Natter:

Jesse:

At least Jenna and Barbara Bush have a little meat on their bones.

billytea:

And, marinated!

Nilly: I'm so vanilla that the other ice-creams are being calibrated by me.

From natter:

msbelle:

I think we should all celebrate and eximplify the passive worker.

juliana:

I would prefer not to.

shrift , in Other Media:

I had to drop all of the Bat titles he's writing months ago. I try not to take life too seriously, and Willingham had me seriously thinking about taking life.

JZ, on the ad for BK's Enormous Omlette Sandwich

Did somebody actually write that ad copy and then sit back contentedly saying, "Aw, yeah, that's the stuff"? Because, bleah. I don't really want to wake up to a mouthful of anything, thank you. It sounds either vaguely (and ineptly) porny or like the EOS is a feral foodstuff roaming through the bedrooms of America and lunging into sleeping people's mouths like a rabid monkey pouncing from underneath a bush. Either way, not so appetizing.

Teppy in Great Write. If you want context, go look, but be warned, every post since yesterday is a potential choking hazard:

The beauty of bad writing is the multitide of ways in which it can be done.

ita: I weigh clothing/presentation using a kick ass principle. If I can't kick ass in it - it'd better be kickass.

In Natter:

Gloomcookie: My jeans all have stretch, too. The better to show off my ass femininity.

ChiKat: Me, too. My femininity needs the extra give.

In Natter, where no subject is off-limits --

tommyrot leads in with this news tidbit:

Last night, anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley was a guest on The Alan Colmes Show, a FOX News radio program. The topic was an interesting one - whether or not an internet service provider should allow Horsley to post the names of abortion doctors on his website. Horsley does that as a way of targeting them and one doctor has been killed. In the course of the interview, however, Colmes asked Horsley about his background, including a statement that he had admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex.

....

AC: "You had sex with animals?"

NH: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."

AC: "I'm not so sure that that is so."

NH: "You didn't grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?"

AC: "Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?"

NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality... Welcome to domestic life on the farm..."

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And the Buffistas are off and running --

Jessica: Suddenly, the whole gay marriage-->box turtle comment makes so much more sense.

Aimée: Ginger and Francis sitting in the tree......

tommyrot: By the way - for the record, we had no mules on our farm.

amych: Apparently you should've been living in Georgia.

tommyrot: Naw. The Devil hangs out there.

JohnSweden: Isn't mulefucking the sort of thing an Old Testament god would flamestrike people for? I mean, I'm a forgiving sort, so I'm prepared to forgive and forget on his mulefucking past if he'll stop being a bigot and anti-abortion sociopath.

Betsy HP: Kinsey did demonstrate that bestiality is not uncommon among farm laborers.

I just find it amusing that in Georgia, you can't legally buy alternative forms of things that are "warm and damp and vibrate".

Matt the Bruins fan: I'd always heard that people grew up much more matter-of-fact about the facts of life on a farm, from seeing the animals behaving as they do. But my impression was that it was still only the deviants that tried to cut in on the circle of life.

Calli:

I just find it amusing that in Georgia, you can't legally buy alternative forms of things that are "warm and damp and vibrate".

It upsets the mules. (Especially the male ones.) Cuts into their action and all.

Jessica: I suspect it's a case of people who fuck their mules assuming that everyone else is, too. The same way that people who do not fuck their mules assume that other people's mules are similarly unmolested.

Sean K:

I suspect it's a case of people who fuck their mules assuming that everyone else is, too.

Weirdo Georgia farmboy.....

Corwood Industries: That whole Georgia farm thing just makes me wonder about Steve on Deadwood: is he an anti-choice activist?

Nutty: I think people who fuck their mules would probably have a little sympathy for pee-lovers and masochists and other oddball fetishes, but apparently the mule-fucking among us are hypocritically self-righteous.

You know, actually, on the scale of creeptastic oddball fetishes I perfer not to know about, mule-fucking is head, shoulders, knees and toes beyond pee-love and masochism.

bon bon:

I think people who fuck their mules would probably have a little sympathy for pee-lovers and masochists and other oddball fetishes, but apparently the mule-fucking among us are hypocritically self-righteous.

If god hadn't wanted us to do it, he wouldn't have made farm animals so irresistably delectable!

Betsy HP: I have a mule on my head right now and it's--

What are you all staring at?

Raquel: Ever see The Advocate? It opens with a farmer and a mule being led to the gallows as they've been convicted of indecent relations. At the last second, a monk comes running out with an affadavit signed by the rest of the community saying that the mule was a (continued...)

( continues...) non-consenting participant, so she's freed. Apparently based on a real court case (in France, not Georgia, and it the middle ages, not now).

If that doesn't hook you, it stars Colin Firth.

Betsy HP: The New Englanders hanged animals caught in bestiality; there's a documented case of a pig being executed alongside a human.

Nutty: The real question is, if you subsequently made sausages out of an animal you'd hanged, was it considered cannibalism?

Because, like, allowing an animal to stand trial is tantamount to considering that animal a human, in the eyes of the law.

Also, what was the pig's crime called? It's not bestiality, from the pig's point of view.

Corwood Industries:

Also, what was the pig's crime called?

Ape love.

DavidS: Who the hell has sex with mules?

I thought that's what sheep were for.

Corwood Industries: Ah, but mules can't get pregnant.

Man, I'm glad I came out of the woodwork for this discussion.

Nutty: I wonder if hanging your lunch makes it inedible? I mean, as opposed to other forms of slaughter? Okay, I know nothing about slaughter. It's got to be an odd sight, though, a cow hanging from a noose.