Friday Randomocity
Pink Elephant!! (say with French accent: Zee Peenk Elayphont!) It's assumed he's albino, and there's some concern that the African sun will shorten his life span. That said, the little guy apparently already has a few techniques for protecting himself, like walking in Mama's shadow. Cute!
Late Night with Obama: I like having a president who can be trusted to go on the Late Show and just talk about stuff. Sure, he got into a little hot water by comparing his bowling skills to "The Special Olympics." So he apologized to the people who cared, and everybody else just kind of whistled and looked away, knowing they've said things like that, too, not with any intent to offend. America may have gone overboard on the political correctness bandwagon. Obama's "gaffe" got big play in the US media. The BBC didn't even mention it.
Miss, Ms, Mrs? Do you feel like we still have a problem with titles that denote a woman's marital status. They apparently do in Europe. I've definitely struggled over the years with establishing the fact that my husband and I have different last names. (Four, four times the mortgage company had to redo the paperwork the first time we bought a house, because somebody couldn't get it through his/her head that I wasn't Mrs. Hubbicula. Finally, I said, "I'm his wife, not his sister. Of course, we don't have the same last name." As stupid as it was, that explanation worked.) What about Miss, Ms, Mrs? Do you think Ms denotes anything other than neutrality? Do you think of yourself as one or the other?
Ships colliding in the night: Okay, when a ship from one country and a submarine from another country run into each other, I figure these things happen. They didn't know the other one was there. When two US Navy vessels run into each other...that's just embarrassing. Shouldn't we know where our own ships are?
And throw away the key: What a good deal for everyone that Jospeh Fritzl pled guilty to murder, so they can put him away for the rest of his life. He probably did it for his own selfish reasons, but at least it spares his daughter from having to provide any further testimony about the 20+ years of imprisonment and sexual slavery he put her through. I can't even imagine what things will be like for her two oldest children, who spent their entire childhood and adolescence in a sunless basement, witnessing their mother's abuse.
Where's my lunch? Seriously, where is it?
Comments
OK - im confoozled because I never thought of this before. If you have your maiden name as your last name but you ARE married. Are you still Mrs. Maiden name?
Not in the US, you aren't. Because if you're like me and keep your maiden name, people just assume you're a commy liberal hairy-armpitted lesbo feminazi and call you Ms.
I use Ms. because Miss seems so antiquated and like I'm 12. For some reason the PSPCA keeps sending me address labels addressed to Mrs. Me. and it really pisses me off. Mrs. sounds so dowdy. not to mention untrue! haha!
Cute bebeh peenk ellefont!
and I was trying to find the Strait of Hormuz on my world map and couldn't find it because I didn't know where to look except between two land masses that are close together. I know I knew it at some point, I just forget. I guess I could click and read the article.... It reminds me of Hormel though. Hormuz, Hormel...
okay back to work now....
I'm Ms.* same sitch as you RedZ, a married couple with different last names, some funny stuff, like people calling him "Mr.-mariser's last name" some not so.
I address women as Ms. until told otherwise.
* the problem with Ms is that it doesn't have the imperious quality of Mr. as in "I'm mister such-and-such to you"
I like the baby elephant...
I don't know where your lunch is, but you deserve it, dammit!
However, you have to watch it - when the kids come along, you are going to be Mrs Kids Surname for ever at school.
But I have never come across the problems the BBC article mentioned - and seriously, they are quoting a guy from Debretts - De-fucking-Bretts - as though he were the God of Etiquette. Shit. Got further to go on the class issue than the married one, it seems.
I read that JF plead guilty after hearing his daughter's testimony. That he even requested psych assistance. Theory is that the combo of hearing her side of things, and having her in the courtroom, caused him to finally experience remorse.
Sorry... I might have stolen your lunch. Was it a chicken sammich & chickpeas?
once you go over that.. its Ms. unless you get married, then its MRS
today on the phone the not-english-as-his-first-language dude kept calling me MRS. CareaBearaSara and it IRKED me...
If and only if i ever get married, Ill change my last name.. if it's higher up in the alphabet than I currently am... ( W )
That's funny - I'm sure there's an even funnier story behind it.
I don't mind being called either Miss or Ms. but I do not like to be called Mrs. (ahem, young grocery clerks!) - I do think Ms. is always a safe bet.
You know what used to really bug me though? Clue, the board game - all those Mrs. and one Miss, so I opted to be Prof. Plum!
If/when I marry, I won't take my husband's last name. I've been single long enough and worked long enough that this is simply my name and to give that up would be like giving up part of my identity and reputation. I don't think I'd be offended if people called me Mrs. X in some situations (i.e. outside of work in certain social settings) but I'm just not interested in the whole wife name-changing tradition. This is the name I was born with; this is the name I intend to die with. Funny, when I was younger I hated my last name and definitely would have changed it, but now it's just part of who I am.
Methinks Fritzl got off ea - OMG PEENK ELEPHANT!!!
I did change my name, so either Ms. LT or Mrs. LT is fine. I know several women who go by Ms. (or Dr. or Prof.) Maiden Name but in social situations, are fine with Mrs. His Name.
With marriages, divorces, remarriages, living together, adoptions, stepfamilies -- it's just so much easier to call everyone Ms. until and unless corrected to Mrs.
Men are Mr., women are Ms.
That widdle pinky is so dang cute! He's gonna get sunburned! :(
Obama said that about the Special Olympics? Hee! Good for him!
I like Ms, too, but no one calls me anything but Lauri. That's fine with me.
Hmm. My daughterinlaw teaches preschool in Ohio and the kids call all the teachers "Miss Sarah", erm "Miss Firstname", regardless of marital status. And when my son is visiting the classroom they all call him Mr. Adam. I don't know if that's an "Ohio" thing or what.