Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Was this?

This was. Definitely.

[nononono]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
That explanation is a little weak, I would feel it more if you had prefaced it with a "I'm not going to lie to you".......

Implied!

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Was this?

It depends on whether it will have any effect.

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
What about ritualistic infant sacrifice if it is done in the interests of the greater community?

I would make an exception to my general anti-baby-burning stance in such circumstances, but I would be sure to use an accelerant.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ironweed
This was. Definitely.

This? Not so much.

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I would make an exception to my general anti-baby-burning stance in such circumstances, but I would be sure to use an accelerant.

See how easily your smug, hollow platitudes like "one shouldn't burn a baby" crumble into dust.

What type of golf club would you recommend for beating a pregnant woman if the "circumstances" demanded it?

[nononono]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I was just wondering what about the entire exchange made the tape worth keeping. I would have bought "I'm saving it for when it is eventually revealed that he is a serial killer because I think it will sell for a lot on eBay" better than the sentimental fool explanation, but I guess that just reveals that I am not a sentimental fool.

I have very little stuff like that. I've continuously culled to the point that my entire growing up/high school/college nostalgia fits into one storage container. I do have some letters that my best friend from middle school wrote to me over summer vacations and the like, but other than that, really only some pictures.

I attempt to be the anti-packrat for my family. Mom and sis hold onto freaking everything. Who has the space for that?

Because it's weird. And the story, if you can believe it, is better than the tape. So much for the "creative" in "creative genius." But I do tend to be a packrat about music.

I saved a moderate amount of stuff, from at least back to grade school. It's all organized and waiting for the day when I ever make a scrapbook. So far, I've made none. Fortunately, I'm now off the hook for the wedding scrapbook!

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ironweed
See how easily your smug, hollow platitudes like "one shouldn't burn a baby" crumble into dust.

What type of golf club would you recommend for beating a pregnant woman if the "circumstances" demanded it?

That's easy. callaway, right?

..and what are the exigent circumstances??

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
This? Not so much.

I'm sorry that didn't work out for you. You can edit, you know.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by nononono
Because it's weird. And the story, if you can believe it, is better than the tape. So much for the "creative" in "creative genius." But I do tend to be a packrat about music.

I saved a moderate amount of stuff, from at least back to grade school. It's all organized and waiting for the day when I ever make a scrapbook. So far, I've made none. Fortunately, I'm now off the hook for the wedding scrapbook!

My boyfriend has (or so he claims) a box of stuff I gave him back when we broke up back in college. There's a bracelet in there that I'd like to start wearing again, and if it wasn't going to be single-digit cold in upstate New York this weekend, I might actually spend some time in his basement looking for it.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ironweed
I'm sorry that didn't work out for you. You can edit, you know.

Thanks. Just send me your password via PM and I'll take a stab at changing your Most Reviled Poster status.

[nononono]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
My boyfriend has (or so he claims) a box of stuff I gave him back when we broke up back in college. There's a bracelet in there that I'd like to start wearing again, and if it wasn't going to be single-digit cold in upstate New York this weekend, I might actually spend some time in his basement looking for it.

So I should hang onto the Satan tape in case I re-meet the crazy guy at the nursing home and fall in love with him?

Send your boyfriend down to the basement to bring up the box. Or all the boxes. He gets a workout; you get to rummage.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by nononono
So I should hang onto the Satan tape in case I re-meet the crazy guy at the nursing home and fall in love with him?

Send your boyfriend down to the basement to bring up the box. Or all the boxes. He gets a workout; you get to rummage.

I hang on to way too much stuff to give advice.

In the alternative, I could just wait until he moves here and the box arrives with him.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

I am just wondering -- many friends of mine confided in me after I got separated/divorced that they never could understand what my husband and I were doing together, and that they never really cared for him and they never could understand what I saw in him. But all through the dating/marriage, they never said anything. It annoys me that they did not -- I can understand that they would not want to be jerks and criticize someone I love, but really, if you have an opinion, sometimes it is helpful to share it.

I am wondering if any of the other uber-smug divorcees had this experience and if so, whether it bugged them.

[nononono]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I am just wondering -- many friends of mine confided in me after I got separated/divorced that they never could understand what my husband and I were doing together, and that they never really cared for him and they never could understand what I saw in him. But all through the dating/marriage, they never said anything. It annoys me that they did not -- I can understand that they would not want to be jerks and criticize someone I love, but really, if you have an opinion, sometimes it is helpful to share it.

I am wondering if any of the other uber-smug divorcees had this experience and if so, whether it bugged them.

My mother sometimes has this view. I knew he did things that rubbed her the wrong way, and she would say so or make comments about certain things about him that extended beyond that, but I think her general thought was that it wasn't her place to rip him apart, given that he was my husband/father of her grandchildren, and she wanted both to be supporive of the choice I'd made and to have a good relationship with me and with them.

Everyone else seemed to assume we were fine, he was fine, mainly because he was huge on presenting a huge public facade and we looked great and in-synch on the outside. Oh, and then there was the fact that most of our friends while married were "his."