Random Thought of the Day

June 13th, 2018 at 6:08:25 PM permalink
terapined
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Quote: Wizard
One of my favorites too! I'm sure I bored you with the fact that I was an extra on one episode. Didn't know Mr. Big was ever on it.

Wow, thats totally cool
Which episode?
What location?
I spent a lot of time in Fells Point partying and hanging with friends.
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"
June 15th, 2018 at 11:20:39 PM permalink
rxwine
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Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders get $150 per home game, no pay for practices which can go until 2 or 3 am in the morning and they can't do endorsements like players. Definitely work as hard as any regular athlete.

They even have to buy their own calendars to give to friends or family.

Cowboy mascot makes $65,000 per year or 3 times as much.
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
June 16th, 2018 at 3:36:35 AM permalink
odiousgambit
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Quote: rxwine
Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders get $150 per home game, no pay for practices which can go until 2 or 3 am in the morning and they can't do endorsements like players. Definitely work as hard as any regular athlete.

They even have to buy their own calendars to give to friends or family.

Cowboy mascot makes $65,000 per year or 3 times as much.


Modeling career boost though - in a field that otherwise is easily 'nothing doing'?

I was quite shocked when I followed up once with the website for the Redskins Cheerleaders. When you checked out an individual cheerleader by clicking on her picture, it was an ad for her services. And I would say this was uniformly with few exceptions about her escort service and how to contact her!

Now this was about 20 years ago. When you check it out now, there's nothing but wholesome goodness. Unless you count the poses which can be sexy.

I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me]
June 24th, 2018 at 2:15:12 AM permalink
odiousgambit
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just realized how quotable Voltaire is, he was a real quote machine I guess, and pretty good ones too





and more,

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=915&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=-lwvW7OhG8HBjwT5s7-oCg&q=voltaire+quotes&oq=voltaire&gs_l=img.1.1.0i67k1j0l3j0i67k1j0l5.719491.720472.0.724061.6.6.0.0.0.0.1040.1040.7-1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.img..5.1.1040....0.JnnNkj9Jd70#imgrc=_
I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me]
June 28th, 2018 at 10:15:15 AM permalink
kenarman
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Life is becoming a game of chess. The queens are more powerful than the kings.
"but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin
June 28th, 2018 at 12:43:28 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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Quote: kenarman
Life is becoming a game of chess. The queens are more powerful than the kings.
Has ever been that way.
June 28th, 2018 at 1:11:09 PM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: kenarman
Life is becoming a game of chess. The queens are more powerful than the kings.



Not sure if the history of chess tells us why it was designed the way it was. I suppose the King, though the ruler, always had to worry about poison in the meal or a knife in that back, and was somewhat a prisoner in his own gilded realm. A queen may have had the benefit of not being a primary target and could move in broader ways the King couldn't. Yet she could still probably wield much harm on anyone else who crossed her.
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
June 28th, 2018 at 2:24:06 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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A lot of this has to do with views of society at different times and places

Europe and England after the Black Death? Women were too valuable for the pedestal and the role of chattels
Twelfth Century chivalry in France? Women in Spain held property, held public office, engaged in political debate and were not treated as property
More mobility than men, definitely.

After all, even the Greeks made Aphrodite the Goddess of love and battle strategy.

In America women in the West held power far beyond the NY view of denying the vote to imbeciles and females.
June 28th, 2018 at 10:35:39 PM permalink
rxwine
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Least favorite commercial. For fraud drug Red Forterra. "Do you take red". I loathe both the male and female actors.
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
June 29th, 2018 at 9:30:56 AM permalink
Fleastiff
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If a teenage girl is asking me to send photos of my slimes... just what on earth is she talking about???