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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.


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.


Ginger - Sep 01, 2009 10:50:43 am PDT #21507 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

::thanks the gods and little fishes every. single. day. her mother is computer clueless::

I try to remember this every time I do tech support for my family. No matter how many times I beat them with a cluestick, they still have no clue.


Vortex - Sep 01, 2009 10:51:53 am PDT #21508 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

My mother keeps talking about joining Facebook. She may not friend me, but if she does, I will lock that shit down like maximum security.


Polter-Cow - Sep 01, 2009 10:53:54 am PDT #21509 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

My mom has tried to friend me twice. My dad tried once too. And so did my aunt. I've added some of my cousins and given most of them limited profile status.