trinacriabob

invisible

UPDATE: More unbelievable stuff. This morning I checked one of my e-mail accounts. The club president had e-mailed me the link to this lady's personal web page, asking me "what do you think?" What I thought is that this lady needs a doctor or a partner in a silk-stocking law firm. Oh - my - God. I wrote her back (the club president, not the lady) and told her "you know, a little TOO sophisticated for my minimalist taste." THE BOTTOM LINE: she also lost a regular and valuable club member by not minding her 'effin business. I won't be going anymore.

thief

Sinatra

crocodile (the most lethal of these critters)

Egypt

corpse (sound of one falling)

Gump

I think it would be "purdy mouth"

M.E.N.S.A.

Well, right, for single moms there are single dads. It makes sense. You have that major hinge point in common. But when a person has never had any kids, and doesn't want any, and not because I don't like them....then single moms are not the ticket. I'm NOT affluent, but who wants to leave their money/things at the end of their lives to someone else's kids? Not only that, it's amazing to hear single moms talk to you about their kids as if it's a "bonus" or something. I mean, I understand it, a good mother has her kids as the focal point in her life. But the operative word is HER kids. For the childless single male, the (divorced) single mom offers the following: 1) a kid who may never develop loyalties to you if they have a biological parent, 2) a biological parent that you may have to deal with when you probably don't want to, and 3) a mother who expects you to attend the kids' milestone events, bring gifts, and be financially supportive...yet God forbid you'd want to discipline them....not that that's on my front burner. Chalk it up to my conservative European Catholic ubpbringing, but nothing used to set off my parents more than seeing a few of my educated / career-on-track / reasonably handsome / never-married friends end up with a divorced single mom for their first marriage. My opinion does NOT make me popular. So I now keep it to myself in a "live" interpersonal setting. I've seen that 90+% of society, in an age where blended families have become the norm, does NOT agree with my viewpoint. In fact, they find it aggravating. On the other hand, single YET attractive childless women may very well have some intimacy problems...you can almost bet that the "1 in 7" that has been sexually trespassed upon during youth (statistic according to "the Book of Oprah") occupies that single childless category...and that's another head trip altogether. Plus, it's a guarantee that the sex will be marginal...or nonexistent.

stroke (sheez, I hope neither ocn nor PCS are the next respondents)

He's from Maryland, reg, not rural Appalachia...

Have a great birthday!

Mona Lisa (there's a lunch buffet around the corner from where I work and the girl who takes your money looks like the Mona Lisa; therefore, we ask each other "want to go to Mona's?" Oh, yeah, and Manny, a Mexican dude, cooks)

I've learned I love junkyards. About 2 weeks ago, the theater dimming on the dash on the '92 Regal went on the fritz. I walked into Borders one evening, had coffee for an hour, and came back to see that the dash lights were STILL ON. I had to pull the panel fuse every time I left the car at night. I contacted a couple of Buick parts departments and they told me the dimming feature and the "lights-stay-on for 30 seconds after shutting door" was in the expensive light switch...a light switch costing over $ 300!!! I had to go to Portland over Columbus Day, so I found several old Regals at several pick-n-pulls. Swtiches were generically priced at under $ 10. I just installed it...it was of the plug-and-play variety...and IT WORKS, dimming and all. I also found out there are only 3 (!) pods beside the instrument gauge cluster in this car: the light switch, the A/C controls and the radio, the latter of which was also replaced via junkyard for $ 35 about 4 yrs. ago. This all made me feel good after having to pop $ 250 + labor for a radiator that started to leak yesterday...oh well, after a quarter of a million miles.... Any good examples of kick-ass savings from junkyards?

:rotflmao: I swear, sometimes you're a certified nut! What is a "Sicilian" basement? I live on the West Coast. A "Sicilian" basement?

Paris

deodorant

The receptionist? Past tense, she quit and moved on ... Well, on Fridays we got to wear casual clothes to the office. And, compared to me in 34" waist jeans, her ass, in her jeans, was 2.5x my width. She shouldn't have been allowed to wear jeans! She had a reasonably pretty face and a great voice, that's why she was our receptionist. Plus, we had both gone to Catholic school and she wanted to move (either SEA or ATL), so we talked about that, and we both liked to complain about people that irritated us. And, yes, she did have money. She inherited quite a bit. However, with the size of her caboose, unless it was during the lunch hour or during office hours, I didn't want to socialize with her and that dinner was a LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG 2.5 hours. About this other one that is supposed to show up at the next meeting? I haven't seen her. Her friend should have just invited her without telling me. The club is open to all.

dam

"Basic Instinct"

Oh brother, what happened to your "leg shot?" Tu sei matto! Ser verruckt! You're crazy!

Whereabouts? I know that Asheville (in NC, though) is kind of "under the spotlight" these days. Way too bohemian for my Catholic school ubringing... Camino, I know you like colder weather....upstate NY is beautiful..along Interstate 87 north of Albany and south of the Canadian border...if you could only "freeze frame" it in mid-October for the whole year. But moving is always "easier said than done..."

Oh, yeah, z, I know...but I just wanted to be able to go to my club function without knowing that someone was brought into the mix to meet me. As the club president, she should NOT have done that.