Gus: Anyway, you remember Little Women correctly. In the Joss-verse, however, Beth would have come back twice as a ghost/spirit and have been impersonated by the First at least once, before crossing over to Angel as Robo!Beth, to have an affair with Connor.

Ellen S.:

You know, feed a woman lentil soup, and she'll eat for a day. Teach her to make lentil soup, and she'll have soup forever (as long as you give her a weekly supply of lentils, carrots, etc. and send her a copy of the recipe and then resend it because she's lost it and lend her a pot - probably easier to just give her the soup).

The context is actually a lot funnier.

I'll stand close enough to it to say that's so.

Cindy in Building a Better Board:

Would someone please program a Deena -bot poster, so that when she leaves us to have that new baby (and during the busy-ness that the new baby is sure to bring), we can at least have a cheap and meaningless relationship with her double? t /marzipan in my pie plate>

edited to just go ahead and post it since I think it's funny, even if it is about me.

Penny B.:

the bad mothers are not the ones worrying that they're bad mothers. The really bad mothers are watching American Idol and drinking too much beer as their children wander through ugly, bookless, underheated houses and apartments.

Would someone please program a Deena -bot poster, so that when she leaves us to have that new baby (and during the busy-ness that the new baby is sure to bring), we can at least have a cheap and meaningless relationship with her double? >

Without nattering too much in this thread (too late), congrats Deena on the upcoming baby. How far along are you?

we're at "any day now" wolfram. due anytime between Jan 31 and Feb. 6, but the doctor thinks it will happen earlier.

MM in the TTT thread, on the 60 or so years without word from Balin:

To: Gimli@lonelymountain.net
From: Balin@minesofmoria.com
(http://www.minesofmoria.com "We Have Mithril At COST!")
Re: How ya' doin'?

Gimster!

Things are going well here. We just hit a new vein of mithril. The wife says hello. There's some drumming that people are complaining about, but I don't think it's anythi;alkhdwknqengg..

Aimee, speaking truth to power in two different fonts, in Natter 7

"Folks, folks, calm down please. Now, I need all those that are happy-go-lucky and cheerful in the mornings to group to the right. That's it...keep going...you'll see the short bridge and the sign that says "Long Walks-Free". Okay, bitter and resentful, you'll be gathering to the left. Exactly right outside the "Eventually Will Rule Everything" room. No, no...that's the "Smarter Than You" conference center. We'll be going there later.....

This message is not meant to offend anyone happy-go-lucky and/or cheerful in the mornings. This message is to serve those that are bitter and resentful to pull their spirits up so that they too will become happy-go-lucky and/or cheerful in the mornings, since that is the one true race.

edited to add...

And Miracleman, in response, make it a two-fer for their household:

Who are you trying to fool? You're not happy-go-lucky and/or cheerful in the morning. You're barely sentient in the morning! It's all husband-helps-you-put-on-robe-
shuffle-to-living-room-have-cigarette-blankly-jump-in-
shower-get-ready-wander-out-door-to-work-with-
brief-kiss-for-robehelping!husband.

I will not be a party to your deception, love.

Signed,

Gonna-get-it-when-she-gets-home-husband.

[edit by John H for browser-stretching]