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Or, at a minimum, not excreting it.

What the hell is AdamSmith up to? He's packin' up his kidneys and goin' to town.

The all-new Acme Letter Slut® - for folks who get lots of male -

If you wanna see something scary, help me outta these speedos!

Certainly appreciate the insights, marcusclaus! The other night, however, I was watching an Anthony Bordain program shot in Russia and there was unpleasant footage of gays being beaten up. From what I gathered, there is a segment of Russian society that is progressive, in strong opposition to government policies and Putin, and is outspoken to the point of putting themselves in danger. There is another segment that is much less enlightened and is very susceptible to fear-mongering and acting on those fears. It sounded like that mob was in the majority overall. Of course, as you are on the ground, your views carry a lot of weight. Still, should I ever find myself going to Russia, I don't think I'd pack my best babushka.

At Weird Sheri's Ranch in Pahrump, There's a hooker who's kind of a frump. She thrashes her gums Till her customer cums, And she does it while taking a dump.

Sure wish I had a dollar for every time we humans decide we need a new whiz-bang tool when we failed to properly use the ones we already had. I guess it's easier and sexier to net every fish in the pond and toss back the ones we don't want than it is to come up with a better lure. If the Patriot Act is really such a terrific piece of legislation, why did it take Edward Snowden to tell us what was in it? And why are so many of our elected officials mad at him for doing so? If we do keep it going, what happens when it inevitably fails to capture every last fish and one gets through? Do we get a Super Patriot Act? That road, in my opinion, leads to every U. S. citizen becoming, at one time or another, an enemy of the government. And vice versa.

Just be sure you discuss your policy on licking.

According to the prosecution, Hastert systematically withdrew about $1.7m from banks, and then periodically delivered payments to Individual A for four years. I bet he wishes he had that money back now! Fortunately, my own reputation is sufficiently shabby that spending $3.5 million to defend it wouldn't cross my mind, even if I had the ready cash. Thirty-five dollars, sure, maybe even three hundred and fifty but, beyond that, it can go and defend its own seedy self.

Next time you're in Rio, perhaps you can fetch your poor dog a bone.

Reminds me of Talullah's wonderful line at a party: 'I was raped in our driveway when I was eleven. You know, dahling, it was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.'

I've been dashing my h-o-p-e-s since the early eighties, a strikingly bold shift soon after my worldview became slanted and my outlook jaded.

PM me if you're free on Thursdays.

I heard their bedbugs are getting liver spots.

Probably what separates folks like you and folks like me. I had a friend who wanted to go to the moon (not Alice Kramden, though there were some similarities) and I couldn't see why she would want to live surrounded by a bunch of rocks. Guess I was fussier than she was about the nature of the adventure that lay ahead. Now if you told me there was some alien tail out there waiting to orbit me around a blue moon somewhere, I'd be strapping on a booster and racing you to the launch pad.

Or whom.

It was the CRT that needed around 20,000 volts to bring you your Romper Room. Even with the TV turned off and unplugged, there were capacitors inside that stored enough of a residual charge to put you on your ass. And not in the good way.

Well, I'll nominate number eleven (at 1:14 in the video below), courtesy of nonagenarian Iris Apfel, who's featured in Albert Maysles' new film, Iris. I've been waffling about seeing it but am now convinced it should be a gas.

It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it. I give it a 98.

Pretty nervy, but real chutzpah would be billing you for phone sex.

Fasten your seat belt Suckrates because, in my opinion, you and AdamSmith are more alike than you are different. You both post what you like with the hope that others will enjoy it. You rarely kvetch about what others post, and you never begrudge us hijackers our bits of fun. Those are rare qualities in a poster, and we're blessed to have the both of you. Since it's now AdamSmith's turn in the key light, I'll add the opinions that he's unfailingly cheerful; supportive of nearly all other posters; and as regular as any of the chappies in his signature thread. If he occasionally posts something that's a bit specialized somewhat arcane as opaque as a lead-dipped onyx, where's the harm in that? If he's not around to explain it, one can often make do with other available, albeit lesser, resources. If we didn't have AdamSmith posting his stuff here at BoyToy, OZ would have to invent him.

Believe me, it's not with any sense of pride that I beg folks to dumb it down so I can play along. And, as you say, there are doors which shall ever remain closed to the likes of yours truly. But then along comes a guy like your pal, Richard Feynman, who thinks it's up to him to make his thoughts available even to college freshmen and I start going all hopeful again. Speaking of hopeful, please don't stop dangling the hard stuff just because some of us find it difficult to swallow. In the end, that is what brings us all here.

Well, what put me off this guy from the outset was the second sentence of the two I quoted: De Man poses the question whether such self-generating systems of figuration can account fully for the intricacies of meaning and of signification they produce. I mean is there any possible way that question he poses could have any answer but 'no'? Call me an amiable bumbling amateur but I just can't see how he could reasonably stand in front of the class and say, "Yes, such self-generating systems of figuration can account fully for the intricacies of meaning and of signification they produce! Without question or exception, and let me tell you why." I guess it's always possible he's using compressed specialist language to say the thing concisely and being as honest and forthright as humanly possible to say exactly where he stands but, after reading a bit more on de Man da man, I'm gonna need some convincing that he's not just showboating.

Aha! It appears that you temporarily had us confused with a bunch of figurative language specialists. Easy mistake and, had de Man's wheeze nodded toward one of my own specialties, rather than one of his, I bet I'd have been a lot quicker on the uptake. “In ‘partialism’, the paraphilic focus is on some part of the partner’s body, such as the hands, legs, feet, breasts, buttocks, or hair. Partialism appears to overlap with morphophilia, which is defined as a focus on one or more body characteristics of one’s sexual partner…it is unclear whether these two categories are unique paraphilias or different names for the same paraphilia.