Random Thoughts

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:26 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060425/hl_nm/coffee_dc

I do declare, I am dodging bullet after bullet this week!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:59 am

spooky girlfriend wrote:Here in Huntsville, it's a beautiful day. And on Friday I'll be driving my two 8th graders and their classmates to the Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery. Twelfth Night is the one we'll be seeing. It's been fun to sit down with the boys in the evenings and discuss it.

Ooh, I love me some Twelfth Night! Are they picking up on any the homoeroticism? Poor Malvolio...

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:37 am

Well, MBA, first of all, good luck with the packing. I've been searching feverishly for those Robin Eggs, but have only found some odd strawberry kind. Let me know if you want them.

Secondly, my two 8th grade boys are studying it in a parochial school, so they're not getting into a lot of homoeroticism, but my 11th grade daughter is studying it in a public school and she has brought home the dirt to discuss it with them. This will be the boys last year in a parochial school, so they might as well study it the way Jess is learning it.

It is a fun play - I'm having to explain a lot of it to them, but it's fun to actually talk to your kids like people and not just like kids.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:06 pm

If your kids start getting into Shakespeare, Isaac Asimov has a really great book that includes analysis (sometimes unconventional) of all his plays. I devoured it when I was in high school. Yes, yes, I am a nerd and always have been, and am proud of it!

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:09 pm

You would get along famously with Doc - he has a bookshelf full of Asimov books. You should really check out Huntsville - we have a lot of intelligent money-making nerds here. You could do extremely well, MBA.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:16 pm

El Vez wrote:Is it just me or was Alyson Hannigan really mailing it in for season seven of Buffy?

Is it just you! The devine Aly never mails it in. FedExes...sure. UPS..on occasion. But never mail! (And what about see the one with the creepy monster thing nibbling at her belly? That wasn't even e-mail!)

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:55 pm

Why does asparragus make your wee smell funny, and why does nothing else have an equivalent effect?

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:55 pm

I want to know why me wee makes my asparagus smell funny!

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:56 pm

pophead2k wrote:I want to know why me wee makes my asparagus smell funny!

Ick!!

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:15 pm

I use to be able to bend down, without bending my knees, and touch my toes.

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:56 pm

ice nine wrote:I use to be able to bend down, without bending my knees, and touch my toes.

I don't think I could ever do that...

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:32 am

I can still do it, but then again I've got hobbit legs.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:05 am

I must have had a great time last night, because when I woke up there was vomit all over the couch...

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:03 am

miss buenos aires wrote:I must have had a great time last night, because when I woke up there was vomit all over the couch...

Ewwww...

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:34 am

There's the index finger, the thumb, the middle finger, the pinkie... is the other finger called anything?

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:37 am

The ring finger - as in where one wears a wedding ring. At least that's what I call it.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:42 am

There's got to exist an apter name for that finger itself without reference to foreign objects though... and it can't just be "the one next to the pinkie" or something.

-Are you getting married?

-No, why do you ask?

-Because I saw you picking your ring.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:23 am

miss buenos aires wrote:I must have had a great time last night, because when I woke up there was vomit all over the couch...

Was it your vomit and/or your couch?

I think you need to change your definition of "having a great time" if it leads to vomit.

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:23 am

...Because I saw you picking your ring.

See, that joke just doesn't translate here. The fourth finger is usually called the ring finger, at least in the States.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:27 am

...Because I saw you picking your ring.

See, that joke just doesn't translate here.

That's alright... I won't explain the joke though.

We also say ring finger in Oz.

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:29 am

Then why did you ask above "is the other finger called anything?" You've got to put that crack pipe away, dude.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:32 am

Have now edited it; speaks for itself; was making reference to one thing, then the other. Relax your undies.

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:38 am

I think I got the joke, it's just that we don't commonly use the word 'ring' to refer to assholes.

My undies are just fine, thanks.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:06 am

I closed the deal on what was essentially the Glengarry account yesterday and thus the Sword of Damocles has been diverted a few inches to the right for at least a whole fat month.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:43 pm

verbal gymnastics wrote:
miss buenos aires wrote:I must have had a great time last night, because when I woke up there was vomit all over the couch...
Was it your vomit and/or your couch?

I think you need to change your definition of "having a great time" if it leads to vomit.

Yes and yes, and why?

The big news is that I am now very far away from the vomit-y couch, on...my parents' couch! I am very happy to be back.