Comments on: Today in the news 06.13.07 http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: aliecat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90189 aliecat Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:09:23 +0000 #comment-90189 Ish... Ish…

]]> By: grote http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90188 grote Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:55:46 +0000 #comment-90188 Two strangers are seated together on a long cross country train ride, and one is drinking out of a bottle stuffed into a paper bag. <br /> The other fella asks if he can take a sip. <br /> The older fella ...the one with the bottle...says, "young man...you really don't want to drink what I have in here"<br /> To which the younger man replies, "you think I can't handle it!?"...so the bottle is handed over and the young man takes a sip and forces it down.<br /> "That's the nastiest thing I've ever had...is that supposed to be a Bloody Mary?!"<br /> "Why, no" says the old man, "actually, I have TB and that's my spit bottle"<br /> <br /> Two strangers are seated together on a long cross country train ride, and one is drinking out of a bottle stuffed into a paper bag.
The other fella asks if he can take a sip.
The older fella …the one with the bottle…says, “young man…you really don’t want to drink what I have in here”
To which the younger man replies, “you think I can’t handle it!?”…so the bottle is handed over and the young man takes a sip and forces it down.
“That’s the nastiest thing I’ve ever had…is that supposed to be a Bloody Mary?!”
“Why, no” says the old man, “actually, I have TB and that’s my spit bottle”

]]> By: aliecat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90172 aliecat Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:57:14 +0000 #comment-90172 <em>Over an entire lifetime, will the health care costs of a non-smoking 80- or 90-year old wind up being more than those of a dead 72-year old smoker?</em><br /> <br /> Kinda off topic, but why anyone would want to live past 90 is beyond me. My grandparents both died in their late 90's and it wasn't pretty. Over an entire lifetime, will the health care costs of a non-smoking 80- or 90-year old wind up being more than those of a dead 72-year old smoker?

Kinda off topic, but why anyone would want to live past 90 is beyond me. My grandparents both died in their late 90’s and it wasn’t pretty.

]]> By: noodleman http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90168 noodleman Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:12:10 +0000 #comment-90168 I would love to have a spy-cam around to record all the life-endangering behaviors an anti-smoking zealot engages in from day-to-day. Might teach them some humility.<br /> <br /> Speeding? Fast food? Boating without a life vest? Biking without a helmet?<br /> <br /> Over an entire lifetime, will the health care costs of a non-smoking 80- or 90-year old wind up being more than those of a dead 72-year old smoker?<br /> <br /> Just askin', is all. I would love to have a spy-cam around to record all the life-endangering behaviors an anti-smoking zealot engages in from day-to-day. Might teach them some humility.

Speeding? Fast food? Boating without a life vest? Biking without a helmet?

Over an entire lifetime, will the health care costs of a non-smoking 80- or 90-year old wind up being more than those of a dead 72-year old smoker?

Just askin’, is all.

]]> By: Cat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90156 Cat Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:04:36 +0000 #comment-90156 Woo Hoo! The fun was had whilst I was out smoking... dang. Woo Hoo! The fun was had whilst I was out smoking… dang.

]]> By: bobby_b http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90142 bobby_b Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:39:57 +0000 #comment-90142 "<em>Another great way to smoke in peace is to act retarded. You can accompmlish this by smoking when it's -10 degrees outside.</em>"<br /> <br /> How old were you when you began to feel the strong sense of unearned entitlement and self-reverential egoism needed to be able, without shame, to easily refer to other people who have made choices unlike your own choices as "retarded"?<br /> <br /> I'm curious, because we're having this discussion about parental rights in re retroactive abortion, and this'll help me to articulate some inchoate thoughts concerning intellectual viability.<br /> <br /> (Note to Max: This is NOT prickly. It would be prickly, maybe, had I used smaller words so that the subject could have understood the point, but I didn't.)<br /> <br /> (Note 2 to Max: Okay, now it's prickly. Sorry.) “Another great way to smoke in peace is to act retarded. You can accompmlish this by smoking when it’s -10 degrees outside.“

How old were you when you began to feel the strong sense of unearned entitlement and self-reverential egoism needed to be able, without shame, to easily refer to other people who have made choices unlike your own choices as “retarded”?

I’m curious, because we’re having this discussion about parental rights in re retroactive abortion, and this’ll help me to articulate some inchoate thoughts concerning intellectual viability.

(Note to Max: This is NOT prickly. It would be prickly, maybe, had I used smaller words so that the subject could have understood the point, but I didn’t.)

(Note 2 to Max: Okay, now it’s prickly. Sorry.)

]]> By: aliecat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90120 aliecat Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:09:30 +0000 #comment-90120 <em>Can you explain how you're not slinging drugs?</em><br /> <br /> Um, because I am not selling an illegal substance, nor am I consuming an illegal substance, because I am well over 18 and the taxes from said substance support the government. Anything else I can help you with?<br /> <br /> <em>Another great way to smoke in peace is to act retarded. You can accompmlish this by smoking when it's -10 degrees outside.</em><br /> <br /> Very clever...now go fuck yourself...gee, I think I heard that somewhere before... Can you explain how you’re not slinging drugs?

Um, because I am not selling an illegal substance, nor am I consuming an illegal substance, because I am well over 18 and the taxes from said substance support the government. Anything else I can help you with?

Another great way to smoke in peace is to act retarded. You can accompmlish this by smoking when it’s -10 degrees outside.

Very clever…now go fuck yourself…gee, I think I heard that somewhere before…

]]> By: phillip_morris http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90117 phillip_morris Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:49:58 +0000 #comment-90117 There is nothing addictive about nicotine.<br /> I agree with Jane. Do not, under any circumstances, stop smoking. Pretend you're from the moon if it will allow you to injest more sweet, sweet tobacco.<br /> Another great way to smoke in peace is to act retarded. You can accompmlish this by smoking when it's -10 degrees outside.<br /> <br /> Thanks for your continued support! There is nothing addictive about nicotine.
I agree with Jane. Do not, under any circumstances, stop smoking. Pretend you’re from the moon if it will allow you to injest more sweet, sweet tobacco.
Another great way to smoke in peace is to act retarded. You can accompmlish this by smoking when it’s -10 degrees outside.

Thanks for your continued support!

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90115 justpbob Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:46:46 +0000 #comment-90115 Also try these phrases:<br /> <br /> "mazasapa! mazasapa! mazasapa!"<br /> <br /> "LOLmusell!<br /> <br /> "Capra hircus syncope?"<br /> <br /> I scream them at people who bother me. They scatter like roaches from the kitchen light. Also try these phrases:

“mazasapa! mazasapa! mazasapa!”

“LOLmusell!

“Capra hircus syncope?”

I scream them at people who bother me. They scatter like roaches from the kitchen light.

]]> By: toledo http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10507#comment-90112 toledo Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:35:07 +0000 #comment-90112 "and I agree with the whole thing about people looking at us like we're slinging drugs...sheesh.."<br /> <br /> Can you explain how you're not slinging drugs? “and I agree with the whole thing about people looking at us like we’re slinging drugs…sheesh..”

Can you explain how you’re not slinging drugs?

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