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When older people get those splochy red veins on their faces, I say they've drunk too much. I'm all for indulgence, but when you get a red nose, game over. I have a couple friends with that stuff already. That's a sign from God that its time to smoke more weed and cut down on booze.

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They sound delightfully judgmental.

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Wait. Are you saying Fringey is giving guys at the coffee shop $20s to keep them interested?

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i love fringey 100%

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Sadly, there's not much you can do but bite your lip and let it slide. Saying something to him won't do any good. Once you've put the ad in the paper outlining each of his lies, and predicting the date of his next bankruptcy, I'd say you're done. You never get anywhere arguing with family.

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I got trapped in the Miracle of Birth building during a near-tornado last Thursday while trying to get to the Sonic Youth/Flaming Lips show in the Grandstand. Finally, we found someone with a map and realized that with a quick wet sprint, we could get to the Department of Natural Resources Building, make our way through there, and then another quick sprint to one of the many beer stands It was covered and we waited out the remainder of the storm there. I highly recommend seeing the Flaming Lips live, but don't do any drugs, because it is not that kind of show.

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Where do you think I get it?

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I've never been to the Minnesota State Fair, but I have been to the Wisconsin State Fair and I read a David Foster Wallace essay about the Iowa State Fair.

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What all gave birth?

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Nothing while I was there, although there was a pig that seemed ready ready ready. There were some very cute lambs that seemed to be of a recent vintage.

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I think the Wallace essay was about the Indiana State Fair. I enjoyed it, although it was seen as a bit of a shameful act of self-loathing/currying favor with East Coast elite by at least two fellow Midwesterners.

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did you get some lambchops afterwards?

I went to the arkansas state fair. I don't recall any animals.

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Well, sure. And the cruise-ship thing just confirmed it, no?

eta: I would bet dollars to donuts that it was Iowa, not Indiana, but my in-laws are sleeping in the room where I've got that book.

eta: Three seconds on Google suggests it was maybe Illinois instead. My in-laws are still sleeping.

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Arkansas had no animals at it's State Fair? I love fringey 88%- she lies sometimes:(

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I didn't say there weren't any, I said I didn't recall any.

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when my daughter was 5 she wanted to be a vet. at the michigan state fair we saw a lamb being born- a vet had to reach up into the mamma to turn a breach birth around. then she didn't want to be a vet.

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I had no lamb. I did have some deep-fried, breaded, cream cheese-filled pickles. Did I mention that it is a bad idea to go to a Flaming Lips show on drugs?

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Illinois it is. All those Midwestern I-states are basically the same, though, right? And the ones that begin with other letters, too.

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you know how people say that if you've been drinking that when you fall and hit the ground you tend to be injured less than if sober? does that apply to snake bites? cuz I just saw SOAP and I likely would be 3 drinks into the flight when the snakes get out, and that would slow my ability to fight them, but maybe I could survive a bit better if I'd been drinking?

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Alcohol slows your circulatory system, so the venom would not race through your system like it would in the fuckers all hopped up on caffeine. You would be a survivor.

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Heaven help me, I happened to watch part of an episode last night (after my airport meeting with Flav, I kind of felt obligated). The whole affair is definitely train-wreck sad. I seem to recall that in the gossip that was going around in last night's episode about Toastee, something was mentioned about girl-on-girl, so I think the second definition probably would apply. That's if she does/did porn, which she apparently denies (though I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone with a viable career would ever appear on this show).

tm

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This isn't a deal with just me. It is a deal with the whole board, and I believe everyone on the board would like you to make it. If anyone doesn't want you to make the deal, they can object, but I don't think they will. So if no one will object, will you make the deal?

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It is the penultimate blowout. The final is Tomatina tomorrow. Interestingly, Ibiza was older than I thought - more late 20s to early 40s. Also the club scene is more Extasy fueled than coke. And, God, it sucks. I went to one club - Space - that has a 22-hour long party going from 8 a.m. sunday morning to 6 a.m. Monday morning. 3000 people (or something) zoned out to trance for a day. I lasted about 3 hours before I had to flee.

LessinValencia

I've just about had enough of...
 

It helps if you put people on ignore. Since I have at times had Patent Para, Penske, NotFromHere, and LTL/FB on ignore, it removes a lot of the blather without losing much substance.

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You know, Spanky I was thinking about it on the train. I volunteered for the wacky experiment, true but ever since I have been denigrated and mercilessly ridiculed by smug persons who may or may not be good looking themselves. THEY won't let it go so why don't you ask the frickin' pile ons to stop baiting me and you will have the battle won. Otherwise, put me on ignore and that is the end of it. or scroll. I'm willing to let it go but each day everyone piles on with quotes or the straw or the chubby/floppy shit and its getting old. And half the people that are doing it are typically unattractive themselves so it really is pot kettle. I'm sick of being asked to be mature when everyone else acts like they are 2.

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Spree:

Her new ad campaign for Shisheido. I used to wear Shisheido back in the day they have pretty decent formulations and I hear the lip gloss is pretty good. The headline is "Can you say flawless?" she is amazing looking.

http://socialitelife.com/2006/08/29/...r_shiseido.php

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I've never heard this but all of a sudden it makes sense how my brother could fall off of the roof of a two story building and land on a concrete parking lot and have absolutely no injuries whatsoever aside from being unconscious for 24 hours and unable to move his limbs for a few hours after that. 48 hours after the fall, he was released from the hospital and walking around as if nothing had happened. I was thinking he might be Superman, but now I know that he was actually just drunker than a porn star in a reality tv dating show.

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I thought Hank was a litigator. That sort of distinction should not have eluded his grasp. Are you as concerned as I am?

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I have never been to a state fair ever. I wanted my bf to take me to the CT state fair, but then I got busy. Someday. On the other hand, I used to ride in the Royal Winter Fair, so I guess I have been to some kind of fair.

My parents constantly bicker as well. My dad has fairly well-progressed Parkinsons and while I feel a great deal of sympathy for his condition, I don't think it makes him quite as helpless as he makes himself out to be. But then he bickers with my mother all the time about her micromanagement (which is something to behold, but really, he is just goading her into it). It's fucked up. Makes me think that marriages, no matter how well they start, ultimately turn toxic and very little can be done to prevent that.

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Are you ALL white trash? seriously?

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Heh. Substance. Good one.

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beyond not being so bothered by life, there are so many benefits to severe drunks. Why doesn't the alcohol industry take better of advantage of promoting the benefits through ad campaigns?


spoiler






"Drink Alcohol drinks! If the honeymoon couple on SOAP had been drinking, like normal people, they'd have survived!"

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I thought he was a patent atty. A prosecution patent atty actually.

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As far as I know, I'm not a client -- so he's working for the opposition. No.

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My parents don't bicker a lot. Really, they only seem to bicker about two things: the fact that my mother always cooks meat rare and he likes it medium; and the fact that he retired 18 months ago and since then he seems to equate retirement with naps all afternoon every day.

But then, they've managed to alienate every good friend they've ever had, except for one woman my Mom sees once every ten years. So maybe they've adapted to presenrve their mariage by bickering with everyone else. Or maybe it's just that they're each the only person on Earth who can stand the other.

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I think I can say with some authority that Thurgreed is not white trash. So you have at least one person you can have some affinity with.

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He's mentioned more than once being involved in trials. Oh well, maybe it's just senility on my part. Or the drugs.

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Not sure if you noticed this when you met him, but Thurgreed is black.

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Oh no! Theme jinx!!!!

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I'm ambidextrous.