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  <subtitle>Much ado about the usual nothing.</subtitle>
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    <title>said, simultaneously</title>
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    <published>2002-05-07T03:31:55+00:00</published>
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    <author>
      <name>domesticat</name>
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    <category term="commercials" />
    <category term="marriage" />
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<p>1 Star Trek:TNG apéritif<br />
2 fingers Oban<br />
1 (each) chaser Buffy and Notting Hill</p>
<p>Result:  one very amusing evening.  Day Three of vacation for the worn-out engineer, in fact.  By 9:30, Jeff was laughing at all of my jokes, not just the funny ones.We've gotten a little spoiled in the past few weeks; our exposure to TV commercials is fairly limited now that we have a TiVo to speed through them.  Tonight we picked up on the tail end of Notting Hill, and had no buffer to zap through commercials.</p>
<p>So he (see Oban) and I (see mental tiredness from finishing new cat.net skin) watched commercials, and made fun of them with the best middle-of-the-evening gusto we could muster.</p>
<p>Until we got to the inexplicable commercial, that is.  Seemingly unconnected images flashed by.  It took us a few seconds before we both realized that every shot was zeroing in on the hindquarters of the people we were watching.  </p>
<p>"What is this, a butt commercial?"</p>
<p>"No idea."</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Ingredients:  </p>
<p>1 Star Trek:TNG apéritif<br />
2 fingers Oban<br />
1 (each) chaser Buffy and Notting Hill</p>
<p>Result:  one very amusing evening.  Day Three of vacation for the worn-out engineer, in fact.  By 9:30, Jeff was laughing at all of my jokes, not just the funny ones.We've gotten a little spoiled in the past few weeks; our exposure to TV commercials is fairly limited now that we have a TiVo to speed through them.  Tonight we picked up on the tail end of Notting Hill, and had no buffer to zap through commercials.</p>
<p>So he (see Oban) and I (see mental tiredness from finishing new cat.net skin) watched commercials, and made fun of them with the best middle-of-the-evening gusto we could muster.</p>
<p>Until we got to the inexplicable commercial, that is.  Seemingly unconnected images flashed by.  It took us a few seconds before we both realized that every shot was zeroing in on the hindquarters of the people we were watching.  </p>
<p>"What is this, a butt commercial?"</p>
<p>"No idea."</p>
<p>Then the Commercial Gods saw fit to clue us in.  Simultaneously, we figured it out:  <em>ahhhh, a toilet paper commercial.</em>  We turned to each other and said, simultaneously:  "Hit that one right on the &hellip; butt."  (At least the after-statement groaning noises were simultaneous, too.)</p>
<p>You know you've been married too long when not only do you finish each other's sentences, but you also make up the same bad jokes on the fly.</p>
<p>See what you single folk have to look forward to?  Think of it!  Years and years of sentence-finishing fun!  How can you stand to wait a moment longer before getting yourself in the same situation?</p>
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