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TheExperience
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
Goddamit, I give up. I was desperately trying to think of a "...plus eight joke", but I can't think of anything, Someone else has to be clever since I failed miserably at it.
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PreposterousHypothesis
06/08/09

@TheExperience: It's OK. I made a "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" joke, but it was a bit of a clever fail. Oh, old sexist musical references, why are you not cherished on the Interwebs?
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dirtybee
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
May 24th as the date? Jeez, pick something more exciting....like APRIL 20 y'all. Amirite? Eh?
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PreposterousHypothesis
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
They just need eight brothers. It's like a sequel!
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
06/08/09

@PreposterousHypothesis: C'mon now, can't one of them have a same sex marriage?
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PreposterousHypothesis
06/08/09

@DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I presume: Yes, but "Eight brides for seven brothers and another bride" just isn't quite as CATCHY. :)
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HillGirl
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
My older sister tried to get married on my younger sister's Birthday. Both my younger sister and I were annoyed. Luckily it fell through because it happened to be on a Sunday that year. Maybe these sisters get along better than my family.
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FashionShowAtLunch
06/08/09

@HillGirl: Wow, that's like, totally Sixteen Candles.
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HillGirl
06/08/09

@FashionShowAtLunch: Haha our right. My sister is as totally self absorbed as the one in the movie.
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lalaland13
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
This could make the sickest episode of Bridezillas ever.
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badmutha
06/08/09

@lalaland13: WORD, sister.
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lalaland13
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
I'm staying far away from this sort of thing. My parents got married on Aug. 13? Nope, can't do that. Or any 13th of any month. Mostly because yes, they had a bad marriage and divorced. I do find it funny that it was the 13th, though. Not even a Saturday. More like a Wednesday, I think.
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
06/08/09

@lalaland13: Oooh foretelling. Sorry.
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girlnamedblue
06/08/09

@lalaland13: My parents eloped, and don't believe in anniversaries, so I don't even know what day they got married, just that it was sometime around late spring/early summer.
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dirtybee
06/08/09

@lalaland13: My mother got married on Valentine's Day - got divorced three years later. Aunt also married on Valentine's Day - deeeeeeevorced.

It's an Omen in my family - you do not get married on commercialized holidays. Bad bad bad.
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Plate2.18
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
12 children? Wow. I wonder if they're religious; in certain groups there's a lot of pressure to get married early. 20 is really young, I think.

I wonder how young the other six girls are.
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casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
06/08/09

@Kate2.18: If they're from rural MO (ie, anything other than StL or KC) it's pretty common to get married fairly young. Half of my high school class is married or has kids already, and I haven't graduated college.
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lalaland13
06/08/09

@o português é muito sexy de Curly Crown: Seconded. I'm from Texas and saw it all the darn time. I now live in Arkansas, which has a high rate of young marriage and a high rate of divorce-I think the second highest in the nation?
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Shamrockette
06/08/09

@Kate2.18: If they're not giving permission to tell the ages, then chances are most of the girls are under 18...
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lalaland13
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
God forbid one of them be a lesbian. Then the other sisters get to vote on whether or not she should be allowed to marry.
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casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
06/08/09

@lalaland13: Well, fortunately she could just dash up to Iowa.
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casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
06/08/09

@o português é muito sexy de Curly Crown: Which, for a crazy liberal midwesterner like me who spent her whole life being smothered by crazy conservative midwesterners, gay marriage's legality in Iowa is still something to be constantly celebrated.
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casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
Oh, Missouri weddings. They're making my life fun right now, my friends keep having them.
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clevernamehere
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
Won't this mean that some of them will probably have to get married on a weekday (annoying their guests) or be engaged for years and years waiting for a weekend to roll around?
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
06/08/09

@clevernamehere: Nah, just have the (legal) ceremony on that day & the the reception/celebration/do-over on the following (or previous whatever floats your boat) weekend.
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LadyFabulous
06/08/09

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'"The girls are just tough to give away," he told the Post-Dispatch.'

I have no words...
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keldo
06/08/09

@LadyFabulous: With a 23 year old and now a 20 year old already married...I'd say he's doing okay. Geez, grumpy dad.
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Plate2.18
06/08/09

@LadyFabulous: Ugh, I hate the way people say dads "give away" their daughters. The girls are not property, and even though I know people don't mean it like that it still bugs me.
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LadyFabulous
06/08/09

@Kate2.18: I hear ya. My uncles are always trying to convince me it's their responsibility to make sure I get married as I have no father. I usually say "Then where was the financial support when i was working my ass off to pay for my degree, Uncle Dad?"
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Dancingfrog
06/08/09

@LadyFabulous: At first I was horrified by that too, because, hello, girls are not property. But then maybe, just maybe, he meant it's tough to disconnect from his daughters so abruptly, because if they are only 18-20, they've probably still lived at home or just barely moved out, so changing the relationship is like when kids move away for the first time, but even moreso, and he just was too emotional to articulate that. (at least that's what I hope)
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LadyFabulous
06/08/09

@Dancingfrog: I'd like to think the best of the guy, but experience (and Jez) has taught me it's usually not the case.
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Yellowbelt
06/08/09

@Kate2.18: It bugs me big time. At least (from what I see in this article) the dad doesn't give the new husband the new wife's purity ring in the middle of the wedding ceremony- essentially giving a public notification that it is ok now to have sex with her. Eh, my neighbor's wedding ceremony. Creepy.
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FashionShowAtLunch
06/08/09

@Yellowbelt: Oh dear lord. That takes the cake. I think the whole thing is super-creepy (unless it's both parents "giving" the daughter away- marginally better), but adding the purity ring into the mix is a whole new level of yuck.
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
Why are these GIRLS getting married an insanely young ages?
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pear.shaped.Sara
06/08/09

@DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I presume: The article said the oldest sister is now 23 and she got married in 2004 ... so she must have been only 18 or 19 at the time.
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
06/08/09

@pear.shaped.Sara: Exactly my point. Why are they getting married at such a young age?
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Samanthrax
06/08/09

@DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I presume: Welcome to the midwest, where getting married is the only thing to do.
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PreposterousHypothesis
06/08/09

@DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I presume: With 12 kids in the family, I'd say the likelihood that they're religious is very high (plus the bit about bell ringers too). And you can't have the sexin' before getting wed, after all.
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morninggloria
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
I'm sure that they've already synched their menstrual cycles; this is the logical next thing for girls to do at the same time.
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Penny
06/08/09

In reply to Save The Date
Oh how I wish I were one of the sisters, so I could say "fuck you bitches!" and get married on Christmas, just to piss them off.
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Liz11685
05/21/09

In reply to Part Of Our World
Going to see this movie in the theatre is one of my earliest memories. I was a little over 3 and a half at the time. I thought I was at least 4 when this movie came out, with the popularity it held over the girls in my Kindergarten class- a full year later.

I also had a kickass Ariel costume.
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