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From what I can tell, the "Bush bounce" following the State of the Union speech consisted of a ten cent hike in the price of gasoline.*daha*

Most painful blinky-gif ever? http://www.lolloholics.com/Pictures/jesuslovesyou6.gif (found at userinfo of sadorange)*daha*

"List 3 things you think I should know about you"Above and beyond my userinfo statment...1. There are some shades of green that look grey to me.2. Just reading your question sends me into a paroxysm of indecision. Question begets questions begets question. Should I assume that you've read my userinfo page and you already know the basics like my age, marital status, location? If I assume you haven't, then I've wasted your questions answering. If I assume you have, and I don't recap, then you're missing out on the things I think you should know about me, like my age, location, marital status.And then there's the word "should". Things I think you -should- know about me. Suddenly I have to test every fact about my being to decide if it is something you should know. If you'd ask me to come up with things that you -need- to know I could have answered, because the answer is nothing, there is nothing that you need to know about me. At least not in the sense that some harm will come to you if I don't tell you. If we were going to meet for sex and if I had hepatitis B, you would need to know that about me. But we aren't and I don't. No problem there. But now look up at my first thing you need to know about me. I am mildly color blind as relates to a few dim shades of green. It seems safe enough. It is true. But there is no need to know involved. There is no should-know involved. Used to be I'd always give my penis size when describing myself. In Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut provided the penis size of all of his characters. As narrator, he was a character in the book himself and provided his own penis size. But the numbers he gave for himself were very unlikely, and I don't think he was being honest.I reported my size honestly, but some people didn't think so. Mainly they were confused because I provided length and circumference, and they confused "around" with "across". They'd say "that's impossible" and I'd feel smug.The numbers I used to give out probably aren't accurate anymore. I've grown fatter, which means the mound of flesh at the base of my penis has grown fatter and less of my penis is available. So I can't even claim to be honest about that if I give the old numbers.But really, my life has been dominated by this inability to have enough information to risk acting. Biggest example: dating. I was afraid to ask anyone out in high school and in college. There were a few attempts, but no successes. Say I was attracted to Girl A. It would be embarrassing or worse to ask her out if she was already going with someone. But I didn't know if she was already going with someone. Other people knew, everybody knew, because everybody else seemed to socialize and share or acquire that kind of information except me. 3. I have trouble being succinct.4. 5.5" long and 5" around.*daha*

I don't do memes but just this once...Is there something you want to know about me? Ask me any sort of question (or three) and I'll probably answer to some extent. I'm setting Screen Comments to All Comments, and I'll repost the questions without the asker's name but with my answer in a separate post.I hardly ever post in here so that means either that no one knows enough about me to ask anything or that I'm a man of mystery and there are things you want to know.*daha*

flea doesn't update her journal daily, but I check it daily just in case. This entry on magic christmas kittens http://buggydoo.blogspot.com/2005/12/santas-magic-kittens-contest-winner.html is one of my favorites and an instant classic.Cute, too!If there are newer entries you'll find them at http://buggydoo.blogspot.comflea also rocks because she and her husband run a sex toy store at http://www.honeysuckleshop.com . I'm a satisfied customer.*daha*

Dramatic photo of what happens when you drive a Honda very quickly into the rear of a large pickup truck without slowing down at all. Not at all what you'd expect. No injuries.http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Dec/20051214News006.asp *daha*

Woot!Just in case there's somebody who reads me who doesn't read http://www.boingboing.net ...1. You'll enjoy reading boingboing. There's even an RSS feed that lj picks up that you can add as a friend. Somewhere, somehow.2. Check out http://www.woot.com They offer one item for sale every day, until it sells out, and it looks like bargain pricing to me. The two items I've seen so far have both been "factory refurbished" which means that they were returned to the vendor for some reason or other then checked out and fixed up or spruced up and are being sold as not-quite-new. Today's item is a 250 gig hard drive for $55, including shipping.*daha*

My wife's family live in Michigan. She spoke with her mother on the phone last weekend. It was her mom's birthday. "What's new?" asked my wife.Her mom told her they had dug a grave on the hill behind the house to bury the dog.The dog is still alive, but they are not confident it will last out the winter. They dug the hole now because the ground will be frozen soon and become too difficult to dig. So when the dog dies, the grave will be ready.*daha*

I live 125 miles west of St. Louis, but I joined stlouis when I thought I met get a job in the city and move there. Today's discussion: http://www.livejournal.com/community/stlouis/483436.html is the practice of requiring kids to tell a joke in order to get halloween candy at your door local or widespread? I've never heard of this before, in 30 years in New Haven, Connecticut, 4 years in Bowling Green and Toledo Ohio, and 5 years in Columbia Missouri.Has anyone ever had to tell a joke to get halloween candy?*daha*

Weight loss surgery is a lot riskier than most people think.Some previous studies of people in their 30s to their 50s the most common ages for obesity surgery found death rates well under 1 percent. But among 35- to 44-year-olds in the Medicare study, more than 5 percent of men and nearly 3 percent of women were dead within a year, and slightly higher rates were seen in patients 45 to 54.http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051019/D8DAQO5O0.html*daha*

He wants to know why his used condom smelled like Fruit Loops. http://www.livejournal.com/community/sextips/6961344.html

We know what disaster relief is supposed to look like. Parachute drops of food for the hungry, water for the thirsty, doctors for the sick and hurt. Is there any doubt that many more people would be alive today if the President hadnt taken the helicopters away and sent them to Iraq? Is there any doubt that many more people would be alive today if the President hadnt taken the emergency medical teams away and sent them to Iraq? Is there any doubt that the many more people would be alive today if the President hadnt taken the Humvees away, and the trucks, and the National Guardsmen to operate them? Where are the tents and the field hospitals and the kitchens for the refugees of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama? Maybe, just maybe, that levee in New Orleans would not have broken if the President hadnt taken the money for strengthening the levees away and sent it to Iraq.There is other blame to go around. The city of New Orleans declared an evacuation, but they didnt actually offer anyone a ride out. If you lived in New Orleans with no car, and no money, how would you evacuate when the order came?Im so mad at the wasted life and the needless suffering. I dont know whether to spit or cry. Ive given some money to the Red Cross. I dont know what else I can do.*daha*

Found on the Best of Craig's List http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/ , so most likely anybody who looks at this journal has already seen it, but anyway...Men, there are just some stories that do not need to be repeated to your wife/girlfriend. Keep them to yourself. Go tell you buddies over a brew. Hell, put them here. Just don't tell them to your significant other.I came home from work the other night and was making the usual "how was your day" chit-chat with my husband. As I was mindlessly chopping zucchini for our dinner, he hits me with the following:"You know how Bugsy (our dog) likes to sits at my feet when I'm on the computer? Well, I was masturbating to some Internet porn, and I came all over the dog. He just laid there looking at me with cum all over his head. It was the funniest damn thing!"I stopped chopping and could only think to reply, "Did you give the dog a bath after that?" Much to my relief the answer was yes.Now I will never look at my husband or the dog the same way. I could have gone my whole life without knowing this little tale. Self-censorship - use it!!

An amazing summer haircut: http://www.livejournal.com/community/creativephoto/1514135.html?#cutid1*daha*

[From http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/7/1/111447/3656 ]Supreme Court: What You Can Do RIGHT NOWby DavidNYCFri Jul 1st, 2005 at 11:20:35 CDTWhatever happens with the Supreme Court nomination battle that is about to ensue, it's going to happen fast. Here are some things you can do right now: * If you have a cell phone, sign up for People at the American Way's Mass Immediate Response site. This way, you'll be able to receive text message action items instantly as events break. (If you signed up during the nuclear option fight, you'll need to re-sign up.) * Also sign up with the Save the Court, another PFAW website devoted specifically to this issue. * Recruit friends and family members to the cause. * Write to the President, telling him he should choose a consensus candidate to replace O'Connor. * Contact your Senators to tell them the same thing.If you have any other action items, please post them in the comments below, with links.Update [2005-7-1 11:33:32 by DavidNYC]: If you have a blog, please post these action items on your site. If you don't, e-mail them to your like-minded buddies and relatives.

Dear Dad,We enjoyed the visit too. Thanks very much for buying clothes for Perry. He is riding the bicycle and playing with the Gameboy every day, so you know he is enjoying them. Thanks also for the groceries. They will help us make it through another month.We are still laughing at the delightful April Fools Day prank you played on us. You know, for a while there we actually thought you were going to buy us a house. You even had the real estate agent fooled. He was kind of disappointed when I called him up to cancel our appointment for yesterday evening. He had arranged four more houses for us to see. Ha ha! The really funny part of it is how you pretended to listen to us on Friday night when we went over our finances with you. You nodded and agreed when we explained that we did not want to try and move into a more expensive apartment. We pointed out that as it is we need a $500-$1000 month subsidy to pay our $450 month rent. We told you we weren't willing to sign a lease in the $800-900 range knowing that we couldn't pay the rent from day one. We also told you that we didn't want to do a temporary move that we would have to repeat in a year. We also told you that we are very tired of having to listen to neighbors through walls, floor, or ceiling, and our goal was to live someplace without a common wall.Wow! You must have been really laughing on the inside when you heard that, but you kept a straight face and kept agreeing with us.And when we told you about Charlene's job prospects, you put on such an understanding air. She told you that she did not think she had passed the Praxis II test necessary for her teaching certificate. She told you that even if she did pass the test the market for new teachers is very tight and there is only a slight chance of her getting hired. She told you that even if she were hired she did not think she would be able to work a job during the day because someone must be with Perry before and after his short school day and he is not welcome at any day care in the state.None of this bothered you. (tee hee! if only we knew! all those years playing bridge and not letting the cards you held show on your face really paid off.) You went ahead with your offer to buy us a house. You said that our income and our debts wouldn't matter because you would take out the mortgage and meet the mortgage payments, the house insurance, and any substantial repairs. You said that you expected us only to pay what we could afford. You said the only important thing was that we needed to work to the maximum of our individual personal capacities, whatever they happened to be.We explained about our credit card debt and our $300 minimum monthly payment. We explained about our massive college loan debt. We pointed out again that the only rational kind of budgeting we could do would be to assume that we would have to live on my income alone. Charlene explained that the third shift factory job she is working now is a temporary job through the agency that contracts to provide temporary labor to 3M and that 3M had already announced they will be moving the work she does there overseas.You stuck to your offer to buy us a house. You wouldn't let any of the problems we laid out to you stand in your way. You hadn't discussed the idea with Susie yet, but her opinion wouldn't matter because she had no veto power over it. After we showed you the trailer homes we thought we could afford, you took us out with the real estate agent to pick out the house that would be just right for us and Perry, in the neighborhood that would be just right for Perry and us. The first house didn't have a good floor plan. The second house was against a hill that would be too steep for Perry to ride his bike up to play with friends. The third house seemed nice enough, but you needed to see more. The fourth house had new tiling in the basement, which was very suspicious. I may be confusing this because I had to drop out of the house tour with a migraine after house #1.But the important thing is that Sunday night, even though it was already April 3rd, you kept the hoax going. We talked about the mechanics of buying the house. We talked about the timing of making an offer, paying earnest money, hiring a lawyer for the closing, having the house inspected, modifying the offer based on the inspection report, etc. Monday morning Charlene and I were discussing what kind of dog we would get when we were finally in a place of our own. Your last conversation with Charlene before you drove back to the airport was about when you could come back to look at whatever house we decided on. Late April would work, or June would work, but May was entirely out, you told her. You waited 24 hours before you e-mailed us to say that your offer was conditional on Charlene passing the Praxis II test. Yes - the same test she had already told you that she believed she had failed. Wow! Wow! Wow! What a zinger! You laid out the bait ... we circled around it warily, trying to cover every possible problem ... we nibbled ... you kept feeding us more line ... then finally you yanked on the hook, pulled us out of the water, and gaffed us! And then, just in case we were still flapping around a little, not entirely dead yet, you told us that the solution was for us to move into an expensive apartment temporarily. The perfect conclusion to the perfect prank!Charlene doesn't quite get the joke though. She wasn't raised as a [our last name] and doesn't enjoy the same humor that we do. She just thinks that this was a cruel way to treat us. I've tried explaining that you always do what is best for us, no matter how hard you have to work to manipulate us into behaving the way you want us to. It is just that sometimes it takes you a while to process the data, and even though we told you on Friday night that we could not depend on Charlene having an income, it didn't occur to you until Tuesday morning that we could not depend on Charlene having an income.So, thanks but no thanks for the offer to move us into an expensive apartment.Thanks for the conditional offer to buy us a house a soon as Charlene passes the test, but we have decided to keep her test results private.We would still like you to release the house money to us so we can buy a mobile home. To repeat from my previous letter, the advantages are:1. We could afford to buy a three bedroom used 16' x 80' mobile home with the $18,000 you say you have set aside for us for house money2. We would be moving into a better neighborhood with a higher average income than where we live now3. We would be moving into a safer neighborhood4. We would be dropping from $450/month rent to $170-210/month rent5. We would be moving into a smaller and better insulated home with significantly lower utility cost6. The annual loss in resale value of the house would be triply offset by the savings above7. There would be no common-wall neighbors8. We could have a dogIf you decide to let us spend the money to buy a mobile home, don't bother saying so, because your word isn't good for much right now. Put your money where your mouth is by sending a check. If it clears the bank we will buy a trailer with it and move in. If not, not. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.-- Edward wrote:Dear Jerry and Charlene,I had a wonderful visit with all three of you. You are both great parents.With Charlene's job status so uncertain this may not be the best time to buya house. Even if I picked up most of the payments so many little expenseswould arise that you would always feel "house poor". Before makingdefinitive decisions we should see how the exam turned out. If she passed wecan go ahead with it on the premise that a job will turn up; if not put iton hold until she passes. If she does not pass, I would be glad to help youpay for an apartment in a better neighborhood without going into the housemoney. Meanwhile continue to look and solidify your ideas, so you can movewhen the time is right. What are your thoughts?Love, DAD

If you've ever had a sexual fantasy about someone on your friends list-- post this exact same sentence in your journal.*daha*