Happy Birthday, Preston Michael Spears Federline and other Certain Special Someones! - Page 308

Hank Chinaski · 10-19-2005, 06:02 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If it makes you feel any better, with the way these kids are today, she was probably only commiting for the next 5 or so years unless he did something really eggregiously bad before the end of that period.

The rest of her life. Ha.

But think about the guy, and his family- that THEY didn't change the name implies something about them- inner strength, confidence, sick sense of humor (or nasty little white supremacy beliefs).

Maybe she just admired the quality so much that she wanted to buy into the name. Seriously, I bet any family named Hitler is one interesting group.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-19-2005, 06:04 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Still smarting about the boyfriend comment, huh?

How many internet and non-internet boyfriends do you have again?

TM

bilmore · 10-19-2005, 06:06 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
It's not so bad. You get used to it after a while.

I suppose. It worked for Judge Bork, and Charles D. Fuck.

dtb · 10-19-2005, 06:11 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
How many internet and non-internet boyfriends do you have again?

TM

I don't know. Who can keep track?

10-19-2005, 06:11 PM

As usual. Much like the Good Lord and Shepherd, Jesus, fringey lurks from somewhere in the penumbra of this internet civilization, watching us, waiting for the right moment for the acopalyptic return. Is anyone down for hatching some kind of Spanky plan? He inspires her.

btw, my dad has developed a very peculiare habit. True story. There is this house in a certain part of Connecticut that is really the mother of all Christmas time prole light shows and plastic shit in the frontyard at Xmas. on its roof are two lit up callings for our lord and savior. One says Stop Here Santa (is Santa supposed to be Jesus? I never quite understood this) with an arrow pointing at the chimney. The other says "Happy BIrthday Jesus". Anyway, every year my sister busts out her camcorder video of this display and as a result, I have taken to wishing Jesus a happyu bithday on Christmas after every glass of veuve that my BIL's father pours (Christmas is so fun! I am so glad my sister wed a gentile).

Now, it hasnt been Xmas in like ten months and I have seen my dad subsequent to Jesus's last birthday and never heard his new little habit. But now he goes around thanking Jesus all the time. Like, he got a new directorship and when he told us he thanked Jesus. He also said "Thank you, Jesus" when he opened up a tasty wine. When my critter took a large poop, my dad thanked Jesus. Not in a praise the lord, kinda way, but if you can picture say Chuck Shumer doing it, you kinda get the idea. Its really funny bc my BIL (the gentile) goes around saying "Dianyu, Dianyu (sp?) in much the same way, after countless retellings of my sister's college graduation event where some yenta from long island (A True JAP, bnb) kept saying "Dianyu, Dianyu", which was utterly inappropriate to say the least.

tmdiva · 10-19-2005, 06:12 PM

dtb, I think the guys on your desk must be awfully sheltered. Either that, or they're just really young. I think (I may have read this somewhere, but I can't remember for sure and might just be talking out of my ass) that the trend of keeping one's name upon marriage has waxed and waned over the last 30 years or so. When we got married (mid-90s, right?), the trend was waxing, and for the last several years it has been waning.

You know, we've had this discussion before, but it's been since the Yahoo days, I think.

So yeah, I kept my name. There just wasn't any good enough reason why I shouldn't, good enough to outweigh the hassle. And aesthetics were definitely part of the consideration, but the SFC's and my last names are both Scandinavian patronymics, so that factor was a wash. I do know a woman whose last name was Dick, and she could hardly wait to change it (Phillip K. Dick notwithstanding).

Among my closest girlfriends (who all grew up Mormon), about half kept and half changed. Among my law school roommates, 2 kept, 2 changed, and 1 and her husband changed to another name altogether. Among the parents of Magnus's kindergarten classmates (roughly of our same generation), 9 couples have the same last name (one of these is hyphenated) and 7 have different last names (the remaining 7 are single parents). 4 of the kids have hyphenated last names.

tm

ABBAKiss · 10-19-2005, 06:12 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
The rest of her life. Ha.

HA!

notcasesensitive · 10-19-2005, 06:13 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
How many internet and non-internet boyfriends do you have again?

TM

I believe that the norm these days is two. But you know dtb - she's such an overachiever and a real dynamo with the time management - so my guess would be somewhere in the 5-7 range.

ABBAKiss · 10-19-2005, 06:14 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
Charles D. Fuck.

There is not someone named this. Is there? I think I've shared this information before but my church has a Dr. Candace Dick and a totally unrelated person name Delite Dick. I can't even say Delite Dick without chuckling.

Penske_Account · 10-19-2005, 06:14 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
As usual. Much like the Good Lord and Shepherd, Jesus, fringey lurks from somewhere in the penumbra of this internet civilization, watching us, waiting for the right moment for the acopalyptic return. Is anyone down for hatching some kind of Spanky plan? He inspires her.

btw, my dad has developed a very peculiare habit. True story.

the babyjesuschristsuperstar works in mysterious ways. indeed. PTL.

dtb · 10-19-2005, 06:15 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
(Christmas is so fun! I am so glad my sister wed a gentile).

As an ex of mine used to say, "I'll say this for them: the goyim sure can put on a holiday."

tmdiva · 10-19-2005, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Another option would be to give your kids your last name.

One of my girlfriends and her husband agreed that sons would take his name, daughters hers.

tm

Penske_Account · 10-19-2005, 06:17 PM

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Originally posted by tmdiva
9 couples have the same last name (one of these is hyphenated) and 7 have different last names (the remaining 7 are single parents). 4 of the kids have hyphenated last names.

tm

Of 17 kids in my first grader's class, 3 hyphenated, 12 different last names, 2 same last names.

notcasesensitive · 10-19-2005, 06:19 PM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
HA!

Indeed.

Not Bob · 10-19-2005, 06:20 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
One says Stop Here Santa (is Santa supposed to be Jesus? I never quite understood this).

No, he's a saint (St. Nicholas), who celebrated the birth of Jesus by giving gifts back in the day.

From http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11063b.htm

In Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, they have the custom of making him the secret purveyor of gifts to children on 6 December, the day on which the Church celebrates his feast; in the United States and some other countries St. Nicholas has become identified with Santa Claus who distributes gifts to children on Christmas eve.