From the mouths of babes...

[algol]

My ten-year old daughter, reading over my shoulder wondered why DU didn't seem to attack Republicans. I was hard pressed to adequately defend the Dem-on-Dem violence.

[Bunny]

1. I'm not sure I'd let my eleven year old daughter read over my shoulder when I'm on DU.

Quite a bit of rough language here.

[China_cat]

2. If your daughter is 11

there's nothing written here that she hasn't heard in the halls at school.

[Bunny]

3. Quite right. But she doesn't need to see it at home.

[China_cat]

8. Good way to teach her that some adults

can be just as ridiculous as the kids, though.

[Maddy McCall]

4. My 14 year old signed up for an account here....

and told me as soon as he had. He remembers the happier days when I used to post a lot in the lounge...I let him read some of the fun stuff in there.

I told him that he would NOT be allowed to post here, and that I didn't even want him reading the slime here anymore.

[Bunny]

5. My 16 year old could handle the place, but not my 11 year old.

We're a mixed household - my 11 year old loves Hillary, my 16 year old likes Barack. :crazy:

[Maddy McCall]

6. LOL

My 14 year old is a Hillary man.

I will wager that your kids get along better than the two factions in GDP do, though! :D

[Bunny]

7. Ha! They've never been the best of friends, this is just another

manifestation of that. They have different fathers, so I blame it on that! :silly:

Luckily, they aren't consumed with politics, so they don't have household flame wars the likes of which are seen in GD: P. I would have to do some serious moderating if that was the case!

:hi:

[quakerboy]

9. Its a party trademark

DLC vs DNC fighting for scraps from the Pubs sitting at the feast of corruption.

If we didn't fight like an abundance of hungry weasels in a small box, how would we know it was us?

[RichardRay]

10. ALGOL? And your daughter's only 11 ?!?!

That's a computer joke, if your 'algol' comes from someplace else please just ignore me.

(How about a FORTRAN joke? You know how you can tell a real programmer? They have names beginnning with 'a' through 'h', unless explicitly declare otherwise!)

[algol]

11. Its a triple joke for me, a reference to the comp sci degree, astronomy hobby

And its Arabic meaning of "The Ghoul" as I once had a wardrobe with an excess of black.

[RichardRay]

12. Ah, Al-Ghul perhaps?

My recently deceased uncle, Don Thurnau, was one of the original authors of ALGOL, so I keep a soft spot in my heart for it.

[algol]

14. Precisely, Al-Ghul, aka "The Demon Star"

Its a very interesting eclipsing binary system.

I'm sorry for your loss, your uncle's contribution to science would be hard to overstate. Algol proved to be a hugely influential language.

[elixir]

13. I hope she didn't see the posts by the college kids w/ their potty mouths.