Patting the wrists, rolling the eyes.

[whoopassman]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I've been trying to understand whether your name signifies "Whoop-Ass Man", or whether it's "Whoo! Pass Man", or "Who? O, Pass Man", or perhaps the frisson of delight that comes with the tension between the different possibilities.

Something to think about when you pick an avatar. Carry on.

I am having trouble comprehending what in the hell you are saying here, is this some avant garde type of humor?

However you do raise an issue that is relevant, which is: avatars. In an earlier post I asked for a recommendation on freeware to resize avatars. anyone?

[Someone's Evil Twin]

Originally posted by Anntila the Hun
Worst. President. Ever. How did we survive his whining about human rights? And "malaise"? And "energy crisis"? There was no energy crisis - there was a crisis, all right but he was too timid and mousy to go over to where the oil was and take it! Thank God our President Bush has no such misgivings. President Bush understands that God meant for us to have that oil!!

Carter, as a Demorat, is doomed to an eternity in the fires of Hell, like all the rest. The sooner he accepts that, the easier it will go for him. God Bless America!! God Bless President Bush!! God Bless Tom DeLay!!

God Bless women who stay home with the kids!



Mater Delorosa!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by whoopassman
I am having trouble comprehending what in the hell you are saying here, is this some avant garde type of humor?

Yes.

However you do raise an issue that is relevant, which is: avatars. In an earlier post I asked for a recommendation on freeware to resize avatars. anyone?

If RT doesn't see this, send her a PM -- maybe she knows. I've never been able to do this with Snapfish, the photo-hosting site I use for my blog.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Anntila the Hun
Worst. President. Ever. How did we survive his whining about human rights? And "malaise"? And "energy crisis"? There was no energy crisis - there was a crisis, all right but he was too timid and mousy to go over to where the oil was and take it! Thank God our President Bush has no such misgivings. President Bush understands that God meant for us to have that oil!!

Carter, as a Demorat, is doomed to an eternity in the fires of Hell, like all the rest. The sooner he accepts that, the easier it will go for him. God Bless America!! God Bless President Bush!! God Bless Tom DeLay!!

I do not agree with most of this.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't put bumper stickers on my car, out of a healthy fear that someday someone will rear-end me because they were busy reading my bumpersticker.

If I felt differently, one car would have a bumpersticker saying "KILL YOUR TELEVISION," and the other would have one saying "TELEVISE YOUR KILL."

I had a "no bumpersticker/no vanity plate" policy out of a healthy fear that I should need to one day make a quick getaway, I didn't need to be identifiable.

I put a Kerry/Edwards sticker on my car, in October. After a suitable period of mourning (three weeks), I took it down.

Now I have an arts organization's sticker on my car.

I may have to improve my driving.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Now, that's not a very Christianly thing to say, sweetie. You need to turn the other cheek. Forgiveness is divine.

Did I somewhere claim to be Christian?

And besides, there is nothing to forgive. I mean, it isn't like he was directing that wonderful law school parable at me... Wait. Do you think he was calling me a social cripple? And here I assumed he was discussing Hank again.

He couldn't have meant me. I mean, it isn't like I sit around and have conversations with a bunch of strangers on the internet all day. I know real people who like me. Pets count, right?

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No, he said, suspecting that it was a set-up for a joke.

No, just had a weird mental image of a dinosaur zooming along 101 S in a hybrid. Time for coffee.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by whoopassman
However you do raise an issue that is relevant, which is: avatars. In an earlier post I asked for a recommendation on freeware to resize avatars. anyone?

Try this.. IIRC, it's a free online image resizer.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If RT doesn't see this, send her a PM -- maybe she knows. I've never been able to do this with Snapfish, the photo-hosting site I use for my blog.

At work, I generally use either microsoft paint or the imaging program in the Windows accessories folder.

At home, I use the software that came with my digital camera to resize and annotate.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If RT doesn't see this, send her a PM -- maybe she knows. I've never been able to do this with Snapfish, the photo-hosting site I use for my blog.

My advice is not to spend too much time on the avatar- if you do something spectacular, then some sim will just copy it and Ty and Rt and them won't stand up against the copyright infringement. w/o ip rights there is no real incentive to create. EO would have G's ass for that but whatever.

[Anntila the Hun]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I do not agree with most of this.

Then you are a traitor. Traitor, traitor, traitor. Traitor, traitor, traitor. Nyah-neh-nyah-neh-nyah-neh!

God, I'm depressed - I can't find my cigarettes, and I broke open the last case of 2-Buck Chuck last night. What am I going to do for dinner?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Not Bob
No, she is not a "tax guy." And her advice might be a little weaker than wonk's (wow -- say that three times fast!) because she's a girl, and we all know that girls are weaker.

(Mr. Wilson, Mr. Heath!)

I am so going to call you at home and leave a lascivious message on the home voicemail/answering machine. Weak my ass.

My advice to this sock-o-penske was not really serious. I feel it is a moral failing to not pay your taxes in accordance with a reasonable view of the law -- tortured readings are not reasonable. Stretching is not reasonable. I feel as strongly about this as other people do about abortion being murder, though I have not (yet) bombed any consultants' offices (but I am listening carefully to what has been revealed about Eric Rudolph's plans for various gay nightclubs and the Olympics and abortion clinics).

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ironweed
I'll tell you one thing, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to find out you owe alternative minimum taxes. Oh the humanity!

I thought Bush was taking care of big fat greedy lawyer cats like me. How am I supposed to accumulate an obscenely ginormous estate to pass on tax-free to my parisitic offspring with this kind of shit going on?

You should try my new tax refund plan - change jobs at some point during each tax year. Paying double social security is one way to guarantee that the government will owe you money back come tax return time.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
No, just had a weird mental image of a dinosaur zooming along 101 S in a hybrid. Time for coffee.

A little morbid for a dinosaur to be driving a vehicle powered by petreoleum, don't you think? I should look into biodiesel.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You should try my new tax refund plan - change jobs at some point during each tax year. Paying double social security is one way to guarantee that the government will owe you money back come tax return time.

Not if you are a poor fucker schmoe who makes less than six figures . . .