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Speak for yourself, you perpetual horndog.

It could, but I'd be more willing to bet it means "from God" or "from the Lord." The O.C., you're such a HAM! Cute dog!

There is a little town in North Central California that I find really quaint. That would be Chico. About 3x a year, I'll grab a rental car and go there to do...well...nothing. I'll go to B&N, Starbucks, a movie, to eat (they've got some good little restaurants)....and sleep. Any towns, lonely beaches or rural places you retreat to?

What do you do for a living? My response to thread: English countryside

I knew SOMEONE would bring that up...you beat Balthy to it !

There are a lot of characters here (I'm excluding myself, of course...ehm...ehm). Seriously, there are a lot of interesting people here.

Have you read about the "denial" aspect of the whole thing. Some newspapers or news services report one thing and the Cuban government or his relatives say he is on the mend. Absurd. I'm hoping Cuba will be a democracy or some facsimile thereof within the next 5 to 20 years. I grew up in a predominately white neighborhood but the Hispanic faction that was there was largely Cuban as opposed to Mexican (and this is in LA, so that's kind of weird). So, I went to a Catholic school that had a lot of Cuban kids and a lot of my friends were Cuban. I would have to say my best childhood friend was Cuban. I would love to someday go over there and walk through the streets their parents walked, savoring the sights, sounds and smells. Cuban people are wonderfully theatrical and mercurial and I find them similar to Italians in this regard. They've also great a great spirit. Many had to flee Cuba in a hurry, leaving behind their properties and wealth, only to prosper again in the U.S. (I would venture to say Cubans have the highest educational attainment of the Hispanic peoples and are more apt to vote Republican). At any rate, the vacuum part Carbiz speaks of is tough. Being that it is essentially in the Americas and predominately Christian, I doubt that the upheval will look anything like we see in the Middle East. In the end, it will be a better place and, who knows, we might be able to vacation there someday.

Belfry e uma coisa como a Torre dos Clerigos no Porto, ou tamben as torres das campanhas numa igreja. My response to thread: noose

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?

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

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

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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.

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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.

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