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Cheat! Those are great--if only I had known about them earlier, those are the FUNNIEST thing I have seen in a long time!

Clam chowder, snails, shrimp, clams and pesto. If I even smell that stuff I get really sick. Pesto only because I got food poisoning once from it. Oh, and creamed corn, peas and MUSHROOMS. How people can even consider that stuff in their mouth I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER understand. UGH TO MUSHROOMS. :puke I have a very strong aversion to them. Right. The end.

Couldn't they have waited until after Valentine's day to announce this. Geez, I just feel like downing a pint of Hagen Daaz. I'm so depressed now, I can't sleep, I can't do anything. I feel betrayed. Sniff. The American dream is over for me. :headshake

Okay, here's my prank... This goes back to my wild and crazy first year of college. My best friend and now suite mate and I were hanging out with a male friend and were just hanging out and he was talking about how cool it would be to see two girls making out--and Allie and I were like what a total dork. So he leaves and were like, hmmmm. We thought wouldn't it be hi-larious if when he came back into the room we were just randomly making out on my couch. Yes, we thought, it would be funny. So, we sat on my couch just waiting for him to come back. We're like 2 inches away from each other giggling and waiting for the doorknob to jiggle. Of course I was kind of nervous my roommate would come back--that would be weird to explain... So he comes in Allie and I start making out (no tongue). He takes off his hat throws it on the floor and, I kid you not, yells THANK YOU GOD and runs up and down the hall screaming that we were making out. Oddly enough no one really thought anything of it. But it was hilarious and we still laugh about it. Oh my goodness, that was one of the funniest thing ever! His reaction was just priceless!!!!!!

No, there's no topping it. The poor kid was so sick. She totally dosed him to hell on it--I mean it was just sickening. :puke There are very few people I don't like in this world--but she is waaaaay up there on my list. Ick, who does that?

A girl at my school did that to her ex--and he was dumb enough to eat them... She still brag about it. And, she's the one that broke up with him. Moral of the story: don't accept baked goods from people... Ugh, that is just sooooo horrible. I mean, I had no clue that people could be so incredibly psycho. PSYCHO. Whenever I see her I cross to the other side of the sidewalk--just in case crazy became contagious...

Here's an interesting little article curtesy of Yahoo... Texas Saleswoman Faces Trial for Selling Sex Toys Wed Feb 11, 8:22 AM ET By Jon Herskovitz DALLAS (Reuters) - Joanne Webb is a mother of three, a Baptist, a booster of the town of Burleson, Texas, and a former schoolteacher. She also faces trial for being a smut merchant. Webb, 43, was arrested in November by two undercover police officers for selling sexual toys and charged with violating Texas obscenity laws. She could face up to a year in jail and a fine of $4,000 if convicted. Webb is a representative for Passion Parties, a California company marketing potions, lotions and sexual toys sold at gatherings that mimic Tupperware parties. Women over 18 meet in a private home for what the company calls a "girl's night out of giggles and fun," during which products designed to enhance sex lives are sold. It was not a secret in Burleson, a small town near Fort Worth, that Webb sold vibrators, edible creams and racy lingerie. But not everyone was happy about it. According to reports in the local media, police said a few residents, who they declined to identify, lodged complaints. A few prominent citizens with strong Christian beliefs were angered by Webb and her activities and asked police to investigate, local media reported. Two undercover police officers posed as a couple trying to spice up their love life and Webb sold the woman a vibrator. Webb instructed her on its use and explained how it could enhance lovemaking. That's where she got into trouble. Texas law allows for the sale of sexual toys as long as they are billed as novelties, BeAnn Sisemore, a Fort Worth attorney representing Webb, told the Houston Chronicle before a gag order was issued by the judge presiding over the case. But when a person markets sex toys in a direct manner that shows their actual role in sex, then that person is subject to obscenity charges, she told the newspaper. Webb said she turned to Passion Parties to supplement her family's income when her husband's construction business went into a slump. "For women to become self-confident in their sexuality ... that's what I'm in this for," Webb told the Dallas Morning News before the gag order was imposed. She added that because of her arrest, she has found herself in a role she never imagined -- a public advocate for allowing women and couples to make personal decisions about their sex lives. SEX, LIVES AND PASSION PARTIES Police and Johnson County prosecutors declined to discuss the case, even before the gag order was issued. Gloria Gillaspie, a pastor at Lighthouse Church in Burleson, said she has met and counseled some women who had talked to Webb about the products she sold. "It was causing problems with their marriages," she said. Gillaspie said Webb and her family were asked to leave two churches in town. She did not name the churches. "They didn't want to comply with what was really Christian conduct and that is why they were asked to leave those churches," Gillaspie said. But James Brown, a member of the local chamber of commerce and an acquaintance of Webb's, told Reuters: "Most of the people in town support Joanne." Sisemore said she wants to use this case to overturn obscenity laws in Texas and other states. "I will fight this all the way with her," Sisemore told the Houston Chronicle. "This is the first time I have felt that my government has overstepped its boundaries." Sisemore has said she plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Texas obscenity laws, which she said are so vague that they could be used to prosecute anyone who uses or sells condoms designed to provide stimulation for sexual pleasure. Patricia Davis, a 59-year-old grandmother and president of Passion Parties, said: "We are very proud of Joanne Webb. She believes in the mission of the company and she is doing a really nice job of representing us." Passion Parties has been doing booming business. The company racked up $20 million in sales in 2003 and saw 30 months of consecutive growth above the 50 percent mark. The company has representatives in every state and is doing some of its best business in California, New York and the Bible Belt, a section of the United States where Christian beliefs and clergy are influential. "Women are looking for ways to enhance their relationship, enhance their sensuality and they have nowhere to go," Davis said. When women get together at a friend's home to peruse body lotions, shower gels and battery-operated devices the company calls "passion toys," Davis said many are able to overcome embarrassment and talk openly about sex. "We are doing a lot to help women, to help couples and to help families," Davis said.

But when he heard this, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

I was expecting it Jim...But you forgot the prime draw of Tennents for a poor College kid studying abroad: it's cheap. I did, of course, sample many fine, fine, fine brews from all over Scotland, from the Outer Hebrides to fine Aberdeen to the borders to the lighthouses up north. But Tennents was always just right for my struggling pocketbook. So, that's mostly why I drank a fair amount of the Tennents...But anyway, to decent cheap beer, good beer, and to nice boyfriends who'll cart stuff half way across the world for you !

I always spend Valentine's Day with my single friends--it's just a tradition. So, this year we're all getting together having pizza, wine and watching 8 Mile. But Friday night the Boy and I are probably going to have dinner and just enjoy each other's company (we're both broke so nothing big), drink some wine, and then we're going out to Lunch on Valentine's Day. So, it should be nice and lowkey. No gifts except he brought me back my favorite beer from when he was in Scotland last month. Nothing says love like a pint of Tennents. Sigh....

Hope all goes well Tex--it won't be the same without you here....

It's true--there was an article in the Trib not too long ago. My dad was actually interviewed for it. I actually never drink tap water without a filter--we've always had a filter or buy bottled water. My hometown has a huge problem with radon in the water and other nonsense--so we just never drank it. Even now I don't trust it.

I'm a lucid dreamer too. I enjoy it--and it comes in handy because I have nightmares a lot. I frequently have dreams where I think to myself, man this is boring what if I...So, it's kind of fun. One time when my lucid dreaming was not so fun was I had a dream where my roommate was trying to kill me (scary--we have our beds bunked) and I was thinking this is a dream wake yourself up! So, I was like, okay, wake up wake up--tell her to stop, tell her to stop. So, I woke myself up screaming this horrible blood curdling scream--but it wasn't just a scream it was her name. So I screamed Kate in just terror. She woke up and the girls that share a bathroom with us came running in too. But I wasn't too upset because the whole time I had known it was a dream--so it makes even having nightmares not that bad--so I'm glad to be a lucid dreamer.

Well, just spoil all my fun then.

I agree--if you want a ring, then get a ring. If you don't go on a vacation instead. I don't think it's a big deal. If you don't want to give a ring date a girl that doesn't want one. Most people don't think it's a big deal. And most of the guys I've dated really don't mind that I would never want an engagement ring. Although a few of my female friends have suggested therapy for not wanting one.

Yep, but I'm the only one of my friends that doesn't want an engagement rings--they all think I'm nuts and that there isn't enough wrong with the African diamond trade to merit a boycott. Soooo, I can stick to my crazy thoughts without seriously taking away from anyone's livelihood. Fortunately we aren't all crazy leftists though--that would make for a very unromantic and harsh world.

Happy birthday!

Actually, I don't mind wedding bands--I think they're nice since both people wear them. My problem with engagement rings is that only the woman wears them. I just don't like the idea that there's no way to show an equal sign of love as an engagement ring. Plus, I am pretty opposed to the African diamond trade--but for the most part I just wouldn't want someone to spend that kind of cash on me. I guess it just feels like a dowry and I think (at least to me) those days are over. I'd wear a wedding band with my husband because I think that's a beautiful symbol of unity even when apart. But I don't need or want an engagement ring...

I'll look into that....Nothing says love like sitting behind home plate.

That's dumb. Why can't I buy people's love too? What if I bought my guy season's pass instead of an engagement ring?

So, if I love a man and I want to marry him before he asks me should I buy HIM a diamond ring and make him wear it because it isn't all about me? I'm not saying this to be rude--but just to make the relationship not about me, and what if I am completely and totally devoted and committed to the relationship and the person?

You'd think so.

You're right. I HATE engagement rings. Every guy I have ever dated has seen me cringe when I get shown them from friends. What a waste of cash. Blech. And the blood that goes into the diamond trade. No way. Plus you've got the whole "marking your property" issue. I don't know why I've got such a strong aversion to engagement rings specifically, but I'm with Crimson on this...

Here's my list that I never get tired of: Nirvana: Nevermind Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes Vertical Horizan: Running on Ice The Beatles: Sgt Peppes especially--but I like all of it My Aaron Copland Cd of Western Songs Allison Krauss and Union Station: Everytime you Say Goodbye Eva Cassidy: Songbird Outkast: Speakerboxx/Love Below The Dixie Chicks: Home And I like Earl Scruggs, too--no particular cd--anything with a banjo. Go ahead laugh.... Oasis: Morning Glory (I know, I know...) And my ULTIMATE guilty pleasure cd: Mariah Carey: Daydream. Teehee, I've disgusted even myself. :headshake

Tastes just like what I remember a hamburger--it's soy protein (yum!), and you can get them in a smokey flavor. My parents and friends tease the hell out of me--but I can't live without the dang things. Oh--but soy chicken nuggets are the best...