> George,
>> As it should be in all -- if you've had the advantage of testosterone
>> bulking  you up for years, especially in your post-puberscent era, it
>> is NOT fair to  allow you to run against thosde who've been
>> estrogen-based their entire lives.
> Exactly. Society has gotten so much "entitlement" and "being spoiled"
> that "everyone should win every time". It doesn't work that way.

It does now, because as has been famously said, "The Law is an ass."
& "The Law is the Law."

>> He was also hanging around in family change rooms, goofing on undressed
>> little  girls.
> Too many sex offenders out there nowadays.

Not if you gave thjem the garden shears treatment upon conviction. . .

He won't be having much of any future urges with all his equipment ('bat &  balls') removed with rusty, half-dull garden scissors!

> There was a meme with this guy with hairy arms and legs, but wearing a
> dress, was approaching the ladies room. Two burly guys were in front of
> the door, as guards, with the warning sign "If you're not a woman when
> you go in, you will be when you come out".

We need good citizens volunteering to do this everywhere there's this problem.  (I'm looking at you, NC!)

>> Ok, we took off our clothes, you stood on top of me -- when does it
>> star to  feel good?
> I don't know, but I've already got a headache. 

That was the follolw up return/parody I remember, yup. . . :) 

>> Look for a volunterrs organisation in your area, especially seniors'
>> organisations -- ask for a volunteer medical driver; we have that in
>> every community now.
> The thing is, if they require Medicaid (besides just paying the monthly
> premium), I'm disqualified.

Keyword: "volunteer" :) 

>> Hey, YOU brought up Dr. Pepper! ;)
> I used to drink that. Years ago, we'd drink the whole 12 ounce bottle in
> one swig, then see who could let out the raunchiest belch. :P

We all went through thart phase.  My worst for pop was one summer's day after  wortkingin direct hot sun in a someone's garden for 14 houes, I had 2 cans of  coke from t he lady of the house, to cool off after, then cycled home, stopping to bvuy a 26oz bottle, & chugging gthat straight down, like water, then got a  big gulp in town (about halfway point) & chugged that as I pedaled the last 3  miles home.  Got my first ever case of heartburn (wickedly painful, until I  burped, not just long enough to say the alphabet, but I couyld've recited every psaolm from beginning to end in the time it took to relieve the pressure!

Never again.  Now it's water all the way, & lots of it!

>> The blooper noted the passing of Pastor Smith as "it was truly a
>> turning point in his life". 
>> When you view life as eternal, then this wasn't necessarily a blooper.
> When I first read it, I thought "What was your first clue??".

It's as bad as using hackneyed sports cliches. . .

Yeah, Billy, your grandfather passed on. . ." is how they'd say it. . 

Why not, "Grandpa went long. . .& never came back."?

Just say "dead" it avoids so many problems! (like Terry Swciavo -- she wasn't  in a "Persistent vegetative state"; she was "dead." Just say "dead."

It's a perfectly useful word that says exactly what it means.

Best way to contact a dead Italian..... .....use a Luigi Board.

Q: What do you do with dead chemists? A: You barium.

Roses are dead, Violets are black
I'm a lousy gardener. (& poet)

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