the CofE doesn't allow kissing at the altar during a wedding

The CofE might not allow it officially, but it happens at every wedding except royal (i.e. TV-broadcast) ones!

The Girl and her friend, who is a trainee minister in the MCC (gay-friendly denomination), wrote most of the liturgy that will be used at our wedding. When it came to the whole 'in the sight of God and the Church' thing, they left it in, for protest value. I'm going to grin widely when our priest declares us married in the sight of the Church!

Perhaps what they mean is that they have a great sense of humor. But if that's the case, they need to say that.

Equally, IMHO people who feel the need to say that they have a good sense of humour quite often don't. I concur with your rant, Teppy.

Brief rant: why do people think it's noteworthy to say (about themselves),"I love to laugh!"?

Maybe they mean that they're not some boring old stuffy fuddy-duddy who thinks fun is for children? "I love to laugh" is a strange thing to say, though. "Oh god! The laughter, it hurts, make it stop! Somebody, quick, punch me in the face!"

I'm going to grin widely when our priest declares us married in the sight of the Church!

Hah--for some reason this brings to mind an image of a rogue wedding, hit and run style, held literally within sight of a church. "THEY CAN"T STOP US! WE ARE MARRIED WITHIN SIGHT OF A CHURCH!"

I think I am losing it. I just started frantically looking for my phone in my purse when it had been in my hand and I had to put it down to start frantically lOoking for it.

Why on earth would a guy think it was a good idea to put in his eHarmony profile that the last book he read and enjoyed was "The Game" by Neil Strauss? I think that's even worse than the guy who answered that question with "Twilight."

Heh, Hil.
 
Nonian, I`ve done that! The only one worse is putting on your glasses to look for your glasses. But I don`t do that one since I`m so blind that if I can see to make it out of the room, I must have them on.

I did the same exact thing with my phone yesterday! I was leaving for dinner with my sister, and was walking around with the phone in my HAND for a few minutes, looking to see where I'd put it, so I could stick it in my purse.

BRANEFAIL

The last guy who "winked" at me on geek2geek made no claims about his level of fondness for fun, and his last book had been a fairly recent SF novel—something by Weber, I think. Perfectly respectable for a geek2geek member. However, his profile also showed a list of requirements for levels of physical interaction, and a final, all-cap note saying THESE ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE. Yeah, I'm sorry his ex kept him touch starved or whatever, but I figure I get a say in my levels of physical interaction, so I didn't follow up.

Oh, Calli, you obviously missed out on the love of your life! How COULD you be so picky and heartless?!

Congrats on the bout, Cash! Let's have some more details!

We came out strong in the first half--we were up over 20 points at the break. Their team had bouted before but not very many times. Their girls were bigger but not as agile as some of ours. We made it through the first half with very few penalties.

The second half they came out swinging. We took a lot of penalties (especially our jammers) which hurt bad. We blew the lead. But we figured out as we went that our jammer ref missed at least 10 points--which our coach tried to argue.

He got upset and got kicked out of the venue at the end of the bout. We lost a girl at half-time. She took a hit, several girls fell and she got kicked in the head. She ended up going to the hospital afterward. She's fine, though.

The final score was 72-80. We totally held it together as a team. We build our walls, recycled after blocking. Took some big hits and our jammers skated their hearts out.

I am still high!