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But what is a girl?

One year I was in charge of my kids school's Halloween haunted house. I did it up as a haunted carnival/circus. Those valances and streamers/curtain things in pictures 1 and 2 remind me of how I did the entrances to my haunted carnival.

The Biden's, of course, are a lot prettier.

In the great words of Shaggy "it wasn't me."

Pretty sure he said it was an Asian-British great? granddaughter of Chiang kai-shek. Something like that.

@LuFins-Dad said in My X Men Story:

LOL! Scroll to the bottom!

https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Mitchell_Laurio

Living in his head!

I have never seen that!

Yeah, that David Hayter. He bascially stole my husband's name.

Just watched DP and Wolvie over the weekend and the out-takes during the end credits reminded me of something that some of you might find amusing.

My husband has always been into comic books. When Fury showed up at the end of Ironman his head exploded. When X-Men came out we were housebound due to babies, but everyone and their mother kept telling us we had to watch X-men 2. So we rented from the local Blockbuster.

The movie pays an unusual amount of attention to a secondary character, prison guard Mitchell Laurio. The credits showed that the screenplay was written by David Hayter, who went to school with my husband. They bonded over comic books, but had a falling out over a girl. They kind of, sort of made up before graduation, but their friendship was never the same. Thrilled, my husband tried to find him but had no luck. This was before Facebook and social media.

So fast forward to a couple of years ago. We went to a comic con in LA. Those conventions are huge and we were properly lost. We turned a corner, and there sitting in a booth, signing autographs was David Hayter.

My husband bellowed out "David fucking Hayter!"

David Hayter stood up. "Michael Fucking Laurio!"

They hugged, caught up on the last 35 years, and exchanged numbers. Turns out that after high school, David Hayter tried to make it in "the industry" but wasn't getting anywhere. Worried because he was depressed, one of his friends got him a job answering phones for some guy.

This guy was trying to write the screenplay for X-Men, but didn't know anything about comic books. David Hayter would tell him "No man, that's wrong. It's like this...." Finally the guy told him to write the screenplay.

So he did. And he put my husband in the movie. Made him an overweight, disgruntled guard who gets pants by Mystique, and before dying a painful death, gets told by Magneto to never trust a beautiful woman interested in him.

But that's not the kicker. The kicker is that the next day my husband texted him.
"great running into you. happy for your success. next time x,y,z are in town let's get together".

David Hayter never responded. Not even with a thumbs up. Hahahahaha. I guess he's still mad at my husband.

Sorry if this is long. I just thought this was funny.

It has been my experience that once something has been named it is yours and you can't get rid of it.

Hope the vet gives Huahua a clean bill of health.

Horace, that site is hilarious.

I don't see them eating it. They must be trolling somebody.

I've never seen a cat with those markings before. Really pretty and interesting.

Has your wife named it yet?

Which one is Luke?

I have never heard of Burkina Faso. So I googled it. The country is beautiful.

The front of the house does have a storybook feel to it. I love the lamppost by the front door. I imagine Mr Tumnus living there.

Not only do I trust my parents, I trust my in-laws as well.

But they give us money. The funny thing is my parents don't give my brothers money.

You're going to need a lot of money. That list is long.

Double Tree. They have junior suites. And you can get their yummy cookies.

Times Square is a madhouse.

I think the most effective thing the pro-life movement can do, is advocate for abortion laws that:

1. Cap abortions at 12 weeks.
2. Fund pregnancy centers to combat abortion propaganda.
3. Advocate for laws which require ultrasound before abortion. If it's difficult to pass such a law, try to establish free ultrasound testing close to any abortion provider. A funny thing happens to women when they understand what they are killing.

So Ax, what do you think of Jolly's suggestions for abortion laws? Personally, I think it's a fair compromise.

Both races were awesome.

Yeah, that dolphin kick will do it for you. In the very few competitions that my daughter won, it was her dolphin kick that put her ahead.

Chores will always be there. Sunny, mid 70's, AND no humidity will not. You made the right choice.

10 bags? For such a small kitchen you sure do have a lot of stuff. Or are the bags small?

@George-K said in Resusci-baby:

@blondie said in Resusci-baby:

Where are the nurses?

Good observation. Every time I've done this, or seen a neonatologist do this, the nurse had a stethoscope on the chest, and was tapping out the heart rate on the side of the layette.

In my hospital the nurses were at every delivery. But we rarely had the neonatologist; it was the interns that were with us.