Comments on: Which wert and art and evermore shall be!

By: ~annie

~annie — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:29:08 +0000

Stop fretting about the birthday party. Meredith isn’t even keen on going, so what would be the point? We have to be nice to people, but we don’t have to be friends with everybody we meet.

By: Lara

Lara — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:24:21 +0000

My thought is to let Meredith decide. If she doesn’t want to celebrate the little girl’s birthday, then she shouldn’t have to go to the party. I don’t think I’d want to go to the party either, honestly. Not if some little skank ripped off and broke MY glasses.

So yeah, if she said she doesn’t want to go, then she shouldn’t have to. Saves you from spending money on a present too ;) If it were my kid that broke your kid’s glasses, I would have offerred to help pay for a replacement. LEAST they could have done.

By: Mal

Mal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:14:28 +0000

I would just like to put my 2 cents in. My daughter and a friend had a somewhat similiar incident at school. My daughter was at fault, although it was an accident. We were still horrified. We went to the school to discuss and were advised by the school not to talk to the parents about it. They were concerned the parents might bring a lawsuit and you are not suppossed to have contact. They didn’t, the girls remained friends but we took her out of public school at the end of that year.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:26:13 +0000

Oh, and also? That 8-year-old Country Day girl just died at a pool party! What is this mother THINKING?

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:20:40 +0000

#1) Steve Carell is the funniest man alive
#2) Don’t send your daughter to the mean girl’s pool party
#3) Slept thru the first half of UP? Wert WERE you thinking?

By: Emme

Emme — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:52:39 +0000

I always thought the phrase “case in point” was “case end point.” As in, “here is a case that supports my example. And now this case will end my point.”

Also, “for all intents and purposes” was “for all intensive purposes.” Because I was really serious about what I was trying to say.

These were my go-to phrases for several papers during my early college years. Thankfully, I was set straight by a Jazz History teacher who kept me from taking these gems with me to graduate school.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:10:13 +0000

No to the party fer shure. I don’t like the Mom’s approach and Meredith doesn’t want to go, ‘nuf said.

Also – just drop your child off at a pool party at Meredith’s age? Um, as one of your readers so eloquently put it, “Hell to tha no.” Not enough is known about that family, and what I do know from your post, I don’t care for. Something’s not right there – it just feels wrong.

But I lurve your sense of vocabulary. Preciousness! I also think a couple of the commenters used “wert” in a most lovely way.

By: RubiaLala

RubiaLala — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:38:05 +0000

This entire post is so quick witted and hilarious. I cannot stop laughing and I really needed to laugh. Thank you!

By: seven

seven — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:01:00 +0000

Maybe I’m dumb, but what is it that Murphy’s Oil Soap is used for that would make you laugh so hard? It’s not just for washing floors?

By: Isabella Golightly

Isabella Golightly — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:42:48 +0000

No, no, you people have it all wrong! Drop Meredith at the pool party, give her specific instructions about holding horrible vicious child’s head under water & then swan in to collect her, say nary a word about the frantic father trying to do CPR, and swan back out again. Karma, I’d call it. And Em, as far as I know, it’s pronounced ‘con saw tee em’. That, however, is the english style pronunciation, from Cambridge University Press. Dictionary .com gives it that other, fancy schmancy one. You go with wert makes you comfortable!