Current Poll

[House of Mustard]

The situation is actually more serious that even Jeffe thinks: less than a week before Fell's wife had the surgery and lost the baby, my wife and I discovered that our baby (my wife was 3 months pregnant) had a fatal heart condition.  Within two days of that discovery, the baby/fetus died.

I think that this poll is more for Fell and I than for anybody else--a way to take a very rough couple of weeks and try to lighten the mood.

[stacer]

That's so sad. It has to be so hard to go through a miscarriage, even if you know the baby couldn't have survived with the condition it had. My cousin had one? two? (can't remember) miscarriages before she was able to carry a pregnancy to full term. That pregnancy, twins, made her have to be on bed rest the last 3 months. (Man, was she bored! She was in the hospital, and couldn't get up at all.) Anyway, my point is that it must be a very hard thing. I hope your wife is well, too.

[House of Mustard]

She's doing much better, thanks.  We're actually glad she miscarried--the condition was an aplastic heart.  Basically, the baby develops and grows just fine, but the heart doesn't develop at all.  It's not uncommon for babies to go full term with the problem.  A fetus doesn't use it's own heart--the mom handles blood flow--so the babies are perfectly fine, and then they're born and immediately die.  So miscarrying at 3 months was better, in our minds, than going full term.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

see, I'm much better at the humor end of this sort of thing than I am at the empathic flow of emotions. So.. God bless, but I don't know how to make that sound/feel more heartfelt. You guys are great, so I'm really glad to hear you're all doing well.

[House of Mustard]

I love you, SE.

(See, was that so hard?  You non-empathic oaf.)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

to add levity to the atmosphere, I just noticed that Gemm first posted on this thread. a year and 5 months ago (or nearly so) and he is still truly, truly, truly outrageous.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

and only a handful of people know about him and his holograms...

[House of Mustard]

Thanks for giving away the secret.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I voted as well for the laser pointer. Why is that "Stronger, Better, Faster" one doing so well? I find that the least interesting. Unless you like bionicle women or Daft Punk. Bunch of looneys I tell you. And not the Tooneys.

And now that SE has brought it up, I am now wondering why Fell called me "Truly, truly, truly outrageous." Not that there's much surprise for it now, but why then?

[Fellfrosch]

Didn't we already have this conversation? Stacer explains it in the...seventh post on this thread.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

AHh, I see. The text was real small-like and I started to read it but then just sort of stopped. Yeah...

[fuzzyoctopus]

Which is why I pronounce Gemm with a hard G instead of a J.

Jem will always be the 80's rock star will pink hair and killer makeup.  I'd love to do a Jem costume for Halloween sometime...

I voted for the Harry Potter one.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I can't believe the correct answer is not included on the 'orange' poll!

Spriggan, back me up on this one - Orange rhymes with range.

[Archon]

I dont know if this is part of my accent or not but I pronounce range to rhyme with mange, and orange is pronounced orn-j or orin-j (forgive the crude phonetics, I don't know the pronunciation symbols).

[fuzzyoctopus]

I honestly can't remember where you're from, so I can't say how your accent affects it.

All I know is the Japanese band is called Orange Range and when you say it the Japanese way, it rhymes.  O-ran-gee Ran-gee.