and if she wasn't my teacher I would have snatched that book out of her hand and forbade her from ever touching my books again. Instead, I just nicely waited until she was done, then requested she not fold it back next time, but she always did. Grr...
Sean K - Jan 04, 2007 8:46:58 am PST #9938 of 10007
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I need to catch up with Ugly Betty. I only ever saw the pilot ep, and even then I missed parts, but I really liked what I saw.
DavidS - Jan 04, 2007 8:47:48 am PST #9939 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Instead, I just nicely waited until she was done, then requested she not fold it back next time, but she always did. Grr...
You were too nice. There should be more punching in that story.
Liese S. - Jan 04, 2007 8:48:17 am PST #9940 of 10007
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
The SO is a book-folder. I'm going to buy him one of those bookweight thingies from Levenger to see if I can make him stop. It was fine back when he was all, "Oh, I'm not a reader." But now that I've gotten him into my books (I used LoTR, back in the day) he's all through my library. Woes!
megan walker - Jan 04, 2007 8:49:19 am PST #9941 of 10007
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
She should totally drop Walter (who at least is trying, but he just doesn't get her new life) and hook up with Henry! He was dorkily cute at their Halloween sushi lunch, but smoking hawt in that red sweater at the Xmas party.
No kidding. And I totally don't get her sister's love of Walter and the fact that she threw away Henry's message. Walter left her! My sister always seems to hold grudges against my exes for much longer than I do.