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Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-01-2009 05:05 PM
Re: Can I say how tired I am of the flu?
 
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 402086)
How many are Bears fans fighting each other?
That's mostly what it is, as far as I can tell.

Cletus Miller 10-01-2009 05:07 PM
Re: Can I say how tired I am of the flu?
 
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 402086)
How many are Bears fans fighting each other?
Virtually all--One City, One Team, as they are telling us this year.

The same game Coltrane went to, after the game an Bear fan (and off-duty fireman) attacked a cop, who he may or may not have known.

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand 10-01-2009 05:07 PM
Re: Can I say how tired I am of the flu?
 
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 402086)
How many are Bears fans fighting each other?
Most of them, actually.

Tomorrow could be the beginning of the most Zubaz (tm) -tastic Olympics ever.

Adder 10-01-2009 05:10 PM
Re: Can I say how tired I am of the flu?
 
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Originally Posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand (Post 402090)
Most of them, actually.

Tomorrow could be the beginning of the most Zubaz (tm) -tastic Olympics ever.
Could you ask your Zubaz wearing friends to go out and root for the Sox for the next three days please?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 10-01-2009 05:11 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 402087)
Aren't you a toff? Because e/o sounds like new money trying to be old money. Wouldn't work.
You have it exactly backwards. She's full of class and cachet, while I'm just a rhinestone in the rough, a simple country lawyer.

Flinty_McFlint 10-01-2009 05:11 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 402087)
Aren't you a toff? Because e/o sounds like new money trying to be old money. Wouldn't work.
Does that mean GGG would have better luck whispering in a different orifice? I'm not hip to all these cultural dances--I'm only an honorary white person.

taxwonk 10-01-2009 05:12 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 402033)
Huh. There seem to be a LOT of kids at Texans games. My dad even remarked on it when we were leaving last week and we watched some father carrying his sleeping daughter off. I pointed out that he used to take me to Oilers games when I was a kid, and he said that he never took a kid who couldn't make it through the whole game and walk on their own two feet out of the stadium.

A family of five sat behind us last week. The non-infant kids got bored pretty early and kept on asking when they could go. The dad pointed out the game clock and told them that they only had however minutes left. I suspect his wife was happy that the last Texans touchdown was flagged away and then fumbled away, because it could have easily otherwise gone into overtime.

I couldn't want to take kids to a pro-football game mainly because it's pricey, and they don't get much out of it. The seventy bucks plus concessions is better spent on a babysitter.
Princess never cared about footbal until she was in HS and friends with a quarterback. She was perfectly happy with HS games and is now a bigger fan of college ball than pro.

Monster likes the HS games, too. He asked about a pro game one time and I told him how much it would cost and asked if he wanted to spend the money on that or something else. We wound up going out for sushi after a trip to the zoo.

dtb 10-01-2009 05:13 PM
Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
How many of you wrote and read your own vows? I think I'm way too shy or private or reserved or something not to feel like a complete idiot declaring my unscripted vows in front of other people (not to my beloved, of course, just in front of others).

So... just how weird does that make me? Please compare me only to all you freaks as a group, not the general population.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-01-2009 05:17 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by taxwonk (Post 402094)
We wound up going out for sushi after a trip to the zoo.
Uh oh.

Cletus Miller 10-01-2009 05:18 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402095)
How many of you wrote and read your own vows? I think I'm way too shy or private or reserved or something not to feel like a complete idiot declaring my unscripted vows in front of other people (not to my beloved, of course, just in front of others).

So... just how weird does that make me? Please compare me only to all you freaks as a group, not the general population.
we were *not* original, for basically the same reason.

Flinty_McFlint 10-01-2009 05:18 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402095)
How many of you wrote and read your own vows? I think I'm way too shy or private or reserved or something not to feel like a complete idiot declaring my unscripted vows in front of other people (not to my beloved, of course, just in front of others).

So... just how weird does that make me? Please compare me only to all you freaks as a group, not the general population.
Jeez, rich white lady like you should just hire somebody to do it for you.

I would have wrote and read my own vows, but that would have required me to take the beer hat tubes out of my mouth.

Sidd Finch 10-01-2009 05:26 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402095)
How many of you wrote and read your own vows? I think I'm way too shy or private or reserved or something not to feel like a complete idiot declaring my unscripted vows in front of other people (not to my beloved, of course, just in front of others).

So... just how weird does that make me? Please compare me only to all you freaks as a group, not the general population.
We took vows suggested by our minister, and revised them to better suit us.

Do what you're comfortable and happy with. Don't worry about feeling weird.

Plus, I thought no one was going to be there anyway.... and anyone who cared would probably care more about the knocked-up bride.

Atticus Grinch 10-01-2009 05:29 PM
Re: Spanky Beware
 
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Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 402083)
I was compelled to look it up:
I was being imprecise in saying "stat rape laws." Other laws make it illegal for "any person" to perform various sex acts on a person under 18, with penalty enhancements if the offender is over a certain age. See, e.g., Cal. Penal Code sections 286; 288a(b); 289(h). Non-consent is not an element of the offense.

Interesting, though, that my dry-humping 17-year-olds are able to slip through the cracks, as it were, so long as there is no penetration anywhere.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-01-2009 05:30 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by sidd finch (Post 402099)
we took vows suggested by our minister, and revised them to better suit us.
2.

dtb 10-01-2009 05:30 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 402099)
We took vows suggested by our minister, and revised them to better suit us.

Do what you're comfortable and happy with. Don't worry about feeling weird.

Plus, I thought no one was going to be there anyway.... and anyone who cared would probably care more about the knocked-up bride.
Yeah. I'd rather go with the scripted version. Not many people will be there, but I'm even embarrassed to expose such personal sentiments in front of the officiant! I know. I'm strange.

I'm not sure why I'm so squeamish about being the knocked-up bride. It wouldn't even register with me if I were an attendee at a shotgun wedding, but being one of the parties in the shotgun wedding makes me a little, um... embarrassed? (I probably shouldn't admit that.)

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand 10-01-2009 05:31 PM
Re: Can I say how tired I am of the flu?
 
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 402091)
Could you ask your Zubaz wearing friends to go out and root for the Sox for the next three days please?
Sure but as of noon tomorrow they all might be in the Olympics construction contracts bribery line.

taxwonk 10-01-2009 05:33 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402060)
I guess I was surprised at the uniformity of scorn heaped upon South Carolina. If I had written such a letter, I would have used Alabama or Mississippi.
Have you ever been to South Carolina? Hilton Head doesn't count,

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-01-2009 05:33 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402102)
Yeah. I'd rather go with the scripted version. Not many people will be there, but I'm even embarrassed to expose such personal sentiments in front of the officiant! I know. I'm strange.

I'm not sure why I'm so squeamish about being the knocked-up bride. It wouldn't even register with me if I were an attendee at a shotgun wedding, but being one of the parties in the shotgun wedding makes me a little, um... embarrassed? (I probably shouldn't admit that.)

Congrats!

This is going to kill your running career.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 10-01-2009 05:35 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402095)
How many of you wrote and read your own vows? I think I'm way too shy or private or reserved or something not to feel like a complete idiot declaring my unscripted vows in front of other people (not to my beloved, of course, just in front of others).

So... just how weird does that make me? Please compare me only to all you freaks as a group, not the general population.
Wow, did you really just invite this crowd to help you write your vows?

I just hope Flower's not around. Anyone got popcorn?

taxwonk 10-01-2009 05:36 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 402070)
When I picture Atticus, and then I picture him asking a woman to send him a pair of her panties, my head starts to hurt.
It's just like when sorority sisters borrow each others' clothes. Does that help?

ThurgreedMarshall 10-01-2009 05:36 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 401992)
if you go with kids, pro football is a minefield of drunken trouble. but baseball and basketball and college football are all cool.
Tailgating (the 3 times I've done it) is fun. But I would much rather watch a football game on tv. I want all the angles and I want all the replays. And it's so much warmer curled up in the princess bed.

I once went to an FSU (when they were #1), Virginia game in Virgina (I think they were ranked 20-something) and sat on a hill behind one of the end zones. Anyway, UVA was up* by more than 3 with a minute left and FSU had driven close to the goal on the other side of the field. UVA had a brilliant goal line stand and on the last play, they stuffed FSU and the game was over. We couldn't see a fucking thing, but everyone ran onto the field before the play was even over anyway and started celebrating. Great game to go to, but I would have liked to have seen the stop, which was supposedly like an inch away from being a touchdown.

Basketball games with halfway decent seats are fun. It is amazing to see those fucking guys move up close. They are freaks. I love baseball games in nice weather. And hockey is just as boring in real life as it is on tv. Two breaks? What sense does that make?

TM

*Tiki Barber had like 1,000 yards rushing and Ronde Barber had at least one pick, I think.

Atticus Grinch 10-01-2009 05:37 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402095)
How many of you wrote and read your own vows? I think I'm way too shy or private or reserved or something not to feel like a complete idiot declaring my unscripted vows in front of other people (not to my beloved, of course, just in front of others).

So... just how weird does that make me? Please compare me only to all you freaks as a group, not the general population.
We used the vows from the Book of Common Prayer (the ones you always hear on soap operas, i.e. "in sickness and in health"). We did so because neither of us had ever been to a wedding where the vows given surpassed the old-fashioned BCP vows in eloquence or sentiment, or the simple power of a person saying "I do." And we still haven't.

I assume you would prefer versions with fewer references to Jesus, but I fully support the idea of people giving the same vows other people give, and the acknowlegment that love poetry is not easily composed by amateurs whose only qualification is that they are presently under the influence of love.

dtb 10-01-2009 05:38 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 402106)
Wow, did you really just invite this crowd to help you write your vows?

I just hope Flower's not around. Anyone got popcorn?
Um... no. I didn't ask for help writing vows, I was just taking the group's temperature on how bizarre it is for me not to want to read my own vows.

It's not the writing that's hard, it's the reading it in front of other people! Eek!

And Coltrane -- my running is so pathetic right now. But my PRs are all post-children. So... here's hoping!

My husband-to-be is a devoted runner. In his first marathon, with no marathon-specific training, he finished in 3:09. Hey -- these vows could write themselves!

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 10-01-2009 05:41 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402110)
Um... no. I didn't ask for help writing vows, I was just taking the group's temperature on how bizarre it is for me not to want to read my own vows.

It's not the writing that's hard, it's the reading it in front of other people! Eek!

And Coltrane -- my running is so pathetic right now. But my PRs are all post-children. So... here's hoping!

My husband-to-be is a devoted runner. In his first marathon, with no marathon-specific training, he finished in 3:09. Hey -- these vows could write themselves!
Just make sure when you do the "honor" thing in those vows you remember the exception for internet boyfriends. And girlfriends. That's key.

dtb 10-01-2009 05:42 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 402109)
We used the vows from the Book of Common Prayer (the ones you always hear on soap operas, i.e. "in sickness and in health"). We did so because neither of us had ever been to a wedding where the vows given surpassed the old-fashioned BCP vows in eloquence or sentiment, or the simple power of a person saying "I do." And we still haven't.

I assume you would prefer versions with fewer references to Jesus, but I fully support the idea of people giving the same vows other people give, and the acknowlegment that love poetry is not easily composed by amateurs whose only qualification is that they are presently under the influence of love.
Too right.

I can't improve upon what's there. And yes, we will just delete the references to Jesus. Except that's my new husband's name.




(kidding)

Gattigap 10-01-2009 05:43 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 402108)
Tailgating (the 3 times I've done it) is fun.
College tailgating is great, in part because it's amusing to see the investments that alumni put into it.

At UGA, there's almost zero meaningful parking next to the stadium, which is in the center of campus. The more enthusiastic alumni would simply pull up in the RV and camp out on the lawn of the English building.

On Wednesday.

At USC (South Carolina), there are train tracks that go right by the stadium. So the well-heeled can rent a fully-outfitted train car for your party. Pull up, eat, booze, walk over to the stadium, walk back, eat, booze, let train pull you away. Might be the only impressive thing in all of Columbia.

Pretty Little Flower 10-01-2009 05:45 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 402106)
Wow, did you really just invite this crowd to help you write your vows?

I just hope Flower's not around. Anyone got popcorn?
I am here and have already prepared draft vows. Well, they are not traditional vows, really. In fact, I am not sure I would even characterize them as vows. They are more along the lines of a choral tribute to me. I assume you are going to have a choir? I could rewrite it for a solo perfomer, but I think a lot of the beauty is in the call-and-response sections. But, you know, it's your wedding and all . . .

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-01-2009 05:46 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402110)

My husband-to-be is a devoted runner. In his first marathon, with no marathon-specific training, he finished in 3:09. Hey -- these vows could write themselves!
Fucker. I went 3:11.

Pretty Little Flower 10-01-2009 05:47 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402110)
Um... no. I didn't ask for help writing vows, I was just taking the group's temperature on how bizarre it is for me not to want to read my own vows.

It's not the writing that's hard, it's the reading it in front of other people! Eek!

And Coltrane -- my running is so pathetic right now. But my PRs are all post-children. So... here's hoping!

My husband-to-be is a devoted runner. In his first marathon, with no marathon-specific training, he finished in 3:09. Hey -- these vows could write themselves!
Oh great, now you tell me. I am willing to drop in a reference to your husband-to-be's running prowess if you want.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 10-01-2009 05:51 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 402115)
Fucker. I went 3:11.
Love is a marathon.

greatwhitenorthchick 10-01-2009 05:52 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 402109)
the old-fashioned BCP vows
I always read "BCP" as birth control pill.

Which made me initially think that those must have been some interesting vows.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 10-01-2009 05:54 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 401977)
I wore my Jim McMahon jersey in 5th grade when we won the talent show for doing the Super Bowl Shuffle.
What did your headband say?

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 10-01-2009 05:55 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 401963)
I've worn a baseball jersey to a Yankee game.

TM
It doesn't top Coltrane, but I'm still trying to figure out what douche wears a Yankees jersey to a Red Sox-O's game, as I saw a couple weeks ago. Why are you even there?

dtb 10-01-2009 05:57 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 402111)
Just make sure when you do the "honor" thing in those vows you remember the exception for internet boyfriends. And girlfriends. That's key.

You mean so that we don't need to honor internet boyfriends and girlfriends? That does seem key.

It's a good thing there's a fellow bumpkin like you to remind me of these things.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 10-01-2009 06:00 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 402055)
Per game at Soldier Field.
Per tailgate at Gillette Stadium.

dtb 10-01-2009 06:03 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 402116)
Oh great, now you tell me. I am willing to drop in a reference to your husband-to-be's running prowess if you want.
Super -- maybe you can make it the descant after the choral call-and-response. But of course, you are the maestro. I leave it to you.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-01-2009 06:12 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 402120)
It doesn't top Coltrane, but I'm still trying to figure out what douche wears a Yankees jersey to a Red Sox-O's game, as I saw a couple weeks ago. Why are you even there?
Are you calling little 10-year old Coltrane a douche? I don't know how to take that.

We won the talent show. I was a winner. I was the quarterback for the winners. You can't take that from me.

Incidentally, the judges were not as kind to my You Can't Do That On Television skit the year after.

Replaced_Texan 10-01-2009 06:13 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 402102)
Yeah. I'd rather go with the scripted version. Not many people will be there, but I'm even embarrassed to expose such personal sentiments in front of the officiant! I know. I'm strange.

I'm not sure why I'm so squeamish about being the knocked-up bride. It wouldn't even register with me if I were an attendee at a shotgun wedding, but being one of the parties in the shotgun wedding makes me a little, um... embarrassed? (I probably shouldn't admit that.)
I've never done it before, so I don't know how I'd be, but I can almost never hear the vows because the bride and groom are so scared they can barely talk. I imagine were I to do it, I'd just stare at him and try to forget that everyone else is there.

Of course, my boyfriend really liked the approach in Rachel Getting Married. "Do you?" "Yes" "Do you?" "Yes." "You may now kiss the bride." There actually was very little about the wedding from that movie that we didn't like.

I don't recommend it for a bride-to-be. Too much drama that doesnt' need to be attracted. Sort of like how shortly after I watched The Money Pit for the first time since becoming a home-owner, I had to replace a sewer line, an air conditioning unit, and will soon need a new roof.

Atticus Grinch 10-01-2009 06:14 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 402108)
I once went to an FSU (when they were #1), Virginia game in Virgina (I think they were ranked 20-something) and sat on a hill behind one of the end zones. Anyway, UVA was up* by more than 3 with a minute left and FSU had driven close to the goal on the other side of the field. UVA had a brilliant goal line stand and on the last play, they stuffed FSU and the game was over. We couldn't see a fucking thing, but everyone ran onto the field before the play was even over anyway and started celebrating. Great game to go to, but I would have liked to have seen the stop, which was supposedly like an inch away from being a touchdown.
Holy shit, you were at that game? That is my people's Battle of Thermopylae, only against a much more evil enemy.

Tyrone Slothrop 10-01-2009 06:17 PM
Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 402126)
Holy shit, you were at that game? That is my people's Battle of Thermopylae, only against a much more evil enemy.
And with a much happier ending.


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