I think it's both sad and funny that the likelihood of someone wanting to marry me for my French citizenship may now be greater than someone wanting to marry me for my American citizenship.
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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.
megan walker - May 12, 2008 9:14:28 am PDT #6329 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
hippocampus - May 12, 2008 9:15:19 am PDT #6330 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Jars, would you be available for giving some 'visiting Ireland (although not emigrating... my sister would KILL me and then move my dead body to New Zealand)' tips?
Jars - May 12, 2008 9:16:25 am PDT #6331 of 10001
But, you have single friends that could marry us, right?
Um, so long as you have absolutely no follow up questions, then yes, yes I do.
But there are oh so many, many rugby players floating around.
shrift - May 12, 2008 9:26:12 am PDT #6332 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Scheduled haircut for Wednesday. I suppose that I could take in a picture of what my hair looked like after my last appointment rather than a random picture of someone else, huh?
Jars - May 12, 2008 9:27:03 am PDT #6333 of 10001
Jars, would you be available for giving some 'visiting Ireland (although not emigrating... my sister would KILL me and then move my dead body to New Zealand)' tips?
Hells yeah. When were you planning on visiting?
msbelle - May 12, 2008 9:30:24 am PDT #6334 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
My to do list of 8, that then became 10, now down to 6!
tommyrot - May 12, 2008 9:30:41 am PDT #6335 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A Ron Paul supporter gets upset over the location of his book at Barnes & Noble: [link]
However, it was still in the back corner of the sotre, bottom shelf, 3 copies. (there were 6 on April 30th an I bought two of them) I was under the apparenty mistaken impression that the BN Bestseller shelves featured prominently at the front of the store were for true bestsellers and I actually thought it was tied into the NYT list. NOT AT ALL.
A book can be #1 everywhere, INCLUDING at BN.com and they won't necessarily feature it on the bestseller shelf up front. There is not hard critera, either. Whatever IS selling or is projected to sell. READ: whichever publisher PAYS for the self space. It is FRAUD.
It should be the Barnes & Noble PICKS or FEATURES.
JZ - May 12, 2008 9:36:06 am PDT #6336 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I think it's both sad and funny that the likelihood of someone wanting to marry me for my French citizenship may now be greater than someone wanting to marry me for my American citizenship.
I think it's both sad and funny that anyone could possibly need any inducement to marry you beyond your sheer awesomeness. The French citizenship should just be... not even a gift with purchase, just a bonus gift with gift.
In completely random news that harks back to a discussion from last week: One of my officemates was gone on Friday -- turns out she was in New York attending the baptism of her twin niecephews, born a couple of months ago to her baby sister. Her 50-year-old baby sister. The last trimester was hellish with health issues and the babies were touch-and-go in the ICN for the first couple of weeks, but everyone is now home and healthy and on track for relative normalcy and lack of long-term complications.
Disclaimers: Overall rocky, scary experience, tragedy nearly avoided, plural of anecdote not data, etc.; but, still. Something to bear in mind against the NPR OMGWTF all post-30 ovaries are fossilized!!!1!eleventy story.
hippocampus - May 12, 2008 9:39:39 am PDT #6337 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
sweet! insent Jars.
Allyson - May 12, 2008 9:41:02 am PDT #6338 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Heh. My publisher paid for shelf space. It's The Way of It.