Miss Netherlands is clearly going to a Space Masquerade. Netherlands, heh. That sounds dirty.
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 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
Strix - Jul 02, 2008 4:44:00 pm PDT #6189 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
amych - Jul 02, 2008 4:44:21 pm PDT #6190 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Venezuela is still best. There is not a drag-queen parade float on this earth that can beat her.
eta: not the queens. the float.
Strix - Jul 02, 2008 4:46:20 pm PDT #6191 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Jessica - Jul 02, 2008 4:47:37 pm PDT #6192 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
not only a spouse, but a spouse with a very flexible schedule.
Yup. And it's funny how few corporations ever stop to realize that they can't both be assuming the other one will be the flexible one...
(I'm the one with the "flexible schedule" in our house because I have a great supervisor and DH's boss is a wee bit of an insano control freak when it comes to people putting in hours. Which is ironic since his is the job which could theoretically be done from home, and mine very much isn't.)
I don't know if it was a movie or a TV show, but I recall a plot where the hero had to save a bus full or people (most like women and children) from a warlike situation in the third world (possibly somewhere in Africa). This was probably sometime in the 90s.
Hotel Rwanda is the closest match I'm coming up with.
Strix - Jul 02, 2008 4:47:52 pm PDT #6193 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Miss Phillipines is actually kind of pretty
Kat - Jul 02, 2008 4:57:27 pm PDT #6194 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
How have we missed [link]
I love the ones with huge headresses where they have to be photographed from far back so they look so tiny. Also, trinidad and tobago is wearing spandex pants. What's NOT to love?!
Ireland was also quite pretty.
But Miss USA? Seriously, WTF?
Kat - Jul 02, 2008 4:58:34 pm PDT #6195 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The swimsuit photos all look like FHM shots.
amych - Jul 02, 2008 4:59:43 pm PDT #6196 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Bow = wrong like a wrong thing [link]
Kat - Jul 02, 2008 5:00:04 pm PDT #6197 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
oh lord! this one I think Miss Argentina's evening gown got swtiched with her national costume. Actually it reminds me of Faulkner: "My mother is a fish."
sarameg - Jul 02, 2008 5:01:06 pm PDT #6198 of 10003
I recommend my workplace for any parents. Flexible hours, generous telecommuting, generous leave (5 wks/ year vacation, 5 wks/year sick, with rollover up to some ridic amount-if you aren't a contractor like me) and if you want to go part-time, they'll accommodate that to avoid losing the skillset . There are a lot of couples who work (and met) here, some way up the food chain. And really, it is ideal for working parents.
Officemate works 7:30-3:30 which allows him to drop his daughter off at school and get home by the time she's out of afterschool. A couple/friends split the daycare delivery. One comes in early, the other takes the kid to daycare around 10. Early one picks the kids up at daycare at 4 and then fetches the later-working one.