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That's the way to shine his knickers, you crazy cat!!! I'm like way hip to your lingo, Jingo!

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I bet gwink could kick Wendy O's ass.

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Oh, man. Reform School Girls -- that was one suck-o movie.

Caged Heat is way better. "Call me Fellini!"

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She got big tits?

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Directed by Jonathan Demme, music by John Cale. And this poster:

http://www.impawards.com/1974/posters/caged_heat.jpg

Okay, you got me. You wanna defend Caged Heat 2: Stripped of Freedom?

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But you'll always be able to give those names to some of the 40-so smelly cats that will be festering in your apartment in your not-so-distant, even lonelier future.

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Having met the former and knowing someone else who knew the latter, I doubt it.

That being said, I wouldn't mind seeing it.

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2.

WHile we rarely agree, since our illl-fated kitchen tyrst, I wsih I couLd too.

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Please, between the cats and the dogs and the tivo boxes and the empty shiraz bottles and the ghosts of unfertilized eggs past, I wish I could see the floor of my dreary apartment. So crowded in there, and yet so lonely.

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And don't forget all the empty haagen daz cartons that helped earn you the "huge ass lady" sobriquet from your co-workers.

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Enough with this shit.

TM

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My 84 year old grandmother has decided that she wants a breast reduction.

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WHiff!

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One of the few things worth watching on Jet Blue on Sunday (why no ABC, CBS or Fox?) was a rerun of celebrity Weakest Link. I was shocked about a couple of things:

1. This woman named Tamara something was clearly CLEARLY the worst player in the game, but others kept getting voted off. I figured it was an ill-conceived strategy that they all wanted to go against her in the final twosome, but then she was voted off with 4 people left (just the point where you want to start voting off the STRONG players). Very bizarre. I was thrilled, however, to see my old game-show partner Kathy Nijimy win it all for her very deserving charity helping Afghan women.

2. On that show, Ice-T missed a question about what NY prison was named after the town of Ossining where it's located. Seeing as how they refer to Sing Sing on every other episode of Law & Order SVU, I thought he'd find it a snap. But he answered "Ossining State Prison?" Oh well.

3. Speaking of Kathy Nijimy, did anyone watch the Dan Band show on Bravo? It did a pretty good job of capturing the flavor of the live shows.

Str8's review of Lawtalkers, 6/8/05
 

I pity anyone who has to catch up on today's postings.

Never have so many posted so frequently about so little.

That is all.

Str8's review of Lawtalkers, 6/8/05
 

list your second cousins' names.

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Your missus has called you Hank a few times too, I've heard.

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If it's located in "Ossining," and it's not named "Ossining," then how is it named after the town in which it's located?

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if you know about the prison dating scene would you please email fringey some opening lines or any tips you've developed

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I initially read this wrong and was about to congratulate you on getting rid of Sequels.

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I thought he had a sex change. i PM'd wonk to remind him of his wedding vows.

That's Dr. Cruise To You
 

You confuse me. You did that for the BF? But it felt good too, right? Exciting and free?

Another question, fake nipples-too SatC/2003 or good for fun for turning the boys' heads?

That's Dr. Cruise To You
 

1. Exciting and free.

2. Huh? I'm a repressed Irish/Catholic spinster that doesn't get HBO and has never seen an episode of SatC. What are fake nipples?

Hell's Kitchen
 

Anyone else catch this on Monday night on FOX?

If I had a Tivo, I'd be recording this every week. Unfortunately indoor soccer will interfere with regular viewing.

Ironweed may not like it, Gordon Ramsay played with Rangers for three years.

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Technically, Jesus was a Hellenic name originally, but your presumably sincere interest in the topic is nonetheless appreciated.

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Weird that. This particular sexual fantasy has served a much longer life as a punchline than it ever did as a fantasy. Stack up every boner that came about as a result of a real "women in prison" fantasy --- a stack of Catherine MacKinnon articles about the symbology of sexual hegemony would be both taller and more erotic.

(An exception, of course, would be "women in prison" porn, but that's because it's PORN. You could make a porno about how a bill becomes a law and it would sell somewhere, but that doesn't mean parliamentary process is arousing.)

Number of expectant parents who've come to grief by refusing to disclose baby names under consideration: 0.

Number of well-meaning friends and family who say "That's a suck-ass name; why'd you pick that?" upon simultaneously meeting your newborn and hearing the name for the absolute first time: 0. Or should be 0; YMMV.

Ann & Clint; Harold & Meda. Str8 is welcome to any of these except Clint, which I'm saving for a Grinch baby that looks tough enough to carry it off, male or female.

I have greater strictures in the baby-naming department than most because I have a surname that is a preexisting word in the English language. A great many meritorious girl names would create unfortunate associations when paired with my last name, even though I'm sure many of you carry them with distinction and honor IRL.

I'm sorry to hear that. "Cunt" must have been really tough when you were a kid.

Naming a girl Clint is just asking for trouble.

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Well, Helenic in the sense that the Helenes bastardized the Aramaic Jeshua as Iesous when transliterating it on the way to the ultimately Latin Jesus. Requisite Cite .

Interestingly, the Latin variation had been adopted into Hebrew for some time - there are a couple of other Jesuses in the Old Testament. Because of the Latin influence, and because Latin names become prominent in the Middle East long after Greek names, the appearance of the name in the Old Testament can help establish dates of authorship.

Atticus, Hank, I think this one is a draw for the two of you. And your sincere interest in the topic is appreciated.

(Atticus, have you been reading Karen Armstrong again? ETA -- You should know this just from the -us ending.)

Games for Pedants
 

Has anyone played this.

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I would like to see that.

And fyi, I received my "bottom reformulator" cushion last night and my ass is currently planted on it. I can feel the reshaping technology at work already! If you hear reports of a "magic ass" in NYC in a few weeks, you will know the reason! I am so excited I can barely sit still.

If this law thing doesn't work out for me, it looks like air traffic control will.
 

I promise that this is my last "overheard in new york" post. For a while, anyway.

Pilot: Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for the delay in landing the aircraft, but the air traffic controller here at LaGuardia is an angry, bitter man.

--over LaGuardia

Hell's Kitchen
 

It showed promise the first episode, but fell off after the second episode was exactly the same. How many times can you watch them cook dinner wrong and get yelled at?

TM

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If you can't sit still, I don't think this miracle product will be much use to you.

Your last name is Dick?

Leo
 

Looks like mmmmmm234523 has a new nickname.

TM

AdL was closer. Let's just say that it would be a big mistake for Atticus to name his child "Slippery."

shooters
 

I am now remembering a shooter from my youth called a "Slippery Nipple." Yummy.

In other news, the Simpsons is going to be a movie:
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/eo/2...827472000.html