Abba wins
 

Gratz Abba on 5k. Carry on.

LOTR
 

My guess was that when he put it on, no one noticed he was in the room.

TM

LOTR
 

Good one. His point (which, I recognize, is not obvious from my not-very-articulate re-enactment of the hilarity that was my conversation with colleagues) was that his wife was able to control him while he was wearing the ring.

Uh, you probably knew that, didn't you?

LOTR
 

(For anyone who hasn't seen the movies yet or read the books. Both of you.)

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Well at least the guy was decent enough to leave out the
"Dark Lord/Lidless eye always watching/I'd soon as have some creature chew my finger off to get rid of it" part out...

lies
 

Flat denial. Wasn't me. (And that is so much older than that stupid fucking song OR the Eddie Murphy bit.)

Untrue. If you construct it well, you won't have to remember because it won't be of note. Just another drunken night out with your friends that melts into all the others. Who can keep track?

TM

Book Club
 

I meant to do this the day I got back from vacation, but, alas, I was buried under piles of CRAP in my office.

So, anyway, to whomever recommended "The God of Small Things" -- I would like to say THANK YOU!! I loved, loved, loved it. (The Booker Prize is pretty reliable, in my view, but I really loved this book.)

I read about 7 books over vacation, and left them all there (who wants to schlep back a book I'm never going to read again?) -- except that one. In fact, I started re-reading it on the plane home.

Sorry I can't remember who it was, but THANKS!

The Mole
 

I don't think watching for clues as to who the mole is means much until the end. It's probably all a crap shoot for the first few episodes anyway.

And Everhart better stay for awhile. I actually think she's the mole. Her or Baldwin.

TM

LOTR -- SPOILER
 

Heh heh... Yeah -- he's a helluva guy! He's very nice, and about as wide as he is tall. He has a great personality, though (no, really!).

The Mole
 

Yeah, she's got to be the mole. Bernsen and Baldwin are too obvious - it can't be them. Everyone has already suspected them. Too easy. I was surprised that Keisha took her clothes off.
And Tracy Gold - I don't see her lasting much longer either - she's not much of a ratings draw - with or without clothing.

ETA I'm shocked. I just looked at the profiles and Rodman has 4 kids?!? Hmm, I must not have been paying attention. And his strategy is to play dumb. That's working as he's looking pretty clueless.
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Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
 

Hearing TM's example made me wonder how many people here would/have actually lied to their SO* about something like that (much less concoct an elaborate plan to do so, along with accomplices)... And if you would/have done so, why?

I have a (weird?) thing about lying to or being lied to by my SO. If I ever found out he did something like this, I would rage. Seriously. If something is not innocent enough for you to tell your SO where you are going, why do it? If you think that your SO would not condone your behavior either because s/he would be irrational or because s/he had reason not to condone it, isn't it important to communicate about that stuff?

Anyone?



*I apologize upfront for overuse of this term in the following post - no better way to convey serious committed relationship here

The Mole
 

Haven't you watched any of the other (non-celebrity) moles? They usually pick a boring person who flies under everyone's radar to be the mole, so Gold would be perfect.

TM

The Mole
 

Hasn't it always been a woman in the past? Celebrity and non?

The Mole
 

No, on Mole 2 it was a male fat. An old white guy named Richard, maybe? I remember he was a sailor or something. One of his most mole-ish acts was pretending he couldn't tread water for very long with a few pounds of weights on him.

Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
 

I'll field this one since all the other liars out there will just lie to you about ever doing something like this.

Meeting with an ex is inherently dangerous. I don't care on what terms you split or how good and platonic your friendship now is. You once fucked them and found them very attractive. It is highly likely that you will find them attractive again. This is how every SO in the world thinks about exes. Everyone who says otherwise is completely full of shit.

So, why go? Because you think you won't find them attractive enough to act on it and you enjoy their company even though it didn't work out with them. You have convinced yourself that you are mature enough to have an adult conversation with them without jumping their bones, etc.

It's not necessarily that you have evil plans that your SO need not know about. It's more like "Why not just save myself the headache of the drawn-out conversation over someone who matters enough to only rate a drink every year or so?" And before you say, "But you've created more work with the lie than the conversation would be," I'll have to say: Wrong. Because you will have the conversation then. You will have the conversation another half-dozen times too. And if you don't actually have that conversation over and over, the SO is going over it in their head on their own at least as many times.

TM

Holy Moley
 

To the dismay of some, yes.