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are you a working mom?
I write the "Doing Business" feature for TravelAge West and am
researching an upcoming feature on working moms. I'd like to talk to a few travel professionals with kids about the challenge of balancing work and family, tips for coping with competing interests and what advice they have for expectant working moms. I'm particularly interested in home-based agents. My deadline is Monday. Please email me at if you're interested in participating. Thank you. |
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:42:31 GMT, Not the Karl Orff
wrote: In article , wrote: (Actually, we know what happened to "mother" -- it became a hyphenated naughty word, and people started to avoid the original term for subconscious reasons.) explain more, pray tell, I'm also allergic to calling a "house" a "home", but the realtors have us by the shorts in that regard. BTW: Wasn't there a book by a famous madam called "A House is Not a Home"? I agree. A house is not a home until the inhabitants make it so. yes, when someone does. A house is a house. A home is someone's house that they've turned into their... home Over here in the UK the in word is property. People don't talk about buying a house, or a flat. It's 'I'm buying a property'. Pretentious gits. MJ |
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OT: Rant [was: are you a working mom?]
In article ,
wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:42:31 GMT, Not the Karl Orff wrote: In article , wrote: (Actually, we know what happened to "mother" -- it became a hyphenated naughty word, and people started to avoid the original term for subconscious reasons.) explain more, pray tell, I'm also allergic to calling a "house" a "home", but the realtors have us by the shorts in that regard. BTW: Wasn't there a book by a famous madam called "A House is Not a Home"? I agree. A house is not a home until the inhabitants make it so. yes, when someone does. A house is a house. A home is someone's house that they've turned into their... home Over here in the UK the in word is property. People don't talk about buying a house, or a flat. It's 'I'm buying a property'. Pretentious gits. MJ we are having creeping pretentiousness as well -- and the use of commercial terms in common parlance e.g. I live in the St. Louis 'market' -- the idea of thinking of commercial categories like 'markets' rather than hometowns is part of this creepy creeping pretentiousness my property is in a market which caters to my upscale demographic how bout you? |
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:58:53 -0500, Jenn wrote:
In article , wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:42:31 GMT, Not the Karl Orff wrote: In article , wrote: (Actually, we know what happened to "mother" -- it became a hyphenated naughty word, and people started to avoid the original term for subconscious reasons.) explain more, pray tell, Er...ummm....I don't want to write the whole thing, but one of the most common -- and vulgar -- epithets is mother-f****er. In gang lingo, it becomes "mu-fuh". So people began avoiding the perfectly good and beautiful word "mother", and substituting the icky, cutesey "mom". Followed quickly by "dad". Some Psych 101 explanations I've heard say that the cutesey names arose to "defuse" the power of the original "dominating" paternal names. Not my .02, but worth a thought. I'm also allergic to calling a "house" a "home", but the realtors have us by the shorts in that regard. BTW: Wasn't there a book by a famous madam called "A House is Not a Home"? I agree. A house is not a home until the inhabitants make it so. yes, when someone does. A house is a house. A home is someone's house that they've turned into their... home Over here in the UK the in word is property. People don't talk about buying a house, or a flat. It's 'I'm buying a property'. Pretentious gits. MJ we are having creeping pretentiousness as well -- and the use of commercial terms in common parlance e.g. I live in the St. Louis 'market' -- the idea of thinking of commercial categories like 'markets' rather than hometowns is part of this creepy creeping pretentiousness my property is in a market which caters to my upscale demographic how bout you? Wah, sheet, man, I'm in a roaring "market" and torn between existing comfort and (selling) profit. -- Traveler |
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OT: Rant [was: are you a working mom?]
OT: Rant [was: are you a working mom?] Group: rec.travel.air Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2003, 8:40pm (EDT+4) From: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:58:53 -0500, Jenn wrote: In article Er...ummm....I don't want to write the whole thing, but one of the most common -- and vulgar -- epithets is mother-f****er. In gang lingo, it becomes "mu-fuh". So people began avoiding the perfectly good and beautiful word "mother", and substituting the icky, cutesey "mom". Followed quickly by "dad". Some Psych 101 explanations I've heard say that the cutesey names arose to "defuse" the power of the original "dominating" paternal names Perhaps when referring to them in the third person but not when calling them on the phone. I just can't see anyone callng their parents and saying "Hello Mother"-vs- "Hello Mom". YMMV. Eric |
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