Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...

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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


javachik - Nov 28, 2009 10:03:00 am PST #21803 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Just keep it on the website, ND, and Pix. The minute anyone asks where you're registered, feel free to tell them, and also say that there's info on the website. The minute someone asks, you do not need to obfuscate.

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§ ita § - Nov 28, 2009 10:04:14 am PST #21804 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks for the link, ND. I think I'll shop there.

The idea that you can't have a wedding (or any celebration you choose) without receiving gifts if you don't want them has always bothered me. I used to invite people over for my birthday and just not tell them it was my birthday because I didn't want to deal. And when some found out afterwards they were annoyed.


bon bon - Nov 28, 2009 10:05:46 am PST #21805 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

As a young person, I would expect to find the registry info on the website. If I were an old person, I should be used to the tradition of asking the family/couple where they were registered.

Some registries even show up on google. Mine still does.


tommyrot - Nov 28, 2009 10:07:52 am PST #21806 of 30001
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 dear.

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Jesse - Nov 28, 2009 10:08:07 am PST #21807 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I wish my extended family would register for Christmas! Because I know enough about what they like to get them stuff they already have, but not enough to get the right thing. At least, that's what it feels like.


DavidS - Nov 28, 2009 10:15:04 am PST #21808 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

He figured it out... using geometry!

Cool beans. Science - it works, bitches!


Pix - Nov 28, 2009 10:18:30 am PST #21809 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.

Thanks, all! I'm going with the initial instinct of leaving registry info on the website and letting people ask. Most of the guests will have no problem navigating the website, and we can help anyone who has questions. We're still doing a traditional RSVP with envelope, so that should help a little.

By the way, would a few of you do a quick proof of the site to see if anything jumps out as confusing? If you see a typo, I'd appreciate a heads up on that too: [link redacted].

Thanks!

(Link has gone POOF! Thanks, everyone.)


tommyrot - Nov 28, 2009 10:19:01 am PST #21810 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Get Your Wikipedia Fix

50 interesting Wikipedia links. I haven't read them all, but each one I've looked at has been interesting. So maybe bookmark this link for when you're bored or run out of internets.

Here's the first 15:

1. Anthropodermic bibliopegy
2. Elm Farm Ollie
3. EURion constellation
4. (the) Demon core
5. Pole of inaccessibility
6. Globster

7. Hoba meteorite
8. Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
9. GRB 971214
10. “Resolute” desk
11. Candace Newmaker
12. Cryptomnesia

13. Hans Island
14. Harrowing of Hell
15. Semantic satiation

Cryptomnesia, or inadvertent plagiarism, is a memory bias whereby a person falsely recalls generating a thought, an idea, a song, or a joke, when the thought was actually generated by someone else.[1] In these cases, the person is not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but is rather experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration.

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Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.

Ooh. I just read that the other day!


Pix - Nov 28, 2009 10:24:49 am PST #21811 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.

(Also, LAistas, if you didn't get a Save the Date and are remotely interested in attending, we would love to have you! Email me your snail mail addy. I tried to contact a couple of you and didn't hear back, so I wanted to cover my bases here.)


Theodosia - Nov 28, 2009 10:25:05 am PST #21812 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I wonder if someone had done an Un-Registry website/service for wedding couples who feel like they have to register to please the relatives. It could have links to stuff like Heifer.Org and Kiva.org and other alternate charity stuff that the couple approve of, and let givers print out customized PDF certificates to put in an envelope to present at the ceremony, et cetera....