C'est la Vie by Jennifer Babcock for October 11, 2008

  1. Emerald
    margueritem  about 16 years ago

    You may as well try to stop the sun from shining, Mona.

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    runar  about 16 years ago

    Sisters don’t count. Any apology given to a sister is forgotten five minutes later.

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    Ray_C  about 16 years ago

    Interesting…he rips off two expletives that would be offensive to a lot of people, but she has to disguise a more or less every-day word. Is Babcock making a point about the language usage of the two characters, or what? I’m puzzled.

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    Nugget0 Premium Member about 16 years ago

    Ray C - I agree - someone must believe it is okay to offend the object of another’s worship than it is to offend an MTV television series about idiots.

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    Ray_C  about 16 years ago

    Maybe the point is that the language is part of his jack-assidness. (Or is it jack-assidity?) Anyway, I got so involved in that conundrum, I didn’t really appreciate a d*rn good punch line. (By the way, I learned last week that if you write “DAR_N” in here, you will get a bleep substituted. I am more confused than Pierre, and that’s saying a lot.

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  6. Emerald
    margueritem  about 16 years ago

    Runar, I’m still waiting to hear that sister story of yours.

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  7. Georg von rosen   oden som vandringsman  1886  odin  the wanderer
    runar  about 16 years ago

    Whenever my sister did something nasty to me, she got away with it without apologizing. When I offended her (and anything could offend her, even if it wasn’t offensive), I was expected to apoligize. When I did, I still got treated as if I hadn’t. When our mother died, the house was to be sold and the money divided; she used her position as executor to keep the house as a rental property instead, thus effectively cutting me out of the will. If I could go back to early childhood, I’d kill her, make it look like an accident, and grow up happily as an only child.

    “My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell”

    — Igor Stravinsky

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  8. Emerald
    margueritem  about 16 years ago

    Was she older or younger? My younger sister got away with a lot more then I did. That said, it’s sad when parents favor one child over another and make it obvious. Is your sister aware of how you feel?

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    klaude  about 16 years ago

    Da Igor, I’ll drink to that.

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    runar  about 16 years ago

    Se’s six years older, and though I’ve had no contact with her for six years she knows how I feel. I wouldn’t push her out of the way of a speeding bus (more likely vice-versa).

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    MichelleZProvencher  about 6 years ago

    I was spoiled a good deal as the baby but I don’t feel like I “abused” that too much. (Not much of a surprise that I would think that but my 3 older brothers and one older sister have yet to express any desires to shove me in front of a bus but then again I haven’t swindled them out of money or precious keepsakes from a dearly departed loved one either.)

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