A Tip for Thurgreed
 

This, or the slightly modified "Tripppletz" strikes me as a kick-ass strip club name.

A Tip for Thurgreed
 

This brings to mind Dave Barry's rule that the only safe time to ask a woman if she's pregnant is if she actually has an infant in the process of emerging from her at the time.

A Tip for Thurgreed
 

Mammal, please. Give me a freaking break. Do you think it's easy dominating your useless species? Everybody always thinks, "Hey, maybe I should become a World Ruler. No outside work, no heavy lifting." Well let me tell you, there's more to Global Domination than hanging out with Dillinger and sipping Rothchild wines at Trilateral Commission meetings. No, you worthless mammals cause nothing but paper, paper, PAPER. Endless memos and color coded spreadsheets. Don't even get me started on the powerpoints.

If we don't give you enough religion, you become hedonistic, and then you go around wearing black, moping, and babbling on endlessing about the meaninglessness of your futile existence. If we give you too much, then fuckers like you start knocking on my door early on Saturday mornings. And I have more important things to do. I have recall elections in California, moon landings to fake, internet rumors to start, the whole Middle East thing, EU argricultural policy, the Kyoto Protocol, the list is endless. The Bush family alone requires continuous hand-holding. And the Basques. Don't forget the Basques.

All the while, I need to find fresh human blood to drink in order to maintain my human form. Speciesists like you get sooooooo uptight confronting your inherent inferiority. Pains in the ass like David Icke, Thottam, and Gary Coleman try to expose me for who I am. So please forgive me if I don't remember every little phrase out of your insignificant gaping maw. I have better things to do than to track every penny-ante hate mongerer. I'm busy.

So, how about those Mets?
 

Not when she's with her new husband, the 60-year old Charles Saatchi. *sigh* Of course, if poor Charles has a late-night heart attack in the next year, your theory could be proven.

I'm a picky eater. Growing up, I hardly liked anything at all. Now, I can find something enjoyable in almost every cuisine, restaurant, party, etc. I won't eat anything you put in front of me though, and I'm not a believer in trying something just to be polite/adventurous. If I know I won't like it, I won't eat it.

I distinguish between three kinds of people:
(1) the known picky eater: can't ever seem to eat anything they haven't made themselves; always a struggle ordering at restaurants (i.e. Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally) About the only good thing you can say about these people is that you know they're high-maintenance upfront, so you don't have to wait three months to have your suspicions confirmed.

(2) the subtle picky eater: they might have a thousand strong dislikes for food, but they can coexist with others. They might pick the olives off of pizza, just want coffee instead of eggs Benedict for breakfast, but they aren't ruining anyone else's meal.

(3) the lustful eater: they relish their food to such an extent that you suspect they might relish other activities as well.

You can be in both category 2 and 3, but not (1) and (3). This makes sense. For example, someone might hate Indian food but love Thai food. If you only love something when it's exactly according to preexisting standards, that's calculated, not lustful.

That whole seafood cliche is stupid and untrue. FWIW, I like seafood, but I don't eat sushi.

Happiness and Bankruptcy
 

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

Nixing discharge for debts to by "luxury goods" within 60 days of bankruptcy isn't strict enough for you? This is a terrible idea. Credit card companies love lending to spendthrifts, and spendthrifts love borrowing. Neither group would like the alternative of a system like in a lot of other countries where access to credit is much, much more restricted and consumer bankruptcy is less helpful to debtors. There wouldn't be a windfall though because the legislators are smart enough to not make a reduction in the benefits of consumer bankruptcy retroactive so as to affect credit extended before the change in law.


Part of your ability lies in you're earning enough to have significant experience as a consumer. It's like experiments where people are randomly given one trinket or another; the ones with trading experience with the kind of trinket are more likely to trade to maximize utility. The ones with less experience trading tend to be biased toward keeping shit they've got.

"Melissa Stark set the bar too high"
 

I asked my wife this as we watched the second half of the Bucs/Eagles game on Monday. When they went to the sideline and showed LG in that blue gown with the scarf (?) over one shoulder, looking like a refugee from the freaking opera, we winced. When she opened her mouth, we shuddered. And when they finally cut away, and I asked my wife about it after a moment of mutually silent, stunned disbelief, she said:

"If [LG] were selling glossy lipstick, fine. But she's a joke as a sideline reporter. Why can't they get someone who won't embarass women everywhere every time she opens her mouth?"

Good question.

Reel fiction beats real fiction
 

Originally posted by paigowprincess

Such a joker. It's easy to name good movies based on novels or short stories:

Godfather I & II
LA Confidential
Bladerunner
Apocalypse Now
Silence of the Lambs
LOTR I & II
Emma
Les Miserables
jesus' son
Minority Report

Barbie's a Jew, AND a Threat to Morality
 

My favorite part of the article:

"The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice"




Otherwise known as the Department of Justice.

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A Tip for Thurgreed
 

I'll try to get it in before your TV shows.

A Tip for Thurgreed
 

You're so on my crush list.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
 

I saw this movie tonight in Austin and I highly recommend it.

I never saw Desperado and I saw El Mariachi about ten years ago, so it's not dependent upon knowledge of the first two movies.

The director Robert Rodriguez hosted the screening. He opened the picture by explaining that it's really El Mariachi 4 because it flashes back to El Mariachi 3 (a movie that doesn't exist).

Afterwards, he took a ton of questions and really deepened our appreciation. The movie was shot on high definition digital cameras, and we watched the digital version. Forgive me for living in the provinces, but this was my first experience seeing a digitally projected movie and it was just flawless.

(As an aside, a lot of indie filmmakers are shooting high def, but for screening purposes, you still have to transfer to film stock to make it into theaters. There are dozens of digital theaters in the country, as compared to the tens of thousands of film projected theaters.)

It's exciting, it's funny, and it's a really great ride, so check it out on Friday.

BATMAN? I don't think so.
 

These guys thought it would be fun to "drive" and ordered two.



http://www.villagetv.com/ambiguou.jpg



But then they wrecked 'em.



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Welcome to hysteria
 

Here's how Minnesota ushers in 9/11:

The American Pyrotechnics Association holds its annual convention here, about five miles from me. They decide, as a convention activity, to hold a HUGE demonstration (just for themselves, you understand) of new fireworks. They quietly get a permit from the city months in advance, and line up a big spot of empty woods. No one tells anyone about this.

Tonight, we are all suddenly blammed out of our houses as they put on a very low-level, sound-intensive demonstration, barely visible except as an overall, very bright flashing of one horizon from more than a mile away, but composed of some of the biggest noise-blasters I've ever heard. This lasts for 25 minutes. They used more shells (at least one boom per second) than I have ever experienced at any show, and I've seen some great shows.

My entire neighborhood is all out in the streets, trying to figure out what's going on. There are people panicking. This sounds exactly like what I imagine a heavy artillary attack sounds like, or a series of hundreds of huge explosions. This reaction, I now hear, is general over a 25-square-mile area.

Police departments in about twenty cities and burbs get hundreds of calls each. News stations are flooded with calls, from people trying to find out what's going on. Terrorists? They don't know. They're on TV counseling calm until they can investigate.

I'm thinking heads are going to roll tomorrow. Stupid fucking gits.

Welcome to hysteria
 

Wow, those APA are some stupid fucking people.

Hope you're recovering well from the shock. Maybe you can recommend where they stick next year's demonstration.

Welcome to hysteria
 

Yeah, I have some ideas for that.

Mental Note
 

Dave Atell and Lewis Black are really f'in funny. I give up.

So, how about those Mets? and Food
 

I have many MANY allergies. When plans call for a meal out, I make sure I have something to eat before I go. That way my growling stomach won't disturb the festivities and I won't be cranky 'cause I'm hungry. I always leave room in case there is something on the menu in which I can partake. For that reason I consider myself a Type 2.

Some may say that I am Type 1, but only because sometimes people I go out with tend to insist that I order something off the menu. I politely decline (No thanks the SO and I are sharing) but they insist. Inevitably it results in them reading off each menu item one by one and I respond with the item that I am allergic too in each dish. I wish I could pick the olives off the pizza but the allergies are too severe.

This game eventually ends when I comment about how if I had an anaphalactic reaction at the table it would put a damper on the meal. I know they mean well, but why can't people take No for an answer, especially when it has nothing to do with them?

I hate going out to eat. I'd rather go to TF's house, drink beer and watch sports, but she would be upset that I brought my own beer because when it comes to beer I am a Type 2. I'd rather die of thirst than drink unpalatable (in my book) brews.*

Anne
Wish I was a Type 3. I really enjoy the foods I can eat!

Anyone know the origin of the phrase "So, how about those Mets?"

BATMAN? I don't think so.
 

Hey!
No Breasticle pictures! Shame, shame. :D

Welcome to hysteria
 

Idiots! I thought being kept awake on Sunday night because of the Bruce concert at Fenway was bad.

Anne
3 miles from Fenway.

BATMAN? I don't think so.
 

You're right. Now that you mention it, I probably should have just PM'ed that picture to Chef now that Breasticle Day is over. :D

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I'd just like to say
 

For those who may be interested in perusing on their own:

September 11 Digital Archive

Fireworks
 

Thanks for the explanation. At the Manor, the sound was more muffled but it still sounded like a fireworks demonstration just over the hill -- but without the usual pauses for oohs and ahs. There were times when it was much more than one boom per second and I couldn't figure out why anyone was paying for what was obviously an extremely expensive fireworks show without inviting the public. I guess if we are ever really bombed, I'll think it is the APA again.

Speaking of fireworks ---

Sidd: I can't believe you took DS so seriously. Haven't you figured out by now that she is wired a little differently from the average GA (and I mean this in a good way -- but who else fusses over the right shoes for country and city or the demise of ladies wearing gloves and hats and delights in using the fine points of etiquette to insult people, not to mention the whole French Medieval literature thing??) When I read her comment, I thought about delivery stories from friends and the postdelivery photos I've seen. And then I laughed and pictured DS going through hours of labor cursing indelicately in 5 languages at her hubby for putting her through that but not letting him in from the waiting room, then fixing herself up, putting on a vintage silk kimono and doing her hair and face so when Mr. DS is finally admitted she'd look like she didn't even break a sweat during the process. If anyone could pull it off, or would even want to, it would be DS for sure.

I'd just like to say
 

That's an amazing collection.

Reality TV
 

I know Bilmore has been waiting for this all day.

Cupid: I was so disgusted last night that I would have called in to vote for the guy she likes least except I was out and didn't watch it until the phone lines were closed. After going on approximately 5 dates, she is going to get married live during next week's show if she likes the guy America votes for (and they did everything but disable the phone lines of the other guys to tell you which guy that is). Even for reality TV dating shows, this is over-the-top media whoredom. If I wasn't such a junky, this could almost put me off reality TV.

BB4: It's always boring when there are only 3 people left in the house but all of the 3 left are too annoying to watch. I might even be able to resist watching until the last episode.

Who am I kidding? I'll watch because I am addicted and need a 12 step program.

I'd just like to say
 

Only if bilmore and wonk promise to behave themselves. Someday soon I'm going to have to talk him into a home, and if they get started it's going to put me back five years.

Happiness and Bankruptcy
 

Great! Then I trust that immediately after the law is implemented, we'll all be seeing a adjustment of rates to reflect the fact that the credit supply curve, which previously accounted for the business risk of extending dischargeable debt to spendthrifts, will shift lower when formerly dischargeable debts become non-dischargeable going forward.

Because if they don't, I'm going to have a really hard time understanding why my Congress gives a fuck about card issuers issuing bad debt when their interest rates pay them handsomely for something called risk. In particular, I'll be looking for all of those 18% cards to disappear and be replaced by ones that offer rates a lot closer to secured loans.

I'm not hopeful.

Happiness and Bankruptcy
 

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Maybe you should be. I'd expect your rates to fall some. Like in this study where some professors compared credit access for small firms in states with more favorable and with less favorable homestead exemptions. In states with more favorable homestead exemptions, small firms were less likely to receive a loan and even if they did the loans were smaller and rates higher. article The change may not be as big as you'd expect though because lenders already provide better rates to borrowers, like yourself, who are better credit risks.

BRC is missing the more important issue though, that consumer bankruptcy laws shouldn't change to be more pro-creditor because the US offers individuals much less than other countries as a social safety net.

Cute little piece on the "two headed beast known as Bennifer"
 

http://www.peoplenews.com/news/index.php?id=2857

Favorite ironic line: 'Due to the excessive media attention surrounding our wedding, we have decided to postpone the date,' read a joint statement from Ben'n'Jen

Beautiful. A media statement about how the media blitz forced te postponement. Considering JHo is the biggest overexposed media whore since Madonna, one has to question the veracity of this excuse. Does she realize her career has peaked and is now on the downside? Of course she wants the media attention bc its all over. In any event, Jenny, the only reason people care about your wedding is they look forward to your third divorce.

Ugh.

A Tip for Thurgreed
 

Wait, I thought the Bush family were Shape Shifters too? Did Icke get it wrong?


Perhaps you should find a down-on-his-luck unemployed tv reporter who is dating someone resembling Jennifer Anniston to help you out?

So, how about those Mets?
 

Since when did "picky eater" beacome synonymous with not trying new foods? This is your dumbest post ever. And I like you.

I'd just like to say
 

I plan to celebratethis day by getting through it. Just saw a CNN Breaking News thing on Al Queada's plans to do somthing today. That kind of shit scares me as I am in downtown DC and not far from really good things to bomb like monuments, the white house, embassies, kennedy center, etc etc.

I did however give some thoughts to the victims last night and this morning, and will again tonight once I am safely ensconced in my home.

Paging RP
 

Word from the naturally thin Diva who everyone hates. Dave Barry reference. May I rest my case?

Paging RP
 

There ya go speaking for me again.

I've found that soft, smooth, siky legs give me that extra confidence I need to stand my ground in spike heeled shoes and mini skirts while beating back the advances and abuses of pig bosses, male chauvenist associates, and diva haters ...

Reality TV
 

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Cupid: Now that Boy Meets Boy is done, I tuned in. How does this work? Next week America votes to pick on of the remaining three or is it four as the winner? Pleae let Robert win. He is so sensitive. I love when you get all evil, Fugee.


BB4- I don't know who to root for. Robert is a despicable, unemployed loser with a wicked case of misogyny. And he would blow the money on purely materialistic things. Hopefully he would do something for his poor, cute child.

Allison is the most annoying, offensive, hideous person I have ever seen on a reality tv show. Except for Dp-Reet=Toe Tina from Survivor two. That voice, that bulldog face, that false sense of intellignence. And five hundred thousand dollars does not go well with her white trash life. At least we know she won't blow it on life's finer things since she cannot even pronounce them

Jun- fat, self centered, delusional twinkie ass twinkie. True narcissist. The only thing I hope about her is that they bring Not Interseted Bob on the show to publicly humiliate her by showing a lack of love.

I guess I hve to root for Robert on both shows. Which is great bc I just started seeing a Robert. ANyone know whats going on with the HOH competition?

Paging RP
 

What crawled up your ass and died, sugar bear?

Reality TV
 

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Allison won the first part of the HOH competition as she was the last person to take her hands off the key. There is a rumbling on at least one bb4 fan site that she took her hand off before Jun, but that the BB4 people didn't see it. Don't know much about that though. I did think the ice chunks falling on their heads was pretty funny.

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Reality TV
 

Did I somehow miss an episode, or are you giving Erika no chance in hell of going to the final three?

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Edited to say, Fuck! I obviously did.

I hate to say it, but my money's on Alison and it has nothing to do with me wanting her to win or not. Though she's despicable, if she wins HOH, Robert's gone.

Don't you think that even though most of the jury members seem to hate her, they might give it to Alison b/c they realize she's been such a gamer?

If it comes down to her against Jun, I can see the Jury might decide she played better than the others, despite her personality sort of like the jury did with evil Dr. Will in BB2.

A Tip for Thurgreed
 

Icke does fine work, but he only knows what we want him to know. The Bushes are little more than socks on Penske's fingers. Their reptilian blood is running thin. We are planning for a fresh infusion, possibly with the twins. Or Lauren.

Bruce worked out for the first 30 minutes or so, then it was downhill. Seriously, though, we are always Looking (ha, ha, inside joke). PM your resumes to me. The omniscience thing is a myth, although I did minor in philosophy. We rely heavily on fact checkers. But Atticus has been slacking lately.

Please bear in mind that I tell you any of this only because I think you are nfh. I would never share this with ncs, who knows Too Much already.

Cute little piece on the "two headed beast known as Bennifer"
 

I love peoplenews. No one thinks their wedding has actually been postponed, especially since goody bags (!) have already been delivered with the date stamped on them and Matt Damon flew in from filming to be there.

All I know is I don't care. She's so tacky and they're both so talentless.

The only reason people bother to read anything about them is to wait for him to start drinking and drugging and then for her to flip out and run to someone else, though I cannot imagine who that might be since she's working with Richard Gere ruining one of my favorite movies. Maybe if she were working with Ethan Hawke, the wedding would have been "postponed" long ago.

Paging RP
 

It must be very hard, to be so fabulous.

;)