Total Recall
 

Sheesh, what part of mild mannered do you not understand?

Not form Hravard
 

I guess I will now be less offended when the secretary-from-hell (not Harvard) misspells every other word in that critical pleading, since the Judge will know what was meant anyway. Some study said so.

I wonder if the theory holds with legal lingo too?

P (wishing they would actually ban filing in DC, there'd be a lot less paperwork) D

Not form Hravard
 

To the contrary, I think they know exactly what they are doing, as do the contract drafters who place important paragraphs in all caps without legislative prompting.

Serious request for information
 

This might be your most erotic post ever.

Mass at brunch?
 

I would have been quite unhappy, though certainly not rude enough to show I felt that way.

On the rare occasion I have attended a Mass it has been because a dear friend truly needed me there for some reason. This means I tend to attend Mass around funerals, and on rare occasion Weddings. I do my best to hide in the back, and I know about it ahead of time, either because it is obvious one will happen or I am told ahead of time. Anyone who is dear enough to me that my presence makes a real difference would know better than to ambush me.

I have no wish to sit through such a ceremony without a very good reason. I don't see it as a simple matter. And a good reason is not someone not bothering to mention it on the invitation. It doesn't take much effort to do so.

It has nothing to do with being in God's presence or not being in His presence. It is respect for those who have different views and feelings on the matter. Sometimes quite strong feelings, as mine are.

strip club question
 

At every strip club do the dancers constantly pester you for a table dance? Or are there some out there where they are a little more relaxed? - like if you are getting one, another girl will not pounce on you immediately afterward. What is customary?

strip club question
 

It is customary to receive multiple solicitations for lap dances, but there is typically a bit of time between the solicitations. You also have to choose your dancer very carefully, I think strip clubs are how the phrase YMMV came into regular usage.

Some clubs do have a more relaxed atmosphere than others.

Serious request for information
 

This is what happens when you break up the biggest couple of the decade. Vicarious stuff happens.

Mass at brunch?
 

The brunch really does go overboard. After all, this isn't the wedding proper, where one consents to a certain degree of religious participation by attending. I was recently at a very Orthodox Jewish ceremony recently where it seemed the process never ended -- we were filing from one place to another and witnessing various things, and the end of evening blessing took about an hour by itself. Still, I just sat back and said, OK, I'm a religious tourist for this period of time, and so I'll hang out and see what they're up to.

Of course, in that case most of the important stuff happened in a language I can't understand anyways.

strip club question
 

It's a commission job - they're just trying to earn a buck. It's like car salesmen without clothes. What can we do to make you buy today?

strip club question
 

Throw in some free jumps, maybe?

Mass at brunch?
 

Why didn't you just plead Jewish or Hindu and leave? Or just step outside for a smoke or to use the men's roiom and don't come back.

Mass at brunch?
 

Technically, you can't be invited to a religious observance, even if that observance is a wedding. You're merely told when one will occur (admittedly, this was the vital courtesy that was lacking at the wedding Coltrane attended), because the alternative implies ownership of the worship space. This is why excruciatingly correct wedding invitations invite you to the reception-to-follow but merely give notice of the date and time of the actual ceremony if it will held in a church. This also is why it is improper to have a receiving line outside the church at a church wedding --- you're supposed to "receive" them as they arrive at the reception, but they weren't really "invited" to your wedding ceremony because you lack the right to choose who is and isn't inside the church for the nuptials. Besides, at the reception you can say "Thank you for coming" --- what are you supposed to say outside the church? "Thank you for partaking in the Blessed Sacrament"?

While I'm wearing the Cranky Pants, I think the "morning after brunch" is itself a problematic appendage to the modern wedding ceremony. I think it's better when the bride and groom hightail it out of town in the late middle of the reception, and leave the revelers to their own devices. I don't want my weekend programmed for me. And the bride and groom are supposed to be pawing at each other in the back seat of the limo on their way to Kauai, Bermuda, or Disney World. Whatever.

strip club question
 

I understand how the stripping concept works, but thanks. It is just that the clubs that I have ever been to (north of the border) are more laid back. It is not such a pestering frenzy.

strip club question
 

It's colder there. They're not so eager to strip.