Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.

Mal ,'Serenity'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Aug 20, 2024 1:26:24 pm PDT #2197 of 4215
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

it doesn't work any more! I have to get a new one!

Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Jumper cables? AED?


Tom Scola - Aug 20, 2024 1:30:37 pm PDT #2198 of 4215
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

It seems that New Jersey stopped accepting birth certificates unless it included the parents' names, which mine doesn't.


Jessica - Aug 20, 2024 1:31:28 pm PDT #2199 of 4215
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

partner ? paramour--we need a term for someone's romantic partner they aren't married to for adults so you aren't 70 talkign about your boyfriend who is 80...anyway

DH's vocally anti-marriage aunt always said "partner" (even after they eventually got secretly married for the tax/health insurance/etc benefits).


Steph L. - Aug 20, 2024 1:45:28 pm PDT #2200 of 4215
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

It seems that New Jersey stopped accepting birth certificates unless it included the parents' names, which mine doesn't.

So the jumper cables didn't work?


-t - Aug 20, 2024 1:52:07 pm PDT #2201 of 4215
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, so you need the infamous long form birth certificate? What a strange thing to change


JenP - Aug 20, 2024 1:58:53 pm PDT #2202 of 4215

They could have used another term and lost nothing from the message. I felt gross every time it was said. That said, I loved last night so much.

Same. (The Texas rep.'s speech included something similar -- but her story about Harris and the photo op was awesome.)

DH's vocally anti-marriage aunt

I read that as anti-mirangue and was SO intrigued!


erikaj - Aug 20, 2024 2:15:04 pm PDT #2203 of 4215
Always Anti-fascist!

Last time I needed one, we noticed my mother never signed it(Too busy almost dying and all.) I used it for 40 years without anyone noticing.


flea - Aug 20, 2024 4:20:38 pm PDT #2204 of 4215
information libertarian

When I was working as a passport acceptance agent a dude handed me a birth certificate that listed his first name as Rfank. Apparently it had never been an issue before but I warned him he should consider getting it fixed.


dcp - Aug 20, 2024 4:53:03 pm PDT #2205 of 4215
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

In my genealogical explorations I've come across anecdotes of people who had to invent middle names (or at least middle initials) in order to enlist in the Army. It gets really awkward when birth records, military records, and Social Security records don't match up.


-t - Aug 20, 2024 4:58:45 pm PDT #2206 of 4215
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

My dad legally added a middle name when he was 18, I know he had been using it informally before that but I don't know if it was on any official paperwork. Probably was. He had been working, so social security is likely. And I think I've mentioned before that my mom filed their joint tax returns using her married name for years (maybe decades) before someone noticed that it didn't match her social security records which she had never changed from her maiden name. She was so tickled to have an alias.