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meara - May 20, 2008 7:53:52 am PDT #9814 of 10001

Hey meara, that has all the earmarks of a "meet cute" opening.

Heh. My ex Michelle, when she moved from Minneapolis to DC (er, this was after we broke up), was going to the coffee shop in the student union all the time, and kinda though the manager of the shop was flirting with her, but wasn't sure, and was mentioning this to us....and then the girl was like, GIVING HER FREE COFFEE, and we were like "Dude, that's flirting with you"....and finally the girl was WRITING HER NUMBER on Michelle's coffee cup!! We were like "Michelle, do you need a bigger sign????" They've been dating for over a year and a half now, and are moving to Minneapolis in a couple weeks, after Michelle graduates.

Beverly - May 20, 2008 7:54:32 am PDT #9815 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Oh Raq. I keep seeing that shot of Mal and Legion stalking the Roomba: brothers in arms.

Peace and rest to a good cat, good memories and peace to his humans.

Steph L. - May 20, 2008 7:55:58 am PDT #9816 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

finally the girl was WRITING HER NUMBER on Michelle's coffee cup!!

I think that even *I*, Captain Oblivious of the 23rd Airmen's Obliviousness Brigade, would pick up on the interest by that point.

sj - May 20, 2008 7:58:56 am PDT #9817 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Handwriting Analysis of the presidential candidates: link .

Burrell - May 20, 2008 8:00:27 am PDT #9818 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

My son is cross dressing again this morning. He's wearing a hot pink Tinkerbell t-shirt and a flowery skirt. He tells me his name is Ella today. Meanwhile Frances tells me she's pretending to be his pregnant teacher (there was a rash of pregnancies at their daycare a while back).

meara - May 20, 2008 8:17:01 am PDT #9819 of 10001

I remember pretending to give birth a lot, when my mom was pregnant with my sister, and I had just found out where babies come from...(I was four)

Pix - May 20, 2008 8:24:42 am PDT #9820 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Grammar Question:

I have been reading incorrect student sentences for an hour and am getting mush brain. "The fight between her father and her" or "The fight between she and her father"?

Dana - May 20, 2008 8:25:36 am PDT #9821 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

It's an object of the preposition, right? It would be "The fight between them," so it should be "between her and her father."

Pix - May 20, 2008 8:27:24 am PDT #9822 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

That's what I thought, but it just kept looking wrong, for some reason. Okay, then the second question... The student wrote "her father and her," and clearly "her and her father" reads more fluently. But is it grammatically any more valid?

Yes, I teach English. Fear for the children of America.

Dana - May 20, 2008 8:28:26 am PDT #9823 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I don't think there's a gramatical argument for it. It's just a question of clarity and flow.

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