Re: Chinese Alternative Medicine
 

Well . . . I got a bit long-winded. But it boiled down to something like: "Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what."

Plus, we mentioned you!!! True story!!!

Re: Paralegal/Subordinate Sex
 

I am now completely blanking, but somewhere there is a word that refers to a metaphor that also works literally. Anyone?

Ah, I love it when posts make me think of grammar!

Re: Chinese Alternative Medicine
 

Right on! Sounds like a righteously righteous off-line chat-down. Keep on keeping on, my friend.

Costume Planning
 

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Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

Evidence that women who want someday to have kids should not choose their mate-for-life whilst on the Pill. Link.

Mrs. Grinch was not, as I recall, on the Pill when we met and declared our undying love, but she's been on it at various other times since then. I will inquire further about whether she found me more attractive during those times than others. Although I'll note infertility is not amongst our afflictions.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

[QUOTE=Atticus Grinch;402989]Evidence that women who want someday to have kids should not choose their mate-for-life whilst on the Pill. Link.[QUOTE]
Your link led me to this link - I now know where Hank has been getting his liquor. Porn and Viagra too.

caption, please
 

Re: Chinese Alternative Medicine
 

over ice wine...and cheese...feet smelling cheese. I was late because my magellan didn't update for the collapsed bridge.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

She still has you believing that?

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

She still has you believing that? They probably don't resemble me that much...............:rolleyes:

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Penske and his paralegal share a late night brandy.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

I'm not sure congratulations are in order, but I hope your son gets over his jacket phobia.

TM

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Not to quibble, but I'd be wearing a silk smoking jacket (assuming I had already shed the velvet that I tend to be draped in).

Re: caption, please
 

I assumed you were in front of the fireplace in your corner office. If you've got a bidet, why not a fireplace and a bear rug?

Re: caption, please
 

Actually, I have a lion skin rug in my office, king of the jungle imagery; and I tried to get a fireplace......ran into a zoning reg issue. :(

Either way, its nice that you still draw such romantic images of me. How do you feel about pirate beards?

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Siegfried and Roy present Masterpiece Theatre*

"Princess Bride" Cast Reunion: the Untold Story

CDF

*circa 1980

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What exactly is this? I don't get it.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

"Hi! This is my husband, Steve. He has a huge cock."

Re: caption, please
 

Tracking it back, it's apparently part of the image rollout for Massive Productions Ltd, a London event promoter.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

He needs to whip it out for the "benefit" of her most attractive friend. She won't mention it again.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

Outable!

Re: Chinese Alternative Medicine
 

I read something or other about those studies, too (in my acupuncturist's office, I think...). The article I read concluded that a possible reason for the "efficacy" of acupuncture even when needles were put in the "wrong" places is that the relaxation effect occurs even if the needle is a little off, which reduces stress, aids in healing, whatever.

I can't remember what ailment the study subjects were looking to have treated. Was it headaches?

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

You wish!

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

i did that once, but it turns out i wasn't big by her friend's standards:confused:

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

Ugh, I had tried to block that incident out of my mind, why did you have to remind me.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

Penske wishes he had a husband named Steve?

Or, You've seen Penske's husband's penis?

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

I once mentioned to a good friend of mine that my boyfriend at the time had a huge schlong. Many years later, she told me that any time I mentioned that guy, all she could think of was his huge schlong.

I stopped talking about boyfriends' schlongs after that. Unless they were ridiculously tiny.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

And thus began, the slow, inevitable slide of Mrs. Chinaski into OPP.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

What ever did become of Shifter, anyways?

Re: Chinese Alternative Medicine
 

PLF cited one study on headaches, and one on fertility.

But this points to exactly why I am skeptical (for the record, skeptical does not mean absolutely convinced one way or the other), which is that I think one should always be skeptical about a treatment whose mechanism of action can't be explained by anything observable (in other words, talking about unblocking flows of "energy" doesn't cut it). If no one knows why leeches can treat a fevor,* sugar pills can cure cancer, or electroshock therapy can help depression, I happen to think that tells you something.

*I am vaguely aware that there have been some modern applications of leeches that may actually have some modern science behind them.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

You too dated the tiny tiny ex-boyfriend?

Re: Chinese Alternative Medicine
 

I don't know enough about acupuncture, but I thought that the treatment was based on more than the "relaxation" effect that the needles produce. Otherwise, we could all just listen to Enya and get the same results. In any event, I think the needles were placed in completely wrong places, an on purpose, in order to study whether there was a placebo effect to acupuncture. It seems entiurely plausible to me that there would be a strong placebo effect to acupuncture. Please do not respond with the argument that acupuncture worked for you despite the fact that you were skeptical, so that proves that there is not a placebo effect because 1) that argument proves no such thing, and 2) the fact that there is likely to be a placebo effect with acupuncture in no way rules out that acupuncture could also be effective in many other cases for reasons that are not related to a placebo effect.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

A good friend of mine has a tendency to describe every penis she comes across. I generally know a lot more about her boyfriends' and paramours' penis sizes (and performances) than the guys' jobs.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

You probably just have really tiny balls, which creates the illusion of a bigger schlong.

Re: Chinese Alternative Medicine
 

It tells you something, but I don't think it tells you what you think it tells you, which is that the treatment is either ineffective or necessarily reliant on a placebo effect. The history of medicine is full of cases of treaments being effective despite an inability to precisely say why. Just because we do not understand how a treatment works does not mean it must be hocus pocus. Finally, your arguments would be more compelling if you could spell fever correctly.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

Yeah, you know me......

Re: Chinese Alternative Medicine
 

You can never know enough about it, which is why it remains a fertile topic of board chatting, iywaiktyw. To that end, fyi, I've engaged in it, and in fact, I will be engaging it in again today. Naked, except for my boxers, 8-10 needles, if that helps flesh out your knowledge a bit more.

best regards, as always,

P

Re: Chinese Alternative Medicine
 

Although your information is anecdotal, I consider it to be more reliable than a thousand articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Cheers and good on ya! Happy needling and all that, iykwimatindtyd.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

I think he probably also has really skinny legs. Same effect.