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Check boating supply places.

Where I come from there is a shallow section of a major river -- it's maybe a half mile shore to shore and no more than two feet deep for most of it. Everybody takes their little power boats, motors out onto this shoal, drops the cooler and a bunch of lawn chairs into the water, puts the boat's television out the back, and just hangs. You've got to really adjust the contrast and brightness alot, or it's impossible to see anything.

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No -- we can just make the kind of joke that requires no thought.

Actual humor from a David Spade movie
 

Slip 'N Slide makers sue 'Dickie Roberts'

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The makers of the Slip 'N Slide filed a lawsuit Monday over a scene in the hit movie "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" that shows actor David Spade skidding to a painful halt on the summertime water toy.

Wham-O is asking a judge to order the film out of theaters as long as it contains the Slip 'N Slide scene, or for a disclaimer to be added urging viewers not to try the maneuver made by Spade.

In the movie, Spade jumps belly first on the yellow plastic sheet without first inflating it with air and water. He then coats the slide with oil and crashes into a fence.

The scene has been used heavily in television and theater ads to promote the film, which was No. 1 at the weekend box office.

The lawsuit, filed against Paramount Pictures and Happy Madison Productions, charges the filmmakers violated its trademark by using the product without permission.

Wham-O also claims the scene violates the product's safety guidelines, which limit the use of Slip 'N Slide to children between the ages of 5 and 12 weighing less than 110 pounds and under 5 feet tall.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/09/08/di....ap/index.html

aV

furs
 

But I am sure it looks fabulous with your goose down parka.

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He likes some people. He just happens to be very selective.

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Thank you to everyone for your suggestions. Perhaps we can have Breasticle Day III live at my house if I can get the TV thingy taken care of. The pool is surrounded by woods on three sides and the house/retaining wall on the other so there is no danger of interlopers/freeloaders viewing your nekkidness. I will, of course, spend the day blindfolded.

old glory
 

I can't see the flag as offensive in the context you describe - it seems like a pretty generic thing to add to a webpage. Daddy needs to calm down and save his wrath for more important battles. Same advice goes for Wham-O.

-TL

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This is Thurgreed's favorite emoticon.

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Good points. Cats actually are intolerant of soy products, not milk. Just in case anyone is wondering. My cat loves to eat cheese, flowers, lizards, flies and house guests (or at least attempts to). Absolutely hates oranges and bananas -- runs like they are Freddie Krueger. Go figure.

old glory
 

That seems weird. Does your father have an aversion to the American flag or does he think bro is making a statement about Iraq? That said, if bro lives in a suburb, remember that the burbs are full of military bases. Perhaps his friends are military (most of Tacoma, Everett, Bremerton is military) and he's just trying to show solidarity. But it seems to me that just a flag with no "insert your political statement here" phrase is just a picture of a flag. Tell dad to get over it or move to Mexico.

Actual humor from a David Spade movie
 

Except for the recommended age range, how exactly is this a problem for Spade?

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Today's Bilmore of the Day
 

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That would lead to Orgy Day II.

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I always found it interesting that heterosexual pregnant women generally crave dick at some point.

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Is that like having the hair of the dog that bit you or what?

old glory
 

I'm not sure where your father is coming from. Why does he find the American flag offensive? Is part of the lefty-east faction Canadian, and therefore feel offended and left out?

I hate to admit that this story makes your father comes off as one of those east-coast lefty types who give other east-coast lefties a bad name by insisting that even the mildest and most neutral forms of patriotism or vague pride in America or American "values" (however defined) are really just mindless advocacy of evil capitalist global geopolitical hegomony. I am sort of surprised, I didn't really think those people existed outside of Bill O'Reilly's rants. I might have been wrong.

If your da insists that the flag must have specific political content beyond "gee, we think America is pretty nifty and sure are glad to be here", he might do better to take the flag as a sign that the Red-faction cousin has come around to his way of thinking, and the flag is the cousin's way of advertising his belief in whatever great American values your father has been trying to get those barbarians to embrace all along, like freedom, tolerance, protection of the weak, equal justice under the law, progressive political discourse, etc. etc.

Today's Bilmore of the Day
 

That would explain why I thought it was spit-out-your-coffee-on-your-keyboard stuff.

old glory
 

Well, I would feel a little odd about having a waving American flag atop the family website, just because it seems like such a non sequitur. At least it would in my family, in which I am the only lefty member. Does your family have members in the military? Own a flag business? Descend from Betsy Ross? In those cases I can see how it would make sense.

tm

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I'll ask the obvious question -- when and where was I*?









*Double meaning intended.

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This explains a lot.

CatOdds loves sour cream, yogurt, and to a lesser extent milk, but she cannot stand the other food in the house which is mostly soy based.

old glory
 

He's not my father, so I won't answer the particular question. However, as a resident of a part of the country not traditionally associated with unbridled patriotism, I can say that there is often some suspicion (NB: not offense) around one's motives in displaying an American flag anywhere other than a flagpole. In other words, in a world in which the flag is used by some to symbolize one set of American values that contradict another set of equally American values, I think it's legitimate to ask whether the flag is being used in the "big tent" sense or otherwise.

Symbols are like that --- while the one evoking the symbol insists it has only one meaning, it ain't necessarily so. I might carry a crucifix (good symbol) into Auchwitz to symbolize redemption, sorrow and suffering, but I have no control over how it might be taken. Ty's dad, among many others including myself, might be perfectly comfortable flying a flag on 7/4 or 9/11 or on flag day, but would wonder whether a smaller point was being made.

A & F
 

old glory
 

My father actually flies an American flag from his house, so his objection to the flag on the website is highly contextual. There are no furners in our family that I can think of (if there were, that would have been a good pretext to use to defuse this). He seems to feel that the specific use here is a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, although I'm not exactly clear why. I have to say that I agree with tmdiva that it seems a little odd to me to design the site this way, but I also have a hard time believing that said cousin is being truculent. He seems amiable enough to me.

The other, non-lethal way natural selection is enforced.
 

Man injures himself with firecracker, rendering himself impotent. Thrasher Disclosure: involves man sticking firecracker up (his own) butt.

There should be a subcategory of the Darwin Awards for people who survive but are rendered unable to breed.

old glory
 

Maybe you don't see this in your area, but in vast swaths of the red (or is it green or blue - I never remember which is which) states, you see flags on every other house, you see them on lots of cars, you see them over businesses, you see them in e-mail sigs, and, yes, you see them on websites. I wouldn't overestimate the importance placed on the decision to put it on the web page - it's becoming rote, and sometimes people are just looking for stuff to fill space and add color to the page. Be thankful it isn't flowers or kittens.

old glory
 

Are these actual waving flags, or are they stickers or posters or decals?

B/c I was driving through Indiana and saw a garage door painted as the flag. That is NEVER appropriate. And I hate decals and bumper stickers on cars*, so these flags have to go too.

*exception: no matter how many times I see it, I still laugh - the "My son kicked the shit out of your honor student" bumper sticker. Good times.

old glory
 

Bilmore's probably right--it was probably one of the set design options for the cheapie websites, and it probably just appealed to him a little more than the other options. Maybe he just needs some html tutoring? Or you could send him a ready-made family graphic that really has something to do with your family.

tm

PS Timmy props on the use of "furners."

old glory
 

Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

(Shit. Now I'm going to be humming John Prine all afternoon.)

The other, non-lethal way natural selection is enforced.
 

And yet are still bangable.

The other, non-lethal way natural selection is enforced.
 

Not without industrial-strength birth control, they aren't.

Though how anyone could bear to have sex with anyone that stupid even without the fear of breeding 'em into future generations is beyond me.

The other, non-lethal way natural selection is enforced.
 

Pssst.

Pun.

"Bang"able.

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I am more interesting than other people just because. Misuse of apostrophes is rampant around here, it drive's me banana's and I was amused to see (a) that Business Week used "it's" for "its" and that someone mocke'd them. That may not have been clear from the context.

However, if you want beer and sports you should go to Thrasher's house.

The other, non-lethal way natural selection is enforced.
 

This just reminded me of the full-body condoms in The Naked Gun.

"Jane, since I've met you I've noticed things that I never knew were there before; birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights."

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Some comments:

1. You sound just a wee bit defensive. Who cares if TM thinks you're interesting? That you apparently care so much is not a good sign.

2. If you are going to provide lots of details to show that you've had a well varied diet, you really owe it to us to provide the same level of detail to show that you've had plent of sexual experimentation. At least the same level.

3. Ignoring naked bodies on principle is just weird. And wrong. And generally bad. And probably un-American, unless you ask John Ashcroft.

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True indeed. By month 7 I felt like Mrs. Finch's sex toy.


In a good way.

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Sigh. Wish that had happened to me.

I did have a really random craving for McDonald's Filet o' Fish once.

tm

Reality of Reality
 

Is anyone watching the Bravo documentary series the Reality of Reality?

It's very interesting how the producers manipulate what we see.

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Didn't the crumbs irritate you down there?

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Which one?

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Statements like this are very frustrating. They call out for first person investigation and verification, but I'd find that investigation so much more interesting if you had used any number of words to describe yourself more interesting than "interesting".

Oh, well, I guess it's beer and, ah, whatever is going on over at Thrashers. But I'm bringing the beer. Meet you there?