I find it odd that in the 15 years I've lived in this area, I've only been called to jury duty once. And we never got to trial stage. We were lining up to go in for voir dire, and the defendant copped a plea.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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.
Vortex - Oct 07, 2009 12:25:29 pm PDT #25618 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Shir - Oct 07, 2009 12:26:22 pm PDT #25619 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Now I feel bad for my parents. They would never ask me if I was dating anybody, and I never told them I was, because I never was. So it turns out they were often assuming my female flatmates were my girlfriends. Then when my best friend died of AIDS, they assumed we must have been lovers so they started to worry I might have AIDS too.
God, tommy.
Never bring up robotics, OK?
Miracleman - Oct 07, 2009 12:32:08 pm PDT #25620 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Do Americans not use 'partner' very widely (for straight relationships), then?
Only in action movies.
"You killed my partner, Ricardo! I'm taking you down!"
Thank God I'm monogamic.
You only play one game? Like...is it Solitaire, which you can do all the time, or are you stuck with, like, Sorry, where you need at least one or more other people? What do you do at poker games, just say "Only play Solitaire. Or Sorry. Sorry."
...
Oh, okay. Never mind.
WindSparrow - Oct 07, 2009 12:35:37 pm PDT #25621 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I find it odd that in the 15 years I've lived in this area, I've only been called to jury duty once. And we never got to trial stage. We were lining up to go in for voir dire, and the defendant copped a plea.
In the six months I worked as a court clerk, I set a jury trial at least 4 times. Each time, bright and early the morning it was scheduled, one or the other of the attorneys would make a motion for continuance, and the judge would grant it. So we never got to actually hold the damn trial.
Mala - Oct 07, 2009 12:45:41 pm PDT #25622 of 30000
The Pennsylvania marriage thing exists because that's how Quakers marry - there is no clergy marrying you. You declare yourself as engaged to the congregation and they help you along and then you say you're married and so you are. And so here you can get a special license and do it yourself with some witnesses (I have a few friends who have done so, and had I been married in this state I would have done the same).
Shir - Oct 07, 2009 12:49:36 pm PDT #25623 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I actually don't know how to play poker. I'm pretty good with Taki. [link]
Hell, I do the cards very, very rarely.
I prefer Israeli camping games. They require a certain amount of knowing the field, camouflage, deception and tend to be... kind of extreme.
Sean K - Oct 07, 2009 1:04:57 pm PDT #25624 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
"She's not my special lady, she's my god damned lady friend!"
t /Lebowski
meara - Oct 07, 2009 1:09:38 pm PDT #25625 of 30000
OK, now I'm weirdly paranoid about my waxy ears, never having had a doctor get stuff out of there, but being a bad person who uses a Qtip, and having had doctors tell me I have waxy ears. Hrm...I probably have eons of bad things in my ears that need an earhook to get out or something.
Barb - Oct 07, 2009 1:10:24 pm PDT #25626 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Better an earhook than an asshook, though, dontcha think?
Jessica - Oct 07, 2009 1:59:24 pm PDT #25627 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH's aunt is, to quote Lois Bujold, violently allergic to marriage after first exposure, and so refers to the man she's been living with for the last 25 years as her "partner." They also have not combined their libraries. (And each of them has, I would guess, approximately 5 billion books. With a LOT of overlap.)