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#27476 05/09/2001 8:20 PM
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The government would tax sex if they could figure out how to do it. May be a cross between a chastity belt and a parking meter.


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The government would tax sex if they could figure out how to do it. May be a cross between a chastity belt and a parking meter.

Bill, do I sense a patent about to be filed? It might sell real well in Louisville, just prior to Derby
Week--to anxious daddies, that is. Tsuwm, my husband
lerves
(thanks, CK) Hunter Thompson, and I am here to testify that every word he wrote is the truth...


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Tsuwm, my husband [loves]Hunter Thompson...

i had to read that twice; for a second there i thought i had completely missed the fact that either (1) tsuwm is your husband or (2) in a remarkable twist of fate, you married another man named Tsuwm


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i thought i had completely missed the fact that either (1) tsuwm is your husband or (2) in a remarkable twist of fate, you married another man named Tsuwm

Get a grip, child! You'll give our tsuwm a case of the
screaming meemies...




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Bill, do I sense a patent about to be filed? It might sell real well in Louisville, just prior to Derby
Week--to anxious daddies, that is. Tsuwm, my husband
lerves (thanks, CK) Hunter Thompson, and I am here to testify that every word he wrote is the truth...


Hunter Thompson? D'you mean Hunter S. Thompson? Moi? Not ... I get fear and loathing every time I see one of his books! He's a real snake in the grass.

And I vaguely remember that this thread started out with me wondering if everyone was colour-blind but seeing everything twice ... Yossarian for President. I liked the self-doubt. Very taxing for him, though.



The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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sex taxes
That suggestion brings a lot of hilarious pictures to mind. Whould they employ meter maids to check on those running overtime? If you neglected to pay your tickets, would they attach a boot to your driving apparatus?


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i thought i had completely missed the fact that either (1) tsuwm is your husband or (2) in a remarkable twist of fate, you married another man named Tsuwm

I had to read that twice, too.

Get a grip, child! You'll give our tsuwm a case of the
screaming meemies...


But it would explain a lot about the relationship between the two Pooh-Bahs!



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did someone mention a hugger-mugger?!


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hugger-mugger

As in being secret/clandestine? Or in the sense of sowing confusion? Not that the Two Pooh Bahs would ever do that ON PURPOSE!!


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i thought i had completely missed the fact that either (1) tsuwm is your husband or (2) in a remarkable twist of fate, you married another man named Tsuwm

I had to read that twice, too.


As did I. It is nice to know that I was not alone in my confusion.


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Now dag nab it, I've told you people that my posts come out spaced differently than the way I type them!
'T'ain't my fault that the line ended with Tsuwm, my husband.

(BTW, T-dear, when are we gonna tell 'em?)


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'T'ain't my fault that the line ended with Tsuwm, my husband.

What a shame your line is dying out , Tsuwm-- and I guess Jackie your son, isn't Tsuwm son-- Well that been covered on this board-- "Paternity events" I think was the term... My AWAD is a regular little Peyton Place!


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please note that Jackie's husband, Tsuwm
spells his name differently.
-ron obvious


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please note that Jackie's husband, Tsuwm
spells his name differently.


I capitalized it 'cause it was the beginning of the sentence, Pooh-bah Honey.


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>I capitalized it 'cause it was the beginning of the sentence

so where in Strunk & White do it say that sentence placement takes precedence over improper spelling?!
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so where in Strunk & White do it say that sentence placement takes precedence over improper spelling?!

On page 39, paragraph 2, ron, Honey.

Who are Strunk & White?


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(oh goody I get to say this before tsuwm does):

Jackie, YCLIU

You might be more familiar with Mr White in his persona as author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.

Hope this helps [ducking]


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Psst, Anna--
I put that question just so it would be clear that I was pulling the wool over tsuwm's eyes... [evil grin]


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In response to the Pooh-Bah's complaint that the Pooh-Binah had misspelled his name, the Pooh-Binah replies: I capitalized it 'cause it was the beginning of the sentence

The Pooh-Bah responds: so where in Strunk & White do it say that sentence placement takes precedence over improper spelling?!

I must say, that strictly speaking, choice of capitalization is not a matter of spelling. T is a t is a t, to coin an old paraphrase.

That said, none other that whatever the name of that on-line magazine is has decreed that words which would normally be capitalized, such as people's names, e.g., t. s. eliot, but aren't, remain uncapitalized in contexts in which normally uncapitalized words would be capitalized, e.g., at the beginning of a sentence.


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In reply to:

That said, none other that whatever the name of that on-line magazine is has decreed that
words which would normally be capitalized, such as people's names, e.g., t. s. eliot, but aren't,
remain uncapitalized in contexts in which normally uncapitalized words would be capitalized,
e.g., at the beginning of a sentence


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tsuwm tsays: tyvm

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tsuwm tsays: tyvm

Oh, pooh on you, then!

And--I ain't no 'Binah--I've got dark-brown hair and brown eyes.



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