Kiss My Sass » Blog Archive » So much for eating “healthy”

I can’t decide if it’s yet another scare tactic or something to not worry about.  Dateline NBC’s website has a report on E.coli bacteria found in bagged lettuce.  3 different people in Minnesota contracted E.coli and were gravely ill, after having eaten lettuce from a bag!

Well if this isn’t proof positive that people should just grow their own veggies in their own yards and wash it and cut it themselves, then I don’t know what is. 

The show should just change its name to Nightmareline.

Then today on Oprah they had a health expert on the show talking about pandemic in America and the possibility of tami flu and Asian flu, among other strains, and how we cannot possibly be prepared, as a country to face it.  We’d literally have to start stocking up on drugs, toiletries, household supplies, food, and water now, and make sure you have anough for a couple months, and just not go anywhere! 

Are all these people just trying to scare us, or do we really need to worry this badly?

Can’t we just wash the lettuce, wash our hands and call it a day?  No, not according to them!  The report at Dateline indicated that if the E.coli bacteria came about because of animal or bird droppings in the fields, then chances are high the lettuce grew from the contaminated soil and no amount of washing would help.  The flu expert said no matter how much you wash your hands, wear face masks, etc. these things are bound to happen and are air borne!

I’m locking the door and not going anywhere.  Especially not to buy lettuce!

Same day, different year..

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  • Stop, hey, what’s that sound? – 2006

Kiss My Sass » Grumplicious

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

I can’t decide if it’s yet another scare tactic or something to not worry about.  Dateline NBC’s website has a report on E.coli bacteria found in bagged lettuce.  3 different people in Minnesota contracted E.coli and were gravely ill, after having eaten lettuce from a bag!
Well if this isn’t proof positive that people should just […]

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

When you are having no fun. I do believe I’m suffering from some burnout.  I have worked an average of 14-18 hours a day, (with the exception of a day or two off every month) for the last 16 months and I feel like I need a long nap!

Meanwhile, I got a cute comment earlier today […]

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

I did not want to cook this weekend so I ordered some Chinese takeout on Friday night.
I made sure to get enough to last for a few meals, though the person who packed my order did not know this, and when it was delivered, I received 3 fortune cookies along with my order.  Perhaps they […]

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Why anyone likes this guy [Ross the intern from The Tonight Show]. Yes–God help me–I watch the Tonight Show.  Only because Jay Leno’s jokes are great.  Even if he counts on a plethora of others to help write them. Why 40-something is the new 20-something.

Why ER (and other network TV shows) has to show us what its like to […]

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Why Don’t Users Read? over at Blankenthoughts was talking about how many people do not read instructions when it comes to computer usage. 
I agree with this blogger about how people don’t read directions these days.  I have to also agree that it seems handwriting is a thing of the past.  I don’t fully know if […]

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Today (which is April Fool’s day in case you live under a rock), and it was my birthday.  Gawd am I old.  Yup.  Turned the big 3-3 this year. I would have preferred to stay in bed all day but dear ol’ mom sprung for lunch and a visit.  C’mon… who can turn down a free lunch?

So we […]

Friday, July 29th, 2005

I’ve suddenly lost my appetite for blogging.
Who knows if I’ll ever get it back.

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Ladies and gentlemen. May I present… The “I’m f*cking freezing” tee. As worn by J-Lo, apparently, according to these yahoos. Indeed. Then put on a f*ckingsweatshirt. You f*cking moron.

Perhaps I’m missing the joke or some sort of clever youthful irony here, but may I ask–why a TEE? It would make perfect sense to place such a classy saying […]

Friday, February 4th, 2005

It’s a great concept. Can’t sleep? Put this shit on. Guaranteed to have you sawing logs in a matter of 1.5 videos. Case in point: ‘Let me Go’ by Three Doors Down Great band, great song. Shitty video. “Let me Go” Indeed. Let Me Go Find Who Directed this Fucked Up Video!

Three […]

Saturday, October 16th, 2004 Thursday, May 3rd, 2001

I’m home SICK as a dog today, I’m almost sure it’s the flu. My head feels like it’s stuffed with cinder blocks and my nose won’t stop running, I’m coughing like there’s no tomorrow and my whole body aches, all the way down to my little pinky toe. I just now got to feeling strong enough […]

Friday, November 17th, 2000

Before I go on and on and on, I just wanna say that it is DRAFTY in this mofer tonight! *teeth chattering*

Got home from job #2 late, as usual. Didn’t make any sales, but then again, I can’t sell a plastic baggie to a dude walking his dog in the park. I am never sleepy when […]

Saturday, November 11th, 2000

Okay, this post has nothing to do with The Big Lebowski. I just couldn’t think of a title. I hate this feeling as though there is a need to have a title for every entry, though I do try to come up with clever ones. Sorta stupid, huh?  It is cold here in my apartment. Dammit.

I’m […]

Tuesday, October 17th, 2000

Yes, I know it’s been forever since I’ve updated.  Don’t even get me started.  Let’s just say that I’ve been busy doing lots of nothing.
I was sitting here on Sunday night at 9:20 pm feeling terribly lucky not to have to go to work tomorrow.  I am on a week’s vacation.  I have no real […]

Friday, May 26th, 2000

Happiness is ___________. (fill in the blank here)
Sometimes I wonder about people… Just something I’ve been thinking about for awhile, that’s all. Do you find yourself wondering the same thing? I mean, we’re all here for one thing and that is to live and prosper and be happy, right?  But I have DAYS, you know, […]

Kiss My Sass » Blog Archive » America is dumb.

Why Don’t Users Read? over at Blankenthoughts was talking about how many people do not read instructions when it comes to computer usage. 

I agree with this blogger about how people don’t read directions these days.  I have to also agree that it seems handwriting is a thing of the past.  I don’t fully know if it’s due to computers having taken over much of what we used to do by pen. 

I didn’t click on the NY Times article simply because something told me that if it’s at least a month old, it won’t come up for the pulic anymore.   However, Blankenthoughts has inspired me to post something of my own on the topic.

America is just plain dumb and lazy when it comes to doing things for ourselves.  And we are sloppy writers who depend on computers.

Seems going through one or two paragraphs about how to perform a task is more daunting than actually trying to hack it out yourself, only to spend a longer amount of time going back to read them, or worse, trying to get someone to help you. 

As far as the decline of handwriting, I think it is because public schools are not even teaching penmanship anymore. Ask any kid under 20, if they even heard the word, ‘penmanship’.  Chances are likely they haven’t.

I don’t know if it’s because of the gradual onset of technology that replaces many things, or if it’s because we are all so busy, many households having 2 adults working outside of the home and kids taking on so many extracurricular activities but I think that theory is bullshit, on both counts. 

As for handwriting, I think that if you told a class of 33 students they had to turn in a 20 page paper on loose-leaf notebook sheets, they ought to be able to do it.  This seems like something that does not happen today, because of schools neccessitating a computer for each child in school.  No gawd-dang wonder my nephew turns up at my place with a boat load of various and sundry order forms for fundraiser junk, not more than a week after school opens, ever year. 

I say that if teachers think each child needs a computer they are full of it.  Microsoft Word is not that hard to learn and if you want to have a vocation in computers, take that shit as an elective or go off and study them in college, like the rest of us had to.  Computer skills have been more and more of a prerequisite for jobs in the last couple of decades but these things can be learned through the use of libraries, community education courses and the like.

As for my personal experience in these areas…

I was taught penmanship in school, and I retain a modicum of what I learned.  Mine handwriting is a blend of print and cursive, which–depending on the day–resembles a bit of my mom’s or my dad’s hand.  Tis kind of sloppy most of the time, but It looks good when I really make an effort, like with Christmas cards, and thank-you’s.  However I’m proud of it.  Not because it is great, but because it is mine.  It’s a piece of my identity, something unique that no one else in the world can match.  My parents both worked out of the home and I fondly recall having Mrs. Kunz holler, “Long, easy strokes!  Next line is your ‘e’s!  Ready?” over her record player with the soundtrack to Chariots of Fire playing on it. 

I was in the Girl Scouts, volleyball, Indian Princess, and had many playmates and things to run off and do, but I still had time for homework and learning.  So to say that we have no time to read directions and do homework and/or other tasks the right way the first time, so the excuse “too many activities” can’t be a major factor for the dwindling of our minds, either.

I think that we don’t take the time to take a deep breath and read directions because of the fact that we can all be reachable at any time, and virtually anwhere (advent of cell phones), we mess around on the computer too much (computers more widely available in our homes, and the advent of the internet), and we want to spend lots of time in front of the TV (too many cable channels, TIVO, DVD mania, etc.).

And I think that we don’t handwrite enough because many things don’t require it, such as e-mail, faxing, word processing, and text-messaging, thus making it very easy for schools to erase handwriting, penmanship, and writing in general, from curriculums across the country.

It’s because we are just plain lazy.

Same day, different year..

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Kiss My Sass » 2005 » June

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

This dickhead’s trying on treason this time, though no one wants to call it that.
What’s worse, there’s not much that can be done about it. Why? Because whosoever whines about it, will be given the whole First Ammendment third degree which the nutty professer so cleverly and frequently hides behind, every time his words […]

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

You should really check out Catch27.com. You could win a PS2 or a Digital Cam or an iPOD. I’m only doing it to win something…it’s full ‘o whores and teeny boppers and assholes named Brad with 47 pieces of metal on his face but hey it’s worth the prize.

Plus I have another blog […]

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

The news surrounding this woman’s disappearance is a painful reminder that we as American adults need to be more involved in children’s lives (yes, they may be 17 & 18 but they are still just kids) and we need to be ‘hip’ to what is going on at all times.
I cannot even believe that (even […]

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

OK this is two days late, I like to post these on Sundays but uh…. I’ve been busy. No more no more no more no more

OK I’m not sure if this person was looking for the lyrics to Ray Charles’ “Hit The Road, Jack” or if the person was just demanding NO MORE! So I’m just […]

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

…and call it the Puppy Blender. Serve up some Dalmation Daquris, have a nice ‘lil happy hour, maybe some bar food like Jalepeno Puppers, make all the waitstaff wear many dogtags as ‘flair’, you get the idea.
This is how many times the name is brought up, just in a given day.

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Oprah Winfrey denied at Hermes, all you can eat buffets

Come see Tom play J-E-O-P-A-R-D=Y!

Tom Cruise is foaming at the mouth…someone shoot him, quick!

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Number of blogs referencing this twit, even though her 15 minutes are up (OK day lee is guilty as sin on this one too).
I know, I already commented on this over at the GOC, but it bears repeating. Only because tonight as I’m flipping through the news stories on TV her bug-eyes come on the […]

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Is up, over at The Owner’s Manual. Below are the contributors this time around: Conservative Cat: Confused Americans for Truth – Pie a la Liberal Watcher of Weasels looks at The Undiscovered Country. Multiple Mentality reflects on just how expensive Girl Scout Cookies have become ROFASix: Afraid of “more” Democracy in America. The Owner’s Manual presents: Homeopathetic

Pratie Place: People having […]

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Over at What Would Hollywood Do? beej is sponsering an “Open mic” as it were. Every Thursday, one lucky person will be able to post a blog entry at this blog, and be given access to do so.
If you don’t already know, WWHD is a blog that takes much issue with famous people who have […]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Okay, so some of these a bit old (but I never read about some of the older ones until today) and some are more recent. But they’re all true funny stories about people calling the police/911 for stupid reasons. Woman jailed after calling 911 about pizza man A ‘Fowl’ case? You only cut the one you love…

Leave […]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

I totally stole this from Grouchy Old Cripple this afternoon. Some test to see how observant the average person is…======================================================== Don’t look at mine if you are going to take it, because I included my answers below. Take it at GOC’s. NO LOOKING AROUND ON YOUR DESK… Average person only gets 7 right.

This is based on […]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

from the Saturday Silly Schtuff Dept. Madfish Willie’s posted a new episode guide, Television Specials for 00’s. Notice the titles with a bit more of a ‘gangsta’ twist, now that Generation Z (or is it Y?) has become so coarsened and rooted in a new and strange urbanized hip hop culture. Thanks a lot, Eminem!

I myself […]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

OK my most annoying blogs list has entertained & delighted many and seemingly pinched the nerves of a few. However I shall press on happily, blogging about freely as though nothing ever happened… Screw that. I’m going to say a few things…

While I never intended to go and find one of the items on my list […]

Friday, June 24th, 2005

Yes. I had the hots for Mallory Keaton’s little, freckle-faced kid brother ever since he was in Silver Spoons. Gawd, I used to adore him!

Unlike most chicks I went to school with, I was never one of those girls in the class who really got all ‘groupied-out’ and fell head over heels for everyone. You know…David AND […]

Friday, June 24th, 2005

Be the next ‘blog superstar! I have another web site (yes, one of many) which shines the proverbial spotlight on all news which happens to cover stars involved with issues du jor. Or even news about or involving former stars who are now congresspersons/other officials/social hippie scum/political candidates/traitors/etc.

It takes this news, chews it up & then […]

Kiss My Sass » 2002 » April

Monday, April 29th, 2002

Ooh, ooh! I also forgot to tell you–Uffish Thoughts is where I found a link to Mr. T doing his neato butter booby trick. Yay! What a treasure…and I thought I’d seen every bit of his work!
If you idolize Mr. T like I do, then you ought to get yourself acquainted with […]

Monday, April 29th, 2002

Today as I’m reading the news I do a little jig of joy on the way to the kitchen to get a 2nd cup of coffee.The fiance and I have finished our business model and are working on marketing strategies. This business model has been nothing but a headachefor us since Christmas. Now […]

Sunday, April 28th, 2002

Rebecca Blood’s blog turns 3. Well…as of yesterday. Happy belated b-day, Rebecca! In other news…

It’s the 12th Annual Golden Hairy Ass Awards You can count on the excitement being just as feverish as last year. The eXile has been presenting “Golden Hairy Ass” awards to the best, the worst, and the hairiest of […]

Sunday, April 28th, 2002

Why Do Porn Actors Have To Use Such Foul Language?
Maggie Lehman, a fine source of editorial commentary over at The Onion, once again proves herself correct. She points out “Like many people, I enjoy pornographic movies.” but she’s got an issue with bad language. “Thankfully, my husband Marv fast-forwards through the plot so […]

Monday, April 22nd, 2002

…of Communication Between Men   Any man who brings a camera to a stag night may be legally killed and eaten by his fellow partygoers. Under no circumstances may two men share an umbrella. It is ok for a man to cry under the following circumstances: a. When a heroic dog dies to save it’s master

b. The moment Angelina […]

Monday, April 22nd, 2002

Friends, I’ve long wanted to be able to provide useful advice to the young people today, with regards to their ever-fruitful social lives, to help guide them along whatever paths in life they choose. I’ve got some solutions for most red-blooded men and women. If you posess at least half a brain, […]

Saturday, April 20th, 2002

For those of you who may be considering returning to the single life…Dating – Its Causes and Cures
Dating is a social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion. Most dating results from lingering guilt about masturbation. Of course, no one has any religious or ethical guilt about masturbation any more. But people DO […]

Friday, April 19th, 2002

UGh. It took me over twenty minutes to post this day’s entries. Blogger publishing seems to be slow, or down. I checked status.blogger.com and there’s nothing there to tell me any different, and also status.blogspot.com, and no news there, which leaves me to use the Adminimizer toolbar from ASP Modules. If […]

Friday, April 19th, 2002

Powell’s Israel Visit Brings About…Nothing, Dampening ExpectationsAs the Israeli military continued its offensive, Israel was on high alert for suicide bombers and the secretary ofstate said a formal truce was unlikely before he left.

Friday, April 19th, 2002

Napping. It’s not just for kids and lazy people anymore.The tradition of napping in other countries is supposedly dying out. It’s been proven be a healthful and refreshing and even life-extending benefit to notable folks like Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, Napolean Bonaparte, Johannes Brahms, and Ronald Reagan, so why didn’t Americans ever emphasize […]

Friday, April 19th, 2002

New Audio CD’s on the Market Will Not Play on CD-ROM DevicesIn the near future, a large amount of new audio CD’s released by recording artists will not play properly in your computer’s CD-ROM player. Why? Because, a-la Napster, once again, it’s a battle of copyrights. Sony figures that people who will […]

Friday, April 19th, 2002

Fox TV Cancels ‘Ally McBeal’I don’t know where I was when this hit the news, ’cause I missed it. Had I known, I’d have baked a cake and threw a party. You all know how much I loathe this show, this waste of an hour of someone’s precious time, so you know of […]

Thursday, April 18th, 2002

What’s with Christina Appelgate lately? Didn’t she used to be much better looking? I think now that she’s off TV and into being a movie star again, she’s on that popular Hollywood diet, called SMOKE & COKE. Ladies, when we can see your rib bones between your breasts, it’s NOT sexy. […]

Thursday, April 18th, 2002

Well, in the last two weeks here in Minnesota, it has snowed, rained & hailed, and we’ve had record breaking high temps. Monday it got to 93 degrees! WTF?! It was unbearable. I can’t complain that much about Monday since I refuse to get my air conditioner from downstairs and install […]

Wednesday, April 17th, 2002

YAY! They finally got them up! You know that little animated purple bumper-sticker-looking thing in the left hand column? Well, that’s my blogsticker! and now they’ve finally published them for all to see! Want one? Go here and check ‘em out…I’ve made white versions of each one for those who […]

Kiss My Sass » 2000 » November

Sunday, November 26th, 2000

I hate that. Cause it means I have to work tomorrow. I get all weepy, like the Indian from 1970’s Keep America Beautiful TV commercials. But I digress. On with the blog for today… One of my icq pals just told me Robert Downey, Jr. was arrested. Again.

Damn him. Had I met him a decade ago, this […]

Sunday, November 26th, 2000

3:32 pm I missed the bus. oh well. guess I’ll be late for work today.

I am pretty close to just calling in. haven’t decided on that quite yet. I DO need to eat something yet today, however, which will make me even later, should I decide to go to work. coffee was of highest priority this […]

Thursday, November 23rd, 2000

Titles…schmitles. Who gives a shit anymore? Here’s my grumpy ass. I dunno why but thought of the impending holiday events and such, just doesn’t excite me much, lately. Not me. I’m so uninspired, yet strangley inspired…enough at least for… The who cares haiku: can’t laugh. hell, can’t smilewhy even bother at allit is just useless

OK that was depressing. I guess […]

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2000

Go, Go, Go to http://www.davidgagne.net Read all about it. I luv it, I luv it, I luv it. want to spread it on a cracker. just like I told him so.
Home for the holiday. Yippee! Oh, but wait. I gotta upgrade my IE to 5.5. God forbid I crash something or my java doesn’t work […]

Tuesday, November 21st, 2000

Made a $250 commissioned sale tonight…only my second one in six days but good enough, for now. Something old but funny, to read. It’s my collection of silly personal ad replies, followed by responses I would have sent, had I gotten the balls to actually go through with it…

off to bed!nite-nite

Sunday, November 19th, 2000

Hey there cats & kittens… Vikings won again, whoo hoo! It’s been snowing all day, here in St. Paul. I just got back from lunching with mom and getting some grocery shopping done. Now I’ve got LOADS of laundry to wash but I’ll be back soon.

In the meantime, here is something to show your 13 year […]

Saturday, November 18th, 2000

On my Winamp playlist right now: Etta James – At Last Doris Troy – Just One Look Jimmy Soul – If You Wanna Be Happy Positive K – I Got A Man Sixpence None The Richer (Here On Earth – Soundtrack) – I Need Love Gladys Knight & The Pipps – Heard It Through The Grapevine

Ahhh…good to be home. Worked 4 […]

Friday, November 17th, 2000

Before I go on and on and on, I just wanna say that it is DRAFTY in this mofer tonight! *teeth chattering*

Got home from job #2 late, as usual. Didn’t make any sales, but then again, I can’t sell a plastic baggie to a dude walking his dog in the park. I am never sleepy when […]

Thursday, November 16th, 2000

My mood earlier this evening allowed me to be uninhibited enough to post this. I took the pics a couple nights ago, to test the lighting in my office since I got a different lamp in here.

Pouty much?
Hey! Chapstick weather is just around the corner. These will be reminders of how nice my lips CAN […]

Monday, November 13th, 2000

You make EVERrrr-thaang grooooovvvvy Where did that come from? *looks around the room* My life sucks. I need a new one. Maybe these guys will buy it for me. Anybody got any offers? I’ve already checked the junk mail and the classifieds. I think I just need somebody to love. *gasp* Oh NO. did I say that? wtf is wrong with me?

Tune in tomorrow for […]

Saturday, November 11th, 2000

Okay, this post has nothing to do with The Big Lebowski. I just couldn’t think of a title. I hate this feeling as though there is a need to have a title for every entry, though I do try to come up with clever ones. Sorta stupid, huh?  It is cold here in my apartment. Dammit.

I’m […]

Saturday, November 11th, 2000

Hey guess what…it’s a little after 3pm and I have only been up for a while. I went to bed about 3:30am last night and slept IN….like you wouldn’t believe.
My eyes fluttered open this morning and I looked at my alarm clock. 7:22am. SHIT! that’s the time my bus arrives to take me to […]

Monday, November 6th, 2000

Gosh, I guess I’m a little bit more chipper tonight than I was earlier.
I’m sure it took a couple hours for me to thaw out. You didn’t wanna mess with me earlier. I did skip out on the PT temp job today…but even though I took the day off I found it was very hard […]

Monday, November 6th, 2000

Isn’t that an old song? Who knows. Anyhoo…quick update…
Today it is as rainy as ever. This morning I woke up at 7 and got ready to go out, and my friend and I went to the post office ’cause they had a job ad posted in the paper for holiday work. When we got there […]

Sunday, November 5th, 2000

Today I am beat. Last night, a girl I work with and I decided to go out for drinks and see what else we could get into, and we didn’t get home until 4am.

I woke up around 9am to tell her she had better get ready to go home ’cause she had to go to church. […]

Kiss My Sass » Blog Archive » New millenium rules for dating

For those of you who may be considering returning to the single life…Dating – Its Causes and Cures
Dating is a social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion. Most dating results from lingering guilt about masturbation. Of course, no one has any religious or ethical guilt about masturbation any more. But people DO feel guilty for not being more sucessful. They believe that if they were more sucessful they would have someone to handle their genitals for them and would not have to do it themselves.

Very sophisticated people masturbate without compunction. They do it for reasons of privacy, thrift, hygiene, and because of the remarkable perfection of invisible sexual partners. But even more important, they masturbate for philosophical reasons. It is an ethos of modern life that before you are able to love others, you must first love yourself. And what’s love without sex ?

Who Should NOT Date
Polite dating is generally accepted in society, but there are some people who should refrain from doing it publicly. Recent widows or widowers should not take a date to the funeral. Its important for old people to date because the rest of us are disgusted at having to think of them in bed together.

And people who just married are really not supposed to date anyone but their new mate for a few weeks at least. But although its rude for a bride to cheat on her husband, it would be equally rude to make her feel bad about it. Remember the famous example of the hostess whose guest mistakenly drank from the finger bowl. The hostess picked up a finger bowl and drank also. Be the same way. If your new wife is fucking someone else, make her as comfortable as you can by fucking that person too.

Meeting People
The first consideration in dating is whom to date. “Pick-ups” -social engagements with total strangers, often initiated in bars- have gone completely out of style. Partly this is the result of the new popularity of torture murders and partly because people who go to bars to pick up other people are particularly ugly and therefore all that is left is only ugly people to pick up each other. Even ugly people have standards, and since they’ve awaken and realized this, pick-up’s are no longer considered the ‘thing to do’.

The fashionable person to date nowadays is someone you have known for years and somehow neglected to sleep with during the promiscunity hysteria of the last two decades. You’ll have a lot in common with this person. One thing you’ll have in common is trying to figure out if maybe you DID sleep together and both forgot it. Then you can talk about all the people you’ve both slept with and compare notes. And when you’ve exhausted those two subjects, you can even actually fuck.

Men generally, pay for all expenses on a date. (Exceptions are made if the women is uncommonly rich or ugly). Either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarreness of the sexual request to be made later that evening. Telling the difference between accepting these gifts and performing an act of prostitution is not a problem, as there is no difference.

Sex is, of course the only point to dating. But you should not rush right into it. Do not, for instance, grab ahold of your date at the door and start fondling her breast in front of her parents. This makes it look as though you are not successful enough to have sex with anyone in a long time, and that will lower your prestige in her parent’s eyes. Instead, talk to your date’s parents and fondle them a bit before you leave.

In a more modern situation, where your date’s husband, rather than her parents, is present, you can go right ahead and feel her breasts. It will give him something to masturbate over after you’ve left.

Making a Date
Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now, dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, “If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay ?”

Some dates are still made in advance, of course. But it is no longer necessarily the man who does the asking. It is now considered perfectly proper for a women to ask a man out on a date. It is not , however, considered proper for a man to refuse because he has to wash his hair. Not unless his blow dryer really is broken.

Dates are still canceled the same way they always were: which is, at the last possible moment. But it happens more often than it used to. Our society has become increasingly affluent. Therefore the probability of someone better than you coming along has improved.

Where to go on a Date
One of the problems of with dating in the new millenium is that all the interesting places to go on a date have disappeared due to excessive hipness. It’s no use going to a movie or play. Our society has become too hip to accept such naive concepts as simple good and bad. But, without simple good and bad, it’s very hard to construct a proper drama or comedy. And, since our musicians are unable to tell good drugs from bad drugs, they’re all dead, so we can’t go to concerts either. With no good guys to root for, the excitement of sporting events has moved into the realms of finance and union negotiations.

That leaves the circus, and what with the confused debate about whether its bad to exploit wild animals, many circuses have been reduced to exhibiting trained laboratory rats and putting men into cages filled with pigeons.

But sex without any socializing first is tantamount to treating people like objects. People shouldn’t be treated like objects. They arn’t that valuable. So you have to go someplace before you fuck. And that place is usually dinner.

Having dinner before sex serves several important purposes. It gives you a chance to reconsider and masturbate after all. A lot of people are better imagined in your bed than found there in the morning. You can also use dinner table conversation to politely discover the sex preference of your date or, for that manner, your date’s sex.

When should a man get an Erection
Whenever it becomes clear that a date is moving to its natural conclusion, it is then polite for a man to begin having an erection. There is no better compliment that a man can pay. To be courteous, however, a man refrains from getting an erection during kissing until the kisses have passed from the closed-mouth “peck on the lips” to the open-mouth or “French” style.

A man gets a slight or salutory erection when he strokes the breast or buttocks of his date. He should get a full erection whenever his date purposely touches his genitals. If there is a dance floor at the restaurant, a well bred man gets an erection during close dancing but not during fast dancing when he and his partner are separated and an erection would stick out and spoil the lines of his suit.

Erections are perfectly proper when seated at the table, but a man should lose it immediately when he gets up to go to the bathroom. Otherwise it will look as if he has someone waiting in there. An erection in the car or taxi cab after dinner is considered very good manners. And a polite man always gets an erection during sex.

Sex on the First Date
According to all the rules of etiquette, after dinner you are free to screw. But in most places it’s considered good form to leave the restaurant (not everywhere). Either partner may initiate sex by saying, “Let’s go someplace and fuck”. Or, if he or she is shy, by saying ,”Let’s go someplace and have a drink and then fuck”.

For those readers who do not remember, normal sex consists of the women spreading her legs and the man inserting his penis into her vagina (located midway between the anus and the tan line). The man moves his hips up and down until one or the other partner calls it quits. This is most easly done with at least some clothing removed.

Try to avoid any horrible noises or weird smells during the first sex. Extremely fat people should use care not to slap their stomachs onto their partners too much, so that they don’t make bus-horn noises. It’s good manners to leave your date with the most attractive possible memories of the first sexual encounter because, in our society, the first sexual encounter is usually the last.

Dating Pitfalls
The most serious dating pitfall is that the person you date may contact an infatuation for you. Infatuation is much more dangerous than love or marriage. Modern marriages are happy, casual affairs, easily entered into and easily gotten out of. Modern love of one person for another is so rare that it hardly presents a problem. But now that love and marriage are no longer serious emotional concerns, infatuation is forced to bear the freight of all the human psyche’s pathetic needs, drives, tensions, and energies. As a result we have been turned into an entire society of fourteen-year-olds with crushes on our gym teachers. But, with the physical and financial freedom of adulthood at our command, we are able to harass that gym teacher much worse than we could in junior high.

Again we return to John W. Hinkley as a cautionary example of a person in whom modern manners have run wild. It’s bound to be an embarrassment to have someone shoot the President on your account. It can even be a very considerable annoyance to have them move in with you and rearrange your dresser drawers.

If you fear your date is becoming infatuated with you, what you should do is fart, as loudly as you can, in his or her immediate proximity. It is almost impossible for someone to retain an idealized, dreamy conception of you when you’ve just blown the slip covers off the furniture and killed all the pets.

More Sex -if you Must
Sexual variations used to be considered impolite, for fear that the servants might walk in on the middle of them. It was thought that if the lower classes ever discovered the more exotic forms of sexual coupling, that’s all they’d do and nothing would ever get done around the house. Which is exactly what has happened. Nothing gets done around the house or anywhere else these days because the lower classes are all out dressing up in garter belts, watching mud-wrestling matches, and giving each other enemas.

Very civilized people still consider sexual variations to be slightly rude. Normal intercourse and customary caresses should be enough if you are really in love with your sexual partner. But since no one is, sexual experimentation and even out right perversion have gained a sort of general social acceptance like using the same size glasses for red and white wine.

Unusual Positions
There are any number of positions from which the sex act may be accomplished. Most of them are polite if the physique bears exposure at that angle, and none of them are rude with the lights off. Among sophisticated people, unusual physical positions of the partners are not considered very exciting. Favored instead are unusual social positions. A wealthy and celebrated forty-five-year-old movie actress and a seventeen- year-old boy who parks cars at Ma Maison -that’s considered exciting in Beverly Hills. On the other hand, middle-class people find this disturbing. When the actress and the car jock start to write, produce and direct movies together, middle class people are disturbed that they pay $7.50 to see the results.

Oral Sex
Oral sex is currently very trendy. It is even preferred to the regular kind. It is preferred because it’s the only way many of us can get our sex partners to shut up.

There are a few rules of common courtesy that should be observed during oral sex:

: Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn’t to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.

: Fellators may swallow or not swallow as they see fit but should not get cute about it. Spit-takes are the province of Danny Thomas, and the idea of Danny Thomas performing oral sex is not something polite people care to dwell upon.

: Now that you’ve had a good look at your partner’s genitals, it’s only courteous to make a compliment on their appearance, texture, etc. Restrict quantitative complements to men, however. “You have a big cunt” is not considered flattery by most women.

Vanishing Sex Acts
A number of old-fashioned sex acts, while still correct, have fallen into disuse. This is a shame. Such practices as the dry-hump had undeniable charm. It allowed a women to investigate a man’s erectile abilities without actually getting all his clothes off and putting him in a position where he felt obligated to do something he could not with all the resultant dull small talk about how this happens to everyone. Visa and MasterCard made dry-humping obsolete. Easily available credit cards killed the notion of saving up to get something you want thus the concept of deferred pleasure was eradicated in our society.

Without deferred pleasure there is no petting either. Modern couples just strip their clothes off and go at it. Besides credit cards, there is also ex-President Nixon’s decision to let the U.S. dollar float in relation to other western currencies to blame for this. More than a decade of monetary instability has conditioned people to utilize their assets immediately. If the sex urge is not spent forthwith, it might degenerate into something less valuable -affection, for instance.

Kissing, of course, is no longer a sex act—what with total strangers thrusting their tongues down your throat by way of casual greeting. Kissing in sex is now used only to show your partner that you are so overcome with lust that no part of his or her body is disgusting.

Despite lobbying by the dry cleaning industry and the manufactures of spot removers, the hand-job is also gone. It’s hard to understand why the hand-job, with its very modern detached, impersonal character, has disappeared from use. Perhaps it’s because jacking people off is done so much over the phone or internet connection these days.

Mutual Masturbation
The modern version of the hand-job is for one or both partners to masturbate while the other looks on.

Exhibitionism
Given the current amount of public sexuality, the great problem with exhibitionism is how to make anyone notice you’re performing it. Hint: A customized, stretched, cream and lavender Cadillac limousine with blacked-out window glass is bound to be larger and more attention getting than your penis.

Anal Sex
The best way to get fucked in the ass is to conduct your business dealings in a disingenuous, forthright, and thrusting manner. Many people, however, do not possess the wherewithal or social connections to be involved in the business world. They are reduced to going to discotheques, all-male bath houses, or joining the “Y”.

Cross Dressing
Some heterosexual men occasionally don panty hose and bra in the privacy of the bedroom, but, in general, straight men have kept a lower profile about their urge to cross dress. Mostly they’ve limited themselves to puttering around the house in bathrobes and using lots of chap stick when they go skiing.

The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should wear anything they haven’t yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.

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Be the next ‘blog superstar!

I have another web site (yes, one of many) which shines the proverbial spotlight on all news which happens to cover stars involved with issues du jor. Or even news about or involving former stars who are now congresspersons/other officials/social hippie scum/political candidates/traitors/etc.

It takes this news, chews it up & then spits it out for the public’s easy, sloppy consumption, sort of like a news smoothie, only funner to read and way tastier!

I feel it is of great public service that American’s famous people (Hollywood celebrities, TV/radio personalities, star athletes, musicians, and other various and sundry famous people) get involved with causes, poltical parties and their issues, social interests, causes, activism, etc. for the public so that the public doesn’t have to worry about making up it’s mind…we just let the stars do it for us! So we like to capitalize on this, making our web site very unique and fun.

The web site has fallen a bit to the wayside, however, because the owner has a full time job (don’t we all) and is persuing lots of other things. It is a weblog (ugh–hate that word because ‘blogs ain’t what they used to be…but it’s a fact), and gets updated periodically and we are in need of some writers and/or gifted Photoshop Gurus to help keep it up and keep it great!

Those interested in writing regularly (you may even get a column if we really like you), need to submit his/her most interesting (preferrably knee-slapping and pants-peeing) article (fiction or nonfiction – no poetry please) regarding a political event, politician or celebrity cause (minimum 500 words) by July 20th to the email address above, for consideration.

We prefer a middlin’-to-conservative slant, though all flavors will be considered. Hilarity is key. No funny, no money! (scratch that–this is not a paid gig)

Poor grammar and spelling–although normally these are literary no-no’s–can and will be edited by our crack team of copy edtiors. However, an article with too many glaring mistakes (thereby causing it to be un-readable), will be thrown post-haste, into our recycle bin upon receipt.

Artists/Photoshop Geniuses – Send us 2 samples – whether they be scanned comics, Shockwave Flash movies, JPEGS, PSD, etc. The artists who appears to have the best gift with color and humor (and is relevant) shall be chosen to show off their work on our site. You also must take direction well and be able to provide art on demand (somewhat short notice) to accompany pieces of writing.

Thanks for your time and consideration!

Send your responses here.

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Kiss My Sass » Blog Archive » Jason Bateman shoulda been my man

Yes.

I had the hots for Mallory Keaton’s little, freckle-faced kid brother ever since he was in Silver Spoons.

Gawd, I used to adore him!

Unlike most chicks I went to school with, I was never one of those girls in the class who really got all ‘groupied-out’ and fell head over heels for everyone. You know…David AND Sean Cassidy AND Donnie Osmond AND John Travolta, and a bunch of other famous guys. I was like, “You guys! You can’t say they’re all your favorite!”

Nope. Jason was my only guilty little fantasy. Lots of girls I knew had life-sized posters of The Bee Gees, and Bo and Luke Duke on the backs of their bedroom doors, and *gasp* even up on their bedroom ceilings! Those were really annoying, at least to me. And quite risque, as I recall, at least it was back in those days. Especially the ones from the Dukes of Hazzard, with John Schneider and Tom Wopat leaning against the General Lee, the sun beating down on them, belt buckles and Hollywood teethy smiles a-gleaming! Then there was the Gibb brothers, all sparkly in their bejeweled white satin disco duds, shirts opened down to practically the navel to show off hairy chests (eww I could never understand the hairy chest fetish of girls my age back then).

OK, OK, OK, OK, I’ll admit I was a teeny-weeny bit jealous, but for two very good reasons…

1) I didn’t feel, nor could I quite understand the attraction to men much more mature, that my friends all insisted on,

and

2) My mother would have fainted dead away if she ever found such a huge representation of glossy mascuiline sex, slapped to the back of the door to my bedroom. So I had to settle for crap like getting a subscription to Highlights magazine but while sneaking peeks at Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and Teen Beat while at the library or the bookstore, to get secret looks at all the famous boys, who I never liked as much as Jason any damn way.

I recall fondly now, how I would race downstairs to the family room (where the bigger color TV was) and watch Valerie (later named Hogan Family after Valerie Harper quit the series and they killed off her character) and Growing Pains would come on, after (Kirk Cameron could have been a contender crush, but his character Mike Seaver, was dumb and goofy whereas Jason’s David Hogan was smart, witty and could charm the pants off ya) .

Then he went and got married.

Now that he’s finally getting the stardom he deserved for so long (only recently thanks to the Fox hit Arrested Development), he’s all over the place, and tons of other girls love him too.

So much for any chance of me having’ him all to myself! Makes me want to cry. Sort of.

I just thought that it was sort of bizarre that I managed to have a crush on a tv star (now movie star too) for so long. You know what I mean? Like…I once heard a friend say they loved Greg Brady until he hit puberty or something like that, but Jason…well he was always hot in my book.

Yeah, so he ain’t ALL THAT, in the looks department, but he was definitely a cutie (holla!*) and still is cute, in that clean-cut, all-American, boyish way. And his personality and sense of humor made him HOT, just the fact that his characters were always smart asses (smart guys are WHITE HOT in my book) and well, Jason just being on TV doing these types of characters made me stark raving mad.

The only other person I think I had been as obsessed with for almost as long, was Kristy McNichol, until she faded out after a couple movies once her career on Family was over. I just thought she was so much cuter than I was and she was oh so clever and inquisitive as Buddy, making her so precocious.

So…now that damned Jesse Metcalfe with his hot ass (humina hummmmina) had to just come onto the toob and have sex with Eva Longoria’s character on Desperate Housewives. Now that boy just makes my butta melt, I tell ya.

OK I really need to get a life now.

See ya later

* ok sorry I kinda went all Ghetto Oprah back there. ‘Scuse me. *ahem*

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Kiss My Sass » Blog Archive » Ugh. Guess people can’t take a friggin’ joke

OK my most annoying blogs list has entertained & delighted many and seemingly pinched the nerves of a few. However I shall press on happily, blogging about freely as though nothing ever happened…

Screw that. I’m going to say a few things…

While I never intended to go and find one of the items on my list to identify with (I suppose I coulda…) lots of others did (cool) but some that did, I wasn’t saying something was wrong with them if they identified with any of the types of blogs that are annoying, I don’t want to be a Bad Guy. But if you did…Hey! You DIDN’T HAVE to be so honest and self-depricating… you could have played it off by stuffing any telltale entries under the rug, thereby fooling many web surfers since lots of them don’t read more than a few posts at a time (many handfuls of blog readers have admitted this to me). Heck. That’s what I would’ve done.

While I see many of the comments as most likely gentle, subtle taunts, to see which Annoying Blog/Blogger I shall identify most with, maybe I didn’t wanna!

What if I told you I felt like my blog was a little bit of each of those types? What would you say? Would you call me a hypocrite?

Would you call me and say, “Hello pot, this is the kettle. You’re black!!”?

Well, okay. But that was not the idea behind the post. It was just well, cathartic, fun and meant to be lighthearted. But, if you insist…

I can be a Stalker-type Blogger
Holly says she’s ashamed to admit she is from Minnesota like I am! Is it embarassing? Dat’s okay. Yah. Shoor. You betch-yah. Haay, howssyer cussin Olie? Didyah ketch enny fish in dat derr lake? Yah. Gimmee-yah Pabst Blue Ribbon derr, wooj yah?. Yahhh. I’m goooin to da Vellss Farko ta see abote a boaat lone. Yah. Am I EMBARASSING YOU YET? Huh Holly?

Or I could be a bit of The Gossip Hound
Holly said she wonders why Basil and Harvey even noticed my blog post. I dunno! You tell me.

Others follow suit saying things like “Who does this blogger think she is?”

Uhm. I’m me. Nice ta meetcha! Howdydo?

Then she posts her own list. That’s cool, glad I could inspire you. I can accept that, but don’t go calling me a loser. That’s just playin’ dirty. Only my momma can do that.

And I could play the Friday Night Fights Blogger
Where is the reasoning behind saying “# 3 – Blogs written by bloggers who believe 1000 links is a necessary ingredient to a good blog”. Actually I don’t ever recall stating that, nor do I believe it. So if you’ve gleaned that on your own, oh well. Welcome to Super Happy Imagination Land Playing, to you! OK that sounded like a Japanese cartoon. Did I already mention I was a link whore?

In all the years I’ve been blogging (6, if you want to know), I NEVER ever told anyone that my blog was good.

Shit.

This is my tiny, insignificant, pile of shit, little crappy corner of the web, full of words and nonsense and BS and wonderment and dreams and rants and whatnot. It’s my most prized utter waste of lots of time, but happens to be tons of fun and therapy for ME.

If no one reads it then fine.

It’s mine. Not yours.

If you like it, cool beans.

If you don’t, awesome. If it seems to be too much torture to read a few entries, go click on one of my “1000 links”.

I half expected some to get sensitive about it but this Holly person has some kind of personal vendeta against me, and yet I don’t know her from Adam. Oh well.

Although my blog is fairly old, I‘ve only recently been trying to sort of revive it, though I do have a life (hence the off, then on, then off, then on-again entries Holly was so quick to point out). I discovered it was easier to just STEAL TRAFFIC instead of trying to wedge myself into the blogging community by being nice and sitting back after posting entries, I decided that if I really wanted to gain more attention and groupie and whatnot, I really had to live up to that big ol’ skanky link ho status of mine (I always have been one, this was just a renewed effort) and lately the Alliance has been my pimp.

PS – Hey Holly….your blog’s sidebar falls down to the bottom on my screen (a 15″ which is still the majority size of computer screens of consumers) so that means a majority of people see that and probably think, “Gee, that blog jess don’t look right.”

And while I don’t claim to be perfect, I do do my homework …don’t that count fer somethin’?

Heh, heh.

She said “do do”!

Now, let’s see….what other kind of Annoying Blogger should I be….

OH! How about I try on some of that Goth “Woe is Me” Crap?

I just want to BELONG…

LIKE ME.

ACCEPT ME!

WHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh.

*sniff*

OK I feel better now.

Kin we all jess git along?

PS – it was meant to be mostly a joke, people. Look it up.

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