cheering for the other team at softball games because, "She was at our house YESTERDAY, she's your friend!"

Occasionally I'd cheer against our team when I was in pep-band. Just cheers like "Forfeit! Forfeit!"

Also, once we had "crazy hat day" for football pep-band. Supposedly we could wear any hat, but our band director refused to let me wear my Devo Energy Dome....

As an update to yesterday's Polar Bear question; our new marketing director thinks I am just a total nerd for knowing immediately that Polar Bears don't hibernate, and she's moving on with the campaign. I didn't see the proposals until it was time to send them to FDA for review, so thousands have already been spent on the campaign, apparently. All I could say was that I was certain I am not the only one, and I bet my boss $5 that the campaign will be pulled within months because people will write in. Oh, well.

I think it might have been this one. Boris Vallejo maybe?

All I could say was that I was certain I am not the only one, and I bet my boss $5 that the campaign will be pulled within months because people will write in. Oh, well.

I bet we could make that $5 for you. Just tell us where to point the nerd-dom!

Similarly, I wasn't allowed to watch the movie Murder in the First. Only movie I was ever told I wasn't allowed to watch.

The only movie 'no' I ever got was All That Jazz when I was nine. I was bereft -- there were no VCRs after we walked up hill in the snow both ways to school. If it had just been dirty I think she would have let me, but she ruled it "too intense".

Oh, wait, and I didn't get to see a particular movie when I was 7 because "There is no way she's seeing a movie with WAR right there in the title..." So I didn't get to see freakin Star Wars until the re-release when they came out with Empire.

As an update to yesterday's Polar Bear question; our new marketing director thinks I am just a total nerd for knowing immediately that Polar Bears don't hibernate, and she's moving on with the campaign. I didn't see the proposals until it was time to send them to FDA for review, so thousands have already been spent on the campaign, apparently. All I could say was that I was certain I am not the only one, and I bet my boss $5 that the campaign will be pulled within months because people will write in. Oh, well.

Oh for fuck's sake, people, color in the bear.

color in the bear.

Were it that easy. The illustration involves an ice cave that gradually morphs into dermal layers (our drug is for neuropathic pain). The entire campaign would need to be scratched.

I like our new Marketing Director, so I don't want to cause problems. Today is my first day back in the office (been out sick) and the moment she spotted me she was like, "hey you trouble-maker, why'd you go an look up Polar Bear hibernation?" very friendly and I said, "I didn't have to look it up. It's pretty widely known." And she just laughed.

I tried to read The Happy Hooker when I was about 10, but got bored. I read Emmanuelle (the movie version with pictures) and Candy by about age 8. My parents never told me I couldn't read any of their books, but sometime before I turned 12 they'd done a sweep and most of those books had disappeared. Which was a shame, because I was ready to impress my friends.

Still, when I found The Kama Sutra and the book on Tantric sex in their collection, my father was very "So what?" about me reading them, this many years before mine own puberty. 15 years after that *I* had to explain Tantric sex to my mother, which was multiply embarassing.

1) this is going around our team right now. The only thing they left out is that "Everything has to be on the homepage or no one will find it!" [link]

2) I am in love with my boss right now. Someone spilled the beans about a publishing portal going up to departments outside of ours which they're taking to mean an all access CMS. Her email was basically "IT WILL NEVER BE THAT! PLEASE CONTINUE TO FUNCTION AS NORMAL (whatever that is anyway).

3) I love Wuthering Heights as well, but in a Buffy/Angelus sort of way and certainly never thought that was an example of how relationships should function. Of course Heathcliff is a dick all over the place and Cathy's rather passive about it-so maybe that's what Mr. West wants?

4) The only thing my parents ever tried to censor me from reading was mom not wanting to buy me the more obscure Ayn Rand. She needn't have worried. I eventually grew up.

My dad took my sister and I to see Hair when it came out when we asked him to--sis was 15, I was 13. I don't know what he thought it'd be, but I know he was rather shocked to hear songs like "Sodomy" and see the full frontal nudity on screen.