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Honey, she was the dork on the "Square Pegs." She never grew out of it. In SATC she was just a well-manicured and bleach-jobbed dork in couture. What did you expect from her?

Binge Drinking
 

This is a standard alcohol/health article (moderate drinking okay, heavy drinking not okay). What caught my attention is this:

"People who drank small amounts of alcohol on a regular basis had the smallest abdominal heights, while those who indulged in binge drinking of three or four drinks on one occasion had the highest measures."

When the hell did 3 or 4 drinks become binge drinking?

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/home...k/whatyoudrink

(spree: binge drinking - it's not just for breakfast anymore)

It's all still ok, google got it up
 

I deleted the image. That was cruel. But doesn't it look like his head was pasted onto his body in that picture? He is a scary-fugly nutknuckle. Nutknuckle is my new favorite word thanks to the Joe Schmo Show.

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http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/24/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

OK Court ruling blocking implementation of federal do not call list. Not to provoke another (god forbid) legal discussion here, but is there any possibility that only the Okies will be affected by this ruling? Should I have gotten on the TX list too when I signed up for federal?

I'll admit, I have lost sleep worrying about all of those telemarketers losing their parasitic jobs.

Favorite Jessica Simpson moment
 

My favorite Newleywed's moment on last nights episode is vaguely reminiscent of the tuna/chicken question.

Leah eating buffalo wings, to Jessica: Want one?

Jessica: No, I don't eat buffalo.

Leah: Ummm, it's chicken.

[They laugh at her]

Nick: Haven't you ever wondered why buffalo don't have wings?

Jessica: I've never thought about it...

So Graham Norton
 

It cna be hit and miss, but generally, there's at least a couple of good laughs in the show.

Favorite Jessica Simpson moment
 

God, she's a nit. She'd better be worth it in the sack. Because actually speaking with her must be like a constant knee to the groin.

Edited, because I didn't read the first part of the quote referencing the "chicken of the sea" quandary she had in an earlier episode.

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That head pasted onto body thing you are picking up is probably the smae thing as the head too big from manorexia thing and the removed ribs.

or it could be a head shot from like twenty years ago to hide his true age. but I dont hink botox was invented then. And nutknuckle proablaby doesnt suit him bc I question whether he owns nuts. but if he does, shaved. ew.

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Kathleen Turner is not 35. She's 50 (according to imdb.com -- which means she's probably 60.)

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You are probably right about KT's age, but my mom is 59 and she looks better than KT.

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I knew someone would call me on this. I just couldn't resist the drastic change from when she was hot to the beast that she is now. God she's ugly.

TM

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I saw her in "Tallulah" last year, and then later sans makeup.

That "after" picture of her doesn't do justice to the ravages of time she has suffered.

K Street
 

Is anyone watching this? Thoughts? I am liking it a lot in spite of myself.

and if I did parentheticals, which i dont, i would say I wonder if I am going to run into the Golden Shower Guy from SATC downtonw at some point?

and Mary matalin appears to be played by Carrie Fisher. weird

fucking telemarketers
 

I hope the judge is kept up all night by telemarketers.

As for the legal discussion, I assume the FTC ought to abide by the ruling everywhere (unless overturned on appeal).

Hurry -- get on the Texas list.

Creepy People
 

How come no one in Texas has brought up Jerry Jones? He is fucking creepy.

women's hockey jerseys
 

I'm wondering what tipped you off that NB is in Wisconsin, the only non-southern state with a significant number of Piggly Wigglys. (http://www.pigglywiggly.com/cgi-bin/...locations.html). Was it all the cheese posts? His love for the Packers?

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I saw her naked in the Graduate. That was um, interesting.
I heard that she suffers from some sort of disease which to treat she had to take steroids, which made her puff up and age really fast and become lumpy. I feel bad for her.

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She was 31 (I think) when she made Romancing the Stone and was all hot and stuff. I think partly it's that she's way more retouched in that first photo, and in the second one they haven't airbrushed all flaws out.

Creepy People
 

Actually the PC term for his look is other-worldly. And let's just say that it isn't any better in person.

K Street
 

I like the show. It reminds me of the War Room.

They'll have to tone down some of the stylistic quirks to get a wider audience, but I like that it often looks as if we are eavesdropping on their conversations.

Because the sound is often bad, I rewind phrases or scenes to get a handle on what is being said.

Edited to complete my thought: in case Misters Soderburgh and Clooney are following this board, please keep the shots the same but raise the sound levels. Thank you.

'Tis the Season
 

Exactly. Particularly now that you are in the "non-single" category and the competition is much stiffer.

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And illness -- rheumatoid arthritis for which she has taken looks-ravaging steroids.

I do, however, agree with dtb that KT lies about her age -- and who can blame her? To wit: she would have been about 26 when filming Body Heat (1981), which I don't buy bc she seemed too worldly to be under 30, and only 31 when filming Peggy Sue (1986), where she definitely looked late 30s. That is not to say she didn't look good at the time.

I'd put her at 55 right now.

'Tis the Season
 

Relationship status bears little relation to turgidity.

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favorite quote:

"The rulemaking process requires an agency to fairly apprise interested parties of all significant subjects and issues involved, so that they can participate in the process," the court paper said. The FTC has signed up some 50 million phone numbers for the list, which was due to take effect Oct. 1."

Sounds to me like at least 50 million interested parties were apprised of the subjects and issues, and have now in fact participated in the process. I wonder what volume of response & participation such rule making usually gets?

Seriously, the telemarketing industry is fucked. There has been a nationwide plebiscite on their business, and around 50 million households (or 41%, per the 2000 census) have essentially said "I so hope that your entire industry goes out of business and falls off the face of the planet that I am willing to make personal efforts and register with the government to see that it happens." Not good.

You are weak. Fuck them. Why should you feel badly that someone will no longer be paying people to annoy the hell out of you and try to sucker you out of your money daily.

I guess I get a little while longer to engage in my personal war of aggression against telemarketing, trying single-handedly to make their lives so miserable that every single one in the world quits. If I can no longer torment telemarketers on the phone, I might have to start taking my frustrations out on opposing counsel or something.

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Yeah, she definitely had that look.

In fairness, I will say that she was wonderful in Tallulah. She played that ravaged, raspy-voiced alky queen to perfection. All by herself, for two hours.

'Tis the Season
 

Strongly disagree. Go stand next to your sister.

(Wait. Please don't tell me if you still disagree. I don't want to know that.)

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My new response to telemarketers at dinnertime:

"Remember that list you killed? Can't you FUCKING take a HINT?!"

'Tis the Season
 

Exactly.

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You mean while she has lost her looks she gained some acting ability? That would be a worthwhile trade. She remains the only co-star Michael Douglas has ever been able to out-act.

So Graham Norton
 

Add it to Tivo. Every episode I've seen is great. Phone sex with Ivana Trump (they call a service in Germany and have an EU translator do the translation), Hot Granny Sex with Carrie Fisher, the Dolly Parton special. Good stuff!

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She's actually really striking in person, and has a fabulously throaty, sexy voice. The 30-something alpha businessmen a table over from me at lunch one day turned into blushing, bumbling schoolboys as they tried to flirt with her (she was dining alone).

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link to ruling

[ETA:] The quote BRC likes comes shortly before the judge rejected the argument that notice was inadequate. That's good reporting.

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Can someone tell me why this suit was brought in the Western District of Oklahoma? Maybe someone did a survey and found that people in Oklahoma City really like being bothered during dinner.

Paula Poundstone says that after 5 p.m., she answers the phone, "This better not be MCI."

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Re: Darryl Hannah: I've never been able to feel the same about her since I found out she's missing a fingertip and wears a prosthetic finger. I think this makes me a bad person. YMMV.

Re: Graham Norton: He'll be hysterically funny for the first twelve or so episodes you'll Tivo. Then he will start becoming what one of my catty Southern* belle friends calls "too much." You'll see.

Re: Names for gay SOs: I've always advocated for "a man/woman I've been seeing." It has a polite, elegant "none of your fucking business" tone to it, because it doesn't say "a woman I've been seeing (naked)" or "a man I've been seeing (perfectly framed between my upraised legs)."

Re: Irregardless: Bitches, please.

Re: the Re: line: I'd like to thank my FB friends for keeping it intact. As it will doubtless be a topic of eternal periodic concern, let's see if we can carry it through to 50,000.

*Actually, Delaware, but she's a social climber, God love her.

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Well, you ARE in California. That would raise eyebrows here.

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Every call in the Western District of Oklahoma is a long-distance call, so telemarketers call less.

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I stick to my oldies but goodies:

Get the Mr. to get on and ask them what they are wearing in his creepiest and most threatening voice. Even better if one asks if they are young, because you like them young - if not, do they have any children? What do they look like?

Ask them if they have rejected the shackles of Judeo-Christian oppression yet and accepted Satan as their master, because he is VERY interested in them - I can induct you right over the phone!

Ask them why they don't get a respectable job like hooking or stripping, because this has got to be a humiliation to their children and a joke among their friends.

Speak a fake foreign language and get very aggitated.

Pretend a herd of rabid rats/aliens/giant mutant spiders has me beseiged in my appartment and scream for help before they eat/drill into my head (since that wonderful lovecraftian 419 scam correspondence I've read, I've also included atavistic inbred subterranean mutants and multi-dimensional tentacled gods).

Ask them if they've noticed that wearing headsets all day contributes to sexual dysfunction, because I've heard that telemarketing call centers are really a government front to lure in and render sterile the least productive and most undesirable elements of society.

Pretend they are a drug dealer answering my page - because who else would call at such a time? (Formerly "pretend they are the pizza delivery guy who is late," but this is more fun.)

BR(they called, so they volunteered to entertain me)C

edited because I can't spell

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I vote "telemarketing call center is a big local employer."

QE
 

I thought it was a little odd that last night's episode transitioned to the "reveal" or whatever you want to call it with fully 20 minutes to go --- usually it's only 10 or so minutes that the boys watch their little golem on Fab Pad's plasma TV.

After the first five minutes of the reveal, I realized why.

Because it was, and turned out to be, the funniest fucking 20 minutes that has been on TV in a very long time. I couldn't turn away. It was a worse train wreck than any episode of "The Office," and that shit was fictional.

Side observation: Apparently, Kyan's habit of calling every widely-available consumer product "amazing" is contagious.

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I get very few telemarketing calls now bc I'm on every do not call list imaginable and always ask to be added to it -- BUT, I continue to get two of the most irritating calls of all time: (1) the aggressive solicitations from police and fire depts. where the callers (a) ask you to donate "again" when you never have, and (b) imply that taking a pass this year might lead to your being left helpless in an emergency. These attempts at intimidation infuriate me in a way that ordinary (you could even say admirable) persistence of some poor sap with a telemarketing job never could.

(2) Those lengthy recorded messages on my answering machine from a bogus "nonprofit credit counseling organization" that asks you to call back and provide "verification information" to receive your low rate debt consolidation loan. I hate these f-ing predators; I want to track them down and punish them. I have tried to call them back to ream them out over the phone but without success.

And to return to a topic of another day, I now realize that my action figure would be the personal finance educator and scam artist terminator. I don't know what such an outfit would look like -- impeccably tailored but conservative wool suit (navy pinstripe or charcoal gray?), spike heels for kicking the scam artists (and payday lenders, credit insurance hawkers, mortgage companies that charge you $375 to process biweekly payments for you, anybody who asks you for your social security number when it's not necessary, the list goes on and on) Armani glasses, perfectly coiffed hair, Quicken software, and an amortization table, maybe?