Tennant is kind of looking like my friend Kenneth wiht his hair slicked back. Weird.
So, Sue, your friend Kenneth... he seein' anyone? He like chicks?
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China stripped of Olympic bronze medal in gymnastics from the 2000 Olympics, because one of their gymnasts was underage. [link]
The federation had been investigating Dong for possible age falsification since she filed paperwork to work as an official at the Beijing Games. The age on those documents would have made her 14 at the Sydney Olympics.
SHEESH CHINEESE GYMNASTIC TEAM OFFICIALS! Just how big ARE your nads? You weaseled out of it at the time with shuffled papers and vaguely implying the opposing teams were being racist by questioning the age of a girl who was mad teeny in the world of teenyweeny athletes and then eight whole years later you either forget to fudge the paperwork again or can't be bothered or you decide you WANT her to be her correct age and you think none of the people you pissed off at the, um, OLYMPICS are going to notice this? Oy.
That said, I feel for the gymnast and always did. That poor kid worked her ass off and got used and screwed over by her own damn team/federation/country.
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Or it will be until I have to cut it out of someone's hair tonight.
Is it just too cruel to the kids to make daddy be the barber? BUBBLEGUM!?!?!? Sounds like a column to me.
Wait! Any chance that other kid's Mom put him up to it or tricked him or somehow bribed him? Revenge IS a dish best served sticky...
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Agreeing with Cass on Brenda being a hell of a sister. B, just tell her its an early wedding present in case she ever shows up married...
I've been very fortunate ::knock wood:: with the unemployment mishegas so far. I had a month's work right after I filed so it gives Congress a few weeks to get their shit together before I need those hit deadlines.
I have my quibbles about how she manages her life and her money, but the truth is she's been woefully overworked and underpaid for years, and then got laid off...
The phone is a good place to be helpful I think. So much can come to a grinding halt so quickly without one. A good friend of mine has a sister who's just flat-out continually irresponsible and my friend went with "I'm not bailing you out any more but here is a phone that won't get shut off." and it has brought great peace unto their multi-generational-family-drama.
Which is my convoluted way of saying I think you are being very kind in a very sensible way.
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One of my resolutions this year is to be a better daughter, sister, and friend. I have been pretty self-centered, and I don't much like it anymore.
AND WIFE! AND STEP MOTHER! DUUUUUDE!!!!! (Well, I guess you can't really 'improve' those. Still wild.)