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[Violet]

Did anyone experience any polemics about the gay marriage decision in Church yesterday? My boyfriend and I have a running bet ...

Not at church (didn't go because I couldn't handle a Proclamation to the World lesson), but the family Christmas party has been bad.

[Portia]

Did anyone experience any polemics about the gay marriage decision in Church yesterday? My boyfriend and I have a running bet ...

Not at church (didn't go because I couldn't handle a Proclamation to the World lesson), but the family Christmas party has been bad.

I mean, green root beer? That's just perverted.

[Violet]

Did anyone experience any polemics about the gay marriage decision in Church yesterday? My boyfriend and I have a running bet ...

Not at church (didn't go because I couldn't handle a Proclamation to the World lesson), but the family Christmas party has been bad.

I mean, green root beer? That's just perverted.

For those confused, I posted a picture on facebook of the green root beer an uncle provided for aforementioned Christmas party..

[Portia]

Was the Proc lesson a churchwide thing? I missed Sunday School, but the Bishop mentioned that it was on the importance of "fathers and mothers ... especially mothers."

[mic0]

the importance of "fathers and mothers ... especially mothers."

So........ lesbian marriages are the best, actually?

[Marduk]

the importance of "fathers and mothers ... especially mothers."

So........ lesbian marriages are the best, actually?

Until they starve out because no one can afford food, that is.

[Digit]

Looks like there's a market for plus-size Barbies with double chins.

[Portia]

Looks like there's a market for plus-size Barbies with double chins.

I know that this is a #firstworldproblem, but I'm rather annoyed at the idea that curvy=plus size. I definitely have curves, and I'm a size 8. Americans are such extremists.

[Digit]

Poll Finds that Women Are Happiest at Size 12 (Because Cheese Probably). Because Cheese Probably. Ha. And the picture of the elated woman with the huge hunk of Swiss

[Integrating Editor]

I just did some size checking on Barbie using Gap's sizing chart. If you scale her waist up to 24 inches (between a 00 and a 0), her hips are about a size 14 and her bust measurement seems to require a size 22 top. So the original anorexically skinny barbie is certainly curvy enough (you'd have to make her quite tall to get to a 24 inch waist), and this plus-size doll has far less dramatic curves than Barbie. This one is simply unhealthily overweight. I personally feel like this portrayal of women is just as problematic as the bizarrely skinny but curvy Barbie. Neither body shape is something women looking for an active, healthy life should be trying to achieve.

[Digit]

Looks like there's actually an average Barbie too.

[mic0]

Average Barbie is pretty nice.

[Digit]

Ha. From the blog of the artist who made the average Barbie, a hypothesis on what humans might look like in 100,000 years. Huge eyes like anime cartoon characters.

[Digit]

Looming Velveeta Shortage. What will the superbowlers dip their nachos in Feb. 2?

[Dragon Lady]

Looming Velveeta Shortage. What will the superbowlers dip their nachos in Feb. 2?

Hopefully something ... good? Like real cheese? Or spinach artichoke dip?

[Digit]

I like the chili in an edible bowl in this gallery of the top Superbowl foods.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Looming Velveeta Shortage. What will the superbowlers dip their nachos in Feb. 2?

Hopefully something ... good? Like real cheese? Or spinach artichoke dip?

Make me spinach artichoke dip? Please?

[Whistler]

thanks guys, I'm craving nachos right now

[Digit]

Taco Bell has a big stuffed "nacho" the size of your hand.

[UffishThought]

My sub plans today were not enough to take up the whole class period today, and I know the regular teacher is fine with me making it up as I go, a bit.

So today, after we discussed what "pastoral" means and read The Passionate Shepherd to his Love and The Nymph's Reply, I had the honors 11 kids write a third poem--the shepherd's rebuttal. They whined as they were doing it, but they kept showing their poems to each other as the wrote, and when I had them get into small groups and share their poems, they were laughing and smiling and complimenting each other. And then each group picked their favorite to read out loud to the class, and they were all so fun! They ranged from "you're not tempted by the clothes and rustic entertainment? then have I mentioned how I will love you forever?" to "yes, everything dies eventually, but isn't it better to have loved and lost?" to "if you don't like me, fine! There are more fish in the sea. Better fish!"

Anyway, it was really fun for them AND for me, which is great, because I wasn't sure how it would go over. Now I can't wait to do it again with tomorrow's classes.