More pie

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Hubby found depending on computer on the Gateway site, free yes free software to protect our corrupted, now wiped clean hard drive. So if you have a Gateway try the free stuff. If you don't doesn't Dell offer same?

Short answer: buy a Mac.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Wendy in Peter Pan had both parents, though Peter appears to be orphaned.

I think they fall into the inattentive category. If memory serves, the kids are supposed to be in bed while the parents host a party.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Ariel didn't have a mom, but her dad was on the ball.

Opie seemed to turn out okay, too.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Also, note the total uselessness of the fathers in many stories. Cinderella's father is blind to the mistreatment of his beloved daughter by his horrible second wife; Nemo's father is an anxiety-addled twit; the kids who grow up in those books in Minnesota (I can never remember the name of the series) have a dad who is always away on business; Jane and Elizabeth's father, Mr. Bennet, is as ineffectual as they come (luckily, Elizabeth manages to marry someone quite unlike papa; although Lydia ended up with a cad and Jane, a gay). Perhaps some authors are working out their issues with daddy?

Indeed.

But Nemo's dad is a hero, too. C'mon -- give the guy some props. He crossed an ocean and took on 3 sharks to save his son. (And you'd be anxious too if you'd watched a barracuda eat your wife.)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Opie seemed to turn okay, too.

If what I think is going to happen actually happens, I think you're going to hell, too. (I was going to post something about Opie, but then thought better of it.)

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
the kids in the lion, witch & wardrobe

weren't they just sent off to the country during war?



[spoiler?]


And then they all get killed in a train wreck, along with their parents, later on

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
(And you'd be anxious too if you'd watched a barracuda eat your wife.)

Talk about vagina dentata.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
weren't they just sent off to the country during war?



[spoiler?]


And then they all get killed in a train wreck, along with their parents, later on

isn't that also named the chronicles of narnia.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Talk about vagina dentata.

And she had that fishy smell, too.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
I think they fall into the inattentive category. If memory serves, the kids are supposed to be in bed while the parents host a party.

Same sort of thing happens in Labyrinth (one of my favorite kids movies of all time): she's supposed to be baby sitting her brother and wishes him away.

BTW, I tried that trick. Didn't work.

[SEC_Chick]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I have McAfee and haven't had any problems. My ex-boyfriend works for Symantec and swears that Norton is better, but he still hasn't sent me a free copy so until then, I'll stick with McAfee.

We had Norton Internet Security and it is a memory hog and the machine used to take forever to start up. For our new machine, we got Microsoft One Care (or whatever it's called) and with that you get a license for 3 machines. I have been so far impressed and my IT manager geek friend says it's the only Microsoft product worth owning.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
(I love Roald Dahl, except not his freaky adult books)

I recently read L'il Ty one of his children's books about a family of foxes and three farmers trying to kill them. It was creepy.

I was thinking about reading him Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he's not all that tuned into candy and I'm worried about calling it to his attention and glorifying it. Probably this is silly.

Am now reading him a book called The Tale Of Despereaux. Recommended. Despereaux is a mouse who has parents, but they stand uselessly by when the head mice send him to the dungeon for talking to humans.

eta: The Dalh was The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

"Boggis and Bunce and Bean / One fat, one short, one lean. / These horrible crooks / So different in looks / Were nonetheless equally mean."

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I recently read L'il Ty one of his children's books about a family of foxes and three farmers trying to kill them. It was creepy.

I was thinking about reading him Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he's not all that tuned into candy and I'm worried about calling it to his attention and glorifying it. Probably this is silly.

Am now reading him a book called The Tale Of Despereaux. Recommended. Despereaux is a mouse who has parents, but they stand uselessly by when the head mice send him to the dungeon for talking to humans.

I like Roald Dahl [as in Sophie's Dad] and I like James and the Giant Peach. As of late we have been reading something like Punk Rock Farm. funny stuff.

AoN does anyone like the Edward Gorey drawings? with the little heads of the shrunken variety? I love those.

[Anttwat]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
If what I think is going to happen actually happens, I think you're going to hell, too. (I was going to post something about Opie, but then thought better of it.)

I didn't want to disappoint you, dear.

eta, and now we can all go to hell.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Same sort of thing happens in Labyrinth (one of my favorite kids movies of all time): she's supposed to be baby sitting her brother and wishes him away.

BTW, I tried that trick. Didn't work.

Maybe you lisped through your braces and it did work, did you ever think about that? Huh, did you?