Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Throw in some Kahlil Gibran also.

And throw in something to do with how you spake when you were a child. All part of the recipe for a perfect wedding. Oh, and have someone's aunt sing Ave Maria off-key. It will be a hit!

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Hmmm. That's helpful. My problem is that I don't want to be cheesy at all, but since this isn't going to be a traditional wedding at all, I have a lot more flexibility than if I were working off a script. I'm hesitant to put in sappy song lyrics and movie quotes, though she's a pop culture junkie and I know she'd like something like that. I don't want to go overboard, and I don't want it to be longer than absolutely necessary. Obviously if they're asking me to do it, hellfire and eternal damnation aren't really major concerns for them. I think she's ex-Catholic, Universal Unitarian, and I'm not sure about him. I haven't asked about ritualistic eyeball licking.

Mawwiage, that bwessed event . . .

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Hmmm. That's helpful. My problem is that I don't want to be cheesy at all, but since this isn't going to be a traditional wedding at all, I have a lot more flexibility than if I were working off a script. I'm hesitant to put in sappy song lyrics and movie quotes, though she's a pop culture junkie and I know she'd like something like that. I don't want to go overboard, and I don't want it to be longer than absolutely necessary. Obviously if they're asking me to do it, hellfire and eternal damnation aren't really major concerns for them. I think she's ex-Catholic, Universal Unitarian, and I'm not sure about him. I haven't asked about ritualistic eyeball licking.

You're looking for something non-cheesy, yet still heartfelt and done with fair. This sounds more like an eulogy than wedding vows.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by tmdiva
We don't have one yet, but we're planning on purchasing one within the next few months. While visiting some relatives over spring break, we got to take naps on theirs, one an authentic Tempur-Pedic and the other a cheaper knockoff. The support was similar, but the knockoff retained more body heat, which you'd definitely want to avoid if you're a hot sleeper.

tm

I strenuously recommend that people DO NOT get a tempurpedic matress. There are a number of reasons. Suffice it to say that the wife and I just got a new bed and I researched the hell out of it.

If you want a foam matress (and I suggest you do), go with 100% latex. It's naturally hypoallergenic and won't wear out like the tempurpedic foam (which is memory foam over a cheap core of polyurethane foam).

Go to http://www.whatsthebest-mattress.com/ and start researching. There forums contain a wealth of info. Or, if you want a short-cut, PM me and I'll tell you what I narrowed it down to.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by spookyfish
My client, Sebastian Dangerfield has directed me to request that you cease and desist making any and all assertions that "lawyers are tools". Mr. Dangerfield has sole interest in this intellectual property and all plausible and implausible variations thereof. Your further use of this property without Mr. Dangerfield's express consent will be met with prompt legal action.

Regards,

spookyfish, esq.

SF,

What's with the $1200 bill? I haven't even gotten exclusive use for the "Lawyers Are Fucking Tools" lunchbox yet.

I sat down in a fury last week and punched out a page about why written dicsovery needed to be abolished - about how it elevated professional administrators above where they ought to be in the pay scale. I'm sew shocked the local legal rags said "fuck yourself" to the submission... Cocksuckers. I love the local legal rags - packs of crotch sniffing, ball-licking whores pumping out emergency toilet paper. If i had a twenty for every article where they candy-coat associate gripes by saying "most associates don't feel mentored enough" I'd have a Murcielago.

Hey, you fucking chickenshit editor-wanna-be... why not print something substantive with some REAL quotes? Why not say it like it is? Is it too hard to write "most associates hate the cocksuckers around them"? Can we not speak the tabboo that most good people get the hell out of this field early because its polluted with the sort of shitheads you'd never be caught within eyesight of in normal social interaction? Or do we just continue sucking off the local bar and nancing about the real issues which have turned this cesspool of a city's legal community into a low paying whorehouse of half-qualified jackoffs pretending to practice law and suing over utterly baseless claims because there's no other way to make a dime? When PPP drops into the 1s, will the local shitrag still cry "Philly's on a comeback." Rocky left the building long ago...

Hey Spookyfish... get me the name www.yeswerefucked.com. And find me some cites on libel law. I have an axe to grind.

Alternatively, send me an 8th... I need the "bring down",
SD

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by spookyfish
My client, Sebastian Dangerfield has directed me to request that you cease and desist making any and all assertions that "lawyers are tools". Mr. Dangerfield has sole interest in this intellectual property and all plausible and implausible variations thereof. Your further use of this property without Mr. Dangerfield's express consent will be met with prompt legal action.

Regards,

spookyfish, esq.

Only the worst kind of tools sign their letters, ________________, esq.

[LessinSF]

Bangkok is trying to cut down on students having sex in public buses - http://www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/s...st02news38.htm . Well, duh. Even we know that is what taxis are for.

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
They're actually getting common law married, but they want to have a ceremony, so the ceremony has no legal impact on the marriage at all. It's simply a token for friends and family to celebrate their marriage.

I'd ask them to write their own vows - or at least write some ideas down for you to use. Even though it's a CLM, they can still file with the county to make it official - may help for insurance and other purposes later on. Is it in a church or outdoors or what? Try to take into account the (in)formality of the setting. Is anyone reading anything? If not, maybe incorporating a verse or (if religious) scripture.

At least you don't have to wear a bridesmaid gown (right?) - last one I wore had a slit up to my armpit, though it fit eveyone else just fine since they were all like 5'2". I literally could not sit down the whole evening which sucked, especially considering the amount I had to drink...I just leaned a lot.....with my forehead.

-TL

[Tyrone Slothrop]

I was shooting to have my 5K post be Lawtalkers' 120K, but -- curse SS and his sphincter-related posting! -- I missed by 1. Someone want to fill me in on the last three weeks? I tried to Heinz, but I could only handle so many of those Mandy GA posts.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I was shooting to have my 5K post be Lawtalkers' 120K, but -- curse SS and his sphincter-related posting! -- I missed by 1. Someone want to fill me in on the last three weeks? I tried to Heinz, but I could only handle so many of those Mandy GA posts.

I got the 120k? What do I win?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Anyone know of one? I'm looking to buy a memory stick for my Sony digital camera and prices online are $30 cheaper than Circuit City.

I have found www.pricegrabber.com and www.streetprices.com to be invaluable resources for sorting out which online merchants are cheap because they have crap customer service. DO NOT buy from anyone who has fewer than 200 reviews on pricegrabber. It's possible for shady merchants to juke the system posting self-authored reviews, and a difference of $10 or $20 doesn't make experimentation worthwhile.

[Hank Chinaski]

video game chicks are fun but its not sexy. I mean everyone agrees on that, except apparently Hugh Hefner's feeble brain. Maybe at 80 the eyes are going to the point there's no difference between cartoon and photo. On the other hand, I would never have beaten SS in GTA at Sophmore year's Spring Games if he hadn't slowed down to cruise some of the hookers, and was driving "one-handed" for awhile, so maybe it appeals to some.

Playboy's Newest Pinup: Video Game Characters
Wednesday, September 08, 2004

LOS ANGELES — Playboy is taking a chance on silicon instead of silicone.

The October issue of the men's magazine features several video game characters posing in the nude -- images created by the game companies through detailed computer illustration.

"Hopefully the purists won't get too bent out of shape. This is just the next version of the pinup," said Playboy senior editor Scott Alexander, who developed the project.

The computerized models are part of the magazine's video game preview, titled "Gaming Grows Up." (search) The five-page section starts with a topless image of the half-vampire, half-human title character from "BloodRayne," (search) a leather-clad woman who fights with three-foot blades attached to her arms.

The next image is a full-frontal, two-page foldout of a character named Luba Licious from the upcoming mature-rated comedy game "Leisure Suit Larry," which is about a shrimpy guy who travels a college campus courting impossibly buxom coeds.

The images even feature the signature Playboy centerfold-style bio. "We treated these women just like they are celebrities," Alexander said. "We treated them real, as if they had turn-ons and turn-offs."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,131684,00.html


The half-human, half-vampire character "BloodRayne" in Playboy

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Only the worst kind of tools sign their letters, ________________, esq.

That was kind of the point, I was being ironical.

To put it another way, WHIFF.

[Not Bob]

From today's Gawker: "Can someone please explain what is up with the Calvin Klein billboard on Houston? Is it about people crawling from the primordial ooze and discovering rimming? So confused."



I'm going with "Ironically, Slave and Paigow's purity scores actually went up after their legendary date."

[Replaced_Texan]

Alternatively, this could be a cool place for FB headquarters

In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema

Jon Henley in Paris
Wednesday September 8, 2004
The Guardian

Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.
Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries.

"We have no idea whatsoever," a police spokesman said.

. . .

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.

After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.

Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.

Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

. . .

A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.

"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."

Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

...

There exist, however, several secretive bands of so-called cataphiles, who gain access to the tunnels mainly after dark, through drains and ventilation shafts, and hold what in the popular imagination have become drunken orgies but are, by all accounts, innocent underground picnics.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Stor...299449,00.html