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We're not "dialoguing" about something. It's not a fucking verb.
"I do not equate my oppression with the oppression of blacks and Latinos. You can't. It is not the same struggle, but it is one struggle." Bob Kohler
by dedmonds on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 08:52:13 PM PDT
We're retiring Steve LaTourette (R-Family Values for You But Not for Me) and sending Judge Bill O'Neill to Congress from Ohio-14: http://www.oneill08.com/
by anastasia p on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 08:58:59 PM PDT
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As the father of young kids, I really like that one.
I'm sick of reading stuff about "parenting."
Besides, my kids throw their mac-n-cheese at me if I told them they were "childing."
JOHN McCAIN = George W. Bush's 3rd term.
by chumley on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:18:51 PM PDT
by nu on Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 04:32:49 AM PDT
falls in the same category. "Partnering". Yeesh.
a new musical instrument
by ubertar on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:06:53 PM PDT
I usually don't like "partner" as a noun either, unless you're speaking, strictly, about a business arrangement.
I'm gay, and my boyfriend is my boyfriend. When/if we get married, he'll be my husband. We don't own a business together, so we're not partners. And since we're not doing 1970s porn, I prefer not to refer to him as my "lover," either (at least not in polite company).
No more Republican rule.
by HarveyMilk on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:23:13 PM PDT
He hates the word partner. After a while 'boyfriend' got stale (it sounds a little too... 'we just met two months ago'). I switched to 'better half', he kept with 'boyfriend.' We've temporarily solved the problem by upgrading to 'fiancé'.
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce
by pico on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:25:46 PM PDT
by HarveyMilk on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:11 PM PDT
by pico on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:29:01 PM PDT
yay!
It is never too late to be what you might have been [especially now] George Eliot
by begone on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:30:42 PM PDT
It's up to them to figure out what to make of it!
by badgerbrat on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:42:48 PM PDT
by pico on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:43:31 PM PDT
POSSLQ come from Census meaning "persons of opposite sex sharing living quarters." I always thought it had a certain je ne sais quoi.
Your message here. Email for summer rates.
by RudiB on Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 12:16:12 AM PDT
How have you been? (I've been not-blogging very much lately, so I haven't had the chance to say hello.)
by pico on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:43:07 PM PDT
due to foreseen circumstances (seems fresher than "unforeseen") usually when 95% of folks are beddy-bye.
Even missing your series. :-(
by begone on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:45:35 PM PDT
Neck-deep in job applications for the next week. I'll try to post something this Tuesday - I already feel really bad missing this past week's.
by pico on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:48:16 PM PDT
your diaries, which I have, for way too long.
by begone on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:50:38 PM PDT
"It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." Oscar Wilde, 1891
by MichiganGirl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:35:31 PM PDT
Now if only Michigan hadn't passed Prop 2 (grr...)
by pico on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:41:29 PM PDT
That STILL pisses me off! Why the hell do they care?
I can tell you that my marriage isn't the least bit threated by your pending marriage.
I will never understand that kind of irrational hatred.
by MichiganGirl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:52:08 PM PDT
Outta here, I don't deal well with sites that condone racism.
by fabooj on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:37:55 PM PDT
No idea what it means in any practical way, but we'll do something or other, legal or not!
by pico on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:42:02 PM PDT
We've temporarily solved the problem by upgrading to 'fiancé'.
Hooray!
by chumley on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:39:46 PM PDT
by pico on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:42:24 PM PDT
My wife and I never liked the word fiance/e. We just used boyfriend/girlfriend up until the wedding. It just sounds kind of pretentious. It's the French thing, I guess. Speaking of French, it's funny how Brits refuse to pronounce French words or words of French origin correctly. I recently heard a British woman ask for her fish to be filleted, with a hard "t". A friend who got his philosophy degree in England pronounces Camus as "CAY-muss" and Descartes as "DESS-car-tees". Makes it hard to take him seriously.
by ubertar on Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 07:40:54 AM PDT
"Lover" is totally a 70's porn word!
Honestly, who really says "lover?"
It makes me think of the creepy old people that my husband and I used to live next to... This couple was in their 80's and would ALWAYS refer to each other as "my lover" this and "my lover" that... Just EEEWWWW.
For the rest of my life, the word "lover" will make me think of old people sex.
by MichiganGirl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:28:56 PM PDT
Now I will forever have the same association.
Thanks a lot, M.G. ;)
by chumley on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:34:38 PM PDT
I turned 30 years old 38 minutes ago and I was feeling a little miserable.
I'm feeling much better now that I know someone else's day is ruined too. :-)
by MichiganGirl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:39:54 PM PDT
Look at it this way, you've achieved closure on your 20s! (Some mathemeticians would argue that you are in your final year of your 20s, but they are wrong.)
by HarveyMilk on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:42:58 PM PDT
You're a youngster, M.G..
Happy birthday, though!
Have a great time today. With your... lover. (Heh!)
by chumley on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:44:11 PM PDT
"lover" when we're ancient, just to gross out young people.
by MichiganGirl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:55:35 PM PDT
Hey, you had to endure the grossness.
Damned "sexy seniors."
by chumley on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:58:04 PM PDT
so everyone has to see my saggy old lady cleavage, just because I had to see my Aunt Rose's saggy old lady cleavage.
I'm all about sharing.
by MichiganGirl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:03:06 PM PDT
I won't sleep well tonight.
by chumley on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:04:56 PM PDT
...(and in their late '60s) refer to themselves (in select company) as "f***-buddies."
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. -- Mark Twain
by Meteor Blades on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:08:16 PM PDT
That is so much more disgusting than "lovers."
by MichiganGirl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:10:47 PM PDT
While it might be more profane, I think it's way less vulgar.
by HarveyMilk on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:14:38 PM PDT
than "lovers" does... and when those thoughts are about senior citizens you really want don't want them to be quite that filthy.
by MichiganGirl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:25:33 PM PDT
...in the superannuated cohort disgusting? Are you thinking about your parents? You'll be a senior someday if you're lucky, and, with even more luck, will keep thinking those filthy thoughts and acting upon them.
by Meteor Blades on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:37:02 PM PDT
When I think of elderly people, I think of my grandparents, and I don't like to think of my grandparents having sex.
It's not that I think people should stop having sex when they get old... I just don't want to know about it. Actually, I don't want to know about anyone else's sex life.
I'm a prude.
by MichiganGirl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 11:02:28 PM PDT
I should change my introduction to "this is my greedy bottom, Dan" especially when I introduce him at business functions. :)
by HarveyMilk on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:17:39 PM PDT
doesn't mind you revealing that to the 10,000+ people who are here. Just sayin'. :)
by ubertar on Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 07:34:00 AM PDT
And, yes, you are quite young. Tomorrow is the youngest day of the rest of your life. ;-)
by begone on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:52:26 PM PDT
than to be old and not be having it.
Just sayin'
(Whoops! There's another one-- just sayin' )
by begone on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:39:36 PM PDT
"Longtime Companion" either. ;)
(Which could, of course, apply to your husband, or a faithful Golden Lab.)
by chumley on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:38:18 PM PDT
Lady friend.
Yuck. Reminds me of divorced dads. Mainly because that's what my divorced dad would call his chicklets. It's so "I don't want you to think we're having sex, because we're not, but I'm kinda hoping you think we are."
by fabooj on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:39:44 PM PDT
...usage, but you know who started it? Shakespeare.
by Meteor Blades on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:06:23 PM PDT
but that doesn't mean I want people talking like him!
by dedmonds on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:17:51 PM PDT
wide narrow
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