(Smacked with a) POLL
 

Brings to mind Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, "I want a Golden Goose NOW Daddy!" Too bad there wasn't a trap door in the sidewalk in frontof McDonalds.

Smokin' Stork
 

Are you sure that Ms. T-Mobile sold them to the Star, and that they weren't all taken with a telephoto lens by the family gardener's cousin's sister's friend during the latest Douglas/Zeta-Jones hookah party?

In honor of mothers' day
 

I've heard of hyperbole actually. These people are often serious.:eek:

Great Underappreciated TV
 

Oh, not to worry RP, I've had the boxed set (of tapes -- not DVD) for years now. A worthy purchase if I've ever made one.

That was a nice adaptation too -- but believe you me -- the Austen crowd is divided (rancorously) about the propriety of Andrew Davies's inclusion of the wet-shirt scene. I like it -- it's shorthand for Darcy's transformation, and Mr. Darcy in a state of dripping deshabille -- who could quarrel with that?!?

Of course the Davies P&P adaptation had the advantage of being 6 hours long -- you can include a lot more detail with that amount of time. Another reason I admire the S&S adaptation -- she really captured the spirit/mood of the story in only 2 hours. Sure, there were departures from the novel -- when aren't there? But all in all, a great adaptation.

Smokin' Stork
 

Most of the stars now sell the pics of their kids or wedding or what have you to the tabloids to avoid the horrendous paparazzi pics. They know how cutthroat the tabloids could be, and this way they have some control over what appears in the papers.

C(yet another reason I'm glad I live in solid obscurity)deuced

In honor of mothers' day
 

Edited - double post.

(Smacked with a) POLL
 

Cherry Blossom weekend, saw a demon child picking tulips and then tearing them apart at the tulip library* in D.C. The parents were oblivious. I was livid and had to be restrained.

They probably took the little darling to the Portrait Gallery later that afternoon so that he could touch the paintings.

*The tulip library is a garden near the Jefferson Memorial that has about 60-80 beds, each with a different variety of tulip. The flowers were in perfect form that day, making the parent's unconcern that much harder to bear. Edited to add that the kid was about 8 - old enough to know better.

In honor of mothers' day
 

In honor of mothers' day
 

Look, we've spoken to your friends and family, and, frankly, we're tired of helping you in this continued self-deception.

Your life DOES suck. Now get over it and move on. :smash:

(Just tell those people "no, really, it's okay, I have cable, and that's cheaper than kids and not as messy!")

Educate me, Puckheads
 

I never used to think that I would view sports figures as hot or not, esp hockey, but I changed my mind when I saw Darcy Hordichuk and Brad Tapper -- all the rest are just players to me. :blush:


Thrashers(woo-hoo season ticket renewal time)Fan

(Smacked with a) POLL
 

Not sure if it's the absolute worst I've seen, but it's up there:

When I was 6 and my brother was 3, a couple of his little friends were over at our house with their moms. One of his friends (a total brat growing up - he now teaches 3rd grade in Montana) pulled one of our young apple trees out of our yard. Just walked right up to it (it was only 4 or 5 feet high), said "I hate trees" and pulled it out of the ground and tossed it aside. As his mother sat on the front porch and just clucked "now now, that's not nice."

C(I thought Mom Deuced was gonna toss her on the ground)deuced

In honor of mothers' day
 

It is stupid to think that a stay-at-home mother doesn't have opinions, interests and goals. It is stupid to think that goals can only be as you define them.

My wife was a teacher and will most likely go back to being one at some point, but right now she is at home with the kid. She is intelligent, opinionated, interesting and goal oriented. One of her goals is to raise our children the way we would like them to be raised. Not to hire someone to raise them their way.

I know you're probably over-generalizing (and you'll say you're doing it to make a point) and have carved out an exception for certain women who stay at home, but it sure doesn't seem that way. It seems like you're taking the shallowest of views on this topic.

TM

Speaking of kids....
 

That's the funniest, most original comeback you've had in a long, long, long time. Way to inject some new life into an old joke.

Smokin' Stork
 

If you know some fucking paparazzi is going to stalk you for three weeks to get "exclusive" shots of your kid, and make all the money themselves, you might as well whore yourself out by eliminating the middleman and collect the dough yourself. That's why they sued over the wedding pics -- because otherwise their own market was ruined.

Pathetic for billionaires, buy they've been driven to it by the insatiable appetite of soccer moms bored in teh checkout line for such crap.

Educate me, puckheads
 

Icing apparently is the only penalty many purported hockey fans know. Every time I'm at a game, I'm seated in front of or next to some geek (not the same geek each time) who screams icing every 5 min. If you feel the need to comment during a game at least look up the basics -hooking or offsides.

former (5 for fighting) gov't