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Atticus_Grinch
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:42 pm Post subject: Re: crazy request
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paigowprincess wrote:
OK, now how do I paste this into an email so that the picture is in the email and that it is moving? This is a very important mission I am on. Thanks!
Get the URL from the Properties window (right click on the image; in this case you'll see "http://www.infirmation.com/file-storage/download/teabag.gif?version_id=9282"). Copy it (the URL) to the clipboard.
Make sure your e-mail program is set to send in HTML format. Choose whatever "insert image from file" option exists in your e-mail program; in Outlook using the Word e-mail editor, it's Insert -> Picture -> From File . . .. Now, instead of clicking on a file, paste the URL. The animation might not work in the preview, but it will probably work if your recipient's e-mail reader can read HTML too.
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Connect_the_Dots
Moving On Up
Joined: 12 Mar 2003
Posts: 28
Location: Here I am!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:44 pm Post subject:
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ABBAKiss wrote:
CTD talking about PLF's favorite word:
Quote:
Um, pretty?
No, you fool. TITS!!!!
No, that is your favorite word--and mine.
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spookyfish
My rank is higher than your rank.
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 85
Location: An evil parallel universe
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:45 pm Post subject: Stinky Canadian Rock Bands
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Not_Bob wrote:
(note to gwnc and str8-outa: what about Triumph?)
What about Triumph, indeed:
Sure, They're a great band. . . FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!
spooky(what about April Wine, while we're at it?)fish
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paigowprincess
Beyond Category
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 116
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:52 pm Post subject: Look at the C car go
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ThurgreedMarshall wrote:
spookyfish wrote:
ThurgreedMarshall wrote:
I love all kinds of women. All colors. Different shapes (with good ratios, of course). Skin color, eye color and hair color is 100% irrelevant to me. Give me a girl with interesting looks over a bland blonde with a vacant stare any day.
And you disprove your rule by the exception. I love all kinds of women (but I prefer interesting looking women over bland blondes). Do you mean to imply that all blondes are vacuous barbie dolls? If I didn't know better, I'd start to think you were a hater.
That would be hard since my wife is blonde.
There are bland blondes and there are interesting looking blondes. The blonde you said was hot looked like the type of blonde that is consciously trying to achieve the barbie look. Those blondes are bland to me. Hmmmm. Sounds like a good new descriptive name. Blandes. I like it.
spookyfish wrote:
Maybe you can think of it in terms of something else. This may be a bad analogy, but think of it in terms of ice cream. I like all kinds of ice cream, but I like some better than others. Given the choice between chocolate, vanilla or strawberry, I'd generally choose strawberry. I like them all, so sometimes, I'll buy Neapolitan Ice cream, so I can have some of each. Usually, the strawberry is consumed before the other flavors, but it doesn't mean I don't appreciate the others or throw the carton out once the strawberry is gone, it just means I have a preference for one flavor over another. That said, all of them are good.
Yeah. I've heard that analogy before somewhere...
Ice Cream
[Beginning]
Watch these rap niggaz get all up in your guts
French-vanilla, butter-pecan, chocolate-deluxe
Even caramel sundaes is gettin touched
And scooped in my ice cream truck, Wu tears it up
(The ice cream man is coming!)
[End]
One love to my chocolate deluxes, keep your nails done
and your wigs tight, word up
One love to my butter-pecan Ricans for calling me papi
That's for real
One love to caramel sundaes, with the cherries on top
Yeah
And big up to my french vanillas
Parlez vous, francais, mi amor, merci, oui oui, bon bons
and all that good stuff
Thurgreed(Wu Tang Clan ain't nothin' to fuck wit')Marshall
WelCome to the C Club. Congratc on your aChievement.
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ThurgreedMarshall
[Intentionally Omitted]
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 109
Location: New York fuckin' City
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: Look at the C car go
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paigowprincess wrote:
WelCome to the C Club. Congratc on your aChievement.
?
Thurgreed(the 100 post club?)Marshall
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Mister_Ruysbroeck
Piss me off and your code is gone!
Joined: 06 Mar 2003
Posts: 95
Location: The Midwest...
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: QUESTION
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ThurgreedMarshall wrote:
I know you've heard the term "tongue in cheek" before. And no, not that tongue and not that cheek.
TM
Did someone call?
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Alex_de_Large
Hi Droogie
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 70
Location: A cold, dank, dirty, scary place.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: QUESTION
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Mister_Ruysbroeck wrote:
ThurgreedMarshall wrote:
I know you've heard the term "tongue in cheek" before. And no, not that tongue and not that cheek.
TM
Did someone call?
And rimjob appears on cue...
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ltlfb
I Sure Do Post A Lot
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 49
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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robustpuppy wrote:
Pretty_Little_Flower wrote:
Rather, I propose a little quiz. If the above is even close to an accurate rendition of Miss Texas' answer, then what do we call those two statements when taken together? Come on people, this is an easy one. I'll give you a hint - everyone thinks it is my favorite word.
It's only what people think is your favorite word if Miss Texas actually considers herself a celebrity.
Alternatively, she does not consider what she said to be a political view. Frequently, people call statements they disagree with "political views" that shouldn't be aired in whatever situation, as they may offend someone. However, statements they agree with are non-offensive (to them) and thus appropriate in any situation and thus are not political views.
I hate those people. But not if they are blondes.
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ltlfb
I Sure Do Post A Lot
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 49
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:44 pm Post subject: Re: Mr Rules!
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Not_Bob wrote:
Thanks, indeed -- now I know that fringey is a guy.
A guy who is having a hell of a time finding an underwire manzier-equipped tank-style top with a high enough neckline! Damn my man-boobs!
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Not_Bob
My inner chick is in my Hermes
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Posts: 44
Location: Podunkville
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 3:03 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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ltlfb wrote:
Alternatively, she does not consider what she said to be a political view. Frequently, people call statements they disagree with "political views" that shouldn't be aired in whatever situation, as they may offend someone. However, statements they agree with are non-offensive (to them) and thus appropriate in any situation and thus are not political views.
I hate those people. But not if they are blondes.
You're a funny guy, fringey. And I now realize that this sort of cognitive dissonance is why people who spewed venom about Bill Clinton's policies and peccadilloes from January 1993 to January 2001 (and beyond) are able to get all bent out of shape by the Dixie Chick's comments about Bush as being "unpatriotic." Slams of Bill by country singers are OK; slams of Dubya are not.
It almost makes me wonder what people would say if I had a bumper sticker that said "I love my country but I fear my government" or "Sarah Brady is *my* president."
Almost, because I know what they would say: "love it or leave it, pal." Their patriotic comments of 1998 are anti-American dissent in 2003.
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robustpuppy
My rank is higher than your rank.
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 100
Location: Stockpiling Claritin
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 3:16 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Not_Bob wrote:
[Statements with which I agree.]
Notwithstanding the above, can we try to keep it light over here, Mr. Moderator? Ignorance is a downer. Back to talking about boobs other than W!
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ltlfb
I Sure Do Post A Lot
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 49
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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robustpuppy wrote:
can we try to keep it light over here? Back to talking about boobs
Post a picture, and we can discuss.
f(I'm getting in touch with my inner male)b
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Not_Bob
My inner chick is in my Hermes
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Posts: 44
Location: Podunkville
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 3:37 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Not_Bob wrote:
[blah blah blah, sanctimonious drivel, blah blah blah]
robustpuppy wrote:
... can we try to keep it light over here, Mr. Moderator? Ignorance is a downer. Back to talking about boobs other than W!
Whoops. What was I thinking? Back to FB approved topics, it is.
Since I am Not Boobed (hahahaha!), I'll move on to hockey. Alas for the hopes of the elderly everywhere, it does not appear that the highly paid yet ancient in years Rangers will make the playoffs. This is quite a disappointment to me. Meanwhile, the Lightning and the Capitals have in the past few days clinched spots in the East, and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim have done so in the West.
Speaking of this, let us pause a moment to consider the stunning fact that the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (that is their official name, btw -- it's not the Anaheim Mighty Ducks) is perhaps the only franchise in history to be named after a movie starring Emilio Estevez. It's as if MLB created an expansion baseball team in 1976 named The Bad News Bears of Washington, or Charlotte, or something.
Except it's worse because the Bad News Bears was a good movie.
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paigowprincess
Beyond Category
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 116
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: Look at the C car go
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ThurgreedMarshall wrote:
paigowprincess wrote:
WelCome to the C Club. Congratc on your aChievement.
?
Thurgreed(the 100 post club?)Marshall
Si
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Atticus_Grinch
Geeky Comic Dude
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 66
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 3:54 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Not_Bob wrote:
the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim . . . is perhaps the only franchise in history to be named after a movie starring Emilio Estevez.
Maybe so, Mr. Smartypants. But the Brown Indians of St. Bonaventure University changed their mascot to "the Bonnies" in 1979. In 1988, Emilio Estevez starred in "Young Guns" as William H. Bonney. Coincidence? I think not.
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Tyrone_Slothrop
I post, ergo I am
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 244
Location: Somewhere in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Not_Bob wrote:
Speaking of this, let us pause a moment to consider the stunning fact that the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (that is their official name, btw -- it's not the Anaheim Mighty Ducks) is perhaps the only franchise in history to be named after a movie starring Emilio Estevez.
You're forgetting the Newark Repo Men, a short-lived semipro baseball team with little other claim to fame.
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Alex_de_Large
Hi Droogie
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 70
Location: A cold, dank, dirty, scary place.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Atticus_Grinch wrote:
Maybe so, Mr. Smartypants. But the Brown Indians of St. Bonaventure University changed their mascot to "the Bonnies" in 1979. In 1988, Emilio Estevez starred in "Young Guns" as William H. Bonney. Coincidence? I think not.
When I was in college, we used to call such random and generally useless knowledge as "ass facts" (a fact pulled out of one's ass...).
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greatwhitenorthchick
I Sure Do Post A Lot
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 53
Location: somewhere underneath Owen Nolan
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Tyrone_Slothrop wrote:
Not_Bob wrote:
Speaking of this, let us pause a moment to consider the stunning fact that the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (that is their official name, btw -- it's not the Anaheim Mighty Ducks) is perhaps the only franchise in history to be named after a movie starring Emilio Estevez.
You're forgetting the Newark Repo Men, a short-lived semipro baseball team with little other claim to fame.
And the Medicine Hat St. Elmo's Fires and the Moose Jaw Stakeouts, two short-lived Cdn junior B teams that for some reason just managed to stay under the radar.
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TexLex
What's in a rank?
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 66
Location: Houston
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Atticus_Grinch wrote:
Maybe so, Mr. Smartypants. But the Brown Indians of St. Bonaventure University changed their mascot to "the Bonnies" in 1979. In 1988, Emilio Estevez starred in "Young Guns" as William H. Bonney. Coincidence? I think not.
I do not have enough room in my little brain to accomodate such information - please tell me you googled this or I will feel woefully inept at useless information storage.
BTW, a question for all - if you've had a kid, how long before you (or your wifey) told your employer about the pregnancy?
-T(yes.)L
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Not_Bob
My inner chick is in my Hermes
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Posts: 44
Location: Podunkville
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:08 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Tyrone_Slothrop wrote:
You're forgetting the Newark Repo Men, a short-lived semipro baseball team with little other claim to fame.
I should have noted that the Ducks are the only *major league* sports franchise named after an Emilio flick -- minor league and semi-pro (and college, for that matter) teams do weird stuff with names, so I am not surprised about Newark.
Now, if they had named themselves the Newark St. Elmo's Fires ...
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Not_Bob
My inner chick is in my Hermes
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Posts: 44
Location: Podunkville
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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greatwhitenorthchick wrote:
And the Medicine Hat St. Elmo's Fires and the Moose Jaw Stakeouts, two short-lived Cdn junior B teams that for some reason just managed to stay under the radar.
They should have gone with the Moose Jaw Another Stakeouts...that Rosie O'Donnell chick just cracks me up.
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Tyrone_Slothrop
I post, ergo I am
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 244
Location: Somewhere in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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TexLex wrote:
Atticus_Grinch wrote:
Maybe so, Mr. Smartypants. But the Brown Indians of St. Bonaventure University changed their mascot to "the Bonnies" in 1979. In 1988, Emilio Estevez starred in "Young Guns" as William H. Bonney. Coincidence? I think not.
I do not have enough room in my little brain to accomodate such information - please tell me you googled this or I will feel woefully inept at useless information storage.
BTW, a question for all - if you've had a kid, how long before you (or your wifey) told your employer about the pregnancy?
-T(yes.)L
Wait until the end of the first trimester, when the risk of a miscarriage drops markedly. That's something you would only want to share with a few people. (Didn't know what to say when a partner told me about his wife's miscarriage.) And congratulations! Now you can start frequenting the LWK board.
T. (hope Not_Bob was taking me no more seriously than gwinky was) S.
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Atticus_Grinch
Geeky Comic Dude
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 66
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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TexLex wrote:
please tell me you googled this or I will feel woefully inept at useless information storage.
No Google, technically. The St. Bonaventure name change was the subject of an e-mail exchange with a friend, because St. John's had changed their mascot from the "Redmen" around the same time . . . it's a long story. And I remembered Estevez played Billy the Kid, but had to IMDB for the movie's release year.
TexLex wrote:
BTW, a question for all - if you've had a kid, how long before you (or your wifey) told your employer about the pregnancy?
Congratulations! My advice: Don't tell anyone for the first two months. Smile sweetly and claim a headache as you turn down every glass of wine. At two months, tell your parents only, so they'll feel very special. At three months, tell all your closest non-work friends, but tell them it's a secret. At four months, tell absolutely everyone, including your employer. Don't do this in phases because you'll wind up offending people (including your supervising partner) when they inevitably find out that someone found out before they did.
Unsolicited advice: Don't find out the sex of your child. The surprise you'll feel on the day of birth will strongly connect you with one of the only experiences in the birthing process that has remained unchanged over the entire course of human evolution. Don't throw that away lightly. Even if you do find out the sex --- and I cannot stress this strongly enough --- tell no one what names you're considering. Tell them you haven't decided yet, even if this is a lie. Everyone thinks they have a vote in this, and they will ruin any name you or your baby might have loved if you had kept your mouth shut.
A(not a fan of modern birth's penchant for anticlimaxes)G
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Tyrone_Slothrop
I post, ergo I am
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 244
Location: Somewhere in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:28 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Atticus_Grinch wrote:
Unsolicited advice: ....
A marvelous part of the whole experience is the way everyone starts giving you unsolicited advice. AG is just trying to warm you up to it.
Atticus_Grinch wrote:
.... Don't find out the sex of your child.
Slothrop, J., concurs.
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Not_Bob
My inner chick is in my Hermes
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Posts: 44
Location: Podunkville
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:33 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Tyrone_Slothrop wrote:
hope Not_Bob was taking me no more seriously than gwinky was
No, sadly I am a gullible fellow. A good trait for a litigator, no?
TexLex wrote:
BTW, a question for all - if you've had a kid, how long before you (or your wifey) told your employer about the pregnancy?
Congrats! As for advice, I'd echo those who suggest that you wait until you get past that first trimester. And you should consider the name "Emilio Estevez Lex" for your son or daughter.
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tmdiva
I Sure Do Post A Lot
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 36
Location: Stumptown, USA
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:34 pm Post subject:
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TexLex, I think it will be great if you can wait to tell work folks until you're showing. I didn't have that luxury--I was too nauseated to function normally and ended up having to 'fess up to explain my chronic inability to make it into the office before 11.
I totally disagree on the finding out the sex thing. I loved knowing (it was strange to think of creating something male inside my own body, though) and giving him a gendered gestational name (not one we would have considered actually using). My view is that there are plenty of other surprises, like coloring and personality, and knowing the sex ahead of time in no way detracted from the wonder and thrill.
Congratulations!
tm
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dtb
I Sure Do Post A Lot
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 42
Location: TCOTU
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Atticus_Grinch wrote:
Unsolicited advice: Don't find out the sex of your child. The surprise you'll feel on the day of birth will strongly connect you with one of the only experiences in the birthing process that has remained unchanged over the entire course of human evolution. Don't throw that away lightly.
Even if you do find out the sex --- and I cannot stress this strongly enough --- tell no one what names you're considering. Tell them you haven't decided yet, even if this is a lie. Everyone thinks they have a vote in this, and they will ruin any name you or your baby might have loved if you had kept your mouth shut.
A(not a fan of modern birth's penchant for anticlimaxes)G
I have to disagree. It's not like you're "not surprised" the day you find out -- it's just a few months earlier! I don't understand why this always degenerates into such a polarizing issue -- the "you MUST find out" vs. the "you MAY NOT find out -- otherwise you're depriving yourself of your evolutionary history". Puh-leeze.
If this isn't the first baby, knowing the sex could make the baby more of a "person" to the existing sibling(s), which you may think is a good thing.
Do whatever you want -- there's no "right" or "wrong" answer. I don't understand why people get so worked up about it.
Now as for the advice about the name -- I could not agree more. Keep it to yourself. No one would dare say anything about the name you've chosen once it's on the birth certificate (well, maybe some rude person might...), but it's true what Atticus says -- for some reason, everyone thinks they have a say in the matter. Just don't tell anyone.
Oh -- and congratulations!!
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greatwhitenorthchick
I Sure Do Post A Lot
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 53
Location: somewhere underneath Owen Nolan
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Atticus_Grinch wrote:
Unsolicited advice: Don't find out the sex of your child. The surprise you'll feel on the day of birth will strongly connect you with one of the only experiences in the birthing process that has remained unchanged over the entire course of human evolution.
A(not a fan of modern birth's penchant for anticlimaxes)G
Atticus - I like your posts very much these days. I no longer retch. In fact, I read them with glee. But I wonder if you are the type of person who tends to take things a little seriously. I would want to find out my baby's sex to think of all the fun girl or boy clothes I would make for them. And I would like to be heavily drugged during the birthing experience - screw the ancient birthing process connections.
gwn(I say all this as one who thinks she is pregnant as well. But I won't know for sure for a few days. So if I am, fingers crossed everybody please, that my decrepit body does not miscarry this one as well. Many thanks)c
Edited to fix quote code. E/O
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MangoLassi
What's in a rank?
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 64
Location: Imperial Rome
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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TexLex wrote:
BTW, a question for all - if you've had a kid, how long before you (or your wifey) told your employer about the pregnancy?
-T(yes.)L
Congratulations!!
I agree with all the advice about waiting till after the first trimester. But after that, do find out about maternity benefits & ways to maximize your time off work. If it were me, I'd wait till I was virtually in labor to take off work, then use all my time off to be with the li'l squidget.
Edited to fix code. E/O
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TexLex
What's in a rank?
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 66
Location: Houston
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: Vocabulary quiz.
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Tyrone_Slothrop wrote:
Wait until the end of the first trimester, when the risk of a miscarriage drops markedly. That's something you would only want to share with a few people. (Didn't know what to say when a partner told me about his wife's miscarriage.) And congratulations! Now you can start frequenting the LWK board.
I have big fat mouth, so my girlfriends that were close enough to know this might happen soon already know. (Long story short, this kid has been a long time in the making). My parents will find out this weekend, but be on strict orders to keep it to themselves. Mr. Lex' dad will find out when he gets a graduation announcement from the kid because no one wants to talk to him.
Atticus_Grinch wrote:
Congratulations! My advice: Don't tell anyone for the first two months. Smile sweetly and claim a headache as you turn down every glass of wine. At two months, tell your parents only, so they'll feel very special. At three months, tell all your closest non-work friends, but tell them it's a secret. At four months, tell absolutely everyone, including your employer. Don't do this in phases because you'll wind up offending people (including your supervising partner) when they inevitably find out that someone found out before they did.
Unsolicited advice: Don't find out the sex of your child. The surprise you'll feel on the day of birth will strongly connect you with one of the only experiences in the birthing process that has remained unchanged over the entire course of human evolution. Don't throw that away lightly. Even if you do find out the sex --- and I cannot stress this strongly enough --- tell no one what names you're considering. Tell them you haven't decided yet, even if this is a lie. Everyone thinks they have a vote in this, and they will ruin any name you or your baby might have loved if you had kept your mouth shut.
Everyone knows I can't drink anyway, so that's not an issue. I agree with the not finding out the sex bit - not sure Mr. Lex will agree. If we do find out, I would prefer to keep it to ourselves. I wholly agree with the name thing - I have seen potential names go down the toilet due to comments. (OTOH, I have seen many babies saved from hideous names in the same way, but of course I have perfect taste in babies names and will not force my child to carry around such an embarrasing name). When my SIL announced the name of her (just born) baby, my other (bitch) SIL responded, "You're not really going to call him that, right?"
Thanks for the advice,
-TL
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