imaginary friends to fill the void that is your gaping gash.

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Agreed! It was the result of a bet with Paigow about whether I could stoop even lower than the incredibly lame randomly profane insult posts from last week.

I have neither authorized nor condoned this post. However I do look forward to your off broadway show. Will it be easier to get tix than to the Brett Soemrs and Joan Rivers things?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
California's made you soft. You were probably watching beach volleyball last night, not the superbowl, huh?

No, but only because I can walk down to the beach to see beach volleyball any old time. They televise it for the rest of the country.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
When you were 4?
I think I did that when I was like 5 or 6. But that was before airbags. And it was in a parking lot, not on the streets. Driving on the streets with a 4 yo in your lap sounds not so smart.

Three or four, in the middle of very big hay fields where the only thing you could hit was a blade of grass. I don't think my dad ever took his hand off the wheel. When I was about 18 or so and my cousin was about three, I did the same thing with her, freaking out both of our fathers.

I wasn't turned loose onto the streets until I was 13, and even then "the streets" were gravel roads in the country.

[Flinty_McFlint]

double post

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No, but only because I can walk down to the beach to see beach volleyball any old time.

In a parka, perhaps.

Come on down to where the female players eschew that Tabasco swimwear for something that allows the freedom of movement required for real athletic competition.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Three or four, in the middle of very big hay fields where the only thing you could hit was a blade of grass. I don't think my dad ever took his hand off the wheel. When I was about 18 or so and my cousin was about three, I did the same thing with her, freaking out both of our fathers.

I wasn't turned loose onto the streets until I was 13, and even then "the streets" were gravel roads in the country.

Cool. We used to drive on McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary land - you don't need a drivers license on the island.

[lookingformarket]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Wow, I'm hip. Who knew?

It's not hip if you're old. Only if you're young.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I wasn't turned loose onto the streets until I was 13, and even then "the streets" were gravel roads in the country.

Yez. The Gravel Ratio is one reason why my southern state legislators felt entirely comfortable issuing Learner's Permits at age 15.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Cool. We used to drive on McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary land - you don't need a drivers license on the island. We were 13/14 and freaked my parents out. Of course, when they sounded the alarm for "missing inmate" as a bunch of 13 yo girls in a car, we totally freaked out. Locked the doors and drove to the warden's house as quick as we could.

This post implies you grew up at a prison and probably have great stories to tell. Next time you have an urge to post some celeb news item, post a story involving you and an inmate instead.

Originally posted by mmm3587
I think that a lot of men think of tanlines, especially particularly defined ones, as kind of grating and unattractive. And don't many women spend a lot of time trying to move the edges of their swimsuits around or tanning without them in appropriate locations in order to avoid tanlines? I don't think that men or women universally think of tanlines as hot.

whifffffffffffffff2345

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by lookingformarket
It's not hip if you're old. Only if you're young.

Rats. So close....

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Wow, I'm hip. Who knew?

Ladies --

Quick questions:

* Do younger knitters create and embrace their own lingo for this stuff? Do you "get your knit on," etc.?

* I understand the psychic benefits of the process, but what are the ends? Once scarves have been created for family members and pets, what should we expect next?

I ask because Ms. Gap has taken to the needles as well. Their sharp points adequately dampen the temptation to mock (for now), but still, I fear for the future.

Many thanks,
Gattigap

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Cool. We used to drive on McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary land - you don't need a drivers license on the island.

"The 4,400 acres of McNeil Island saw the last 'civilian' leave in 1936 when the penitentiary became the only business on the island. "

Bilmore?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Ladies --

Quick questions:

* Do younger knitters create and embrace their own lingo for this stuff? Do you "get your knit on," etc.?

* I understand the psychic benefits of the process, but what are the ends? Once scarves have been created for family members and pets, what should we expect next?

I ask because Ms. Gap has taken to the needles as well. Their sharp points adequately dampen the temptation to mock (for now), but still, I fear for the future.

Many thanks,
Gattigap

from stitchandbitchla.com You could go to the coffee talk and find out - then report back.

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Or have Ty scope this one out...

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Rats. So close....

A spinster cannot be hip by knitting pre-hipness. That would be like a bumch of twenty sometings with hope going for their Masters of LIbrary Science and you suddnely have a cool job. No. In fact, you are probalby the reasons it was not hip in the first place and the fact that it was so unhip makes it possible to be a trend in the first place. Its ironic.

that said, you acn go to a knitting circle and tell the knewbers you are old skool