belgianwaffle

Archives for 11 November, 2004

LRB personals


Posted in: Reading etc.

It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these. How about this:

“Don’t reply to this ad if you are now or have ever been a T.A. reservist. Orienteering is neither big nor clever, and no-one in your department at work ever calls you captain. You know who you are. F., 36. Box no. 20/13″I see that the mean old editorial staff are not giving out the bottle of champagne for best ad this week as “this issue is the first of the LRB’s 25th Anniversary editions. As a result advertisers are asked to get over themselves for uno momento whilst we keep this issue’s champagne for an office jolly.”

Comments
poggle

on 11 November 2004 at 14:50

Yes. What she said.

Bobble

on 11 November 2004 at 15:37

Thirded.

Beth

(Homepage)

on 11 November 2004 at 16:49

How topical – want the list of things in this post that I didn’t understand? 🙂

belgianwaffle

on 12 November 2004 at 12:57

Actually to be fair to the personals in the LRB, they are all wonderful. Hilarious. They should sell them separately. Beth, I suspect you are baffled by the TA which is the territorial army, I think. Further guesswork here but could it correspond to US reservists?

Arts and crafts


Posted in: Princess

Princess picks up a leaf and puts it in her trailer. I take it out saying it’s a bit shabby and she picks up another one.  Finally we have a trailer full of leaves that meet my stict criteria.

We go home and get out a sheet of paper and a glue stick. The Princess chews meditatively on the glue stick. I arrange the leaves in pretty patterns on the page. The Princess refuses to surrender the glue stick. I remove it from her by main force and use it to stick my pretty leaves on the sheet of paper. She wails throughout the procedure. I return the glue stick to her. She chews on it while removing my prettily patterned leaves from the page and wiping them one by one on her tights. There is a brief tussle wherein I use my superior force to remove from her little fists leaves, paper and glue stick.

When she goes for her nap, I stick back all the leaves on the paper, write her name and the date on the end of the sheet and hang it on the wall.

Is there something wrong with this picture?

Comments
NorahSplog

on 11 November 2004 at 13:51

Nope – not that I can see.
(That leaf she chose first was pretty manky.)

poggle

on 11 November 2004 at 13:59

She’ll sue. She will you know.

lauren35

on 11 November 2004 at 15:55

nah, she’s learning the valuable lesson that if you want something doing properly you’ve got to do it yourself…

Friar Tuck

on 11 November 2004 at 16:41

Art critics can be difficult that way.

belgianwaffle

on 12 November 2004 at 12:56

I fear that Pog has the right of it, but I like the way the rest of you are thinking.