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Touring Tijuana Bathrooms - Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime
Ok, this is probably the only place I'd ever consider sharing this story publicly, and I may get a lot of s*** for it, which I guess would be appropriate, considering the topic: When I was fourteen, I went to Tijuana with a friend. We both lived in Orange County with our parents, but this summer visit to my grandmother's, I took my best friend with me for a shorter visit to Nana's. Nana dropped us off at the McDonald's over by City College one afternoon, and like the little delinquents we were, we hopped onto the trolley and went to Tijuana. Back then, beers were $1, and it didn't matter how old we were--we got in to every bar around (not sure if it is still that way). Unused to such levels of inebriation, we stumbled off to a bathroom at one establishment where a woman was dancing on the bar top. My friend got to the toilet first, and said "Just use the sink!" Well, I weighed all of 100 lbs, but it was still too much for the sink. Crash! I found myself sitting on the sink but on the bathroom floor, jeans around my knees. We were laughing hysterically as we hightailed it out of there. I still feel kinda guilty...;)— February 20, 2010 4:52 p.m.
Which year would you go to if you could travel through time?
I'm fine with the here and now, too. But to answer the question, I'd travel to whatever year in the future that they have firmly and forever resolved, with full cure for, all inflammatory and auto-imune diseases. I'd make a visit to a doctor, then throw a huge and fabulous party with the stock market proceeds I earned on my travels to the future and back. ;)— February 20, 2010 4:39 p.m.
A REAL American Patriot
PS: This concentration of "fortitude" and courage within the testes is kinda old. I'm not suggesting a direct trade, as in "ovarian fortitude," though you might consider that female reproductive organs are factually the more courageous, considering what they have to endure in childbirth... Whatever happened to saying someone had the guts to do something? It took a lot of guts for the Greeks to go into battle--literally--they did oracular studies using the freshly steaming innards of goats to foretell their fate. So, if the augury ever told them they'd lose, would they still charge on? Moot point, because they likely always managed to read victory into the twists and turns of tripe--after all, the horses, and ships, and arms, and men were already assembled. Aries and Athena could not let them down...— February 19, 2010 2:50 p.m.
A REAL American Patriot
"Mr.Stack is NOT one of my heroes. Tim McVeigh and David Koresh are NOT my heroes. They do however possess more testicular fortitude than the Average American sheep does." Relieved to hear you don't think you condone violence Pete, but I thought "BIA" stood for "brother in arms." As in, these guys are your heroes--that is exactly what your blog entry conveys in its little memorial to Stack, so you might want to revise a little--certainly drew out the "wierd" in Ponzi. (But then, I guess a guy who has chosen a handle that represents how enterprising individuals rip off the public doesn't have any more respect for their lives than he does their bank accounts). This issue of "testicular fortitude" is bull. These guys do what they do not because they are courageous but because they are not. They don't have the courage to fight for their beliefs in meaningful ways, for lasting change. Instead, they let their childish egos get the best of them, and respond to everything that irks them by crying and pitching a rage fit, just as they did on the playground. They have no social skills, so the prospect of working through legislation and lobbying is out, as is the prospect of any kind of activism--with the exception of Koresh. No, their egos demanded, beyond whatever their issues were, that they go out in a blazing puff of glory. The last one to ram a light plane into a building was a troubled kid in Oregon, remember? He too had a rambly little manifesto. Sad. Nope, we cannot venerate these fools, just pity their weakness, and inability to cope in life. Not letting the IRS get you down is just a fact of life, a duty, something we all have to bear--unless you want to get busy and do something about it by organizing a taxpayer's group or become a lobbyist--whatever. Back to Koresh's "testicular fortitude": He was the biggest childish ego of the group, worshipping guns and pitching rage fits if a friend bested him in a contest of shooting old tin cans--yes, I know a bit about him and can speak on it. Koresh was also a documented child molester, so maybe you want to rethink your phrase "testicular fortitude." Just because he was able to gather a few sheep more gullible than himself and convince women to let him sleep with their children doesn't mean he was anyone to admire.— February 19, 2010 2:50 p.m.
A REAL American Patriot
Ponzi, your position is also contemptible--really, "more fans" than me? Thanks, I'll remain in peaceful anonymity rather than be famous for selfishly deciding to kill other people just because I wish to leave this life. Who is to say his cause is not just? Uh, I can say it is not just--he tried to MURDER people. And if you look into this crackpot's background, you'll likely find that he was unnaturally obsessed, and would have been driven to homicide and suicide by another, if not this issue. You sit and enjoy daily protection in this, presumably your country of birth, but would deny others that protection. If someone decided his arbitrary little philosophy demanded your death, I'm sure you'd be calling on its forces to protect you, and you wouldn't just lie down and take it. Yes, our system is flawed, and law enforcement and government at all levels have to answer for their own crimes. But you cannot condone murder of innocent people working in a building--what, because you don't like paying property taxes? Get over yourself, and get some morals, a-hole!— February 19, 2010 10:05 a.m.
A REAL American Patriot
"He didn't just talk the talk, he walked the walk and for that, he gets the ultimate respect from me." So let's get this straight: If we have political differences we feel are not being heard, we have a perfect right to take an undetermined number of people with us in the decision to extinguish our own miserable lives? How dare you--someone was potentially killed--a human being. This time, you have gone as far as to show us that you have no respect for either democracy or human life, Pete. No sane person would want you advocating on part of the American taxpayer.— February 19, 2010 2:55 a.m.
Brewskies
re: #1: Pete, have you tried Stone Brewery brews? Tasty stuff. I like to go to the brewery and have a bowl of their cheddar soup, too--food is elsewise no good. Oh yes, that's right. "Elsewise" isn't a word. Neither is "irrelevancy." ;)— February 19, 2010 12:56 a.m.
Sequenom Stock Soars on Fetal Sex Test
re: #5: The kids SurfPup may have fathered are mostly girls, Sallie, Salliemae, Maesallie, Salome, and... Freddie Mac.— February 18, 2010 2:25 p.m.
Jay Allen mentioned E E Cummings and Floundering
e.e. cummings would NOT have misused an apostrophe, nan--you, Madame, have been found out! (Floundered out?) Anyway, very funny and an excellent read, as per usual ;)— February 18, 2010 2:21 p.m.
where is he???...where has Full Flavored Pike gone
Oh, and I'm not sure yet what approach we'll use--strong arm or sweet talk. AG and I will confer at headquarters later, so if you ladies have any specific suggestions about how manipulative... or threatening... or bribing, or confrontational we should be, (or if we should just spy on them, then sneak off to report back) now's the time to share! ;) Potential Cover Story: So we don't APPEAR to be stalkers, we could say that we forgot they worked there (we're older, and could have had a senior moment, so they might buy this), and just stopped by to pick up a pizza to celebrate AG's visit...what a coincidence! ;)— February 18, 2010 12:08 p.m.