Tragic Rabbit
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Well, we can sometimes get them to play, but I mean to the extent where they'll do anything and everything you want them to do.
Wow, who've you been dating? Last time a guy did anything and everything I wanted, I think we were both too young to drink.
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So you saw me standing behind you then?
I knew I felt a clammy hand on my caboose!
You should always ask first, buckaroo.
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the power to turn str8 men.
I think everyone has that power, especially when they're young and cute.
Not many men are too straight to say yes to a little friendly fun. 'Straight' is more a public pose than a 'hard' and fast rule, in my experience.However, I do have an 'ex' who may have the reverse power: the ability to turn men str8.
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Oh, TR, do tell us when you met that perfect person who put you at ease like that.
Why of course, Bart.
It was just now in the bathroom mirror.
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In the same way a perfect person wouldn't remind others of their deficiencies or even possibly know of their own perfection. Cause then they wouldn't be perfect.
Yes, I've always found that to be true.
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Where's super-strength?
Well, like you (or someone) said, it was just a short-list. I love Superman but might love his humility more than his super-strength. I know, I know: he's the Big Blue Boyscout. Does he never get into Lois Lane's pants? How about Jimmy Olsen's?
Batman is very cool but has no superpowers, you know, unless being rich is a superpower.
I think the only ones I'd choose would be optional invisibility, for all the sneaky perving I could do, or, more seriously, the ability to heal. Healing seems like the only really and truly beneficial 'power', no matter what all the various five-color superheroes can do.
I remember Shazzam from comic books but only vaguely. My dad was a fan of all kinds of superheroes, with him I joined the Superman Fan Club, which he'd belonged to since he was about ten years old. My dad still knows the entire secret formula of Johnny Quick!
Anyone else even know who that is? Dad's in his 70s.If time-traveling were an option, I'd really want that one, though.
Flying and such, I do that in dreams and it's not always so nice...is it only me who falls sometimes?
Maybe I need more practice...Kisses....
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Now, Wibby
, you know that's not true. Whenever I find myself short of assholes, I just visit the AD Forums. 
I do love Fox News, though, they are without doubt my favorite news spoof website.
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You'll have to get used to him exploring his sexuality but he may also have too much unsupervised time alone.
God forbid a boy should have too much unsupervised time alone.
Incidentally, I think people can be gay, but not images.
Paranoia will destroy ya...
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If you were an evolved superhero, with advanced genetic mutations and whatnot, what kind of power would you have?
Choose one:
Telekinesis
Induced Radioactivity
Technopathy
Rapid Cell Regeneration
Pyrokinesis
Invisibility
Flight
Dream Manipulation
Clairvoyance
Cryokinesis
Telepathy
Intuitive Aptitude
Enhanced Strength
Phasing
Empathic Mimicry
Persuasion
Enhanced Hearing
Space-Time Manipulation
Healing
Mental Manipulation
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Even though Arthur Clarke was one of my all time favourite authors, and I was very unhappy to hear he'd died: I still thought - gross lack of tact for my feelings aside - that it was damn funny! Yep, very funny, TR! and, wearing a black armband, I voted!
Arthur C Clarke is dead??
TRPS Dude made me write that story, btw.
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Bugs Bunny.
A Rabbit, of course.
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Bingo. I think that controlling personalities are drawn to having power over others and, at the risk of sounding crude, they get off on it.
School authorites, cops, anti-smoking nazis: they all get a rush by imposing their will over others.
Listen, guys, I tried to explain this before about US public schools: principals don't 'have power', unless you consider that teachers 'have power', the two are about equally powerless in the school district scenario.
Yes, cops have actual power on campus and sometimes will exercise it, any sort of local lobby no matter how wacko (like the 'smoking nazis' mentioned) may have, take or be given 'power' to dictate school policy, yes. Given by local voters, btw, not amorphous forces.
What 'power' teachers and on-site admin have is very limited.
The available space for any individual adult (teacher or admin) to act against expectations is highly circumscribed.
Principals are usually appointed by higher admin in the district but even so are subject to approval in their placement and in any and every action by that same school board...and the same upper admin yabbos who put his/her name forward in the first place.
Things happen in schools because of parental or other outside complaints (how 'active' the parents are depends on the sort of district it is), school board rulings, higher political rulings trickling down (yes, like pee), and the generally confused checkers game of administrator movement within the district (they hope it's slowly upward, despite a few side-ways movements).
Stuff happens....well, either because some ruling or decision has been made, often outside the district and school system entirely, or a new directive has come down from the board (who are almost always locally elected people, a fellow debater was elected while we were both still in high school, for example, though they're usually much older).
Now here's one interesting bit--they are all HIGHLY CONSERVATIVE in that, for example, they will often move and make decisions based on what the board has previously indicated is acceptable. In other words, any groove previously worn will tend to attract motion again. Examples would include any reaction to individual student issues-- like this one.
This also applies to many teachers, btw. To protect oneself and almost without thinking, one slides into the nearest familiar groove. Penalizing kids for whatever the current contraband is would definitely fall into that category. Teachers are often heavily pressured to make searches or confiscate items in the current contraband category, even when they personally have no interest in doing so.
Contraband items for any given school at any given time can include obvious items like knives or 'stink bombs', as well as less obvious items like sharp jewelry, candy (sometimes specific types, definitely large quantities of anything for resale on school grounds), anything currently listed as 'gang related' identifiers (can be as simple an item as a blue handkerchief), any item that plays music aloud, any item that can be used to cheat on classwork and tests, stolen items, dead animals, insects....
The list may be long, of both written and understood contraband items plus anything that teacher or his/her department do not allow (example: types of calculators in math dept during testing or anything likely to disrupt a dissection lab).
I'm not defending anyone's actions, I'm trying to explain How Things Work in American public schools from my years of experience.
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He posted it twice.
Either it's a test of our emergency preparedness or he's really, really, really tired. TR -
Young, unsuspecting kids unable to walk from the auditorium to the cafeteria without being peppered with invitations to "Ride the Rainbow". OMG!
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Sweetie-pie. I can assure you that if you bend over to pick up that bar of soap you dropped, there's a whole bunch of people here will galdy do unto you....
You need to pick up the soap, Wibbet, and wash that dirty mind!
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And the Golden Rule mentioned in our AwesomeDude House Rules is 'Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you'
You know I love that rule, Dearest Dude, but FYI--it doesn't work with boyfriends. I mean, I'm always happy to 'do unto others' but somehow the 'doing unto' me rarely happens...
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Please form two lines.
One at my back and one at my front.
Reminds me of an old video I once saw, wherein a talented fellow put his front right around at his back. Rather amazing on several levels and yet...deeply disturbing. Was it you, Des? Or perhaps it was an overachieving divorce attorney.
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Seriously though, good catch there TR.
Ahem, I'm actually more of a pitcher, pet, no matter what you read on the bathroom wall.
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Hmmm....so that's what my future will be like
Yes, the Future is filled with endless threads and posts of humorless jokes, anecdotes and 'amusing tales'.
Be Afraid.
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The Witch trials were very much a Puritan thing and date back to the Inquisition. Under Henry the VIII th, the Catholic Church and the Church of England split around ~1530. The Church of England (now called Anglican or Episcopal) became mainstream and the Puritans were the radical conservatives ....
Ah, no, no, James, James, you've made the classic mistake, but that's okay, it's rooted in ye olde spelling mistayke--to wit, the famous 'trials' in Salem were WATCH TRIALS, not 'witch' trials.
There are no such things as witches, silly, but watches, now, many wars have been fought over the correct time! Puritans were famous clockwatchers but never remembered to wind the things, so were always in the wrong when they'd take someone to court over CLOCKS and WATCHES.
After CoE and Episcopalians became mainstream, adopting Greenwich Mean Tyme and later Daylight Savings, the Puritans and other timeless Fools were left barking and gnawing their fingernails in frustration---resulting in a terrible persecution across NorthEastern America in ye olden days over What Time It Really Was.
Puritans 2, Sane People 8,634,201 at last check.
Pay all that no mind, Cole et al.
To find out the Real Time, just stick your head out the door and read the sundial. Fear not, no more Watch Trials in these enlightened days.
What's good enough for G. Julius Caesar is surely good enough for us!
Unfortunately, fundamnalist christians still haven't learned to spell two centuries on.
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Anyone else even know who that is? Dad's in his 70s.
Maybe I need more practice...
TR, (sometimes) fearful of flying
, you know that's not true. Whenever I find myself short of assholes, I just visit the AD Forums. 
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Either it's a test of our emergency preparedness or he's really, really, really tired.Scan to donate
Should she tell her ex-boyfriend's parent's he was gay
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I thought Dear Abby gave friendly advice, but this is hateful. How will it help anyone to do what DA suggests? Seems so mean, so pointless and, honestly, they aren't going to feel an outsider has any right to comment on a family tragedy. Just seems terribly unfeeling, even for someone to ask if they should--much too confrontational, pointless and selfish. Why is this girl even sticking her oar in, thinking of ranting on about her suspicions? What if the parents are right anyhow and she just hasn't a clue, after all, she's not the guy. She has her own reasons for wanting them to think that but it's in no way helpful or respectful. How old is she? Gah...people.
Gosh, I love my cats.
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