Out, OUT, damned lips!

We can't all be brainy, like Fern here!

I was in 3rd grade, Texas Public School.  Teacher announced Reagan had been shot.  Whole classroom of 8 year olds burst into spontaneous applause!  Seriously.  I mean, politics aside, weren't we kids too young to react that way?

I think, if you're a good actor, you don't automatically have to be comfortable getting naked.  Some vestigial modesty is OK these days—if someone else can get naked for you, so your kids can know at the premire that "those aren't really mommy's breasts", I think that's perfectly fine.

Oh, no.  Oh, no.  Y'all are so right.  That means I can watch that one husband next season who wants to "release his inner fat guy" even though he's already chubby as it is.

It's just a horrible way to live, I assure you.

I remember seeing them on TV—maybe Bandstand?—during their early years. I was eight years old and absolutely terrified.

Umm . . . Sexy Nutria!  Hurray for me!

I don't think you bury the actual Icelandic folk— I think it's a shark.

Oh MY GOD—-osis, whatever your points are, good or bad, PLEASE don't end with a "love it or leave it" comment.  I can't tell you how awful that was to read.  Just shameful.
I'm sorry, but that was so damned tacky.
OK!  back to lurking.

Hey, friend,

I also should have clarified—I get your post about history being important for self-learning, even after Gays are fully accepted in all aspects of our society.  I'll admit moreover that it helped me, myself.  But I will point out, as have others in this thread, that I know scads of gays who have NO knowledge of the…

trilobiter, in reference to your comment to me above: (for some reason I can't respond in that thread)—

I think us gays historically didn't have gay multigenerational families, like, "my Gay mom learned X from my Gay Grandfather, etc.  Since each new little Gay hatches without any pre-existing Gay culture to stew in, it's very easy for young gay folks to not know about, or consider, a Gay History or culture at all.

that's all very interesting, but look at this, will y'all please?

I know his audience, and I know the Dixie Chicks feud, but shockingly, the man himself is an out-of-the-closet Democrat.  I remember reading an interview with him during the 2008 election and just about falling out.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am going to look like a fool, because I wonder if I'm posting twice, but regardless, this is too important not to share:  my former best friend's mother's college roommate went out with Ferlin Husky.

Agreed.  " I Like You" was adorable.  "crafts for Poor People" was such a let-down.  NEVER try the audio book —-Dinello and Sedaris sound as if they are realizing, in real time, the unfunny, desperate mess they created.  Flop-sweat City.

You may be right, Robuttnik.  In the old movies, Nick and Nora were always boozing it up at a supper club, and we'd all pause for a chanteuse to screech a few bars while the action took a pause.  It might be OK in this new context.