My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding: A Frocky Horror Show on Wheels

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8320671/My-Big-Fat-Gypsy-Wedding-A-Frocky-Horror-Show-on-Wheels.html

Okay, to be fair. I watch this show and somewhat like a gawker watching a train-wreck, I was mesmerized.
I-as a little girl- wanted such an imaginative, fairytale-like dress.....However, I was fully intending to have no problems walking in it.
Art is the ability to say "stop", audacity is the ability to wear the, "Oh just one more petticoat and three more rhinestones" dress. -Rock solid Redhead
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By William Langley

9:00PM GMT 12 Feb 2011

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It wasn't just a wedding dress lit up like a Las Vegas casino that made you suspect Sam Norton's nuptials could be something of a gamble. Sam's big day called for a big effort and she obliged with a 20-layer, battery-powered, whispering pink meringue that weighed more than her husband.

The congregation loved it. So, apparently, did the viewers of Channel 4's My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, the smash-hit reality show du jour which has affectionately chronicled the 17-year-old Lancashire barmaid's romance with travelling tree surgeon Pat Skye Lee. The series, a spin-off from a Cutting Edge documentary shown last year, has been drawing huge audiences, and become a social media phenomenon.

Half anthropology, half Frocky Horror Show, the five-part programme follows the extravagant rituals and celebrations of modern gypsy life, peaking with the fashion for fantastically over-the-top weddings, awash with tidal waves of taffeta, Cinderella-style carriages, oceans of champagne and monster cakes. Glowing in every sense, Sam staggers down the aisle, attended not only by her bridesmaids, but a man holding a fire extinguisher.

It all makes compulsive viewing, and there's plenty to support Channel 4's claim that the series throws an overdue light on a secretive, marginalised and little-understood segment of our society. Yet it also raises some awkward questions. One of them being how the featured gypsies – typically portrayed in the show as illiterate and getting by on the proceeds of casual labouring jobs – find the money to blow £150,000 on a wedding?

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The Story of Menstruation.....

It STILL EXISTS!!!

As found on Ebay!

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There are several sites with “Worst Feedback ever”. These are just a few examples….

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True or untrue...The jury's still out.

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St.Louis actually is a really pretty little town, it's a sad state of affairs that it's gotten the rap it has...

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....Only in Michigan

Deer Sighting
A white-tailed fawn stands near the edge of East Deerfield Road Tuesday afternoon. Their coat is a reddish-brown color in the summer, but turns ...

Wow. Welcome to Michigan.
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smartphone is pretty smart
That's why it's not called "Average Intelligence to partially educationally challenged".

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Cutler Memorial Library to feature Michigan books and authors

...As well as authors from the other fifty states and some other countries.

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Give me big shoes-for I have large feet.
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Fun with Facebook

Dcat Chopra: stolen from Jeremiah Bouffard

Let's be 100% clear on this: Admiral Ackbar did NOT destroy the Death Star. A Rebel pilot did. Ackbar just happened to be the one who recognized a trap. This is not an Ackbar victory, but a Rebel victory. Don't let him distract you from the fact that he has never produced an official Mon Calamari birth certificate. Please repost if you agree! ---------------------------------------------------

From Dcat Chopra:
"Dear FB Friends: You can't find out who saw your profile. You won't see what you'll look like in the future. You won't know what that man saw when he walked in on his daughter. There are no free iPads. And you can't see the video of Osama's death... Not on Facebook. Stop clicking the spam links and exposing yourself and friends to virus risks."---Martin Luther King Jr

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Worst part of Cheesman Road to be repaired this summer

http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2011/05/05/news/doc4dc1ce58e17ab108081908.txt. Because we'd hate to see the best part get fixed.
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Police: Couple broke into pharmacy, stole drugs, sampled them in parking lot and passed out

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Enlarge Your Penis!!! ….And other oddities

 

There is nothing on Snopes today that is true other than entomology on the phrase "Salad Days".  I don't feel that is necessary for us to hear about why "Salad Days" needs entomology. Who cares? I went outside today and cleaned out my vegetable garden from last year. I also got my flower garden ready for the several different kinds of wild flowers.

This state is friggin freezing.

Why must we be cold all the way to Memorial Day?

A little earlier this year I could expounded on the virtues of cold rooms and days being as I was always hot. However, I became sick with what I think was a case of Pneumonia and I haven't been overly warm like that since.

So on a Sunday when nothing is in Snopes and its friggin cold and all I seem to get in my emails are "Enlarge Your Penis" offers (even though for me to get a Penis that isn't my husbands would take several hormones and the skills of many Norwegian doctors) I have nothing to offer you but the hope that soon Michigan will cease and desist on the whole cold thing and that soon I will be able to work out in yard and give you several pages of useless and hilarious facts, images and limericks.

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