A friend suggested I might find a husband if I handed out our leftover holiday cookies on the subway each day.
You might. The question is, whose husband? And would you want him?
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
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.
Fred Pete - Dec 30, 2008 10:14:15 am PST #8578 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Barb - Dec 30, 2008 10:14:18 am PST #8579 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
I don't look that good Barb.
I was thinking potential apprenticing job! What? I'm nothing if not encouraging.
Connie Neil - Dec 30, 2008 10:14:42 am PST #8580 of 10002
brillig
The Edible Bride
What, are the wedding guests supposed to eat off of her? Or is he saving it for himself?
tommyrot - Dec 30, 2008 10:17:41 am PST #8581 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What, are the wedding guests supposed to eat off of her? Or is he saving it for himself?
I hope he wasn't saving it for himself, because then he'd probably spend his whole wedding night in the bathroom.
But the image of guests eating off her dress is disturbing as well.
Gudanov - Dec 30, 2008 10:18:55 am PST #8582 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
My mother always felt that it was a fundamental flaw of the US educational system, that people weren't encouraged to go to trade schools.
At my high school you could take trade school classes in place of school classes for a half day. They promoted trade school pretty well, but that may have just been a local thing. On a national level, I think it is a bit of a forgotten option though.
OTOH, is there a shortage of people for jobs that trade schools train for?
Scrappy - Dec 30, 2008 10:19:17 am PST #8583 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
BiL (who just left after a nice visit here) went back to school in his late 20s to become a chef. He loves it and can find a job ANYWHERE. You do have to stand for endless hours, though.
After his horrible marriage broke up, he moved out here from Connecticut to stay with SiL up in San Luis Obispo. He got a fantastic chef job in three days. He works at a college, and can take any classes for free.
Barb - Dec 30, 2008 10:20:48 am PST #8584 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
The chef whose pic I linked to really would fit around here well. His idea of a birthday cake for a friend was to make a giant penis-shaped cake that he fitted with a PVC pipe that was attached to a bicycle pump that spewed whipped cream all over the birthday boy.
Allyson - Dec 30, 2008 10:21:53 am PST #8585 of 10002
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
I went to trade school. The other option for high school was pretty violent and scary, and I had enough problems.
Made it hard to get into college, later.
Gudanov - Dec 30, 2008 10:22:13 am PST #8586 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
I think Electrician would be okay.
I've learned an important tip working with electrical wiring. Double check to make sure you have turned off the breaker for the circuit you are working on rather than some other circuit. I speak from experience.
Calli - Dec 30, 2008 10:24:37 am PST #8587 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Double check to make sure you have turned off the breaker for the circuit you are working on rather than some other circuit.
Ah, yes. I learned that one the hard way, when I was switching out the power cord on my clothes dryer. "Will this even work in the plug?" ZAP "Yes. Yes it will. Also, yikes!"