That fake Facebook message in all-caps about how the guy hadn't called in a while is EXACTLY WHAT MY MOM WOULD WRITE.
River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Polter-Cow - Sep 01, 2009 9:39:10 am PDT #21497 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Volans - Sep 01, 2009 9:39:15 am PDT #21498 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Me: "Because you're my MOM."
Don't tell her how Orkut is becoming a proxy marriage site. It's apparently starting to take market share from the websites dedicated to finding spouses, and parents in India want to make sure that their kids' Orkut profiles are sufficiently awesome.
Polter-Cow - Sep 01, 2009 9:41:11 am PDT #21499 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My mom just gave me some girl's number and told me to call her. She is in San Jose but goes to law school in San Francisco or something. She has no idea what she looks like, but she's known her mom since childhood, so she probably looks good. She's light-skinned, at least.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 01, 2009 9:45:30 am PDT #21500 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Mom: "Then why won't you accept my invite??"
Me: "Because you're my MOM."
I have my dad on my Facebook friends list. He's cool and funny and writerly, and rarely drops by Facebook, though. My mum, I wouldn't add. She'd whine on my wall about how I haven't phoned her since Sunday...
Gudanov - Sep 01, 2009 9:48:26 am PDT #21501 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
So why haven't you phoned your mom?
Barb - Sep 01, 2009 9:48:43 am PDT #21502 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
::thanks the gods and little fishes every. single. day. her mother is computer clueless::
Trudy Booth - Sep 01, 2009 9:49:37 am PDT #21503 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
She's light-skinned, at least
Well thank goodness for that?
StuntHusband - Sep 01, 2009 9:50:23 am PDT #21504 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
My mom is a Facebook friend. So are my sister and brother-in-law. And mom's partner, and most of her extended family.
I very carefully filter things. Some of my gay friends' discussions can raise MY eyebrows, much less a bunch of Nebraska-raised Catholic Irish straightfolk.
omnis_audis - Sep 01, 2009 10:05:09 am PDT #21505 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Interesting eptomology on Pumpernickel bread:
The Philologist Johann Christoph Adelung states about the Germanic origin of the word, in the vernacular, Pumpen was a New High German synonym for being flatulent, a word similar in meaning to the English "fart", and "Nickel" was a form of the name Nicholas, an appellation commonly associated with a goblin or devil (e.g., "Old Nick", a familiar name for Satan), or more generally for a malevolent spirit or demon. Cf. also the metal nickel, probably named for a demon that would "change" or contaminate valuable copper with this strange metal that was much harder to work. Hence, pumpernickel is described as the "devil's fart", a definition accepted by the Stopes International Language Database,[2] the publisher Random House,[3] and by some English language dictionaries, including the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.[4] The American Heritage Dictionary adds "so named from being hard to digest."
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 01, 2009 10:08:45 am PDT #21506 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
So why haven't you phoned your mom?
I am a bad daughter. And she is Irish.