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   mollie05 said, 10 months ago

   What a nut job her mother is…sigh!! I beat you KFG, I’ll bet you are in transit to our mutual home country….enjoy it girl!!
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   tegm said, 10 months ago

   oh man, I feel like sending this to my mother because she totally does this, but then she’ll probably get into saying things “she knows she shouldn’t say.”
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 10 months ago

   I wonder if Cathy’s mom wears that apron to bed at night.
   Good morning, Aaron (when you arrive), Billy, Lightenup, KFG, GsMom, and the rest of the “Cathy” nuts.
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   FrankenAaronStein said, 10 months ago

   I’m totally with Cathy here. Just shut it, Mom.

    

   Morning Susan I have arrived too. :-) I slept in until 9:30. Morning/afternoon lightenup when you arrive. KFG Billy’s Jetta is black. Our butler keeps it shiny. :-) I’ve never seen a purple Jetta. Morning UK friends and hi readers.

    

   LMB and I are going for our ride. We’ll post dessert later.

   Hi mom!
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   lightenup said, 10 months ago

   KKKKRRRRRKAKKK… Sorry, Mom, bad connection! (dial tone)
   
   Good morning, mollie, tegm, Susan and Aaron!
   Today is my last morning to sleep in for a while… school begins on Monday! Aack!
   Hello to GsMom, KFG, Billy, rgcviper, lindz.coop, hendelca, Mona, serenasakitty, kittycatpawsare, gmforde, soonergal, lippyfish, Mai Tai, Willi Nilli, mollie, AnonaMona, Bronzepony, simpsonfan2, legaleagle and all the other Cathy nuts rolling around here today!
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   ruizuno1 said, 9 months ago

   Makes sense, why do people think that if they if they say “but” it erases the first part of the sentence. “I know I shouldn’t say this BUT…” Just don’t say it!
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   legaleagle48 said, 9 months ago

   @ruizuno1

   Seriously. It’s right up there with that tired old line from Seinfeld about gay people: “Not that there’s anything wrong with that (but… .)” If there’s nothing wrong with being gay, then why do you have to say that there isn’t anything wrong with it in the first place, and then go on to explain why you’re about to insult the gay person you’re talking to (or about)?
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   FrankenAaronStein said, 9 months ago

   For the good gals and guys. I’ve done my quality control (my job when Mom bakes). In a word YUMMMMM

    

   

    

   The recipe:
   http://shaunasever.com/2012/03/lemon-berry-shortcake-cake.html
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   FrankenAaronStein said, 9 months ago

   @legaleagle48

   My remedy for that (and it has happened more than once — sigh) is to just look at him or her and say nothing. I’ve thought about giving them the evil eye at the same time, but silence works really well and they eventually stop talking. ;-P
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    Anona Mouse said, 9 months ago

    I think some people just don’t know whether they ought to mention “it” or not. You know – like telling somebody her slip is showing, or his shoe lace is untied. To prevent possible embarrassment later, if you keep quiet.

    But I really don’t feel I have to make a public pronouncement of my sexuality everywhere I go. So why should anybody else?
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    Billy Eye-gor said, 9 months ago

    Okay Cathy’s mom, you’re inhaling too many vapors as you clean your house. Open the windows and then leave Cathy alone.

     

    AnonaMona in the case of Aaron and me, it’s always people ‘outing’ us by figuring out who we are. Never has anyone said, to either of us Are you gay? Even here on goComics, people came around to it.

     

    No one knew when it was just Aaron here, but at one point I had to come around to tell folks Aaron was offline for a few days because of being burned and injured while fighting a fire. November last year I think. lightenup is the one to ask me to make my own goComics account. Shortly after that, Aaron and I sorta kinda maybe came out because readers loved how we talked about each other. (You may have been around then??)

     

    And guess what — no one was shocked or thought badly of us. Some remember of Aaron telling of a beating I took at the hand of a young guy who hit me over the head with a lead pipe. That was years ago, in Cambridge, outside of Boston. My poor bud thought I was dead for sure. How did it happen? The guy heard Aaron quietly tell me that he loves me. So the haters hate and the rest of the world just doesn’t care who we are. Look at what Mom! gives to us every day. Her love trumps the guy with the lead pipe again and again, every hour of the day.
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    legaleagle48 said, 9 months ago

    @Anona Mouse

    Because you’re not still trying to put a face on the discrimination and bullying that we constantly face. I don’t go out of my way to advertise my sexual orientation, either — but if someone asks me directly, or if it comes up naturally in conversation (such as the great date I had with my boyfriend when someone asks me what I did last night), I’ll tell them the truth. If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the question.
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    Anona Mouse said, 9 months ago

    I know what you mean, legaleagle48 – and it’s true that I don’t have to defend myself all the time. (Nobody should have to do that, unless they’ve done something horrible.)

    But once, back in 1970 it would be, I was walking along a street in the early evening. I wore my hair long then and now, and I was wearing a midi-length leather coat and trousers. A couple were walking towards me, and as they passed me I heard the man say “Would you look at that! Is that a man or a woman?”

    Since at the time I was eight months pregnant, as soon as they were safely out of earshot I roared with laughter.

    Some people just don’t deserve an answer.
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    FrankenAaronStein said, 9 months ago

    Actually KFG was affected. She was bummed that Billy and I were already taken. Sowwy sowwy but she seems to love us despite us breaking her heart.
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    Anona Mouse said, 9 months ago

    @Billy Eye-gor

    I’ve been reading some of these comics for years. To begin with I had a few on my Yahoo page, which doesn’t include comments, but that stopped working so I started reading them on a Google page. I think that one did show some comments, but I didn’t usually read them. (I’m a serious, hard-working soul.)

    Google was a bit patchy. Sometimes the comics were there, sometimes not, so that was when I discovered GoComics, and I would come here if I couldn’t kick Google into working. And of course it was at GoComics that I was tempted by all the people who kept saying funny, sad, silly, serious, friendly things underneath.

    When I started to read these, I started to get interested in the people who kept coming in and posting. (All right: I’m serious, hard-working and a little bit nosey.) To begin with I was, I confess, confused by Aaron and Billy. Over here Billie can be a girl’s name, but this Billy didn’t sound like a girl. It didn’t take long to work out that he isn’t.

    I was touched by the obvious affection between the two of you, though, and that’s the main impression I get when I read the comments. The community cares about its members, and on the whole it’s like a big, happy, worldwide family.

    That was why I joined up a couple of months ago. This world needs more happy families, of whatever shape and size they happen to be.
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