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I hope those people weren't silly enough to pay the bill.
Reply #781. May 31 12, 9:02 PM
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daver852
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I'm watching an interview with the jurors who acquitted that nice John Edwards of all wrongdoing. They seem to be almost all women. I hope that if I ever commit a horrible, heinous crime, there are a lot of women on my jury.
Reply #782. Jun 01 12, 7:17 PM
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daver852
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Two of the women just said they had never heard of him before the trial. Guess running for Vice President doesn't garner the publicity it used to.
Reply #783. Jun 01 12, 7:27 PM
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| lesley153
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| It would have to compete with real news - like who's dating Jennifer Aniston or Justin Bieber, who's gained or lost weight since they were last photographed staggering out of a nightclub at 3am, who's pregnant and who's had cosmetic surgery, who's wearing what on the red carpet, and who's wearing what to stagger out of a nightclub at 3am. We mustn't lose sight of the important things! |
Reply #784. Jun 01 12, 7:40 PM
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george48
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It certainly better then hearing that Greece, and perhaps Spain, and Ireland are going down the tubes because they couldn't keep their financial houses in order.
Reply #785. Jun 01 12, 8:04 PM
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daver852
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Don't forget Italy and Portugal. We'll see you in about two or three years. I blame these problems on female suffrage.
Reply #786. Jun 01 12, 10:11 PM
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Creedy
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Two of the women just said they had never heard of him before the trial?
They're too stupid to be on any jury.
Reply #787. Jun 01 12, 11:40 PM
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Creedy
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Daver, what has female suffrage got to do with mostly male politicians blowing the budget?
Reply #788. Jun 01 12, 11:45 PM
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daver852
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They elect the idiots. Women always vote for the candidate with the best hair.
Reply #789. Jun 02 12, 12:00 AM
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| C30
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Doesn't really matter (in UK at least) WHO you vote for, because the differences between the main parties are wafer thin, so in reality all you vote for in which lot is going to rip off the taxpayer this time.
Voting for the one with the nicest hair is probably as good a way as any!
Reply #790. Jun 02 12, 2:00 AM
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Creedy
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Oh what piffle, women voting for men with nice hair. Those pretty looking men give me the creeps. They all look untrustworthy.
It'd be nice if they still had their teeth though.
Lol, I knew a woman who arranged a luncheon date with a man she'd met online on one of those dating things - and he turned up without his teeth.
She said he only ordered very soft food - and then he wanted to kiss her afterwards.
Reply #791. Jun 02 12, 7:49 AM
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| lesley153
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Absolutely right, it doesn't make a hap'orth of difference where our X goes, because the three main parties will only do what America/Europe/Club of Rome/UN tell them to do.
I went on a blind date once! I was staying with family in New Jersey, and my cousins stitched I mean fixed me up with an old schoolfriend. We met outside a pizza shop in NY city. He ushered me in and ordered "a slice and a small orange" which turned up to be a slice of nameless pizza and a pointy paper cup of orange squash. I watched as he made himself comfortable, took a bite and a slurp, then turned to me and said "Would have have liked something?"
I can't remember much of the time we spent together, only that we went to an encounter group, which was so relaxed that I ended up telling everyone what I thought of him: and he asked me afterwards for petrol money. I wouldn't recognise him - it was a long time ago - but I still remember his name. |
Reply #792. Jun 02 12, 1:01 PM
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Creedy
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Oh my goodness, you're kidding! What a louse.
That's like in the movie "Look Who's Talking".
Reply #793. Jun 03 12, 8:04 AM
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| lesley153
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He might have been a louse with the social graces of a warthog, or he might just have been talked into it against his will, better judgement, and anything else you can think of - my cousins can be very persuasive! Scary is another word for them.
They all hit the roof when I told them about it, and shook him upside down to try to get the petrol money he took off me. I was back in England by then, so I didn't see it. Must ask one day if they got it and what they did with it.
What happened in "Look Who's Talking"? Haven't seen it. :( |
Reply #794. Jun 03 12, 4:45 PM
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daver852
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That's why we Americans never go to New Jersey.
Reply #795. Jun 03 12, 10:29 PM
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Creedy
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You haven't seen "Look Who's Talking"? Great family comedy starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley - and with the voice of Bruce Willis of the baby, Mikey.
Kirstie is a single woman about to give birth. The taxi driver (Travolta) who takes her to the hospital stays for the delivery. Mikey's opinions on everything are voiced by Willis right throughout the film. So funny - and lovely.
Travolta becomes attached to them both and manages to get her to hire him as a baby sitter now and then. And the love story - between all three - develops from there.
It ends up of course as a love match between Alley and Travolta. In the interim though, she tries to find a suitable Dad for Mikey and dates different men to see who would be best. John Travolta tells one of the men, while he's waiting for Kirstie to get ready for the date, that she likes to pay for absolutely everything. And he lets her. Even the taxi fare.
There were two follow up films, "Look Who's Talking Too" (yes, Too) (a second baby is born) and "Look Who's Talking Now" (they both bring home a dog - one is a fancy poodle, one is a mongrel - and they hate each other.
I thought they were all happy, lovely stories (Yes, Daver, I know what you're thinking with your lip curled up scoffingly) and my daughters loved them too.
We quote a couple of lines now and then to fit different occasions - and from all the Star Trek series as well. Why not? They fit :)
Reply #796. Jun 04 12, 12:51 AM
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Creedy
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Speaking of movies, I'm never going to trust my youngest daughter again. She waltzed in with an armful of the latest DVD releases the other night and asked if I wanted to watch them with her.
I said of course - as long as they weren't sad. I hate sad movies. The little wretch told me they weren't.
The second movie we watched was called "The Help" - and it was a waterworks movie. My daughter sat and sniggered as I sobbed. They seem to think it's funny, the pair of them. They brought home "Beaches" one day telling me it was a comedy. I cried so much I had to use a bath towel.
I HATE sad movies!
Reply #797. Jun 04 12, 12:56 AM
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Mommakat
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Well I hope the film is better than the book - I am referring to "The Help" I am reading it at the moment and find the way it is written rather confusing and fragmented.
Reply #798. Jun 04 12, 1:11 AM
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Creedy
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I think I'll give the book a miss, Mommakat. The movie was bad enough. It was interesting historically - although I'm always wary of historical movies as to their accuracy.
Or any movies really. Scriptwriters tend to use artistic licence with all the finesse of a ten ton trailer.
Reply #799. Jun 04 12, 4:52 AM
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daver852
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You will never catch a real man watching "Beaches" or "The Help," unless he has been bound, gagged and fettered by his wife. What do bachelors watch? There are many good choices, ranging from John Wayne to "The Man Show," but I would have to say that the quintessential program for bachelors is "Married With Children," perhaps the greatest television program of all time, and the only one bold enough to specifically warn single men about the perils of matrimony.
The star of "Married With Children" is Al Bundy, a once promising sports star who is burdened with two children and a shrewish wife, and condemned to a life of selling women's shoes. Here are a few of my favorite Al Bundy quotes:
[To wife] I'm jealous of every man not married to you.
Pretty women make us buy beer. Ugly women make us drink beer.
Retirement is when a woman marries, and a man dies.
A fat woman Godzilla'd into the shoe store today. She was so fat she had three smaller fat women orbiting around her.
Women, you can't live with 'em . . .the end.
Beware. There is a killer out there, a temptation. It will eat up your money and your will to live. I know you've heard this before, but you can't hear it enough. Kids, just say no to marriage.
You gals want a "ladies night?" Try spending it in the kitchen, cooking for a man!
Reply #800. Jun 04 12, 9:23 AM
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