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Did you order a class ring when you graduated from high school and/or college?
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Yes, both times. Haven't we discussed this before? No worries, I have my favorite topics, too. Just making sure I'm not losing my mind.
Did you just post this like, last week?
No to Enty, yes to Frufra. You're not losing your mind.
Isn't this a rehash? I never understood them but my big sister did and bought me one. I only wore it when she was around.
High school, yes. College, no. I don't think I've worn mine since I was about 20 or 21. We just bought our oldest daughter her class ring (she's a senior) and she wears it every day.
The Enties must be losing it.
We definitely just answered this.
High school, yes; college, no because I wore my HS ring for a little over a year and then never again. Not worth it.
I feel like I'm taking CRAZY PILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!1
No. Hell I didn't even go to my high school graduation.
Good grief, I didn't like this topic the first time Enty posted it a week ago. Let's do another family blinds thread. That was fascinating!!!
CDaN....Brought to you by Jostens Market Research.
My answer hasn't changed in the 2 weeks since I answered it last time.
Pay attention.
Lol
LOL @ Libby!
Didn't we agree to hijack lame threads with family blinds?
No, too expensive and I thought they were ugly.
Bring back anonymous comments!!!!
I was at work (buzzkill) and missed the family blinds deal. So we write BI's about our own family skeletons, or what? Because I've got some doozies, people.
Nope.
@Frufra, yes, that's pretty much it, though some people also wrote about co-workers, schoolmates, people in their towns. It was *really* interesting!
...? Thank folks, I thought I was having flashbacks..
Family Blind Part 2 time!!!!!
I couldn't think of a good one last time, then smacked my forehead when I realized that I have a doozy! Will post when I'm done writing it up!!
Yes! I love it when you guys hijack a thread! Woohoo! My boss is out today so I've got all afternoon to read them, let the blinds begin!!!!
Yes for HS but no for College.
Yes for hs, no for college. Looking back, it was a waste of money. I have no idea where it is.
Yes, family blind thread! Loved it the first go round! :)
This B-list family patriarch racked up his first divorce when he left his bitter C-list wife for his A-list interior designer mistress who was only two years older than his eldest daughter. Here's how he racked up his second:
B-list Patriarch owned a fairly high-profile business in his hometown. Was loved by all his customers. But he especially liked his female employees. One particular employee, a D-list secretary, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in her early twenties. When she passed away a few months later, B-list patriarch decided to become enmeshed with her family, bought the grave plot next to D-list secretary, and converted to Catholicism so that he could be buried next to her in a Catholic cemetery. This was the final philandering straw for the A-list interior designer, and she divorced the B-list patriarch
What mentally unstable puppy mill owner has told so many lies over the years that she can't remember the truth?
No and I think it's weird to see youngish to Middle Aged men wear them. It looks gawdy to me. But jmo
High School not College
Those school rings are butt ugly and no one with any sense of style or self respect wears them. "Oh, I see you graduated. How very original of you. You must be so proud accomplishing something kaGILLIONS of other people have also done!"
Yes, more CDaN poster blinds! That thread was stellar!
libby, lol. I thought dementia had set in. Apparently it has, for Enty. Same with the blinds that were revealed twice. EL, hire Libby and Robin as part of the entities, please?
This social-climbing patriarch, who began life as a nobody D-, married into an industrious family of go-getters around the turn of the 20th century. He and his hard-nosed, well-educated wife moved to the city and built a house, much to the envy of their hardscrabble family members.
Political aspirations led this postal employee to quit his management level job and run for office on the Klu Klux Klan ticket. His children told vivid stories about attending Klan rallies in support of their misguided father. When his bid for office fell short, this once B lister was forced to grovel and plead
Love the family blinds!
I went to one of those 'earn $50 for two hours of market research things......The think to remember is that they DISGUISE what they're actually testing you on. So they showed us a few very old tv pilots, along with commercials. As soon as we noticed it was the dandruff shampoo ad that popped up in every 'survey', we totally pretended we had a bad view of that brand. Also we would spell it wrong, or made it the ONLY product we 'couldn't remember' in a series of commercials that had just been shown.
Because we are assholes.My old BFF & I.
Part 2
forced to grovel and plead for reinstatement in the postal service, and was humiliatingly assigned a Z list entry level job.
Forced to work on mail trains, spending long hours on the rails sorting mail far away from home, was too much for this once proud man to handle. His breaking point came one day when he refused to leave the mail car, and held law enforcement at bay for hours with a handgun. His oldest son was finally able to talk him down, and as a way to save face, the patriarch was remanded to the state mental institution, in lieu of facing criminal charges. He lived out his days in the custody of the state, and brought shame and poverty upon his once-proud family.
This family skeleton was finally hauled out of the closet by this poster's grandfather, one of three sons of the patriarch, who told the story to his stunned family out of the blue one hot summer day.
@libby, that's hilarious! Well done!
This man was raised in the "backwoods" where he grew up drinking moonshine while reading the bible and being a womanizer while playing in the bathtub with little boys. Eventually this man married and enjoyed bath time with his new stepsons. Eventually he moved onto his own son and daughter. His wife left him after he broke her stepson's back in a drunken rage. The man remarried a lady who took it upon herself to tell any grand kids who stayed the night to make sure they didn't wear panties to bed so they could "air out". Luckily, the grand kids were too much like their mom, who their grandfather never really liked so they were safe from bath time. The man finally contracted lung cancer and died only to have 8 people attend his "viewing" with no funeral and only one person went to the cemetery to see him be buried. Guess all that bath time didn't mean as much to them as it did to him.
Karen---It was the brand that had those dumbass "...But YOU don't have dandruff!" Then the guy *winks* at the camera.....it was that brand. We felt they deserved the confusion.
Your Turn: Did you ever have a sense of deja vu? Especially when reading this site?
Old family blind item:
She was beautiful and popular. In a huge family, she was the favorite daughter to her parents and the favorite sister to all her siblings. She was a eighteen when she was diagnosed with some sort of cancer and the man who loved her insisted on marrying her even though she didn't have much time left. Sure enough, two weeks after she was the first person to get have a wedding in the new church, she was the first person to have a funeral.
Her husband was distraught, but several years later he remarried and his new wife allowed his first wife's picture to hang over their mantle. When they had children, he would take them to visit his first wife's parents and told them to call them Grandma and Grandpa.
Sadly, pretending wasn't enough for him. When the market bottomed out and he lost his money on top of losing his love, he took his own life, leaving behind a wife and young children to pick up the pieces.
Libby, I remember those!!! Good job.
@Karen- daaayum that's sad.
Fru, 888?
@Seachica. Now that you mention it...
Which ne'er-do-well uncle was actually an alchoholic Valium-popping pedophile who preyed on the youngest girls in his extended family, including his own blood children?
Oh man, goss - good thing they had mom! BOO on "grandmom"!!
@Karen, that is fascinating and sad.
I came here just to complain about the rerun "Your Turn". I NEVER get to check during the work day, but the boss is out, and I felt cheated that I was getting a retread!
Now I am so happy I did, I LOVED the family blinds thread, keep them coming, peeps. And Libby I did one of those for a popular ABC soap. The crowd mentality took over and we spent the whole time talking about how much a beloved character was missed, and how the show was so much better when he was there. We refused to discuss any of the story lines they asked us about....guess who came back from the dead a couple of months later!
Here's another (and I'm only getting out the ones that are almost 100 years old!)
What well-liked grocer and family man ran off to California with the (also married) women with whom he taught Sunday School? The Great Depression was causing his grocery business to fail, so he hightailed it to the Golden State, leaving his wife with no income and five children to raise. Whatta peach.
Backwoods, North Carolina: A young widow with a couple kids married a widower with four kids, but they weren't the Brady Bunch. The wife didn't know that her husband was pure evil.
She was married to him for almost 20 years. He beat her regularly; he cheated on her; he left her with a bunch of kids to look after for random periods of time. She worked full-time and he would collect her paycheck every week and spend it. One time she got it before him and was finally able to buy hersef a winter coat--hers was threadbare and more than 10 years old.
When she was alone at the house with the kids, deep in the middle of nowhere, he'd sneak around the house and scratch on the windows to terrify them.
There were horrible rumors about him and a little girl who was friends with his kids. Most likely true.
One time, a basket with two twin boys was left on his doorstep, with a note saying they were his and he could raise them. He handed them over to his wife to raise (she did; decades later they were by her side when she died because they loved her so much).
She wasn't going to leave him, but he beat her so badly at one point and her sons were old enough to do something. They were going to kill him that night, but couldn't find him. She didn't want them going to prison or the electric chair, so she divorced the man.
He promptly married a 12-year old girl. He was in his 50s. She was already pregnant.
No one mourned when that sonofabitch died.
No...but I have a gorgeous David Yearman ring I just got...and it reminds me of a class ring...only 100 X's nicer and more expensive.
Coulda sworn we went over this issue within the last coupla weeks.
She was A-list in her large family until she became involved with a very married man, scandalizing the family and the town. What nobody knew is when she took that job in the big city she was pregnant with his child.
Fast forward many years later, she hooks up with now divorced first love, but still doesn't tell him her daughter is his. Unfortunately for the daughter, her Mom's new boyfriend likes them young...just like her mother was once young. When the daughter told her mother, she refused to believe her and this led to a decade long estrangement until the mother became sick with Alzheimer's.
What A+ pain in the ass was raised catholic and was so pissed when she found out priests could only be boys that she snuck into the vestibule, drank the "blood" out of the chalice and gave the wafers to the neighborhood dogs?
@Karen- OMG, crazy shit! Post another one! I'm fascinated by your dirty gossip.
@Agent*it - I think I know who that A+ pain in the ass is ;)
I don't know if you like murder mysteries, but have you read the Father Koesler series by William Kienzle? He was a former priest who after he left, started writing murder mysteries - he wrote 20 or 21 before he died. They center around a priest who solves murders in Detroit back in the 80s-90s. I mention them because he talks a lot about issues facing Catholics at the time, especially those who opposed Vatican II. He's also heavily in favor of loosened marriage requirements, priests being allowed to marry, women priests, etc. The first ones are more into intricate murders with a Catholic theme, the later ones more into discussion of Church issues around a skimpy murder plot. I found them really interesting, both as murder mysteries and as discussions on changes in the Church. And on Kindle, they're not too expensive.
SusanB, thanks . I love books like that. We must get together for a martini or two sometime:)
Agent*it - definitely :)
@Agent**It: I don't know who she is, but I have to admire her spunk! :-) (And thanks for recommending me to Enty...*blush*)
Yes, we did class rings last week, and yes, after a certain point it does look a little silly to still be wearing one. There are exceptions, though; a friend of mine still does (or at least did for some time) wear her Vassar ring--I understand they're fairly unique & don't scream "class ring!". Also, I figure anyone who manages to graduate from MIT is entitled to wear their Brass Rat their entire life if they want to--hell, they can be buried it! (The name "Brass Rat" comes from the MIT mascot, the beaver--because they're nature's little engineers, don't you know. The designs for each class year's rings change slightly from year to year, and IIRC one year the beaver's tail ended up looking rather too skinny, hence "rat". Not sure about the metal content of the rings, but most of the ones I've seen must be some kind of gold or gold-toned metal, although there are some silver-tones ones lurking out there.)
Not my family, thank Gladys, but fun just the same.
What 4'8" Ecclesiastical Leader, who likes to go by Chairman of the Board and help his high profile parishioners audition dates, misplaced his wife in 2007? And who is that ideal brunette by his side at Org Openings?
Gayled, Uncle Dave ?
@Agent. We have a winner! Aunt Shelley will be by with your prize, just as soon as we figure out we stashed her, uh, it.
Small prominently Mormon town. Guy marries girl, unable to conceive so adopt two children. Everyone loves them, thinks they're a blast! She is placed in an ecclesiastical position with teenage girls. Within a couple of years, she's replaced randomly and leaves town. A few months later, she's back, but is now divorcing her husband and is seen around town with another Mormon woman who is also divorcing her husband. Yep, caused quite the controversy. Once told a former bishop for the Mormon church that any woman who spent ten minutes with her would never go back to their husband...
@Lotta, just for you:
They met in college; he was in the seminary program (but looking to get out). She had considered becoming a nun, but didn't feel called to it. Still, very religious. She had recently ended a relationship with another classmate (he was secretly gay and left the small college they all attended).
When they met, she instantly disliked him. He tried to flirt, but she shot him down. Her friends thought they'd be perfect together and urged her to reconsider. So she secretly prayed for a sign of a red rose.
She got dozens. After he sent the flowers the third or fourth time, she finally went out with them. They were engaged and then married just under two years later.
Right after their babies turned one and three, he left her. For a man. And suddenly, he went from doting husband/father to a vindictive, calculating demon.
It was all a plan. You see, her father was/is very wealthy. Her family paid for a wedding that cost a quarter of a million dollars. They paid for his grad school, his last year at a private Catholic college, the down payment on an expensive house. They paid for it all.
Now he is debt-free and living with his wealthy partner. He barely sees his kids, but he DOES see them. He knows how happy it would make her if he disappeared. After ruining her life, he now rubs it in her face.
This one is worse than my other "blinds." This isn't really the past.
Karen, you should write a book! I would read it!
Karen, what a great lady. I hope she found happiness after that man.
@EGB, one day I will. Shoot, I wish Enty would hire me to write for CDAN.
This couple married in the 1920s and had two daughters. As was fairly common in those days, the wife's unmarried sister came to live with them. Hubby divorced his missus and married her sis. They went on to have seven children together. Therefore, the two daughters have seven half-brothers and sisters who are also their blood first cousins.
@Karen - you know, you can now self-publish on Amazon (I think it's only for Kindle, though). There have been several authors who started out that way and then were sought out by actual publishers who published their books in print. You should consider that - your stories are fascinating and would make a great family saga type book. Not sure, but I think the self-publishing is free or minimal cost. You'd just want to hire an editor as nothing angers readers like poorly spelled, grammatically incorrect books.
@rhinovodka, the woman actually would go over and help the new wife with her babies because she felt so sorry for her.
@SusanB, thanks for the info! I'm actually an editor for my career (documentation, not fun stuff). :)
Also, I'm loving everyone else's "blinds," too. Many of these are more interesting than what we read on CDAN about celebrities.
@Karen - you publish your book on Kindle and I promise to buy it!
Karen, if 'Hellin Heels' can get published.....
Lix, finally someone like me!!!! I only went to HS grad becausecit meant so much to my parents, and went to COLL grad because i was getting married a few days later and no one was happy so i went to the graduation. And when i got married, we drove overr to the courthouse with my and hubbys parents. Then lunch. No wedding foderal.
@Agent**It and @SusanB, I've been toying with making up a Hollywood tale centering around a starlet in a bearding relationship. I feel like I read so much on here that I can come up with something good. :)
Karen, oh, yes you can, and you should !!!
didn't you ask this already? LMAO. I said no.
Your turn would you shit for a Millon dollars
Say the truth!
@Karen - It sounds like a good book already - I love those Hollywood books - and since you're already an editor, you've done half the work already (we know you can spell and use proper grammar). Can't wait!
Yes, Karen, a lot of self-published authors put their ebooks on Amazon, sometimes for as little as a few bucks to get exposure. I buy those a lot! There are also some authors who allow their books to be free for a day, again, for the exposure. onehundredfreebooks.com, for example, sends out three daily emails, each with five featured books. I've discovered some very good authors this way!
Thank You Enty for posting such a lame Your Turn..."the cup is now 1/2 full"! I have some doozies to share too, but am not as creative as y'all and would probably blurt out their damn names & SIN#
Gonna save reading until wine time!
I told you this once already, I'm not going to go over it again.
Enty, if it's any comfort, I don't remember this topic being posted before, but then I'm old and my brain is really tired, so I don't remember much anymore. :)
Yes I had a HS class ring but I have no idea what happened to it. I didn't have a college one.
@Karen- I'm speechless! =O
@Karen- I agree with all those who say "write a book!" Let us know when you do ;)
What A list douchbag celebrity photog was doing an odd religious prayer before dinner?
+1 for Karen to write a book! :)
I'm just getting a chance to read the site and I thought I must had an old Internet window open on my phone because I thought this was from a week or so ago. So I closed it and came back to the site and saw the same question...
No.
What ADD college freshman got a part time job at a dress shop in a well heeled part of Florida, and wondered where her salary came from, since they never sold any dresses?
One day her boss asked if she'd switch cars with her, because there was a warrant out for her arrest.
She eventually figured out the deal when her boss asked her to leave for an hour while she serviced a client in the broom closet.
High school, yes. College? No...neither undergrad or grad school. Went to London instead. So worth it.
She was a young widow, just in her late 20's with a flapper hair cut, smart mouth and a young son to support. Her husband had gone down to a Caribbean island to visit family and in one of those freakish, random occurrences, a mad man who he didn't know stabbed him to death on the street, leaving the young widow to raise their son alone. This was during the prohibition era and being smart and enterprising she decided to make "bath tub gin" to support her small family and her own widowed mother, who would soon be diagnosed with cancer, came to live with her. Her liquor was good; some bootleggers weren't careful or didn't care and would add all sorts of chemicals to their brew that could kill a person, or make them go blind. Not her liquor. She would sell to the train porters and had quite a brisk business going out of her NY apartment as word got out that her stuff was clean.
One day there was a knock at her door. It was a policeman, investigating reports that someone was selling liquor out of the Spanish Harlem apartment (which, in the 1920's was quite a beautiful area). There was a small bottle of liquor sitting out on the table, and the widow's mother, who stood all of 4'11', panicked, grabbed the bottle ran to the window and hurled it out as far as she could. The policeman interviewed the widow, who somehow charmed him into believing his intel was wrong. He was intrigued by the lovely young woman, and began courting her. Her mother did not like or trust the policeman but the the young widow finally relented and began seeing him. Eventually she capitulated and agreed to retire from the business and marry him (by then with a small fortune saved) and they married. They had a "premature" baby girl just seven months after the wedding but sadly her mother passed away just a month before the baby was born so she never saw her granddaughter.
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