Encore! Encore!
 

Do you have any of their other IM exchanges?

Re: So
 

I was going to next weekend, but I am too disappointed by all the Blago/Burris stuff........

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

I'm not sure who the both are, but yes.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

Good onya Sheila!

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

But you aren't. That's the one thing you actually made clear.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

Hey, yeah, what he said. Thanks for getting me backside there Sidd, I guess there is something to this post-partisan world afterall.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

I'm late on this thread, but still willing to chime in. Go with your instinct, not your manners. I'm not a big follower of The Rules, but if someone says they aren't sure they want to date you, the impetus really is on him to contact you if he ever wants to do anything again. Rejectee gets a pass on any manners requirements to follow up on tentative plans.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

Could someone please make me a counted cross stitch pillow with this on it??

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

Here's a pattern for you.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

I'm thinking of using it as part of my signature on any emails to clients.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

This is giving Not Bob's dialogue a run for its money.

His all caps lines, however, remain all but out of reach.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

She sure does.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

The kid has graduated from just IM apparently.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

just to avoid any confusion, this advice doesn't apply to the type of dates Ironweed goes on where he has to pick from a roomful of girls, and sometimes hesitates. NTTAWWT.

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

no. dtb has tired of me is all:(

I had my love interest yin/yang of fringey and that is on sabbitical, but now my intellectual yin/yang dtb has fired me:(

I almost need "Penske fucks my wife" posts to keep viable here.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

mitch albom, Whom I hate, both his writing and as a person, wrote a pro-Detroit rant for si.com.

Fun fact?

• Wait. Here's a better one. In the last 45 years -- or since Ford took over -- the Lions have had 13 non-interim head coaches, and not a single one was ever a head coach in the NFL again. Not one. Rick Forzano. Tommy Hudspeth. Monte Clark. Darryl Rogers. Wayne Fontes. The list goes on. Nobody wanted them after Detroit. The Lions don't just hurt your reputation, they permanently flatten your tires.

read the rest maybe?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...oit/index.html

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Appropros of nothing, is anyone aware of the meaning behind the lyrics of Plush by STP? Okay I assume there's a dead body somewhere but other than that?

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

You told me you weren't on IM.

Did you LIE to me?!?

Re: My Trusty Internet Friends (Hi Thurgreed)
 

his wife bootyIMs me.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

WTTW, one or two of the posters here have gotten stuck with a "thing" that's their "thing" -- Slave being Shave, Ruysbroeck being into analingus, new york doll being into spanking, Penske sucking cocks at interstate rest stops. Think carefully about whether rotting corpses should really be your "thing."

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

Right. I preferred the BBC's Changing Rooms to Trading Places, whether comparing hostesses or designers.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

Elf didn't make my list, but Zooey does have a beautiful voice. Immediately after watching that scene I thought, why doesn't she make an album? Last year, she did, as one half of She & Him. If you like her voice, buy She & Him, Volume One. M. Ward handles guitar and production duties and Zooey writes some quality songs and covers Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "You Really Got A Hold On Me" and the Beatles "I Should Have Known Better."

I think it's the best record of 2008. So does Paste Magazine, for what that's worth. "Feed The Animals" by Girl Talk might be the only serious competition, but that's such a different kettle of fish.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

If the list was for best romantic comedies of the past 25 years, I'd include both of these. Mike Myers seems inherently uncomfortable being a romantic comedy lead, but that's used to his advantage in SIMAAM. (Yes, I've heard that's because he's gay. Is the parlance of the board still that he might be "a gay," or is it "one of the gays"?)

And Benny & Joon might have been the first film I saw with the always lovely Julianne Moore and the always funny Oliver Platt.

Then again, I don't think you could make a list of 25 watchable romantic comedies MADE in the last 25 years.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Dissent in part as to Clerks. I think it's watchable every couple of years or so. It's not something I'd watch if it was playing this Saturday afternoon on cable, but it was funny in a new way at the time, so that's why it made the nether regions of my list.

Dissent as to Better Off Dead. In fact, I might just want to swap out Clerks for Better Off Dead, as I forgot about it when making my list. Parts of it are 80's-dated, but I still like it. And I'm not alone. Why spend $30 for a Blu-Ray disk when you can meet Monique Junot (and Savage Steve Holland and Booger from Revenge of the Nerds for only $10? Besides, do you know the street value of this mountain? Everyone from the board could afford to go.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Wikipedia reports that "The song's chord structure was inspired by DeLeo's love of ragtime music, and its lyrics were loosely based on a newspaper article Weiland had read about a girl who had been found dead in an area outside of San Diego. Weiland has also said that the song's lyrics are a metaphor for a failed relationship."

Speaking of failed relationships and following soup sandwich's post, it's important for single women to know that all men fit into one of three categories.

Category One: Simple Man
The overwhelming majority of men (at least 85%) fit into this category. As long as these men have sex and dinner, everything is OK. If you've just had sex and ask a Category One man what he's thinking about, the truthful answer is probably food-related, i.e. "How can I get her to make me a sandwich?" If a Category One man ate before having sex, the truthful answer to the question "What are you thinking about?" is "Nothing." Some women initially find this infuriating, but with time, many women grow to appreciate the fact that a Category One man who is full and just-laid is, for all intents and purposes, equivalent to an appliance in stand-by mode - there's a light on, but the machine isn't actually doing anything at the moment. Once women realize that they're with a Category One man (and gentle reader, you almost certainly are), life becomes easier and the relationship can become almost as simple as he is.

Category Two: Complex Man
While many Category One men think they are complex, if they thought about it even half-seriously, they'd realize that whatever problems they have diminish at least temporarily, with sex & dinner. See Sebby and his "neurosis." Only ten percent of men truly have ambitions beyond sex & dinner. To be sure, the Category Two man wants sex & dinner; after all, there's no need to refuse the pleasures of life. The Category Two man just thinks there are other pleasures to be had - public service, the arts, etc. (Having said that, almost all politicians, artists, etc. are Category One men - the mayor just wants some brisket and a blowjob; the painter paints in the hope that his assistant will ditch that smock so they can fuck... and then go out for Thai.) The Complex Man actually remains unfulfilled if his life revolves solely around food and women. Many smart Category One men will pretend to be Category Two men because seeming to be complex is the only way to score certain hot chicks. A woman who demands that her Category Two man focus solely on her will ruin the relationship. A woman has to accept the essential truth of a Category Two man for a successful relationship, and many women can do so.

Category Three: Complicated Man
While the Complex Man still wants sex & dinner, the Complicated Man may not appreciate either (or in the truly fucked-up case - both). Thankfully, at most, five percent of men are truly complicated. Almost all of them don't know what they want, can't find pleasure in anything, and are cursed. Some use that curse to produce great works of art or to achieve greatness in their fields. Some bona fide holy men are able to truly, to completely reject the pleasures of this world for the promise of the next. A handful find pleasure in some obscure field and isolate themselves from the world and its demands - perhaps to study patterns of butterfly migration or string theory. The takeaway for women is that the Category Three man is undateable. And the rare woman who finds herself attracted only to Category Three men? Well, she is more cursed than those she desires.

Now sunnybunny thinks she's dealing with a Category Two man who needs time to put his life back together in a meaningful way. But you don't need to read a dozen posts to realize that he's just a simple man who is not that into her.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Oliver Platt lives in my neighborhood, here in the capital of Not-Quite-Household-Name Actors.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

You shouldn't have posted this here b/c you could have published this.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

"Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" was a guilty pleasure of mine. Until I heard it in the supermarket this weekend. Bummer. Also, the video, despite its faux-macabre imagery, is a little on the precious side. She does have a nice voice, though.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Next you seen him, tell him you loved his work in Lake Placid.

Don't research this, just say it to him.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

I'm a Category One, with the exception that I am not all that concerned about dinner.

By the way, none of your links are working.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

There was a time, long before the invention of eye-talics, when underlining emphasized text. I don't expect you to appreciate this, but a Complicated Man like Jack understands.

ETA: I'm not saying it was a good time, mind you, as I happen to hate underlining.

Re: General announcement and warning
 

W.
O.
W.

This is almost as good as Fuck You Penguin.

Re: So
 

8-year olds, dude.

http://lanceseymour.com/jesus.jpg

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Translation: Box Lunch is fine by me.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

1 and 2 include the necessary assumption sex is an uncomplicated act. Shirley you jest there. I'll grant that for some dull people sex is mechanical, but 85 percent of men? That's a bit high. I'd say for most men sex is complicated as hell, but just seems simple because the processes involved in getting it and maintaining a high level of fun in it in a relationship are subtle, and mixed with a lot of subconscious, seemingly instinctual (and actually instinctual) split second decisions taking place in those processes.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Translation: the only way to figure out what Category I fall into is to ask my wife.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

If we are ever on a long car ride, i'm bringing my ipod.

So this is Sebby?

so this is like the mods? Ty or maybe Thurgreed?

Adder.

maybe she just never tried to cook for him?

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

I don't think the fact that you consider convincing someone to have sex, and then actually having sex to be a frightfully tricky maneuver will persuade Jack that you fall into Categories 2 or 3.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

That must be it! She should surprise him with a baked pasta dish of some sort, preferable for lunch at his place of work, announcing herself to all of his co-workers.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

He's a complicated man
No one understands him but his woman
Shaft!
can you dig it