I was just at the mall...and there was someone yelling out "Messiah!" "Messiah!" Then I realized that was her kid's name. Talking about impossible expectations.
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Sue - Dec 11, 2009 3:31:30 pm PST #24521 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Jesse - Dec 11, 2009 3:31:50 pm PST #24522 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And then she suggested, for a memorable image, that they should put the image of THE SHROUD OF TURIN on the linen.
Ha ha ha ha!!!!
brenda m - Dec 11, 2009 3:35:55 pm PST #24523 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Not thinking about American Psycho.
I always wondered how polygamists manage, money-wise.
Welfare, mostly.
msbelle - Dec 11, 2009 3:38:52 pm PST #24524 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
My stuff on ebay is selling super cheap with like 1-2 hours to go. Makes me wonder if I should look at stuff to buy, like is everything going cheap?
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2009 3:39:00 pm PST #24525 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Welfare, mostly.
Really? Is that just in the US? Predominantly the no-longer-approved Mormon polygamy and cults?
Hil R. - Dec 11, 2009 3:40:00 pm PST #24526 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
From what I've read, a lot of the women in the FLDS groups register for welfare as single mothers.
billytea - Dec 11, 2009 3:40:07 pm PST #24527 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I have a Quiverfull... in my pants! OK, that was a dumb joke, but maybe someone will laugh anyway....
Mostly it gives me the mental image of you trying to break the world record for stuffing live ferrets down your trousers. (A record that was, at one time at least, held by the Seventh Doctor.)
brenda m - Dec 11, 2009 3:41:58 pm PST #24528 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Don't know about anything non-US, but with most of the big Mormon families that have come to light (splinter Mormons, I can't remember what they call themselves) this is the case. Because only one of the women is considered legally married and therefore part of the family income - as far as the state is concerned, all the rest are unemployed and without family income. Kind of a reverse Catch-22.
Atropa - Dec 11, 2009 3:44:42 pm PST #24529 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
My stuff on ebay is selling super cheap with like 1-2 hours to go. Makes me wonder if I should look at stuff to buy, like is everything going cheap?
Some of it is. Now if someone would just list the Fluevogs I want in my size and at a reasonable price ...
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2009 3:51:10 pm PST #24530 of 30001
brillig
I was just coming to say what Brenda just said. The wives other than the legal one are officially single mothers and therefore eligible for welfare etc. Some of the polygamist men are notorious for having one fancy house and scattered near-shanties for the rest of his families. Support 'em or don't have 'em, you loony-toon.
(Hubby once dated the daughter of a polygamist. She brought him home to meet Dad, who asked Hubby some pointed questions about his beliefs and his willingness to move into the "community", and Hubby regretfully decided to stop seeing the beautiful polygamist daughter. Hubby's also met Charles Manson--not at the same time!--and he said Charlie was very creepy and very charming.)