this is why i should stick to my policy of not answering my door. today someone knocks and it’s this young dude selling magazines. i know, i know. it’s a scam. but i guess working at a nonprofit and reading about poor people all day has made me soft. he told me a sob story about how he’s supporting his newborn twins and blah blah blah if i buy a magazine, he gets points that go toward a job, etc. if the program wern’t a scam, it wouldn’t be a bad idea. against my better judgement, i wrote him a $75 check for espn magazine.
after we talked, i looked up the site online. of course, it’s a scam. so i am most likely out $75. i just hope they don’t rewrite my check and scam me out of more. sigh.
it’s called fidelity reader services.
you had six kids. and you decided to name them all after hockey players. what if you didn’t stop there, but gave them position specific names? i’d venture a guess that most people wouldn’t get it, and those who did would appreciate the effort. of course, they might also want to fight you for chosing gretzky over lemieux. (of course, a judge might have a problem with it, as evidenced by that story making its rounds about Talula Does the Hula.) here is my (theoretical, no way in hell i’m having 6 kids) family lineup:
[roy] (because naming your kid tretiak would be cruel)
orr borque
ovechkin gretzky howe
and yeah, i would make their first names last names, otherwise we’d just seem irish. (patrick, bobby, ray…)
let me explain how Scully’s different attributes affected my life and my feminism:
(as if i needed a reason to love feministing more..)