imaginary friends to fill the void that is your gaping gash.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by bilmore
Ignore it.

Or at least keep reusing the "39" candle for the rest of your life.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/ny.../28murder.html

Someone tell me why, when an actress or model is killed or attacked, it is always big, big news.

Bigger news than Jenna Bush making out at a party while holding a drink? For shame, mass media, for shame.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
There's not much mortgage left. We've been paying down aggressively for a while. And, come on, how meaningful a gift is that, really?

I'm trying to figure out what to do for my wife's 40th.

Oh, this is a real question.

You guys are into gardening, right? Buy her 40 of the Garden Ease rose bushes from Jackson & Perkins and hire a landscape architect/designer to help figure out where to put them. Unless she's into doing it herself (some women are, I'm waiting for the dozen Crystal Fairy bushes to arrive in March for my front border garden), hire someone to build the beds and plant them and run the irrigation system to them. Why give cut roses that will die when you can give bushes ones that keep on blooming?

I did something similar for my best friend when she got married and bought a new house a few years ago. I think it went over well.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I like the personal chef thing particularly. What are cushion cut diamond earings?

It's something I have never seen in earrings -- which is why I would want it. Cushion cut is an old-fashioned cut -- it is akin to an emerald cut on top and a brilliant cut on the bottom. It makes a truly stunning stone.

Here is a link to a picture <http://www.thediamondbuyingguide.com...t_diamond.html>.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by evenodds
It's something I have never seen in earrings -- which is why I would want it.

Wouldn't they have the potentially to look odd if they rotate around in your pierce, such that one has the long access vertically and the other that axis horizontally?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Oh, this is a real question.

You guys are into gardening, right? Buy her 40 of the Garden Ease rose bushes from Jackson & Perkins and hire a landscape architect/designer to help figure out where to put them.

He lives in a trailer--you think he has room for a rose garden?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by evenodds
It's something I have never seen in earrings -- which is why I would want it. Cushion cut is an old-fashioned cut -- it is akin to an emerald cut on top and a brilliant cut on the bottom. It makes a truly stunning stone.

Here is a link to a picture <http://www.thediamondbuyingguide.com...t_diamond.html>.

I like the never seen before, and know a jeweler who does very nice work. My wife doesn't do new diamonds (e.g., blood stones), but maybe a set with saphires or emerelds. And a chef.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Oh, this is a real question.

You guys are into gardening, right? Buy her 40 of the Garden Ease rose bushes from Jackson & Perkins and hire a landscape architect/designer to help figure out where to put them. Unless she's into doing it herself (some women are, I'm waiting for the dozen Crystal Fairy bushes to arrive in March for my front border garden), hire someone to build the beds and plant them and run the irrigation system to them. Why give cut roses that will die when you can give bushes ones that keep on blooming?

I did something similar for my best friend when she got married and bought a new house a few years ago. I think it went over well.

She's into me doing them. So the landscape designers not a bad idea.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Wouldn't they have the potentially to look odd if they rotate around in your pierce, such that one has the long access vertically and the other that axis horizontally?

I have emerald cut earrings and I have never found that to be a problem.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You gotta receipt?


(This is a Roche Vouceau. The finest water-resistant watch in the world. Singularly unique, sculpted in design, handcrafted in Switzerland and water-resistant to three atmospheres. This is the sports watch of the 80s. $6955 retail.)

TM

Hi. Trading Places timmy here.

It's actually a Roche Foucauld, which is an homage, if you will, to Francois Rochefoucauld, who generally despised materialism and was very pessimistic.

here is a link to stuff about the man.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rochefou.htm

[Alex_de_Large]

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[Alex_de_Large]

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spree; pictures of naked people with genitals, etc. covered by computer equipment. Found on Gizmodo.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Bigger news than Jenna Bush making out at a party while holding a drink? For shame, mass media, for shame.

Either you're joking or missing the point. Relative to Jenna's Bush, it is big news. Relative to average, ordinary people dying for no reason, it is not. The question is: "why is some nobody actress' pointless death more newsworth than any other nobody's pointless death?"

TM

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Either you're joking or missing the point. Relative to Jenna's Bush, it is big news. Relative to average, ordinary people dying for no reason, it is not. The question is: "why is some nobody actress' pointless death more newsworth than any other nobody's pointless death?"

TM

Because somebody at the times knew her?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The question is: "why is some nobody actress' pointless death more newsworth than any other nobody's pointless death?"

TM

Seeing as there's also an article about a 7 year old girl's murder, in the same section, your question is better put as "why do they report on murders of anyone no one knows?" And the answer is because it's news--the public is interested in serious crime; and it might help solve the case. I bet the Times would report on the murder of a faceless i-banker or lawyer too on the regional pages.