The March LIW small talk thread

[princesss]

Thanks for reminding me!!!! That totally beats out Grease!

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Not to derail the conversation (can it be derailed in a small talk thread?

) but Romeo and Juliet has always bothered me (well since I actually read it). I mean, before you read it, you hear of it in such romantic terms - true love, star-crossed lovers, etc. But then I read it in high school and later for my English major in undergrad, and I thought, "wow these kids are DUMB." I think it just really gets me that 1) Romeo decides to off himself (hello? do you not check for pulse or breathing??; and 2) Juliet sees Romeo dead and offs herself. I mean, jeez, I know teenagers aren''t the brightest (all those hormones) but this is just ridiculous. And this is all for what was probably puppy love? I mean, if they had lived and you fast-forwarded 40 years, I wonder if they would have been just another "divorced" or unhappy couple.

Sorry for the depressing outlook, but I mean, you just can''t compare real relationships to R&J or a fairy tale. Those have happy storybook endings, and real relationships aren''t supposed to have an ending- they should be constantly evolving, new pages being written, not the book being shut on "they lived happily ever after."

Ok back to income tax studying.

 

[princesss]

Bwahahahahahaha, BEG, that''s exactly how I feel! They were what? 14? 16? But ooooh, it''s true love that will last a lifetime. (Well, I guess for them it was.) But really, calm the heck down. It''s like trying to compare a real relationship to a romance novel. Yeah, it''s exciting, and hearts are pounding...but a good chunk of that is fear. Fear that you''re going to lose them.

So silly. I mean, it''s not like it never happens. My best friend''s parents met at 16 and married at 20, and they''re still very happily married. But teenage love isn''t worth killing yourself over, unless you''re trying REALLY hard to keep your genes from swimming in the big kid pool.

 

[SailorsSweet<3]

youre completely right B.E.G. I dont know, its been a long time since I''ve taken an english class but I can remember it being said that Shakespeare was in a way being sarcastic (for lack of a better term) about how irrational and hormone driven, like you said, young love can be. Which in a way comforts me because all these young engagements that I''m stressing about that are referred to as "true love" can be as irrational and hormone driven as Romeo and Juliet was. Too bad their parents - supposedly the maturity and reason in their lives - dont seem to have a problem with the speedy and young engagement I have in mind. Romeo and Juliet''s parents hated each other! That was a simple fix, haah.

 

[princesss]

Date: 3/12/2009 8:30:08 PM
Author: SailorsSweet<3
youre completely right B.E.G. I dont know, its been a long time since I've taken an english class but I can remember it being said that Shakespeare was in a way being sarcastic (for lack of a better term) about how irrational and hormone driven, like you said, young love can be. Which in a way comforts me because all these young engagements that I'm stressing about that are referred to as 'true love' can be as irrational and hormone driven as Romeo and Juliet was. Too bad their parents - supposedly the maturity and reason in their lives - dont seem to have a problem with the speedy and young engagement I have in mind. Romeo and Juliet's parents hated each other! That was a simple fix, haah.

Shakespeare has a really crazy version of love in all of his plays. Midsummer Night's Dream, anybody? Yeah, things will work out in the end if you just have magic! What about Twelfth Night? A man falls in love with a girl, but he doesn't know she's a girl. I mean, I'm happy to see a certain amount of fluid sexuality being recognized, but it's definitely not the simple, happy love story some people see if you actually pay attention.

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Haha I LOVE Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night''s Dream. Those are my two favorite plays of Shakespeare (I definitely go more for his comedies). But Sailor, don''t stress too much. There''s a timeline for everyone - no one can judge on someone else''s timeline or try to impose what they think is the "right" one. When engagement DOES happen, I bet you''ll be thinking how perfect that moment/time is, rather than "I wish this had happened x number of years ago." It''ll work out

R&J though...maybe if the Capulets and Montagues didn''t spend so much time fighting and took some time to have the "puppy love" talk with R&J, things would''ve fared better...of course, then we wouldn''t have the play...

 

[FrekeChild]

Date: 3/12/2009 8:28:54 PM
Author: princesss
Bwahahahahahaha, BEG, that''s exactly how I feel! They were what? 14? 16? But ooooh, it''s true love that will last a lifetime. (Well, I guess for them it was.) But really, calm the heck down. It''s like trying to compare a real relationship to a romance novel. Yeah, it''s exciting, and hearts are pounding...but a good chunk of that is fear. Fear that you''re going to lose them.

So silly. I mean, it''s not like it never happens. My best friend''s parents met at 16 and married at 20, and they''re still very happily married. But teenage love isn''t worth killing yourself over, unless you''re trying REALLY hard to keep your genes from swimming in the big kid pool.

Big GUFFAW from me on that one.

As for Romeo and Juliet...ditto BEG, Princesss and SailorsSweet. Two moronic puppy-loving individuals who made really stupid choices. I''m with ol'' Willy on this one. Sarcasm dripping ALL OVER this story. Either that or disdain. Heck, probably both.

 

[SailorsSweet<3]

Maybe we should start a Shakespeare thread! Im kind of enjoying this

 

[FrekeChild]

Seriously! It''s been far too long since I''ve talked about lovely Shakespeare...

 

[IloveAsschers13]

Hey elle-

Have you seen those Billy Mays (the guy who does the shamwow) parody commercials? THEY ARE SOOO FUNNY. Search billy mays on youtube, and there are a bunch of them... ha check it out.

 

[Lauren8211]

FF and I made a cake today with another couple.

 

[misskitty]

Ummm, what is the "poop" made of? (I''m guessing it''s supposed to be poop from the title?)

 

[Definitely. Maybe]

Ewww I just came over to this thread to see what everyone was chatting about and I see the poop cake! haha. That is so gross. How much do you have left? I assume people ate around the ''poop''?

I can barely handle the thought. hehe

 

[Lauren8211]

Hehe.

The poop was made from marzipan, and I rubbed chocolate frosting all over it to make it brown, and we stuck little nut chunks in it for texture. It was quite the project.

People actually ate the poop. It was gross to see people biting into big chunks of it.

Best cake I''ve ever made.

 

[Bia]

LOL Elle, I saw your cake this morning and I was thinking to myself, ''that looks like $%^& on that cake!'' BUT I didn''t say anything incase it wasn''t meant to!!!! hehehe.

How did you all get poop from the title I wonder?

Good job on making that stuff look authentic. You get an A++

 

[FrekeChild]

Bia, if you look at the post with the picture, it has "Attached File: poopcake.jpg" or something in the little section directly under her post.

Fab cake Elle!!!! Love it!!!! (And so gross to think about people eating it...ewwwww!!!!)

 

[sammyj]

elle, I was wondering what was on the cake too!!! I can''t believe people were taking big bites out of the poop! The rest of the cake looked really yummy though...

 

[Bia]

Date: 3/16/2009 4:31:54 AM
Author: FrekeChild
Bia, if you look at the post with the picture, it has ''Attached File: poopcake.jpg'' or something in the little section directly under her post.


Fab cake Elle!!!! Love it!!!! (And so gross to think about people eating it...ewwwww!!!!)

Ha! Totally missed that...

Thanks Freke

 

[jcarlylew]

that cake is sooo wrong.. i bet it was a blast to make!

 

[Lauren8211]

LOL. I love how you didn''t want to insult me, so you didn''t tell me that what was on my cake clearly looked like someone took a dump. I totally would''ve done the same thing, but it''s funny that you were scared to say something.

For 8 years running now, FF and a friend of his have "Sean Connery" day. They decorate the whole place with Sean Connery stuff, serve Connery Signature Cocktails, and play Connery movies on all the TV on closed captioning. One of our friends makes video games for a living, so he makes a new Sean Connery video game every year. We''ve had Ultimate Connery Fightin Game, Connery Cart, and others... ( Can''t remember them all)

FF and I were put on cake duty with another couple, and I have no idea how it ended up with poop cake... well.. with a big chunk of marzipan... it''s only a matter of time before people start rolling it into turds.

 

[Lauren8211]

Poop Cake link incase you wanted to zoom in for texture.

 

[Bia]

Date: 3/16/2009 9:24:20 AM
Author: elledizzy5
Poop Cake link incase you wanted to zoom in for texture.

Elle, that is disgusting! You even put little green & orange chunks into it?!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL

 

[Lauren8211]

Date: 3/16/2009 9:43:37 AM
Author: Bia

Date: 3/16/2009 9:24:20 AM
Author: elledizzy5
Poop Cake link incase you wanted to zoom in for texture.

Elle, that is disgusting! You even put little green & orange chunks into it?!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL

That was some funfetti...

 

[Dreamgirl]

lol This TOTALLY reminds me of a birthday cake we once got for S. It was a pile of dog crap with a halo over it...and then there were clouds behind it and it said: "HOLY $HIT IT''S S''S BIRTHDAY!"

Hilarious...good times.

 

[somegirl932]

Date: 3/16/2009 8:57:27 AM
Author: elledizzy5
LOL. I love how you didn''t want to insult me, so you didn''t tell me that what was on my cake clearly looked like someone took a dump. I totally would''ve done the same thing, but it''s funny that you were scared to say something.

For 8 years running now, FF and a friend of his have ''Sean Connery'' day. They decorate the whole place with Sean Connery stuff, serve Connery Signature Cocktails, and play Connery movies on all the TV on closed captioning. One of our friends makes video games for a living, so he makes a new Sean Connery video game every year. We''ve had Ultimate Connery Fightin Game, Connery Cart, and others... ( Can''t remember them all)


FF and I were put on cake duty with another couple, and I have no idea how it ended up with poop cake... well.. with a big chunk of marzipan... it''s only a matter of time before people start rolling it into turds.

I was going to ask just why this had come about!

I''m reminded of http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

 

[Lauren8211]

Date: 3/16/2009 2:25:33 PM
Author: Dreamgirl
lol This TOTALLY reminds me of a birthday cake we once got for S. It was a pile of dog crap with a halo over it...and then there were clouds behind it and it said: ''HOLY $HIT IT''S S''S BIRTHDAY!''


Hilarious...good times.

Hehehe. Why does poop never get old? It''s always funny... at least to me.

 

[Lauren8211]

Date: 3/16/2009 5:37:03 PM
Author: somegirl932

Date: 3/16/2009 8:57:27 AM

Author: elledizzy5

LOL. I love how you didn''t want to insult me, so you didn''t tell me that what was on my cake clearly looked like someone took a dump. I totally would''ve done the same thing, but it''s funny that you were scared to say something.

For 8 years running now, FF and a friend of his have ''Sean Connery'' day. They decorate the whole place with Sean Connery stuff, serve Connery Signature Cocktails, and play Connery movies on all the TV on closed captioning. One of our friends makes video games for a living, so he makes a new Sean Connery video game every year. We''ve had Ultimate Connery Fightin Game, Connery Cart, and others... ( Can''t remember them all)



FF and I were put on cake duty with another couple, and I have no idea how it ended up with poop cake... well.. with a big chunk of marzipan... it''s only a matter of time before people start rolling it into turds.

I was going to ask just why this had come about!

I''m reminded of http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

Ha! I love that website. I was just looking at it earlier!

 

[somegirl932]

Date: 3/16/2009 10:30:21 PM
Author: elledizzy5
Ha! I love that website. I was just looking at it earlier!

It''s on my list of websites that I read daily... except there''s so many of them at this point that sometimes I don''t get around to them for a week or so... and I wonder why my grades aren''t that great...

 

[Dreamgirl]

Date: 3/16/2009 10:29:50 PM
Author: elledizzy5

Date: 3/16/2009 2:25:33 PM
Author: Dreamgirl
lol This TOTALLY reminds me of a birthday cake we once got for S. It was a pile of dog crap with a halo over it...and then there were clouds behind it and it said: ''HOLY $HIT IT''S S''S BIRTHDAY!''


Hilarious...good times.

Hehehe. Why does poop never get old? It''s always funny... at least to me.

haha I have no idea why it never gets old. That among other things too....

It''s just funny!

 

[misskitty]

So, the poop cake reminds me of an April Fool''s joke my friend''s mom played on him in 2nd grade.

We all sat down and opened up our lunchboxes, and everything in his was made to look like poop -- rolled up bread crusts, dates and prunes, brownies that were smushed up, etc. It basically looked like his mom had packed him a bunch of bags of dog poo for lunch.

Knowing his mom, she probably thought it was the funniest thing ever. He forgot it was April 1 and cried at the lunch table.

Oops!