MrSmith

I wouldn't call her. Just go do your stuff. If it inconveniences her, so much the better. If she bitches about being inconvenienced, you can respond however you choose. Personally, I would respond with "Look, bitch, you're the one who repeatedly blew me off in spite of supposedly missing me dearly and wanting to spend time with me. I've got shit to do instead of waiting around for your ass to deign to show up." Yes, that would be as sarcasm-laden as I could manage. Of course, that's just how I would respond, which probably wouldn't do very much for the longevity of the friendship. At the same time, I'm not in the habit of maintaining long-term friendships, either, and I also don't have much use for "friends" who have no respect for me. And this is definitely an issue of respect, in that she doesn't respect you or the fact she's repeatedly wasting your time.

Solution: Go commando. Just stop wearing underwear. Voila! No place to check for "evidence of intercourse". LOL

Ahh, ok. Thanks for correcting me!

Hmmm. You guys are giving me all kinds of ideas. If I do a recitation, I'm going to go with Green Eggs and Ham. I liked that book so much as a child that my parents had to buy me three copies because the first two wore out! LOL We get a lot of these calls - and we've never owned a vehicle that had a warranty!

I like Wyatt Earp a lot. I think Costner does a good job in that role and I like that the movie shows more of Earp's life before he and his family arrive in Tombstone. Though that doesn't mean his ego wasn't already quite out-sized by that time because it was. I know that he was originally attached to/involved with the movie Tombstone and then there were some disagreements between him and other people involved in the project. So he left and made Wyatt Earp to make the movie he wanted to make, instead. Personally, I think it worked out quite well in this case because I enjoy both movies and the actors' performances in each one - particularly Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone and Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday in Wyatt Earp. They're both scene stealers, though Kurt Russell's acting as Wyatt Earp has more parity with Val Kilmer's than does Costner's Wyatt Earp with Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday; I think Dennis Quaid really manages to outshine Kevin Costner. Blerg. I remember watching Tin Cup with my wife ages ago. We hated that film, mostly because of Billy Bob Thornton. I can't remember much about Kevin Costner's performance in that movie. So he may have done all right.

Russell Crowe was never good. I liked him in The Quick and the Dead with Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio and several others, but that's only because the character wasn't that deep. He was terrible in the 30 minutes of Master and Commander that we managed to sit through. L.A Confidential didn't ask that much of him, and Gladiator just wasn't good. (To be fair, Gladiator wasn't bad, it just wasn't good, either.) A Beautiful Mind asked too much of him and he couldn't deliver, in my opinion. He did all right in 3:10 to Yuma, but that was a remake and he had material from which to draw. He did a good job in Man of Steel, but - again - that role didn't ask very much of him and he had material from which to draw. Edited to add: I completely agree with your list, otherwise. I certainly wouldn't remove any of the names on it. I would add Meg Ryan, though. She started off really well, but then it seems like she got lazy and started playing the same character over and over again. I really enjoy her performances in Joe Versus the Volcano, though, which is one of my favorite B-movies of all time.

Wonderfully inventive! I'm going to try this. This is clever, too. Unfortunately for me, I know some Russian and the people who call me are speaking Russian. Maybe I should brush up on my Spanish....

Well, we don't really have any proof that this statement is untrue. As far as I'm concerned, if we look at the available evidence, LLR's designers do hate their customers.

I'll bet you're right (about them being rice krispy treats). You're probably right about them having been dragged over her floor. :D Save me a seat next to you! I don't want to ride to hell alone.

Yeah, there are very, very few roles where I don't mind Danny DeVito. Mostly, I think he's an idiot who can't act very well. Maybe he's just bad at picking roles. Who knows? That commercial, though? That's absolutely the worst and most stupid role I've ever seen him in, followed close behind by his turn as The Penguin in Batman Returns. He just sucked all the fun out of The Penguin when you compare it to The Penguin from the 1960's TV show.

Ohhhh, I almost got suckered into tweeting at Meri about this meme. Fortunately, self-control got the better of me.

One of the best scenes in cinema. :D :D :D

I agree. That commercial was terrible. Whoever thought that up... has no sense. If they wanted to go that way, they should've made it looks less real. If I hadn't known it was a Got Milk commercial going in, I would have wondered what in the hell they were trying to market. They should've changed the actual tools/weapons of war to be made of things that you dunk or put in milk. Wheels on the APC's could've been Oreos, while the helicopter machine-gunner could've been firing a stream of (liquid, in case that's not clear) chocolate. I would've made the cupcakes be mortar rounds, while the mortars themselves could have been some kind of cinnamon pastry stick. I agree. In my opinion, this is an example of a Diet Coke commercial that works. It's not trying to sell you Diet Coke as a "lifestyle brand". Instead, it's just selling you that Diet Coke is what you drink when you're out having fun with friends.

I enjoyed those commercials, actually. I hadn't seen one in a while. So thanks for reminding me and causing me to go to Youtube to watch a couple!

Well, the tacit agreement between my wife and I is that I won't open these drawers and that, if I need anything that may be in one of them, I will tell her what I need and she will find it for me. This works well, especially because opening these drawers is a trigger for me; any time I have decided to open them, it has resulted in my yelling at her about the chaos and disorganization with her responding "This is why I tell you not to open them." I am the type of person that if my environs are messy and disorganized, then my ability to think is compromised to an inversely proportional level. "More chaos/disorganization" == "less ability to think and plan". So we are more or less the "Jack Sprat and his wife" of clutter. :D

It's only a language faux pas if you're saying it out loud. If you're using it in informal written communication, like a forum, you're perfectly fine. For the record, I have heard people say "L O L", "O M G", "W T F", "I K R", and several other "text-speak" acronyms. I work at a university. Sadly, there are laws against killing the children, even when they abuse spoken language in these ways. :D

You know, that whole conversation could be reported to HR as discrimination. Just thought I'd point that out. The comment about you being "special" helps to drive that point home. There are a laundry list of things like this that drive me absolutely guano loco. However, the one I really want to add right now is "My bad". Why in the actual fuck can't people just say "My fault"? Sometimes, when I'm in the mood and some idiot says "my bad", I'll finish it off with "at English?" This makes me sad. It also makes me wish someone had cloned George W Bush, taught his clone to speak English well, and locked his original self away in an active missile silo just before someone pressed the "launch" button.

I don't know how much help I can be, since I sometimes (some would argue "often") have all the subtlety of a 2-by-4 to the face. Personally, I can't stand liars. My approach would be to box them in by getting them to lie to me when there are lots of witnesses, then present them with irrefutable proof that they are lying. My main aims would be these: Make public the fact they are lying Have as many people as possible see that I caught them out Politely and professionally serve them as much public humiliation and cost them as much "face" as possible. The hope would be that they can serve as an object lesson to anyone else lying to you that doing so is not in their best interests. Anyway, take my advice with as much or as little salt as you are inclined, especially since my approach is sometimes not the best one.

Is that like "Deplane, boss! Deplane!" ??

I can't see this being a problem since humanity has the ability to travel the stars. It seems as though, in the universe of the show, that there are many habitable, and indeed inhabited!, worlds. Not to mention how ridiculously tall some of those buildings are. Of course, that doesn't say anything about food production to feed all those people, but then we get back to the numerous other worlds to inhabit. On a side note, I got this book for my birthday in 1986 (immediately after it came out) and I would go to the theatre to see a movie version of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago:_a_Myth_of_the_Far_Future

Yeah, I don't find her attractive. Fortunately for her, the world is not populated only by men of my tastes. :D

I have to keep this in mind whenever I have the misfortune of opening one my wife's many "junk drawers". They're all a damned mess which chaos would utterly paralyze me if she ever let the mess out of the drawers and into the house. I'm fortunate she keeps her disorganization so well hidden. Amazingly, she knows what's in these drawers and the content have occasionally come in handy.

@ginger90 That's a genuinely nice post by Janelle. It's a refreshing change. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Same.

This makes sense. I can understand why he would feel that way about something like that. I think she isn't as physically attracted to Jon as she would need to be to have a one night stand with him.