Introducing . . . my mommy!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by phantomdiver *
Originally posted by the immature one to whom I gave birth

Yes, and that immature gene was passed from you. Your fault, not mine:P

Anyway, yeah, I was naked, and so were you, but all you can see of me is a profile. You’re fully frontal.

Yes, and 6-month old babies are SOOO sexy to look at! Gosherooni, I know I can’t get enough of naked babies. That’s why I watch Good Morning Vietnam so much.

Guys, it’s a picture of me bathing Paddy when he was about six months old, okay?

I rest my case. And one can see enough of you . . . beyond that, no comment. You’d be more embarassed by that picture than I would, I assure you.

It’s perfectly acceptable. Some posters refer to eachother by their names. Of course, some of their SNs are their names. But you can call me pun, or punha, or iam, or whatever. Notice I rarely, if ever, type out p**d. I just call you PD.

Tigg, don’t hide the whips. My mom’ll just find them and donate them to the local thrift shop.

And VB, mommy don’t drink none. Except the occasional swig of Burgundy.

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Falcon, I do not require cinnamon oil. That indicates a lack of performance . . .

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why am i hearing paul simon singing? hi phantom diver. you’ve gotten quite a good start here. i will no doubt enjoy reading more of your posts. good show bringing mum on board iampunha. it’s amazing to me to see a son and mum actually talk to each other, i usually just grunt or something. amazing…

mother and child reunion…hum…hum…

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So can Paddy, if he chooses. He took more Latin than I did.

I still get confused about “data,” though. In American English, it takes a singular verb; if you use a plural verb, you sound weird or British, which may actually be the same thing. <ducking and remembering that most of my ancestry is Brit> So if people pester me on it, I get all pedantic and say that it is really Latin and in Latin, as in Greek, a neuter plural noun always takes a singular verb. That always works – people get so awed and confused that they back down. The beauty of it is that it’s true. I just love it when all those thousands of dollars my parents paid for my high-falutin’ college eddication comes in handy in the workplace!

If you want, I’ll elaborate on what they were. That’ll embarrass Patrick even more. <eg>

You don’t have much fun, then, do you?

<sigh> Haven’t we been over that already? I’m not your mom.

By the way, dear, the neighbors called. They wanted to tell you that the BBs you fired didn’t hurt their cat, but the officer who was there for dinner, off duty, looking at their garden is not amused. They’d like to arrange to forget about who did the deed. Are you available this weekend to dig up the trees around their two acres? – No, no, just the 20-year-old oak trees, not those cute little maple saplings.

You’re right. Your response shows a lot of maturity. I take it all back. <snort>

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<shrug> Okay, I’ll look for the picture and scan it in. It really is good of you, and there isn’t enough of me showing for it to embarrass me.

Nah, that’s okay. I just won’t allow them in our house.

                Not even that. Where have you been?

phantomdiver

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It’s only a moment away. Nice to hear somebody else who remembers them!

BTW, wanna hear my opinion of “Cecilia”? I knew you did. :wink: I think it’s about the author’s relationship to his muse, or St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. I’m serious. Maybe the author (Simon? Garfunkel?) didn’t know it, of course, but look:

Makin’ love in the afternoon
With Cecilia up in my bedroom.
I get up to wash my face.
When I come back to bed,
Someone’s taken my place.

How can that not be about a fickle muse?

Well, whatever. I also heard that Mother and Child Reunion is a Chinese dish with chicken and eggs. Yum!

phantomdiver

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from one mom to another.

All three of my daughters lurk here occasionally, but none of them (to my knowledge) has ever posted. If they did, I’m sure they’d disavow all knowledge of me (oh, MOM).

I saw your first post in GD. What I like about these forums is that, for the most part, people disagree with civility, and seem to learn from each other (I know I do).

Nice ta meetcha! :slight_smile:

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Nice to know there are several of us! I know purplebear is a mother, too.

My two daughters would rather be smeared with honey and tied to anthills than lurk here. Go figure.

For a minute I thought you meant that people don’t like the practice of civility! Now I see what you mean. Duh. Wish I could go to sleep. :frowning:

Likewise, I’m sure!

phantomdiver

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I’m sure some of the males around here would be glad to oblige…of course, they’d probably find abandoned anthills & have other things on their minds…how old are your daughters?

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They’re jailbait. Better not search for abandoned anthills, guys. But I must say, better abandoned ones than inhabited ones!

phantomdiver

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This is prime computer time for me because everyone else is sleeping. Good morning! Just droppin’ by to say hi again, and see ya around on the boards! :smiley:

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I’m not an early riser - I just live in England. I guess DP is though (or an insomniac…or very late going to bed last night. Why I thought going to bed at 4am was a good idea, I don’t know…(OK, good company & stupidity are probably 2 good reasons…))

Iampunha
Is my being British really so bad? Momma punha (PD), you can’t have raised such a narrow person, someone is using his ID & pretending to be your son!

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Don’t get much plainer talking than that…

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G’day Mommy.

I saw your son smoking and stuff.

Sometimes he swears…I know cuz I heard him my own self.

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I see no reason to try, on purpose, to impress people by using arcane words and pluralizing things with “um” on them.

Regarding data . . . if it’s individual pieces, I use the plural verb form. If not, I don’t.

PD said: "If you want, I’ll elaborate on what they were. That’ll embarrass Patrick even more. <eg>"

Not really . . .

**PD said: “You don’t have much fun, then, do you?”

Not since you got here, no . . .

PD said: "By the way, dear, the neighbors called. They wanted to tell you that the BBs you fired didn’t hurt their cat, but the officer who was there for dinner, off duty, looking at their garden is not amused. They’d like to arrange to forget about who did the deed. Are you available this weekend to dig up the trees around their two acres? – No, no, just the 20-year-old oak trees, not those cute little maple saplings."

Honestly, you take the fun out of everything! What? NOOOO, I didn’t throw that at you . . . not THAT, and not at YOU . . . what, you don’t believe me?

PD said: "You’re right. Your response shows a lot of maturity. I take it all back. <snort>"

If you sneezed it out, how can you be surprised when I don’t eat it? BTW, Mama, next time you probably will want to cover your nose.

PD said: "<shrug> Okay, I’ll look for the picture and scan it in. It really is good of you, and there isn’t enough of me showing for it to embarrass me.

Hmm . . . whatever you say. I still say you naky is worse than me naky, in that pic.

I refuse to answer questions on any part of me normally covered with clothing but not (covered) in that picture. Y’all KNOW someone will ask “so . . . um . . . is it, y’know, um . . . y’know?” To which I answer: PBTHTHTHTHTH.

PD said: "Nah, that’s okay. I just won’t allow them in our house."

Further evidence that my mother refuses to have any fun. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me!

PD said: "Not even that. Where have you been?"

School. Duh.

Fierra, mainly the reason I don’t like that you’re in the UK is because firstly I didn’t knwo how old you are. [rant]I am sick of meeting cool, interesting, and otherwise worthwhile people who live way the hell and gone away from the US. At one point in early June I had actually met some cool people. Three were married, one engaged. I found this to be just a bit too much. One of them went to my damn school! So when I say “why the hell do you have to live in the UK?” it’s not b/c I have anything against the UK but b/c I am tired of meeting people I know i’ll never see in person.

BTW, Spider, how old are your daughters?

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ages 22. 19 and 17. The middle one is engaged, but no date set yet.

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Oldest’s probably too old for me still. 4 years at this age is like 15 anywhere else.

You live far away . . . any plans to move east? Didn’t think so.

Still interested in pics of the family, though:)

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Fierra, he’s just stupid, not narrow. Actually he’s a lot wider than he used to be – when he was a baby.

I think he explained himself quite well, and I hope that does it for you. Who wouldn’t want F2F friends? Although this year Patrick does live on a coed hall, which is a nice change from last year. – I know, mothers aren’t supposed to like coed dorms. Well, I lived in coed dorms from 1974 to 1977, and then I lived in a coed group house for my senior year (until 1978), and I know perfectly well that sex is much more likely to occur between those who don’t live in the same dorm. You see somebody with morning hair and teeth, you aren’t as likely to see that person as sexy and desirable. Of course, some of you guys with raging hormones may see any female between 14 and 40 as sexy and desirable, but surveys say (Family Fraud imitation) that intradorm sex doesn’t happen as often as interdorm sex. – And that’s saying a lot. You try having sex with somebody who is located in another dorm. It’s quite a stretch. – But seriously, folks . . .

All I meant is that they are 16 and 14. – But they are very attractive.

The smoking I don’t believe. He knows better than that. Asthma runs in the family, and his grandfather died earlier than he really should have, partly because he smoked for years and years and years.

Swearing, yeah. I’ve heard him. I’d like him to make an effort to tone it down, but I can think of worse things for him to do, and he doesn’t do them, so that’s okay. And I really don’t mind scatalogical swearing much. It’s sacrilegious swearing that really bugs me. That he doesn’t do, except under very extreme circumstances.

Good! Then I’m doing my job right! :wink:

phantomdiver (Mama, but only to Paddy, at least on this board)

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by phantomdiver *

PD - I taught for two years, but while I was training I did some in school stints & one was at a coed boarding school (single sex sleeping dorms/houses)…
so one night, while the outside was being repainted & had scaffolding up, the house mistress heard a bnoise and checked to see if it might be burglars or someone ill. The second time she checked, she realised there were four feet in one of the beds! The lad had climbed up the scaffolding, over the roof & in through the skylight. They suspended him (but not her…double standards!), but I think he should have had a medal for effort & ingenuity!

BTW, I know at least three asthmatics who are heavy smokers despite knowing how bad it is for them particularly.

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All I meant is that they are 16 and 14. – But they are very attractive.

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Didn’t mean to imply there weren’t - the plain talking was just about their age. Don’t worry about me, I’m more your contemporary than theirs.

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Yeah, I do, too. The ones I know started because of peer pressure and then got hooked.

My husband and I have made a great effort to show our kids that starting to smoke is just plain stupid these days, and we’ve done that since they were babies. We fight the peer pressure thing.

They might start smoking, but I really doubt they will.

phantomdiver