Drunken Absinthe Blog Party — International Women’s Day edition
Now with the all-important addition of chocolate candy!
Janeen is so depressed by International Women’s Day she needs a drink. Will is ready to meet anyone halfway, as long as halfway means Richmond, Virginia. Steve is so pissed off he’s about to unload a righteous torrent of anti-sexist indignation on his hapless students, who thought today was going to be on homeland security. Alon’s sleep schedule appears to be almost as weird as mine, and as for me — well, I’m in the middle of a death match with a css file and it’s not looking good. I may be dead by this time tomorrow.
I think everybody needs a drink and some nice chocolate. Lo and behold if the people who make Vision absinthe don’t sell that very combination (left). Their absinthe is reputed to be quite hallucinogenic, too.
114 Responses to “Drunken Absinthe Blog Party — International Women’s Day edition”
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will says:
Excellent! I am there. But why do you keep adding more males. Steve and Alon are probably very nice, but I liked it better with just me.
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Violet says:
Think of them as relief pitchers. I like to have a deep bench. I’ve noticed that whenever we have a drunken party, it’s never more than one guy at a time. You men are so territorial! Can’t you learn to play nicely and share?
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Janeen says:
Oh, bless you! I’m feeling guilty because there have been some really nice BASD posts, and all I could do was spout off, but some days are like that.
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Janeen says:
For some reason the phrase “I like to have a deep bench” is making me giggle. Must be the absinthe doing its thing.
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Janeen says:
Will, I forget, do you have your own blog, or do you just prefer to comment?
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Violet says:
Fixed the link for the Vision & Chocolates gift set. I want that.
Will with a blog? Ha! He just enjoys being a fat hairy troll!
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will says:
JUST ME, JUST ME
by
Shel SilversteinSweet Marie, she loves just me
(She also loves Maurice McGhee).
No she don’t, she loves just me
(She also loves Louise Dupree).
No she don’t, she loves just me
(She also loves the willow tree).
No she don’t, she loves just me!
(Poor, poor fool, why can’t you see
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will says:
Janeen:
I have a blog that I have neglected. It is just about swimming though.
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will says:
You forgot toothless.
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Janeen says:
Well, it is probably more fun in some ways.
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Janeen says:
Oh, Shel Silverstein. There’s something to cheer a girl up. More chocolate, please.
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Janeen says:
I actually have to go back to work, now. Thanks, Violet for getting me a bit loopy. Good luck against your CSS file, I’m sure you will triumph! Will, thanks for the Shel.
Ciao regazze.
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Violet says:
Wow, that was fast! Janeen, what can you possibly be working on that’s more important than getting drunk and eating chocolate?
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Violet says:
Maybe the Countess will show up and give us a dramatic reading of one of her short stories.
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will says:
They might be too risque and make me blush.
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Violet says:
Oh, right. Mr. Reverse Cowboy.
You know, I’d never heard that name for it either. Did you just make it up? (The name, I mean.)
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will says:
Sweetie. Lovemuffin. I do not need you to be innocent and virginal for me to find you attractive.
You know darn well that I didnt make up the term reverse cowboy. It was probably some lust driven 40ish woman. Those 40ish women are insatiable!
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Violet says:
No, really — I’d never heard it called that. I’ve heard of the thing, and even done the thing, but hadn’t heard that name. Countess hadn’t either. I understand you’re a habitue of Richmond sex clubs, so maybe it’s local patois.
Which reminds me: Will, do you get approximately a billion spam mails a day offering you Viagra, penis enlargement pills, and god knows what else? Or does this just happen to feminist bloggers?
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will says:
What are you insinuating? Do you think I need those things? Why do you ask?!??!?!?
I do not get much spam. I have fairly good filters.
Feminist bloggers probably do not have much experience with prophilactics.
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manxome says:
What a relief. My RSS reader is overflowing with posts and I can’t take it. Good thing Socks gave me a heads up, or I never would have made it here!
Why didn’t you tell me absinthe had hallucinogenic properties? If so, will I hallucinate that all humans have rights? Human rights and chocolate. Dark chocolate. Damn.
Will’s blog is very boring. Takes all the fun out of the true purpose of swimming, which is to do handstands underwater and play Marco Polo. Really, it’s very sad. I can see why he’s too embarrassed to link to it. ;)
Can’t drink (or eat chocolates) on an empty stomach, though. I have steaks to grill. Hell, yeah!
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will says:
Enough about me. Let’s talk more about VS’s thoughts on the reverse cowboy: feminist position or position of the patriarchy?
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will says:
geez. everyone left the party. I guess I will go swim then.
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kactus says:
So I heard there was a party going on. Unfortunately, however, I don’t drink…so I’m indulging myself in a peanut butter & moto sandwich. If anybody would like the recipe, just ask ;)
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Janeen says:
Will, I know about the term reverse cowgirl. Not that I’m back at the party or anything. I am working, working, I tell ya!
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Violet says:
I’m back. My satellite connection went down for an hour and a half — which was obviously God punishing me for drinking absinthe and talking about reverse cowboy.
So, Janeen is another sex club habituee.
Personally, I think reverse cowboy kinda hurts.
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Violet says:
kactus, what’s moto?
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kactus says:
Moto is ganja, dear Violet. I make a butter out of it and use it on sandwiches–much easier on the lungs for us old farts, and lasts forever. I’m just an unrepentent hippy at heart, after all.
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Violet says:
I’ve got an idea — we’ll start a glossary.
moto: Ganja, aka cannabis.
reverse cowboy: sexual position with woman sitting on top, facing man’s feet.
absinthe: an extremely potent alcoholic distillation of anise and wormwood, along with other herbs. Wormwood contains a hallucinogenic substance called thujone, which is what gives absinthe its mind-bending qualities. Absinthe is illegal in the United States.Any others?
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Janeen says:
I am *not* a sex clubber. I just play one in blogolandia.
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will says:
Darn Janeen. Take all the fun out of it.
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Violet says:
Oh, there’s Will! How was your swim?
I’m chained to my computer tonight working on a stylesheet for another (secret) website. I wish I could drink.
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will says:
excellent swim. Didnt swim very far, but it felt good!
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Violet says:
You really swam? Actual swimming? With water? Where?
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will says:
In a pool. Actually at the JCC with our Jewish friends.
I only swam a mile though.
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Violet says:
So that’s like, what, 50 laps? If you swim that much, how come you’re still fat?
The JCC reminds me of my old boyfriend the math professor. The turn for his house was by the JCC, and they always had a big banner out: “Everybody’s Welcome at the JCC!” It always made me smile. It had such a rhythm to it, it just begged to be made into a jingle.
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will says:
66 lengths.
I am fat because I like to eat. Maybe I am not so, so fat. Just bad teeth.
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JimDeeny says:
I ask myself this question 40 times a day, “Why?”
The enemy isn’t a woman or the choice she makes, or the choice I decide is irrelevant. It’s come to this day and age it’s survival! -
Jim Deeny says:
It’s survival through out the serpentine(istic) ways of our government, the machine wants us to argue. Don’t you get it? Or I am the only one?
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Violet says:
I’m sorry, Jim, I don’t get it.
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JimDeeny says:
If it weren’t for the laws and the crappy incentives we’d all get along.
(hugs for everyone)
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will says:
Glad to hear that VS. I thought I was just getting tired.
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will says:
On a related topic, the news just had a blurb about cole slaw wrestling and then a piece about prostitutes protesting in India for the ability to sell their bodies.
I do like slaw.
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JimDeeny says:
I’m proud… I stand tall and no one in here, on the street can bring me down by their nihilistic ways and whatever bs they want to cast on me. All I know is the basics. We all naturaly love one another, it’s a given V. Who goofed on that?
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Violet says:
Jim, Jim — what does this have to do with absinthe and chocolate and swimming? I’m old, man, I’m over 40 — I can’t keep up! Connect the dots for me!
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Jim Deeny says:
I feel like I’m like in this box. A little opening here at the top, a little light at the bottom. It’s cool.
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Violet says:
Oh….I get it! Jim is live-narrating his absinthe hallucination!
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Jim Deeny says:
Oh absinthe, I thought you meant abscence.
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Jim Deeny says:
Okay seriously….
I have thoughts that are provoked by many things. Reading, writing, drugs (past) and everday experiences, I have every right to come to a conclusion that my opinion matters just as much as anyone elses.
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Jim Deeny says:
Yes V.
I’ve had a few, thats where I feel comfortable, my niche. Connecting the dots is easy.
If I could explain how to connect the dots it would be a road map that started from the civil war to the holocaust and I would come up with the same answer each time.
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Alon Levy says:
Great - the one day I go to sleep relatively early is the one you have an absinthe party.
Which reminds me: Will, do you get approximately a billion spam mails a day offering you Viagra, penis enlargement pills, and god knows what else? Or does this just happen to feminist bloggers?
Well, I get these, though lately I’m getting more “Get your degree in 5 minutes” spam.
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Kimberly says:
Hello from another angry, disheartened feminist. I saw your invite at Janeen’s, and wanted to get a look at your absinthe party. I’ve stopped by several time before, and haven’t said much of anything, but it’s just rude to do that at a party.
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Jim Deeny says:
(I hear furniture getting tossed around upstairs)
I think I better say “niters.”
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Violet says:
Good to see you, Kimberly! It didn’t turn into much of a party tonight, since Janeen had to get back to work, Will had to swim, I had to fight my CSS file to the death, Manx had to eat steaks, and it’s a school night. Oh, and our resident Sex Goddess and Authoress couldn’t make it. We’ve had better parties, and we will again.
Alon, you actually slept! Good for you. You must keep incredible hours.
Jim, if you’re still reading: you did that e-mail thing you did before. You know what I mean.
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Alon Levy says:
Well, they weren’t that incredible (I hit the sack at 4 and got up at 11:30).
But we can do something like this again this weekend, can’t we?
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Violet says:
Well, they weren’t that incredible (I hit the sack at 4 and got up at 11:30).
I’ve just noticed you posting at all hours. I’m in the habit of automatically correcting the time for where people are — 3 hours from me or 13 hours, like you. You’ve posted when it’s 4am in Singapore, 7am, 11am, 3pm, 8pm, 11pm, midnight, 2 am… this is why I think either a) you only sleep 2 hours a day, b) you’re like me and keep irregular hours, or c) you’re not human.
Of course we will have another party! So far they’ve been rather spontaneous affairs, so I don’t know about this weekend. Of course, this whole “planning” concept I keep hearing about might be something to investigate.
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Alon Levy says:
Yeah, it’s b), although a lot of people suspect that it’s c), or so I gather.
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Burrow says:
Ohb lordy lordy lordy. It’s been quite awhile siince I got to drink absinthe. I was just about to dive into calculus to distract from all the posts I’m barely reading b/c they make my head want to explode, and after 10 explosions yesterday I don’t think I can deal with anymore.
Eating my 88% chocolate with Garam Masala crepes. Mmmmmmmmmm…..Thanks for the heads up Dr. Socks! You sure know how to make a clown happy! ;)
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Violet says:
Alon, I took a couple of years off to work on a book, and came face to face with my own completely haywire circadian rhythms. Not unusual for me to stay awake for 24-30 hours and then sleep for 12 — or maybe 6, or maybe 14. Even when I’m (briefly) on a fairly regular schedule, it’s natural for me to sleep during the day and be awake at night.
Burrow the Mighty Mathematician and Clown! What posts — did people post a bunch of BDSM stuff on your blog? Or were you cruising through the Blog Against Sexism posts?
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Burrow says:
Blog against Sexism posts. (Also catching up from being out of touch all weekend to play Water Polo. Too much shit happened in the past week.) I posted one on BDSM for BAS day. heh. Not too many commenters on that one yet. *fingers crossed*
Toast with me? I promise that if I drink too much I will keep my bad physics puns and math jokes to a minimum, but no guarentees about crazy clown occurences.
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Violet says:
Of course! What shall we toast to?
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Burrow says:
Hmmmmm…..to turning math and science girly! (my new mission in life)
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Burrow says:
Or perhaps more broadly to loud outspoken funny women!
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Violet says:
Hmmmmm…..to turning math and science girly! (my new mission in life)
It’s hopeless. Women just don’t excel in those areas. Larry Summers said it, Steven Pinker believes it, and that settles it.
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Burrow says:
LOL. Oh yeah, I forgot. I should just give up and become an english major (or something). Too bad I can’t speak the english so well.
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Janeen says:
Hey, who left all these bottles and chocolate wrappers laying around?
Yay, Kimberly came!
Will, just because I’m not a sex clubber, doesn’t mean I’m not a total perv.
Oh, and I always thought it was “mota” not “moto”. At least that’s the way my Mexican ex-husband used to say it.
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Burrow says:
And the mexican police “mota? mota?”
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Pastor Al E Pistle says:
I don’t know what a ’sex club’ is, but
I do know that all of you are going to spend eternity with SATAN’S huge, engorged member slapping at your backsides for discussing it; recommending illegal narcotics to one another and describing ANYTHING other than the APPROVED missionary position for sex (which is not to be enjoyed and should be practiced fully clothed in a dark room ONLY when a child is needed for the workhouse).The Department of Faith is watching you quite closely, Missy Socks!
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Alon Levy says:
Sorry, but how can you procreate while fully clothed?
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Violet says:
Hasidic style, with a hole in the sheet.
Pistle, doesn’t it count that I don’t like reverse cowboy and actually enjoy missionary…oh, wait…no, I guess that doesn’t count, does it?
Did Landover have something to do with my satellite outage earlier in the evening?
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Alon Levy says:
Isn’t it easier to just go fully in-vitro, or find a way to inject semen directly into a woman’s uterus without sexually stimulating her? If you don’t want people to enjoy sex, you need to make sure they never have it, or else they’ll discover they like it so much that they’ll want to do it again and again. Even horror stories of fire and brimstone won’t work very well, since most people don’t destroy their own desires in the service of a misguided cause the way fanatics do.
On a completely different note, although the email address my name links to is my Yahoo address, I check my Hotmail address (alon_levy12) far more frequently. I attached my Yahoo address to my name at a time when Hotmail only gave non-American users 2 megabytes of inbox space, so that my inbox took 12 hours on average to get completely clogged with spam; now that Hotmail gives everyone 250 MB, however, I can use it without worry.
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Jim Deeny says:
OMG! What’d I say! What’d I write? Oh this crazy gene of mine, the bottle is empty. Oh my head hurts.
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Pastor Al E Pistle says:
68: When you marry a nice Baptist girl the Pastor will instruct you in this technique.
69: You are not allowed to ENJOY any of it. It is a duty. Lie back and think of your obligation to provide soldiers for the coming battle against the foreign devils. Don’t move or make any noise lest your husband suffer a dysfunction which will scar him for life. Landover Baptist is not a cable or satellite supplier. At most, we report suspicious covens to the Department of Faith and the NSA which does NOT spy on Americans through their satellite dishes, telephone conversations, library records, emails, blogs or the use of drugs and ‘approved’ interrogation techniques at undisclosed locations.
70: Alon, you are a disgusting sinner for suggesting unnatural methods of consummating the marriage vow. First there would have to be the sin of Onanism for which GOD will immediately kill the man. That is why there is none of the filthy “M” activity in Baptist households! Then some third party would have to impregnate the wife with a Q-tip or a turkey baster. You are almost trying to invent a virgin birth, but GOD will have none of it. Except that once. I recommend that you refresh your knowledge of the KJV1611 Bible so that you will not be inclined to blaspheme.
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will says:
“Pistle, doesn’t it count that I don’t like reverse cowboy and actually enjoy missionary…oh, wait…no, I guess that doesn’t count, does it?”
oooooohhhhhhh VS is a fake feminist. She is probably a man pretending to be a woman. No wonder she keeps emailing me and wanting to meet me in a dark hotel room. I’m on to you VS~!
Burrow:
How did you do in water polo?
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The Countess says:
I was so busy dealing with a !@#$% troll yesterday afternoon that I didn’t make it in here. Is it too late for the party? I need a shot of absinthe. Gimme some of that good stuff you posted about, Violet. I normally don’t need shots of absinthe, but I want one today.
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The Countess says:
My stories are very riske but they are also very funny. I like whimsy in my stories. You’ll giggle while you read them. Sex and giggling go well together.
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The Countess says:
I honestly have never heard the term “reverse cowboy”, although I am familiar with the position. I think I tried it once, but it hurt too much. It felt weird.
There. Now I’ve said too much. ;P
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Jim Deeny says:
Reverse cowboy?
Is that facing the feet and the woman on top?
If that’s what it is then it’s an awsome position, it enables the visuals!
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Violet says:
If that’s what it is then it’s an awsome position, it enables the visuals!
You can’t see each other’s faces, and the woman gets to look at the guy’s feet. But I guess if you’re a guy and you just want to look at a woman’s behind, then it’s awesome.
But what Countess said — it feels weird. Weird like, “things are not supposed to go together this way.”
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will says:
It isn’t that different from doggie style. By the way, I hate that term.
I need to sneak a look into the feminist playbook to see if there are certain approved positions.
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Violet says:
It isn’t that different from doggie style. By the way, I hate that term.
The angle is different. What term do you prefer?
I need to sneak a look into the feminist playbook to see if there are certain approved positions.
Silly. Whatever makes both people happy.
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will says:
I do not know another term.
yes, of course I was being silly. Shocker. I know.
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Burrow says:
will:
we won our game on Sunday. I will say that I was kicking ass-I even stopped a 4 meter! YAY!!
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will says:
Burrow:
What kind of team do you play on? I do not have any idea how old you are? College? Masters?
Coed?
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Violet says:
The Countess said:
I was so busy dealing with a !@#$% troll yesterday afternoon that I didn’t make it in here.Indeed — when I stopped by to visit you last night I was amazed that a troll had been impersonating ME on your blog all afternoon. It might have been flattering if the troll hadn’t been such a disaster in terms of grammar, style, and thinking ability. I fear for my literary reputation.
Have an extra chocolate and read us one of your stories.
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will says:
Yeah right.
By the way, any comment that I have made now or in the future was actually Violet using my name trying to get me in trouble.
You can figure it out with an easy test. If it is well written and you agree with it, it is me. If it is filled with poor writing and offensive, it is VS.
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Jim Deeny says:
“It isn’t that different from doggie style. By the way, I hate that term.”
Will: You can call it tea-bagging instead. I suppose that depends on the temperature in the room. :)
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Pastor Al E Pistle says:
A contract of wifely expectations from TSG via Neal Boortz:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a.....ract1.html
Note to Socks: Sign this and get back to me.
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Violet says:
No no no no no. This thing was posted at Twisty’s and I would rather stab my eyes out with a fork than look at it again. That guy is one sick fuck.
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Burrow says:
will:
while I could be on a masters team, I have recently become one of the “non-traditional” students. So I’m on a college team. Last time I played water polo most my teammates were in grade school (I played in H.S.)
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Pastor Al E Pistle says:
He is a good Christian man who will probably run for governor in South Dakota. This country needs to get back to basics and remember the things which made us great! Like a complete ban on abortions, witch burnings, the grading and sale of automobiles and women, and the fear of God who is sending Jesus back to kill us all.
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Violet says:
Inconsistent, Pistle. You said earlier that Christians aren’t supposed to enjoy sex and are only allowed to indulge for procreative purposes. This guy’s whole life revolves around sex, which he clearly enjoys in a disgusting, vicious, S&M kind of way.
Actually he and Bill Napoli should hook up.
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Pastor Al E Pistle says:
“No no no no no. This thing was posted at Twisty’s and I would rather stab my eyes out with a fork than look at it again. That guy is one sick fuck.”
-Violet SocksUmmmmm. Do you mean twistys.com? Because I don’t think that is the kind of site a young lady should be viewing! I had better send the Baptist ladies over to council you.
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will says:
ooohhh Burrow is hanging with youngsters!
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Violet says:
What’s a masters team?
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Violet says:
Also, Will — did you really swim 66 lengths last night? Because I don’t think I believe you. If I swam that many laps I would die.
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Burrow says:
masters means for us old folks out of college. ;)
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Burrow says:
will:
I am, and I’m surprised to see that I’m faster then most of them. It’s freaky.
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will says:
That wasnt nice.
At a younger time, I swam 60,000 to 70,000 long course meters a week. Once, I actually swam 29,000 meters in one day.
So a mile is relatively easy even for a fat old man like myself.
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will says:
The last post was responding to VS.
Burrow:
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Violet says:
Not nice? Couldn’t you tell that was my snarky, sarcastic way of saying I was impressed?
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will says:
VS likes me!
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Violet says:
Sweetie. Lovemuffin. Of course I like you.
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Burrow says:
LOL
(yeah but my tendonitis has been killing me since this weekend. ugh. 90 year old knees that’s what I got)
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Violet says:
Well, since I usually refer to Will as a fat hairy troll and mock him mercilessly, I thought I’d try being nice for a change. I think I like it better the other way.
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Alon Levy says:
You guys really should get together one day. Even though Will apparently has two kids from a previous marriage, he and you will make an excellent couple…
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Violet says:
Whoops! Better check with Will’s girlfriend!
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The Countess says:
I need to sneak a look into the feminist playbook to see if there are certain approved positions.
I don’t think the feminist playbook would have “approved” positions. It would likely include every position in existence so that people who want to play may try all of them. Sort of like a feminist Kama Sutra.
The penis still goes in in the normal direction when you do doggie style, but the angle is different and more pleasureable for the woman. I don’t like the term “doggie style” either. I just call it, “doing it from behind”.
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The Countess says:
Viollet, thankfully, that troll finally left. I kept making fun of him, which I suppose he wasn’t expecting.
I”ll have an extra chocolate and read to everyone my erotic revisioning of the Cinderella story. It’s about what happens after “Happily Ever After”.
I also make my own chocolates. I made orange-chocolate flavored truffles two days ago. Help yourselves to some fo them. They seriously rock!!
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will says:
Truffles?
I think I love you. Would the Count be willing to share? The truffles, of course.
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The Countess says:
Will, your swimming is really impressive. How many trophies have you won?
I know what tea-bagging is! It’s definitely not doggie style. :)
Oh the different things people can do when they have sex…
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will says:
“I just call it, “doing it from behind”.”
Yes, I know Countess. But I still don’t know why you want me to bend over the sofa.
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will says:
Trophies isn’t really much of a measure.
I was one of the two or three best swimmers in Virginia when I was in High School. I was good enough to swim in college on a good team that won our Division I conference meet. But, I was definitely the slow guy on that team.
I was a plugger. I worked my butt off, but was not as talented as many of the others.
It was a great experience that gave me lifelong friends.
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Alon Levy says:
I”ll have an extra chocolate and read to everyone my erotic revisioning of the Cinderella story. It’s about what happens after “Happily Ever After”.
Ah… being the complete cynic that I am, I thought that your blog’s non-erotic posts described the happily ever after.
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belledame222 says:
I am sorry that I missed the party; but then, as they say, absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
(running away)
