Stupid.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Answers

Don't call me stupid!

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Hee.

So you like the belt? It fits and all?

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

I love it! You can't tell, but I'm wearing it in that picture w/the bloggers. It was a big hit.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Maybe Al, T and Mike got lost on their way over to the new thread?

I love our little forum and its 5 regular posters.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Dude! I was posting on M+1! I can only post on one forum at a time!

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Somebody's belligerent.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Hey, you would be too, if you fasted all day yesterday.

From the AP wire ... too good not to share.

^BC-Senator-Women Voting,0321
^'Old-fashioned' Kansas state senator says she does not support women's suffrage

OLATHE, Kan. - A female state senator says if women's suffrage were being voted on today she would not support it, because the 19th Amendment was the start of a decades-long erosion of family values.

''I'm an old-fashioned woman,'' Sen. Kay O'Connor told The Kansas City Star. ''Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women (today) we wouldn't have to vote.''

Delores Furtado, co-president of the Johnson County League of Women Voters, had asked the 59-year-old Republican to the league's ''Celebrate the Right to Vote'' luncheon, and O'Connor responded: ''You probably wouldn't want me there because of what I would have to say.''

Furtado said she was shocked by O'Connor's view. As a state senator, Furtado said, ''she is the beneficiary of a system she doesn't support.''

O'Connor said she does vote. But she said she believes that if men had been protecting the best interests of women, then women would not be forced to cast ballots and serve in the Legislature. Instead, they could stay home, raise families and tend to domestic duties, she said.

The 19th amendment giving all U.S. women the right to vote was ratified in 1920. O'Connor said the amendment began a societal shift that eventually encouraged women to trade homemaker roles for careers.

She said she entered the workplace only because of her daughter was ill and medical bills were mounting.

O'Connor, of Olathe, was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1992 and won a Senate seat last year. She isn't worried if voters don't like her views.

''If I don't get re-elected, my only punishment is to go home to my husband and my roses and my children and my grandchildren,'' she said. ''And if the trips to Topeka get to be too much and my husband asks me to quit, I would.''

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

I'm working, here! Sheesh.

Speaking of belts, when we lived in Texas, my dad - bought? commissioned? I'm not sure what the right word is - this fabulous western belt with a big brass L on the buckle. My dad is skinny as all get out (I have - and wear - a pair of his old jeans) and I had forgotten about the fancy belt until my sister Susan gloated that she had the belt in her possession and that it truly was the most fabulous L belt in all of creation. I want that belt. So sad.

Our forum makes me happy, for real. Such cool people. So rare, the smackdowns.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Mike - get out! What a whack job. Why must the crazy Republican women give other R women a bad name? Lord.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Speaking of Susan? What sorority did she rush? How does she like school so far??

Can you email me both Jane and Susan's school addresses?

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Kansas. What a wacky state.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

I used "Suffrage", "Havoc" and "Wrought" in the same Forum Question on MATH+1.

I amuse myself sometimes.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Will WG hate me forever if my entry today is one big, violent disagreement with her entry from yesterday (well, at least the God part)?

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

I don't think so. I think she likes debate.

I for one would like to hear what you have to say.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Well, so would I, which is the problem. Right now I'm all rambly.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Y'all, the job people haven't called, I feel sick and I've been watching the Sci-Fi Channel all day, living on a diet of PopTarts and Wheat Thins.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Have faith! Its only 1:30

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Al, I'd give them until 4, at least. Fridays are always odd days - late starts, long lunches.

Joh, I'll get you their addresses as soon as I have them - the little buggers won't email me back and I lost their phone numbers.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Al - the Drive By Truckers are going to be at the Star Bar on Satruday night.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

I know. They are performing their Southern Rock Opera in its entirity. Chris intends to go.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

What are your plans for this weekend?

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Well, right now, I am going to crawl into bed until Chris gets home with some Tylenol Cold, or something. I feel like ass.

I think we'll be staying in tonight, and tomorrow I assume it's DBT at the Star Bar.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Either the Anthrax has hit Midtown, or there's something going around. Can I bring you anything?

Did I tell y'all about the tawdry bachelor party Chris is going to tomorrow night? Remember Chris' shady boss? The one with friends with names like "Fancy"? Well, he's getting married, and as the Gold Club is no more, I have a feeling this party will have its fair share of unemployed strippers. They're starting at Chops, this testosterone-packed steakhouse, and moving on to someone's penthouse for the restof the party. Al and Joh, y'all have met Chris, so you'll appreciate his statement, "At the first sign of any impropriety, I am out of there!"

The best part? This guy is having his wedding reception at the Margaret Mitchell House. Of all the places in Atlanta.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

"At the first sign of any impropriety, I am out of there!"

Makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.

I believe the MOC will be picking me up some drugs on his way home, since I have not emerged from The Mayflower all day.

T, you can go see the DBT with us, since you're stag. It is sure to be a good show.

OK, Mathletes, gather 'round. The job people just called.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

I don't know what it means, but they want me to meet with the chair of the board on Monday and with some of the staff.

I have no idea if that means "You almost have the job," or what. But I don't care. I was all "Oh, I'd be delighted to."

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

That kicks ass!

Y'all, I am so pissed off here at work that I have my headphones on (with no music playing) just to avoid conversation. I cannot wait ... cannot wait for the weekend.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Whoa! Mike! What brought this on?

Al, that's a good thing. I think it means that they want to hire you, but before they make you a formal offer, they want to give both you and your potential coworkers a chance to see iy y'all are each others type, if that makes sense.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

shit

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

T? The extraneous cursing?

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

What's the problem, Mike?

The Monday thing was not the news I wanted, of course - I wanted them to call at 9 AM and be all "PLEASE come work for us for 60k a year!" But, uh, what had happened was, they did not.

So, Monday I will have to go be charming again? Twice in less than a week? I don't know if I have it in me.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Well, it's like this.

We got our October schedules today, and for the weekend of 19-21 it said "Thursday 6-2ss*; Friday 10-6, Saturday 6-2." (*ss is shift supervisor, meaning I'm the Sports Editor for the evening). So I went to our assistant editor and said that I probably couldn't be back at 10 a.m. after working Thursday night, since odds are small I'll leave at 2.

And he said, "No, your Friday shift is 10pm-6am."

And I said, "What the fuck is that about? That kills my whole weekend."

We're instituting one 10p-6a shift a day to help out news, even though we're already 1 1/2 staffers down. And that night, I'm the guy.

But I'll tell you what, if my only weekend activity can be a Friday happy hour, I am damn well getting my drink on before work.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Oh, Mike, that is not right.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Allison, I have no doubt that you can be charming twice in one week.

I may take you up on tomorrow night. I'm going to an event at the Zoo (I'm pretending to be a member - actually it's nice to have a friend who has worked in the membership departments of both the High and the Zoo, because I think I have comp lifetime memberships in both. Sweet.) but I'm not sure what's up after that. I have a feeling my Chris will come home druuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunk. Drunk, like he'll be asleep in the driveway when I open the front door to get the Sunday paper.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

You do it, Mike. That sucks.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Well, just let us know. You may have to go alone with the MOC if he does not show up with the meds soon. I am feelings worse by the minute.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Oh, don't you worry.

You know, I don't even mind the nights for sports, since that's when sports happen. But I hate working Friday nights, because they're always dead, and I'll be damned if I'm going to be happy working that infernal 10-6 shift on the chance that something happens in Afghanistan.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

YAY, Al! You will get the job, because you are Allison, and they will not have been able to had turned you down. And the turning of the tide follows, like this:

I have an interview Monday! With NixHilton, run by one of Douglas's mom's friends. Man, that lady has connections.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Also, Lucinda is playing tonight at the fair! We just found out. You will be receiving phone calls, I'm sure.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001