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What a bunch of surrender monkeys.

The only thing that would be more depressive than living in Bellevue would be to not make enough coin to live in Bellevue with all the bling.

No finer nor more accurate description of the Bellevue's cultural mindset has ever been written. I worked in downtown Bellevue for a time. Despite the East Side's diligent efforts to transform the planetary surface into fractal landscape of intermittable traffic lights, econobox houses cowering behind their feaux Versaille entryways, cul de sac neighborhoods engineered to mimick the look and feel of a safe, warm, and comfortable lower colon, and TGI Fridays, I found pockets of resistant ethnicity that were quite refreshing. Downtown B-vue posts a fine Jewish deli, great Mexican joint, and a Turkish shoe repair shop, to name a few. Although Bellevue may be the blondest city in America, there are little brown people going about their everyday lives tucked in between the Bed, Bath, and Beyonds. Bellevue also boasts some of the nicest breasts to be found anywhere outside of Hollywood. I'm not sure who the distributor is, but there are a whole lot of 55 year olds running around (OK, driving around) with the perkiest racks you've ever seen. I can remember standing in the lobby of the Bellevue Club listening to two middle aged women talk about the price of their breasts. This kind of openness just doesn't seem to happen in Seattle. Bellevue is not a great place to become involved in a motor vehicle accident however; an unfortunately likely occurance as a high percentage of vehicles there are driven by women who can't see far enough over their new breasts to successfully pilot their battlestars through 19 lanes of traffic.

Prost!

bent shaft

packin a third tool

strapons verses stepins

....as long as we could park a floating oil rig above it. That's a given. Wouldn't it be international waters then anyway??

Mixing vodka and gin? But then again, the guy picks up Pussy Galore in an exploding car.

My catholic school class used to got to Oakland every year so we could see some black people.

They'll still be just as good in the bedroom.

....as long as we could park a floating oil rig above it.

"How long will be be in the United States, sir?" "Any firearms, fruits or vegetables with you today?" "Do I appear to have a serpent with one large eye for a head growing out of my chest?"

If they hadn't, I'd still be worshipping trees. Wait, I still worship trees.

Or, if you prefer to leave GDP out of it... Gee, during the last four republican administrations it drops like a rock. Hmmmmm.....must be those tax and spend democrats.

The GOPs gift to us:

Thanks for the Russian vodka suggestions. I'll look for em.

I used to travel through Denmark frequently when I worked in Europe a lot. I encountered many of the biggest assholes I've every met there, most particularl belligerent drunks. Not without exception of course, but the frequency of less than pleasant encounters was striking when compared with the rest of the continent. The Danish culture seems bored with itself.

Interesting, because I've never voiced an opinion on vaccinations one way or the other. Ever. How are your reading comprehension classes coming? Have you gotten to the memory improvement modules yet? Hurried response regarding fluoridation in 3, 2, 1....

Two separate tastings with two mostly separate groups of people. Tasters wound up drinking the equivalent of about 3 shots each (1/4 shot samples)...for the 'official' part, that is.

"You're summit appointment is scheduled for between 8:45 and 9:00 a.m. on the morning of...."

JayB's "well-meaning but misguided hippies in Birkenstocks" baiting comment in -3, -4, -5....

Kind of like Pop Warner Football camp, only sponsored by Cabella's.

We did 2 blind vodka tasting tests with 18 subjects and 13 different vodkas. Vodka was sipped straight at room temp. The much acclaimed (and apparently well marketed) Grey Goose ranked near the bottom of the list, with Ketel One (another wonder of marketing) close on its heals. Stoly's didn't fair much better. The top three in both taste tests: Hangar One (almost unanimously) Pearl Absolut Ciroc and Tangueray also did well. Having said that, nearly all the vodkas make decent martinis.