Thanks, peeps. We're pretty excited!
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Glamcookie - Jun 16, 2009 10:20:51 am PDT #24571 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Dana - Jun 16, 2009 10:32:07 am PDT #24572 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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(Not about GC's news, which is faboo.)
tommyrot - Jun 16, 2009 10:39:58 am PDT #24573 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
First 'anti-stab' knife to go on sale in Britain
The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.
The knife has a rounded edge instead of a point and will snag on clothing and skin to make it more difficult to stab someone.
It was invented by industrial designer John Cornock, who was inspired by a documentary in which doctors advocated banning traditional knives.
Mr Cornock, 42, from Swindon, said that the knife will cut vegetables, but will make it almost impossible to stab someone to death and will reduce the risk of accidental injuries.
He said: “It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can’t inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone.”
Not by stabbing, anyway. I'd think you could still slit someone's throat with it.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 16, 2009 10:40:00 am PDT #24574 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Oh, my stepmother's parents were Meme and Pepe (add French accents).
This is what my parents were always called by their grand children (though it was written as 'Memere and Pepre'). I assume the great grandkids will call Mom 'Memere' as well.
JZ - Jun 16, 2009 11:07:55 am PDT #24575 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Fantastic news, Glam! Felicitations to you and DW!
Happy birthday, askye!
My brothers and I had a YiaYia and Papou and a Nana and Cappy; Emmett has Grandpa Jack and (? don't know what he calls EM's mom), and Grandpa Neal and Grandma Mary; Matilda has Grandpa Neal and Grandma Mary (Hec's lullaby to her includes a verse about them both watching her from above, so they are present to her even if unseen), and Nana and Papou.
Aims - Jun 16, 2009 11:10:41 am PDT #24576 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I had Gramma and Poppa (my mom's parents). I called my Great-grandmother Grandma and my dad's mom Grandma McVay.
Lee - Jun 16, 2009 11:10:59 am PDT #24577 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
AWESOME NEWS, GC
Jesse - Jun 16, 2009 11:13:04 am PDT #24578 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It occurs to me that what I've kind of thought of as "Puppa" among childhood friends must have been Papa, because that's how we said Papa Gino's, the pizza place. So Nana and Papa was pretty common, I guess...
Toddson - Jun 16, 2009 11:13:46 am PDT #24579 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Will those anti-stab knives be any good in keeping you from stabbing yourself? if so, I need some.
Hil R. - Jun 16, 2009 11:22:50 am PDT #24580 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
One set of grandparents was Grandma and Papa, the other set was Oma and Opa. Papa was supposed to be Grandpa, but when my sister, the oldest grandchild, was a toddler, the best she could make out of Grandma and Grandpa was Gaga and Papa. Grandma insisted on being Grandma, but Papa decided he liked being Papa rather than Grandpa.
My great-grandmother on my dad's side was Tick-Tock Oma. She was supposed to be whatever the German phrase for great-grandmother is, which is something Oma, where that "something" word literally means clock or time or something like that. Trying to explain "clock Oma" to her oldest great-granddaughter as a toddler, she decided on Tick-Tock Oma, which everyone thought was just adorable and kept on using.