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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/14/09

    In reply to In Recognition of Our City's Amateur Scribes: The Winter of Our Cock Deficiency
    There's still a future for Small Willy. Unfortunately, it involves total body waxing, donning a schoolboy outfit and mastering an Oliver Twist accent.
    (Bonus chances if he learns to enjoy caning)
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    Image of dieresis dieresis
    12/13/09

    In reply to In Recognition of Our City's Amateur Scribes: The Winter of Our Cock Deficiency
    "You’re a bad lay with a small cock" is trite by now. I guess ‘best of the week’ doesn’t raise the bar too high.
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    Image of Thatcornellguy Thatcornellguy
    12/13/09

    In reply to In Recognition of Our City's Amateur Scribes: The Winter of Our Cock Deficiency
    36 and the dad is still paying half of the rent?

    thats....thats just sad really.
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    Image of ShawnP ShawnP
    12/13/09

    @Thatcornellguy: Yeah, he should ask him to pay the other half. Or move back in.
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    Image of Thatcornellguy Thatcornellguy
    12/13/09

    @ShawnP: "Daddy and Deadbeat". What a charming idea for a sitcom! Imagine the hilarious hijinks!
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/13/09

    In reply to In Recognition of Our City's Amateur Scribes: The Winter of Our Cock Deficiency
    What I want to know is to what is she responding?

    This posting is quite good, but the combo would be pure comedic gold.
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    Image of sfBirdie sfBirdie
    12/13/09

    In reply to In Recognition of Our City's Amateur Scribes: The Winter of Our Cock Deficiency
    This is some great inspiration for the email to my roommate.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/13/09

    In reply to In Recognition of Our City's Amateur Scribes: The Winter of Our Cock Deficiency
    From Network, written by Paddy Chayefsky:

    "Why is it that a woman always thinks that the most savage thing she can say to a man is to impugn his cocksmanship?"

    Also, from The Big Store, when Groucho and Margaret Dumont are quietly sitting on a loveseat:

    Dumont: "What are you thinking?'
    Groucho: "Oh, I was just thinking of all the years I wasted collecting stamps."
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    Edited by TheBusinessGuy at 12/13/09 8:28 PM TheBusinessGuy was starred TheBusinessGuy was unstarred
    Image of Airvault Airvault
    12/13/09

    In reply to In Recognition of Our City's Amateur Scribes: The Winter of Our Cock Deficiency
    "Who the hell do you think you are telling me that I'm being intrusive, for asking you what you were thinking, when you are laying in my bed?"

    Ah, yes. "What are you thinking?" I used to think that was a cliche in movies written by Nora Ephron. Now that I'm hooking up with "mature women" I realize they actually give a crap.

    Would women really prefer the answer "Double-double, strawberry milkshake, and fries?"

    That being said i can't believe this guy had the cajones to tell her to mind her beeswax.
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    Edited by Airvault at 12/13/09 8:03 PM Airvault was starred Airvault was unstarred
    Image of OrneryBabe OrneryBabe
    12/13/09

    @Airvault: "Would women really prefer the answer "Double-double, strawberry milkshake, and fries?"

    No, lie to us, please. For our own good.
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    Image of Bos'un's Mate Bos'un's Mate
    12/13/09

    @OrneryBabe: With two straws, of course.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    12/13/09

    @Airvault: Ah, please. Do not judge us "mature women" (whatever that means--over 30?) by this standard. I'm a chick and absolutely loathe those inane "a penny for your thoughts" queries. Really, boys and girls, it's OK to maintain silence. In fact the real measure of intimacy is the fact that one no longer feels the need to pollute the air with mindless radio static around one's significant other and can just savor each other's presence--silently.

    (I think I just quoted Quentin Tarantino on this.)
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    12/13/09

    @snugbug: Mature not in age, but in thinking. (It's so rude and 20th Century to call them "girls" or "chicks," you know...)
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    Image of OrneryBabe OrneryBabe
    12/14/09

    @Airvault: By the way, hope my earlier reply to you didn't come across as snippy. That wasn't my intent.

    What I meant, and really didn't convey clearly, was that if we knew what ran through your minds sometimes, we'd run for the hills. A boyfriend told me once that I really didn't want to know what men fantasized about. And I believed him.
    So, total honesty? Not always.
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    Airvault promoted this comment Edited by OrneryBabe at 12/14/09 12:47 AM OrneryBabe was starred OrneryBabe was unstarred
    Image of Airvault Airvault
    12/14/09

    @OrneryBabe: I'm never honest but always an asshole. I say things like, "I was just thinking how cool it might be to do it with my socks off for once."
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    12/13/09

    In reply to In Recognition of Our City's Amateur Scribes: The Winter of Our Cock Deficiency
    Oh, the weather outside is frightful...
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    12/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist's Dirty Secret
    While it's noble that he hasn't sold out to some corporation run by pricks who would presumably plant some asshole CEO at the helm, at the same time, he could score multiple hundreds of millions from the sale of CL (sadly) and use that money to do something truly good. Instead, his good intentions are by way of letting people meet in parking lots to sell tchochkes without having to pay a commission. Oh, and whores.
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    Image of oudemia oudemia
    12/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist's Dirty Secret
    When someone goes on and on about their hippie altruistic instincts, but also goes on and on about being a libertarian? Yeah, they're full of shit.
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    Image of DieAsAKite DieAsAKite
    12/10/09

    @oudemia: Don't forget Newmark also tries to cultivate the ridiculous notion that he has nothing to do with the operations or vision of the company, and is just a lowly "tech support" peon.

    NPR recently tried to interview him about the ongoing "Adult Services" controversy and the whole time he was stonewalling them with the "I dunno man, I just work here in tech support..." THEN WHY DID YOU DO THE FREAKIN' INTERVIEW CRAIG???
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    12/10/09

    @oudemia: Yes, they are.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/10/09

    @DieAsAKite: I heard that too; except he also repeated, like a broken record, "I addressed that on the blog" -- to every awkward question.
    Only he didn't; and the prostitutes are still clogging up the Personals. Consenting adults+money+sex = illegal activity in most every state.
    But don't you dare try to sell a used mattress. Oh, wait. I see what I did there.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    12/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist's Dirty Secret
    Point of information: That August WIRED story was anything but flattering. IMHO, it portrayed Newmark as paranoid and unwilling to listen to user feedback, lest his company grow to the point that he would have to cede too much control over parts of it. Perhaps that's why he did what he did with respect to Knowlton?
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    Image of Ryan Tate Ryan Tate
    12/10/09

    @DennyCrane: I read that story and you're right But I do think it was credulous with regard to Newmark's altruism. It seemed like they wanted to make the casr that Newmark has not been savvy/responsive about growing the business, in terms of the users AND the market, and echoing this myth of him as an angel was a nice way for them to do that, because it gave them a foil to play off of, or a sort of caricature to knock down.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    12/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist's Dirty Secret
    You know Ryan (we are our friends, I can call you Ryan, no?) this all sounds suspiciously like "business." And yes when I have bought or sold something on Craigslist, I think of it as being run by an old hippie and two grad students in an unheated one bedroom apartment in The Castro. Let me have my illusions.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/10/09

    @belltolls: that one time you saw santa? that was your uncle, all dressed up.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    12/10/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: They shoot horses, don't they?
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    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    12/10/09

    @belltolls: No, they get to go the the same farm your dog went to, and they're really happy 'cause there's lots of big fields to run around in.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/10/09

    @belltolls: Also: Democrats only slightly less sleazy than Republicans, hard work probably won't ever make you rich, there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and no one will ever really give peace a chance.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    12/10/09

    @ All: Arghhhhh.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/10/09

    @belltolls: How did you just do that neat trick of responding to us all at once? I can only respond to 1 person at a time.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    12/10/09

    @Lysergic Asset: On the plus side, I masturbate a lot and I still have 20/15 vision - at least the bad platitudes are wrong also.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/10/09

    @m4ximusprim3: Yes, but do you shave or wax your palms?
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    Image of fatmonalisa fatmonalisa
    12/10/09

    @belltolls: Sarah Jessica Parker has a lot of bodyguards to prevent that
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/10/09

    @ Lysergic Asset: @ robfagen: Testing
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/10/09

    @ Lysergic Asset: @ Lysergic Asset:
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    11/25/09

    In reply to Seeking Slim Vegan Morrissey Fan from Non-Dominant Culture for Occult Activities
    I like this one better:

    [www.craigslist.org]
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    Image of Clare Clare
    11/24/09

    In reply to Seeking Slim Vegan Morrissey Fan from Non-Dominant Culture for Occult Activities
    I have a hard time reconciling the kind of woman who listens to Morrissey and the kind of woman who gets acrylic French tips.
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    Image of Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan
    11/24/09

    In reply to Seeking Slim Vegan Morrissey Fan from Non-Dominant Culture for Occult Activities
    Veganism: the worst possible mix between religion and eating disorder.
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