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This is mostly a garbage post.. It's really un-related to crohns, just some things I felt, saw, experienced that made me either go.. Hunh, or What, or Aaargg about.

For instance, in driving by a health spa yesterday, their billboard advertised their latest special... almost made me lose control of my vehicle.. Glad I was driving my car at the time, and not a bus load of kids. Anyway, they advertised a special on a 'chest Brazilian wax'.. now, I'm no expert, never had anything waxed, never felt the need to ... and I've no desire to experiment. I don't even know how the gals work up the courage to do this... like, closest I've come is removing the damned tape that hospitals use for IV's and the like on my hairy arms. thanks but a BIG no thanks to having mass quantities of body hair removed from me elsewheres; ESP. not it 'sensitive' spots. Anyway, (and maybe I'm reading that sign wrong) but I'm thinking that... well, Ladies, IF you require a Brazilian all the way up to your chest; then maybe the battle is lost. Maybe 'family' tree has a way different meaning in this particular case.. Or, maybe... the intended target of this sign is for males who want to remove chest hair? I dunno. totally beyond my experiences. I guess some men might want to do this... Like, I can see professional body builders doing it for competitions, or perhaps male athletes like swimmers... but your typical, average straight male? Somehow, I dont' think so... unless theres a woman in the picture who doesnt' appreciate male chest hair. some do, others don't, to each their own. But a wax job as the solution? Regardless of gender N circumstances, it just don't sound right. Like, I can see a woman waxing her legs, just to avoid the cost of replacing pantyhose or tights... as for other parts, that's a personal call... but a Brazlian chest wax? What's the rational behind that? Anyone care to fill me in? Anyone care to express a preference with regard to chest hair (on men)?

The 28th of April is designated the Intl. Day of Mourning for those who've lost their life or been severely injured on the job. Apparently this is the 12th or so anniversary of it's founding.. and is now .. (celebrated is the wrong term) so I guess I'll go with 'observed' in over 140 countries around the world. Anyway, the thing that made me go 'what?!?' about it is the sheer numbers.. If these numbers are correct (and lets assume they are) then more people are killed on the job than typically die while serving their countries fighting in places like Afghanistan, etc.. I find that sooo incredible. I am not suggesting that the contribution of our fighting men/women be... well, diminished (tho I pray their losses are)... it just stuns me that the workplace is still so hazardous (by comparison) in this, the 21st century. What gives with that? Anyone ever realize that going to work was more hazardous (at least statistically) than volunteering to fight overseas? There is something wrong with this picture...

And, last.. but not least... least as far as I'm concerned. but today, in Canada, at midnite, is the 'legislated' deadline for filing personal income taxes. I havent' filed mine yet... plan was to do it today. Normally, pre illness, I filed ASAP as I typically a.) wanted it done N out of the way/off my mind. AND b.) expected to recieve a fairly hefty tax refund. Wellll, post illness, I've often procrastinated, as it is painful to tally up and see how little I've earned (oh, how the mighty have fallen)... and, having earned so little, there is little or nothing in the way of any refund to look forward to. so, the game plan was to file sometime today. Then I catch the news broadcast... Seems there are big problems with filing online (being a computer geek, my choice of methods).. problems with our Revenue Canada online filing system.. so much so, that the deadline has been extended till next week.. And that, if trying to file online... the wait times are approx 3 hrs or more, if one can get in at all. I 'felt/knew' something else was going to go awry... another reason I procrastinated was waiting for my fav. tax prep s/w to go on sale... It usually is advertised at $30 at the start of tax season, then drops by about 33% near the middle... And waiting not only pays off in dollars, but any last minute changes, updates, improvements, alterations.. these can be loaded in up to the minute from their website.. Anyway, this year, despite scanning the ads from all the geek stores, and business/office suppliers, etc., it NEVER showed up... Now I know why. It was bought out by a competitor, and is no longer available.. And the competitor.. their similar priced product has WAY less features... to get the same level of features, you have to bump up to a version of their premium product... just one below their small business product or their multi pack product for people who prepare tax returns as part of their business
THAT SUCKS! Anyway, for any of my fellow canucks who are pinching pennies & haven't filed yet... there is a freebie service if your income is below $20,000 CDN$ Hmmm, I wonder what our ancestors would think of this.. that income tax that was implemented as a short term way to pay off the cost of WW 1 is still going strong? That'll teach us to trust the word of damned politicians!!

OK, folks... there it is.. a posting of garbage, ranging from the purely sublime to the ridiculous, and ending on the pathetic; perhaps even tragic, taxation issue. Please feel free to comment, criticize, opine or condemn, any or all of it, okay?
 
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lol kev, i completely agree about the waxing, memories of compulsory pre-op shaving, itching, and hairs pulled out by the roots when surgical tape gets removed are quite clear enough to keep me away from volunteering myself for any further follicle extraction. (i use other ways - less painful :) ). i would imagine that the chest brazilian is referring to males (unless there are some unfortunately hairy women where you live).

i dont like the current trend for men's bodies to be hairless - i think it reduces their maturity and masculinity, visually.

and yes, it is quite astounding that work-related deaths number more than war-related ones! this is a pretty huge statistic to accept, considering the amount of war casualties in the past, and currently, across the world.

great thread! its good to have a place for non-crohns-moans. :D
 
Well, it's... 'sneaky', even 'underhanded' the way that trends insinuate, or even are deliberately insinuated, into our culture. The whole waxing thing. Was a time it was mostly a 'Western' (and not as in the Wild, wild west of old) but a US driven thing... probably a marketing thing by the creators of 'womens' shaving devices, a device traditionally just a male market item.. But, if it could be surreptiously foisted on the female of the species, then they double their market. I recall, in my younger days, of seeing photos of 'european' women who hadn't bought into the practice. Something about it was ... attractive, or 'earthy'.. Seems those days are long gone. Now, it's just gone to extremes. I overheard some waitresses talking about their waxing experiences at a bar. It simply amazed me at the pain these women were subjecting themselves to, at the expense they were willing to pay for the privilege... I just can't fathom it. It is like adding insult to injury. And, I'm not targeting women. Our 'customs' or 'social morays' are deliberately being manipulated; for somebodys or someones profits... at our expense. I don't like being manipulated. I don't like the idea of someone pulling invisible strings... even if its' string bikinis. We aren't born to be puppets. And, altho some may think I'm making mountains out of molehills, I see stuff like this as just the tip of the iceberg. For instance... this afternoon (I had yesterday N today off due to a system wide teachers conference) there was supposed to be a movie on telly I wanted to catch. TV programmer snafu, at the appointed time N channel.. no movie. instead, a fashion show from Paris.
Was a time I wouldn't have been too disappointed... a chance to see scantily clad, shapely women parade down a run way. Haven't watched one in donkey years.. So I started to watch. In absolute horror. The ladies were still dressed very scantilly... but.. OMG!. Shapely? NOT!. Elongated, emaciated, looking for all the world like survivors of death camps.. so help me. No thighs, no hips, no buttocks... For a moment, I thought it had to be trick photography. It wasn't. I don't know 'how' the people behind this can get away with it. These 'models' didn't look human. I dare say they were all in the vicinity of 6' tall, yet looked like they didn't weigh 100 lbs. Arms N legs looked like sticks, they all looked a lot like stick figurines... I don't get it. Why isn't this illegal, at least condemned by the hordes of press covering it? How can the press praise the person who's picked these models? Why are fashion magazines, or chain or catalogue stores promoting this ****? Is it that people are buying into it, or just buying it? Am I the only one who 'got' the moral of the fable about the emperors new clothes?
Ooops, looks like I got off on another rant. I'm not saying that being thin isn't acceptable... like, if you are built like Audrey Hepburn, rejoice in that. If you are built like Sophia Loren, that's great too. But if we sit back and allow some 'one' to 'drive' us like sheep to elevate one body type over the other, that just is as wrong as it can get. Seems like everyone saw the evil behind one man who had the opinion there was N should be only one race, one 'master' race; but if you promote the concept that there should be only one 'master' body type, its A-OK, perfectly legit..., not a crime at all. Crude analogy, perhaps more than a bit overboard... but those espousing this body type ARE leading some folks to their deaths. How many more Karen Carpentars do we have to lose to see it?

OK, I'm done. Time to climb down off the soapbox again (least for a while).
 
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you are spot on, kev.

i absolutely refuse to be part of the sheep mentality, following a trend just because it's the 'in thing' to do right now. whether its a belief, a body image, fashion look - whatever. i do my own thing, based on my own thoughts, and try to bring my kids up to be brave enough to do the same. and it does take bravery - when their peers measure each other by the designer labels they wear, or the latest electronic gadget thats on the market.

and yes - those skeleton-like models, and the fashion designers who want them to look that way - do they realise the responsibility they have, for todays youngsters? girls especially, look at these abnormal bodies and believe that is how they should look, and before you know it, poor self image, anorexia, bulimia and worse.. can happen. our kids dont realise that those models have to literally starve themselves, that they live on drugs, that they are knowingly reducing their lifespan, all in the name of beauty. and the sad thing is.. they are not even beautiful. they look poorly :(

i dont like to name names when i am having a moan about something, but i'm sure people can guess who i am talking about.. she is a singer in today's music charts, and a name that is in the media most days at present. she is a drug addict, has taken drugs on stage, and on camera, amongst other things, been into rehab various times - the big brother mentality we have these days gives the media the right to tell the world all the sordid details of stars' personal lives.. so all this is no secret. the thing that annoys me is, she is a massive star! with a massive following. she's won umpteen awards, her albums have reached record numbers - and to be honest, i wouldnt pay one penny to hear her sing, regardless of her character or personal life. this is such a blatant example of sheep mentality, and a worrysome one at that. what is it teaching her followers? and what happened to people thinking for themselves?
 
I don't understand brazilian waxes... that's GOTTA hurt the coochie. (am I allowed to say that word?)

If there are less painful ways... why not go for em? Plus... My bum is in enough pain usually as it is... as I'm sure are everyone else's here....

I just don't understand waxing at all... I mean its not that difficult to run a razor over your legs every once in a while is it?

Let's see... you are from the UK dingbat... I'm thinking that the word "wine" is in play here... and I think I've seen that video too... she's toooo skinny.

I'll add in a little rant of my own that spirals off of dingbat's... how can people justify spending so much money for designer labels? 100 bucks for a scarf or a pair of undies? 400 dollars for a shirt? Target or Kohl's will do for me... Vera Chanel Gucci Vuitton my butt...
 
lol katiesue - i've never heard the term "coochie" before, but i can guess what it means.

yes - you're on the right wavelength re the singer.

and i agree about the designer prices! crazy. and on the same rant wavelength... how can people on benefits afford to clothe their kids in designer wear? even when i was working full time, i couldnt afford to do it. i must be doing something wrong lol
 
Welll, as to that certain dark haired singer ('may' I never go to her 'home' for a glass of 'spirit') Did I play the game right... disguise the clues so one would never guess Amy Win... what am I doing? Ever see a photo of her before she 'made' it?
Absolutely charming, lovely young lady... looked like she stepped out of the junior choir, yet pretty enuff to be a model. What happened? The price of 'success'???

As for designer clothes... There are tons, nay... hordes of very well intentioned middle class, upper middle class folks who donate their gently used clothing to charity... Most suffering from the mistaken impression these clothes are going to single mothers, battered wives in shelters, with kids in tow, and no clothes on their backs. Fraid not. These 'donations' are sold, and resold, by weight, to feed the ever growing demand for 'used' clothing stores, EVEN high priced ones that 'cater' to people who want cuts, styles, fashions of 'classic' name designers... Even movie stars, TV celebrities, are getting into the habit. As for the 'battered' moms living in shelters, they typcially don't see dime one of any funds/monies raised this way. and no one has the ... its an inappropriate term.. but it's the best darned fit... (pardon me in advance) "balls" to ask for an accounting of the monies raised in this fashion, and to how its distributed. I don't fault Homes for Battered Women... the vast majority are an honurable, trustworthy lot doing a valuable service to their communites; but a slim few are profiting from the clothing concept; and others, totally unrelated to the charity, FOSTER the conception... with absolutely no connection to any legit charities, AND profit... no, not so much profit.. more akin to profiteering, from all of it. Eh, seem to have gone on another rant... But if you know any 'weathy/weathier' folks who give away their clothes cause they think they're doing good things, they need to take a closer look... Most of it just goes to feed used clothing stores... little of it ever trickles back to people who really need help. Sad, eh?

As for the term 'coochie'... yes heard it, know what it refers to, and it is often used together with mama... as in 'coochie mama'.. referring to someone who can augment their income or lifestyle based on the ... availability of their coochie. Never heard the saying 'sitting on a fortune' before????
 
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Kev, you're getting "hoochie" and "coochie" mixed up. A "hoochie mama" is what you say it is, but the coochie is ONLY used to refer to the way you used it the SECOND time, in regards to the "availability of their _______". Hoochie is kinda like the "W" word that insults a woman. Coochie is the part they overuse.

lol, I can't believe I started to feel like I was writing a research paper on Lindsey Lohan just now.
 
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My rant has to be regarding ignorant driving. I can't stand the fact that people won't accept me going either the speed limit, or like 5 over. I don't want to, but A) I'm sick of getting ticketed (not that I have an abundance of them, just 3 in 8 years of driving), and paying money for that crap, as I seem to always get caught for stupid stuff. and B) if I ever DO get the chance to be a cop or even a firefighter, I'd like as clean a record as possible, besides, it may be a bonus on my insurance one day if I can keep it up and let the old ones fall off. So go stick road rage tools. I will go as fast as I want to go, and tailgating (my biggest pet peeve) will NOT make me go faster. I notice you twitching behind me, and just to make it worse, either I'll slow down to maybe 5 under, or tap my brakes a touch. You happen to be going so damn close that that simple tap will send you slamming on your brakes. The # on the side of the road is not just your IQ, it's a velocity-related law I am reluctantly following, deal with it or crash your gas guzzler into a oak tree.

I'm too tired right now for all my rants. But this one is the most pressing, and I had to sensor myself, as much more vulgarity comes to mind when I think about the stupidity that I swear one day will get me killed on the road because someone was trying to impregnate my Nissan via the tailpipe with their vehicle.
 
benson, i'm right with you on the bad drivers thing.. i spend quite a lot of my day driving locally, and almost every journey i am either stuck behind someone who should have given up their driving licence years ago, because they cant see over the steering wheel/have tunnel vision and dont realise there are other road users out there/believe the white lines down the centre are for driving along..
oh and then there are those who dont know how to use a roundabout - will indicate at the wrong point, thus almost causing an accident, or change lanes half way round..
and of course the tailhoggers. i regularly touch the brake pedal just to see the looks on their faces in my rear view mirror. and if they dont back off, i will actually slow to a stop, even on a busy dual carriageway. if they dont like it - tough!! i usually have kids in the back seat, and i dont want some angry speeding roadhog's vehicle accellerating only inches away from my children!

kev - i havent seen any 'before' pics of Amy, but i can totally believe that she was healthy in both mind and body before all this fame. its very sad, but she only has herself to blame in my opinion. she's an adult, she knows right from wrong. my point is that despite publicly doing drugs etc, she is an icon for millions of vulnerable and impressionable youngsters.
 
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bad drivers? dont get me started on that one. i did loads of long distance driving and some of the nutters i saw, shouldve had thier car and licences taken away. i saw a HGV driver reding a map and was on the phone at the same time, he was driving about 55mph at the time. i did think about putting a video recorder in the cab, but apprently this is agaisnt the law. i absoultly hate taxi drivers, sorry to anyone he has that profession. they have not respect for any other road user and dis obey the highway code. they go over flashing level crossings and dart in and out of traffic, i know they have a job to do but is it really worth casuing a crash just so you can get a few extra quid?
thats my rant over. regards sharon x
 
well, couple of points... hoochie mama N coochie mama are variations on same... I have no idea the derivation of either term.. some tell me there supposedly is some distinction between the two... one that 'may' vs one that definitely 'will'

Ahhh, bad drivers... See tons of them.. They recently amended the law here so it is illegal to talk on cell phone while driving.. And, we've had a law making it illegal to pass a stopped school bus with it's 8 way 'reds' flashing, our buses also deploy a big red stop sign with 2 large red flashing lights. How difficult is it for folks NOT to see that.. But a very common occurance is for me to see a car drive right by me WITH all my red lights flashing WHILST the driver is talking on their cell phone. Go figure. As for tailgaters, a little trick that 'some unknown' drivers use... is to engage their emergency four way flashers for a single flash. That way, the guy behind 'assumes' that your brake lights are malfunctioning. I think it might give them something to think about. Course, some drivers that I have seen should qualify for special driving stickers, as obviously they have a 'mental' handicap. I haven't seen any blatant crazies amongst the bus drivers so far... think it may be due to company policy regarding every driver passing new road test every year... but I've only been on the job a couple of months yet.

As for peeves about cab drivers, I quite understand the view from outside the cab.. But, having worked my way thru school doing it years ago, let me least give the view from the other side. Unlike other commercial drivers, even bus drivers, the 'cargo' of cab drivers can place a lot of pressure on them to get to their destination as fast, and often as 'cheaply' as possible. cab driving is one of the most cut-throat, pressure filled professions I have ever experienced. It's usually a mad scramble to load as many fares as possible during a shift, and to get them to their destinations as fast as possible, then go on to the next fare.
The pressure is to keep dead head mileage to the absolute minimum, make as much money as possible, spend as little as possible on fuel, and to make/meet your quota. Fail to do that, and it's often kiss the job goodbye. Factor in the drunks, the fare skippers, and the risk of robbery, even death... and 'maybe' consider that, under those circumstances, your typical 'cabby' is so bad after all.

What I really love is all the parents, care-givers, baby sitters, etc., who drop off kids at the schools I service. They pay no heed to the students on foot, nor to my 46' long, 15 ton school bus, nor to the common sense rules of the road. It's a severe case of 'tunnel' vision. Their only focal point is to drop their kids AND get out of the area with no consideration for anyone else. Day after day I see these same 'idiots' placing everyone else in jeopardy.. and I'm prohibited by law from simply running over their vehicle with my bus. It just isn't fair at all. I don't see how they'll ever learn unless someone amends the laws N permits us bus drivers to teach them a lesson.

Oh, one last thought.. to all out there who drive a 'small' vehicle. Ever get tired of those bigger vehicle drivers cutting you off, failing to see you, cutting over into your lane w/o looking? Wanna shake them up a bit? Well, I drive a 'tiny' sedan.. essentially I see personal vehicles as just a mode of getting from A - B
NOT as a status symbol, or an extension to anything else.. But I did get tired of the obnoxious behaviour, esp of some of those big, gas guzzler drivers. so I picked up a pair of air horns (< $30.00) installed them in my vehicle, and NOW, when some idiot does something without seeing me, I scare the living daylites out of them... they think they cut off a semi (North American term for really big truck).. It also works great for getting the attention of kids playing in streets who typically just ignore car traffic.. course it means extra laundry for their moms...
 
Well, I have a weakness, a failing if you will.. Have what I call a trash bin mind. it holds a lot of junk, and the filing/retrieval system absolutely sucks at times. And it 'bugs' me at times, when I know I know something, just cant' recall it on demand.

Anyway, the whole 'hoochie, coochie' thing REALLY bugged me. wouldn't let me have any peace.. I tried researching it, and other than references to Muddy Waters hit written by a fellow named Dixon, or Long John Baldrys' backup guys, I couldn't find/discover where/when 'hoochie' 'coochie' or 'hoochie, coochie' as a pair came about. I knew that I'd heard that term, sometime over the years, but where/when, and in what context. It was driving me batty... Thank god for social networking... Amongst my online connections is a modern dance major (actually now a master degree in theatre arts, with majors in dance AND dance history).. Anyway, (to protect her rep., she will remain anonymous) she tells me that 'hoochie, coochie' ... as in a 'hoochie, coochie mama' which predates the 'hoochie, coochie man' by a couple of generations, arose from prohibition. somewhere, in an illegal speak easy, gin joint, or more likely 'jazz joint', illegal alcohol was called 'hooch'... Where/how it got that name even she didn't know.
And, when supplied to the women who habituated those places, they could be persuaded to dance very provacatively... In are era that gave us the 'tootsy wootsy' or the 'hokey, pokey'... pretty soon there was a dance craze called the 'hoochie, coochie'. So, if one plied a lady with enuff 'hooch', she might dance the dance. Where does the 'cooch' come in? Actually, it was where it came out.. now, whether this was an influence derived from the Follies Bergier(sp?) in the French qtrs of New Orleans, or whether it had more to do with these illegal places, esp in hot climates in the days before air conditioning, or just if the folks originally doing these dances couldn't afford some undergarments, or if the undergarments at the time were just too bulky, too warm for the dance.. that's sort of lost in history too. But, apparently, the dance involved raising the hem of the dress to the thighs, or higher... and someone 'rhyming/slanging' the term 'hooch' with 'cooch'.. Thus the 'hoochie, coochie' was born. and from it the 'hoochie, coochie mama'... and from that, the 'hoochie, coochie man' who preyed on the mama's.. and terms/phrases like 'hotter than a hoochie,coochie'
Or the 'hoochie, coochie dancers' which started in carnivals and spread to the Burlesque stages.. Anyway, that apparently is the 'true' history of both terms 'hoochie' AND 'coochie', and I have no reason to doubt my source, and this is probably way, way TMI anyway. Aren't you sorry I asked? I know I am.. sort of
 
we have problems here with parents dropping their kids so near the school gates that they dont have to leave the safety of their vehicles and - shock, horror - WALK a few feet. recently i have noticed many local schools now have zigzag no-parking lines painted either side of the gates for some distance along the road, and police regularly patrolling these areas at dropping off/collecting times. which brings me onto another rant alert lol.. so many of these school mums drive massive 4 wheel drive offroad vehicles, most of them cant manouvre the damn things properly, and i am sure none of them ever drive off road, not to mention the pollution factor. so whats the big deal with the big cars?

i have a tiny 2 door hatchback. i love it. its nippy, economical, can park it in a tiny space. however, i have just realised it is sadly lacking in something - AIR HORNS!! lol. i want air horns now :D
 
See... theres the other shoe falling... of course. 'coucher' roughly becomes couchie... But the timeline they note doesn't seem correct. Definitely believe my friend was rite on the money about post WW 1, during the roaring 20s, dirty 30s and prohibition. I don't think the phrase 'hooch' predates prohibition, but I could be wrong.

As for parking near schools... I typically have to joust with vehicles that ignore the 'Buses Only' markings... Even worse, those that ignore the 'Special Buses' parking restrictions.. I have on occasion driven the special buses. A lot of those children are wheelchair only... and the only places we can load/unload them are clearly defined... Yet, time N time again... Mrs Joe Schoolmom will park her Hummvee right there... and give me a dirty look IF I try to get into my 'spot'. I was pleased to hear our neighbouring province has adopted a new law that places digital cameras in their buses... people who violate the no passing law or the bus lane only laws get their photos taken automatically, and get a ticket in the mail... Oh, isn't technology marvelous. Can't wait till we do likewise here
 
Hmm, I have only heard coochie around my guy friends or in the media to refer to female anatomy (and us guys obviously often speak about that "from time to time"...)

Hoochie I've only used or heard used by either friends/actors/comics as a "polite term for a sl*t" as the link said.

It's funny how these slang terms are slightly different depending on your worldly location, whatnot (which is the only thing I can think to explain the discrepency).
 
dingbat, if you get your hands on a air horn, let me borrow it please. the fun we could have with that!!!! lol regards sharon x
 
Hmmm, well, the air horn in my vehicle is perfectly legal... I would assume if they are allowed in big trucks, they should be allowed in small cars... Or, does 'size' really matter? Course, using them for other than there intended purpose MIGHT break the law... I wouldn't get in the habit of letting mine rip in a Hospital or other 'Quiet' Zone... And I don't think the neighbours would like it IF I let it rip at 5 AM when I hit the road... But, other than that, any legitimate reason for using the standard OEM horn your vehicle came equipped with, well it should be alright to use an air horn... Course, I recall a fellow, whose 'car' was equipped with a big (back in the old days) CB radio that had a PA speaker option.. He'd connected it to a pair of... those aluminum weather proof spkrs, can't recall the name of them... hidden under the hood of his vehicle. Big old North American gas guzzler... almost enuff room under the hood to stand btwn the block and the wheel wells... (Oh, I guess that would be 'bonnet' to my UK buddies).. Anyway, on occasion, he'd connect a little tape of police sirens to the CB PA system... Use it at nite when folks couldn't see well enuff to identify him... Then he found a programmable portable Bull Horn with all kinds of sound effects on it.. The man was a child in an adults body. Lord knows how he got away with some of the things he pulled.. Some folks go thru life as if blessed.

And, hey Benson... Hope I didn't leave the impression I was trying to correct you or anything. Not my intent at all. Just that I knew I'd heard the phrase in the past somewhere, AND that there was more to it.. (the story that is). I even think the phrase 'hoochie, coochie' was insinuated into a kids cartoon back in the 50's or 60's.. (Don't hold me to that one tho). And, at least now, when/if either phrase is used... we pretty much have fully scoped out (oh, there's a cool term only us crohnies should be allowed to utter) the derivation of the phrase.
Like, I am surprised that I didn't key in to the connection between 'coucher' N 'coochie'... Seems so obvious in retrospect.. If you look at the whole Orleans, Cajun, French Quarter connection to the early jazz clubs, etc., it all just makes crystal clear sense (now). And, as to how folks in differing parts of the world use it, or interpret it... to each their own. Like, here, the term 'hum' means a smell.... to some folks. Someone says... "Boy, that's some 'hummer'".. Well, it might mean an SUV, a stench, or something totally different. Just ask Arnold!!
 
Completely undeserving of a new thread.

I figure that since this was a randomized thread, I'd throw in, because this doesn't deserve a new one.

I hate:

That my new, big, dumb rescue dog has decided that my favorite chair is his new girlfriend. My favorite chair is NOT a female dog. My favorite chair is NOT "willing."

Gah! Why in the world does my dog have to ... be so passionate about ... my friggin' chair?!

I am so, so glad my female dog is fixed ... or I might not have one clean chair in the house.

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Well, it could be that he is trying to reset the 'pack' structure. Could be that he is deliberately trying to assert himself as the 'Alpha male' of the pack. Or, he could be trying to 'mate' with who he sees as the 'Alpha female' of the pack, namely you. Or, he could be picking up on pheramones (sp?) that you leave in the chair. A dogs sense of smell is typically 100, 000 time that of humans, or more.. depending on breed. I think the bloodhound is closer to 500,000.. and it apparently pales by comparison to that of the wolf.. or numbers to that effect.
Or, maybe he just doesn't approve of your decor, and wants to instigate change.. As a 'rescue' dog, is he now a permanent member of the family, or a guest who will someday be adopted out? If the former, you could try getting him fixed (altho it may be too late in his development to do much good). Even if it's the latter, perhaps suggest to the rescue agency to have him fixed. that's a good policy, usually makes dogs easier to adopt out. A friend of mine, who has since moved away, was a fervent animal rights activist. She regularly used to convince me to shelter such animals for, well, sometimes not so brief periods, till they found permanent homes. One memorable one was a holy 'terrier'. He was an escape artist extraordinare... and he had a hatred of window blinds...
He destroyed $$$$$ of my blinds after escaping from his doggy carrier. but we eventually found someone to adopt him... I guess they didn't use any blinds.
 
lol methofelis. aw, your poor chair!

i'd be tempted to just be grateful if wasnt my leg he'd taken a fancy to.....
 
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Quick after thought... If your fav. chair is a Lay-Z-Boy, maybe your dog is 'gay'?
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He does have impeccable taste, and has a thing for my underwear. He DID get a bit too feisty with one of the male cats ... Hmmmm....

Sadly, he loves the futon, which is the classic symbol of male bachelorhood. I think he's all heterosexual.

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Ah, welll, sexual inclination one way or the other is perfectly natural. Even if he does have a thing for your underwear, no shame in that. Look at one of the most famous dogs of all time, Lassie. Always played in movies N TV by a cross-dressing male...
 
Very true. Lassie was a special dog.

I do have a cat that insists he is a dog. So not only do I have transgendered dogs, but a transspecies cat. I live in the house of confusion.
 
Two rants more (have plenty):

To those that display the confederate flag (no I won't capitalize that), you do realize it was a symbol of wanting to break away from the union in favor of differing politics, namely slavery, right? Why would you display such a thing with blatant and mindless pride? I get it if you truly just display it to symbolize freedom or southern origination, but seriously, it's like Robin Williams said about the confederate flag "and the swastika is just a Tibetan good luck symbol". Find something else to display your sentiments about being Southern or being a fan of country music.

I'm sick of men being seen as the whole "men are simple, food, beer, sex". Look, I eat food for function for fitness and Crohns purposes, I don't drink any alcohol, ever, and human nature has an affinity for procreation/reproduction, that's how we don't go extinct. I'm a complex, often over-senstive, methodical, intellectual person with deeper emotions than that. Many guys are. If a man tries to generalize all men and say they're all that simple, then he's speaking for only himself and you can add uneducated to the list.
 
Hell, I'm more "food, sex, and beer" than a few of the guys I know.

Probably my down-south upbringing and biker/military family there ... :ycool: (sans confederate flag)
 
I probably wouldn't even exist if it weren't for food, sex, and beer. I do like to watch NASCAR but whenever I see a confederate flag the word "treason" comes to mind.
 
i'm really disappointed now. apparently airhorns on cars are illegal in the uk :(

spoilsports!! lol
 
Hmmm, airhorns illegal... That makes no sense whatsoever.. I can understand if an airhorn violated a decibel restriction.. but that would/should hold true for all vehicles. And, I can understand if it somehow could be made to imitate the sound of an emergency vehicle... think the klaxon sound of UK emergency vehicles are way cooler than the sirens used here. But, I guess every nation is entitled to its foibles. and on the confederate flag issue... believe it or not it's extremely popular with a certain mindset up here... yes, there are such things as 'Canadian rednecks'... tho I hate to use that 'catchall' phrase. it has taken on a 'disparaging' aspect to it... when, just a short generation or two ago, it was a badge of respect. Farmers, other 'outdoor' workers.. good, decent folk who made their living thru honest work in the outdoors, developed deep tans around their typically open collars. My dad was a redneck, yet he was way more open-minded than most of his generation. Anyway, back to the flag. It gained widespread popularity up here when the TV show 'The Dukes of Hazzard' first aired. not to disparage most Americans knowledge of their own history; but I think a lot of folks of a certain generation don't associate it with it place in history. We each have our own things that 'bother' us.. and there is no.... welll, 'need' for anyone to explain or feel like they have to defend them.
Grandad was a vet of WW I... wounded, decorated, but just a typical soldier.
He'd served his country with distinction... he was even part of the shore defense in WW II. But, he came from Lunenburg, actually 'New Germany', and.. you guessed it.. had a trace of German accent from his parents, grandparents.
He had lived N worked in Cape Breton since he was 8 (started in the mines). I can't explain/understand how some of his neighbours turned against him due solely to his accent during WW II. Somehow or other, he did. I wasn't there at the time... didn't live during WW II.. so I can't... put myself into 'their' shoes.
As for confederate flag bearers... Maybe it just proves inbreeding leads to stupidity. I dunno. I never saw Jeff Foxworthy sporting one, and I admire him, wonder how he feels on the subject. Maybe, sometimes, a 'good ol boy is a good ol boy' despite his flaws. Does any of that make any sense to anyone?
 
Well, Larry the Cable Guy is good buds with Jeff Foxworthy, and Larry's guitar he uses in performances sports one on it, even though I find Larry funny. I'm not saying he's racist, nor am I saying anyone who sports one is racist. What I'm saying is that the flag itself more or less stands for slavery and racism (along with more recently, things such as being Southern and liking country music, but to a much less degree, because the flag was designed to stand for the South in a war that was mostly about slavery). Seriously, would you sport a swastika nowadays because you're Tibetan? I doubt it.

One thing that irritates me, but it's actually an aspect of my personality, is being a sore sport. If others are, it's only slightly irritating to me. But the most annoying is that I am. I have so much expectation of myself that if I lose at anything, even something wierd I've never tried, I get defensive and try to reason with the loss. Like blaming it on not feeling good, or bad conditions, or something else.

I am not trying to make an excuse, but rather a reason for it, but I think it comes from being bullied and laughed at as a child, as well as when losing, having it thrown in my face by so many. Not to garner sympathy, but as a runt in grade/middle school, I had to report things to the vice principal so she could keep an eye on me, I went to the hospital on one occasion even, after being pushed down a hill on blacktop and almost breaking my hip. Bad schools, bad kids. Like I said I hated school and developed into an outcast. I've long since overcome that and await my 10 year reunion (yeah I know, let bygones be bygones, well, ask the son of a lost NYC 9/11 firefighter if 7 years has eased the pain). Not that I'd start a fight with any or throw anything in anyone's face. I'm better than that. Just want them to see that I've overcome the badgering and bullying and grown up into a proud and productive (and Crohns ridden) man. Simply that that crap didn't get the best of me. Hopefully I won't look like a decrepit, flaring Crohnnie for it and can get back on track with my active lifestyles. Anyways, off track....I get pissy almost when losing and I hate it, but I have to learn that it was years ago when people threw it in my face. People still get arrogant when they win at things of course, but not like years ago. Something I struggle to work with. Even my gf's 8 year old cousin could beat me at a game of chance, and I'd get angry inside (but wouldn't let it show, I'm not that bad). Too much damn pride and I forget nobody can win at everything in life.
 
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Well, see.. the swastika is a great example.. used by indians as a proud symbol for countless generations before being 'adopted' and 'corrupted' by the Nazis.

Have you seen the film 'The DaVinci Code'.. the segment where Tom Hanks is in the midst of his slideshow/lecture.. Some real food for thought there (well, it certainly invoked it in me). Can a symbol have more than just one meaning?
And, do we have to associate the symbol with it's most infamous usage?

On a side note.. as in they should rename it to being crazy like a Foxworthy.. Did you hear what Jeff is getting paid to host that Are You Smarter Than A...
hmm, is it redneck, or 5th Grader? OK, seriosuly. $10,000,000.00 for the shows that are all filmed/taped together in a single 2 week period. 14 day shooting schedule.. Least that's the rumour (on fairly reliable sources). Ought to be a law. As for Larry The Cable Guy.. believe it or not.. I know literally hoardes of women who just love him... Seriously. Could have knocked me over with a pin feather. And, I don't think he is prejudiced.. Kinda get the feeling folks who are DON'T go around making fun of themselves FIRST. Others, YES, their own? NEVER.. Far too insecure in their manhoods, education, lineage, you name it! I do think that he's a pretty smart cookie, jumping on the bandwagon, pumping out films like Health Inspector... I mean, they aren't works of art, but they are funny..
 
One thing that I can appreciate a good deal about Larry is his "potty humor". I know a lot of people think it's simple-minded comedy, but a lot of it is quite ingenious, and sophisticated, it just doesn't look the part due to his attire and accent (which by the way is fake, along with his slightly higher pitched voice, just look up his old acts on you tube or something, his real name isn't even Larry).

"Did you hear about the Keebler Elf who got upset when he was demoted to ***********" That's raunchy, but brilliant, come on.
 
Knew it was an adopted persona.. Haven't caught him performing outside of that 'character'... but I saw him carry off a 'Pirates of Penzance' number on the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour' that leads me to suspect he is definitely theatrically trained.

I haven't investigated that, but it wouldn't be the first time someone adopted a persona like it that 'stuck'. Look at the late, great Jim Varney.
 

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