trinacriabob

I take it the latter is Monteleone. On the other hand.... Some bad Italian names: Figarotta (broken vagina), Malatesta (headache or bad head), Finocchiaro (either fennel or something having to do with homosexuality), Storto (crooked - slang), Delle Femmine (of the women)...and on and on...

Was she attractive? Italian girls can look like their brothers minus the body hair...or watch out... Did most people know what that meant?

belfry

tentacles

Jacques Cousteau (Congrats, Bobo, I was wondering who 10,000 would be)

You LITTLE $h!.... My response to thread: tradewinds

cocktail

Happy birthday, Croc!

The world only has room for ONE Chargerino.

Limburger (sp) My response to thread: diapers (that's what Limburger smells like, after they've pooped in them, try doing this at the deli case sometime )

how could I forget

heart of palm salad (had it every time I went to eat in South America)

That's what the whole thread is about...Reg started this to poke at an unsavory individual...it isn't about her crusade to justify the oppressed or whatever it is she represents. It's about her delivery.About a month ago, I did the "L-E-S-B-I-A-N-S" thread. It was exactly about this nastiness and not at all about their doing the "deed." I recounted a story of taking a plane ride up to Portland to see Mom for Thanksgiving and having to sit next to a lesbian who scowled at me several times for no apparent reason. But I might add that in the last week I have had 2 positive run-ins with lesbians. Last weekend, I went to K-Mart and the checker there, an obvious short mannish middle-aged lesbian, probably Hispanic or Italian, was all smiles and very pleasant...though she was even more pleasant to an attractive 28ish woman behind me in line. Yesterday, I was sitting at Starbucks reading with my head down and was interrupted by this lady (athletic, fleece pullover, middle-aged, single, Subaru in the lot) who happened to be in one of my night classes at the univ. about 3 semesters ago and she invited herself to sit down with me and talk to me for half an hour. (And someone posted that I gave off the vibes of a homophobic moron on my thread). Reg's thread is about Rosie's brittle and calloused demeanor. I would suspect most men and women don't find that endearing. Granted, there are times when seeing a crass comedian (and you are up for it) can be fun. But this is her to the core. Lesbian anger is not easy to deal with. It's a real downer from what I can see. I think a lot of lesbians are angry, either because of things that have shaped their lives, discrimination they have encountered or simply that there may be more testosterone that is in a state of imbalance with a normal female estrogen level, thus making them edgy and aggressive. And, if Rosie is as angry as she appears to be, it repulses me that she (and Madonna and Angelina, for that matter), because of their monied status, can accelerate through the normal adoption channels to enjoy parenting when they may not be fully qualified to do so as some of the others who are hopefully waiting. Yes, Rosie is the "c" word. Trump may be an "a-hole," but Rosie is still the "c" word. Thanks.

castanets

I didn't know you lived in Montreal. There's a lot of Toronto representation on the board, but you're the first Quebecois I know of. Cool.

Bingo. The Intermountain West is cold right now. Las Vegas has been cold. Two years ago, Reno got its worst winter on record in terms of snowfall in about 80 years, collapsing a lot of apartment car canopies and crushing a lot of cars. Sacramento and towns west of the Sierra have been spared, but all Lake Tahoe (CA and NV) ski resorts have had great snowfall. Lately, the South Central area including Dallas was dealt an arctic blast. I was thinking about "global warming"....hmmmm.

bikini

scrumptuous

Agreed, TJ, he is scum. But there are so many others like him that are far worse offenders in corporate America (the insiders at Enron, Tyco, etc.). With regard to women, Trump must know they are "bought" ... I wonder what they really think of him ...and if, deep down, he knows it. Still, Rosie gets my blood to the boiling point quicker than does "the Donald."

Isn't she from "the Island?" (Thought I saw that on some docu-biography type show some night I must have been bored). Which town?

Everyone of us has some food that we go nuts over...and probably eat more of it than we should AT ONE TIME. For some, it's Oreos, cashews, etc. Mine is French Onion Dip, either with chips or wheat crackers. I bought some this weekend. I don't do this often. What is THAT food for you?

Thank you. Couldn't have said it better myself.

London

Ben

Not quite, but I don't look like I've had electrolysis or shaved on purpose, either. It gets gross when you have hair everywhere such that, on a sweltering day, the sweat would make it soppy. Have you ever seen some real hairy Middle Easterners perspire right through their shirts and all their body hair sopping wet? Not too cool. Sometimes, they forgot their deodorant on top of that. I've had to sit next to some hairy foreign guys in college classes and you either wanted to leave the classroom or throw up, but you didn't have the nerve to tell them "You know, they sell Mitchum at Safeway."