Welcome to Forums! Meet Patty, PhD Geneticist & Liberal Democrat

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Patty, a PhD geneticist and liberal democrat, introduces herself to the forum, expressing her desire for intelligent conversation while managing her time at home with small children. Members welcome her warmly, noting the forum's diverse personalities and the relaxed atmosphere of the General Discussion (GD) section. There is playful banter about the forum's "Super Mentors," who help maintain order, and humorous comments about various topics, including shoe sizes and personal anecdotes. The conversation shifts to light-hearted jokes and discussions about parenting, with members sharing their experiences and encouraging Patty to engage with the community. Overall, the thread showcases a welcoming environment filled with humor and camaraderie among members.
  • #51
honestrosewater said:
Wow, and the thread started out so well. Who'da thunk it would turn out like this?

Oh, right. :rolleyes: :biggrin:
It did stay on topic longer than usual. :redface:

Pattylou...still waiting for that shoe size.
 
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  • #52
pattylou said:
Oh dear. We aren't approaching the shoe event horizon, are we? (takes several hesitating steps away from the keyboard...)
No no no no, there's a very good reason for her question. *Whispers to PattyLou* Just say size 8.[/size]
 
  • #53
honestrosewater said:
Wow, and the thread started out so well. Who'da thunk it would turn out like this?

Oh, right. :rolleyes: :biggrin:
Relative to the length of its creative germination period, it was a damn GOOD poem!
 
  • #54
LOL.

You can call me Patty, everyone, though I don't mind Pattylou. If I had thought to call myself "The Patty" (or even "The Party," as that is an easy typo from The Patty and goofy enough to be fun if not accurate) I would have.

Hmmm... I am guessing my shoe size depends on what country I'm from. I'll have to google to find a suitably obscure response. Though I've alreay amply demostrated my Yankihood.

While I'm googling, Evo, I have a question for you and anyone else here. Would you drink a beverage made primarily from squeezed lemons?
 
  • #55
My shoe size is between 5 and 248. For the present I'll go with 36, but I won't tell you which country that is.
 
  • #56
pattylou said:
Hmmm... I am guessing my shoe size depends on what country I'm from. I'll have to google to find a suitably obscure response. Though I've alreay amply demostrated my Yankihood.
It has to do with an odd fact that surfaced in another thread a while back. You must answer honestly.

While I'm googling, Evo, I have a question for you and anyone else here. Would you drink a beverage made primarily from squeezed lemons?
Not primarily as in volume but as one of a few ingredients, yes.
 
  • #57
I must answer honestly?

Oh dear. Now I need to find a search engine on this forum.
 
  • #58
arildno said:
Relative to the length of its creative germination period, it was a damn GOOD poem!
Ooh, creative germination period. You should put that in a poem. :approve: Try a limerick.
There once was a creative germination period... Or maybe an ode to the creative germination period.
 
  • #59
Well, they were the first words that came to my head?

I'll work on that limerick, though..
 
  • #60
pattylou said:
I must answer honestly?

Oh dear. Now I need to find a search engine on this forum.
It's in the top menu. I'm curious about this too.
 
  • #61
arildno said:
Well, they were the first words that came to my head?

I'll work on that limerick, though..
Yes, it's very nice. You have a gift.
 
  • #62
Oh very well.

But I have to preface this with the admission that I really *don't* like physics. I like Biology. (I also wish to point out that the thread is from last September... heheheh... )

But in the geeky spirit of gathering data, I'll admit to being a size eight. Of course, with only about 5 female respondents on that thread, the odds of all 8's but one - isn't too unusual.

I'm short, too. If that matters. Not quite 5 foot 3.
 
  • #63
honestrosewater said:
It's in the top menu. I'm curious about this too.
Oh dear, depending on the country, I believe 39 would be the correct answer. :frown:

Honestrosewater, we don't know your shoe size and you're still posting?

Ok, we found out that all of the women posting in GD had a size 8 shoe, except for Tsu, with a size 7, but that's ok because she's Tsu. It was rather odd.
 
  • #64
I like being tall.
 
  • #65
pattylou said:
Oh very well.

But I have to preface this with the admission that I really *don't* like physics. I like Biology. (I also wish to point out that the thread is from last September... heheheh... )

But in the geeky spirit of gathering data, I'll admit to being a size eight. Of course, with only about 5 female respondents on that thread, the odds of all 8's but one - isn't too unusual.

I'm short, too. If that matters. Not quite 5 foot 3.
That was the next question. :-p You fit in the average height as well.

My daughter wears a size nine, my mother wears a 6.
 
  • #66
I checked shoes- 9.5, slippers- 9, tennis shoes- 9, sandals- 9. I guess that's a 9. I'm an anomaly. Oh, and I'm 5'8.
This means that I have a bigger brain, right? :-p I'm sure I read that somewhere... can't find the link just now. :rolleyes: Oh, nevermind, my being blonde probably negates any gain from shoe size. :frown:
 
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  • #67
honestrosewater said:
I checked shoes- 9.5, slippers- 9, tennis shoes- 9, sandals- 9. I guess that's a 9. I'm an anomaly. Oh, and I'm 5'8.
This means that I have a bigger brain, right? :-p I'm sure I read that somewhere... can't find the link just now. :rolleyes: Oh, nevermind, my being blonde probably negates any gain from shoe size. :frown:
Aww, being blonde is okay. :biggrin: It means you're even smarter to have overcome such a handicap as blondeness. :approve: I only have some bad days when the roots dig deeper into my brain than usual and I get extra ditzy. :-p But you're way too tall for us. ... Oh wait, that means you can reach the top shelf! Okay, you can stick around, we need someone who can reach the stuff way up high.

PattyLou is just the right height and shoe size to be one of the twins...uh...quintuplets...or is that sextuplets? of the sisterhood (even if some of us were born a decade or so apart from one another). You'll have to settle for being the little sister, who happens to be bigger than all of us. :biggrin:
 
  • #68
pattylou said:
While I'm googling, Evo, I have a question for you and anyone else here. Would you drink a beverage made primarily from squeezed lemons?

As in lemonade? Nope. It's either too sour, or they add so much sugar it's way too sweet. But if it's something like a whiskey sour with lemon in it, mmmmm hmmmmm. :biggrin:
 
  • #69
Moonbear said:
Aww, being blonde is okay. :biggrin: It means you're even smarter to have overcome such a handicap as blondeness. :approve: I only have some bad days when the roots dig deeper into my brain than usual and I get extra ditzy. :-p But you're way too tall for us. ... Oh wait, that means you can reach the top shelf! Okay, you can stick around, we need someone who can reach the stuff way up high.

PattyLou is just the right height and shoe size to be one of the twins...uh...quintuplets...or is that sextuplets? of the sisterhood (even if some of us were born a decade or so apart from one another). You'll have to settle for being the little sister, who happens to be bigger than all of us. :biggrin:
Woo hoo! :biggrin: Kind of like Little John from Robin Hood. Er, maybe that's not the best example. Blonde moment. :redface:
 
  • #70
Also, Patty, the PF clothing department just contacted me. They need to know what size habbit you require. And do you prefer clean or dirty habbits?
 
  • #71
ah damnit. Is it one of those doctoral gowns with hoods that only the PhDs get around here on PF :devil:

well I got my blue cap and gown from high school days, until proven otherwise :biggrin:
 
  • #72
Ivan Seeking said:
Also, Patty, the PF clothing department just contacted me. They need to know what size habbit you require. And do you prefer clean or dirty habbits?

LOL.

Well, normally around the house I wear something like this:

http://www.gothshop.com/img/inventory/8/800033_sm.jpg

But I'm sure whatever you have lying around will be just fine.

(Oh, I'm going to regret this.)
 
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  • #73
pattylou said:
LOL.

Well, normally around the house I wear something like this:

http://www.gothshop.com/img/inventory/8/800033_sm.jpg

But I'm sure whatever you have lying around will be just fine.

(Oh, I'm going to regret this.)
Hey, you must go to the same shop as MIH for your habbits. :approve: I prefer the traditional cotton this time of year; that pleather gets really sticky in the summer heat. :smile:
 
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  • #74
pattylou said:
LOL.

Well, normally around the house I wear something like this:

http://www.gothshop.com/img/inventory/8/800033_sm.jpg

But I'm sure whatever you have lying around will be just fine.

(Oh, I'm going to regret this.)

Where were the sisters like you during all those years spent at the Catholic school? :cry: :cry: :cry:
 
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  • #75
pattylou said:
But I'm sure whatever you have lying around will be just fine.

(Oh, I'm going to regret this.)

Yep.

Okay, here's a three month supply.
http://www.eway.com/catalog/1/sp02_113859_oe.jpg
 
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  • #76
You're very naughty, Ivan. Are you sure you're an administrator?
 
  • #77
pattylou said:
You're very naughty, Ivan. Are you sure you're an administrator?

No, I'm a mentor. But you started it!

Besides, I'm a happily married man. So I'm cute, not naughty. :biggrin:
 
  • #78
Ivan Seeking said:
No, I'm a mentor. But you started it!

Besides, I'm a happily married man. So I'm cute, not naughty. :biggrin:
True, Ivan is happily married to my identical PF twin sister Tsu who has been too busy lately to post much.

Love your habit by the way, too bad you missed when the "sisters" all became nuns (with guns), you would have fit right in. :-p
 
  • #79
Ivan Seeking said:
No, I'm a mentor.

Sorry, still working on the distinction!

Ivan Seeking said:
But you started it!

Touche'. :smile:
 
  • #80
pattylou said:
Touche'. :smile:

We have fun, but some people can get carried away. :rolleyes:
 
  • #81
Evo said:
True, Ivan is happily married to my identical PF twin sister Tsu who has been too busy lately to post much.

Love your habit by the way, too bad you missed when the "sisters" all became nuns (with guns), you would have fit right in. :-p

You guys are weird. :smile: Weird's good. I thought I came here for intelligent conversation, though. :confused:

Hey Evo, how old are your kids? Ours are 8 and 5.
 
  • #82
pattylou said:
I thought I came here for intelligent conversation, though. :confused:

You won't find much of that in GD, except that posted by myself, Danger, or yomamma.

Wait a minute...![/size]
 
  • #83
pattylou said:
You guys are weird. :smile: Weird's good. I thought I came here for intelligent conversation, though. :confused:
Intelligent conversation occasionally filters down here, but this is our playground.

If you have time and enjoy humor, check out the General Discussion Classics thread. We have some very funny and clever members.

Hey Evo, how old are your kids? Ours are 8 and 5.
They're 17 and 20. Both girls. I took seven years off from work to raise them, it was the best time of my life, you won't regret it.
 
  • #84
Sometimes I enjoy drinking lemon juice. From time to time I just have to have intense citrus. Vitamin tablets, V-8, and fortified cereal cannot substitute.
 
  • #85
Evo said:
They're 17 and 20. Both girls. I took seven years off from work to raise them, it was the best time of my life, you won't regret it.

Oh sure, now you tell me

are there any photographic evidence of this wonders of nature? :biggrin:
 
  • #86
cronxeh said:
Oh sure, now you tell me

are there any photographic evidence of this wonders of nature? :biggrin:
My current avatar is my 17 year old and they have pictures in the member photo thread.

You've seen them!
 
  • #87
Hi Evo-

Evo said:
Oh dear, depending on the country, I believe 39 would be the correct answer. :frown:


btw, the oddball shoe size 36... ain't UK. 39 would be right for American size 8, but I wanted an obscure country so I went with the Ukraine.
 
  • #88
pattylou said:
btw, the oddball shoe size 36... ain't UK. 39 would be right for American size 8, but I wanted an obscure country so I went with the Ukraine.
And you're devious, you fit right in. :biggrin:
 
  • #89
Evo said:
Actually Tom is one of the two "real" Supermentors, SelfAdjoint is the other.

Nereid too I think (a treasure).

Patty . . . I wasn't sure how to communicate this so I thought I'd try your own thread. I sent you a private message regarding reference materials you've expressed interest in. If you haven't adjusted your Preferences to notify you when someone PMs you, then you might never realize people are sending you messages. Anyway, check your messages! :smile:
 
  • #90
Evo said:
My current avatar is my 17 year old and they have pictures in the member photo thread.

You've seen them!

Excuse me one second, while I pick cronxeh's jaw off the floor, and wipe up the traces, no wait, puddles of saliva which have accumulated around his feet...
 

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