Fortunately for me, I had daughters and never had to go through the "pubescent-boy-testing-the-parents" phase. Especially fortunate, because I don't think I'd have come up with any kind of comeback this brilliant. (Via Joel).
And no, I still don't really get the title of Crystal's blog.
Posted by Ken S at March 30, 2007 08:09 PM | TrackBack (0) |Yeah, but what about the little collections of hormones who keep going after the hormones? Aren't they worse than sons trying to assert their individuality?
Posted by: Tainted Bill at March 30, 2007 11:55 PMThey present their own set of problems. Just as bad, but in a different way.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at March 31, 2007 07:52 AMI got some of those finger cots to handle my coins. But mine have little nubby bits, for increased friction.
My coins are always happy!
(Actually, the finger cots are a big pain. It's easier to use gloves instead.)
Posted by: Angie Schultz at March 31, 2007 06:32 PMAs soon as I started reading the story I thought of finger cots. We used to have a box in the lab for handling the prisms, lenses, and gratings in our lasers and spectrometers. The label "Finger Cots" was crossed out, and written over with "Condoms for Small Peckers".
Posted by: John at March 31, 2007 08:34 PMthat was impressive. Crystal rocks!
Posted by: caltechgirl at March 31, 2007 09:43 PMfuck ya people are so small that they forget the size of what we it is all about and they get bubbly and they forget that we as a hole are one and that when we are togeather as a hole we are united and that means that weather u like it or u you don't you still have go t to protect your front porch we can not pretend that the world is protected from stupid people !
Cory - ease off the drugs and learn some grammar, common sense, and logical flow, dude.
Posted by: John at April 1, 2007 11:48 AM"we can not pretend that the world is protected from stupid people!"
Um, clearly.
Posted by: Emily at April 2, 2007 06:00 AM"Oh Stewardess, I speak jive."
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 2, 2007 07:13 AMCrystal's post is one of the funnier things I've read on the internet. I had tears of laughter running down my face as I read it - just IMAGINING tones of voice and that sort of thing.
that was just such a beautiful smackdown on the sort of stupid adolescent-boy humor that you hear.
(For the record: I guess my brother and I were excessively modest or somewhat retarded in that arena; we were both the sort of people who were utterly horrified by any kind of mention of sex in front of the parents. [even down to my brother, at 25, covering his ears and wincing in disgust when someone made a "honeymoon" joke to him in front of our dad right before my brother's wedding.]It's only been since I turned 30 or so that I felt comfortable telling bawdy jokes in front of my folks...and even then, there are some jokes I won't pass on, no matter how funny).
And, re: Cory. WTF? I think I shorted out a few neurons trying to understand that comment. Too bad they don't make condoms for blog comments.
Posted by: ricki at April 2, 2007 10:48 AM