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Sounds like Orthodox Jews.

Btw I watched my replacement copy of Trembling before G-d last night. It was very good, if not quite as revelatory as I hoped.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://womensspace.wordpress.com/

That's the blogger who wrote the article. She was a Quiverfull mom and has eleven kids. She used to run a fairly popular homeschooling magazine. After a harrowing escape from an abusive husband she was excommunicated by the church and started writing feminist articles for a variety of publications. She seems like a really interesting person. Too bad I can't get up to A-ville to Women & Children First before we leave for DE.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Word on the streets is that my uncle only had relations with my aunt three times, resulting in their three children. Is that quiverfull?

I got my family Christmas cards last night. The annual family letters were depressing. The only 'godsend' was that no one mentioned Christ's blood this year. They must have just forgotten.

One family's letters always begin with something like, "It has been another trying year for our family, full of challenges and sadness, but the Lord is with us still." The other family writes things like, "We are so blessed that both of our sons are Christians! And we are doubly blessed that they have found wonderful, loving Christian wives! The Lord provideth!..."

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I prefer the latter, I guess.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that quiverfull?

My understanding is that quiverfull would require them to have as much sex as is necessary to keep the kids constantly coming until the woman hits menopause.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

My understanding is that quiverfull would require them to have as much sex as is necessary to keep the kids constantly coming until the woman hits menopause.

holy crap, time to bust out one of my favorite sayings... "IT'S A VAGINA, NOT A CLOWN CAR!"

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

If only Flickr was not blocked for you at work you would see that we've already covered that one.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

lol I was just going to say that

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

aw fudge.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

But still, it was Kevin's invocation of the phrase that gave me the mental image of a vagina as one of those magician tricks where the continuous string of handkerchiefs is pulled out of the guy's sleeve. Priceless.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't someone post a YouTube of a woman doing exactly that at the Juste Pour Rire festival?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Though I've never seen or heard of it until now, considering this is the internets, I'm going to say "yes".

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

And you would be right.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i am crashing hard into my post-lunch coma, the 16 ounces of coffee is not helping. i would seriously pay $100 to go sleep in a bed right now.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

The video was this woman pulling a scarf from a piece of clothing and then taking it off until she got down to nothing and then she pulled a scarf out of her va-jay-jay. It was pretty cool. I saw it on Metafilter where the thread immediately devolved into a discussion about whether the woman was attractive enough to dare to take her clothes off in public.

xpost - that's it!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

This just makes me more pissed no-one made it to the Fourth of July flag-out-of-the-ass thing.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Psalm 127:3-5

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD,
And the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;
So are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them

"Children of the youth"... Does this advocate teen pregnancy?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

This just makes me more pissed no-one made it to the Fourth of July flag-out-of-the-ass thing.

I know! Me, too.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Have fun on your trip if I don't talk to you before you leave, Jenny!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, thanks! Same to you!

I am all kinds of ready for a 12/28 Thirsty Thursday if anybody has any post-holiday energy left. I miss my pals!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, yes, and yes. I will be rolling back into town that day.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh guess what? I agreed to go to CHURCH with my mother on Christmas Eve. I haven't been to church for anything other than a wedding in yeeeeeaaars. I think halfway through the sermon I should stand up and throw the hymnal down and yell, "Man, this is bullshit!" and then leave.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

We aren't getting back until late on the 30th, but we need New Years plans. We should create some sort of wacky New Years tradition.

Have fun with that!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

nye i'm going to the bottle. i think i could easily be talked into TT on the 28th. in fact i think i just was talked into TT on the 28th.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, we just had a work "Naugthy/Nice" Xmas drawing. I got a $50 gift certificate for C35!

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

NYE is so tough. Right about now I am ready for ANYTHING but by the time the 31st rolls around I just want to hide from people and go to bed by 10.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

What is C35?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

the restaurant where I work

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the "Naugthy" bag was for over-21 people, the "Nice" for the under-21ers.

Other gifts: a bottle of ketchup, a magnum of good Chardonnay, fifths of vodka, tequila, Hennessey.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I am a dumbnuts.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

And free stays at the Sheraton, Hilton, and Hotel Burnh@m.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

So a restaurant gift certificate is "naughty"?

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, depends on what you do with it.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

By that I meant that you could buy booze--not, say, stick it in your cooze.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a lot of good stuff right THAR!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

JENNY and KENAN:

I have your belongings! I want to give them back. let's make this happen. Also, I want to see Kenan's apt.

Oh, and Kenan: did you by chance take with you a box filled with my winter clothes? (Gap jacket, knit gloves, scarves, sweater.) It is not longer present, chez moi.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

What belongings? If you want to give things back, you have to come to our apt. tonight.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

later chicago, keep yourselves safe.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, so as I said to Jenny on GIM: "EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!"

I was on the train this morning, on the phone when I saw a woman who I thought was a coworker. I nodded, waved and gave her a big exaggerated facial expression. She did not respond, and I realized that she was not a coworker, but someone who could be her sister.

Since we're in a big city, I thought I would probably never see her again, but now here I sit in Argo tea and she's standing right in front of me and she gave me a second glance.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, what he said was:

Jesse: EEEK
EEEEEK
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK
EEEEEEEEEEEK
EEK
EEEEEEEek
EEEEEEEEEEK
EEEEEEEEEEK
eeek
ek

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

OMG, EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

OMG: EEEEEEEEEEK; EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

(EEEEEEEEEK!)

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

did you by chance take with you a box filled with my winter clothes?

I'd have noticed that. I have no boxes. I do have a sweater of yours, and The Office on DVD, and a couple other things. Oh, the blanket. I have a blanket.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally snuck out of the Xmas party to keep from having to do cleanup bullshit. Bowling was way fun, though. I bowled better than I ever have before. 124!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

And my work buddy Shannon sang in the lounge area. (This was at Lucky Strike inside the AMC complex on Illinois -- you know that one? Nice place.) Anyway, she has a beautiful Diana Krall-like jazz singing voice. I kept requesting sad songs. I felt that her voice was being wasted on "Frosty the Snowman" and other such pap. I wanted her to do "Mood Indigo," but she wouldn't. I did get a nice slow version of "But Not For Me" out of her, though.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to bed late last night and Jeff was already asleep, all curled up and adorable and snoozing away and I got into bed to read for a few minutes and I was reading and the house was quiet and Jeff was sleeping like a lamb and then he yelled: JACKBALLS! and then he kept on sleeping.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

DRUNK @ WORK

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

APPLAUSE

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Awww I got my Cross pen and pencil set along with a cute little speech about how great lawyers need to either play golf, drink scotch, or have a cross pen and pencil set and the boss doesn't play golf or drink scotch but he does have a cross pen and he wants me to be a great lawyer. It was totally canned but really sweet.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

JACKBALLS!?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe this should be a new experimental curse, in the tradition of "bitchcakes." Start dropping it into conversation and see if it catches on.

"So then he says to me, 'No way,' really rude. And I went jackballs on him."

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

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