The wedding night of British royalty is steeped in as much tradition as the public ceremony.

It is the custom for the bride, when she is finally undressed and ready for the nuptial bed, to say to her new husband;

"Sir, I offer you my honour."

He replies;

"Madam, I honour your offer."

Then he's on 'er and off 'er all night.

Fictionmania seems to have disappeared again, at least for me. I can't raise it on the link from this site or by googling direct.

Is it just me and something I'm doing wrong or has anybody else experienced the same problem?

Joanne

Leviticus rules
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:38:30 +0800

This was sent to me today. It is self-explanatory and, in my opinion, very, very funny:

In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, penned by a US resident, which was posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative:

Dear Dr. Laura:

I have been a little uncomfortable with the debate on "ownership" of stories. The theory is fine. An author owns their story and the rights to deal with that story as they see fit.

Dead easy, right?

But then you get to the somewhat more messy realities. A week or so ago I was trying to post a story and I was having Hell's own difficulties with formatting; can't blame anybody. It was me that was stuffing it up. Eventually I posted it. I took one look and (shock! horror!) deleted it. My pride wouldn't allow me to leave it there.

Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year.

To all of you nice people on this site, Erin, administrators, authors, readers, bloggers, commentors and visitors, may you have a great year.

Oh, yes, it's Valentine's Day too. I hope you get lucky,

Joanne

I just read an obituary for a 100 year old Dutch lady named Miep Gies. She and her husband were the couple who sheltered the family of Anne Frank and another Jewish family in Rotterdam when it was occupied by the Germans in WW2.

She had been an employee of the Franks and gave them sanctuary (along with a few other employees) when the Gestapo were "cleansing" Holland of Jews and it was she who preserved the famous "Diary of Anne Frank" and returned it to her family after the end of the war.

There are recurring stories about plagues or diseases decimating (I use the word in its modern sense, not the Roman one of one in ten) humanity. There has not yet been a disease that took more than one in three of the population, which is not to say that a more virulent disease could not arise in the future.

However, if we experienced now a plague which took one in three, the problems are that first our medical resources would be overburdened to breaking point, and so would all our infrastructure.

Our civilization is now so complex that it could not survive a plague of this magnitude.

Here is a list of nine common expressions used by women and a translation of what they REALLY mean for men with an understanding impairment and to give the girls a giggle:-

The opportunity to spread a few groans. Here we go:-

-The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much Pi.

For a long time when I've voted the register has shown 2 hits. Recently it has sometimes been registering 3 hits and the other morning I even registered a 4 (lucky TD). I'm not complaining. I just wonder why it varies. If I knew I was going to score a 4 I could be a big help to my favourite authors, or maybe there's a market for votes. Any offers?
Joanne

Erin,
I know you warned us but I was almost watching it. 5,000,000 hits on January 31 at this end of the world. I went out for dinner and when I came back it was over.
WOW,
Joanne

I just watched America's new President give his acceptance speech. I know some of you are probably already thinking "Oh, no, not again" but I'm half a world away so I didn't get a chance until I finished work this evening.

I log on to BC as usual-no problem, and then I go to My Account. That's OK and then I try to get into the Tracker function. The software tells me I have to reconfirm my user name and password, which I do. The info bar says "login successful" and returns me to My Account, so I try to access Tracker again, and back to reconfirm password, etc.
This has just happened today. Is it me or is anybody else experiencing the same glitch? Everything else seems to be normal,
Joanne

I've just come from seeing "Mamma Mia". Yes, I know it has no TG content, but I'm a silly sentimental old tart. Probably many of you have already seen it but I think it's a lovely movie and Abba didn't get the credit that they deserved both for their lyrics and their melodies. I cried all the way through. Silly me, but I loved it,
Joanne

I submitted a story to the 2008 Summer Romance competition. I don't know why. I have never entered a contest here before and I certainly did not expect to win. If I bought all the tickets in a chook raffle I think I could manage to lose. However, as the days rolled by I was surprised and delighted by the reception my story got,not spectacular but respectable (by my lights, anyway).