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[Britwitch]

And until that time, NO SWALLOWING!!

just laughs

Oh Bert, you do make me giggle!

kisses his cheek

How are things in your part of the world?

 

[saysalice]

I'm choking up!

bites back a wobbly lip

I had a great weekend with my friend and her little one. My favourite moment was when the wee tyke sat on my knee while I read her stories. Most embarrassing moment was when I was putting on her shoes and she pulled my shirt down and said "Juice?"

It's wee cute things they do, the way they smile at you, I think it would make all the tantrums worth it.

Gah, go away broodiness!

giggles

My son occasionally "gets fresh" with my girlfriends... It's a bit awkward.

But yeah, every day he makes me smile and laugh, and I love watching him discover new things. It's challenging at times, and it's not for everybody, but I'm really loving being a mom - more than I could have imagined.

I'll stop gushing now, I promise.

Hey you too, beautiful!

hugs tight

And dignity?

laughs

Yeah, childbirth and dignity have absolutely nothing to do with one another!

How's you?

But somebody's got to do it.

I'm doing okay! Thinking it's about time I got off my virtual ass and got some posts up.

grins

How're you?

 

[Britwitch]

But somebody's got to do it.

I'm doing okay! Thinking it's about time I got off my virtual ass and got some posts up.

grins

How're you?

As a dedicated Alice-follower you can understand my excitement at the possibility of having things to read from you.

grins and winks

But I know you'll get to them when you can. I'm too behind for words myself. Hopefully tonight though I might manage something...

 

[Bert_Fegg]

just laughs

Oh Bert, you do make me giggle!

kisses his cheek

How are things in your part of the world?

Windy and overcast, but warm.

Keep telling myself that any moment now I'm going to switch off the internet and write something - hasn't happened yet

How are you? You sound rather busy.

 

[Britwitch]

Windy and overcast, but warm.

Keep telling myself that any moment now I'm going to switch off the internet and write something - hasn't happened yet

How are you? You sound rather busy.

I'm good, thanks. And busy? Yes, I am a bit but...that's usually the way of things for me during the week. For the duration of spring pretty much.

But I do get my quiet moments now and then. Hopefully I can be creative - in one way or another - in my next one.

winks

 

[Bert_Fegg]

I'm good, thanks. And busy? Yes, I am a bit but...that's usually the way of things for me during the week. For the duration of spring pretty much.

But I do get my quiet moments now and then. Hopefully I can be creative - in one way or another - in my next one.

winks

That sounds promising....

 

[prettyserpentine]

I am loving some Phantom of the Opera right now.

dances very melodramatically

 

[DesEsseintes]

We should absolutely write a Literotica musical. A bunch of nice American liberals take over a moribund website in the early 90s, full of ideals about sex not having to be pornographic or denigrating to women. As time goes on, the offices are invaded by smart-ass Brits/Europeans with their irony and understatement and often filthy de Sade references.

The liberal Americans are upset by this, but as things are about to come to a head the previous enemies combine forces in the face of a threatened invasion by the real antagonists - crazy Ayn Rand-style nutjobs, flooding the threads with desperate slurs on Obama, liberals, black people, women, etc. What is more, they have a terrible advantage, which is that the traditional weapons powered by humour and gentle self-denigration are powerless against them. Even worse, when anyone tries to engage with them on their thread for too long they are assimilated, and become one wit their erstwhile enemies.

It comes to a head (sic) when the last uninvaded thread is cowering in a corner, with the grim ranks of the right-wingers advancing remorselessly upon it. The lights are dimming, and the hordes of dumb, commercial pornography are standing in the wings waiting to take over for the final time.

Just then, the unglamorous secretary, who has been a small but consistent feature of the show so far, typing away increasingly terse responses to motiveless complaints and deleting ever more ingenious threads posting pornography, stands up. She removes her glasses and loosens her hair.

'My God!', murmurs Bunnyslippers, as JeninFlorida staggers and faints. 'She's beautiful!' The secretary sashays down the light-trimmed steps into centre stage, ripping off her demure skirt suit to reveal a risque decolletage that sends the collective Literotica pulse racing once more. One by one, the bodies scattered around the stage rise up, discarding their suits and sensible shoes in favour of hot pants and corsets. With a series of high-kicks and an occasional judicious throwing of discarded clothing into faces, they rout the advancing army, before inviting the gaping audience onto the stage for the wonderful Busby Berkelyesque finale, involving dancing giraffes and a monkey derby.

Just a thought, of course. Feel free to add, denigrate or tear to shreds to your heart's content. But it must be better than Phantom of the bloody Opera.

 

[Bert_Fegg]

We should absolutely write a Literotica musical. A bunch of nice American liberals take over a moribund website in the early 90s, full of ideals about sex not having to be pornographic or denigrating to women. As time goes on, the offices are invaded by smart-ass Brits/Europeans with their irony and understatement and often filthy de Sade references.

The liberal Americans are upset by this, but as things are about to come to a head the previous enemies combine forces in the face of a threatened invasion by the real antagonists - crazy Ayn Rand-style nutjobs, flooding the threads with desperate slurs on Obama, liberals, black people, women, etc. What is more, they have a terrible advantage, which is that the traditional weapons powered by humour and gentle self-denigration are powerless against them. Even worse, when anyone tries to engage with them on their thread for too long they are assimilated, and become one wit their erstwhile enemies.

It comes to a head (sic) when the last uninvaded thread is cowering in a corner, with the grim ranks of the right-wingers advancing remorselessly upon it. The lights are dimming, and the hordes of dumb, commercial pornography are standing in the wings waiting to take over for the final time.

Just then, the unglamorous secretary, who has been a small but consistent feature of the show so far, typing away increasingly terse responses to motiveless complaints and deleting ever more ingenious threads posting pornography, stands up. She removes her glasses and loosens her hair.

'My God!', murmurs Bunnyslippers, as JeninFlorida staggers and faints. 'She's beautiful!' The secretary sashays down the light-trimmed steps into centre stage, ripping off her demure skirt suit to reveal a risque decolletage that sends the collective Literotica pulse racing once more. One by one, the bodies scattered around the stage rise up, discarding their suits and sensible shoes in favour of hot pants and corsets. With a series of high-kicks and an occasional judicious throwing of discarded clothing into faces, they rout the advancing army, before inviting the gaping audience onto the stage for the wonderful Busby Berkelyesque finale, involving dancing giraffes and a monkey derby.

Just a thought, of course. Feel free to add, denigrate or tear to shreds to your heart's content. But it must be better than Phantom of the bloody Opera.

I have to say I'm in awe of your imagination.

 

[DesEsseintes]

I have to say I'm in awe of your imagination.

Imagination? It's grimly realistic. I'm picturing it directed by Ken Loach or Mike Leigh...

 

[Bert_Fegg]

Imagination? It's grimly realistic. I'm picturing it directed by Ken Loach or Mike Leigh...

Has any musical ever, qualified as "grimly realistic"?

I mean much of the Rice/Lloyd-Webber oevre counts as grim but that's only half the story...

 

[LallyH]

Has any musical ever, qualified as "grimly realistic"?

I mean much of the Rice/Lloyd-Webber oevre counts as grim but that's only half the story...

I've studiously avoided it, but daughter listens to Les Mis on a regular basis when she's feeling dramatically tearful. The ritual is cup of sweet tea, box of tissues and the Les Mis CD. She tells me there are no happy endings in it

 

[StarryEyed665]

I've studiously avoided it, but daughter listens to Les Mis on a regular basis when she's feeling dramatically tearful. The ritual is cup of sweet tea, box of tissues and the Les Mis CD. She tells me there are no happy endings in it

Ha, I'll admit I've been guilty of that too Especially when the film came out, people at my old school would just randomly break out into "On my Own" and "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" and recite Valjean's soliloquies and it was just all very depressing. But I liked feeling like I was in a musical.

And that is a most wonderful idea, Des!

 

[DesEsseintes]

She tells me there are no happy endings in it

There are in Miss Saigon. Wait: I mean, in Saigon. You just have to pay a little extra.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Has any musical ever, qualified as "grimly realistic"?

What on earth do you mean? Round here we're always spontaneously breaking into song and dance routines. People in Oxfordshire don't bother going to musicals - they just wander round town with a camera phone.

Life really must be grim up north.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Ha, I'll admit I've been guilty of that too Especially when the film came out, people at my old school would just randomly break out into "On my Own" and "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" and recite Valjean's soliloquies and it was just all very depressing. But I liked feeling like I was in a musical.

And that is a most wonderful idea, Des!

Madam, you are too kind. I think we should all contribute. We did the same thing at my school with Oliver! - I once responded to a cover teacher asking me my name, prior to a royal telling-off, with a rousing rendition of Bill Sikes' song:

'Strong men tremble when they hear it
They've got cause enough to fear it
It's much blacker than they fear it
Nobody mentions...my name.' etc, etc.

 

[StarryEyed665]

Madam, you are too kind. I think we should all contribute. We did the same thing at my school with Oliver! - I once responded to a cover teacher asking me my name, prior to a royal telling-off, with a rousing rendition of Bill Sikes' song:

'Strong men tremble when they hear it
They've got cause enough to fear it
It's much blacker than they fear it
Nobody mentions...my name.' etc, etc.

Beeeeaaaauuuuutiful ;D That teacher clearly wasn't cultured enough to be able to appreciate such a fine performance. I would have similarly chosen, "do not forget me, do not forget my name!" with the same antagonistic tenor as Javert. That probably wouldn't have done me any favours, either. Even if I wore his hat.

 

[Bert_Fegg]

Beeeeaaaauuuuutiful ;D That teacher clearly wasn't cultured enough to be able to appreciate such a fine performance. I would have similarly chosen, "do not forget me, do not forget my name!" with the same antagonistic tenor as Javert. That probably wouldn't have done me any favours, either. Even if I wore his hat.

I'm not anywhere near as cultured as you fine people - I'd probably have burst into a rousing rendition of B'wana Dik

 

[Niceandbrutal]

This happened to me, too. Threw up in my hair, right after they showed us our baby (no offense, baby!).

Because I had a section, I wasn't permitted to shower for a few days, though they did finally give me this shampoo-in-a-bag thing to use in bed. It became our running joke, while I was in the hospital. We learned in prenatal classes that a newborn will know the smell of his mom, almost right away.

Every time he cried, we were like:

"Pass me back to the barf lady!"

/csb

Irreverent humor with parents and their newborn children is a guilty pleasure of mine.

 

[prettyserpentine]

stretches and yawns

I had such a naughty, decadent weekend. Chocolate, pizza, crisps...

My dietician is going to kill me today when I go for my appointment.

 

[prettyserpentine]

Oh. My. God!!

I love my mother... She went away with dad shopping today and about a fortnight ago I had mentioned I was meaning to buy 'The Wise Man's Fear'. It's the second book in The Kingkiller Chronicle, it follows 'The Name of the Wind'.

Anyway. She just called me and asked the name of the book. Then she called back and was like, "The guy in Waterstones says if you like this, you'll like 'Prince of Thorns'. It got a great write up by Robin Hobb. So the guy says. Anyway. I'll buy you the books, just in case you miss them or something, or they aren't here next time you're down. See you later. Love you!"

So now I'm dancing around the living room in excitement. I'm going to get an awesome book tonight!! I'm going to disappear for days now to read it, which will be great!! It'll be a way to pass time until Mister comes to me...

14 days to go!!

 

[Bert_Fegg]

Oh. My. God!!

I love my mother... She went away with dad shopping today and about a fortnight ago I had mentioned I was meaning to buy 'The Wise Man's Fear'. It's the second book in The Kingkiller Chronicle, it follows 'The Name of the Wind'.

Anyway. She just called me and asked the name of the book. Then she called back and was like, "The guy in Waterstones says if you like this, you'll like 'Prince of Thorns'. It got a great write up by Robin Hobb. So the guy says. Anyway. I'll buy you the books, just in case you miss them or something, or they aren't here next time you're down. See you later. Love you!"

So now I'm dancing around the living room in excitement. I'm going to get an awesome book tonight!! I'm going to disappear for days now to read it, which will be great!! It'll be a way to pass time until Mister comes to me...

14 days to go!!

Lucky you I'm reading a Lit author called Serafina1210. Also getting snarky in the story feedback forum

 

[prettyserpentine]

Lucky you I'm reading a Lit author called Serafina1210. Also getting snarky in the story feedback forum

Must have a wee look. This'll be strange, I never really leave the Lounge...

 

[Bert_Fegg]

Must have a wee look. This'll be strange, I never really leave the Lounge...

I wish I hadn't said that

 

[prettyserpentine]

Car talk and bickering. Two reasons why I don't frequent the rest of the boards.