Austen and Male Bashing
 

Preach it, Brother Str8. Nobody makes the skins sing like Neil Peart, baby.

just for atticus
 

OMG!! Way outable! I know who you are.

Poll: Yes, I was NOT a total dork in 7th grade. I was in fact moderately cool.

There it is.

just for atticus
 

Well if you were not a dork, then you were not her. It is only really outable to me and to her. I don't really run around bragging on it nowadays (well, except for today in particular).

And, Shape Shifter, that Lisa G. comment could come off as catty. NTTAWWT.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Please note that as there appear to be no Australians around, it's open season on Olivia Newton-John, Men At Work, the Little River Band, the Eurogliders, Midnight Oil, the Bee Gees, INXS, Divinyls, Hoodoo Gurus, or Prawns With Horns ("Australia's Wiggiest Funked Up Band").*


Translated into English, that's "Australia's Wiggiest Funked-Up Band."

just for atticus
 

In a former adult life, I used to see kids of that age in groups of about 30 for approximately 45 minutes at a time. One of the great realizations of my young age (at the time) is that everyone in high school is a dork. The jocks? Dorks. Gangbangers? Dorks.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of nice kids if you can see through their projecting. But if you watch them for a few minutes, you can feel how uncomfortable almost all of them are. They all look at each other for approval, almost begging.

Anyway, I've always been nice to kids ever since. Once you see the bigger reality of that age, its like you can feel how they all want to run and hide because there is always something wrong with themselves.

Which is to say, I'd laugh if anyone said they weren't at that age or anwhere within, say, 6th grade through junior year.

It was only a matter of time
 

Well the race is on then, because Bravo itself is planning on doing a reverse Queer Eye shortly, with five straight guys teaching some flamer how to butch it up. There will be a specialist for "sporting event etiquette," which I think is brilliant. It seems they're not playing it as a spoof, but I still don't see how's there's room for two straight guy/queer guy shows.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

I take it Celine, Alanis and Anne Murray were intentional omissions...


Good.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

You know all this time I thought the Hoodoo gurus were Canadian. I didn't realize there were hoodoos anywhere but Alberta. I am going to have to google this.

edited to note that Ty is right. I had no idea what their music sounded like, just by the name I thought they were one of ours.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

You forgot Crowded House and The Wiggles

"Toot toot chugga chugga big red car
You travel near and you travel far..."

Austen and Male Bashing
 

I think I saw one of your reviews of a .38 Special compilation on Amazon. Are you the same guy who said "the mere fact that their music has become forgotten fills me with rage"?*

*It helps if you mentally read this with the voice of Jack Black.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Isn't crowded house from new zealand?

Hoodoo Gurus
 

http://members.tripod.com/politika/



Edited by leagl to remove img code and leave link. Tripod does not allow image linking.

just for atticus
 

OMG!! I know who you are too!!!

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Re: The Wiggles

It scares me that four men so obviously gay would sing a childrens' song with the lyrics "Fruit salad, yummy yummy".

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Neil and Tim Finn are from NZ, but the rest of the band is Australian, and the Australians certainly consider them theirs. NTTAWWT.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

The Finn brothers are, but can't vouch for other members of Crowded House or Split Enz (another fine group, with songs such as "Six Months in a Leaky Boat")... Wildly popular both in NZ and Australia back in the day.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Dissent.

Murray - married with two children
Greg - married with two children
Anthony - married with a child due in Feb 2004
Jeff - single with no children

And before we jump to the obvious point, a man married to an Australian woman obviously can't be gay. Duh.

Michael Jackson's family plans
 

From MSNBC and its "Please don't let this happen file"

MICHAEL JACKSON IS telling people he wants to adopt more children. The baby-dangling star — whose career was nearly derailed because of child molestation accusations — already has three children, but now he’s saying he’d like to adopt at least seven more.
“I want a big family,” he recently told L.A. radio host Rick Dees. “More and more children.” In fact, he said that he’d eventually like to have more kids than his father did. There were nine siblings in the Jackson family.
“It’s not like he has a specific strategy or he’s in touch with adoption agencies about this,” Jackson’s rep told the Scoop. “If indeed he did say that, he was just speaking about his love of children.”

Austen and Male Bashing
 

At least two of them are married with children. And Fruit Salad is a good song. The, ahem, Little Fingers love it...

Mrs. Hand, the Little Fingers and I went as the Wiggles for Halloween this year... My oldest assigned me the role of Jeff, an apparent editorial comment on my state of consciousness on Saturday mornings. Captain Feathersword is my favorite, though.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Heh. It's interesting you chose such an innocuous quote, when there are so many that are worse.

Captain Feathersword in particular bothers me. He goes around tickling people with his feather sword. He likes to dance in his pirate pants. Sometimes, he has to put on his "special raincoat."

Actually, except for CF, I kind of admire The Wiggles. They were a fairly successful band in Australia (The Cockroaches) and then gave it up to launch into the risky business of children's music. It's hard to imagine they planned on the type of success they ultimately gained.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

And both featuring Neil Finn as their primary creative force.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Of course, if there were Australians / Kiwis on this board we could lauch into a New Zealand is the Canada of Australia discussion, but there aren't, so I'll just assert it: New Zealand is the Canada of Australia.

New Playboy Boob Test
 

Unfortunately they rearrange the pictures every time you reload, so there's no way to say "1, 4 and 8 are real."

So, here's my description of the answers.

The real ones are:
Girl with arms at her sides
Girl with corset
Girl with lots of brown hair.
Girl with her hands on her tits!!!
Girl with a tank top
Girl with elbows at her sides

Fakes are:
Black girl
perfect B-cups
Great big nipples on the DDs
Girl with less brown hair
Girl with her arms above her head
Girl with left arm up, right arm down.

New Playboy Boob Test
 

I got 6 / 12, too, but I figured them out. Going by descriptions, because the order changes every time the page comes up:




Brown hair sort of diagonal across chest: fake
Brown hair hanging down on either side: real
Cone-shaped, faint tan lines, arms at side w/ no background: fake
tan with no tan lines, arms at side, w/ no background: fake
slightly lopsided, tan lines, with both B&W in the background: real
all-white background: fake
arms up with bright green background: fake
pale, high nips with a little bright green showing one side: real
black woman: fake
top still on: real

The shockers:
looks oiled: real
Silver corset: real

BR(need to get something more productive to do)C

just for atticus
 

I think that I have done enough document destruction and bribed enough people so all evidence of me in 7th grade (with the possible exception of the hottie lifeguard from the summer that year) has been destroyed or conveniently forgotten, so no one will ever know one way or the other.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Dear Mr. Atticus Grinch, Esq.

On November 11, 2003, you wrote and distributed a message to a widely read internet group. This message contained a strong inference that Tom Cruise is a homosexual. Tom Cruise is not a homosexual, and Mr. Cruise objects to your characterization of him as such in the strongest possible terms.

Please cease and desist from making any such future references. Furthermore, please edit your previous posting to remove such a reference. Finally, please submit to the same internet message board an apology for making libellous inferences that Tom Cruise is a homosexual. If you fail to do so, we will be forced to resort to a legal action for defamation to protect the rights and good name of the very heterosexual Tom Cruise.

Sincerely yours,

Bloom, Hergott, Deimer, LLP.
Beverly Hills, CA.

John Madden's Thanksgiving
 

Heh heh. That's a good one. Calvin Trillin wrote the foreword to a cookbook written by my friend's mother. She (the friend's mother) is British. You can imagine the jokes, which later turned into how Jane (the mother)'s cooking was, of course, different. Unfortunately, I can't remember any of it, other than that I laughed -- so just go ahead and imagine something funny, then laugh.

just for atticus
 

I'm pretty sure, based upon a quick survey of my life, that 7th grade was the one point in my life when I was cool.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

It scares me anyone would sing those lyrics. I saw that show for the first time a few months ago with my nephew, he just loves it. I find it horrifically annoying. My sister says it is better than Barney. I am not so sure about that.

I'm also not so sure they are gay though.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

How does one make a libelous inference?

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Dear BHG,

Please ask your client, the very heterosexual Tom Cruise, to stop trying to suck my cock.

Love,

Shape Shifter

P.S. NTTAWWT

Open Letter to Atticus
 

Hell, I'd never insult a song that brilliant. I happen to love that tune. In fact, I frequently quote from it.

S("The legend lives on from the Chipewa on down of the big lake they call...")D

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Defamation by imputation. Realtively hard to prove. I know. I got my ass handed to me on motion for directed verdict trying to bring such a claim.

S(or maybe its just that I'm not a very good lawyer?)D

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Hm, I'm getting a vision of some kind of competition between Tom Cruise and Nancy Reagan. Perhaps televised? If she wins, the proceeds go to the "Just Say No" campaign. If he wins,

Fuck. I don't know what he would win. Too tired.


Edited to add, to all those Austen haters, where else would we get from a feminazi Austen seminar to Nancy Reagan giving head on TV in the space of about a day?

Austen and Male Bashing
 

I vote for that one.

I've heard stories Mister, oh yes I have.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

If you are trying to get someone for libel based on an inference they made, if they never in any way communicated that inference to anyone, you deserve to lose and are not just a crappy lawyer but a fucking moron.

Austen and Male Bashing
 

I thought you deserve to lose only if it's a reasonable inference. But an unreasonable inference is actionable. The idea being that it can't be libel to say something reasonable.

Lit Crit
 

Ever heard of The Chronicles of Narnia?
Thems fighting words! You can bash the Austen books all you want but stay away from the BBC production of P&P with Colin Firth (forever on my laminated list) as Mr. Darcy. One of my favorite TV productions ever. I bought the DVD.

Fu(P&P on A&E is the ultimate in chick TV)gee

Austen and Male Bashing
 

By way of Rush and the Wiggles, no less.:rolleyes:

Austen and Male Bashing
 

Jesus god almighty.

Inference. Implication. Look them up. The joke is not funny if no one gets it. Maybe you mean, someone does something intending for other people to make an inference? Edited to add that doing that is making an implication. Or implying.

Or I'm delirious.