I think the book with the word scrotum got so much attention because it was a either a Newbury winner or a Newbury medalist.
Out. For. A. Walk. ... Bitch.
Spike ,'Selfless'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Mar 13, 2007 7:38:32 am PDT #6801 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
bon bon - Mar 13, 2007 7:40:02 am PDT #6802 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Hey, how many people grew up with five-eight-eight two-three-hundred... empiiire?
Kathy A - Mar 13, 2007 7:42:30 am PDT #6803 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Me!! That, and "Just call NAtional-two-nine-hundreeeeed." The Chicago market seems to specialize in catchy carpet-store jingles--the latest is "Luuuu-naaaaa."
tommyrot - Mar 13, 2007 7:42:33 am PDT #6804 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hey, how many people grew up with five-eight-eight two-three-hundred... empiiire?
Didn't grow up with it, but since living in Chicago it's burned into my brain until the moment I die.
Just three blocks west of the Kennedy expressway....
bon bon - Mar 13, 2007 7:44:18 am PDT #6805 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I heard it was local to Chicago, but ISTR hearing it all through the 1980s in Phoenix and it's still a jingle in New York.
sarameg - Mar 13, 2007 7:45:13 am PDT #6806 of 10001
Hey, how many people grew up with five-eight-eight two-three-hundred... empiiire?
I swear to god, I've heard that recently. But I could be mad.
Kathy A - Mar 13, 2007 7:46:30 am PDT #6807 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
It's featured in Wayne's World, so if you've seen that recently, you're not mad.
Ailleann - Mar 13, 2007 7:47:01 am PDT #6808 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I've heard it here in OH, bon bon. No idea where the closest store might be, though.
Such a good example of how advertising sometimes misses the mark. You remember the commercial, not the product.
sarameg - Mar 13, 2007 7:47:44 am PDT #6809 of 10001
Haven't. However this [link] suggests it is entirely possible that I am not mad.
bon bon - Mar 13, 2007 7:49:30 am PDT #6810 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
That wiki article is awse.