phew! meal was a success, and even better, now it's done.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - May 09, 2010 2:53:23 pm PDT #28433 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
meara - May 09, 2010 2:53:26 pm PDT #28434 of 30001
And bananas add thickness if you don't want to add ice or protein powder
Cass - May 09, 2010 2:55:39 pm PDT #28435 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Which principle, Jesse?
Burrell - May 09, 2010 2:58:29 pm PDT #28436 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The Jesse deserves chocolate principle?
Jesse - May 09, 2010 3:00:09 pm PDT #28437 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have a cat! Not that I would ever say I am his mother.
Jesse - May 09, 2010 3:02:45 pm PDT #28438 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm just saying, if my aunt gets a mother's day present because she has cats, I should, too! Of course, if she had done that, my eyes would have rolled out of my head.
Then my mother was eyerolling that they gave all of us women a rose at the restaurant. I was like, do you know how much pain and suffering it would cause if they asked each woman if she was a mother???
beekaytee - May 09, 2010 3:03:22 pm PDT #28439 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I got lots of mother's day greetings for being Bartleby's person today. I don't use the term 'mom' either.
5 years, or so ago, before Western Union stopped doing it, a friend sent me a telegram 'from Bartleby.' It was really sweet.
I was like, do you know how much pain and suffering it would cause if they asked each woman if she was a mother???
My friends who run the children's consignment shop down the street gave every woman who came in a pink carnation. I thought that was sweet too.
brenda m - May 09, 2010 3:03:23 pm PDT #28440 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
I have to admit I find it more irking when people seem to think that every woman needs to be acknowledged as a mother for some reason. [I had a dog, and we were very close. I was not her or anyone's mother.]
But I'm sure for your grandma it was more about not giving a gift to one daughter and not the other, which is why you didn't get any.
ETA:
I was like, do you know how much pain and suffering it would cause if they asked each woman if she was a mother???
For serious. I find it irksome, but that's about it. I know a lot of women for whom it would be intensely painful.
Jesse - May 09, 2010 3:05:38 pm PDT #28441 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But I'm sure for your grandma it was more about not giving a gift to one daughter and not the other, which is why you didn't get any.
Oh, absolutely for sure. Which is why I don't actually care.
Burrell - May 09, 2010 3:07:36 pm PDT #28442 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I have to admit I find it more irking when people seem to think that every woman needs to be acknowledged as a mother for some reason.
I like to think of it as not excluding some women, although it is true that it's problematic to implicitly code all women as mothers.