Triumph in the War of Words - gay spouses
 

When I was in college, I heard a student refer to her SO as "lover," which though unnecessarily descriptive was frequently used by gay friends. Imagine our shock when we discovered her lover was a man.

Even(Lover of parentheticals)Odds

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Tony Robbins really creeps me out.

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Ron Popeil is a tie.

Edited to add "for second," b/c Tony Robbins wins first place. Thanks, Coltrane.

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Actually, I'm a lot calmer now that I'm older. The nice thing about your thirties is you've still got the physical health to play a pick up game of anything and party like a rock star, but you're a little wiser and things don't quite bother you as much. You're not a seasoned veteran of life by any means, but you're comfortable with the ropes. There's a comfort in that. The confidence that comes with approaching the mid thirties is nice. I think its a sort of a prime of life. I can't imagine just how great it would be if I was lucky enough to do something I liked. That really must be an amazing feeling... but hey, not too many of us bat 1000.

S(you get what you need...)D

Triumph in the War of Words - gay spouses
 

There's a Saturday Night Live skit about this. Apparently pretty popular, but I saw it recently and thought it was stupid.

Pope Death Watch
 

Anyone gotten this poll running yet? In light of his ailing health (still? again?), should we start one up? I'll take 2/1/04.

Also I can't believe that guy is only 83. Doesn't he seem about 100? Think it has anything to do with the shooting (well, other than the fact that they had to take a yard of his intestine out, I mean)? Is it possible for a Pope to retire or is that never done?

And has Mother Teresa been sainted already? I thought a person had to be dead for like 14 years or something, but I read in the cnn story on the Pope that he is missing a service for Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Her?

So many questions...

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I sorta like Ron. He's stood the test of time with his cheesieness.

trifecta
 

Edited to say and the k. Hollow victory these days, but still.

trifecta
 

Congratulations to you, and to all of us for 25,000 posts!

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How did the perky blonde lady with the bad perm and bad dye job get that gig and all the other kitchen gigs, by the way? Is it because she's unfailingly chipper and blandly not unattractive, so she doesn't intimidate the women in the audience?

I'll also note that the hosts on the shopping channels are creepy, particularly the women, with their wide-eyed wonder over all of the shit that they're hawking.

women's hockey jerseys
 

Its like they shaved the bovine on the farms surrounding South Bend and taught them to talk and wear long skirts.

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I saw a picture of him recently.

So, my vote would be, last March.

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I have to put Blasedow over Tony bc first off, I have to look at his near naked ethiopian meets tori spelling body throughout the commercial (he seems to think he is hot for some reason). Also, I saw Robbins in a movie (Shallow Hal?) where he made himself seem more normal. But yeah, in his informercials, freak.

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The good news is, that part only gets better. Right now, I'd peg the prime of life as early forties.

Pope Death Watch
 

He's like Bobby Bowden. Senile as hell, but all the assistants prop him up so he can hold on for the record. I think the Pope is second on the all time Mass list, behind Pius XVIII.

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Dude, as long as I can still get it up, things will always be OK.

If I were to become impotent, I'd have to end it all.

women's hockey jerseys
 

Shoulder pads are so 80s. But tight pants are a classic look.

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I know I started it sort of, but I'm getting a little tired of the age and philosophy of life posts. sorry, cranky.

Maybe it's all a dream, you know, a very weird, bizarre, vivid, erotic, wet, detailed dream. Maybe we have malaria.

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The best shopping networks (for amusement value) are not the big national ones, but the regional ones.

When I first moved to Texas, I would occasionally catch some channel that literally sold hunting knives. Over the tv. I'm not talking cut through a can and then a tomato knives, I'm talking OJ Simpson quality ripping/cutting/goring knives. Kind of freaked me out to know that any serial killer recluse who happened to have insomnia could order one of those babies without leaving the privacy of his own home.

I've also watched jewelry shows on a local Salt Lake channel that had me rolling on the floor. GIANT rocks glued to silverplate and called something other than "crap". One of those rare sorts of stones that I have never heard of before, of course. And the call-in testimonials are priceless.

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I had a very weird dream the other night. I was on an airplane flying in first class, and sitting across the aisle from me was my high school sweetheart. We got to chatting.

Suddenly, our plane dove very low and we were flying just above the treetops and very very slow. I asked the flight attendant why and she told me it was because we were trying to evade the Russians.

Well, apparently we were unseuccessful in evading the Russians, as we were then caught in a tractor beam, and forced to land... we were marched off the plane, taken to a gymnasium, our identities were all confirmed and then we were allowed to return to the plane and go along on our way.

All the while, my high school boyfriend was by my side.

Must have been the malaria...

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You know better than that, sweet Princess. And I expected at least some effort from you.

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Carrot Top creeps me out.

The Whiff
 

I thought that's what you called the cloud that preceeds momma's arrival.

Tax(yeah, I know...yet another momma joke.)wonk

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So, seen any good reality TV?

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No sex? You're supposed to be cheering us up! The only thing keeping my mood light after this morning's posts is last night's dream that I was having a torrid affair with a law school classmate who now lives on the other side of the world. I'm still flushed.

Google let me down
 

So who the freak are you guys talking about (all wrinkled and old and bodybuilding). I tried a google search, but came back with this guy, who doesn't seem right... http://www.muscleweb.com/john/

[Spree: It is obviously John, from Muscleweb. No nudity, etc.]

In consideration of Francis's creating an umbrella retort I give you this
 

since I know you woldnt wnat to miss it. :thumbsup: :D :love

:thumbsup: :D :love:

It's all still ok, google got it up
 

That's him. He's also here.

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Is John Blayesdale (can anyone spell this correctly- that might help?) a local, DC phenomena? ANother great perk of living here.

edited to say, That is the guy. Take a closer look if you dont think that seems right. Notice the oh so vain look on his face (he is so serious about his art), the teensy girl waist, the shaved bod and the old man hair. he is sickening.

'Tis the Season
 

Gf and I went on a recreational trip to Target last night (rock stars indeed). While she was browsing the Chic Lit section I decided to check out Halloween decorations. I am pleased to report that Target is already stocking the aisles with Xmas decorations (the 4' grazing deer will look so cute next to the coffee table). This was my first sighting.

Fa la la.

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God I hate him. The modified mullet, the botox, the look on his face, the nasty smooth girlbody. BUt I love the attributed quote. Like he is one of the great thinkers of our time with that deep thought. http://www.fitnessmadesimple.com/ima...itepicrev4.jpg

So Graham Norton
 

Anyone watch this show regularly? I saw it for the first time Monday night and it was hysterical. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Chris Klien were guests. They did a Scooby Doo ripoff at the end where audience members had to guess their mates from a werewolf, a mummy and a frankenstien that was hilarious. Just wondering if I should add it to Tivo or if it was a fluke.

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Oh I'm sorry...

I should have included that once back on the plane, we did it under one of those airplane blankets...

My bad.

'Tis the Season
 

Nice totally gratuitous "I have a girlfriend" post the day after the breakfast meats poem. You wound me.

Shopping Networks
 

Oh, man, I remember watching ... whozit, the guy who designed the clothes on Dynasty ... selling his jewelry line one insomnia-plagued night. The stuff was probably a notch or two over the usual in that, while it still looked like mall rhinestone crap, it occasionally was vaguely creative or even, dare I say, sort of pretty in design.

But anyway, the call-in testimonials just had me dying - in a good way. All these little old church organists from Dustwad Oklahoma calling up talking about how they have one of his pins and every Sunday at services for the local nursing home just EVERYONE compliments her on it. These women sounded just like my grandmother talking about how she'd gotten so many compliments on some earrings she got from Avon in the '50s, or how everyone admired some friend's scarf with birds on it, or how some 85 y.o. lady down the road knew just how to pick out shoes to flatter her ankles.

And the guy (Nolan Miller! I knew I'd remember) was just so sweet to them, talking about how wonderful their story was, and how nice he had helped them feel special, and how everyone should have a little bit of glamor in their lives, and how much he enjoyed hearing from them. He talked not at all about the stuff he was selling, just about the callers' experiences and how and where they liked to wear things, etc. He reminded me of an old HS friend who just loved old people and knew just how to talk to them without the usual generational weirdness and make them feel happy. And, unlike the usual presenters I've seen on those things, he seemed really sincere.

Anyhow, I actually found the whole thing to be surprisingly charming.

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Don't get me wrong, he comes off as a tool on the websites, but I'm guessing that the tv schpeil is necessary to build the pure hatred that has been displayed here today.

'Tis the Season
 

Total drive by posting, wasn't it? He was actually the first on my list to replace Coltrane as my cyber crush, but I got hit hard by an earlier reference that might have been one worse than gf. Something really wretched like "SO"> I feel you. And Atticus, who I dont fancy as much as everyone else, is married. What else is there (pushy!!!)? Shape was like one of our only funny single men.

Poll: walking out
 

Shocking, is it not? He's quite fallen off his game, I'm afraid. In fact, I think an imposter may have hijacked the computer of the Atticus we know (and, in my case, love.)

'Tis the Season
 

I'm not that funny.

Poll: walking out
 

Bite your fingers! I refuse to believe it was anything but intentional.