Comments on: Nutted by reality

By: MrsTbogg

MrsTbogg — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:40:23 +0000

You are all too kind….I’m blushing.

By: aimai

aimai — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:14:33 +0000

Yeah, I agree with puravida. I’ve always admired the tboggs and the beauteous casey and figured that I’d just follow their lead with my own two girls. And, needless to say, anytime the tbogg’s want a flop in cambridge they should stop over. I’d be honored to have them to stay, take them to dinner, and get some parenting tips from them.

aimai

By: puravida

puravida — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:43:55 +0000

Wow, all I can say is TBogg is a lucky, lucky man.

By: paulbeard

paulbeard — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:38:36 +0000

she doesn’t look like a very happy girl in the pic at the Times. Wonder why that is?

By: JohnO

JohnO — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:11:08 +0000

I’m sorry. The author has captured the essence of a ticking bomb.

I won’t paint poor young Leo with any brushes, not knowing him. And he seems pretty normal to me for his age.

Or so I have read.

By: JohnO

JohnO — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:08:15 +0000

TBogg, hilarious post.

Mrs. Bogg, your daughter is going to be just fine.

I’m with you. Poor thing, that Janie.

As for the love of her life, I have to think it sure is a good thing he’s whacking. Compulsively.
I don’t want anyone around me that preoccupied, not at that age. The young man has concisely captured the essence of “bomb waiting to go off.”

By: MrsTbogg

MrsTbogg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:52:03 +0000

Tbogg and I had a lengthy discussion around this article last night and while my first response was, “what a dimwit”…I have now moved on to “how sad.” As the mother of a college freshman, it is terrifying to send your beautiful daughter off to that big college world of books, studying, soccer, parties, booze, drugs and potentially unprotected sex. In our small corner of the world the discussions about the latter began early and were pretty much in the vein of “Boys are stupid, they think with the wrong head and if they say I Love You….run away screaming.” And, “Use condoms.” Slight oversimplification, but the underlying message to the L&T Casey was that SHE had all the control. And that control came from saying “NO” when she meant it, but also as much from eventually saying “YES” when it was the right time, the right place and especially, the right guy. Poor Janie is missing so much of what is infinitely powerful about being a woman….being able to say “YES” for whatever reasons WE want. And, if as women we could get past mixing up sex and love (hence the group’s name, True Love Revolution) Janie and others “choosing abstinence” might not think that the only way to be in control of their sexuality is to always mark the “NO” box. I can only hope she finds a wiser person to enlighten her….or just a really hot guy to show her the ropes.

By: captphealy

captphealy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:27:21 +0000

Fredell has the dour countenance of a modern-day version of Jane Austen’s Mary Bennett. The facial expession speaks volumes about her self-image. Stern, wide-eyed, not even a hint of a smile.

I find it’s the facial expression that has the most to do with whether I find someone appealing. That woman looks like she needs someone to show her how to have fun - not in the snarky, double-entendre sense, but in the “let the inner child out for a ride on the merry-go-round” sense.

Come to think of it, a lot of conservatives look like that.

By: EnfantTerrible

EnfantTerrible — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:18:19 +0000

Here’s an amusing vignette from Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ life:

In the 1920s, an old countess complained to Sibelius, “Don’t you think, Professor, that modern youth is corrupt? They talk of nothing but jazz, first they dance and then… (her voice trails off). I have been chaste for close to 90 years and who thanks me for it?”

Replied Sibelius, “Well I don’t, that’s sure!”

By: aimai

aimai — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:01:40 +0000

tbogg,

I’ve always been under the impression that a professed fondness for Dungeons & Dragons was pretty much a statement of abstinence, desired or not.

true, dat.

aimai