I just love the fact that whether or not the moon had arms was apparently under contention.
No kidding, how could she possibly suspect about the secret government base up there loaded with weapons?
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Gudanov - Jul 07, 2009 10:19:10 am PDT #15580 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2009 10:19:54 am PDT #15581 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I wonder what my concept of the Moon was at that age.... (How old is Matilda now?)
You could try telling her that once upon a time, before she was born, there were people on the Moon who flew up there in big rocket ships. I wonder if that would blow her widdle mind....
P.M. Marc - Jul 07, 2009 10:31:09 am PDT #15582 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Also, since it's more head circumference than overall weight that is most, uh, difficult for the mother, I wonder if a melon-headed 7 pounder might be harder than a squishy 10. I know Casper (completely unmolded head after 3 hours pushing, most of an hour freakin' crowned) was much harder on me than Dillo, and he weighed more (but only 10 oz more). But I know second kids are usually easier.
Most of what I've read indicates that it's all about the head size. I have a friend who was born at 34 weeks or so. She weighed 5lbs. Her head was GINORMOUS (still is). Her mother, 34 years later, still talks about the Extreme Tearing this caused.
My brother was a large baby, but he has my mother's pinhead, so he came out quickly and without causing damage.
StuntHusband - Jul 07, 2009 10:40:40 am PDT #15583 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Her mother, 34 years later, still talks about the Extreme Tearing this caused.
A phrase I WILL NOT PONDER.
(slaps self on forehead) NO, BRAIN. STOP NOW.
Burrell - Jul 07, 2009 10:54:55 am PDT #15584 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
A phrase I WILL NOT PONDER.
I think for the benefit of GC and any other pregger buffistae it's a phrase we should all just admire from afar and not ponder too too closely.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 07, 2009 11:02:32 am PDT #15585 of 30000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Tom Scola; NY trip stuff insent to your profile addy.
-t - Jul 07, 2009 11:04:58 am PDT #15586 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Once when my nephew was, I don't know, 5 or 7, maybe younger, he was visiting my parents and my mom noticed the moon was a pretty spectacular crescent in a clear sky and pointed it out to him. He contemplated it gravely and told her "In Boulder [where he lived at the time] the moon is round." We figure people had only said "Wow, look at that moon" when it was full up 'til then.
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2009 11:05:46 am PDT #15587 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, another way to confuse young children is to tell them the moon is following them.
JZ - Jul 07, 2009 11:11:50 am PDT #15588 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
::crosses tommyrot off "potential babysitters" list::
-t - Jul 07, 2009 11:12:32 am PDT #15589 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The moon STILL follows me. But I don't mind.