Stu Cotts Defends TSA

[Lucky]

Stu Cotts wanted less bleak topics discussed here, so what better to do than find one by a Stu Cotts?

Posted by: Stu Cotts | Aug 23, 2006 5:16:47 PM

Being a former TSA Officer I challenge everyone to step into the shoes of a TSA Officer and view those images. I'll bet eveen the best of you WILL FAIL!!! The TIPS images are a training tool developed to assist the officer in identifiying images to make them more proficient not to be perfect. The media is so quick to put blame on someboby, why don't you try praising the TSA Officers for a change. If it is so easy why don't YOU apply and see how easy it really is! I started with the agency from the begining and I will tell you this, not even the Federal Security Directors, the senior leadership of TSA nor the contractors who developed the system can get all the images, matter of fact they fail more than not. The one those TSA Officers do not need is the media always ragging them on the job they are doing. Why don't you, the media, pick on someone like let's say the oil companies for price gouging!

[Guest StuCotts]

Stu Cotts wanted less bleak topics discussed here, so what better to do than find one by a Stu Cotts?

Posted by: Stu Cotts | Aug 23, 2006 5:16:47 PM

Being a former TSA Officer I challenge everyone to step into the shoes of a TSA Officer and view those images. I'll bet eveen the best of you WILL FAIL!!! The TIPS images are a training tool developed to assist the officer in identifiying images to make them more proficient not to be perfect. The media is so quick to put blame on someboby, why don't you try praising the TSA Officers for a change. If it is so easy why don't YOU apply and see how easy it really is! I started with the agency from the begining and I will tell you this, not even the Federal Security Directors, the senior leadership of TSA nor the contractors who developed the system can get all the images, matter of fact they fail more than not. The one those TSA Officers do not need is the media always ragging them on the job they are doing. Why don't you, the media, pick on someone like let's say the oil companies for price gouging!

1. I never worked for TSA and don't know what it is.

2. You didn't get that post from this site because these boards detail only the hour and the minute of posts, not the second.

3. I don't post on any other site.

I get the picture. You're miffed with me. No reason to pull this fiction out of your ass. There must be plenty of posts that are actually mine that you could get bent out of shape over.

[TownsendPLocke]

I am thinking Lucky meant no harm by this-just his"dry"(at times odd)sense of humor.

BTW-I really think the whole TSA problem is because of the folks drawn to this kind of work(and I am thinking more of the top tier folks rather than the line workers)But I am just amazed at some of the shenanigans that happen when you give a person with no real power a badge and the authority to yell at defensless citizens.

[MsGuy]

Lucky, most people have a distinct writing style. To me this just doesn't read like something our StuCotts would have written.

I've commented on your odd sense of humor before. Afraid I'm inclined to agree with StuCotts that you must be up to your old tricks.

Would it spoil the joke if you were to post a link to the quote sub judice?

[RA1]

I am thinking Lucky meant no harm by this-just his"dry"(at times odd)sense of humor.

BTW-I really think the whole TSA problem is because of the folks drawn to this kind of work(and I am thinking more of the top tier folks rather than the line workers)But I am just amazed at some of the shenanigans that happen when you give a person with no real power a badge and the authority to yell at defensless citizens.

Now you know why we call them Burger King rejects.

Best regards,

RA1

[MsGuy]

Lucky, I just read the last posts on the Gay Gen Gap thread. Still think you're odd as hell but now I get the joke at least. You hone a mean edge on that sense of humor, don't ya.

[Lucky]

Is Stu in a stew? Well, he can lay the blame at his own feet. Here's what he said:

"I enjoin anybody who has in mind a frivolous topic for a thread to activate it."

So I did. A thread by "a" Stu Cotts, not this one, seemed pretty frivolous to me. Read it in tandem with the other frivolous thread about "a" totallyoz on twitter.

Nothing mean about it when I just took up his own suggestion. How was I to know he had no sense of humor?

[MsGuy]

"A thread by "a" Stu Cotts, not this one, seemed pretty frivolous to me. Read it in tandem with the other frivolous thread about "a" totallyoz on twitter."

As I said, once I had read the other threads, I understood the game.

"Nothing mean about it when I just took up his own suggestion."

'Honing a mean edge' is a pun. Read rightly, one could take it as a compliment. On rare occasions, I've been known to hone my own humor to a mean edge.

"How was I to know he had no sense of humor?"

In the immortal words of Ronnie Raygun "There you go again!"

or

Ummm, and how many years have you two been posting on these fora?

or

Who? You mean innocent ole me?

[Lucky]

Stu (the real one) suggests above that I am miffed at him. I am not. I thought he would get a kick out of my taking his enjoinment seriously but light-heartedly. Since he didn't, I hope he is not miffed at me. It was all meant to be in good fun. We have to remind ourselves not to take these boards too seriously. It's just a group of guys trying to have some good times. We tease, we prod, we provoke, and everybody gets their say. In the end, some nice camaraderie develops. I think...

[MsGuy]

We have to remind ourselves not to take these boards too seriously. It's just a group of guys trying to have some good times. We tease, we prod, we provoke, and everybody gets their say. In the end, some nice camaraderie develops.

Couldn't agree more. Post over here more often. You're odd but you're fun. IMHO, you fill a unique niche in the two boards' ecosystem.

[Guest StuCotts]

How was I to know he had no sense of humor?

You mean compared to yours? Things could be worse.

[Guest StuCotts]

Couldn't agree more. Post over here more often. You're odd but you're fun. IMHO, you fill a unique niche in the two boards' ecosystem.

Thanks for the temperate attitude. You save me from displaying my own intemperance, which would just add to my reputation, in at least some quarters, for humorlessness.

[MsGuy]

StuCotts:

It's odd how two essentially similar enviroments can bring out different aspects of one's personality. Over here my gut instinct is to damp down acrimony. Over there I'm only too happy to watch the foodfights and even find myself stirring the shit occasionally when things get dull. It's not a conscious thing at all; I just react differently depending on which board I'm on. I guess what I'm trying to say is don't thank me for a "temperate attitude." Thank TY and OZ for the tone they've nurtured over here.

As for Lucky, I hate to sound like a nanny but if you don't like him teasing you, don't react to his teasing. Tweaking the lion's tail is built into his dna. Much as he obviously loves posting, I've seen him keep teasing Daddy when he knows the guy is grumped out and has one finger quivering over the banned button. The trick with Lucky is to either enjoy him or ignore him. Get pissed and you might as well just rub catnip all over and get ready to get played with.

[Lucky]

God knows I ignore him. Damn fool thinks that some lighthearted stuff can have a go over here. Doesn't he know that this is the serious board? By God, next thing he'll be posting pix of twinks, for chrissakes.

[MsGuy]

I thought I'd done a fair to middling job of tweaking your tail in my last post but durn if you didn't find a way to top me. That catnip I dabbed behind my ears must be working!

P.S. Twink pixs? Have you been holding out on us?

P.P.S. How come there's no emoticon for "drool"? TY needs to get his act together.

[Lucky]

I feel bad for Stu in that he didn't appreciate this thread but it seems to keep on churning. Don't worry about Daddy, btw, he has a great sense of humor and can give a big bellylaugh when his chain is being pulled.

I'll make this my last post on this thread so we can move on. I do have boxes of pix of guys, many Asian, but I have never scanned them into the computer. If I can ever get away from posting long enough, maybe I will do that...

[AdamSmith]

durn if you didn't find a way to top me. That catnip I dabbed behind my ears must be working!

So that's what turns Lucky on.

Details of who did what to whom are of course always welcome.

P.P.S. How come there's no emoticon for "drool"? TY needs to get his act together.

See also:

USEFUL INTERNET EMOTICONS

Happy person

Sad person

:-) Happy person with a nose

:-( Sad person with a nose

:---( Person who is sad because he or she has a large nose

Person who is sad because he or she has a large fish for a nose

:-D Person laughing

:-D* Person laughing so hard that he or she does not notice that a 5-legged spider is hanging from his or her lip

:-| Person unsure of which long-distance company to choose

>8-O-(&) Person just realizing that he or she has a tapeworm

;-) Person winking

.-) Person who can still smile despite losing an eyeball

:-0WW Person vomiting a series of Slim Jims

:-Q Person who just had cybersex and is now enjoying a post-coital cybercigarette

>:-Q -... Person who was enjoying a post-coital cigarette until he suddenly noticed, to his alarm, that there is some kind of discharge dribbling from his cybermember

:-{8 Person who is unhappy with the results of her breast-enlargement surgery

:V:-| Person who cannot figure out why nobody wants to talk to him or her, little suspecting that there is an alligator on his or her head

~oE]:-| Fisherperson heading for market with a basket on his or her head containing a three-legged octopus that is giving off smell rays

>:-[ -{9 Person who is none too pleased to be giving birth to a squirrel

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/davebarry/emoticon.html

[Guest StuCotts]

Mountains have gone into labor to produce a mouse, and all because I've always thought that it should be possible to be clever without also being offensive. Go figure.

[AdamSmith]

my reputation, in at least some quarters, for humorlessness.

One meant to say:

You are the funniest thing for miles around. No one is fooled just because, like Chaplin, you never smile.

[MsGuy]

"Details of who did what to whom are of course always welcome. "

This from the guy who's still sitting on his promised tell-all report on his three-day with Andre?

:- )__ [drool]

[AdamSmith]

This from the guy who's still sitting on his promised tell-all report on his three-day with Andre?

:- )__ [drool]

Touche. Herewith some highlights:

The 60 hrs together were enough to unstring a brass monkey. I took the train from

Boston to NYC Tuesday late afternoon; Andre was scheduled to fly into LaGuardia at 6:30 pm. But with endless weather delays and canceled flights out of RDU, he finally made it into Newark airport at midnight. Another half hour by cab into the city.

Then time began.

We had talked of going out clubbing. But when he walked in the door, within ten minutes we were all over each other. That lasted about an hour. He fucked me in positions I had not known were possible. At one point, I was lying on my back; he was lying on his stomach, facing away from me, so that I am staring into his ass; and his cock was under him, pointing backward, buried deep up in my ass.

Et cetera. After that we did go out clubbing, the city being open until 3:00 am. At Splash, until it closed. Then back to hotel, a bit of room-service revival of spirits, and cock-sucking until sunrise.

Wednesday, I took us to lunch at Fred's, the restaurant in Barney's, in hopes of more celebrity sightings. But sleeping off the previous night, we did not get to Fred's until past 3:00 pm, by which time the lunch crowd was gone.

Celebrities in general did abound, though. For one, Fergie was staying at our hotel (The London).

For another, Wednesday night we saw the production of "Our Town" running at the Barrow Street Theatre. Superb. Very well under-acted, understated; none of the usual ham and sentimentality that infects so many stagings of that play. And we were sitting two seats away from Joan Rivers -- Andre brought his camera, and I took a pic of him with his arm around Joan. It was interesting to watch her fiddle with her huge ring and a rhinestone bracelet throughout the play; like so many in her biz, she is never unaware of Being Joan.

Thursday afternoon we hired Andy from ChelseaGuys, whom I had seen twice before. But it did not click. He seemed to like both of us, but I think he found the threesome situation uncomfortable. Live and learn.

But the sex between Andre and me, before and after Andy, more than made up for it.

Thursday evening we went to "Coraline." But about 25 minutes into it, we decided to leave. Andre was generous, saying we just weren't in the mood for that play, that night. I was a bit harsher; I thought it doddered along to no real purpose. Andre thought it would probably have grown on us, had we been in the mood to sit through all of it.

So we went out clubbing again, meeting up with another beautiful young escort we had recently seen together in another city, who was in NYC off-the-clock on vacation (so will go unnamed here).

And at one of the clubs we ran into Trey Thurston, shirtless & looking fab as always. I took his address & number but we did not end up seeing him.

After 3 days, fucking 3 times/day on average, Andre & I said au revoir. He off to LGA, I to Penn Station to catch a train home to Boston. Next time!