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Dualit · 10-01-2003, 05:40 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Please post a picture of said Sesame Street character and I will get back to you on the resemblance. Or paigow will. Or possibly Dualit, but only if your brother is old enough that he was available before Dualit became monogamous (I think he said he is now).

It depends upon your definition of monogamous. Do threesomes (or any group encounter that includes the SO) qualify?

Dua(I don't cheat . . . and I don't sock)lit

Atticus Grinch · 10-01-2003, 05:40 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Apropos of nothing, I always kinda thought she was kinda sexy. Didn't she run amok in London in The Magician's Nephew?

I thought these were two different witches, but apparently Not So.

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Jadis - the White Witch. Called the Queen of Queens and the Terror of Charn. Half Jinn and half giant. Brought into Narnia by Digory Kirke after accidentally waking her and bringng her out of Charn into England in The Magician's Nephew. After terrorizing England is transported into Narnia at its creation. Grows in power and causes the 100 year winter in Narnia. Kills Aslan in place of Edmund at the Stone Table in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Is killed by Aslan after his resurrection. Nikabrik considers resurrecting her in Prince Caspian.

http://www.geocities.com/kawebb99/char-j.html

She's sexy in LW&W (esp. the animated movie I saw as a kid), but she's really butch in TMN, as I recall. Part of the reason I thought they were different people.

Turkish delight is an actual confection. I guess kids in 1940s England were mad for it, but nobody's heard of it since.

leagleaze · 10-01-2003, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Ms. Keaton broke the story here some time ago.

Maybe PT needed the socks. He's been out of work for some time and he goes through them rather quickly.

Let's quote it for the lazier amongst us (as it is only part of an article):

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0335/guthrie.php

"Peter Thottam, a 32-year-old lawyer from Los Angeles, found himself in the midst of the new crackdown in June when his tourist guidebook disappeared inside a Sanborns store. Thottam set about looking for it, opened a door to the street, and was nabbed for almost stepping out with a pair of the store's socks in his hand. Unable to convince the staff in his broken Spanish that he had planned to buy the socks, Thottam was carted off for a four-night stay in the city's overcrowded prisons.

Thottam was crammed into a cold, damp cell designed for four with 13 others, who slept on the floor back to back. Guards and inmates were constantly hitting him up for cash because everything in the jail—access to the bathroom, mess hall, and visitors—cost money. "I couldn't get over how surreal it was," Thottam says, "all over a pair of socks."

Luckily he had a friend in the city to front his $1,100 bail so he could hightail it out of Mexico. "

Personally, I find it fvcking fvnny.

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand · 10-01-2003, 05:43 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Maybe PT needed the socks. He's been out of work for some time and he goes through them rather quickly.

This also might be a calculated plot to gain "street cred" in the Change Agent community...

Tell the story of how he was mistreated, take out the part about the socks, insert some bullshit story of oppression, and all of a sudden he is a "prisoner of conscience" instead of a royal dipshit...

purse junkie · 10-01-2003, 05:43 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Turkish delight is an actual confection. I guess kids in 1940s England were mad for it, but nobody's heard of it since.

You just haven't enjoyed enough desserts, Atticus. You're descended from Puritans, aren't you?

ltl/fb · 10-01-2003, 05:43 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch Turkish delight is an actual confection. I guess kids in 1940s England were mad for it, but nobody's heard of it since.

I have had people bring it to me from Turkey as a treat. Gelatinous and flavored with rose water. I did not like it so much. My current Turkish friend brings me jewelry and makes me really yummy baklava for Xmas. Much better.

purse junkie · 10-01-2003, 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
insert some bullshit story of oppression, and all of a sudden he is a "prisoner of conscience" instead of a royal dipshit...

This is the part of you that feels sorry for the guy, I gather?

Can't say you're wrong, though.

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand · 10-01-2003, 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
This is the part of you that feels sorry for the guy, I gather?

Can't say you're wrong, though.

I didn't say they were EQUAL parts...

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 10-01-2003, 05:48 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze

\"Peter Thottam, a 32-year-old lawyer from Los Angeles, found himself in the midst of the new crackdown in June when his tourist guidebook disappeared inside a Sanborns store. Thottam
Thottam was crammed into a cold, damp cell designed for four with 13 others, who slept on the floor back to back. Guards and inmates were constantly hitting on him because everything in the jail—access to the bathroom, mess hall, and visitors—was reserved for their bitches. "I couldn't get over how surreal it was," Thottam says, "all over a pair of socks."

Personally, I find it fvcking fvnny.

Right punishment, wrong crime.

ltl/fb · 10-01-2003, 05:50 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
LW&W TMN

I believe I will buy the whole series and reread it. Need to find chrono order of them though -- easier to read that way than starting with LW&W.

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch Turkish delight is an actual confection. I guess kids in 1940s England were mad for it, but nobody's heard of it since.

There was a WAR on (or one had recently been on). They were just happy to have stockings. Probably thought oranges and nuts were Xmas day treats. Of course, my stupid father* also seems to think they are and sticks them in our stockings which is really quite annoying.

*uh, I mean Santa Claus. Once again we're having to keep up the pretense because there are kiddies now.

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand · 10-01-2003, 05:51 PM

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Right punishment, wrong crime.

Nice editing...

(for those that missed it, go back and look...)

sebastian_dangerfield · 10-01-2003, 05:51 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
Horsepoopie. If a man kills his kid, is it "none of your business"? Of course it is. We have social rules that are everyone's business, accepted in order to preserve the society, of which you are part.

Fucking a 17 year old and killing a 17 year old are very different things. One is defensible while the other is not.

Bad_Rich_Chic · 10-01-2003, 05:53 PM

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Sniff. But no one puts any effort into understanding *my* unique background as a member in good standing of the Oppressive Patriarchy.

I'm of the, perhaps old fashioned, opinion that, unless there is some specific reason to discuss someone's racial or ethnic background, in which case one should probably discuss it with the person concerned first, there is no particularly defensible reason to be discussing someone's "background" at all.

This, actually, is my problem with the term "African-American." It isn't just superficially descriptive, so why should I use it and imply that I'm making all sorts of origin-assumptions about people? Whatever one thinks of "black" or "white" (or "cafe au lait" or "red" or "grey"), or whatever negative social baggage they have picked up, the terms are attractive because they are superficially descriptive. Since I usually need to know how to refer to people for fairly neutral descriptive reasons ("You know, Bob, the 5 foot 3 black guy in systems with the purple shoes?"), I think I'm going to stick out waiting for a neutrally descriptive term before I give up on "black."

Of course, everyone should be called whatever they wish. But people aren't mind readers, so there need to be neutral terms that everyone within the applicable society can recognize as, even if not preferred by a specific individual, non-offensive. As Thurgreed suggested, I've not yet found a black person who was actually offended at being referred to as "black," but I've found plenty of people pissed to be called either African or American. Etiam: I have found people get pissed to be called "European americans" as opposed to Russian, or Irish-American, or white, or any variety of things. Contra: Asians seem rarely to be offended if referred to as Asian, despite the fact that they are not Asian but American (or European, or whatever). The most widely known not-specifically-ethnic description, however, "yellow," is universally known to be offensive.

My conclusion from all this is that people are weird. I guess life would be boring if they weren't.

leagleaze · 10-01-2003, 05:53 PM

Seems our second most favorite Job Hunter keeps getting more famous.

The crazy cover letter dude has a story about him in a Canadian paper

http://www.canada.com/technology/sto...C-148AD8AAC6B6

Replaced_Texan · 10-01-2003, 05:54 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._quarterback_4

I like it. I like that he knows that fighting with Rush isn't going to do anything positive and any apology he gets is empty. I also like that he calls the rest of ESPN on it. It was a bullshit comment, and someone should have called it a bullshit comment.