Look upon my sweater and despair!
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Steph L. - Oct 26, 2007 6:32:01 am PDT #8728 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Toddson - Oct 26, 2007 6:32:39 am PDT #8729 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Look upon my sweater, o ye chilly ....
lisah - Oct 26, 2007 6:32:44 am PDT #8730 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
But then the actual recaps read like one of St. Thomas Aquinas' treatises on religion and I wake up hunched over my desk eight hours later
For some reason (because I have a very low tolerance for pretentiouswriting...my theory classes in writer school were like torture for me) I really loved Jacob's Dr. Who recaps even while I saw how they might bug others. He was just so enthusiastic about the show.
Stephanie - Oct 26, 2007 6:38:24 am PDT #8731 of 10001
Trust my rage
Totally random question for the hivemind:
Someone told me just know that in NY, if your parents aren't married when you are born, you are illegitimate. I find this hard to believe, but I have no knowledge or experience to base that on.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2007 6:39:06 am PDT #8732 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is there a legal weight to being illegitimate? Inheritance-wise or something? Non-legally, I'd agree with that PoV, but it would vary state to state.
lisah - Oct 26, 2007 6:40:42 am PDT #8733 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
if your parents aren't married when you are born, you are illegitimate.
Isn't that the definition of illegitimate?
Stephanie - Oct 26, 2007 6:41:07 am PDT #8734 of 10001
Trust my rage
I thought that US law (obviously, not a federal law, but the states in general) had done away with the disctinctions between il/legitimate, although I guess no longer distinguishing doesn't mean the law hasn't been repealed or something like that.
brenda m - Oct 26, 2007 6:41:20 am PDT #8735 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Isn't that what illegitimate means?
Vortex - Oct 26, 2007 6:41:53 am PDT #8736 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Isn't that the definition of illegitimate?
but is that a legal definition? and what happens if your parents get married after you're born. Are you still illegitimate?
Stephanie - Oct 26, 2007 6:42:14 am PDT #8737 of 10001
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I thought that "illegitimate children" were considered "not to have a father" meaning that they don't get his name and can't inherit from him.
eta: Vortex says it better than I did. That's what I was getting at - is there any legal significance to being born to unmarried parents?