Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Screw the ring. I'm going with a plasma TV.

I'm not getting engaged any time soon. I have to bang an FBetty first.

Then you'll be buying two, possibly three or four, maybe five, if you're talking low end plasmas. Rings ain't cheap.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The Palm? Can you think of a less romantic place?

Yes, I can. His apartment, immediately after telling me he'd gotten another girl pregnant over the summer.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Which brings up an interesting question. What do married women do with their engagement rings when the marriage is over?

A partner at my old place took her two very different failed-marriage rings and had them made into a non-matching set of earrings. Interesting conversation-starter. She was fighting with her current hubby the last time I saw her, so maybe she now has a bellybutton ring to go with the set.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Which brings up an interesting question. What do married women do with their engagement rings when the marriage is over? Sell it on Ebay? Sell it to Coltrane for a good price? Keep it as treasured family heirloom albeit with bad karma? Wear it on the right hand? Feed it to the cat? melt it down with wedding ring and dance naked around pyre? Give it back? What's the etiquette?

Some women sell them, others have the diamond(s) re-set into something different not associated with bad memories.

tm

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Which brings up an interesting question. What do married women do with their engagement rings when the marriage is over? Sell it on Ebay? Sell it to Coltrane for a good price? Keep it as treasured family heirloom albeit with bad karma? Wear it on the right hand? Feed it to the cat? melt it down with wedding ring and dance naked around pyre? Give it back? What's the etiquette?

I have mine sitting in a box upstairs, gathering dust. Never figured out a good answer to that question. Seems like the correct thing to do if the ring had some heirloom quality in his family would e to give it back to him. I have thought about making a pendent from the main stone in mine, but I've never really considered selling it. Primarily because we were broke when we got engaged, so it's not like I'm going to retire off of the earnings on the thing. I think it cost around $2-3k new.

My updated, already divorced, view on rings is this: If I ever got married again, I'd want a wedding ring that is really my taste. No need for "engagement ring", but I'd care much more about the style of my wedding ring. And I would not want that to be a surprise. I'd not expect it to be a gift from my prospective spouse, but a joint purchase, funded by both of us. Just like we would both fund his band.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Nominees for the 2005 Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame:

U2,
J. Geils Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Buddy Guy,
Wanda Jackson,
Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Randy Newman,
the O'Jays,
Gram Parsons,
the Pretenders,
the Sex Pistols,
Percy Sledge,
Patti Smith,
the Stooges and
Conway Twitty

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackage...s&section=news

The Sex Pistols aren't in already? I'd like to see them participate in the inevitable All-Star Jam Session at the conclusion of the ceremonies.

U2 is a shoe-in. Weren't LS and GF up last year? Freebird and a plane crash should be enough to gain entry for LS, in my opinion. And GF should get credit for pioneering a genre that has arguable replaced rock as the music of youth and rebellion.

Randy Newman should stick to writing movie scores and singing about short people.

J. Geils Band? WTF?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Just like we would both fund his band.

Not cheap. Instruments. Amps. Microphones. Drugs. Groupies. Good luck with that.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Yes, I can. His apartment, immediately after telling me he'd gotten another girl pregnant over the summer.

You win.

Please tell me that's not a true story about anyone. Nobody proposes with the caveat that they've got a child on the way with someone else. Although it is probably the winner for "Biggest Brass Ball of All Time" or "So Clueless He Might be Retarded" award. fuck - Russell Crowe's character from "A Beautiful Mind" would know better than to do that. Its a good way to get yourself murdered.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Yes, I can. His apartment, immediately after telling me he'd gotten another girl pregnant over the summer.

This is only slightly better than in the bedroom, shortly after solving the mystery of his wife's death and with his former brother-in-law's brains splattered on his t-shirt.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You win.

Please tell me that's not a true story about anyone. Nobody proposes with the caveat that they've got a child on the way with someone else.

two words: Kevin Federline

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You win.

Please tell me that's not a true story about anyone. Nobody proposes with the caveat that they've got a child on the way with someone else. Although it is probably the winner for "Biggest Brass Ball of All Time" or "So Clueless He Might be Retarded" award. fuck - Russell Crowe's character from "A Beautiful Mind" would know better than to do that. Its a good way to get yourself murdered.

It's a true story. And it happened to me. I didn't murder him. I also didn't marry him.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
This is only slightly better than in the bedroom, shortly after solving the mystery of his wife's death and with his former brother-in-law's brains splattered on his t-shirt.

No one has ever made a blood-spattered t-shirt look so good before.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
two words: Kevin Federline

Didn't she propose to him? And buy the ring? She's a smart girl, preempting the dilemma of what to do with it after the inevitable split.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
My updated, already divorced, view on rings is this: If I ever got married again, I'd want a wedding ring that is really my taste. No need for "engagement ring", but I'd care much more about the style of my wedding ring. And I would not want that to be a surprise. I'd not expect it to be a gift from my prospective spouse, but a joint purchase, funded by both of us. Just like we would both fund his band.

I think this pretty much mirrors my never married view on rings. I think, no matter how much or little money my fictional prospective spouse has, I'd feel very weird accepting and wearing an expensive engagement ring.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter

Randy Newman should stick to writing movie scores and singing about short people.

Listen to "America" or "You Can Leave Your Hat On." Listen to any of his first three albums. The man is a genius, a lyricist with a feel for irony and a political acumen rarely matched in the annals of music.

Of course, since the 80's, he's been phoning it in, but so has half the music industry.