Transexuals
 

"Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone"

"She lives in Austin, Texas and Santa Cruz, California with her husband Cynbe ru Taren (aka Jeffrey Prothero) and their cat, The."

Apparently the number of cats one has is not always an accurate test for wackadooness -- or at least having fewer than 3 does not guarantee a non-wackadoo.

edited to note that I do not find sex change/transgender/etc wackadoo -- Sandy Stone, however, is simply wackadoo without the identity issue (read her cv, etc and you shall see).

Transgendered (and more catsup)
 

Very confusing. I'm really befuddled by the partners of the transgendered folks. The transgendered folks start off as attracted to a certain sex and maintain that attraction throughout the process. I'm more confused by the 'other' in the relationship, who was initially attracted to a boy but is now (post-op/hormones/etc) attracted to a girl. Or vice versa. I guess it all depends on how open the transgendered person was in the relationship.

More catsup ...
I was at the 1980 victory over the Russians. Wow! That building (and the street afterwards) was electric! I still get goose pimples watching the documentary.

Transgendered (and more catsup)
 

Yeah, it would be pretty weird for that person. Seems like that are a fair number of (presumably hetero) women who stay in relationships with men who become women. I would guess that women might be more willing than men to say - well I loved this person as a man, I still love em as a woman. I'm not sure men would be able to switch sides as quickly. Maybe the relationships have turned more platonic by that point anyway? As has been known to be the case in more than one marriage...

Transgendered (and more catsup)
 

I think women take to the concept of free agency more readily then men do... Same problem with the NFL and the increasing female viewers.

Transexuals
 

Not sure I grasp this question but Jean (the female Jean) has a boyfriend. So she would have been gay pre-op and will be straight post-op. This is confusing.

Transexuals
 

See The Crying Game; see also Boys Don't Cry.

Laminated list
 

While I can't say I know all the people on your list or can even remember who they are, I can say that the Mr. is not as good looking as Vin Diesel.

Thurgreed(nothing personal, of course)Marshall

Nicole Kidman & Lenny Kravitz? and Transsexuals
 

A friend of mine went to kindergarten and first grade with him in NYC (until Lenny moved to LA). My friend (let's call him John for the purposes of this story) saw him at a concert or something (Lenny was attending, not performing), surrounded by bodyguards, and John went up to him and said, "Hey -- we went to kindergarten together!" Lenny whipped around, and looked at him accusingly and said, "WHERE?" John was taken aback, but then answered (correctly, obviously), at which point Lenny said, "Hey -- cool! [&c]" and they had a brief conversation, at the end of which John realized he'd never even told Lenny his name -- although they spoke of some third kindergarten friend at length.

John was so upset that he forgot to tell Lenny his name. I'm sure they would be really tight now were it not for that unfortunate mental lapse.

Headlights and speed traps
 

Not regarding nipples.

When I was a kid, if a driver passed a cop waiting in an obvious speed trap or about to get back in his car after pulling someone over, the driver would warn oncoming traffic of the potential ticket by flashing his lights.

Is that regional or did was it pretty widespread? Does anyone do this anymore? Whenever I see someone flash their lights, I immediately hop into the right lane (if I wasn't already there) and slow back down to the speed limit. And whenever I see a potential speed trap, I try to warn the oncoming traffic. Lately, though, the speed trap never materializes, and I'm beginning to think that I'm doing a rain dance when everyone else just checks doppler radar.

Headlights and speed traps
 

I've seen it in a number of parts of the country, so I assume it's a universal signal.

Of course, around here I generally don't bother because there are so many assinine drivers I'd like to see some of them get pulled over. But, in the sticks, sure I'd do it.

Headlights and speed traps
 

This was common in the Northeast when I was younger. No idea if it is still done today because I do very little highway driving in Texas.

I did have an interesting (to me) encounter with a cop car the other day tho when I decided to pass a very slow moving truck (going about 10-15 mph) on a kind of busy city street in an area where dashed yellow lines were painted on the street. I thought it was a questionably legal maneuver when I did it, but was surprised when I got to the side of the truck to see slow moving traffic on the other side being passed by a police car on my (rightful) side of the road. We both made it past our respective crawlers and he never turned around to stop me, so it worked out ok.

The Cat Slippery Slope
 

You'll have to replace "poker tips" with "head" in that sentence if you're talking about Penske's momma.

And the answer would be, "That bitch is always crazy."

TM

Headlights and speed traps
 

totally universal. This is something that truckers do for other truckers nationwide from what I've seen - and I've driven coast to coast a number of times. But will extend the courtesy to other drivers because I think they hate highway cops.

I've also had guys on Harleys give me the slow down signal (palm facing down to the road) while driving on back roads. I think a lot of it has to do with type of car you're driving too. More common to get the courtesy in a sports car than a Geo Metro.

Headlights and speed traps
 

It's a gang ritual. If you flash back they will kill you.

Isn't that ironic?

Headlights and speed traps
 

People still do it around here. Someone flashed us recently and we were very surprised to see a policeman around the next bend.

In Florida, it started to die out because flasing headlights was some signal for gang members, or something.

Ah, the sunshine state . . .

Headlights and speed traps
 

That is, I believe, a pretty well documented urban legend.

But I'm too lazy to go to snopes for the confirmation.

aV

Transexuals
 

Wrong. Reread. She has one cat and is less nutty than you.

TM

Headlights and speed traps
 

You sir, are correct!

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lightout.htm

Transexuals
 

And all this time I thought the old Village Voice personal ad written by a "lesbian woman trapped in a man's body" (while confusingly claiming not to be transsexual) was a scam for some guy to try to nail lesbians.

I went to law school with a transgendered woman. Up to then I'd led a very sheltered life so it made me a little uncomfortable at the beginning of my 1L year to share the bathroom (silly, I know as there were separate stalls) with her. Eventually, I stopped thinking of her as someone who used to be a man. In part it was helped by the effect of the hormones that got rid of the 5 o'clock shadow she used to get by Con Law class.

The more interesting story is that my Dad knows a transgendered woman. He is a licensed firearms dealer and goes to gun shows where most of the attendees and dealers are pretty macho NRA types. He became friends with another dealer who used to be a sniper in the Canadian military. A few months ago Dad's friend showed up with long blond hair, makeup and women's clothes and announced his upcoming surgery and new name. (He went to Europe for his surgery -- do they require a shorter period of living as the other gender before having the operation?) For a conservative old fart, Dad is remarkably blase about it as are, apparently, the rest of the dealers he knows. A cautionary note: if you're a guy and think you really should be a woman, don't get large macho tattoos on your arms. It really spoils the look after you make the change.

Headlights and speed traps
 

Like a death row pardon two minutes too late.

Transgendered (and more catsup)
 

Have you tried topical application of semen?

Transexuals
 

You remind me a lot of boys in gradeschool who would tease girls that they liked. :kisscheek

Headlights and speed traps
 

I've certainly seen people do this in various places around the country, so it's not regional. I don't know if people do it very much anymore, 'cause I don't drive that much.

Headlights and speed traps
 

Up until four days ago, I thought the line was "like a death row hard-on two minutes too late".

Which would actually be pretty ironic.

Laminated list
 

I see what you mean. I've met a decent number of men who are litigators and also military (or ex-military) and this can be a hot combination. They tend to be modest and hard-working but fit, worldly and decidedly masculine.

Cat Freaks
 

Can we not worry so much about who is a borderline cat-hoarding nutbag, and just institute a bright-line rule that cat people and dog people should never, ever date?

It's always a fucking disaster. Banning it, I think, would save a lot of pointless heartbreak in this world.

When I get that feeling, I need transsexual healing
 

In a years-long class action I worked on, our expert began a MTF sexual reassignment about a year before trial. The problem was, her expert depo had already been taken long before. My firm was faced with the dicey proposition of having its prime causation expert impeached by videotape of her male self.

I argued for keeping her because the rehabilitation would have been so delightful to watch. "Counsel, I was wrong about a lot of things back then."

Headlights and speed traps
 

Just last week we got flashed and as I finished saying "do people still signal speed traps anymore?" (but before I had a chance to add "I thought that urban legend about gang killings put an end to the practice") I saw the trooper, who was one of those macho, standing on the shoulder aiming the radar at you like a gun and pulling you over by waving angrily at you types.

That method of pulling people over just irritates the hell out of me, but it is better than having a trooper pace you for 10 minutes on a deserted country road in the middle of the night.

Cat Freaks
 

Should I be worried about the many couples I know who have both? Is divorce imminent?

People who hate cats should not date people who have cats, and people who hate dogs should not date people who have dogs. And people who hate lawyers shouldn't date one. That's like dating someone with a kid when you don't want to have kids.

Not all dog people hate cats and not all cat people hate dogs. A fair number of people (me, for example) like both types of animals.

Menagerie
 

I have a cat and two dogs. My BF is not a lawyer. I would never date a guy who did not like dogs. And I believe that posting styles are as likely to feign or cover craziness as they are to reflect it.

These statements are relevant to today's discussion, but to anybody who has been paying attention, it is also quite obviously a cover up for the fact that once again, I quoted myself, rather than edited myself. Why I readily point out my foibles on the chance that anybody missed them, I do not know.

New Poll
 

Alright, all this speed trap discussion has caused me to think about running from the cops. The most common, and most successful kind, I think, has to be just taking off once you see that a cop has turned on his lights and is turning around or pulling out to come after you. This kind of evading seems most common on the freeway, when you might already be doing 90. The cop in question has to pull out, maybe wait for traffic, and catch up to well above your speed to make up for all the lost time. This might be enough time to make it to the next exit/turn-off/rest stop/etc., but it might not. Or they might be working in teams.

I think I've done it, but I was already going 95 or so, never saw the cop turn on his lights, just pull out, and didn't see him fly by with lights and siren going when I pulled into an exit and then immediately into a strip mall when about a mile down the road. I also didn't increase speed that much.

So, ever evaded the cops?

Transgendered
 

That was very well put.

Cops
 

Why evade the cop when you can cry your way out of the ticket?

Cat Freaks
 

Um, we have a dog, and two cats. Are we in serious trouble?

(OK, we also have three snakes, a rabbit, two rats, fish, two reptiles, (maybe three, depending on what that noise was that I heard last night by the oven), two birds, a large walking stick, a praying mantis, turtles, (haven't counted), about 4000 tadpoles and frogs, a salamander, assorted gerbils and hamsters, and this weird toad with big, sharp teeth. Maybe the "are we in trouble" question is superfluous.)

Menagerie
 

You would date a guy who hated cats???????

New Poll
 

Every stinking day of my life.

Menagerie
 

New Poll
 

Only when playing kinky sex games, and it was just one cop.


Ahhh the memories.

Headlights and speed traps
 

Not to mention impossible.

Transgendered (and more catsup)
 

Not while watching television.