Mary, you're <i>what</i>?

abraxaszugzwang commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

OH OH OH! How about, "Joseph, we're pregnant"?

February 26, 2007

notanotherjazzpoet commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

Good call.

February 26, 2007

seanahan commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

Here's the thing. According to Fitzgerald, "dishonesty is a woman is something you never blame deeply". From this we can infer that most women are dishonest, which for married women means unfaithful. So, when a woman is pregnant, and she says "I'm pregnant", it isn't clear to the man that it is his child. So, to avoid any unpleasant questions, many women will say "we're pregnant". Of course, particularly passive-aggressive women will say "I'm pregnant", trying to gauge their husbands feeling on their infidelity.

February 27, 2007

abraxaszugzwang commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

reason as you will; it's still just plain awful.

March 3, 2007

notanotherjazzpoet commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

I'm definitely with AZ on we're pregnant. Seanahan, just because you infer that Fitzgerald thought most women are dishonest doesn't mean he implied it. And I can think of many, many ways for a married woman to be dishonest besides unfaithfulness. Do you merely jest?

March 6, 2007

plethora commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

Eating for two?

March 25, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

In an interesting condition.

June 18, 2009

chained_bear commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

Or the old standby, impregnated.

June 18, 2009

milosrdenstvi commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

"To become more in an interesting condition" actually quite nearly approximates the literal translation of the Greek Facebook for the English "in a relationship".

June 18, 2009

skipvia commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

I've always hated in a family way.

June 18, 2009

madmouth commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

there's a Bosnian euphemism that translates to in the second state.

in Atwood's Life Before Man, a woman is having an imaginary dialogue with a man she knows doesn't want to have a child with her: "'William, I've got a bun in the oven. Your bun'. 'Well,' he'd say, 'take it out.'"

June 18, 2009

chained_bear commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

I know it was a long time ago that this issue was raised, and it's possible it was done so jokingly (though it doesn't look like it), but something needs to be said here: We're pregnant is stupid (but understandable) simply because men don't get pregnant. I would say (and have said) I'm pregnant, because it's simply more accurate. That doesn't make me passive-aggressive, and it doesn't make me dishonest. If some dude who impregnated me doesn't understand why I'm saying "I'm pregnant" to him, then he's got much bigger problems than "it isn't clear to him," or some ridiculous assumption based on a hundred-year-old quote that I must have been sleeping around.

Now back to your regularly scheduled commenting. *returns to enraged hormonal hibernation*

June 18, 2009

yarb commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

Up the duff is a particularly unsavoury British idiom.

June 19, 2009

madmouth commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

oh--from Grease: "Rizzo, I hear you're PG"

June 19, 2009

chained_bear commented on the list mary-you-re-i-what-i

*singing*

There are worse things I could dooooo

Than go with a boy... or twoooooo...

June 19, 2009