Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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.
Proflowers's schtick is that they bypass the local guy and get you the flowers fresher and younger:
Our technology allows us to eliminate multiple intermediaries from the legacy supply chain, thereby realizing significant cost advantages and higher margins.
Ripening talk reminds me of Izzard. "Pears can just fuck right off!"
Don't want to even think about mother's day. Too much stuff squeezed into this month.
Speaking of which, Mr. Jane and I were discussing our anniversary this weekend (not that it was this weekend, that's just when we were talking about it). After watching Veronica Mars, he's decided that we are to have an us and friends thing on the Saturday following. Which is yay for me because I like big to do's and we haven't had one celebrating us since the wedding. This is going to be our 10th, so it's good timing.
Other anniversary plans include, going to dinner and to see "Taming of the Shrew" on the actual night. He's getting me a boxing dummy, and I'm getting him pierced. We're so fucking romantic.
Other anniversary plans include, going to dinner and to see "Taming of the Shrew" on the actual night.
Sounds lovely. A perfect anniversary play. HAH!
Gah, forgot about Mother's Day. Last night K-Bug was asking me to plan brunch for my mom - I told her to ask her dad to plan brunch for me.
Candy's out, because my mom is trying to lose weight. I'm not wild about sending flowers, but my mom loves plants, so I'm keeping that in mind. I'd physically go shopping and send her something, but after nearly dying over the weekend, walking more than two blocks is right out.
I don't know, man. Right now I'm just going to drink more coffee and try not to faceplant my keyboard.
A perfect anniversary play. HAH!
It really is. Plus the ad has Kate in boxing gloves on the front (and a bethonged ass with "Kate" written/tattooed on it on the back), so we have a theme!
Which boxing dummy, DJ? That's my kind of anniversary, BTW, if I were the kind that had anniversaries.
Can we ban online petitions?
"If the late former President Gerald Ford could find it in his heart to pardon the late former PresidentRichard Nixon after his mistake(s), we undeniably support Paris Hilton being pardoned for her honest mistake as well, and we hope and expect the governor will understand and grant this unusual but important request in good faith to Ms. Paris Whitney Hilton," the petition says.
I don't care about the good ones, I really don't. Call the Paris Hilton one the bad apple that ruins the lot, whatever.
I got my mom a kick-ass gift this year. When she wnet through chemo a couple of years a go, a well-meaning friend bought her new everyday dishes, since she had insisted on keeping the old stoneware ones my dad picked out long after he died and they were all chipped up. Well, the new dishes were Corelle, which are fine, but rather flimsy and not grown-up enough for a 79-year-old woman who likes to have folks over to dinner a lot. She felt she had to drag out Great-Grandmother's Limoges all the time. I knew she wanted nicer dishes and that she would never buy them, as the ones she had were a gift.
So we gave her these. [link] A set for eight. I had a gift certificate, so it wasn't even that much. She opened tham last night and called to tell me it was the best present EVER.
I, uh, don't get my mother stuff for Mother's Day. I do call, though. My sister may get her stuff, but I'm not sure which Mother's Day Jamaica observes.
More old predictions for the future - a 1901 article in the Newark Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) with predictions (questions, actually) for the 20th century: [link]
What I find interesting is the large number that deal with gender roles, showing that the "woman's place" was pretty contentious then. And of course, there had to be at least one question about airships....
Will lovely woman do the proposing?
Will woman bosses run [politics?] as they now run the home?
Will the housemaid be a houseman?
Will horses be exhibited as curiosities?
Will politics be run on a philanthropic basis?
Will the Boston woman discover the north pole?
Will airships be provided for messenger boys?
Will men wear frilled shirt waists and women trousers?
Will the college girl carry a cane and smoke a pipe?
Will there be free lunch stands for women?
Will men go to church evenings instead of to the club?
Will the wife kiss her husband goodby before starting off to business?
Will rich noblemen marry poor American girls?
Will every busy man wear an illuminated collar button?
Will the automatic principle be adjusted to taxes so that they pay themselves?
Will there be a society for the extermination of noisy milkmen which will really [unreadable]?
Will pounds be pounds and quarts be quarts in weight as well in price?
Will women be compelled to flatten their pompadours at the theater so that men may see the play?
Will our beloved country still be going to the "demnition bowwows" and political orators howling for votes to save it?
Can we ban online petitions?
I'll start a petition to ban online petitions.