Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 11, 2014 - 2:00pm
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas? - Stalin
As quoted in Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001) by Robert G. Torricelli, p. 121
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 11, 2014 - 8:21pm
*ba-dum psssh*
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 13, 2014 - 2:13am
Well, that stumped me, not sure what to say now.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 13, 2014 - 7:51pm
But you did! Say something, that is.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 13, 2014 - 9:20pm
No, she wrote it.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 14, 2014 - 6:41am
A mere technicality.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 14, 2014 - 7:32am
Ah, but we are a technical society.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 14, 2014 - 7:56am
Then you too are mere.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 14, 2014 - 2:36pm
No, because I'm not very social.
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 14, 2014 - 2:59pm
Merely unsocial?
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 14, 2014 - 5:56pm
Excellent! RG!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 14, 2014 - 6:51pm
Not unsocial. Maybe social lite, but not socailite?
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 14, 2014 - 10:35pm
So you had a lite debut?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 15, 2014 - 5:30am
Had to skip it, no white gloves.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 15, 2014 - 8:26am
How disappointing.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 16, 2014 - 1:42am
Oh I was happy to not go.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 16, 2014 - 1:28pm
Well good for you then!
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 16, 2014 - 2:51pm
Does anyone actually own white gloves?
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 16, 2014 - 3:42pm
Valets
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 16, 2014 - 9:33pm
@Renae Gee: Hello! You'd be surprised who owns white gloves in the South (note that Dwayne hails from the fair town of Lexington-home of some really fast race horses!-, Kentucky); a lot of my neighbors have DEBUTANT daughters who wear long white gloves with their white ball gowns when their fathers "present them to society" (like they've been hiding forever); fathers also wear white gloves at some Mardi Gras balls in Mobile (not sure @ New Orleans); and of course some country clubs here still insist that the help wear white gloves when serving (feel free to: hoot, throw up, give your best I-don't-believe-that-crap look). All the live-long Doo-dah-Doo-dah Day!! :)
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 16, 2014 - 11:42pm
@justwords Hello to you:) Oh My....oh my, oh my giddy aunt. These girls, they just go along with it? Anyone ever rebel and wear black, or even more rebellious and wear harlot red? Rainbow gloves? Or the most daring.....naked hands and arms... Ok I shall stop making fun of another human's culture and keep my jesting to myself. ;-)
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinApril 17, 2014 - 5:39am
My gloves are mittens with penguins on :)
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 17, 2014 - 5:51am
Even among our upper crust debutant balls aren't really a thing here anymore, but there are a fair number of white gloves.
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 17, 2014 - 7:19am
If I even think about white gloves, they get dirty.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 17, 2014 - 12:47pm
@Dwayne: Yea verily, we are truly trapped in the past here in some things... I personally haven't owned white gloves since I was a little girl. We still have galas and balls for the Museum of Art and the opera, but I'm allergic to that type of thing.
@RG: whoa, girl! Now a red dress w/rainbow gloves: awesome visual! Jest away!
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 17, 2014 - 10:38pm
@voodoo_em I think that is the bestest style of white glove.
@Grigori- I'm sure that happens with lots of thoughts.
@JW - we have leavers dinners, kind of like a prom, but no kings or queens.
@Dwayne -why so many white gloves ?
White gloves: sounds like an euphemism, I'm not sure what for... but something.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 18, 2014 - 5:46am
Lots of gardens with white gloves, lots of horse riding gloves (not all of them are white, but a fair number).
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 18, 2014 - 11:29am
Great. Now I have a story idea for a girl with a latex fetish.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 18, 2014 - 3:10pm
People dressed up for specific kinds of horse riding often look like they are into something kinky, and when you see kids in the outfit it is very off putting, but you get used to it.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 18, 2014 - 5:09pm
@Grigori: I want to read that story! Will it be white latex gloves? :)
@RG: We have proms too; no white gloves. Mr. D is right about the white gloves and driving/riding horse events; I forgot about those. I have several cousins and nieces involved in that. Whatever floats your boat and doesn't cause the neighbors to riot is ok with me! (to badly paraphrase Virginia Woolf).
@Dwayne: Have you ever been to a horse show with Arabian horses? It's really beautiful. I love those horses; they are so versatile: they jump, ride English, barrel-race, you can even take them foxhunting. Plus they're easy to mount if you're short like me, and they have sweet natures for the most part and are good w/children.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 18, 2014 - 5:36pm
Sorta? I've been to a few, but it was more of an event and I wasn't paying attention kind of thing. Horses, and food, and music and 85 other things going on type of deal. Although here it is mainly thoroughbreds.
monkeywright
from Los Angeles is reading The Narrows by m. craigApril 18, 2014 - 10:04pm
I win. I made the last post. I win.
...I should try to check in here more often. Damn.
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 18, 2014 - 10:20pm
@justwords: It's erotic fiction. The gloves can be any color you want.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 18, 2014 - 11:29pm
Cool! I like black, and purple. Keep me posted on your progress ok? :)
Oh I mean the color of the gloves, ok?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 19, 2014 - 1:22am
Weirdos.
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 19, 2014 - 3:05am
@Dwayne. And? It's not my fault that the sounds of rubber gloves snapping turns some people on.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 19, 2014 - 3:52am
Yes it is.
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 19, 2014 - 5:46am
Excellent. I'll add it to my resume.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 19, 2014 - 8:30am
Oh, aren't we coy.
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 19, 2014 - 11:29am
I haven't heard that since my last police interrogation -er... interview.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 19, 2014 - 1:43pm
^
What an interesting life you lead!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 19, 2014 - 1:50pm
Who leads and who follows?
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 19, 2014 - 2:21pm
Hopefully that link should lead to a latex Easter treat. No actual rabbits were used.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 19, 2014 - 9:32pm
Good segue, RG! Although, it sounds like that hat should be eaten, as it is described as a treat. I couldn't bear to hurt/kill/eat Thumper.
You guys are overrun with the little devils, aren't you? Or is that a nasty rumor? I thought they were transplanted to correct a problem much like Southerners transplanted the Japanese kudzu vines to help stablize our soil and hilly/mountainous terrainand prevent erosion during the 30s Dust Bowl era, and now we fight it daily with machetes just to clear our way from our driveways to our doors.
Oh, Happy Easter Egg Day! I never did get an adequate explanation from my 'rents about why a damn rabbit has its paws on colored eggs. (sigh)
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 20, 2014 - 8:58pm
Hey JW - yeah we have a rabbit problem. The English, when they laid claim to the land, decided to bring rabbits and foxes over here so they could still do their 'hunting'.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 20, 2014 - 9:15pm
It is funny, because you say that like they are some unimaginable outsider group instead of your few times great grandparents.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 20, 2014 - 9:36pm
@RG - wow, had no idea! Those wretched Brits!!
@Dwayne - you got it backwards; the Brits used to consider everyone and everything not English to be weird and awful and beneath them. :)
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 21, 2014 - 1:57pm
That statement is a whole separate debate.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersApril 21, 2014 - 1:59pm
I heard that eating local honey is good for seasonal allergies.
Is that true?
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 21, 2014 - 2:56pm
I don't know but I do know a lot of folks who do just that. We have about 20 beekeepers in my greater neighborhood area, and they pretty much all sell some of their product down in the village at the local garden and landscape shop.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas? - Stalin
As quoted in Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001) by Robert G. Torricelli, p. 121
*ba-dum psssh*
Well, that stumped me, not sure what to say now.
But you did! Say something, that is.
No, she wrote it.
A mere technicality.
Ah, but we are a technical society.
Then you too are mere.
No, because I'm not very social.
Merely unsocial?
Excellent! RG!
Not unsocial. Maybe social lite, but not socailite?
So you had a lite debut?
Had to skip it, no white gloves.
How disappointing.
Oh I was happy to not go.
Well good for you then!
Does anyone actually own white gloves?
Valets
@Renae Gee: Hello! You'd be surprised who owns white gloves in the South (note that Dwayne hails from the fair town of Lexington-home of some really fast race horses!-, Kentucky); a lot of my neighbors have DEBUTANT daughters who wear long white gloves with their white ball gowns when their fathers "present them to society" (like they've been hiding forever); fathers also wear white gloves at some Mardi Gras balls in Mobile (not sure @ New Orleans); and of course some country clubs here still insist that the help wear white gloves when serving (feel free to: hoot, throw up, give your best I-don't-believe-that-crap look). All the live-long Doo-dah-Doo-dah Day!! :)
@justwords Hello to you:) Oh My....oh my, oh my giddy aunt. These girls, they just go along with it? Anyone ever rebel and wear black, or even more rebellious and wear harlot red? Rainbow gloves? Or the most daring.....naked hands and arms... Ok I shall stop making fun of another human's culture and keep my jesting to myself. ;-)
My gloves are mittens with penguins on :)
Even among our upper crust debutant balls aren't really a thing here anymore, but there are a fair number of white gloves.
If I even think about white gloves, they get dirty.
@Dwayne: Yea verily, we are truly trapped in the past here in some things... I personally haven't owned white gloves since I was a little girl. We still have galas and balls for the Museum of Art and the opera, but I'm allergic to that type of thing.
@RG: whoa, girl! Now a red dress w/rainbow gloves: awesome visual! Jest away!
@voodoo_em I think that is the bestest style of white glove.
@Grigori- I'm sure that happens with lots of thoughts.
@JW - we have leavers dinners, kind of like a prom, but no kings or queens.
@Dwayne -why so many white gloves ?
White gloves: sounds like an euphemism, I'm not sure what for... but something.
Lots of gardens with white gloves, lots of horse riding gloves (not all of them are white, but a fair number).
Great. Now I have a story idea for a girl with a latex fetish.
People dressed up for specific kinds of horse riding often look like they are into something kinky, and when you see kids in the outfit it is very off putting, but you get used to it.
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@Grigori: I want to read that story! Will it be white latex gloves? :)
@RG: We have proms too; no white gloves. Mr. D is right about the white gloves and driving/riding horse events; I forgot about those. I have several cousins and nieces involved in that. Whatever floats your boat and doesn't cause the neighbors to riot is ok with me! (to badly paraphrase Virginia Woolf).
@Dwayne: Have you ever been to a horse show with Arabian horses? It's really beautiful. I love those horses; they are so versatile: they jump, ride English, barrel-race, you can even take them foxhunting. Plus they're easy to mount if you're short like me, and they have sweet natures for the most part and are good w/children.
Sorta? I've been to a few, but it was more of an event and I wasn't paying attention kind of thing. Horses, and food, and music and 85 other things going on type of deal. Although here it is mainly thoroughbreds.
I win. I made the last post. I win.
...I should try to check in here more often. Damn.
@justwords: It's erotic fiction. The gloves can be any color you want.
Cool! I like black, and purple. Keep me posted on your progress ok? :)
Oh I mean the color of the gloves, ok?
Weirdos.
@Dwayne. And? It's not my fault that the sounds of rubber gloves snapping turns some people on.
Yes it is.
Excellent. I'll add it to my resume.
Oh, aren't we coy.
I haven't heard that since my last police interrogation -er... interview.
^
What an interesting life you lead!
Who leads and who follows?
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/189643834283176623/
Hopefully that link should lead to a latex Easter treat. No actual rabbits were used.
Good segue, RG! Although, it sounds like that hat should be eaten, as it is described as a treat. I couldn't bear to hurt/kill/eat Thumper.
You guys are overrun with the little devils, aren't you? Or is that a nasty rumor? I thought they were transplanted to correct a problem much like Southerners transplanted the Japanese kudzu vines to help stablize our soil and hilly/mountainous terrainand prevent erosion during the 30s Dust Bowl era, and now we fight it daily with machetes just to clear our way from our driveways to our doors.
Oh, Happy Easter Egg Day! I never did get an adequate explanation from my 'rents about why a damn rabbit has its paws on colored eggs. (sigh)
Hey JW - yeah we have a rabbit problem. The English, when they laid claim to the land, decided to bring rabbits and foxes over here so they could still do their 'hunting'.
It is funny, because you say that like they are some unimaginable outsider group instead of your few times great grandparents.
@RG - wow, had no idea! Those wretched Brits!!
@Dwayne - you got it backwards; the Brits used to consider everyone and everything not English to be weird and awful and beneath them. :)
That statement is a whole separate debate.
I heard that eating local honey is good for seasonal allergies.
Is that true?
I don't know but I do know a lot of folks who do just that. We have about 20 beekeepers in my greater neighborhood area, and they pretty much all sell some of their product down in the village at the local garden and landscape shop.