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    Image of katemonster katemonster
    11/29/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Star Trek Weddings On Thanksgiving Weekend? Live Long and Prenup!
    How has no one acknowledged Jonathan Funke's name? 500 points for sharing a name with the world's most famous Blue Man* and the world's first analrapist.

    *Understudy.
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    Phyllis Nefler promoted this comment Edited by katemonster at 11/29/09 5:18 PM katemonster was starred katemonster was unstarred
    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/29/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Star Trek Weddings On Thanksgiving Weekend? Live Long and Prenup!
    Aw, what adorable nerds. The "Trek" couple are a refreshing change from the Westminster Kennel Club-like trotting out of lineage and credentials competition (which we enjoy too, obvs.) Those kids are going to make it.

    Phyllis, Coach Sue Sylvester is staring you sternly in the eye, before hissing, "OutSTANDing."
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    Image of hortense hortense
    11/29/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Star Trek Weddings On Thanksgiving Weekend? Live Long and Prenup!
    They should really have a 12-step program for "Say Yes To The Dress" addiction. Once I turn it on, I can't turn it off, even if it's a rerun, which it usually is. I swear I've seen the episode with the mean mother who rushes into the stock room about 12 times.
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    Image of pabs pabs
    11/29/09

    @hortense: Phyllis and hortense! Both addicts to this show. I thought I had to hide away my shame. Truth time: I've even shed a few tears.

    The wedding announcements in the NYTimes always make me feel inadequate, which is really their main purpose. Still, I wish I didn't feel like a failure because I didn't go to Princeton AND Yale and still had time to read three daily newspapers. Sigh. I've been busy trying to pay rent, you know.
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    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    11/29/09

    @hortense: I got sucked into that show too and now into My Fair Wedding with David Tutera, which appears to be a man telling you that everything you picked for your wedding is shit and getting away with it. I'm watching to see if someone from Bridezillas shows up and beats his ass.
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    Image of pabs pabs
    11/29/09

    @Charlotte Rae's Web: But Charlotte, David's 22 years of experience knows better than ANY bride. My favorite part is when the bride and groom thank him and he gives this faux humble bow. Oh and when he fixes the brides train as she walks down the aisle. He is tacky brides' fairy godmother.

    Oh, God, take We Tv away from me now.
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    Phyllis Nefler promoted this comment Edited by pabs at 11/29/09 3:59 PM pabs was starred pabs was unstarred
    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/29/09

    @hortense: Nefler keeps talking this ish up, but I refuse to watch it by myself. I'm going over to her place at some point before the new year and going into 2010 armed with whatever sickness it's going to give me. Hopefully, a drinking game will emerge.
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    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    11/29/09

    @pabs: Heartwarming! One of my favorite parts is when he gets the bridesmaids and sometimes her mom, sisters and other family to tell her she has terrible taste, starting with the dresses. Betrayal of your friends and family really makes your wedding a special affair!
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    Image of someonelikeyou someonelikeyou
    11/29/09

    @hortense: "the episode with the mean mother who rushes into the stock room about 12 times"

    That's not every episode?
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    Image of hortense hortense
    11/29/09

    @Foster Kamer: If you drink every time someone says "do you love it?" or "I think this is the one," you'll be drunk 3.2 seconds into the program. It's a bit marvelous in that way.
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    11/29/09

    @hortense: I really hope they follow up on the brides, and that some of them end up on "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant".
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/29/09

    @hortense: I felt like that about a cable channel documentary on our evolutionary cousins the chimpanzees, and when I saw it for the umpteenth time and realized I knew that the part coming up is where Fluffy, or whatever his name is, will be grieving for his dead mom, I was like, help, I need help.
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    11/29/09

    @SarahHeartburn: And then they can be on the show about having a baby. The human having a baby show is sometimes more/less poignant and dramatic than the animals/zoo one.

    Also, this is why I don't have cable anymore.
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    11/29/09

    @pabs: I did too. I never thought I'd be able to share my awe at Randy, who somehow manages to look at a bride for five seconds and immediately be able to choose the perfect dress for her. I call him the Magical Wedding Fairy. He's amazing.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/30/09

    @scouts honor: Yeah another good game would be: drink any time Randy says the phrase "fresh perspective".
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    11/29/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Star Trek Weddings On Thanksgiving Weekend? Live Long and Prenup!
    It, had, ta be, yooou. I'm singin ta Phyllis! Ain't I, baby..
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/29/09

    @MattGaymon: Marla didn't come? .... She came.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/29/09

    @MattGaymon: And some more Marla: gracefully and grandly.
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    11/29/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: And you know OF COURSE there is an all-girl punk band from Brooklyn named Marla Hooch.
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    Edited by MattGaymon at 11/29/09 3:54 PM MattGaymon was starred MattGaymon was unstarred
    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/29/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Star Trek Weddings On Thanksgiving Weekend? Live Long and Prenup!
    "...her father was the lead counsel in a 1962 landmark case that ended state-prescribed prayer in public schools, and her mother's father was involved in the Scopes Monkey trial..."

    Further tracing back her lineage, we discovered both Mighty Joe Young and Pontius Pilate.
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    Edited by Lysergic Asset at 11/29/09 3:31 PM Lysergic Asset was starred Lysergic Asset was unstarred
    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    11/29/09

    @Lysergic Asset: True. And I head that a family member prosecuted Verres, but that their legal lineage goes even further back, all the way to Socrates's trial and a grain dispute between two farmers argued before one of Ur-Nammus's ministers.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/29/09

    @i'm a bottle: ...which may be why the appetizers include hemlock sausages, and the bride and groom are asking their wedding party to be buried with them when they die.

    (We could keep this going all afternoon.)
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    Image of Bunsy Bunsy
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I LOVE Susan Mendik, I don't know why.

    She seems very cool. Plus, the golf thing -- plus 10.
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I just read Bess Rattray Vogue piece on her adoption of her baby in some article that was admonishing Madonna for her adoption of her children from a country that doe snot meet Bess's standards. She has some fucking nerve with all that is known about Ethiopia as a corrupt nation and adoptions in particular. There have been many reports about the specific problem of adoptions in Ethiopia. The State Department spoke about Ethiopia specifically in their address on World Adoption Day last week. She picks the worst but easiest country to adopt from but she criticizes Madonna for doing the same thing in a much harder environment. Madonna could have picked up a kid in Ethiopia in 5 seconds flat, but she fought long and hard for the baby girl that she connected with in Malawi and for that this woman decides to bring up Madge's $800 haircuts and celebrity? How many points can we deduct for hypocrisy ?

    [www.vogue.com]

    [www.cbc.ca]
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    Edited by adiam7 at 11/22/09 8:32 PM adiam7 was starred adiam7 was unstarred
    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    11/23/09

    @adiam7: I'm an adoptive parent and I've often heard that about certain Ethiopian situations as well.

    But frankly, neither of them get a gold star from me. There are kids right here who need homes too. Think global but act locally.
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    adiam7 promoted this comment Charlotte Rae's Web was starred Charlotte Rae's Web was unstarred
    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/23/09

    @Charlotte Rae's Web: Congratulations on being an adoptive parent! I gree totally on kids in America or in Madge's case England that need homes. Madge seems to be involved in a large scale in helping the situation in Malawi so that's where my gold star for her comes from. If you help anyone anywhere it counts for something right? Ethiopia is such an incredibly corrupt nation, they get billions for food aid and are now -again- facing famine but they sell hectares of farm land to India , China and Saudi Arabia. The land is always in the Oromo region, where those people are opposed to the government and are being systematically killed. I was under the impression that Ethiopia was arid and drought prone, thus their frequent famine problems. I was shocked to learn how much farm land they had.

    [farmlandgrab.org]

    [www.ethiopianreview.com]
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    Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    Methinks Bess Rattray is a crafty wench. Grew up on the beach, descended from whalers, and then suddenly needs a sailing lesson in Maine? Something tells me that had there been a corpulent Mainah instead of a laconic Welshman lounging dockside, she would have sailed that boat just fine by herself.
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    Image of karion karion
    11/22/09

    @Tammany_Fall: I heart this comment so hard.

    Sofa king good, Phyllis.
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/22/09

    @Tammany_Fall: Loves it!
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    That rap is hilarious. I loved the name Rainbow Corcoran, normally I would also give her points for the Universal Life minister but since discovering The Alliance of Divine Love & The Church of Spiritual Humanism in last week's announcements the Universal Life ministers have lost their allure. Erika Savage is " an in-house counsel at Interscope Geffen A&M Records in Los Angeles" by day but "founder of PhemPhat Productions, an entertainment company in Toronto that promotes women in hip-hop and produces the annual Honey Jam concert, also in Toronto" by night. Susan Mendik looks AMAZING as a contrast I am offering the 25 years-old Margaret Bruton. I learned something new this week from the Sari Scheer- Samuel Kopel union. I had no idea that a synagogue could be named after a contemporary person .The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue- who knew?
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    Edited by adiam7 at 11/22/09 5:21 PM adiam7 was starred adiam7 was unstarred
    Image of ninety_nine ninety_nine
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I refuse to follow links from this column, as much as I love it (it's like a cat that jumps into your lap every Sunday and then pukes the worst of East Coast establishment entitlement into your lap!), so a public must know: does 'below the waste [sic]' mean the peen is, um, something that rhymes with 'een' signifying 'not functioning'?
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/22/09

    @ninety_nine: Shit, that reminds me that I meant to include this servicey link:

    [www.google.com]

    PS: meow!
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    Image of ninety_nine ninety_nine
    11/22/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: "yes and no also, it depends upon portion where he has got attack. Most of the times he is able to have it. And after some days of medication, massaging you can recover some of strength in attacked portion"

    How is babby formed indeed!
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    Image of DevilsAvocadoRedux DevilsAvocadoRedux
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I'm always astounded by the people who choose U2's 'Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' for their bridal dance. I mean - have they ever listened to the lyrics? Forget that - have they ever considered the title? I've been at two weddings where the bride and groom have selected that song for their inaugural dance as man and wife. Insanity.
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    Image of ninety_nine ninety_nine
    11/22/09

    @DevilsAvocadoRedux: For the youngs raised on Family Guy: it was not unusual to hear 'The One I Love' or 'Every Breath You Take' in the late 80s/early 90s.
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    Image of DevilsAvocadoRedux DevilsAvocadoRedux
    11/22/09

    @ninety_nine: Insanity.

    #tips
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/22/09

    @DevilsAvocadoRedux: Yeah or like "I Will Always Love You".

    Also, I was just messing around on Google and is this true about Angie?! If so I need to re-evaluate a lot of things in my life.
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    Image of DevilsAvocadoRedux DevilsAvocadoRedux
    11/22/09

    @Phyllis Nefler:

    I had heard the one about Bowie and Jagger crossing pork swords. I also thought 'Angie' was about Angie Bowie, but that the song was inspired by an affair Mick Jagger had with her.

    #tips
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    Re: the "copy editing error in the lede of the Times piece" for Mark + Mia:

    "One ride ended in a car crash, leaving him a paralyzed in his senior year in high school.

    What did I win?
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/22/09

    @snugbug: dingdingding! My theory is that it originally said "a quadripeligic" but then they changed it (because the article notes that he later regained use of his upper body).

    It's probably dick of me to point that out given all the errors I have in these things every week, but that's the Internet for ya!
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    11/22/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: Maybe they meant to say "a partially paralyzed quadriplegic"?

    We should keep an eye out for the future corrections. Those are sometimes as much fun as the articles themselves! And no need to apologize for errors on a blog--it's not like there are 10 people reviewing your copy before it goes live, as it is the case with the NYT print copy..
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    Image of kdonovan94001 kdonovan94001
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I learn so much about the East Coast from the Weddings section. I guess Camp Trin-Trin is an endearment for Trinity College the way the University of Spoiled Children is for USC.
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    Oo, 'laconic Welshman' is the new 'cellar door.'
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    Hey, God? I would like to look like that sixty-year-old woman as a gift for my upcoming twenty-sixth birthday. Thanks.

    Also, this is the most I have ever liked couples in Altarcations, ever. Except for the happy lesbians who made me cry.
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