Being a good host and guest
 

Yeh, but its more than that. There's a stupid culture among many of the "Shanty Irish" which reinforces blue collar values. You'll see very few WASPS or Jews waxing nostalgic about living in row homes with armies of underfed children. And you'll never see a sensible Jew or WASP follow blindly the edicts of his faith (fundamentalists from both groups excluded). Catholicism is uniquely evil in its goal of keeping its followers down and beholden to its guidelines. What other religion preaches that the poorer you are, the better you are, yet keeps its own 10 billion-plus capitalized bank?

I recognize very well why the folks at the golf course did not want my kind so many years ago, and although it sounds awful, I can't disagree with them. We needed to grow up and it took a few generations for the better of us to develop the independence of thought necessary to interact properly in society.

S(sounds awful, bit its truer than the second hand on my watch)D

TCBing and the pole
 

Anal sex standing up in a filthy hot room? Huh.

p'shaw
 

Its perfect. The trashier guests and family (i.e. the rabble rousing riff raff) get served the Charles Shaw, while I have hidden bottle of Silver Oak in the kitchen chillin' (figuratively) that I use to hit my glass. On the down lo. sts.

The lesson: when you come to my house make sure I'm filling your wine glass out of the same bottle as I'm filling mine. FWIW, another bad sign is, if you don't crystal and then its probably Chuck.

p'shaw
 

Why am I picturing you having a tea party for all of your socks?

TCBing and the pole
 

TCB=Take Care of Business=Masturbate

Cf. http://www.infirmation.com/bboard/cl...?msg_id=000BD1

Chocolate or Cinamon Babka?
 

True, but what really got him ticked was when he found out where yo mama had put it. A cigar is one thing but a marble rye?

Pet Peeve
 

Small dick lawyers who think that they make their dicks look bigger by either 1) having their secretary do their outgoing voicemail message or 2) (the worst) doing their own voicemail message but referring to themselves in the third person. As in, Thurgreed doing a voicemail saying "You have reached the office of Thurgreed Marshall. Mr. Marshall is unable to take your call at the moment. Please leave a message and Mr. Marshall will promptly return your call."

If you want your dick to look bigger, do your own first person voicemail and shave your balls.

Family size
 

From something I read rather recently, this observation is more or less true, but the cause/effect is in doubt. They've known for 20-30 years that the best predictor of future economic hardship for a given household is the number of dependant children, to an extent that blows race, education and current economic status away. But it isn't clear if people already disadvantaged by lower social class, lower economic status or lower educational attainment choose to have more children, or if instead people who have more children suffer economic distress, loose social status and achieve lower educational levels (largely due to the family's time and economic resources being more thinly spread over many). Not that the two are mutually exclusive, of course.

There have also been lots of studies of why children from large families (whether extended or "lots of children" types) have much more trouble succeeding in higher education, which sociologists generally believe stems from their usually being socialized from a young age to accept authoritarian power and social structures (which are common in large families, simply because they are necessary to maintain order). Kids from large families often have difficulty interacting with "superiors" (i.e.: teachers) as fallable (or inferior) equals, are more used to being told what to do than thinking about what they want to do for themselves, and tend to associate self-assertion (and particularly intellectual self-assertion, which is much more threatening to the legitimacy of an entrenched authority than simple ornrieness or aggressiveness) with punishment rather than praise; whereas children from small families have usually learned that a thoughtful argument or negotiation can often convince an authority figure to change its mind. I haven't read anything that correlating Catholicism with the "accepting hierarchical authoritarianism" educational issue, but I suppose you can draw your own conclusions.

TCBing and the pole
 

We've really sort of developed our own form of cockney rhyming slang here, haven't we?

Except, without the rhyming part.

Leagl: could we get a "commonly used acronyms/terms" page? Or have someone compile them all in one place in a post others can link to?

Pet Peeve
 

I used to work for a partner that refused to make a telephone call. He would have his secretary make all calls and then have the caller hold for a minute or two before he'd pick up the phone. I'm pretty sure he read some management / power book in the 70s that told him that was the appropriate way to establish control over the conversation. The first time he did it to me, I hung up on him.

p'shaw
 

That's a nice thought. If it was just me and my socks I'd be breaking out the Petrus.

Family size
 

Isnt the assumption that the social movement is upward not downward, so they have taken that as a controlled factor in the study? This is america baby. Dreams happen and the only downwardly mobile perosn in the country is yours truly and that has nothing to do with having a bunch of kids.

But I digress. This is sort of related in that the person who feels teh need to add to the Christian population but may not want to have a bunch of rugrats has an alternative. Missionary work. What the fuck is this all about? Who the fuck are these people who think their god rules, and everyone else's drools, so they go to the hardluck people of the world and twirl their opiate of the masses bullshit in the guise of medical help? I hate these fucking people. Talk about your presumptuous, pompous condescending subversive cultists. Is this a christian wide thing or is this just for the groups that need to add to their numbers like the mormons, the seventh day evangelists and the jesse helms types (southern baptists?)? Its like that jewish relative of cheryl's sister's wasnt to be husband "we resent the recruitment".

TCBing and the pole
 

Not anal. This wasn't Slot C woman. Haven't you ever had the sex done to you from behind, but still in Slot B? It helps significantly if the woman is of similar or greater height, though. Otherwise, the guy's legs will get very tired from bending.

Pet Peeve
 

the first use of your own name is okay though, right? so they know they got the right person.

Its more effective to shave the hair around the base of the shaft, although as long as you are down there, doing the balls doesn't take that much more effort and its a nice gesture. For one's fans.

Family size
 

What's considered a "large" family? More than three kids, more than four?

TCBing and the pole
 

I actually didn't think you'd had anal, and did not realize her back was to you. Thanks much for the additional detail.

I'm petite.

Pet Peeve
 

I like the concept of this. You may have inspired me.

Amusing lunch
 

So, I'm getting lunch in the firm lunch room, and I don't order my usual since I'm sort of watching what I eat (read: avoiding junk & empty carbs), and they were teasing me about it. I said "well, I'm sort of cutting down on the junk" and they said "dieting? You don't need to diet." And I indicated that I don't look it, but I've hidden it all in my rump. At which one of the cashiers said conspiratorially "I wouldn't mind taking some off the waist, but I'd never want to lose my butt, 'cause black men love big butts" (she's black). I said "I don't think that's just black men, I think all men like some butt, it's just a white woman thing thinking we should look like sticks all the time." (Me being a white woman.)

Which apparently was the funniest thing they'd heard for quite a while, and we stood around shooting the breeze about weird white women and their flat asses.

Can I just say, I love the people at my firm? Except for the lawyers.

Wholly unfashionable - Sallie Mae Class Action
 

Saw this blurb come across the news wires:

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SLM Corp. (Sallie Mae) said a class-action lawsuit was filed against it in California over an error in its annual calculation of monthly payment amounts on student loans (Dow Jones Newswires Aug. 14). The company discovered an error with its annual calculation of monthly payment amounts associated with variable interest rate Stafford, SLS and PLUS loans in the fourth quarter of last year that caused about 1.1 million of the firm's serviced student loan accounts to amortize too quickly or slowly. Sallie Mae, which said it believes the lawsuit is without merit, said it corrected the problem and credited the affected borrowers' accounts ...
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As an affected individual, does anybody else besides moi have an interest in this story? I got nailed for a good $50 a month increase.

TCBing and the pole
 

Exhausting. And I don't think it's too much fun for the girl either. The answer: stairs

Pet Peeve
 

I thought you had a videophone.

TM

TCBing and the pole
 

What is slot A?

You sick fuck. The ear?

TCBing and the pole
 

As long as you're petite enough, that's fine, too. You can turn around and I can hold you. It's the "not tall enough to stand facing the other way but not light enough to comfortably (for both of us) hold in the air" middle ground that is difficult in hot, dusty attic sex, in my experience.

Anyway, I still think fondly of that relationship and the time that we spent sneaking around in our own house and crawling into each others' beds in the middle of the night. Secrecy and deception make the sex really hot. I guess that's why affairs are so much fun, until you get caught and someone is throwing your clothes out the window.

TCBing and the pole
 

Or my four point five inch Manolos. See, mom, there is an occasion for which I can wear these!

Pet Peeve
 

A friend at a party told me he trimmed his pubes and that it made his package look more impressive... so... Standing in front of the mirror a few months or so, I decided to break out the scissors (I don't recommend doing this drunk or in a hurry for obvious reasons) and did some work down there. Low and behold if it didn't make my package look about an inch longer. The trick, however, is not in trimming the balls, but trimming the frontal area. An added plus is that if you go commando, having the front trimming prevents you from zipping up your pubes.... which is painful. Extremely painful...

As to inscure laywers' phone messages, I had to deal with this total tool lawyer a few months ago who'd never answer my fucking calls and had a secretarial voicemail. When I finally met the son of a bitch, he turned out to be a 5'7 little shit with wire rimmed glasses and a dead fish handshake. I almost laughed directly in his face when I realized that he'd been deepening his voice to sound more masculine on the phone. Alas, I have met various versions of this little box of neurosis in every firm I know - he's the rule, not the exception...

Being a good host and guest
 

I went topublic schools and a State U. I'm lucky to have been accepted to law school; to be able to spell perfectly would be too much for me to ask. But you sure win this argument. Congratulations, you caught me on a spelling error- you should be real fucking proud.
Oh, by the way, the reason there are spelling errors in my posts here is because I can't find a spell check like they had at Findlaw. I for one am not going to complain because i think the people who built this board did a great job, you can complain all you want. ingrate!

no. it was an attempt to be.

Amusing lunch
 

That reminds me -- Chris Rock was on Letterman last night and told the story about how one year at the MTV Video Awards, he made a joke about how J Lo and her butt each got nominated, or something like that. P Diddy called him up the next day and said "Chris that wasn't cool," so Chris sent flowers to J LO and to her butt (big laugh). Then he did a very funny bit about "I'm a black man, I love the butt, I'm all about the butt."

I am not doing it justice, it was very funny.

TCBing and the pole
 

Alas, short and fat. Kind of like a cube.

Sneaking Sally Down the Alley
 

Strangely, this struck me as one of the most romantic things I have ever read. Suddnely I wish I was six inches shorter and thirty pounds lighter.


And if I ever caught anyone cheating on me, and nobody ever would I assure you, I would not throw the clothes out the window. My ex's ex did this to him and it just seemed so ridiculous. Like saying you are psycho is gonna make him feel worse? It is funny though,

Last night's tv (FLo$)
 

In Dallas, yes. The general aura that you describe actually makes most locally-raised men undateable for those of us from the Northeast.

Family size
 

Picture me shrugging. I have some vague recolection that for the economic hardship thing it was pretty much a sliding scale with diminishing effect (e.g.: the jump between 0 and 1 kids was big, between 1 and 2 big but less so, and between 7 and 8 fairly small). For the educational attainment studies I have no memory at all. Most parents I've talked to would argue that the real difference in how you establish control comes when you hit 3 kids, when you have to move from one-on-one to zone defense. I would imagine the "large families" they probably studied were more like 5-6 kids vs 2 kids, though.

TCBing and the pole
 

I will defer to the original taxonomist, whose name I don't recall and am too lazy to go back and find (it was in the Kobe Bryant discussion), but I think that the traditional tool of heterosexual love was Tab A, and there was no Slot A, for avoidance of confusion.

I also recall naming some other tabs and slots (mouth and fingers), but you and Mr. Kiss will have to come up with the appropriate euphimisms for skullfucking. Ant twat, but toomy.

Pet Peeve
 

I know shaving your dick to make it look bigger could be seen as an "experiment," and no one is saying you need to puff, but your second paragraph point of conveying the image of a lawyer who is insecure in his physique might have been stronger if it didn't follow your shaving description. think-seperate posts

TCBing and the pole
 

Dude, have her stand on one of the boxes or chests or bits of furniture mouldering away in said hot, dusty attic. Learn to use the props available to you, man.

Amusing lunch
 

I think he said that Lopez was the Commodores and her ass was Lionel Richie.

Pet Peeve
 

I'm starting to think you are funny, but it would help if you used more punctuation and capitalization. Or something. Because currently it reads like mentally disabled, drug-addicted homeless guy muttering to himself.

I will succumb to the trend of the day and say NTTAWWT. IMHO. YMMV.

Pet Peeve
 

I caught the very end of Meet My Folks where the guy who won ended the segment by saying something like, "See, I'm not gay. NTTAWWT."

Also, poor Hawk.

Regifting your used porno?
 

"Does this do it for you ladies?"

"Makes me think of perpendickular toothpicks"

I found the prose erectifying.

Pet Peeve
 

Outside of POTUS, my response to anyone who has someone else call, i.e. "Please hold for Mr. ___", is to simply say "No" and hangup. This includes a state senator, so far.

Pet Peeve
 

? beg pardon, I should know this but...