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sorabji.com: Reasons to be cheerful: a bigger, thicker rod
THIS IS A READ-ONLY ARCHIVE FROM THE SORABJI.COM MESSAGE BOARDS (1995-2016).

By Sarah on Monday, April 5, 1999 - 11:26 pm:

    "If you liked Snyder's Pretzel Rods before, then you will absolutely love our new Rods! Now, they're bigger, thicker and bursting with more great flavor than ever before."


    this verbage actually appears on the pretzel package. i am not making this up.




    mmmmmmmmmm Rods!







By Gee on Wednesday, April 7, 1999 - 08:58 am:

    hot Dog!


By Agatha on Wednesday, April 7, 1999 - 01:39 pm:

    no, hot rod!


By Gee on Thursday, April 8, 1999 - 06:11 am:

    Either way, now I'm hungry.


By Nate on Thursday, April 8, 1999 - 11:05 am:

    hot damn!


By Squeezable on Thursday, April 8, 1999 - 02:04 pm:

    Is this like McDonalds, I'm hungry, can I have a HAPPY MEAL please?


By Sarah on Thursday, June 3, 1999 - 11:33 pm:


    i have two viagra pills in my possession. does anyone know what happens when women take them?





By R.C. on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 01:30 am:

    Are you really that dumb, Sarah? Or is this just a joke?

    First of all/you shd've seen a dcotor before you got those pills. Becuz they're not like yr usual recreational drugs. Even if you can get them over the Internet/they aren't SAFE w/out an informed MD's advice & warnings.

    If you are taking any other medications/inc. b.c. pills/decongestants/or illicit drugs/you shdn't take Viagra. You can read more abt it here:

    http://www.viagra.com/consumer/prod_info.htm

    Notice that this site contains NO INFO on how Viagra effects women. Becuz Viagra is a drug designed for MEN. Particularly older, impotent White men. If you don't fit those categories/you shdn't ben taking it. It's been on the market less than a year/& the stats are still out on how it effects women.

    If the guy is old enuf to need Viagra/maybe you shd consider picking them a bit younger. If he can't get it up just looking at you naked/then you're shorting yrself. Capisce?

    And if the Viagre is for you -- good grief girl! Find yrself someone who turns you on w/out drugs!
    At least the 1st few times.

    You are truly buggin' ...




By Sarah on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 04:16 am:


    i have not actually taken viagra. i simply have two pills in my possession.


    as far as i can tell, viagra increases blood flow to genitals. i understand that penises are different from vaginas, but viagra is not a horomone and does not contain horomones. it also is not a fertility drug. it does not contain steroids. so it is hard for me to come to the biologically or physiologically scientific conclusion that a drug that simply increases blood flow to genitals would be harmful for women. aside from pre-existing side effects of the drug itself, of course.


    my guess is that there are many women out there who have taken viagra, perhaps just simply out of curiosity and not necessarily because they have sexual dysfunctions. i have done a search on Medline to try to find more information about women and viagra but found none. so i thought i would ask anyone here if they knew how viagra affects women or if any women reading these boards has taken it, or have anecdotes of other women who have taken it. i've posted the same question to a few USENET forums as well. hardly scientific inquiry, but i was just curious.


    but jeeez RC, all i did was ask a question. you sure did jump to a lot of conclusions.



By Big Kevin on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 06:53 am:

    I recently read an article where a woman writer took Viagra then discribed her adventures with her boyfriend.

    It pretty much said that sensitivity and pleasure (read orgasm) were heightened.


    I will look for the mag. and get back to you.


    PS as i recall the only side affect mentioned was a headache the following morning.


By Spiracle on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 10:29 am:

    yeah..playboy? the issue with cindy crawford on the cover..i believe is where the article is..


By J on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 10:40 am:

    Oh,I,m way over my head,I just saw bigger,thicker rod.Never mind.


By Swine on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 10:56 am:

    playboy: vol. 43 #10 - october '98; page 29.

    "i loved the number of orgasms i'd had, and the fun, pleasure, and luxury of having his unflagging member at my disposal. but we were struck by the fact that although viagra makes you hard and and ready, it doesn't make you horny. that's still up to the relationship, the chemistry, and the exchange od pleasure between you and your partner."


By Nate on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 01:57 pm:

    you have too much time on your hands, swine.

    oo.


    maybe that's not time.


By Swine on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 02:02 pm:

    i'm on vacation, spanky.

    and what's with you and your obsession with margret's meat?


By Nate on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 02:30 pm:

    not meat. meatmobile.


By Bagpuss on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 03:49 pm:

    I thought it said Bigger, Thicker, RED?


By R.C. on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 07:51 pm:

    Well Sarah, here's what the site said:

    "If you take any medicines that contain nitrates - either regularly or as needed - you should never take VIAGRA.If you take VIAGRA with any nitrate medicine or recreational drug containing nitrates, your blood pressure could suddenly drop to an unsafe level. You could get dizzy, faint, or even have a heart attack or stroke. Nitrates are found in many prescription medicines that are used to treat angina (chest pain due to heart disease) such as:

    •nitroglycerin (sprays, ointments, skin patches or pastes, and tablets that are swallowed or dissolved in the mouth) •isosorbide mononitrate and isosorbide dinitrate (tablets that are swallowed, chewed, or dissolved in the mouth)

    Nitrates are also found in recreational drugs such as amyl nitrate or nitrite ("poppers"). If you are not sure if any of your medicines contain nitrates, or if you do not understand what nitrates are, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

    VIAGRA is only for patients with erectile dysfunction. VIAGRA IS NOT FOR NEWBORNS, CHILDREN OR WOMEN. Do not let anyone else take your VIAGRA. VIAGRA must be used only under a doctor's supervision."
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    When a drug co. warning tell me flat out that this pill is NOT for women/that's enuf cause to pause for me.

    But hey -- it's yr body.


By Accustat on Friday, June 4, 1999 - 07:51 pm:

    Reasons NOT to be cheerful with a bigger thicker rod (sad notes from personal experience)...........

    ..."ouch that hurt....don't go so deep"

    ...."it seems he has bruised your cervix and encouraged a development of PID"

    ..."honey I am still sore from 2 nights ago....it's because you so god damned big, i can't handle you more than twice a week...."


By Sarah on Saturday, June 5, 1999 - 09:57 am:


    funny... the government used to tell people that voting wasn't for women either. good thing there were some women who could think for themselves or else today Dan Quayle might be the Chief.

    in any case, it's 4am and i'm annoyed. my new roommmate woke me up yet again with her squealing. maybe *she* is on viagra... i'll have to ask. that is, AFTER giving her eviction notice when she wakes up in a few hours.

    it's useless for me to sleep right now. i'm folding laundry, listening to the soundtrack to Gridlock'd, drinking Grand Marnier, and hoping one of you east coasters is awake soon to keep me company.

    long live pharmeceuticals.










By J on Saturday, June 5, 1999 - 12:36 pm:

    Why don,t you just go kick her ass?Kick his ass too,then cut off his penis,that will give them something to think about.Then flush his penis down the toilet,so he can,t get it re-attached.But what do I know,it,s only 9:30 and I,m on my third grapefruit and vodka.In fact last time I acted on impulse,I had to pay a 35 dollar fine,and take an anger controle class,but it was worth it.


By Bagpuss on Saturday, June 5, 1999 - 05:26 pm:

    Knock on the door

    Pause

    Say, in a calm measured tone



    "Keep it down"


By R.C. on Saturday, June 5, 1999 - 07:22 pm:

    <my new roommmate woke me up yet again with her squealing. maybe *she* is on viagra... i'll have to ask. that is, AFTER giving her eviction notice when she wakes up in a few hours.>

    ROFLMBAOff!

    (Reminds me of dormlife...) Sad as it sounds/you simply can't evict people for having loud, sheet-searing sex.

    You cd however/ask to join 'em...

    Or shag the guy yrself & see what all the fuss is abt. Which wd probably precipitate said roommate's immediate evacuation in a huff. (Can you swing the rent alone?)


By Markus on Sunday, June 6, 1999 - 09:33 pm:

    Alright, for advancement of science:

    My girlfriend at the time had an old boyfriend (of twenty years past) who let slip that he not only had a prescription, but just taking half a pill had changed his life. She cadged one from him, and we split it. After the requisite thirty minute wait, the here were the results:

    ** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ** I do not need, nor have I ever needed, pharmaceutical or any other assistance in this arena. Thank you for your attention. We now return you to your regularly scheduled scientific experiment.

    Sarah is right about the logic of increasing blood flow to the genitals and that it should be non-gender specific. We had heard various anecdotal evidence that a minor benefit to women may or may not accrue. My partner, however, reported no changes at all, either during or after.

    The male in the study, however, reported a definite effect. While the, ahem, equipment had always been more than satisfactory (testimonials on file in the office), once things got under way, there was a definite increase in rigidity, size, and persistence, all areas, it should be pointed out, that were already thought to be optimal, if not a bit uncomfortable (see above). It may be that I'm just getting old and hadn't noticed a gradual decline, but it really seemed as if there was a last 5% of potential there that had never been reached before.

    In short, a good time was had by all, and an attempt to procure more was thwarted by the (understandably) miffed ex who was reluctant to subsidize someone else's fun. I would recommend to Sarah that she try it; I, at least, would be interested in the results. My advice would be to use only half a tablet each. I'm a fairly large guy with historically a very high tolerance for medications, so I was skeptical, but half was good.

    Did I mention that I don't need Viagra? I'll be leaving the board now.


By R.C. on Sunday, June 6, 1999 - 10:37 pm:

    You're not leaving til you send me those testimonials!

    But if all it does for women in increase blood flow to the genitals/there are dozens of herbs that'll do that. For a lower price & w/out the possible side effects.


By Nate on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 11:29 am:

    "good thing there were some women who could think for themselves or else today Dan Quayle might be the Chief. "

    men are dumb apes and women are the enlightened! o sarah, please grant us more tidbits of your infinite female wisdom!


By Accustat on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 12:56 pm:

    yes please


By R.C. on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 07:21 pm:

    Bad, bad Nate! And you're having a negative inlfuence on our newcomer Waffleboy as well.

    Be nice/or Sarah will take down yr pants & spank you both -- good!


By WAFFLEBOY on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 07:34 pm:

    yes please


By Mala-dicta on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 07:38 pm:

    I would hope that a gal as bright as Sarah,if she got his pants down would pull that knife out and do the right thing.


By WAFFLEBOY on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 07:40 pm:

    OH OH OH .........THATS SO HARSH....I GUESS I SHOULD SHUT MY MOUTH NOW WHILE I AM STILL INNOCENT


By R.C. on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 07:51 pm:

    Who's Mala-dicta? Must be a female. Becuz guys NEVER make those kind of jokes!

    I may have torched a guy's car. And I broke a lamp over one dude's head for backhanding me once (& he never hit me again) ... But I wd NEVERR, ever cut off the Johnson.

    You never know when you might want some of that again...


By WAFFLEBOY on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 07:54 pm:

    no no no never ever threaten the jimmy, thats as serious as Russia sayin..."I am gonna push it..I gonna push it...." (the red button)


By R.C. on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 08:03 pm:

    I still can't figure out how John Wayne Bobbit managed to get dick his sewn back on (& working/no less!)/after Lorena whacked it off & threw it out her car window...

    If I had a dick that got cut off & it had spent many hours lying by the side of the road/getting sniffed by every stray dog that passed by & God knows what else/I'm sorry -- l'da told 'em "No thanks -- gimme a new one!"

    [Funny -- surgeon's can replace a severed dick. But if you cut off yr foot or hand/you're generally shitouttaluck.]


By R.C. on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 08:04 pm:

    Pardon the stray apostrophe on surgeons. Tis past my dinnertime & my blood sugar is thru the floor.

    Lemme go eat...


By WAFFLEBOY on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 08:06 pm:

    I have seen one of the pornos he did, I am surprised they even found it. And I have to wonder why she used a knife so big, a pearing sheer would have done the trick if ya know what I mean......severed penises..bad bad bad bad bad topic


By Sarah on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 09:15 pm:

    bagpuss: i had tried that strategy several times. i even used the word "please" in my requests, nearly every night for 35 days. i think that's more than reasonably tolerant. she had to go. it just wasn't a good match this time. it was actually quite amicable and there are no hard feelings.










By Sarah on Monday, June 7, 1999 - 09:19 pm:

    oh, and i still haven't taken the viagra, but thanks for the testimony, Markus. much appreciated.




By Bagpuss on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 02:17 am:

    Just out of curiosity...

    Is there ANYTHING worse than listening to loud, animalistic sex when you're not getting any?


By Sarah on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 04:33 am:


    yeah. listening to your ex having loud animalistic sex with someone else when you're not getting any.



    mercifully however i am getting some these days.



By Cyst on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 05:18 am:

    mala-dicta was J, I think.


By WAFFLEBOY on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 10:50 am:

    WOW they were getting laid for 35 days straight?????...they must be the envy of the whole neighborhood........brokedick.........


By Nate on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 11:10 am:

    "good thing there were some women who could think for themselves or else today Dan Quayle might be the Chief. "

    BEGONE OPPRESSORS!

    this statement is blatant sexism! why am i bad?

    all i did is continue the sentiment...i didn't start it.


By WAFFLEBOY on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 12:11 pm:

    Right on Nate...my question is how exactly would Quayle be the Chief......he has never ran for Prez, and Bush was never in a position to loose his seat like our pal Willy....clarification please...if in fact it was blind shot in the dark to insult republicans and men and somehow boost the morale of the fem gender, I have to say it's a poor attempt.....


By Agatha on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 12:57 pm:

    it was still funny, though.


By Nate on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 12:58 pm:

    it was not agatha.


By Swine on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 01:26 pm:

    c'mon nate.
    eat the shit, accept the hipocrisy, and smile like you enjoy it.

    be a man.


By WAFFLEBOY on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 01:27 pm:

    YEAH, NO COMIC VALUE...I LOVE A GOOD GENDER/RACIAL/RELIGIOUS SLASH EVERY NOW AND THEN FOR A LARF.......HELL EVEN A GOOD PENIS JOKE GETS ME OFF MY ROCKER, I CAN LAUGH AT MYSELF, BUT THE DAN QUALE THING WAS NOT FUNNY


By Mala-Dicta on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 01:30 pm:

    Picking on people who can,t spell is krule.


By WAFFLEBOY on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 01:58 pm:

    U UH OH I FARGET TO PUT A "Y" IMN "DAAN QUAYLE" HO IRANIC IS THET


By Big Kevin on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 06:06 pm:

    Actually, I'm pretty sure it wasn't playboy, I know this cause I don't read it ( I just look at the pics). I think it was one of the Maxim mags. I'm off to check their web site right now.

    I'll keep ya posted

    PS. go for it!! you ever take drugs(narcotics)? it can't be any worse.


By Sarah on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 08:21 pm:

    first of all, i'm cursing myself for letting you all bait me with such nonsense. we all know why you're targeting me for this. i just hope you never in your life told a bad joke, or dumb blonde joke or a pollock joke or whatever. hypocricy? don't forget to look in the mirror before speaking words like that. or don't things like "Fuck The French" count? but i suppose those kinds of jokes are acceptable around here...

    if you want to continue to think that i'm a racist and also a sexist, go right ahead. i'm not, but i don't give a fuck what you think of me.

    that said, if my statement was at all slanderous, it wasn't slander against men, but against The Man. i mean, there's a reason why the term "The Man" is synonymous with oppression. but it's certainly not my fault that the majority of legislators/goverment officials (and economic leaders in the private sphere as well) are men.

    hmmm... actually, it is my fault. come to think of it, if women were so enlightened we'd rally our forces to launch all those priveledged, white, dumb apes out of public office.


    oooops, i did it again.




By Waffleboy on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 08:25 pm:

    god, i feel like a dick, seriously, Sarah, I am right behind you in kickin those white old fucks right outta DC, women already out number us in population, pretty soon I suspect you ladies CAN take over, I would love to be ruled by Cleopatra or the likes thereof....

    "yes Ma'am may I please have another CRACK!, yes ma'am may I please have another...CRACK!....."
    good days ahead sarah


By Swine on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 08:38 pm:

    fuck the french, you chuckleheaded monkeyshagging hypocrite.


By Mala-dicta on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 08:45 pm:

    Right on,Sarah.Your on it like Blue Bonnet.And I have a fine leather whip,For a $100.00 bucks an hour,you can come over my house and clean,cook,do my laundry,and I,ll whip you silly.I,ll give you a lickin like you,ve only had in your dreams.If your ever in my neck of the woods call me 867-5309.Grrr.


By Sarah on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 08:57 pm:


    is that the best you can do? pfffft.






By Margret on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 10:31 pm:

    Shee-it you rankassed pussy amateurs.

    Clearly the reason The Man is The Man is because once the woman got the vote and the freedom to go to work, she spent all her time policing the politics and sensitivity of her compadres, in print and on message boards.

    Couldn't have anything to do with entenched systems of power against which one feels less that hopeless, whereas one has a venue and gets a reaction bitching to the converted.

    Sarah's a racist? I thought that was what everyone decided about J. Only my complete inability to grow a dick kept me from defending J back then, so because I have belatedly sprouted some OVARIES AND THEN SOME I will take a stab at it now, but I don't feel like finding the Chandler AZ 1:00 a.m. thread to do it.

    J was discussing the "wetback" issue, which is one of particular sensitivity in all areas bordering Mexico. But there are different cultural environs. Texas and California each have their ways of dealing with illegal immigration, etc., socially, politically, economically. Arizona and New Mexico and Colorado have something altogether different going on, and I think (though I'm not sure) that it's because (at least for New Mexico and Arizona) the demographics are different. Arizona is a state whose richest people are retirees from other climes. New Mexico's richest people are immigrants from California and people whose families are old school exploiters, and these latter are of spanish and anglo descent, both (and you should NEVER call them hispanics because their story is they came over with Coronado and by GOD they're sticking to it). In New Mexico, the only people I ever heard talk trash on more recent immigrants were hispanic. Like, 2nd or 3rd generation American citizens, max. And there's a special word for the recent less-than-invited immigrants, which is mojado (pronounced mo-hao, roughly), which is way meaner than wetback, and I have no idea what the translation is. The fear was that the influx of cheap labor and bad elements (Albuquerque was the final destination of many a young person from one of the most vicious gangs in Juarez, the Juaritos) would fuck the people who lived there already financially and socially. So cut J some fucking slack (which obviously everyone HAS, but I'm pretending I didn't wuss out a month ago or so).

    I am sexist. I think men are less capable of nuanced rational thought than women. I don't think it's genetic, I think it has a lot to do with American culture. I don't think it's true of all men, but I would lay dollars to donuts for any generic woman off the street against any generic man off the street in resolving not just acceptably but fantabulously any kind of COMPLEX crisis.

    Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me.


By Margret on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 10:36 pm:

    p.s. Fuck the French


By Markus on Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 11:12 pm:

    Fuck the French. I like it; it's got a beat you can dance to.


By Jim aka PajamaBoy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 12:39 am:

    Is that the Sparky Pilferer mix or the Blue Nun Mega-mix?


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 05:21 am:

    fuck the french?

    they understand the importance of fine lingerie. their wines are the best in the world. they make pastries with fresh raspberries all year long.

    coronado was a hispanic. all it means is that you're ethnically from a spanish-speaking place (e.g. spain). the term "hispanic," like all other racial terms, is vague and often inaccurately applied.

    I am aware that there are often severe forms of racism within ethnic minorities. a friend of mine told me her chinese (born and raised in china - don't remember which province) sister-in-law totally looked down on any other chinese person with darker skin than her own, and she would wear long sleeves in the summer to keep her skin from looking any darker.

    anyway, I assume that j is white (doubtfully "hispanic" -- in all my travels in mexico, guatemala, nicaragua, el salvador, honduras, etc., I never met a central american with a 34" inseam), and "wetback" from a white person is an offensive racial slur.

    I think that use of such terms within an ethnic or racial group, people can use such terms for each other without the same connotations. a black person calling another black person a "nigger" means something different than when a white person calls black people in general "niggers."

    christ, I hope this doesn't start a really fucking boring discussion. but I think it will.


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 06:13 am:

    and I realize that my immediate assumption that j is a long-legged white person and not a long-legged black person reflects my own racism. or maybe I'm subconsciously remembering something she once said that clued me in that she was white, I do not know.

    but anyway, if this does turn into an argument, I hope I am not saddled with the young-white-privileged-liberal-arts-major-college-politically-correct-liberal side of things, because I am tired of all that and am not very good at it.


By Swine on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 08:24 am:

    i'm bored already.


By Margret on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 08:57 am:

    Uhh.

    Yeah.

    Coronado may have been a hispanic, and I'm well aware that it refers to a diaspora. I'm just saying that the old spanish families in New Mexico would be plenty pissed if you called them hispanic. They are SPANISH. It's a mental thing. Dig?

    Sigh.

    The french were fine to me when I was in Paris, but they were just recently mean to my friend Jamie the nicest human being on the face of the earth. So,

    Fuck les francais.


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 09:47 am:

    yeah. let's end the hispanic argument before it starts.

    I've been to spain once so far this year and france twice, and the only rude person I've encountered was one hurried boulangerie worker in paris. neither my french nor my spanish is that great in conversation, but everyone else has been ridiculously gracious and helpful and nice. I'm going back to france in two weeks and will stay for a month, but will probably only fuck an american. oh well, my loss, I'm sure.


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 10:01 am:

    anyway, I think how-nice-people-are-to-you ends up being sort of random. I've been to 25 or so countries and have been treated well wherever I go. I can't think of anywhere I thought rudeness was culturally ingrained, not even in paris.

    I think my worst experience was in a small, crowded prague restaurant in 1994. we tried being nice, we ordered in czech, but the waiter would only speak english to us. ok, fine, he wants to practice his english.

    anyway, at the end of the meal, the waiter gave us a bill that was about five times what we had ordered. so we explained there was an error, and he looked at the bill and said, "oops -- I guess I accidentally put a steak and prawns dinner on your bill!"

    he took that out, but the bill was still way off.

    so we asked to see the menu, and the waiter said, "it doesn't matter what's on the menu, this is what you're going to pay."

    we didn't even have that much money on us. I tried to remember what everything was supposed to cost and gathered that many crowns together.

    but the waiter said we weren't leaving until we paid what he said, and the owner/manager backed him up. we told them they could call the police if they liked, but we weren't going to pay what they asked.

    then, in this crowded little restaurant, they told us that the was a matter between us and them, and then they went and fucking locked the front door from the inside! so no one could get out.

    while I negotiated with the waiter and owner, my friend scoped the place out and said, "there's a back door -- let's go."

    so I left the money we owed on the bar and we all ran away.


By H on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 10:28 am:

    Must . . .

    resist . . .

    urge . . .

    to make . . .

    joke . . .

    about . . .

    fight over the czech.

    Ugh. Too late.


By Droopy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 10:59 am:

    Don't wanna start any hispanic thread again.

    Just wanna say there are 6 wetbacks down here in Texas who want to take you all out for cerveza.

    'Cause there just people tryin' to make it.

    "You need money like you need oxygen."


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 11:10 am:

    the whole thing about the French boils down to this......the French are rude to pompous americans who come over, shout " I WOULD LIKE SO MORE COFFEE PLEASE DO YOU SPEAKA ENGLISH?" and so and so forth. Wouldn't you be pissed if a bunch of arrogant German tourists came in to McDonalds and started talking really really loud in German and demanding that the 15 year old burger boy speak in German.........????

    When I was in PAris, I made sure my girl (who is fluent in French) did all the talking except when it came to "the check please" "the bathroom please" "another round please" "ashtray please" everything else she did in French. After having many candid conversations with locals in Paris, they initially thought we were from France, possibly the south or something due to my wifes slower diction........otherwise we were well received by all....all though my trip to London proved more successful, simply because I could now communicate and when people found out we were honeymooners they went ape shit with ohhhs ahhhhhs, yada yada.........



By Nate on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 12:32 pm:

    "their wines are the best in the world."

    that's exactly what those arrogant french bastards would have you believe.

    goddamnit. i grew up in sonoma and napa counties. i know the truth.

    you fuckers. i hate you all. i'm leaving and never coming back.


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 12:55 pm:

    i have been to napa and sonoma...i agree with you nate, they don't have the best wines, Germans have their fair share of decent wines as does california and south ameriaca, but who can really say we have had the primo top shelf wine. I personally have never spent over $50 for a bottle of wine and thats in an overpriced restuarant. For the most part i was in paris i drank their piss water wines at dinner and they were definitely better than our Gallo and Carlo & Rossi crap, but when was the last time anyone spent over a two hundered dollars on a bottle, supposedly they are the best of the best and their price indicates that but frankly who can say those are better than a $10 bottle of Kendal Jackson or something of the sort.....


By R.C. on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 12:58 pm:

    California champagne sucks. Always will. The soil's just not chalky enuf.

    I was 17 when I went to France/but my language skills were pretty good. And everyone treated me swell. People went out of their way to give me directions & make sure I didn't get ripped off my unscrupulous cabbies. (How many New Yorkers do that for foreign tourists?) If you make a decent effort to speak their langauge & don't act like an ugly American/the French can be incredibly friendly.

    If the French never got anything but champagne & pastries right/that wd still be more than enuf to earn them my undying love.


By R.C. on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 12:59 pm:

    Waffleboy -- does yr wife hang out here too? What's her alias?


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 01:12 pm:

    merci, r.c.

    and I actually don't know shit about wine, but I know that the french make some tasty stuff with pretty labels.


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 01:19 pm:

    no she doesn't she has been outta town since i found this joint last thursday, i may turn her on to it so we can shoot the shit while at work, as if email wasn't enuff to pass the company time


By H on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 01:49 pm:

    As long as we are on the subject of wines, I would recommend three classics -- Tonerre Oiseau, Fou Chien Vingt-Vingt and the timeless Nuit Locomotive.


By Margret on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 02:00 pm:

    How very francais.

    I am more of a Boone's chick myself.


By Droopy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 02:04 pm:

    I guy from Georgia (in the former soviet union) once turned me on to Chilean wines. That's all I tend to drink.

    As far as wines go.


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 02:18 pm:

    yeah here in LA we have a natural foods grocer called Trader Joes and they have the best but cheapest wines around and they have specials on Chilean wines alot, $2.99/ a bottle and its good stuff........any lady who calls Boones her juice is alright in my book


By Nate on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 02:30 pm:

    Trader Joes has great wine deals.

    There is no such thing as california champagne. i think champagne is a waste anyway, though. it's good for getting panties off and killer hangovers.

    i'm a zin man. i highly recommend ravenswood zin's. a good sonoma county wine.

    fuck the french.


By H on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 02:48 pm:

    Tonerre Oiseau = "Thunder Bird"

    Fou Chien Vingt-Vingt = "Mad Dog 20 20"

    Nuit Locomotive = "Night Train"

    I thought perhaps we had a Francophone amongst us.

    Reminds me of a great old Steve Martin bit.

    What the hell. Fuck the French.

    And Jerry Lewis too.


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 02:52 pm:

    yeah what up with champagne? last time i had that shit in a serious dose was my wedding nite, whatever they say about the firstnite, it aint true, if i could see straight i wouldve worked the panties, but i was lucky to get my own off ...

    nothin like waking up on the 42nd floor of the Peachtree Plaza downtown Atlanta, looking out the sole glass/window wall directly across from the bed, head splitting, praying to the porcelin god and climbing on a plane for ten hours........Thanks champagne, thank your making one of the most memorable hangovers in my personal history

    fuck the french for creating champagne, i'll take
    MD 20/20 over that shit anyday.......Grape flava pleeeze


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 02:53 pm:

    ever read "Cruel Shoes" a book by Steve Martin? in particular, the short story.."She had the jugs!"


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 02:57 pm:

    zin's fine, but kool-aid is cheaper and more colorful.

    I've been choosing cabernet sauvignon.


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:01 pm:

    h, I translated and chuckled to myself over your original post.

    at the comet in seattle we used to pick on recent transplants.

    "here's $5. go ask the bartender for a pitcher of 'ray-nyay.'"


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:01 pm:

    zinfandel is too sweet, like a sav blanc of a cabernet better, chard pushes it at times depdnds on who it is, whoever the local moonshine merchant makes a mean devils brew


By H on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:21 pm:

    Cyst - you have validated my existence here.

    Waffleboy - I have a first edition of Cruel Shoes which my dad gave me in 1979 when I was 11 years old. Clearly he never took the time to read it first. "Jugs" is good, but "The New Bohemians" is a classic. And BTW, have you ever tried your waffles with Philly Cream Cheese?


By Droopy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:22 pm:

    used to have a huge prejudice against white wine, until my sister treated me to a bottle of poully-fuisse(sp?) last summer. This one at least was very dry and crisp and cold and it was hot and sultry outside.

    it was sort of like being in one of the only good parts of a Hemingway novel.


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:26 pm:

    H- NEVER HAD CREAM CHEESE WITH MY WAFFLES, SOUNDS GOOD THOUGH...OOPS caps ...sorry for those who get uptight about caps....I haven't read it in a while is that the story about the people that just come over and say nothing and sit in his living room. what about the Smokers story, they just come over to his house and smoke. I think that book is the pinnacle of his comedy


By H on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:31 pm:

    YES!!!! YES!!!!!!!! And at the end they take all of his furniture and leave!!! I almost forgot about that one. Hard to believe it's been 20 years since that book came out.


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:34 pm:

    h - glad to have done someone some good.

    you and margret can throw obscure sartre references this way too. before I realized just how much time I could waste on the web, I was working on an american-english translation of "the age of reason."


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:36 pm:

    "Nausea" is my fav


By Markus on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:41 pm:

    Zinfandel is a serious red wine. Ravenswood in particular is quite decent; we pour it at my restaurant. White zinfandel is the Kool Aid blush.

    And Nate is quite right about champagne.


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:43 pm:

    maybe my next unfinished french project can be "the story of o" using "cunt" instead of "sex" and "ass" instead of "tighter entry."


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 03:48 pm:

    oh. there's a real zinfandel. oops.


By Nate on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 04:44 pm:

    jesus, cyst.


    jesus.


    white zin isn't even wine. can you even buy that stuff in a bottle? i think i've only ever seen it in a box.


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 05:11 pm:

    wine in a box, (ahhhhh the college days....!!)


By J on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 06:11 pm:

    In West Virginia underaged and stupid,we use to drink this mixture called purple Jesus,moonshine and thunderbird,or ripple.When I asked why they called it purple Jesus,was told I,d see Jesus,like in Heaven.Funny I never thought of Heaven as a toilet bowl,thats all I ever saw .Margret,I,m not gay,but I love you


By Waffleboy on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 06:33 pm:

    i love margaret too...i have heard of Purple Jesus......have you eve had Johnny Three-Legged Malt Liquor? It only comes in 40oz and there is story about Johnny and his three legged chicken on the back side of the label that becomes more and more apparent as you drink the juice.......if you see you must experience it just for the laughs


By Cyst on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 06:56 pm:

    I'm sorry, nate, I really am. for thinking you would like white zinfandel.

    I never see any sort of zinfandel in the selection of french, italian, moldovan, georgian, israeli and south african wines I peruse out here. is it a napa valley wine?

    the only california wines available here are gallo and paul masson.


By R.C. on Wednesday, June 9, 1999 - 10:10 pm:

    Not all zins are sweet (altho' I prefer a little sweetness). There's one I've had that was really fruity (vs. sweet). The nose/or whatever you call the fragrance of wine/was kinda spicy & full of berries. I've been drinking pinot grigio mostly for the past 2 mos./but if I see a bottle of that zinfandel again/I'll try to remember the name.

    And good champers won't give you a hangover. Unless you drink it on an empty stomach. I can't ever remember being hungover the next day from champagne. Or any wine/for that matter.
    Only booze leaves me feeling fucked-up the next morning. And that's usually only vodka or gin.



By Jim aka PajamaBoy on Thursday, June 10, 1999 - 08:31 am:

    Hey don't forget about Boone's Farm. That damn cheap ass apple blossom wine. What swill!!! I had a 96 year old great aunt who also happened to be a nun. She had three favorite drinks. Grasshoppers, Bourbon and Ginger Ale, and Wild Irish Rose. My mother used to be SOOOO embarassed to go into the liquor store and by that stuff. One time, she went to the counter and said she couldn't find any Wild Irish Rose, did they have any? The clerk screams, "Hey Dave, this lady needs a bottle of ROSE!!!"

    Oh, and Waffleboy... apologies... I didn't realize you were married. Keep burying that kielbasa without a brolly. You'll be just fine!


By J on Thursday, June 10, 1999 - 01:49 pm:

    I went to 3 stores last night and could not find the Johnny Three-Legged Malt Liquor.I,m very hurt and angry about this.


By Waffleboy on Thursday, June 10, 1999 - 01:54 pm:

    well i only saw it in Atlanta for a span of about 3 months, I doubt its around.....thats a shame


By H on Thursday, June 10, 1999 - 02:05 pm:

    Waffleboy - Clarification on the Cruel Shoes discussion. I was mistaken. The smokers story was the one where the people came over and sat around and said nothing and took away his furniture when they left. The New Bohemians was nothing more than a documentary narrative about a "normal" middle class family. Martin tried to make them sound like artists -- he described the father's morning ritual as "creating tiny hairs in the bathroom sink," and then added that the children "would often create things of their own in the bathroom but they would flush them away at a moment's notice." I haven't actually read the book in about 15 years but some things stick with you when you're exposed to them at a young age.


By Waffleboy on Thursday, June 10, 1999 - 02:09 pm:

    RIGHT, i need to dig my copy out and take peek, its been a few years for me as well


By Gee on Thursday, June 10, 1999 - 05:02 pm:

    oh my GOD. If I ever need to get to sleep fast, I'll be back to this thread.


By Waffleboy on Thursday, June 10, 1999 - 05:42 pm:

    we did'nt ASK for your approval nor did we invite you to join......if you ever wanna get to sleep fast I have pills that will do the trick beyond expectations


By Gee on Friday, June 11, 1999 - 10:34 am:

    Mmmm, Flintstones vitamens!

    Waffleboy....your posts are all like 15 minutes apart. What do you do all day that lets you use a computer so much?


By patrick on Thursday, May 8, 2003 - 07:23 pm:

    what a retard i can be


By patrick on Thursday, May 8, 2003 - 07:24 pm:

    i hate when some one revives an old thread.

    its like listening to a recording of your self and be shocked that you sound like you do.


    an asshole that is.


By wisper on Thursday, May 8, 2003 - 07:38 pm:

    did anyone else ever find it strange how RC always used a slash/when she was typing/instead of commas?


By TBone on Friday, May 9, 2003 - 02:24 am:

    I did. I figured it was like separations in verse.


By patrick on Friday, May 9, 2003 - 12:37 pm:

    no different than J using commas as apostrophies


By wisper on Friday, May 9, 2003 - 07:06 pm:

    i always wondered if her comma button was broken.
    sometimes she would use many in a row////was that instead of . . . ?

    well, it was just her way, i guess.


By PetRock on Monday, May 19, 2003 - 02:45 pm:

    Or that the slash is right next to the period key.

    She probably typed so fast that she would occasionally hit the wrong key.

    Least that's what I always thought...


By PetRock on Monday, May 19, 2003 - 02:47 pm:

    Oh, and I like reviving old messages. It can be fun to revisit the past and see if you still believe the same...

    Plus, personal experience is that the boards were far more fun years ago, which is one of the reasons I stopped coming.

    Errr...strike that. Change it to "...one of the reasons I stopped posting."

    That's better.


By sarah on Thursday, March 4, 2004 - 04:18 pm:


    just heard the latest Home Depot radio spot:


    "if you want to trim it, tame it, mow it, or blow it..."





    man, i can't believe i remembered this thread!




By sarah on Thursday, March 4, 2004 - 04:19 pm:


    five fucking years ago!!



By Nfrijgegjie on Saturday, March 6, 2004 - 01:22 pm:

    Thine Rod and Shaft .LOL!


By sarah on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 10:08 pm:


    i never did take viagra.




By Danielssss on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 12:41 pm:

    I can't believe I read the whole thread.

    Old thread.

    No experience with the little blue pill.

    See there must be some time when sorabjiadvice gets taken.

    But why revive the thread? A curiosity from the past...


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