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Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: ksen; RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed
Well, my mother has called me a lot of things, but today she called me a
PARTY-POOPER!! Can you believe it? A party-pooper. Me???
See, my cousin is having a party and we're supposed to write down something funny we remember about this particular cousin and someone else is going to read them to her. Well, for one thing, I can't think of anything funny. So I get this email from my mom telling me where to email my funny story and since I can't think of anything, I ignored it. So today, she asks "Did you write down your funny story and send it?" at which point I said "No, and I think it is the utmost in bad manners that someone would obligate their guests so."
Then she called me a PARTY-POOPER!
humph.
To: Corin Stormhands
The only way FLV spreads is cat to cat... as far as I know... She can't get it from a dog or a parasite... maybe ask your vet... and tell the vet she is an only kitty.
To: HairOfTheDog
May 1, 2004... HairOfTheDog, ksen, 2Jedismom, ecurbh, Bear in Rosebear, g'nad, RosieCotton, Corin Stormhands, rightwingreligiousfanatic, JenB, SuziQ, Lucious Cornelious Sulla, Overtaxed, and all the others wake up and realize they have nothing more to say....
Tell you what... you can say "Happy Birthday" and buy me a drink. That's my 21st birthday. And then OT will criticize the Elves, and Corin will start making Dwarf-threatening-noises, and 2J will post about her 2,000th whistle, and g'nad will tell us stories about hunting down Saddam, and new people we haven't met yet will join in...
and then someone will drop another thermobarbic bomb on us. FR is never gonna get rid of us. (Everyone remembered to donate, right?)
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10/01/2002 2:15:43 PM PDT
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JenB
To: 2Jedismom
Well, you do sort-of sound like a party pooper, but it is a fairly poopy party suggestion! - I agree!
Did you get her to download the trailer? - Or are you still wrong about that too?
To: JenB
I renewed my monthly donation, yes.... Thanks for the reminder!
Hobbits love FreeRepublic!
To: JenB
I hope we remember to wish you happy birthday! We are obviously at risk of not having anything else to say, so it should be easy to remember!
To: HairOfTheDog
Oh yeah...no point in even pursuing it further. Just make her mad if even suggest she doesn't know what she's talking about.
You wouldn't believe it. You know how private I am, right? I never even open the door during the day. Well, we're in a subway station and some man...a complete stranger says to Matthew "What's your name" and Matthew told him his whole name. My mom pipes up and says "Oh, their last name isn't spelled the way it sounds...it's spelled..." and proceeds to give the guy our last name and even spells it out for him. I looked at her horrified and she got really mad at me for even suggesting she shouldn't have done it.
Then, I get this mail from my high school...gonna have a 20 year reunion, right? Well, I can't find out how they got my address because I despise my old high school and shook the dust right off when I left. Come to find out, they'd tracked down my mom and she GAVE THEM my married name and my address. I threw a fit and she got mad at me again!
No, this movie trailer isn't worth it.
To: JenB
We could always have annual Entmoots too.
To: 2Jedismom
So you aren't going to your high school reunion?
To: HairOfTheDog
We can talk about life, the universe, and everything...
Like today, in my class, it was the first half of our reports on programming language. One of the speakers was the Chinese guy. Who speaks English badly, with a really, really thick accent. And was speaking on Cobol. And loves Cobol. And proceeded to share his love of Cobol - badly - for 25 minutes. Now that is pain.
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10/01/2002 2:25:45 PM PDT
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JenB
To: HairOfTheDog
No! This was over a year ago. I hated school. I can't tell you how much I hated it. I hated the teachers, hated the students, the campus. I didn't even pick up my annual my senior year...my mom picked up because she was a teacher and they let her.
I have no desire to ever lay eyes on any of them again. My life didn't begin until college.
To: 2Jedismom
I have no desire to ever lay eyes on any of them again. Yep. I got contacted about a reunion once. I think they got the message not to bother me again. :)
To: Corin Stormhands
Hi Corin,
It's true teenagers can be difficult, luckily my son has reached 23 and has finally returned to civilization. At 17 he could be a pain, though.
My little brother and I were once reminiscing about our own long ago teen years. He made a remark that describes it pretty well: "Yeah," he said, " my main memory of being a teenager is just walking around being an a$$#*le all the time.
But I think if the parents do as you're doing, try the best they can, teach right from wrong, be firm, give lots of love, and basically be there for the kid, that everything will be fine. Growing up's hard and the parents need to help alot. No wonder we get grey hairs, though.
My daughter, on the other hand, has always been perfect. My wife may disagree with this. But, as her father, I have to do everything she tells me :-)
To: 2Jedismom
See, my cousin is having a party and we're supposed to write down something funny we remember about this particular cousin and someone else is going to read them to her. Oh please. Who's the poop-head that thought that up? I HATE stuff like that.
Why can't they just let our families be dysfunctional and grumpy and let us get on with life? We're going to a family reunion of all my cousins in a couple of weeks. But we're not going until after my son's football game on Saturday and we're leaving first thing Sunday morning. My aunt wants us all to go to church together on Sunday, but we're leaving. I left that church in 1984 because it was a cult. (It's a vey long and vey series story...). That Pastor has since passed away (mainly because he waited to late to see the doctor about what turned out to be colon cancer). I'll go back for a family funeral. But I won't go back just because I'm in town.
I'm already mad at my sister, who lives in the home-town. She bounced the reunion from Columbus Day Weekend (you know the three-day weekend) until the 19th so her husband wouldn't be working while everyone was in town. HE WORKS THE DANG 7-3 SHIFT!!!!!! Arrrghhh!
Have some catnip tea 2J and tell your Mom and cousin to poop on somebody else's parade.
I can't wait to hear what your Mom will say about Entmoot...
To: Overtaxed
What makes me mad is that now the system has my last name and address! Even if I move, I'm sure they'll find me!
Argh! I thought I was rid of them forever!
To: Overtaxed
Yep. I got contacted about a reunion once. I think they got the message not to bother me again. :) Not even an elves associaion reunion?
To: JenB
One of the speakers was the Chinese guy. Who speaks English badly, with a really, really thick accent. This is very not PC of me. But we have a Chinese guy working in our building who 1) doesn't speak English very well and 2) is clueless. For some reason he thinks that what he is doing has to be reported to ME. I have nothing to do with his projects and it's not even in my division.
I've tried to handle it by just forwarding his e-mails to his supervisor. But yesterday he corned me in my office with "what do I do with this report." Before it was over I was practically screaming IT'S NOT MY JOB!!!!
He still didn't get it.
To: 2Jedismom
Oh I will go to mine...
I skipped my 10-year because my boyfriend at the time was a royal pain in the backside about meeting anyone I knew, demanding a full introduction and history of my whole relationship with whatever old acquaintance I might meet at the grocery store.
Since a few old boyfriends would have been there (probably with their wives), some of whom I remember fondly and would want to *gasp* talk to, or *yoink* hug, I knew I would regret taking him, yet going without him would have also caused a ruckus. We broke up soon afterwards, so it was an event I later regretted having missed.
To: Corin Stormhands
Thank you, Corin! I am very grumpy about it. And that's not all. My brother is all the time sending my kids gifts on their birthdays...now that's ok, but I don't recall ever getting gifts from my uncles. And anyway, they have plenty of spending money and it's no big deal for them. But then my mom says "Are you getting so-n-so (his daughter) a gift?" and I say "I'm not planning on it." and she gets all huffy and says "He got your kids a gift." Well, for one thing, I can't buy anything for them that they'd like unless it comes from like Laura Ashley or something. And another thing...they barely know me! I'm the AUNT for crying in your soup, and I live a long way off!
To: 2Jedismom
I have no desire to ever lay eyes on any of them again. Well, I'd tell you to rent a fancy car and you and Steve go back dressed to kill. You could make up some story about your homes in Aspen and your cottage in the islands and your villa in France.
But your Mom would blow your cover...
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