I wish I was a little bit taller....I wish I was a baller
 

At least we aren't elfin thieves.

my wife's friend had this done, and it's a little more complex than "stapling your stomach." They basically rearrange your innards.

They dissect your stomach and make it so that it holds about 3 ounces of food. It slowly grows back to it's normal size, I believe, but by the time that happens, the person has already lost half their body weight and adopted new eating habits. Her friend did this about 2 months ago and has lost almost 100 pounds.

100 pounds in 2 months? Damn. Does she have excess skin issues?

I haven't seen her, and I don't really feel like asking....

(it may have been 3 months ago)

No. I attributed the quote to the wrong person.

Thurgreed(i be that cat at the bar toastin' to the good life)Marshall

Colin Firth Fan Club???
 

Who knew there were so many other fashionistas who drool over Mr. Darcy and his alter ego, Colin Firth??? I thought I was the only GA to have him on a laminated list.

I will confess to having purchased the DVD of Pride & Prejudice before I even had a DVD player (I already had tapes from A&E viewings).

:drool:

I wish I was a little bit taller....I wish I was a baller
 

How come it's okay when you guys do it to us? Or does it only count when it's an actual lyric or sample? ;)

Thurgreed

I wish I was a little bit taller....I wish I was a baller
 

(And, in his own incisive and brilliant way, bilmore comes back with: )

Huh?

Speaking of plastic surgery . . .
 

My mother-in-law had a tummy tuck a couple of months ago. I think she dropped two dress sizes immediately (from a 12 to an 8). One of her sisters had the same procedure last year.

I was surprised by how long the recuperation is -- 8 weeks of laying around and up to a year for full recovery.

I don't understand why someone would go through this.

Do other plastic surgery operations take as long to recover?

(Aside from lipo, obviously.)

Colin Firth Fan Club???
 

So, um, what are you doing with those tapes now? Cause if you have a dvd player and don't need them anymore.....

(and welcome!)

Speaking of plastic surgery . . .
 

A close relative had a breast reduction a few years ago, and it took quite some time for her to heal properly. Not quite eight months, but at least three or four. She was 18 at the time, and I assume that she probably had those superhuman recuperative powers that the young tend to have.

Colin Firth Fan Club???
 

I goofed when I failed to include him on my laminated list. Good thing laminating is cheap. As for the A&E series, the scene where Darcy rides home and before he discovers Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle at his estate, dunks in in the pond to cool off and emerges in his wet English gentlemen's clothes . . . a thing that made me go mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I heard a rumor that Jennifer Ehle and Colin were hot and heavy. Lucky girl.

Another reason to want to be Elizabeth Bennet in that adaptation: when she tells off the evil old Aunt.

I now have three Colins on my lam list -- Firth, Farrell, and a non-famous one from college.

FB Book Club
 

I recommend this book:

http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/...QJhaOzJrt/Mzg=

The author grew up in Togo. He read a book about Greenland, and decided he had to go there. It took him something like six years of working across different countries, but he finally made it. Most of the book is about the year (or so) (in the 1960s) he was there.

And to make it topical, you can pretend his first name is TITS!

I wish I was a little bit taller....I wish I was a baller
 

Thurgreed interpeted your "Effin' thieves" comment to mean that you were offended by the fact that rapper Skee-lo appropriated those hippie lyrics for his own song. When Thurgreed asks why it is O.K. when "you" do it to "us," he is commenting on the misappropriation and popularization of musical styles, songs, etc., of blacks by whites (see, e.g., Elvis). His reference to an actual lyric or sample is presumably an attempt to point out the hypocrisy of those who feel that there is something wrong with or culturally unworthy about a music that routinely incorporates lyrics or musical samples from other songs in the creation of its own music, when in fact some of the music that is supposedly being misappropriated by the hip hoppers through sampling, etc., was music that was arguably misappropriated from black culture in the first place.

It might blow up but it won't go pop
 

They can't be raised with the feminine praise
In conjunction with no chocolate in the mix
White boy Roy cannot feel it
But the first to try and steal it
Dilute it, pollute it, kill it
I see him infiltratin' to the masses
And when they leechin' I'mo shoot 'em all in they asses

(Negroes and white folks buyin' this album)
(Negroes and white folks buyin' this album)

A(Cross over ain't nuthin' but a double cross)G