Male and Female Imponderables - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo by Mavourneen

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

I don't think age plays a factor in being anything, really. Being a grandmother in particular seems to require that you've raised a child for long enough that you are able to help and reassure your husband's daughter with her child-rearing experiences. And you must have a secret hoard of candy for when the grandbaby visits - it's a big rule (at least in my family).

Oh, yay for the grandbaby!

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Monday, January 15, 2007 4:00 AM

PENGUIN

Clowns to the left of me…

...Jokers to the right...

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Monday, January 15, 2007 4:05 AM

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

Wow... you do love your emotes.

Have fun, all! I'll be back in 8 or 9 hours, so don't go bonkers while I'm gone!

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Monday, January 15, 2007 4:54 AM

Well, it will be help and reassurance via email because she lives in Florida and I live in Maryland...

Sorry. 39 is too young to be a grandmother. Even a step gramdmother.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:13 AM

TRISTAN

Morning, all!

I went ahead and linked this thread in the last one...I posted there 'cause I didn't know we had a new one...

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:15 AM

Thanks and Good Morning, Tristan.

Little Earthquakes was taking forever to load so I went ahead and started a new one.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:21 AM

TRISTAN

No problem! I went looking for y'all...just took me a spell to find you.

Too young to be a grandmother. Besides, no one would believe you!

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:23 AM

Morning folks. So, that friend I was telling you guys about has lost his mind now. Now he's thinking of quitting his job that he started in july last year, moving back home, and proposing to the girl who wouldn't even consider moving for him. Now as far as I know they weren't even dating this past year. Heck in October, the last time I saw him, he was talking about some other girl the whole time. Plus he doesn't have any sort of job lined up back home.

How do you tell someone they've gone insane and get them to listen to you?

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:34 AM

Thank you for the wink, Tristan.
Grandmothers are gray haired and retired!

Husband gave me a big compliment ( I think...)
He said he's heard of MILF. I would be the first GMILF he's heard of...

Ewwww. GMILF? Oh, God. Turn me to stone.

Zeek? I have no idea what you can do to talk sense into your friend. The best you can do is be there for him without judgement when he realizes his error.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:42 AM

ZZETTA13

Z walks in "Sorry I'm late but thats usual for me." There was something on the prier ponderment threat that said something abour what superpower you would like to have. Well I submit to you that I would like the power to produce gas

No not that kind of gas. The other kind that you use in your vehiles. I'd give it away and put the oil companies out of business

What about all the ppl the oil industry employ, did I hear you ask? Well they would still keep their jobs only the head honchos would have to work on the farthest drilling platform I could find out in the Gulf as roughnecks, and right
next to them would be our 'ol buddies the F*X exects. If they were good I'd let they come in during the hurricanes..

Z

Oh and by the by MAV old is just in the mind. You can spoil the Gchild then send said child home to the parents. I can't wait-Z

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Monday, January 15, 2007 6:17 AM

ODDSBODSKINS

you just need to come up with another way of looking at it then 'grandmother' ^^

since you're not related by blood, you can get everyone to go along with being one of those 'aunties' that aren't actually a relation, the family friend sort of thing.

obviously in this situation you're more then a family friend, but then, you've only met the mother-to-be once, so that balance's out xD

then you're an aunty, and they get to have just as much fun as grandparent's, spoiling the kids and such xD

it's a shame it's a pleasure i look set to be denied for some time, gonna be a LOOOOOOONG time before i'm an uncle, given that i'm the oldest one of a generation that, in my family, is not the settling down type 8-)

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Monday, January 15, 2007 6:50 AM

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Wow. I'm seeing people in here today I don't normally see. Kinda cool.

So, maybe it's the water in Michigan or something, but I've known a few people that were grandparents at 39, and not by my marriage or adoption or any other means but the natural old-fashioned way. In each case it was a case of young marriage and oops. But oops or not, 39 is young and in a way kinda neat and in a way kinda onerous.

I wish all the very best and if'n Husband Marine hadn't said it first...I still wouldn't say it 'cause I'm still afeared.

But if I wasn't, I would.

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With marked Pirate tendencies...!

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Hmmm, true. I am quickly becoming many things.

Indeed, multiple personalities. See below...

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...Jonny SMASH! ??

Ah, yes, fantasy and reality. Jonny SNAP! like twig...

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I can't even fathom the notion of getting bored. There are so many things I want to do and see and try...... Standard life spans are simply too short. (And that's not even mentioning the childish "neener, neener, you can't kill me!" factor.)

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My sisters came over today.
See what happens when we get bored?

We do not like to be bored. No.

We of course love it when you're bored because you give us so very much to ponder and, ahem, enjoy. Not the issue.

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I just got bored.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 7:36 AM

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

Hello everyone! I feel like I haven't been in here in so long...And I also just spent and hour and a half writing a essay, so sorry if I sound mildly insane today....
Yeah Mav, 39 is too young to be a grandmother, aat least with all the connotations and whatnot. But really all you've gotta do is spoil the grandchild to no end, and making really good cookies couldn't hurt.

Congratulations anyways Mav!

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Monday, January 15, 2007 8:00 AM

JAMESTHEDARK

I actually know a woman in town who's a grandmother at the age of 38. She got married at 20, I think, and her daughter had a kid three years ago at 18. Everything was legit, too. Sure, she's going to be the youngest grandmother around for a while, but it's not inconceiveable. Hell, in the olden days, it was entirely acceptable for women to be grandmothers before they turned thirty! Of course, nowadays, we figure that's just gross (which it is), but at the time, that was a common occurance.

I'm sure there are woman almost as young having grandkids in the trailer parks in K'town to this day, but that place is a geneological nightmare, such that most people researching family trees run away screaming in horror.

I really need to get away from this Island.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 8:01 AM

Hallo!
*steals some time during lunch to frolic around fff.net* *glee!*

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Originally posted by Mavourneen:
Is Mavourneen too young to be a GRANDMOTHER???

I suppose, biologically, one could become a grandmother around 24 years of age. So, it could be worse.

Also, does being married to a grandfather automatically make one a grandmother? With no biological relation and no official "step" status, I'd say you're in the clear. You're just the vibrant, young woman who's married to someone's grandpa.

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Originally posted by Zeek:
How do you tell someone they've gone insane and get them to listen to you?

Heh. You don't. That's insanity for ya. I'd probably do one of two things: either tell them in no uncertain terms that they're out of their mind and about to f

-up, or stay out of it altogether and let things happen as they may. I would probably go with the second option.

But what do I know.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 8:48 AM

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

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But what do I know.

You know frighteningly too much for one so young. It is my considered opinion that everyone single photo you've submitted for our viewing pleasure has been 'shopped beyond belief to hide your grotesquely huge forehead.

P.S. I edited my earlier post in case you didn't see it...

So, Mavs, are you telling me your glorious hair is colored? I'm crushed!

Now, the question remains to be addressed by our other close FFF'ers about the same age; I know Magda and Sahara are, but I'm sure there are others as well.

"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"

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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:04 AM

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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
So, Mavs, are you telling me your glorious hair is colored? I'm crushed!

JQ, grandmothers have gray hair.
Not me! I'm Auntie Mav. Aunties do not have to have gray hair. So I'll be an Auntie.

JQ...any woman who reaches 40 and has hair color like mine and says its natural is either lying or deluded.
Suspend disbelief, JQ. I exist only in cyberspace...

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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:30 AM

MSG

Oh bother...wrote a whole long post only to realize I hadn't paid attention and was logged in as MisterG

Anyway, all better now. I've spent the last 4 days asleep and all traces of whatever virus was trying to kill me seem to have gone so yippee!!

Mavoureen- I think you should be step trophy wife grandma...or step nana or maybe even just hot mama:) HUGS and congradulations though since babies are the best ever. Oh and cute tidbit gets to be an uncle

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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:31 AM

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
So, Mavs, are you telling me your glorious hair is colored? I'm crushed!

JQ, grandmothers have gray hair.
Not me! I'm Auntie Mav. Aunties do not have to have gray hair. So I'll be an Auntie.

JQ...any woman who reaches 40 and has hair color like mine and says its natural is either lying or deluded.
Suspend disbelief, JQ. I exist only in cyberspace...

You're not forty yet...Aunt Mav.

"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"

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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:37 AM

Thanks, msg...

I don't think I'm gonna fret over this anymore. Y'all are right. Babies are a gift, and thinking less about me (gorramnit!) there will be a wonderful new baby in the family, regardless of my relation to it.

Ok, JQ. Posting a pic of Aunt May was just downright wrong.

Hadn't thought of it. Carson will be an Uncle!!

Glad to hear you are feeling better, too msg. Both boys just went through it and I somehow came out unscathed.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:38 AM

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

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Oh bother...wrote a whole long post only to realize I hadn't paid attention and was logged in as MisterG

Hehe, yeah I'm very lucky that I don't share my computer with anyone, or I'd be doing stuff like that all the time! I'm glad you're feeling better MsG

...what did you have anyways?

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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:46 AM

MSG

Not sure exactly Asorta just nasty virus ( or more likely a combination of virus generously given by my students)
Mav- yup Uncle Carson ...plus now you can go indulge yourself in buying all those cute girl baby clothes that you didn't get with Carson....the little pink dresses, the tiny bonnets and ribbons, little booties with rosebuds

Hell's Kitten- You are so adorable....and so much like me it's kind fun to see. My friends and I do silly stuff like that all the time. You should see the revenge of the ninja jedi soccer players ( movie made using the kids I tutor) Life needs more whimsy!

This cracked me up

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Monday, January 15, 2007 11:13 AM

VERSEEXPLORER

MsG, cute pic. Duckings? What ducklings?

It's good to know that everyone is feeling better. Being sick is just yucky.

Mav, we never get over seeing the world from our inner child perspective. Even in the 40s, it's hard to imagine ourselves as a grandparent. It sounds like you're already starting to figure it out.

Zeek, there's no easy answer to watching a friend make crazy decisions. Sometimes I just tell them honestly that I think they're not thinking clearly, and if they need to talk to someone, let me know. Then you have to let it go. You can't make them change if they don't want to.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 11:55 AM

TRISTAN

Afternoon to all!
Sorry, been a bit of a busy day...I missed seeing everyone!
Hugs and kisses all around.

Back to it...

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Monday, January 15, 2007 1:02 PM

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Zeek, there's no easy answer to watching a friend make crazy decisions. Sometimes I just tell them honestly that I think they're not thinking clearly, and if they need to talk to someone, let me know. Then you have to let it go. You can't make them change if they don't want to.

I think my first line of attack should be through logic. Quitting after 6 months at your first job is not going to look good on an engineering resume. Plus he'll probably have to pay the company he's currently at something for moving him out there and quitting so quickly.

If that doesn't work then maybe some of the relationshipy stuff. Like remember how 4 months ago you were talking about that other girl and how you felt bad leading this girl on when you didn't really have feelings for her? You know how that's not exactly how most fairy tales go? You know how she wouldn't consider moving for you? You don't think it's a little crazy to throw away your career and move for her? You know how you seem to be having a problem with your brain being missing?

Those probably won't be the best questions to ask if I'm gonna end up at the wedding though. Hmmmm...

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Monday, January 15, 2007 1:03 PM

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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
It is my considered opinion that everyone single photo you've submitted for our viewing pleasure has been 'shopped beyond belief to hide your grotesquely huge forehead.

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*sniffle*
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It's not "grotesque."

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Originally posted by Mavourneen:
Suspend disbelief, JQ. I exist only in cyberspace...

Hey! Me, too! I am an electronic image, beaming out to you! *snerk*

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Hell's Kitten- You are so adorable....and so much like me it's kind fun to see. My friends and I do silly stuff like that all the time.

!!
What a wonderful compliment!

(Hell's Kitten - MsG In Training ?)

But, I am afraid that you are mistaken, my dear MsG. I am not silly. No. Not I.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 1:19 PM

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
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*sniffle*
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It's not "grotesque."

Aw, poor HK.

Feel free to unleash your murderous rage on him when he gets back (assuming he isn't already).

Or, just sniffle, that's okay, too.

^
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This is what an hour and a half of VG Cats does to the brain. Aaaand... I'm done now.

Edit: Nooo... I'm not.

I remembered that I read this during my off period (because I managed to sneak around the SafeFilter... hee hee):

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I'm sure there are woman almost as young having grandkids in the trailer parks in K'town to this day, but that place is a geneological nightmare, such that most people researching family trees run away screaming in horror.

I really need to get away from this Island.

I think James needs a hug, too.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:05 PM

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Originally posted by yinyang:
Aw, poor HK.

Thanks. *sniffle* He's such a brute sometimes, ya know? *weep!*

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Feel free to unleash your murderous rage on him when he gets back (assuming he isn't already).

Nah. I'm a fan of the subtle.
He'll never even see the ninja coming.
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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:17 PM

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

Ah, yes. So like this?

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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:25 PM

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Ah, yes. So like this?

Exactly.
Except, even ninja-ier.
I know, I know... "How can that be?!?" you ask. "It just is" I respond. (And now I narrate?)

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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:39 PM

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

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(And now I narrate?)

Apparently.

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Originally posted by asortafairytale:
I also just spent and hour and a half writing a essay, so sorry if I sound mildly insane today.

Only an hour and a half for an essay? It takes me that long just to get the first sentence sometimes.

But, you’re done with it, right? That’s good, then.

For my next order of business:

Hooray for not being sick, MsG!

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Hi to Penguin, JQ, Asorta, YinYang, HK, James, Odds, Z, and Tristan.

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Afternoon to all!
Sorry, been a bit of a busy day...I missed seeing everyone!
Hugs and kisses all around.

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Originally posted by Zeek:
I think my first line of attack should be through logic. Quitting after 6 months at your first job is not going to look good on an engineering resume. Plus he'll probably have to pay the company he's currently at something for moving him out there and quitting so quickly.

If that doesn't work then maybe some of the relationshipy stuff. Like remember how 4 months ago you were talking about that other girl and how you felt bad leading this girl on when you didn't really have feelings for her? You know how that's not exactly how most fairy tales go? You know how she wouldn't consider moving for you? You don't think it's a little crazy to throw away your career and move for her? You know how you seem to be having a problem with your brain being missing?

Those probably won't be the best questions to ask if I'm gonna end up at the wedding though. Hmmmm...

Doesn’t sound half bad – to me. Granted, these wouldn’t be bad things to say to him. Just go with your instincts (which, I know, is probably bad advice, but it sounds good

), and it can’t turn out so bad.

And, remember: a kick in the butt still moves people forward.

Who says you have to go to the wedding (assuming there is one, of course), anyway?

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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:51 PM

ODDSBODSKINS

why turn down a wedding just because you don't like the participants? ^_~

myself i'm eagerly awaiting the next family wedding, mostly so's i can remove the idea that i'm an incorrigable drunk from the heads of every relative i have though. The last one was expensive (several hundred pounds on the room's bill at the bar...) and mortifying. So i think i'm going to have to be very sober and sensible to change opinions...

(which, of course, i totally am, i never drink!)

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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:56 PM

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

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Originally posted by Oddsbodskins:
why turn down a wedding just because you don't like the participants? ^_~

I am incapable of dealing with crying people on so many levels.

Quote:
myself i'm eagerly awaiting the next family wedding, mostly so's i can remove the idea that i'm an incorrigable drunk from the heads of every relative i have though. The last one was expensive (several hundred pounds on the room's bill at the bar...) and mortifying. So i think i'm going to have to be very sober and sensible to change opinions...

(which, of course, i totally am, i never drink!)

Well, how would they get a silly idea like that, if you never drink? Unless you're being sarcastic...

<.< >.>

yinyang

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Monday, January 15, 2007 3:04 PM

ODDSBODSKINS

i *may* have been bending the truth just a little.

h'mmm, never been to a terribly tearful wedding, perhaps knowing what KIND of wedding it was going to be could help zeek decide whether to cry ill or make the msot of it?

although, if there's no way in the hells the girl will answer in the positive, is thinking of ways out of the wedding perhaps premature?

i suppose the worst case scenario is that the friend make's a fool of themself, comes to their sense's and is miserable for a few weeks, or a few months if they're so disposed, and eventually realise's it's not the end of the world, picks themself up and carries on, with some valuable lessons learnt about spending crazytime on yourself?

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Monday, January 15, 2007 3:07 PM

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

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Originally posted by Oddsbodskins:
i *may* have been bending the truth just a little.

Good to know.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 4:15 PM

PENGUIN

Clowns to the left of me…

...Jokers to the right...

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Monday, January 15, 2007 4:48 PM

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

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Originally posted by yinyang:
Only an hour and a half for an essay? It takes me that long just to get the first sentence sometimes.

Ordinarily, yeah it would take me longer, but it only had to be 500 words. And then there's also only so much I can write about the history of robots....

I would do a much better job if it was for English or something.

And about the insane thing...I don't think I could be much help with that problem, as I'm the one who people are usually calling crazy.

And I'm out for tonight, as I feel like I might collapse right here...see you all later.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:13 PM

JAMESTHEDARK

Insanity: Can't give you much advice on the topic, other than to be sure to have the reflex firmly implanted in your knees and ankles that you can dive for cover at a moment's notice. When crazy people lose it, they lose it in a hell of a hurry and anybody nearby can be caught in the blast radius.
You think I'm joking? Well, partially. I grew up with a loud mother, so I learned to vanish quickly. It helps, sometimes.

If it's just crazy decisions, I think the cruelest, and probably the most apt thing to do would be to simply stand back and let the participant suffer the consequences of the actions they have wrought.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:17 PM

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Originally posted by Oddsbodskins:
h'mmm, never been to a terribly tearful wedding, perhaps knowing what KIND of wedding it was going to be could help zeek decide whether to cry ill or make the msot of it?

although, if there's no way in the hells the girl will answer in the positive, is thinking of ways out of the wedding perhaps premature?

i suppose the worst case scenario is that the friend make's a fool of themself, comes to their sense's and is miserable for a few weeks, or a few months if they're so disposed, and eventually realise's it's not the end of the world, picks themself up and carries on, with some valuable lessons learnt about spending crazytime on yourself?

Well I don't know how women think when being proposed to. I don't know if they get a rush of insanity or a rush of pity. If a person threw their life out the window just for you wouldn't you feel terrible rejecting them?

Anyway the wedding might be fun, but it would also mark the death of a friend basically. I really really don't see that marriage going well. Worst case scenario is a long loveless marriage between two people who won't give up.

Best case scenario is I'm totally wrong (impossible) and they live happily ever after.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 5:50 PM

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

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Originally posted by asortafairytale:
Ordinarily, yeah it would take me longer, but it only had to be 500 words. And then there's also only so much I can write about the history of robots....

Only five hundred words? That's not an essay, it's just a cheap imitation! But, the history of robots thing sounds interestign (albeit short). Did it focus at all on the A.I.s in Japan (?) Those things are cool.

Nighty-night! Don't be creepy like this guy!

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Aw, you shouldn't have!

Rules on voting here: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=22892

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Monday, January 15, 2007 11:54 PM

NICODEMUS

Despite not posting much in this thread these days, I saw this and just had to post it for all to see.

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Demolitions specialist for the 76th Independent Battalion.
From blowing open locked fridges, to destroying Alliance gun emplacements, it's all fun for me.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:42 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

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Originally posted by Mavourneen:

Husband gave me a big compliment ( I think...)
He said he's heard of MILF. I would be the first GMILF he's heard of...

Zeek? I have no idea what you can do to talk sense into your friend. The best you can do is be there for him without judgement when he realizes his error.

Here here... I wanted to say firstly, my wonderful Mavourneen, that you are way too young for anyone to think you are even remotely related (even by marriage) to the father of the mother of a baby...

Did that make sense to you?

I actually have a friend who was 36 when her husbands daughter (from his first marriage) became a mother at the age of 22, and she didn't have her own child until she was 41 - so there are those in even more strange circumstances than you - and her duaughter is younger than her auntie and two uncles...

My brain is twitching now...

Oh dear - I have missed you all!! Zeek - I totally agree with Mav - you need to say that you are there if things don't work out and then stand by that - he will be devastated when he realises that he made such an error and that all his friends were telling him he was an idiot... you need to be non-judgemental and remember that "if we are not making mistakes - we are not living..."

Hello everyone!! I'm back!!

Oh... and Qing ren?

*giggles*

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:53 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

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Originally posted by Oddsbodskins:
why turn down a wedding just because you don't like the participants? ^_~

myself i'm eagerly awaiting the next family wedding, mostly so's i can remove the idea that i'm an incorrigable drunk from the heads of every relative i have though. The last one was expensive (several hundred pounds on the room's bill at the bar...) and mortifying. So i think i'm going to have to be very sober and sensible to change opinions...

Odds!!! How are you my Jailbait??

LOL - I can see you staggering to your room to find you've already consumed the contents of the bar fridge... but several hundred pounds??? That takes dedication...

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 3:35 AM

Good Morning!!!

My faith in humanity is never as tested as the day after a Holiday. Once again, Washingtonians showed their reverence and respect for Martin Luther King Jr by buying copious amounts of overpriced Italian leather furniture. ( And 4 custom wall units!! GAH!)

I am swamped. Just taking a moment before I dive into this mound of paperwork on my desk.

I'm contemplating how quickly I could get those lagging 6 or 8 college credits, get my teaching certificate, move to Utah, and teach msg's kids fractions. Hmmmm...

Coffee injection then the furniture awaits.

I'll be back later. Hopefully. Just popped in to say hi and bye.

Magda. I've missed you in the threads!

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:06 AM

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My my, Hell's Kitten.....

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Thanks.

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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
It is my considered opinion that everyone single photo you've submitted for our viewing pleasure has been 'shopped beyond belief to hide your grotesquely huge forehead.
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*sniffle*
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It's not "grotesque."
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Originally posted by yinyang:
Aw, poor HK.
Thanks. *sniffle* He's such a brute sometimes, ya know? *weep!*
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Feel free to unleash your murderous rage on him when he gets back (assuming he isn't already).

Nah. I'm a fan of the subtle.
He'll never even see the ninja coming.
*snikker*

So, I take it that you have kissed {ass} and made up with the Blackguarrrd StringJackCheese. I see now how it is! All of our putative concupiscence but a >gasp!< SHAM!!. I knew it would come to this! I but point out a simple flaw in your elaborate deception of us all and now...now, you align yourself with your sworn enemy and pull the innocents down with you as you fall. (I bear you no ill will YinYang; you arrrre but deceived by the Temptress!

Prepare Ninja-wench! You’ve naught evarrr come across the likes of the Soul Pirate!!

All that aside, you seem to have REALLY touched a nerve with your sisters. I'd say you have a bona fide hit on your dainty, talented hands.

"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:31 AM