Zef:
"That would cut down on STDs, teen pregnancies and abortion, all of which (especially the last one) I'd think conservatives would disapprove.

"I challenge you to find the faults in my logic!"

Logic? With American Conservatives?

There's the flaw. They actually think that giving information on the subjects would make teens more likely to have sex. Maybe they're right, probably not (at least not more than teens already do), but they really don't want to stop STDs or AIDS or pregnancy as much as they just want to stop teen sex.

There's no logic. As best as I can figure,they think "I didn't have sex as a teen, so no one else should!" Where else could a doofy list like the "100 Things" come from otherwise?

I think saying, as the Cons do, that "Teaching sex ed will increase teenage pregnancies and abortion!" is like saying "Teaching driver's ed will cause more car accidents!" A condom's like a seat belt--don't do it without one.

Snard:
Nah, Sod's still in one of the potted plants. And Bambi still looks frightened!
The guy took out a Yahoo ad for *that?*

Note to you and Negs and...prly no one else here.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/...cgi?date=2003-12-18
You either will or won't understand why I've linked to that 3 sentences into the 2nd paragraph. No need to read any further if you don't go "Aha!"
Anyone else get it?

Edited by author 12-19-2003 12:49 AM
Crap! I meant Wakboth, not Zef. I'm a damn dumb American!
AGAIN!!!!

Edited by author 12-19-2003 03:03 PM
Bill:
One other nice side effect of registering/logging in with your nickname (besides the cute star next to your name) is that you can go back and edit (or delete) any of your previous posts. Otherwise, you can only do that for an entry you just made. Okay, that's probably a poor explanation, but there's a link somewhere on the front page which explains this. I just know that if I browse through the thread, I get a set of "Edit" and "Delete" links for all of my posts.

And as to that link.... *PLUNK YOUR MAGIC TWANGER, FROGGY!* Okay, to avoid spoilers, I have made the text between the * characters invisible. Highlight that text and you'll see my magic message.

i don't get it but my cat's name is buster brown.

U$193!!!! dear lord, what, were you going at mach 1? dented the super indestructible shell of some old man in a hat's buick? U$193 is an awful lot of money.. is that usual? suddenly i feel very glad of living in a country where the worst a cop can extort outta you is $50. and the more now i'll start driving soon.

Don't get me started on teen sex. as a 19 yr old virgin with a over decent sex ed, i think that the fact that sex ed is or isn't taught at school isn't as important as heck, good parenting. i don't know how it's there, i've heard a little, but at least here we deal with teenage pregnancy and abortion at an alarming rate. i used to joke that in my neighborhood parents celebrated 1st communion, sweet 16s, wedding and baptism of their offspring/grandkids all at the same time, to save money.

Edited by author 12-20-2003 12:33 AM
Deb:
Byron's nickname was "Buster Brown" for a while. As he busted a lot of stuff.

"Plunk your Magic Twanger, Froggy!" was my sig line for years. I chose it because I had no idea what it meant. It'd been stuck in my head since childhood. Whenever Bullwinkle, MAD magazine or "Not Brand Ecch!" comics had a ref I couldn't figure out, I'd go to my Dad. The only one that ever stumped him was "Plunk your Magic Twanger, Froggy!" Back in those days, there was no internet to instantly find out everything, and we ate the bark off trees to live, as we had yet to invent "cooking."
It was years after I was on the net before I was able to find out where it came from. That link is the first actual picture of Froggy I've seen, albeit in cartoon and not marionette form.

My current sig is "Although his nightmare was a cow, he learned the message of the stars." Where that came from:
http://www.thoughtviper.com/images/new/barkers3.jpg

Zef (and not Wakboth!):

57 in a 35 zone.
I never go faster than 10MPH over the speed limit, as the fine is so low that the cops can't be bothered to pull you over. I wasn't quite awake yet, and after 17 years of living here and driving that road every day, I never knew that it wasn't 40MPH the whole way. I found out that, yes, the cop was sitting right past where it drops from 40 to 35. It was a speed trap.
As to "not being awake," 45 minutes later was when I got really sick with the Thing. Let me add that to my list of symptoms...

It's expensive, but I can easily afford it. Just not the type of thing that you LIKE paying, especially at Xmas when there's bills-a-plenty anyway.

So glad you got the card already, mon ami. (As she peels herself off the floor where she had fallen in a dead faint. I mail that on what is reported to be the single busiest day of the year for the postal service, and it gets there in a timely manner? Color me ten kinds of shocked, albeit pleased.)

I've been forgetting to mention this; it's just a weird form of serendipity, or something. Remember how you said you had wedged open your door with an 8-track of the "Bubbling Brown Sugar" cast album? Well, at the very time you said that, I was in the middle of the biography of Josephine Premice-Fales, one of the stars of that show. Given her relative obscurity--as well as that of the show--I was just struck by the coincidence. Cherry Vanilla, "Ah, the mystery of what makes history!"

"It's expensive, but I can easily afford it. "

Whoa. sign me up to cross da river!

Zef:

I'm that rare FRUGAL American. I saves me my money!
And you spent...How much on Alien figures?!

I'd vote for Jellied Veal Loaf if I thought it had a chance of beating Bush.

"I'd vote for Jellied Veal Loaf if I thought it had a chance of beating Bush."

At the rate things are going, give it another 6 months and it will.

"And you spent...How much on Alien figures?!"

Whoa, whoa. it was credit! no prob! anyway, still, ouch. but everyone's got quirks like that, yes? i mean, road warrior figures have good shipping boxes for kitties or what?

I just saw Return of the King.

I don't wanna spoil it or anything, but...yowza.

WOO! go pygmy HIPPOS GO!