Wow... it's January, and we already have the "Most %&^$&$&-ed up moment of the Year" for 2016. And probably of the last few years.
As most of you know, NobodysWife's (step)father passed away very suddenly in September of liver cancer. Under 6 weeks from initial diagnosis to death. Unpleasant, to say the least, and his widow (my mother-in-law) was devastated beyond belief. She still breaks down crying almost every day.
So tomorrow they were supposed to sail out and spread his ashes in the same place my mother-in-law's father's ashes were spread.
Unfortunately, a storm is blowing in. So the captain of the boat decided to go out today and spread them. They dutifully called everyone, but my mother-in-law was out, and didn't get the message until 3 in the afternoon, after they had dumped the ashes.
She missed her own husband's ash-spreading. After spending WEEKS on the phone planning it.
Yeah, there are no words to describe how upset she is.
So what the ****. You're the captain of a boat that spreads ashes. You have to go out a day early. You fail to contact one of the families. What do you do?
Personally, I KEEP THE %&^&%*ING ASHES until the next time I go out! I don't spread them without the family members!!!!!
Just a wee bit peeved right now...
time to sue.
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Keep clothes on when filing suit, skinny dip after you win.
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Also, my best friend is going through complications from a ruptured, hemorrhaging ovarian cyst. Positive waves appreciated.
I need her to swap embarrassing CH stories with at the wedding, and possibly get drunk with. Positive waves sent.
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Also, my best friend is going through complications from a ruptured, hemorrhaging ovarian cyst. Positive waves appreciated.I need her to swap embarrassing CH stories with at the wedding, and possibly get drunk with. Positive waves sent.
I nee her to be in my wedding party!
...and swap embarrassing stories.
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Also, my best friend is going through complications from a ruptured, hemorrhaging ovarian cyst. Positive waves appreciated.
Oh, man. A ruptured ovarian cyst is the second worst pain I have ever experienced. The first was surgery sans anesthetic. The gap between those two levels of pain is not as big as one would hope. Lots and lots of positive waves for your friend and I hope that she recovers soon and is blessed with nothing but competent and not jerky doctors.
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Fun discussion during dinner, Pea Bear asked what B.C. and A.D. stood for, the general said Before Christ and After Death, after which she asked "so what are the 27 years he was alive called, do they even have a name" my reply "Anything goes! it's like the Vegas for time traveling"
edit: evidently it means something else, so no vegas time traveling hole or whatever, i'm not very happy about that >:-(
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I made myself a dish of pasta with marinara sauce, Italian sausage, bacon, and parmesan. I popped open an India pale ale to go with it (No idea why I bought it, since IPAs are too hoppy for me). Halfway through I realized I really should have uncorked either a Cabernet Sauvignon or a red blend, both of which I have. Abd if I uncork the wine now, I could get a horrid hangover from mixing grain and grape.
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argh! now she has some sort of bible wikipedia up, i didn't get kicked out of sunday school because i wanted to stay. :-)
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Damn, Nobody's Home. That's terrible.
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Also, my best friend is going through complications from a ruptured, hemorrhaging ovarian cyst. Positive waves appreciated.Oh, man. A ruptured ovarian cyst is the second worst pain I have ever experienced. The first was surgery sans anesthetic. The gap between those two levels of pain is not as big as one would hope. Lots and lots of positive waves for your friend and I hope that she recovers soon and is blessed with nothing but competent and not jerky doctors.
+1
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To EVERYONE who is going through hard times, I hope that things get better soon. I would try to channel some positive energy, but my Deity has blocked all of my calls and will not refill my mana bar.
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Sorry! Accidentally had it on vibrate, what now?
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Positive waves to all +1, Indeed!
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Positive waves to all +1, Indeed!
Positive waves and prayers. God bless you guys. I'm... very sorry to hear everything that's been happening. Peace and joy to you, and to those you know who are in need during this time.
I know how hard and empty that can sound from a stranger, but I do, am, and will pray for you all.
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Damn!!! One of my friend's mom just died. He will be heading to DC tomorrow or Saturday to ID the body and try to figure out what to do with her two cats and her belongings.
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I need to yell at my roommate for washing beans, small vegetables, fat, and cereal down the drain constantly. The pipes can't handle it, and when we have to call the university plumber, everybody in the apartment has to pay for it. In fact, we may already need a plumber.You could try pouring boiling water down the drain. If they put fat down the drain, the hot water will melt it and flush it out. If that doesn't work, then it may be all the food that is to blame.
There should be a corrosive cleaning solution available at a shop that might eat through the organic crap blocking the plumbing. Probably something based on sodium. It's easily available in shops here at least.
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Harrry. D:which character? I love that show.I think... it might be time to stop trying to integrate with the people of Earth, and to return to my home planet. The experiment has been a failure.The day after the premier episode of Third Rock from the Sun, my best friend at work came in and said, "Did you see that show? That's YOU!" She was right.considering Harrys carnal prowess, history, and overall desirability in the show, I'm thinking a visit to your home town is in order.
As an aside, did you know Carrie fisher named her dog Gary?
Yes, you didn't?
More of a tongue waggle, actually.
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That sucks, Sharoth. Sympathies for your friend. :(
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Fun discussion during dinner, Pea Bear asked what B.C. and A.D. stood for, the general said Before Christ and After Death, after which she asked "so what are the 27 years he was alive called, do they even have a name" my reply "Anything goes! it's like the Vegas for time traveling"
edit: evidently it means something else, so no vegas time traveling hole or whatever, i'm not very happy about that >:-(
Duh, try to aim for the year zero.
Also, Jesus might have been born between 6 to 10 years Before Christ.
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Seems that we need more of a positive energy nuke now...
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I don't think there is a Year Zero, I think it just swaps instantly from 1 BC to 1 AD.
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Also, my best friend is going through complications from a ruptured, hemorrhaging ovarian cyst. Positive waves appreciated.Oh, man. A ruptured ovarian cyst is the second worst pain I have ever experienced. The first was surgery sans anesthetic. The gap between those two levels of pain is not as big as one would hope.
O_o
Jesus.
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Damn!!! One of my friend's mom just died. He will be heading to DC tomorrow or Saturday to ID the body and try to figure out what to do with her two cats and her belongings.
damn. My deepest condolences.
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That is terrible! so sorry!
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I don't think there is a Year Zero, I think it just swaps instantly from 1 BC to 1 AD.
I know. That's why it's so hard to get there.
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Off to bed. Again. I slept from around 22 to 2-something or 3.
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I will do what I can to send as many positive waves as I can.
You all have my sympathy.
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I was sitting down to junk food, beer, and Playstation, as is so often my wont. Playing Red Dead Redemption. Got into a chariot race. Was winning, too. Then I lost control of my horse, plowed into a bunch of spectators, kilt one of them, and got disqualified. This is exactly why you should never drink and drive.
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A.D. Is latin. Means Anno Domini, Lord's year.
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Anyone else ever wonder what happens when kids given hyphenated last names by parents who can't make up their minds about whose name the kids get themselves have kids with other hyphen kids to said grandkids of the original parties? Do you hyphen all four? Does that continue, so that a few generations into yuppie parents you have kids that have names like the gnomes in Dragonlance?
I mean aside from a child developing a serious complex because their full name (which probably features first names like Taylur or Codi or Jazmynn some garbage like that) takes longer to spell than most sentences?
See Spanish naming conventions.
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Must break out of sinus migraine funk!
The house needs some love (mostly cleaning) and I have to work tonight.
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Coats, jackets, gloves, hats, socks, sweaters all scattered across the living room.
Stupid winter!
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Psst. Journey Quest Season 3 Kickstarter...
I thought you said "Johnny Quest" at first, and almost snarkily replied "Its called the Venture Brothers."
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Psst. Journey Quest Season 3 Kickstarter...I thought you said "Johnny Quest" at first, and almost snarkily replied "Its called the Venture Brothers."
Meh. Either JQ is less snarky than VB. :)
(Note: I also enjoy VB.)
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Psst. Journey Quest Season 3 Kickstarter...Already backed. Not sure how likely it is to be funded, though. They're asking for a lot of money.
Yeah. That's a big number. It makes sense, but, I'm just not sure there's enough "out there" who can and will donate.
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Cartoon Network's parent company owns JQuest, so every appearance of the characters in Venture Brothers is not only legal, it's canon!
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Please consider submitting a monster, least of all because I made a bold prediction for the number of entries this year. :)
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So, we *finally* saw the new Star Wars last night, and my overall rating is, "Good; better than I expected from JJ Abrams and from what I'd heard."
I used to give "beer ratings" for movies based on how many beers you'd need to imbibe to truly enjoy a movie: 0 beers is a classic you don't need beer to enjoy; 6 beers means you pretty much have to be drunk to like it, and infinite beers means it would be better to be dead than watch it.
I'd give it a tentative 2 beer rating. I'm waffling between 2 and 3, but I think it was good enough to give it a 2.
Overall, I vastly enjoyed the movie up until the point that the "Death Star Mark III" fired its weapon. As NobodysWife put it, at that point it became nothing more than a "Star Wars Reboot", complete with what appeared to be re-used sets as the new X-wings ran through the canyons of the new Death Star, looking all too much like they were re-using the sets, just with different lighting.
It was vastly disappointing to see such a promising movie degenerate into, "Well, 'Star Wars' worked the first time, so let's just do it again."
Basically, the second half of the movie is the second half of "Return of the Jedi" minus the ewoks. That's something to be thankful for, but it was really, really unimaginative.
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TFY Storytime: My new years resolution was to "Believe in something greater than myself" You can call it god, buddha whatever I choose to look at it as "There is hope, it is possible to change, things can get better. The reason I bring this up is that I see some bad things happening to good people on this thread.
I believe many bad results have hidden benefits and I believe that good things are coming your way.
Any resemblance between this storytime and any other is purely coincidence, The intent of this writer was not to violate any tenets of Fawtl and if I did by mistake I suppose a flaming bike is incoming
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Please consider submitting a monster, least of all because I made a bold prediction for the number of entries this year. :)
I'm working on it!
TFY Storytime: My new years resolution was to "Believe in something greater than myself" You can call it god, buddha whatever I choose to look at it as "There is hope, it is possible to change, things can get better. The reason I bring this up is that I see some bad things happening to good people on this thread.
I believe many bad results have hidden benefits and I believe that good things are coming your way.
Any resemblance between this storytime and any other is purely coincidence, The intent of this writer was not to violate any tenets of Fawtl and if I did by mistake I suppose a flaming bike is incoming
This is a good start, my friend, and I, for one, certainly agree with the general principle! God bless you on your journey! :D
EDIT: for clarity
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So, we *finally* saw the new Star Wars last night, and my overall rating is, "Good; better than I expected from JJ Abrams and from what I'd heard."
I used to give "beer ratings" for movies based on how many beers you'd need to imbibe to truly enjoy a movie: 0 beers is a classic you don't need beer to enjoy; 6 beers means you pretty much have to be drunk to like it, and infinite beers means it would be better to be dead than watch it.
I'd give it a tentative 2 beer rating. I'm waffling between 2 and 3, but I think it was good enough to give it a 2.
** spoiler omitted **
Wondering what it says about me that I went in stone cold sober and had an absolute blast.
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Imagine how much better it would be with a jack and coke.
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I enjoyed the movie thoroughly (even though I pretty much agree with the spoilered comments above, I still loved it/had a blast)
But have to admit, a Jack & Coke would have been the icing on the cake for the movie! :)
That's why I'm waiting until it's at the theater down the street from me with a full bar.
I'll put NobodysHome rating system to the test, with hard liquor tho, I don't drink beer, ever. :-D
That's why I'm waiting until it's at the theater down the street from me with a full bar.
I'll put NobodysHome rating system to the test, with hard liquor tho, I don't drink beer, ever. :-D
You don't keep a bottle of bourbon in the fridge? I'm not even that big a whiskey drinker, and I keep a bottle of bourbon in the fridge.
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You don't keep a bottle of bourbon in the fridge? I'm not even that big a whiskey drinker, and I keep a bottle of bourbon in the fridge.That's why I'm waiting until it's at the theater down the street from me with a full bar.
I'll put NobodysHome rating system to the test, with hard liquor tho, I don't drink beer, ever. :-D
Nah, it's just that they tend to give you funny looks when you bring your own booze to a theater.
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No, I don't have alcohol on hand, the general keeps saying she's getting some for cooking, but hasn't yet. :-)
Last time I drank was last summer some point.
And as Mourge says, it's nice to be classy, every once in a while. :-)
Just so long as it's not an everyday kind of thing. :-)