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I missed teh entirety of that dialog, since this version is still boring me so I multitask. All I heard was how he didn't like the olive garden. She seemed to think it was classy, in a noveau Greenwich kind of way.

Amber was particularly clueless, given that she seemed to think there was an "amazing connection" yet she didn't manage to say much more than she likes the olive garden. What kind of guys does she usually deal with? ONes who disappear if she's not putting out in 5 minutes? So when Andrew comes along, and stays with her for 3 hours+ on a date, he must be really "into" her? Good god, maybe she can find an Olive Garden that provides bottomless clues. (Of course, the "cold shoulder"/please come say goodbye to me bit at the end was pretty pathetic too).

And what was with the mormon chick? "I guess he didn't want the challenge of overcoming our differences." Well, duh. As you said, he runs a winery and you don't drink. All the other chick drink. And are hotter than you. And more likely to put out. There's surely a man for you; why does it have to be one your not going to be happy with? Just so you don't get laughed at for "losing" on the Bachelor?

And, are the other five "girls" basically figuring they've been eliminated once he gave "Tina Fabulous" the rose? Hey, what about "Jen Excellent" and so on? No moniker = no ring.

One more illusion shattered
 

If the site sponsor/owner/whatever is your friend, tell em to lose the fucking popups! The last thing I want to do is go to some site where I will have to spend 10 minutes fighting to shut down popup windows.

Perhaps the site has jumped the shark?

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I just thinks he's a fucking snob. EVERYBODY knows that the Olive Garden is almost as classy a joint as Red Lobster is for seafood.

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That was one of my favorite scenes too. I must have missed that the question was about chain restaurants -- I thought it was favorite restaurants in general and she chose Olive Garden.

I thought it was funny that the Mormon girl was surprised that she got cut -- heck, he'd have dumped her in the original cut if he'd have known she didn't drink.

Tina Fabulous looks so much like someone I used to work with, I'm almost tempted to call her up and ask if it is her sister.

Liz is taking the whole thing too seriously. She might end up being the Fatal Attraction psycho of the group.

I'm almost hoping he ends up with the bitchy woman the rest of the girls hate. I'm not surprised he and his guy friend don't see it, but the friend's wife should know there is something wrong if none of the other women like her. Andrew Firestone is going to be in Minneapolis next week to promote the Firestone wines and benefit Children's Cancer Research Fund.

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Speaking of heathens...

If you go to the local Irish pub for lunch today, do not let your friends order the burger, lest you get scowled at by Megan [or Maureen or Kerry, etc.] the waitress for the remainder of your meal.

not7y(more malt vinegar for my fish & chips, please)S

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Why not? So long as your pals aren't mixing meat with dairy...:)

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We rescheduled a business lunch today to a surprisingly packed Indian dive where everyone could feel much better about eating lamb and chicken by pretending they were hitting the vegetarian fare.

EvenOdds

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Wow, you really haven't been paying attention. The other girls think that they have no chance b/c he is obviously infatuated with Kirsten, and on every single date he had with the others he asked them what they thought of Kirsten. WHen they barely managed not to gag when saying her name b/c they all hate her so much, he continued to stick up for her.

I hope this show is being edited to make us think that he picks her so we are shocked when he picks someone who doesn't seem so evil. oh wait, they are all evil. or pathetic.

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I will pass that along, verbatim. We're really just friendly acquaintances, so I may not be able to effect change.

The popups make it just like reading the Washington Post online.

And while we're talking about Internet annoyances, have any other hotmail users out there noticed that the amount of porn spam, and general spam, in your junk mail folder increased dramatically (like, from 1 or 2 a day to 10 or 20) following the rollout of MSN 8, with advanced spam control?

Me smell something stinky.

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Ahh, so that's where the quintuplets went. Drat, I can't get it (and I really need a good laugh today).

Very few people here. I think everyone was out late last night and didn't have time to shower this morning, no bad outfits but everyone, it seems, has overdone it on the cologne/perfume. Ugh!

PLF
 

Now I have the Jonathan Richmnd tune running through my head. "I'm a little dinosaur, I'm a little dinosaur, I'm a little dinosaur and I'm planning to go away." Has anyone seen the Ice Cream Man?

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Ethical question of the day: If your boyfriend is out of town, is it cheating to have intercourse with your dog? (Dan Savage doesn't get letters this good.)

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/liv...o/5599608.htm?

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I just found out that they launched a craigslist in Houston. Woo hoo! I can't even begin to list the number of things that I got off of that resource when I lived in the Bay Area. This is great.

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I dunno. But the dog is clearly a cheap whore for sleeping with another man's woman.

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Until today, I had thought that Good Friday and Passover always fell on the same day. Although the first Good Friday did, different calendars are used to determine the dates, so they only rarely match up. Look here Some sort of Interfaith website that explains the whole Passover/Easter timing.

I'm a lapsed Catholic too, but fish and chips sounds good. "Since that has less calories cause it's fish....I'm trying to watch my calorie intake."

I didn't watch the Bachelor, but he asked a woman what her favorite chain restaurant is, he shouldn't be surprised when he gets an unpalatable answer. What's the "right" answer to that question? Applebee's? The Sizzler? Denny's?

Oh, and if Casablanca has to be remade, I'd like to see Naomi Watts in the female lead. The titilation in Mulholland Dr. obscured her ferocious acting ability.

They don't send lapsed Catholics to Hell, do they?

Jack Manfred

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A date with otherwise excellent taste took me to Red Lobster on a date.

Throughout the whole meal, I was convinced it was a joke.

It was not.

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She WAS mulletted. A bright red teased-up mullet.

Of course I know what goes with a mullet:

New white tank top tucks
Neatly into tight black jeans
Redneck romeo

AM(appropriated from a mullet haiku website)M

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That qualifies hands down as the oddest advice column I have ever read. Hard to believe that the columnist took her seriously instead of assuming (rightly so, I'd guess) that it was some 14 year old boy having fun at his expense. Are this guys other columns this weird? If so, I might have a new advice column to read!

On a related note, I read Dan Savage's new book recently (Skipping Towards Gomorrah) and loved it. The premise was that he set out to commit each of the 7 deadly sins (and traveling across the country doing so on his publisher's dime).

n(loves cheesy advice columns almost as much as good reality tv)cs

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That's for damn sure. The problem I have with it is that it takes ten minutes of material and fluffs it up to 2 hours. So I read the paper or something while watching, and miss out on all the contestant speculation. I could have sworn all the dates (group and alone) had been completed in the first hour. But I was wrong. How does ABC do it? They need to make it confusing, like Alias, so I'll pay attention.

Bring on Temptation Island.

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Reading comprehension is a lost art. Read my post again. She asked HIM what his favorite chain restaurant was.

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Are you kidding me? This is the best night of the year to hit the steak joints that are usually crowded. This Irishman will be having fat tenderloin this evening at a better table than usual, and if Kerry, Mary-Katherine or Patricia Marie the waitress doesn't like it, she knows where she can put her displeasure.

S(Who ever gave a damn what an Irish girl thought? Most are uglier than sin.)D

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A washington post writer tried several of them. Article Conclusion: Olive Garden--really bad; Don Pablo's--acceptable; a couple of others in between.

Did he ask "chain" restaurant? Because that has to be a trick question. The only way it could be reasonable is because you're from different towns, so asking "what's your favorite restaurant" is likely to elicit an answer that has no meaning. Of course, if she were classy she would have said Morton's.

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Aha. Many people tell me that I "look Irish". Now I finally know what they are implying.

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FWIW, having sex with animals is not per se illegal in the State of Texas. Be careful about having sex with a human of your same sex though. Apparently we are very progressive about identifying sexual orientation in some areas and not quite as much so in others. It's the whole morals thing. It's unclear where we stand on having sex with an animal of your same sex.

[edited because I have no idea what javing sex is. It may or may not be illegal in the state of Texas--RT]

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You may be right as a general matter, but if one of the Corrs were serving me
http://www.thecorrswebsite.com/images/band.jpg
I'd damn well sure eat as much fish as she wanted me to.

Mmmm(but that wimpy tag-along brother can get lost in a bottomless glass of Harp)Burger

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This is just a Jedi mind-trick to get me to read your post again.

Now that's not what she said either (unless this is a further mind-trick because you left that part out of your post.)

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If there's a Jesus out there who died on a cross 2000 years or so ago this day for my sins, (a) he really shouldn't have bothered - I'm certainly not worth it (I've no intention of stopping lusting after women, masturbating, drinking, swearing, picking my nose in the car or covetting just about everything) and (b) I imagine he's got bigger things on his mind than whether I'm eating my this afternoon.

S(I can at least understand the whole primitive health concerns behind the silly kosher laws, but the no meat on Friday gig is just plain asinine - If I play that gig, I'm as crazy as those radical Islamist screwheads)D

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Actually, I'd prefer to eat something else.

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Thanks so much for this.

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I used to LOVE that show.

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I thought they lapsed the ban on meat on Fridays (I picked this up from watching Father Ted). Or maybe it's just in effect on Good Friday (what's so good about it?)

Um, hello? I'll Be Havin Steak Tonight
 

Well, no pun was intended.:rolleyes:

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Since I'm half Irish, I'm only partially offended.

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Didn't it start as a marketing ploy to sell more fish? (That is, improve demand for the burgeoning 16th century fishing industry in Ireland)

Every friday was reduced to fridays during lent. If you eat fish only one friday, it's going to be Good Friday.

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Depending on whom you ask, you either (1) refrain from Meat or (2) fast entirely on both Good Friday and Ash Wednesday.

The every Friday thing went out, I believe, with Vatican II, to the dismay of fishmongers everywhere.

What's "good" about it is that it allows Atkins and Zone people to go out and eat a pizza.

not7y(mmmmm...pizzzza)S

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As I routinely eat pork in chop or fried rice forms, and often eat fish on Friday evenings, I'm fairly certain I'm being sent to the crappiest afterlife possible in either of my forebears' traditions.

So I might as well indulge and enjoy it all now. Mazel Tov!

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We fast.

I mean, theoretically.

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My apologies if you're Irish.

Note: I said "most."

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My father actively encourages us to aim for Hell. He figures with all the requirements for entry to Heaven, Hell is where the real party is going to be.

Um, hello? I'll Be Havin Steak Tonight
 

Sebby, I think you've met too many Boston girls. On a trip to Ireland years ago, I marveled at the many cute Irish lasses. They had these Irish Tourist Board offices in most towns, and they were stocked with lovely girls with fetching accents.

By the way, Ireland would make a lovely vacation destination. I'd get a rental car (expensive) and travel the countryside going from B&B to B&B (cheap).

In California, we're lucky enough to have a chain that doesn't get you into trouble on Good Friday...Rubio's fish tacos...tasty.