Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.

'Smile Time'


Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Hil R. - Dec 17, 2007 7:25:16 am PST #8668 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hee.

Oooh. I just re-compiled my family tree, with a bunch more data I've added to the file. I'm now up to nearly 700 people total, with 378 descendants of the most-distant known ancestor on my dad's side. (This 378 include, so far, six people named Jakob Nathan born in 1903 or 1904. All born within the same three towns. Two of them have the same last name.)


Trudy Booth - Dec 17, 2007 7:26:56 am PST #8669 of 10002
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

Any chance he was just a bigamist?


vw bug - Dec 17, 2007 7:29:26 am PST #8670 of 10002
Mostly lurking...

I have a question for parents.

At what age did you start letting your babies cry a bit without picking them up right away?


aurelia - Dec 17, 2007 7:29:30 am PST #8671 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

in the office since half seven.

Is this 6:30 or 7:30?


Pix - Dec 17, 2007 7:29:56 am PST #8672 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I thought, yeah, students should hear both sides. Even though I think creation is highly unlikely, I think people should be presented with the facts and learn how to make up their own minds about stuff.
The scientific facts support evolution. Creationism is a belief system. Teaching creationism alongside evolutionism implies it has significant grounding in science, which it doesn't. Public schools have a mandate to teach without religious bias, which means that a discussion of creationist beliefs would be appropriate in English (if studying Genesis) or history (if studying religions), but not in science. Biasing a science curriculum to appease one specific religion is vastly unfair to all of the students, imo.

Sorry, sore spot for me.


Steph L. - Dec 17, 2007 7:33:05 am PST #8673 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

in NJ, checking off the boxes on the back of your driver's license isn't legally binding at all -- it's just noting a preference.

I'm not sure the driver's license thingie is legally binding anywhere; essentially, since the donor is dead, the question of whether or not to donate is entirely up to the next of kin.

My best friend works for an organ donation center, and she tells me stories about families who were adamant, despite their loved one's will/advance directive/clearly stated wishes/etc., that there was NO WAY they would just "give away" their loved one's "body" like that.

Yes, they're grieving, and that leads to a lot of unexpected decisions. But the lack of education among the general public about organ donation is astonishing.


SuziQ - Dec 17, 2007 7:34:01 am PST #8674 of 10002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

At what age did you start letting your babies cry a bit without picking them up right away?

Hah - a trick questions. First babies? Or subsequent babies?

I know with my first it took a while, but with CJ, once I knew his basic needs were taken care of, I'd let him fuss on his own from a pretty young age.


Miracleman - Dec 17, 2007 7:35:43 am PST #8675 of 10002
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

Does anyone else have songs picked out? Or am I the only morbid one?

Elvis Costello - "God's Comic"


Hil R. - Dec 17, 2007 7:36:21 am PST #8676 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Any chance he was just a bigamist?

Nope. I've got separate birth records for all of them. (Plus one more Jakob Nathan, son of Nathan Samuel, born 1904, with a last name and birth place that makes them obviously related, but I just can't figure out how. I've got a guess, but it's just a guess.)


P.M. Marc - Dec 17, 2007 7:36:53 am PST #8677 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

At what age did you start letting your babies cry a bit without picking them up right away?

How long is a bit?

I'm not really sure I *have* started it, but I'm of the AP school of parenting.