Friday, September 09, 2005
Ma-in-Law
Being married, I have a mother-in-law. Kinda happens that way, I suppose, but it makes me wonder about mother-in-law jokes. They seem to have fallen by the wayside over the years, but there are a ton of 'em. And I never understood their popularity.
And quite often the stereotype doesn't come close to fitting my relationship with my ma-in-law. While her politics (when they make sense at all) are often divergent (if not out-right opposed) to mine, we get along fairly well. The only time we come into conflict is when she drives Mrs Sivana up the wall, which seems to be a hobby with her.
The closest I've actually come to making a mother-in-law joke was a week or so ago, when she asked me to lock the door behind her as she left. Actually, I believe the phrase was "lock me out"... She then balked, remembering she had a key and started to dig for it.
I couldn't help it. I mean she did set me up; it would almost have been an insult if I hadn't followed up....
"No, no. That's OK.... I'll do it. It's not everyday a fellow's allowed to lock out his mother-in-law".
She grinned widely.
It didn't get a big a laugh from her (or from my wife) as the time she was leaving and I had to remind her I had a bucket of shit for her*....
As a side note/question, while MiL jokes are numerous, I don't recall there being many son-in-law jokes. And those that do exist are usually told by fathers, not mothers, grousing about them. In daughter-in-law jokes are even rarer. Why is that?
(*I should probably explain that she has a garden and we have cats. You can do the math.)
Being married, I have a mother-in-law. Kinda happens that way, I suppose, but it makes me wonder about mother-in-law jokes. They seem to have fallen by the wayside over the years, but there are a ton of 'em. And I never understood their popularity.
And quite often the stereotype doesn't come close to fitting my relationship with my ma-in-law. While her politics (when they make sense at all) are often divergent (if not out-right opposed) to mine, we get along fairly well. The only time we come into conflict is when she drives Mrs Sivana up the wall, which seems to be a hobby with her.
The closest I've actually come to making a mother-in-law joke was a week or so ago, when she asked me to lock the door behind her as she left. Actually, I believe the phrase was "lock me out"... She then balked, remembering she had a key and started to dig for it.
I couldn't help it. I mean she did set me up; it would almost have been an insult if I hadn't followed up....
"No, no. That's OK.... I'll do it. It's not everyday a fellow's allowed to lock out his mother-in-law".
She grinned widely.
It didn't get a big a laugh from her (or from my wife) as the time she was leaving and I had to remind her I had a bucket of shit for her*....
As a side note/question, while MiL jokes are numerous, I don't recall there being many son-in-law jokes. And those that do exist are usually told by fathers, not mothers, grousing about them. In daughter-in-law jokes are even rarer. Why is that?
(*I should probably explain that she has a garden and we have cats. You can do the math.)
Am I the only one...
who thinks Ring of Fire should be used in Preperation H commercials?
who thinks Ring of Fire should be used in Preperation H commercials?
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Calling down curses
I've been a baaaaad boy......
Whilst desperately trying to get ahold of Mrs Sivana (I can't recall why... something to do with Narnia or goat cheese) on my cell-phone, I couldn't get thru. She didn't pick on the house line, the family line or her cell... She had mused on going to see her Mema & mother in Glenpool, so I tried their number, to no avail. No-one was home. I bemoaned this fact aloud with "How am I supposed to get brain cancer if no-one answers the phone?!"
For some reason, when I finally caught up with my wife, she wasn't amused....
I've been a baaaaad boy......
Whilst desperately trying to get ahold of Mrs Sivana (I can't recall why... something to do with Narnia or goat cheese) on my cell-phone, I couldn't get thru. She didn't pick on the house line, the family line or her cell... She had mused on going to see her Mema & mother in Glenpool, so I tried their number, to no avail. No-one was home. I bemoaned this fact aloud with "How am I supposed to get brain cancer if no-one answers the phone?!"
For some reason, when I finally caught up with my wife, she wasn't amused....
Another Band Name
(Feel free to use....)
Andrew Ridgley and the Sucking Chest Wounds
Comic Thoughts
Am I the only one who'd like to see an adventure featuring Mr. Miracle 0 (aka Thaddeus Brown)? I could easily see one set during WWII with GA characters, but I think I'd prefer a Cold War era Times Past tale.... Maybe as an IMF-style pastiche w/ gov't-sponsered heroes working on the QT, like Iron Munro and Phantom Lady...
I'd also like to see Vigilante and Hawkman meet up as a framing device for another Times Past tale featuring Vig when he was stuck in the Old West, teaming up with one of Hawkman's previous incarnations, Nighthawk and others (timeline permitting, of course). It could be used to connect Greg (Vigilante) Sa(u)nders to Speed Saunders and both Hawkgirls I and II not as mere blood relations, but with Greg as an ancestor!! (Shades of "I'm my own grandpa"!!)
(Feel free to use....)
Andrew Ridgley and the Sucking Chest Wounds
Comic Thoughts
Am I the only one who'd like to see an adventure featuring Mr. Miracle 0 (aka Thaddeus Brown)? I could easily see one set during WWII with GA characters, but I think I'd prefer a Cold War era Times Past tale.... Maybe as an IMF-style pastiche w/ gov't-sponsered heroes working on the QT, like Iron Munro and Phantom Lady...
I'd also like to see Vigilante and Hawkman meet up as a framing device for another Times Past tale featuring Vig when he was stuck in the Old West, teaming up with one of Hawkman's previous incarnations, Nighthawk and others (timeline permitting, of course). It could be used to connect Greg (Vigilante) Sa(u)nders to Speed Saunders and both Hawkgirls I and II not as mere blood relations, but with Greg as an ancestor!! (Shades of "I'm my own grandpa"!!)
Comics in the Library?!
Back in ye olde days of comics, when Gaines was still running his All-American line and before starting EC, comics at teast pretended to be educational. Quite often, Gaines would slip in 2 or 3 page bios of historical personages. As I recall, the serial was titled Wonder Women of History in both his Sensation and Wonder Woman comics. Bios of famous fliers would often appear along with Hop Harrigan stories.
Heck, he even published full comics of bios (along with Picture Stories from the Bible).
I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to gather these short bios into a juvi/young adult readers advisory book/folder for when the kids come up and need to write a paper on someone, but have no klew as to who they might find interesting.
Back in ye olde days of comics, when Gaines was still running his All-American line and before starting EC, comics at teast pretended to be educational. Quite often, Gaines would slip in 2 or 3 page bios of historical personages. As I recall, the serial was titled Wonder Women of History in both his Sensation and Wonder Woman comics. Bios of famous fliers would often appear along with Hop Harrigan stories.
Heck, he even published full comics of bios (along with Picture Stories from the Bible).
I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to gather these short bios into a juvi/young adult readers advisory book/folder for when the kids come up and need to write a paper on someone, but have no klew as to who they might find interesting.
