I wish when I dreamed about working out that I could burn the calories... On the other hand, sometimes I dream about my teeth falling out.
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.
I, for one, am enjoying the Hil take on these books. I don't have to read them and they are just so awful in a hilarious way.
Well, Elsie just convinced a dying slave to believe in Jesus. The woman was reluctant, because,
"You don't mean _dat_, Miss Elsie! You don't mean dat God will save poor ole Dinah, an' gib her hebben, an' all for nuffin?" she inquired, raising herself on her elbow in her eagerness.
I just noticed -- the slaves in this book keep referring to themselves in the third person like that. It's odd, and just about all of them do it.
The baby was so adorable today, and his silly parents think I'm doing them a favor. Want one!
I, for one, am enjoying the Hil take on these books. I don't have to read them and they are just so awful in a hilarious way.
seconded
According to Wikipedia, O Henry wrote an Elsie parody story.
And here is a link to the Elsie of O Henry: [link]
I am so mean, but he is SO cute! [link]
So, Elsie has just cried herself into some sort of sickness because her father won't kiss or hug her until she promises to submit entirely to his will. (This is STILL about her not reading the novel on a Sunday. And a bunch of the adults in the book have backed her up on this.)
He says he doesn't want a daughter with these "perverse" religious ideas, because if she won't read a novel on a Sunday when she's eight, that might mean she won't go to a ball or the opera when she's older, and he doesn't want a child who won't go to a ball or the opera.