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I thought my electronic fart machine was fancy with 5 different sounds. But this online version has 91! http://www.ebaumsworld.com/soundboards/play/658/ The names for the various sounds are likewise a hoot. So to speak.

The entire household staff, I would think. Especially the footmen. Ah, to have been an Edwardian!

That is what the nanny is for, my love. (And I promise not to molest him too much. )

Agree too. Thank goodness this movement is finally beginning to win acceptance. U.S. medical practice still has a hard time even bringing itself to medicate sufficiently for terminal pain.

So long as you promise to take me along. I can pose as your manservant. (Your 'gentleman's gentleman.' ) After all you know what will happen if you leave me home alone.

Hmm! ...wonder if a tick or flea that ingested supernatural blood would become a were-tick, or a vampire flea? And could they then pass it on? If so, all those flies buzzing Barnabas and Maggie on the Dark Shadows set would have posed quite a public menace.

Assuming you meant "get humped all the time" -- well, I for one am not quite dead yet. At least until they get tired of having less sex, and start sneaking out on the prowl. As I did.

Aha -- As I have long suspected! Always flitting off to black-site countries that he doesn't name. Excuses of censored & policed Internet there. The innocent-seeming N.C. home base. Now, luring us to funny URLs ... Our hitoallusa is a double agent! How exotic.

A new expression for our favorite pastime

In high school I was a journalism rat. (Surprise.) Tradition was for the upcoming kids who were going to run the newspaper the following year as seniors (that was us) to put together the April Fool's edition in their junior year. Our edition hit the mark, I still think, by being sufficiently (1) personally insulting, by name, to assorted asshat teachers and, indeed, the principal himself -- of course presented as "satire" on "public" figures; ah, what you could get away with in those blessed '70s, (2) absurdist in the Python/Firesign/Goon Show mode, and (3) overflowing with toilet humor. I thought that last aspect was really more self-indulgent than funny, until the next year when I walked into a college-application-prep meeting with the school's spinsterish, normally veddy proper guidance counselor. She was glancing through the new April Fool's issue just published by our successors-to-be, and nearly made me faint with the remark, "You know, yours was a lot funnier. You really need to teach these kids about scat."

If you have to ask... Tsk, tsk!

Since you ask... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071202165255AAGufF9

LOL Gross!

P.S. So I see that NYC restaurant The Meatball Shop opened a downstairs bar called, of course, Underballs.

Update... Daniel Radcliffe Talks Gay Sex Scene In 'Kill Your Darlings'The Huffington Post | By Christopher Rudolph Posted: 05/19/2013 11:10 am EDT In "Kill your Darlings," slated for release later this year, Daniel Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg, who befriends writers William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac while in college. The "Harry Potter" veteran, 23, didn't shy away from exploring his character's bisexual side in the movie, which is based on a true story of a murder that entangles the three writers. On next week's episode of "The Graham Norton Show," Radcliffe reveals how director John Krokidas gave him "step-by-step instructions," including kissing critiques, before the controversial gay sex scenes were shot. “I was doing a gay sex scene and the director was giving step-by-step instructions," Radcliffe toward Norton, as quoted by Pink News. "And the favorite note I have ever had was when we were kissing and the director shouted, ‘Not like that. Crazy sex kissing!’" "The Graham Norton Show" airs stateside on BBC America Thursdays at 10. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/19/daniel-radcliffe-gay-sex-scene_n_3294202.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Quotes by Julia... “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.” ― Julia Child “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” ― Julia Child “If you're afraid of butter, use cream.” ― Julia Child “Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” ― Julia Child “You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” ― Julia Child “This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “I think every woman should have a blowtorch.” ― Julia Child “Life itself is the proper binge.” ― Julia Child “How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?” ― Julia Child “...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “Everything in moderation... including moderation.” ― Julia Child “Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.” ― Julia Child “You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.” ― Julia Child “Fat gives things flavor.” ― Julia Child “It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.” ― Julia Child “...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.” ― Julia Child “Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.” ― Julia Child “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate” ― Julia Child “Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again” ― Julia Child, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking “One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which caused me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' thought. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.” ― Julia Child “Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simple or luxurious. Then you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.” ― Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking “But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life” ― Julia Child “I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.” ― Julia Child “She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous. ” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “...small helpings, no seconds, no snacking, and a little bit of everything.” ― Julia Child “Bon A Petiet" -Julia Child” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “We ate the lunch with painful politeness and avoided discussing its taste. I made sure not to apologize for it. This was a rule of mine. I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is vile,...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile- and learn from her mistakes.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. When one's hostess starts in with self-deprecations such as "Oh, I don't know how to cook...," or "Poor little me...," or "This may taste awful...," it is so dreadful to have to reassure her that everything is delicious and fine, whether it is or not. Besides, such admissions only draw attention to one's shortcomings (or self-perceived shortcomings), and make the other person think, "Yes, you're right, this really is an awful meal!" Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed -- eh bien, tant pis! Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, as my ersatz eggs Florentine surely were, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile -- and learn from her mistakes.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.” ― Julia Child “We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.” ― Julia Child “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” ― Julia Child “A party without cake is just a meeting” ― Julia Child “The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.” ― Julia Child, Particular Passions Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times “I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.” ― Julia Child “...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough. ” ― Julia Child “To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.” ― Julia Child, PARTICULAR PASSIONS P “You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.” ― Julia Child, PARTICULAR PASSIONS P “If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.” ― Julia Child, Particular Passions Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times “Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “Standing up through the Citroen's open sunroof, my six-foot-three-inch, red-cheeked sister pointed a long, trembling finger at the perpetrator and with maximum indignation yelled: 'Ce merde-monsieur a justement crache dans ma derriere!' Her intended meaning is obvious, but what she said was, 'This shit-man just spat out into my butt!” ― Julia Child, My Life in France “I had a lack of confidence, which caused me to back down from forcefully stated positions; an i was overly emotional at the expense of careful, "scientific" thought. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was” ― Julia Child http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3465.Julia_Child?page=2

P.S. Terminology... Trekkie vs. Trekker Trekkie is "frequently depreciative",%5B44%5D thus, "not an acceptable term to serious fans",%5B45%5D who prefer Trekker. The distinction existed as early as May 1970, when the editor of fanzine Deck 6 wrote: ...when I start acting like a bubble-headed trekkie (rather than a sober, dignified—albeit enthusiastic—trekker).%5B2%5D:4%5B46%5D By 1976, media reports on Star Trek conventions acknowledged the two types of fans:%5B47%5D One Trekkie came by and felt compelled to explain, while paying for his Mr. Spock computer image, that he was actually a Trekker (a rational fan). Whereas, he said, a Trekkie worships anything connected with Star Trek and would sell his or her mother for a pair of Spock ears.%5B28%5D In the 1991 TV show Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special, Leonard Nimoy attempted to settle the issue by stating that the term 'Trekker' is the preferred term; during an appearance on Saturday Night Live to promote the 2009 Star Trek film, Nimoy—seeking to assure Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, the "new" Kirk and Spock, that most fans would embrace them—initially referred to "Trekkies" before correcting himself and saying "Trekkers", emphasizing the second syllable.%5B48%5D In the documentary Trekkies, Kate Mulgrew stated that Trekkers are the ones "walking with us" while the Trekkies are the ones content to simply sit and watch Star Trek. According to Stewart, the actors dislike being called Trekkies and are careful to distinguish between themselves and the Trekkie audience.%5B49%5D The issue is also shown in the film Trekkies 2, in which a Star Trek fan recounts a supposed incident during a Star Trek convention where Gene Roddenberry used the term "trekkies" to describe fans of the show, only to be corrected by a fan that stood up and yelled "Trekkers!" Gene Roddenberry allegedly responded with "No, it's 'Trekkies.' I should know — I invented the thing." Other fans[who?] have recounted a tale that the term "Trekkies" was the original term that was adopted with the first Star Trek convention in 1972. However, by the second convention so many people had "jumped on the bandwagon" that the fans present at the second convention adopted the term "Trekkers" in order to distinguish themselves as the true fans, versus the fad fans who continued to use the term "Trekkies"[citation needed]. Another theory on the Trekkie vs. Trekker is that the term "Trekkie" is reserved for fans of the original Star Trek cast only (show and movies), whereas "Trekker" is a fan of all Star Trek fandom[citation needed]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekkie#Trekkie_vs._Trekker

The new link works. Several propositions come to mind. As the site is copyright 2007, by now he must look all of 24 years old!

A galaxy of choices: http://uss-marathon.bluefirestorm.net/index.php?page=database&entry=92

But then they, by definition, are not the problem. Grateful to TY for expending the effort to articulate -- yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more -- the principles here. For what good it may do. Hope, per RA1, springs eternal.

Yum! And those others don't come with Victoria attached.

Friends in Cambridge said she loved pulling out that SNL tape and playing it for guests after dinner at her house. She thought it was hilarious.

Her memoir My Life in France is a delight. You can just hear her voice on every page. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/books/review/08grim.html?_r=0