Just a bit of un-beta'd silliness on a sunny afternoon. A sort of dipping my toe back into the water to convince myself that I haven't entirely lost all writing ability and that Man Under will eventually get finished.

Enjoy!

<groan> And I thought that the punch line was going to be that she was marrying an as-yet-unknown son of Luthor...

Now that you have wet your toes, come dive into the water! :-)

cheers,
Lynn

Considering how often Lois breaks the law a lawyer in the family could be very useful!

I was a little confused when I read the punchline, but then I remembered... oh yes, in the United States they keep telling all those lawyer jokes!

So the punchline didn't do all that for me, but I chuckled at Marcus' comment. Yep, Lois could use a lawyer!

Anyway, I enjoyed this little glimpse into the domestic bliss of Lois and Clark after thirty years of marriage. And it's very good to have you back here with a new fic, Happygirl!

Ann

Anti-Lawyer, huh, Lois? I suppose next you'll say they should have their own schools!

Cute fic!

The trouble with lawyers is that ninety-nine percent give a bad name to the other one percent.

> marring a lawyer!

Perhaps you mean marrying a lawyer?

Now that's a slip of the keyboard. Thanks for the catch, Framework. It's fixed now.

Actually, in the show Lois does have an anti-lawyer prejudice. Maybe I noticed it because I did, in fact, marry (not mar) a lawyer. Well, he was only a lawyer-to-be when I married him, but still...

This bit of silliness came to me as I was discussing our latest foster care case with my daughter. I've noticed that there are two factors which seem to move a case toward reunification pretty quickly--having the child's father involved and the parents having lawyers.

Marcus, now that Joanna's taken care of the lawyer, maybe Lois and Clark have another child who can marry (or maybe become?) a plumber. Everybody needs one of those in the family. (Shades of Terry Pratchett and Nanny Og)

By the way, for a different take on lawyer jokes in the LnC universe, try reading Sue S.'s excellent Risorgimento

cheers,
Lynn

The punch line was actually funny - you'd think that marrying into Superman's family would be more of something to come to terms with, yet it is the laywer fiancee that does it for Lois

And yes, you should come dive into the water - you haven't lost you writing ability.

Great fic

I agree with u Marcus. lol

For some reason, Lois reminded me of her mother Ellen. I would have thought she would try not to be like her mom.

Enjoyed reading this story anyway.

Of course, from the title I wondered what homage to "Guess who's coming to dinner" you would pull. Didn't expect a lawyer though. Maybe Larry Luthor. Oh, then there' Leo Nunk's illegitimate son working for the Star or some other trashy paper.



Michael

PS: Yay for mentioning MUtS. There're just two parts left, aren't there?

Two or three, Michael. Part 28 is off to the betas, but I'm not going to start posting again until I've got the end finished. Life is a little too nutty here for predictable writing time just now. BTW, MUTS is an unfortunate acronym. I hadn't even thought about that when I picked the title.