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16 years ago
Hi clubber,
Unfortunately, I think the case can reasonably be made that Prohibition did work. Probably a good portion of DEA officers think they're doing something wonderful and productive. I would love to say they're just morons or ignorant zealots because I loathe the governments' Wars.
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16 years ago
Hi clubber,
Well, the new club has its positives. I'm just not going to be happy at any club, I don't think I would, where the price is $25 a dance. Apparently, for a lot of stripclubbers that isn't a deal killer. One huge positive for me at Tootsie's is that I can spend less money than at Angels, if I don't buy any dances. Reason being the dancers at Tootsie's weren't coming around for $1 tips. An old boss of mine didn't have any qualms about saying NO to dancers seeking a $1 tip for their stage show--that would depress the hell out of me.
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16 years ago
Hi casualguy,
Yes, cyesolagnia (also maieusiophilia, btw) hardly seem common and perhaps that is why stripper pseudocyesis isn't prevalent. I'm definitely a sucker for this scam, but as I said before I think the strippers were telling me the truth so it wasn't actually a scam or maybe it was in some cases. Of course, just because a man doesn't have a sexual attraction to pregnant women doesn't mean the old knight in shining armor syndrome wouldn't kick in.
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16 years ago
Yes.
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16 years ago
"Substantive is the technical term for a word or group of words acting as a noun. Since modern grammar is more concerned with the way words function in a sentence than with part-of-speech designations in a dictionary, it's a little different from the conventional understanding of noun, but it's very close. Virtually all nouns are substantives; so are pronouns like he, she, it, and they. It can also include adjectives if they're used "absolutely" — the homeless, for instance, or the wicked. [Entry added 14 Sept. 2004.]" ---- http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/s.html ---
"The biggest, the greatest or the heaviest dictionaries are no match for public opinion when it comes to language. A language is a very democratic thing -- it goes where its speakers take it.
In spite of what many people believe, dictionaries are supposed to follow the language, not the other way round. In fact, that's exactly how dictionaries are made: by observing and recording how people are using words." ---- http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Columns/?article=AnuSherbet>1=27004 ----
Just a couple blurbs & links for those who are interested.
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16 years ago
"In fact, the research published by the Boskin Commission, which studied the impact of "quality changes" on consumer prices, concluded that inflation was overstated by 1.1 percent each year."
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/05/getting-less-fo.html#posts
Inflation is overstated by 1.1 percent each year? Well, that is one solution to the deflationary spiral . . . anyone else recall the dire warnings of deflation?
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16 years ago
The first or real old Tootsie's was, imo, the BEST. A total dive with slutty dancers. I probably could have lived there, but the music shook the damn walls and everything else. It would take me about 3 days to get my hearing back.
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16 years ago
This one dancer was extremely pregnant and the price was supposed to be $5 per song, but she was so grateful for my business that she adjusted it to 2 songs for $5 i.e. buy one get one free. Very sensual dances and I could feel her baby kicking the hell out of her. The real treat was her eye contact; her irises were practically eclipsed to extinction by extremely enlarged pupils. Had me in an oneiric state of oneness with her.
She later explained in her words that it was just "a scam" "a trick" "a fraud" and that most every guy if they liked eye contact would fall for it. Not only did I fall for it, I loved it insanely. :) She could make her pupils almost invisible or enlarge them to the point where her irises were gone or at least very difficult to see. She could do it fast or slow. When I spoke with an optometrist about it he was greatly surprised and amused; he hadn't thought it was possible, but that it was definitely a neat trick.
My eleemosynary and in this instance selfish acts was JACKPOT CITY. :) :) :) Made me feel especially good about giving.
Notation: think collective nouns.
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16 years ago
Hi zorro,
I may have unintentionally misused or at least overly abused oculogyric. The first time I saw oculogyric it defined and used as an adjective to express in a fanciful and humorous manner the act of *eye-rolling*. Later brief research seem to indicate it is more of a medical term.
Sorry, but I don't understand your question. It appears that I used oculogyric 3 times in separate sentences and with giving it a tremendous amount of thought it seemed like it was being used as an adverb and wasn't modifying a noun implied or otherwise. I also used non-oculogyric 1 time. (In the first sentence of this post it seems like the implied noun for oculogyric is word or term.) Anyway, have to run cause the barbarians are at the door.
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16 years ago
Thank you, ozymandias. :) I might have been taught that decades ago, but I sure as hell forgot it. The ancient textbook encouraged the use of adjectives as nouns as well as other creative constructions. It made English grammar "come alive." :) Its main negative, imo, is that it was too brief sorta like that Strunk whatever book.
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16 years ago
Lady Godiva, an extreme tax rebel, btw, got me thinking about the old Dr. Seuss classic?: The Seven Lady Godivas. ---- http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Lady-Godivas-Concerning-Historys/dp/039456779X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210029267&sr=8-1
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16 years ago
Speaking again of conspiracy: "In Don't Start The Revolution Without Me!" by Jesse Ventura @ page 54:
"My most basic reasoning is this: If Oswald was really who we were led to believe----a disgruntled little Marine private who got angry with capitalism and became a communist, tried to defect to Russia, came back and thought he'd make a name for himself in history by shooting the president----then why would any of the evidence need to be withheld and locked away in the National Archives for seventy-five years because of 'national security'? As a Navy SEAL, I had top-secret clearance. That was higher than Oswald's, and I know a few secrets, but not enough to jeopardize national security."
For the sake of argument let's say former governor Ventura is factually correct, then is his logic, logical? NO, imho. The reason that I think his reasoning isn't logical is because his expectation that the government will act with a clear logic, while reasonable, is expecting too much or maybe naive. For example, if a murdered man is found with his wallet emptied on his body and there is a little over a thousand dollars along with credit cards and government ids and pictures and etc., then is it therefore logical to state that the murder wasn't financially motivated?
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16 years ago
Safer than ruminating. :(
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16 years ago
O mighty Pythagoras and yee nooos more than the Chicago Manual of Style? :) Maybe you do.
But, I don't be thinking nouns and adjectives are interchangeable. However, one may "properly" use an adjective as a noun or a noun as a verb or a noun as a adjective. As to the second part of your sentence, I disagree there as well. :)
OK, now for the important stuff: let's discuss $5 dances. :)
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16 years ago
Besides being tempted by "ian" suffix of callipygian as zorro pointed out, it is also the definition of the word itself that is tempting. "Having beautifully proportioned buttocks . . . From Greek kallipugos : kalli-, beautiful (from kallos, beauty) + pug, buttocks." ---- http://www.bartleby.com/61/3/C0040300.html ---- IOWs, you have the noun "buttocks" being described and modified by "beautifully proportioned." So, somehow it was decided by learned scholars that the end result equals an adjective??? I wish I understood their reasoning a little better.
If anyone would care for the antonym for callipygian, then cacopygian may fill the bill. "Having ugly buttocks." ---- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cacopygian ---- Or maybe dasypygal - "having hairy buttocks." ----http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/ow_d.html#dasypygal ----
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16 years ago
http://www.stripperweb.com/
But, I don't care for it at all and I don't hardly visit.
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16 years ago
Well, as a lawyer he should have no problems . . . unless he's got connected enemies. Anyway is taxpayer money better spent enriching a lawyer or entraping johns? Give the lawyer his money, imo. :)
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16 years ago
"Jablake, adjectives modify nouns, they are normally not used as a noun."
Keyword is normally. :)
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16 years ago
Hi zorro,
At least one of my ancient grammar textbooks (I wish I still had it, btw) claimed that it was permissible to use nouns as adjectives and vice versa. I'm hardly an expert on the subject, but then again some experts I disagree with volcanically. ;)
"In both Spanish and English, it is common to use adjectives as nouns." ----http://spanish.about.com/b/2007/07/06/turning-adjectives-into-nouns.htm ---- "An adjective used as a noun is always . . . ." ---- http://www.edufind.com/ENGLISH/englishtests/english_test_explanation.cfm?TestID=37 ----
"5.94: Adjectives as nouns" ---- http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/search.epl?q=nouns ----
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16 years ago
As long as we are delving a little into adjectives v. nouns the word callipygian (adj.) or callipygous (adj.) has been keeping me awake at night. One definition, btw, is
having well-shaped buttocks ----http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861594204 ----
If I call up the local escort service and request a callipygian, then, imo, it seems like a fine and dandy noun. :) Sorta like how I could order a steatopygia (noun). IOWs, if I don't turn the adjective, callipygian, into a noun then it becomes, to me, less valuable.
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16 years ago
Hi quimby,
Yes, the stripper pseudocyesis (every dancer imo has been telling the truth to *me*; gambling stripper claims they're all lying) would work like a charm assuming she is a wonderful actress because yes, I do want to help out at least a little if a stripper is facing baby bills.
Very few customers from what I can see appreciate pregnant dancers. For me it is the dancer's looks that are important. If she looked hot before getting pregnant, then there is a fair chance she'll look hot after getting pregnant. Now, if she is still hot while being pregnant and she has a good attitude, then I'm probably going to be very HAPPY! :)
The scam takes advantage of a customer's good nature. Maybe that is why I think I've only experienced it when in fact it isn't a scam. Gambling stripper thinks it would be shocking if it wasn't a scam i.e. the dancer was actually pregnant.
It is bodacious to meet another person that appreciates a well executed scam even when they're the mark. :) I find said scam very didactive.
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16 years ago
Hi zorro,
Is there a problem using an adjective as a noun? Or, did I just use an incorrect form?
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16 years ago
BTW, I *easily* could have been wrong and in that case the scam, stripper pseudocyesis, would have taken a few dollars out of my pocket that I would have rather spent on another dancer. Would I have been all bent of shape if learned that it was a scam? No. But, I do feel good that she was telling me the truth. She seems very easy to detect because when she is BSing she won't look me in the eyes for long and her voice is unsteady. If a scammer can pull the same acting, then that is a treat, imo. :)
And, yes I LOVE the scammer who can provide the GFE. I wish my gambling stripper buddy would be doing that for me! :)
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16 years ago
Hi casualguy,
Interesting article, but I wonder about the source e.g. perhaps it isn't mainstream or whatever. Anyway, The Wall Street Journal's concern about the "massaging" of the inflation numbers centered on properly adjusting for "improvements." For example, if your Whopper got sprayed with a "pesticide" that could be viewed by government as an "improvement." So, if the new "improved" Whopper goes from 99 cents to 299 cents that is actually deflation i.e. the real cost is going down even though you're paying more than a 200 percent more. :) Now once the adjustment to the Whopper has been made to account for the "improvement" it is easy to see that you're actually now only paying 75 cents in "real" terms even when you give the cashier 299 cents and she burps moron you forgot the sales tax and gratuity. Oh, and we don't take pennies!
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16 years ago
Hi casualguy,
I just would generally prefer to avoid confrontation. Yes, I don't always follow that especially when I feel wronged or the chance for escalation seems low. And, not going to the clubs at all is definitely away to avoid confrontation, but for me that is too high a price to pay.
You're right the managment staff is different, at least imo. I don't even know what exactly is going on. The bartender never even asked security for assistance, but instead later asked a "tough" dancer. Even a "wimpy" dancer would probably be tough for me nowadays. So, I kept thinking why isn't she dragging security into it? Maybe security is more interested in keeping dancers happy? Maybe management wants to get rid of whites without leaving too much of a trail? Maybe it is just an aggressive minority or maybe it is personal?
I do know that very minor squabbles can turn bloody or deadly. I'm not sure who would be arrested or convicted for that matter; I don't have *any* faith or belief in the government at this point in my life.
Anyway, the part to me that was interesting is that other customer would definitely dump the club if they're mistreated or management doesn't care. I look at it as more of a question of tradeoffs. If Tootsie's management treats me like a million dollars, then damn yes that would probably make me feel wonderful. However, at $25 a song Tootsie's just has NO VALUE to me. :( IOWs, I'd rather go to a $5 club were management says we don't care if you come or not, it makes NO DIFFERENCE to us. Now, if at the $5 club management says there are too many whites and you have to go, then I'm gone! Gone because I don't think I have much choice---the law regardless of what it says is gutter garbage, ime.