Making a buck cleaning Lester's spittle trays on Sequels' 22-year old supermodel abs

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This just makes me miss RB.

TM

She's off having the macrame peeled off by a king's teeth. You're stuck with me.

Originally posted by Not Bob
Well, the screaming kids in the frozen food section is how I imagine it. Anyway, from Lauren Henderson (one of my favorite mystery writers):

• It's one of those songs that stays with you, and there's a very good reason for that. In fact this song is a perfect example of the return of the repressed; or, to put it another way, how a writer's declared intentions can be subverted by the hidden power of their own subtext. 'Never Been To Me' is overtly about how dangerous it is for women to charge around the world following their own selfish pleasures and how much better it is to bite the lip, stay at home and do what nature intended for us to do (breed). That, in any case, is what Ron THINKS he's here to tell us.
  
  Charlene begins by addressing one of the latter type of women, a stay-at-home mother in the middle of a pretty nasty bout of housewife blues.+
  
  "Hey lady, you lady, cursin' at your life.
  You're a discontented mother and a regimented wife
  I've no doubt you dream about the things you'll never do.
  But I wish someone had talked to me like I wanna talk to you."
  
  We will return to the various phrases Charlene uses to describe the pissed-off homemaker later. But let us look first at the way she tries to convince the POH that the latter has made the right choice in life:
  
  "Oh, I've been to Nice and the Isles of Greece where I sipped champagne on a yacht.
  Moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I got.
  I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see.
  I've been to Paradise but I've never been to me."
  
  That the POH hasn't brained Charlene with a baby stroller by this point shows considerable restraint. There is nothing worse than someone who's had the kind of good time you haven't telling you it wasn't worth it after all, like supermodels complaining that they only get offered bimbo parts in movies. When Helena Bonhan Carter moaned in a Time Out interview that she always got the boring heroines and would love to play character roles, Kathy Burke wrote a famously blistering letter to Time Out pointing out that, as a self-proclaimed ugly cow, she wouldn't at all have minded Helena's dilemma. The more Charlene bangs on about having been undressed by kings, the more it makes any self-respecting POH desperate to shoot off to the Riviera and flaunt herself in a string bikini in the hope that some monarch with time on his hands will immediately summon her to his yacht and start peeling the macramé two-piece off her with his teeth.

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You know, I was amazed when I learned on this board that I was not the only person in the entire universe who knew this song. Now I am amazed that someone wrote a piece on it.

The bottom line is that the goal in life is to first go to paradise then to go to you. The lesson here is to know that paradise is not eternal and, you gotta knw when to hold em, know when to fold em, kinda shit. Then you go to you when you are say 38 or so. A few good breeding years left, and if you could undress leisure monarchs, you can probably mantrap a statesider with what remains of your looks. Both Charlene and the POH are way too eggs in one basket. Shortsighted twats (hi slave!).

[bold_n_brazen]

I just read who won the National Spelling Bee.

I couldn't spell his name if I really, really tried.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I just read who won the National Spelling Bee.

I couldn't spell his name if I really, really tried.

Ask for them to use it in a sentence.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Americans aren't nearly as racist as cab drivers.

"Fuck you, you black motherfuck!"

TM

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
"Fuck you, you black motherfuck!"

TM

One time I was in a DC cab (hi Mr. T!) with neighsayer, who is probably as white as it gets. We were going like four blocks bc of her shoes and i think she bitched about the dollar surcharge or some shit. The cabbie got enraged and called her a terrorist. It didnt make much sense.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
1) I guess you aren't gonna tell theboard what happened? With Abba going the way of the monogs, you are one of the few interesting lived ones left. Bummer.

Nothing happened. I'm just not comfortable with the "boyfriend" terminology. Maybe when I get divorced, if that ever happens - fucking state of new york.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Nothing happened. I'm just not comfortable with the "boyfriend" terminology. Maybe when I get divorced, if that ever happens - fucking state of new york.

You should move to Florida. There's no waiting period or required seperation here.

I'll have an extra room in about 3 weeks.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
You should move to Florida. There's no waiting period or required seperation here.

I'll have an extra room in about 3 weeks.

Two vomitoriums?

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
You should move to Florida. There's no waiting period or required seperation here.

I'll have an extra room in about 3 weeks.

You pose an interesting question. Clearly you have been to paradise (i believe a hot tub in san diego full of lacrosse players and blow?) and you have been to you (brazenette). Where do you go next?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
You pose an interesting question. Clearly you have been to paradise (i believe a hot tub in san diego full of lacrosse players and blow?) and you have been to you (brazenette). Where do you go next?

To paradise on alternating weekends and one weeknight a week. Otherwise I'm just sticking with me.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Two vomitoriums?

Three, actually. If you count the Brazenette's.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
You should move to Florida. There's no waiting period or required seperation here.

I'll have an extra room in about 3 weeks.

That is worth considering - thanks for the advice.

We are planning to go to the Dominican Republic - but my husband is hemming and hawing about a date when he can go (we have to both go). It's annoying.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
That is worth considering - thanks for the advice.

We are planning to go to the Dominican Republic - but my husband is hemming and hawing about a date when he can go (we have to both go). It's annoying.

Good luck to you. I have a relative who, for various reasons involving the laws of Canada, the UK, Kazakhstan, Russia, Equador and Finnland, somehow could not manage for about 7 years to obtain a divorce that would be recognized in all the various countries in which she and her husband resided and held citizenship. I couldn't believe it was that difficult, particularly since the divorce wasn't contested, but apparently the woes of globe-hoppers are greater than I imagine.

[tmdiva]

For reminding me about the spelling bee. I was able to catch it from about round 8 on. Such a wide range of difficulty in the words, even on the championship list. For a while there, it seemed like Samir was getting all the easy words, and Aliya all the hard ones. And the final word was disappointingly easy, but non-musicians may disagree.

Magnus was quite interested for a while, even trying to figure out the spellings for himself. I think I see a bright future for my boy, though it's still a few years before he'll be eligible.

And I was quite excited when one of the words was one which had tripped me up in the state spelling competition lo these many years ago, and which is now forever engraved in my memory.

tm