Tellin' the Truth Can Be Dangerous Business

Insensitive comments are a given during any pregnancy. It's just the way it is. But there's a certain point where they start coming fast and furious. Generally I try to ignore them but for some reason (hormones no doubt), they've been hitting me hard lately. On Friday I cried on the way to work anticipating another round of comments about how HUGE I am and I sobbed on the way home as I told Brent about them. The odd thing is the majority of them come from women... with children. You'd think they would know better but I guess they've forgotten.

Friday night we played games with a sympathetic group of friends which helped but I was still a little down. We put a very cranky Liesel down for the night, waaaaaay past her bedtime, and Brent flipped through the channels on tv. I wanted something upbeat, something that would take my mind off my day and really start my weekend. We found it on Wealth TV of all places; they were showing Ishtar.

Ishtar is a family and cult favorite. It did horribly at the box office, hence the Far Side cartoon above which is the video store in hell. Even though we own it on VHS (I really need to get the dvd... if they ever made it into dvd), I hadn't seen it in a while. Some of my favorite lines:

Lyle: It takes a lot of nerve to have nothing at your age, don't you understand that? Most guys'd be ashamed, but you've got the guts to just say 'to hell with it'. You say that you'd rather have nothing than settle for less, understand?

Chuck: You mean you bought a camel?

Lyle: No, I didnt really buy it. They SOLD it to me!

Lyle: Oh no. I think that something went wrong and now I own a blind camel. A blind camel!

Chuck: As one agent to another, I've heard the emir is a prick.

Jim: REALLY? Well we'll have to look into that.

Lyle: A piece of sand blew in my eye? This must be a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing... like a glacier melting.

Jim: ...especially now that Kadafi's signed a pact with Morocco.

Chuck: Is that near here?

Jim: Kadafi's a person. He rules Libya.

Chuck: Yeah yeah, but that's near here, right?

Jim: Yeah, Libya's near here.

Chuck: *singing* My life is nearly over, and time goes by so fast. I wanted to give you a present, to thank you for the past [From the song I'm Leaving Some Love In My Will].

CIA Agent: Jim, I don't know what you had in mind here, but this mission is no longer covert. We are now overtly firing on two Americans and God knows who else. And they are armed to the teeth!

Even typing these out makes me smile all over again. I really should look into getting it on dvd!