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DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:06 pm

mister d wrote:Where are the fathers of two girls here? Did you get treated like you just said "I'm actually pretty happy my penis got severed" when you say "I'm actually pretty happy its another girl"? Like its just unfathomable.

Nah. I've got two, and would be glad to have a bunch more. One advantage is that they never stop being cute. Another is that I doubt a teenage son would still be giving dad a hug and kiss goodnight.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:27 pm

Found out this morning my wife is preggo again. Only telling immediate family after what happened last time, but wanted to share it with someone, so y'all are the lucky ones.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:28 pm

Congrats and fingers crossed!

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:30 pm

Thank you sir! I was a nervous wreck the first time around and after the last time, the next nine months are just going to be brutal, but worth it.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 2:35 pm

DSafetyGuy wrote:If it matters, I didn't really care either way about gender of kid #2 (just like first one). Of course, I look at about a dozen plastic tubs of infant and toddler clothes in pink and similar colors in our basement and wonder how my bank account feels.

Right? Behind "little sister for our daughter" and "we know how to handle a girl already", the savings is best part #3.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 3:57 pm

Giff wrote:Found out this morning my wife is preggo again. Only telling immediate family after what happened last time, but wanted to share it with someone, so y'all are the lucky ones.

I'm glad for you and Mrs. Giff.

You are right to be quiet about this. I'm amazed when people talk about pregnancy in the first trimester with those in their everyday lives (work colleagues, neighbors), with the exception of very close friends. So much can go wrong. So many painful conversations, over weeks and weeks, can be avoided. Internet friends may be ideal as you can control this.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 5:01 pm

Griff, best luck to you and the missus. Also, Houstonians drive like assholes, be careful out there.

Post by **Shirley** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 5:17 pm

DC47 wrote:
Giff wrote:Found out this morning my wife is preggo again. Only telling immediate family after what happened last time, but wanted to share it with someone, so y'all are the lucky ones.
I'm glad for you and Mrs. Giff.

You are right to be quiet about this. I'm amazed when people talk about pregnancy in the first trimester with those in their everyday lives (work colleagues, neighbors), with the exception of very close friends. So much can go wrong. So many painful conversations, over weeks and weeks, can be avoided. Internet friends may be ideal as you can control this.

Yes, what he said. People's openess about this always surprises me.

That said, congrats and best wishes, Giff.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 10:03 pm

Giff wrote:Found out this morning my wife is preggo again. Only telling immediate family after what happened last time, but wanted to share it with someone, so y'all are the lucky ones.

Congrats!! Now Eli will have some to play with when we hit the bars!

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 11:36 pm

Eli's not coming?

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:15 am

Good luck to you guys, Giff.

And if I'm reading between the lines, congrats mister d?

We have two girls, but I don't think ever heard that comment. Some people are just socially awkward, and as long as you think hey were trying to pay you a compliment or congratulate you, I wouldn't get too bent about anything.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:18 pm

DC47 wrote:
Giff wrote:Found out this morning my wife is preggo again. Only telling immediate family after what happened last time, but wanted to share it with someone, so y'all are the lucky ones.
I'm glad for you and Mrs. Giff.

You are right to be quiet about this. I'm amazed when people talk about pregnancy in the first trimester with those in their everyday lives (work colleagues, neighbors), with the exception of very close friends. So much can go wrong. So many painful conversations, over weeks and weeks, can be avoided. Internet friends may be ideal as you can control this.

We had stuff going on when my wife got pregnant a second time and we weren't telling anyone. It reached the point where her father said to her, "There's no good way to ask, so I'm just gonna do it. Are you pregnant or just getting fat?"

He's not a wordsmith or particularly delicate in any way.

And Mr. D., yeah, all I can think is what we spent on buying all those bins, paid for them to get moved, had to buy extra shelves to keep them off the floor in the basement, and now.... Well, at least there are consignment sales and some clothes that can pass for a boy's that we can salvage.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:01 pm

rass wrote:We have two girls, but I don't think ever heard that comment. Some people are just socially awkward, and as long as you think hey were trying to pay you a compliment or congratulate you, I wouldn't get too bent about anything.

You never got "gonna try for a 3rd???" or anything like that? Maybe I just ooze the kind of masculinity people don't want to see reach its end.

(Its not a big deal, I'd rather chop my penis off than consider a third and being outnumbered, I just find the frequency to be odd. And now it makes me suspicious of parents of every middle child who matches the same sex as the first.)

And congrats everyone else who is also really, really good at the sex.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:19 pm

Congrats to everyone!

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 3:47 pm

mister d wrote:
rass wrote:You never got "gonna try for a 3rd???" or anything like that? Maybe I just ooze the kind of masculinity people don't want to see reach its end.

More often "are you done?", but I never really feel it's because people expect us to have a boy. These days, depending on who is doing the asking, I just whip out my scars and try to embarrass them for asking too personal a question.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:27 pm

mister d wrote:And congrats everyone else who is also really, really good at the sex.

degenerasian wrote:Congrats to everyone!

Thanks to you both, and congrats to Mr. D and Giff.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 5:21 pm

Giff wrote:Only telling immediate family.

By emailing me?

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:16 pm

Reply to allol.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:31 am

Just saw an ad for Steve Harvey's dating website.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:37 am

Swamper Brian may be the universe's greatest Words With Friends player.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:41 am

Brontoburglar wrote:Just saw an ad for Steve Harvey's dating website.

I Steve Harvey that desperate to find women?

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:12 am

Hey, congrats to the preggo dads. Good luck. My wife and I were both over 40 when I finally knocked her up, and that was six months after the docs said it wasn't gonna happen without invitro fertilization (which we declined to do). We were on pins and needles all the way to the finish line. We had basically given up working on it and she had quit taking the fertility pills. And, then just on recreational sex it happened.

Post by **brian** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:14 am

Gunpowder wrote:Swamper Brian may be the universe's greatest Words With Friends player.

Honestly, just lucky. At least against you and oiler. I get my ass kicked on the regular by one of my friend's dads. And Hood wins about 35-40 percent of his games against me.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:20 am

I've been doing pretty damn good against Hood recently. You tend to block the majority of my 7-letter plays.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:22 am

brian wrote:And Hood wins about 35-40 percent of his games against me.

That made me laugh. Great humblebrag, there. Winning 35% isn't really such a great accomplishment for an Ivy League-educated Manhattan executive. But you make it sound like he's a special needs kid at the local school...

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:27 am

DC47 wrote:Eli's not coming?

Not every taproom is kid friendly... and although he already has a beer ( Avery have me on the night he was born) he's got some years before he can come drinking with Dad.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:28 am

Hood wasn't Ivy-League educated in Scrabble. Winning 60% of his games is a counter to my pinning him as "universe's greatest".

Post by **brian** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:38 am

I really am convinced that once you've played a few hundred games of WWF, it's basically all about who gets the best tiles at the best times. There's strategy of course, but once someone gets that few hundred games under their belt, it's pretty obvious what the optimal strategy is in most situations.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:15 am

brian wrote:I really am convinced that once you've played a few hundred games of WWF, it's basically all about who gets the best tiles at the best times. There's strategy of course, but once someone gets that few hundred games under their belt, it's pretty obvious what the optimal strategy is in most situations.

Malcolm Gladwell should edit Outliers to include Brian and his WWF domination.

phxgators · Post by **phxgators** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:04 pm

Gunpowder wrote:In the Southwest magazine, I read that with the expiration of the Wright Amendment (some archaic law from 1979 preventing flights from Love Field extending outside of the neighboring states), Dallas will become the ninth US metro area to provide domestic long-haul flights out of multiple airports. I was trying to figure out what the nine were (would have made a good Swampcrash Q):

Dallas (Love Field, DFW)
Houston (Bush and Hobby)
DC (Dulles and Reagan)
Chicago (OHare and Midway)
NYC (JFK and LaGuardia)

Those were the only definites I could think of. What are the others?

Orlando (ORL and...Sanford?)
Pittsburgh (PIT and...Latrobe?)
Miami (are those all considered 'one metro area' by Southwest for this purpose?)
San Francisco (Oakland and SF?

I thought about this way too long on the flight. CURSE YOU GARY KELLY

Phoenix/Mesa. The Mesa airport is trying to build up as a "major" airport as an alternative to Phoenix Sky Harbor. I think it's just Allegiant that flies there for now.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:43 pm

phxgators wrote:
Gunpowder wrote:In the Southwest magazine, I read that with the expiration of the Wright Amendment (some archaic law from 1979 preventing flights from Love Field extending outside of the neighboring states), Dallas will become the ninth US metro area to provide domestic long-haul flights out of multiple airports. I was trying to figure out what the nine were (would have made a good Swampcrash Q):

Dallas (Love Field, DFW)
Houston (Bush and Hobby)
DC (Dulles and Reagan)
Chicago (OHare and Midway)
NYC (JFK and LaGuardia)

Those were the only definites I could think of. What are the others?

Orlando (ORL and...Sanford?)
Pittsburgh (PIT and...Latrobe?)
Miami (are those all considered 'one metro area' by Southwest for this purpose?)
San Francisco (Oakland and SF?

I thought about this way too long on the flight. CURSE YOU GARY KELLY

Phoenix/Mesa. The Mesa airport is trying to build up as a "major" airport as an alternative to Phoenix Sky Harbor. I think it's just Allegiant that flies there for now.

LA and it's bazillion airports. I think Southwest flies into four there

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:53 am

Eyes Without a Face is the best Billy Idol song.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 10:04 am

You're not dancing with yourself on that one!

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 10:21 am

Great song. Saw the record in a store the other day for a cool $6. May have to go back to see if it's still there. (Trivia: the song refers to this 1960's french horror flick:

)

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 10:37 am

P.D.X. wrote:Great song. Saw the record in a store the other day for a cool $6. May have to go back to see if it's still there. (Trivia: the song refers to this 1960's french horror flick:
)

Cool. I never knew what the back-up singers were saying until I decided to play it on piano and had to pull up the lyrics. I think I always sang it as something like "dahshnovonkibaaaaaal..."

Who the fuck knows.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:48 am

Jerloma wrote:Eyes Without a Face is the best Billy Idol song.

But Rock the Cradle of Love was the best video. I was 14 or 15 when that came out, so it left a mark.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:06 pm

Here's Billy in 84 walking around Germany with a Confederate flag guitar poorly lip syncing EWOAF. The 80's were the best.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:03 pm

Cooper Helfet, TE for the Seahawks started his college career as a lacrosse player at JHU.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:06 pm

The Sybian wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Eyes Without a Face is the best Billy Idol song.
But Rock the Cradle of Love was the best video. I was 14 or 15 when that came out, so it left a mark.

Directed by David Fincher.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:50 pm

I was just at a small nearby Japanese/Korean grocery store and they had a table with sushi and cooked foods. Neither heated, nor refrigerated... just room temperature. Those breaded wings are going to give someone a really bad night.