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Escorts & Engagements
That was a joke, by the way. About Roseanne. Real quick, chemistry is an odd thing. Surf, how do you explain all the average looking people that have found love? Go outside of Southern Cal for a day. Go to the Midwest. NOT that the Midwest is a mecca for average looking folks. But go there and look around. Lots and lots of big butts and baseball caps, walking around, holding hands, kissing, laughing. Nothing superficial about it. Just plain, old-fashioned love.— March 20, 2009 8:05 a.m.
Escorts & Engagements
Ha, ha!!! Little Pee-Pee! Oh, this is making my day! JB, you are reverting to the celebrity world again. This is the real world, with real people. I'D probably date John Goodman if he asked me and maybe even Roseanne if I wasn't a happily married woman! Anti has an excellent point - intelligence. What a concept. That can trump just about any attribute. I don't like "funny" guys. A sense of humor is necessary, but funny guys are always "on", trying to be the center of attention. A good personality equates to not being an as*hole. That "bad boy" crap? Spare me. Rhianna can have them. And money? Again, like anti says, someone that makes about as much as I do is perfectly fine. Mmmm. Maybe some men and some women are more alike than we care to admit. And those are the couples that you see and read about that have been together for 50 plus years and still look forward to seeing each other every day.— March 20, 2009 7:54 a.m.
Kill Bill -- Two Bill's, Both Idiots
Now that I have stopped laughing... I used that same logic - that the tip would be given upon the usage of the gift cert. Didn't matter. Oh,well. Funny, this conversation came up not too long ago with some friends about tipping on expensive wine. It's about 50/50. I always bring my own when dining out. How do you tip on that? Typically the restaurant charges a corkage fee. But is there a rule on tipping when you BYOB? I always leave about $10.00 more. But that seems like a lot when you are already paying a fee just to pull the plug. We usually share a glass with our server when it is really good.— March 20, 2009 7:36 a.m.
Weirdest Band Names
Have you heard!?!?? The ORIGINAL Jane's Addiction with HEADLINER NIN!? We are getting tickets. Are you going? Oh, yeah. Nine Inch Nails? I've heard it has something to do with coffins. Jane's Addiction? Well, we could sub in all our names for something, now couldn't we?— March 19, 2009 7:05 p.m.
Kill Bill -- Two Bill's, Both Idiots
Nooooo. I bought a $100.00 gift certificate for a raffle, in addition to the meal. Okay, the bill for our food was like $75.00. The total bill was $175.00. because I PURCHASED a $100.00 gift cert. Do you get it now? A gift certificate was not used for the meal, it was purchased IN ADDITION to the meal, because I intended on using it at a later date for a raffle. PLEASE TELL ME YOU GET THIS OR I MAY HAVE TO OPT OUT. YOU CANNOT BE THIS DUMB.— March 19, 2009 6:55 p.m.
Escorts & Engagements
Because you equate personality with poverty. No, thanks.— March 19, 2009 6:45 p.m.
Sexting
Girls posing nude. And being punished for it. While catering to a male audience, who then throw the girl under the bus, absolving themselves of all responsibility. Kind of reminds me of Justin Timberlake when he ripped of Janet Jackson's "thingy". And every other woman in the history of mankind who doffed their drawers for men. Do they ever really have respect? Hell, no. I don't know how to stop this. I wish I could. It goes nowhere, and men still look at us as sluts and whores, even when we achieve anything of merit on our own. The lawsuit is bullsh*t. The parents need to discipline their own kids, the school should not have stepped in. Okay. But Canon, your arguments are all based on heresay. "It is my interpretation". And trust me, nudity vs. pot smoking is far more mortifying to a parent. Think it through.— March 19, 2009 6:22 p.m.
Escorts & Engagements
So what's the deal, Surf? Do you just hate us in general? You are dangerously close to misogyny. And you, JB, with your "they've probably all" generalizations. You are not women, so stop trying to figure us out. Especially in such a bad light. Women date a variety of men. Just like men date a variety of women. So, if he happens to have money, we are jerks. If he is good looking, we are jerks. If he is both, heaven help us. If he just has money and average looks, we are jerks. So, are we only allowed to date average looking marginally employed men?— March 19, 2009 5:16 p.m.
Sexting
THANK YOU! I caught that as well (see post no. 7). The parents used this as an opportunity to make some cash, not teach their kid a valuable life lesson. No punishment should have been meted out by the school. That's where they were wrong. The parents should have been called in (ALL parents involved), the photos given to the parents of the girls involved, with the express notice to the parents that they take it from there.— March 19, 2009 7:13 a.m.
Escorts & Engagements
That joke's older than you, Fred!! Nice to know you have not been kidnapped by a harem of Swedish massage therapists. That was my point, anti. If we had to. No woman will ever have to pay for it. Sounds like you're done with the XY part of the equation anyway. And, JB, you just can't help yourself. "No names required for a woman that sleeps around"? What do you call "A WOMAN THAT SLEEPS AROUND"? It's still a label. I think you think women don't enjoy sex. Why can't you call her a woman who likes sex? It just doesn't feel right to you, does it?— March 19, 2009 7:06 a.m.