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Lasik Surgery (don't tell me you have a # for that, too).

That's cool, Chargerino. I appreciate the thought! And "Viva Las Vegas!" (3 more days and counting....)

Contact lenses

Go for the throat, Riv. That's nuts. It's a Buick and it's not entry level. You deserve better and that of sitting on the lot IS indeed an issue causing problems like what you mentioned, among others.On a more jovial note, those heated seats...what would you have done without them? Enjoy! It is a very tastefully styled vehicle...and its grille is way more attractive than that of the LaCrosse. Watch the LaCrosse follow suit.

All fondness for the era and the luxury aside, these cars DID NOT handle well. Handling was vague. Try taking one of these up to Yosemite with any kind of oomph around those curves into the National Park. Yeah, right.

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Hey, Lauren, it appears that you want us to be enamored with your upper anatomy. Both sig and avatar! So, how about posting ALL OF YOU (legal, of course) on the Pictures thread so we can do the name-face association thing?

Was that "Prizzi's Honor"? It's some mob movie of some sort. I remember the line.

Yes. "Risky Business" - Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMornay - also, a great soundtrack by Tangerine Dream with the cut "Love on a Real Train." Another line from it: "What's that?" "I dunno. Some artsy-fartsy thing."

Croc and Enzora:Not taking sides in this one. I will point out what I have heard. My h.s. friend who went to my undergrad alma mater (you know, that nameless facsimile of a Catholic country club ), along with 25% of my high school class( ), joined the "bad boy" fraternity. He would refer the off-campus domicile as the "frat house" and so would others of their respective houses. Maybe it's different at Southern Cal. And you know, So Cal is abbreviation wonderland - every damn public high school on the West Side's name was truncated - Pali, Samohi, Hami, Uni, etc. so using the term "frat" wouldn't be a stretch. I never saw this as derisive until it becomes "frat rat" or something along those lines. You'll love this one. My lack of discretion once inadvertently slammed at how extremely invested this friend was in being in this particular fraternity... we were talking and I once mused "well, you're kind of a token X-X-X." That did not go over well. Needless to say, that is one college friend I lost contact with. B.F.D.

seahorses Paolo, vai a letto! Subito! Ascoltami.

Only if it wears an Izod shirt, preferably with its collar turned up!

I'm gonna violate your rule...because those are too hard and you keep calling me Trina. :AH-HA_wink: "I've got a trig test tomorrow and I'm being chased by Guido, the killer pimp!"

Sidebar: Marcia's one of us? Cool.

TWICE. That's it, thank you very much. Once at the end of college. Some of us went down to the Marina del Rey to drink. I probably had 3 or 4 Greyhounds. We drove back to campus and I aired out a bit. I then drove the 7 miles home. I did not like the sensation. The second time was in grad school. Some people who lived near me and in my program were celebrating job offers. I went with them. The Long Island Iced Teas kept coming. I remember laying in bed the whole next day (Saturday), not even knowing how I got out of my clothes. I felt very depressed more than anything else, wondering why people drink in the first place. Overall, idiotic experiences. I can honestly say I have never purchased more than 20 to 30 alcoholic drinks in my entire life and I think I have purchased red wine 3 x to keep at home to fight cholesterol( )...and I takes me forever to get through a bottle. Seriously, when a Coke is 1.75, a beer is 4.00 to 5.00, and wine/mixed drinks are even more than that, why would I support that industry? Remember, this is from someone who clips coupons!

I've been to Pensacola FL many times. I like to go in the shoulder season and mid-week when it's still warm and not too crowded. I may be getting a free ticket on Southwest. Since I have no other vices and I'm cheap, this is the only area where I spend money. I'm looking at their route map and it looks like I could get fairly close to South Padre Island, TX. Not at ALL interested in going when college students are around, so I will pick another quieter time. After all, it's for R & R. Anybody been? Is it nice? Clean, warm water? Good food? What's there to do?

OMG. Out of control! I'll have to apply that to other irritating abbreviations that come my way!

Hey, Lauren, do you speak with a TWANG? I mean, since you moved NORTH....to the SOUTH?

frump

I hate all you guys who live in the East! It is bone dry out here (but then, that means no humidity). We get NO fall foliage, though, if you drive up into the Sierras, you will get some stands of aspen that turn to yellow and orange for a very short "window of time" and, set amidst the Ponderosa pines (evergreen), it is quite nice. Seriously, I love the vegetation you guys have. If we could freeze New England and Eastern Canada to remain in two modes (summer and fall colors), I'd be relocating in a hurry!

RUN

killer tomatoes

Promise.

Pantho, awesome! The complete phrase I learned it in (the second sentence I learned in German): "Der Italianer sind lustig und verruckt."

I can't believe I'm gonna post this... I respect Ocnblu for being Ocnblu What a character! They broke the mold!