Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
No tip jar.

You should probably stop giving the staff there unsolicited felatio. Or continue, I guess, if you like the super-sizing.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
It is 27 but feels 17 with wind.

I wish there were a phrase to describe this phenomenon.

[Replaced_Texan]

Unmarried 20 year old Israeli soldier killed by Palestinians. Parents request that at autopsy, dead son's sperm is saved and preserved for future use. Sperm saved.

Mother puts out the word through the newspapers that she's looking for someone to be inseminated by her dead son's sperm. She gets over 200 responses.

Parents fight in court for four years to be allowed access to the sperm. Israeli law apparently only let spouses recover the sperm of the deceased. Parents say son always wanted to be a father and this is consistant with what he would have wanted. Parents win.

Now, a 35 year old unmarried economist is getting ready to be impregnated by the sperm of a dead man she never knew.

Questions: Doesn't this sound like a recipe for disaster for the poor kid? A grandmother obessed with dead father, national media attention on the kid before even in vitro, much less in vivo, single parent household (with, of course, an inlaw from hell).

Isn't this less about honoring the dead kid's wishes than his mom's inability to let him go? He can't be a father. He's dead.

Would you even consider doing something like this? Sure, I have the "if i'm not with child by X age, I'm getting a bottle of Scotch and seducing one of my gay friends" contingency plan, but at least the putative father would be alive. Hell, even going to a sperm bank for some unknown jackass's spunk would be preferable to having my kid be the living memorial to some other woman's kid. No matter what perks and free babysitting came with the gig.

Guys: would you want your sperm to live on without you and go to some chick you've never met?

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Today I ordered a small soup to go with my bacon and avocado sandwich (no pickle, but still delish). The cashier gave me a medium soup but charged me for a small. When I saw the medium soup going into the bag I thought -- hooray -- more soup for me!! I did not draw her error to her attention.

Now I feel bad. Would you have pointed out the mistake and paid for the larger soup?

Yes. But your failure to do so does not, by itself, make you a bad person. [efs]

S_A_M

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
. . . even going to a sperm bank for some unknown jackass's spunk . . .

Guys: would you want your sperm to live on without you and go to some chick you've never met?

Nice turn of phrase.

Probably Not.

S_A_M

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I wish there were a phrase to describe this phenomenon.

I checked the weather on the ol' computer the other day, using the interwebs, and the page I consulted told me that it was 40 degrees out and that it felt like 40 degrees. WTF? It can't feel like 40 degrees -- 40 degrees necessarily feels like something else.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

Guys: would you want your sperm to live on without you and go to some chick you've never met?

Definitely not, absent the sperm bank scenario (because I'd already be giving to some chick i'd never met). This isn't organ donation.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Guys: would you want your sperm to live on without you and go to some chick you've never met?

Sure thing. I want future generations to think of "Tyrone Slothrop" in the way that they now think of "Henrietta Lacks," only as more virile, less black, and less womanly. NTTAWWT.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Definitely not, absent the sperm bank scenario (because I'd already be giving to some chick i'd never met). This isn't organ donation.

Why would you care? I'm genuinely curious. You're dead -- how does it matter to you?

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Unmarried 20 year old Israeli soldier killed by Palestinians. Parents request that at autopsy, dead son's sperm is saved and preserved for future use. Sperm saved.

Mother puts out the word through the newspapers that she's looking for someone to be inseminated by her dead son's sperm. She gets over 200 responses.

Parents fight in court for four years to be allowed access to the sperm. Israeli law apparently only let spouses recover the sperm of the deceased. Parents say son always wanted to be a father and this is consistant with what he would have wanted. Parents win.

Now, a 35 year old unmarried economist is getting ready to be impregnated by the sperm of a dead man she never knew.

Questions: Doesn't this sound like a recipe for disaster for the poor kid? A grandmother obessed with dead father, national media attention on the kid before even in vitro, much less in vivo, single parent household (with, of course, an inlaw from hell).

Isn't this less about honoring the dead kid's wishes than his mom's inability to let him go? He can't be a father. He's dead.

Would you even consider doing something like this? Sure, I have the "if i'm not with child by X age, I'm getting a bottle of Scotch and seducing one of my gay friends" contingency plan, but at least the putative father would be alive. Hell, even going to a sperm bank for some unknown jackass's spunk would be preferable to having my kid be the living memorial to some other woman's kid. No matter what perks and free babysitting came with the gig.

Guys: would you want your sperm to live on without you and go to some chick you've never met?

Before you decide to go the sperm bank route, remember that Shifty once lived in Houston. And there may have been a time when he needed a little extra cash. So is that a chance you really want to take?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Unmarried 20 year old Israeli soldier killed by Palestinians. Parents request that at autopsy, dead son's sperm is saved and preserved for future use. Sperm saved.

Mother puts out the word through the newspapers that she's looking for someone to be inseminated by her dead son's sperm. She gets over 200 responses.

Parents fight in court for four years to be allowed access to the sperm. Israeli law apparently only let spouses recover the sperm of the deceased. Parents say son always wanted to be a father and this is consistant with what he would have wanted. Parents win.

Now, a 35 year old unmarried economist is getting ready to be impregnated by the sperm of a dead man she never knew.

Questions: Doesn't this sound like a recipe for disaster for the poor kid? A grandmother obessed with dead father, national media attention on the kid before even in vitro, much less in vivo, single parent household (with, of course, an inlaw from hell).

Isn't this less about honoring the dead kid's wishes than his mom's inability to let him go? He can't be a father. He's dead.

Would you even consider doing something like this? Sure, I have the "if i'm not with child by X age, I'm getting a bottle of Scotch and seducing one of my gay friends" contingency plan, but at least the putative father would be alive. Hell, even going to a sperm bank for some unknown jackass's spunk would be preferable to having my kid be the living memorial to some other woman's kid. No matter what perks and free babysitting came with the gig.

Guys: would you want your sperm to live on without you and go to some chick you've never met?

To my knowledge, I am not gay. But I love scotch and have a variety of fitted floral-patterned shirts. FYI, FWIW and FTR.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Sure thing. I want future generations to think of "Tyrone Slothrop" in the way that they now think of "Henrietta Lacks," only as more virile, less black, and less womanly. NTTAWWT.

Or they may think of you as Cecil Jacobson.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Why would you care? I'm genuinely curious. You're dead -- how does it matter to you?

In the same way I care to know now that when I'm buried, someone won't come to the graveyard, dig me up, and toss me in a river. Or paint nasty comments on my headstone. And so forth.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
In the same way I care to know now that when I'm buried, someone won't come to the graveyard, dig me up, and toss me in a river. Or paint nasty comments on my headstone. And so forth.

Which brings me to another question. When I die, I would like to be buried (rather than cremated), but there's no way in hell I want to be embalmed. Is this possible? I just want to go straight into the ground.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Or they may think of you as Cecil Jacobson.

Sorry Flinty -- I'm not planning to impregnate a male baboon, no matter how persuasive Burger gets.