AdamSmith

NYC -- agree with marc times are not what they were. But digging out the twink jewels (!) is half the fun. E.g., DANboy21 and PAUL24 reviewed on this site. LA -- always have good luck despite grumbling on the Other Board about slim pickin's of late. Most recently, besides Ben/LA, had a great evening with this wonderful top: http://www.men4rentnow.com/ds/index.asp?cm...amp;Login=eriss ...this ad has lapsed (contact info blanked out) but another poster says eriss still advertises on Craigslist. Raleigh! OK, Andre and Cody retired. Ethan Evans just moved back to Houston. Carrying the twink banner falls to Trey Thurston pretty much alone. But here's hoping for a resurgence!

Most grateful.

http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/midi/zarathustra.mid

I was thinking of the ones on the posterior side of the perineum. But why choose? Let many flowers bloom!

Present and accounted for. I believe the expression for these pics is along the lines of, "Aiieeee!!!"

Who has? My guess -- marc is alluding to Omar's gather-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may philosophy. (Heightened, again, in FitzGerald's translation.) Without regard to what else may be proximate to said rosebud!

Indeed. Well done. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mrs_Patrick_Campbell Free association (that would be the world!) brings Alice Roosevelt Longworth to mind... "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." "I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches." "I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development."

...and not to omit thanks to his translator FitzGerald, whose Edwardian sensibility highlighted those elements of Khayyam that we like most. Irrelevantly... The moving finger writes and, having writ, Is badly stained with ink, you must admit. -- Richard Armour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armour_(poet) Further... That's my last Duchess painted on the wall. I've scraped, but cannot get her off at all. I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he -- I sat on Joris, the third guy on me! Full fathom five thy father lies. I pushed him. I apologize.

Those who know will never tell.

Remind me to move back home before the big one hits... Miracle on ice: Freezing time to save lives ...The best place in the country for your heart to stop may be Wake County, North Carolina, the first municipality in which EMS paramedics cool cardiac-arrest survivors on the way to the hospital... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19318124/

Exactly. All this 'shocked, shocked' reaction in the press is faintly ridiculous. Anyway, not so hard to understand. As John Glenn famously asked, how would you feel sitting on top of 2000 (highly explosive) subsystems, each built by the lowest bidder?

Yes, yes, yes. The current structure of farm subsidies pours obscene amounts of the nation's wealth into incenting corn overproduction. Slowing down the fructosing of the nation's processed foods, nowhere more evident than in roadside fast-food chains (I love Burger King fries like anyone but sweet slimy burger buns are a travesty on bread), may be one of the biggest benefits of the current rush to support corn-based ethanol production. Which itself is especially absurd since corn cultivation on the high plains depends on -- you guessed it -- vast quantities of petrochemical-based fertilizer.

What about paring down the people themselves? This comes of watching too much of a History Channel piece on Napoleon's withdrawal from Russia. It described how starving soldiers carved slices off the flanks of their live horses to eat. In the minus-30 temps, the horses did not feel it and there was no bleeding as the wounds immediately froze. But your friends would probably feel it if you tried the same thing with your pencils.

You have a way with understatement. Same here. Conceivably he never realized "gay" has an alternate meaning? In the matter of demon rum, Privette follows who I understand to have been one of his idols, the late J. Marse Grant - remember him? Avenging angel and dread editor of The Biblical Recorder. Went up in flames when the state legislature finally allowed liquor by the drink (reversible locally, of course). Kannapolis as H.P. Lovecraft's "Innsmouth"... love it. ...the local paper loves it too:

At least a life that feels longer.

You're dreadful! Please don't change. Do you think...?

Here's one more. Not from the DC Madam's list; rather an instance of how these hijinks predictably extend down into state and local politics. I have known the repugnant gentleman in question for far too long, and am having some of the best schadenfreude I can remember. Double bonus -- he is not only a Republican moralizer/martinet, but also a state-level Baptist big shot. Again, with Stu and Oz, the point is not where he sticks it, but the pleasure of seeing hypocrisy exposed. Ex-legislator in sex scandal KANNAPOLIS - Coy Privette, a retired Baptist pastor, conservative lawmaker and outspoken advocate for Christian groups, was charged Thursday with paying a 32-year-old Salisbury prostitute for sex acts. The 74-year-old Cabarrus County commissioner was arrested at his home in Kannapolis early Thursday. He appeared before a Rowan County magistrate on six misdemeanor charges and was released on a promise to appear in court Aug. 22. He did not return e-mail messages or calls to his cell and home phones, and no one answered the door at his Kannapolis home. Privette, a prominent Republican with a 30-year career, is one of the state's most vocal opponents of alcohol sales and legal gambling. He also serves on the State Baptist Convention of North Carolina and as president of the Christian Action League of North Carolina. ... http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/643454.html ...and to boot, all that trouble for this: http://charlotte.johnlocke.org/blog/?p=1656

...A Farewell to Arms...

"Here, honey, I picked up your Thorazine, Ativan and Miltown refills."

$8000 shower curtains are all well and good. But Kozlowski had nothing on this guy... Ex-Broadcom exec alleged to have sex, drug lair The co-founder of semiconductor maker Broadcom Corp., under scrutiny in a federal stock options probe, was accused seven years ago of building an underground hideaway at his estate to indulge in drugs and sex with prostitutes, according to court documents. In a draft complaint made against Henry T. Nicholas III, a construction crew claimed the billionaire failed to pay them millions of dollars for work performed between 1998 and 2002, and used “manipulation, lies, intimidation, and even death threats†when anyone threatened to quit. The illegal network of tunnels and rooms underneath Nicholas’ Laguna Hills estate was kept secret from his wife and city officials, the documents said. The purpose of one secret room was to allow Nicholas to “indulge his appetite for illegal drugs and sex with prostitutes,†the crew claimed. ... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19853284/

...sneakily turning this into an actual politics thread, I must say I have little taste for John Edwards, but I wish that voting for his wife were a choice: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/...ards/index.html

...hard to predict whether it would be the most popular forum here -- or redundant! (For the record, I approve of strange bedfellows. As frequently as possible.)

If site management will expose THAT button, I'll gladly drop my agitprop for better presentation of the mere Messaging capabilities. Priorities!

The reason TY doesn't want a Politics forum here...

OK, great! The Message function now appears to be implemented and hooked into the UI better than before. (1) I clicked into the Forum without logging in, and saw Barry's post. I then went back to home page, logged in -- and that caused to appear in the main site menu bar a new link, "You have (1) new message". Main site menu bar is the one that starts "Home", "My Membership", "FAQ", etc. I clicked the link "You have (1) new message", and that took me to the Message screen showing Barry's message to me. I replied to it. (2) Second part of this fix -- the Message function is now integrated with, and accessible through, the "My Membership" button in the main site menu bar. This is what lookin speculated should have been the case week before last, but was not then the case. Good work!