Stung

Being married to an alcoholic has certainly shed a new light on so many things in my life. For starters, Finding Nemo (my mini me's and I caught a cold over the holiday and are having a snuggle up movie day) definitely has a mock AA meeting in it that I kind of glossed over the other times I've seen the movie. I think I'll be calling my AH Bruce from here on out. LOL

Does AA have a slogan that "Fish Are Friends, Not Food" is modeled after?

P.S. What does Double Winner mean? I assume it's meant sarcastically and not something that I want.

Hammer

Double Winner (or Whinner ) means in Alanon AND AA.

I sometimes call some of them half-and-half half-assed. Because the Gossip Girls run back to AA and tell Mrs. Hammer what I say sometimes. So much for Anonymous, huh?

Check out "Fight Club" sometime if you really want to see the full proper mock of 12 Step Programs. It is great. Truly Great. And you can get some eyeful of Brad Pitt, as bonus for you.

m1k3

Wreck it Ralph has Ralph attending Bad Guys Anonymous. Their closing is great.

I am bad and that's good.
I'll never be good and that's not bad
There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Your friend,

Stung

I'm not a fan of Brad Pitt by principle...he's a cheater. Me no likey.

I'm willing to bet there are addict references all over the place that I've just never noticed before. Oh to be on the dark side.

Hammer

heh heh.

Understand. I tend to view what are supposed to be Hollywood Hotties as Skankzillias, as well.

=============

You are right. It is all over the place.

Hollywood is Addict/Alcoholic Land.

Had a Jr. Engineer earlier this year -- he was in charge of selecting movies for Movie Night for our group -- when he figured I was in a 12 Step Program came up with EVERY FUed 12 Step Addict and Messed Up Wife movie around just to get to f with me. Every freaking week he would do another. I could not not watch.


What happens at Fight Club stays at fight club -- aka Anonymous.

What Dreams May Come. Mentally Ill Wife.

Shutter Island. Crazy Wife Kills Three Kids. Guy goes crazy and kills her.

Mr. Brooks. 12 Step Serial Killer.

on and on.

firebolt

Thats funny, Mike - on um bad days, i call ABF Wreck It Ralph

Stung

LOL on bad days I've been referring to AH as he-who-must-not-be-named. Bruce is a much more apt reference.

Yikes, Hammer! What a douche to do that.

Hammer

ahhh. no, no, no.

I treasure and love that kid for doing that.

I have one he loaned me to show to our daughter ---

What Dreams May Come.

Mrs. Hammer thinks it is a horrid movie because the wife/mother is Mentally Ill.

Our daughter instead noted the husband/father is Codependent.

Funny that.

Stung

Uh yeah, I read something recently that said kids in alateen complained about codependent parents more than their alcoholic parents because the codependent parents were less predictable than the alcoholic parent. Thankfully I'm the queen of routine and this shiz better be all ironed out by the time either of my kids are old enough to complain about me. Hopefully they'll say they hate me for good stuff…like not letting them date boys.

MissFixit

what dreams may come makes me cry because it reminds me of my mom.

lillamy

I refer to AXH as "he who must not be named" also - because he once asked a judge to add to our divorce agreement that I not be allowed to talk to him nor mention his name to anyone. I was howling with laughter at my lawyer's office. And now I have to go rewatch Fight Club. Didn't get the AA reference at all the first time.

Carlotta

Then maybe you should bring it up to the group conscience at your business meeting rather than make some insulting blanket statement about double winners.
There is nothing half assed about working two programs at once for those of us who get sober and maintain sobriety and some level of sanity while living and dealing with active alcoholics.

Carlotta

No it is not meant sarcastically, it means that someone is facing their own addiction as well as their codependency. It refers to people who do double the work and are in recovery.

Stung

Carlotta, I apologize, I didn't mean that in a derogatory way.

I wasn't sure if a double winner was a person who was in recovery and was still able to salvage their relationship/marriage (to me, those would both be wins, but that seems too naive...made more sense that it would be something less glittery.) I was obviously way off, that's why I asked.

Hammer

huh?

Put the Trigger Select back on Safe. We are all friends, here.

The Gossip Girls are maybe about 4. Of probably now near 100's I have met. Even the Plumber (bless him) in my sig line is both AA and Alanon (AA for himself, Alanon due to son in jail/drugs).

That is why I just said "some."

But really I have wondered / worried for them some. How Codie is THAT? Another person mentioned that I should do a Group Conscience topic on it, as well. But that is usually just business type topics in my near group, and I do not really want to "tattle" on them.

My concern is more for the Gossip Girls themselves, as Anonymity being a Principle matter, and it could somehow harm their own Sobriety. A very big loss for them and others in that, as well. For me, I just figure they run over and tell Mrs. Hammer things that she should likely should hear but would not listen to me say.

All Things Work Together Good, right?

Hammer

oh, she was poed at me for calling it Half-and-Half Half-Assed.

But like just above -- THAT is Very Few.

And just my jackass mouth.

Carlotta

That's right, I was poed at Hammer not at you but I just cannot stay poed at him, he cracks me up too much Done We're good.

Hammer

nice kitty. nicceeee, kitty.

RRRAAAA! HISSS! HISSSS!

Hammer

Need to add My Name is Earl to this.

That entire show theme was a guy on multi-year quest to do a 9th Step, and make amends to and for everyone and everything in his life.

Even the My Name Is __________, is a mock of a 12 Step meeting.

We used to laugh and laugh at that show because it was pretty much all our AA friends. I am pretty sure the writers just had to go to meetings and write the stories from what they heard.

Stung

I can't tell you how many times I've heard and read "I'm addicted to XYZ" in the past three weeks. Earlier this week it was an email proclaiming addiction to chocolate. A few days ago a friend says she was addicted to buying shoes. Of course all of this is meant in jest but my sense of humor regarding addictions has temporarily left the building...although I do wish my husband was addicted to buying me shoes. That I could maybe live with.