Posted on 06/15/2004 11:11:49 AM PDT by doug from upland
:-)
If the DU'ers see your a vegetarian....they will forgive you.
I was a vegetarian for 10 years. In January of 2000, I had an enormous craving for chicken & stopped at Trader Joes on my way to work....bought a chicken breast & devoured it while driving. I have been eating meat ever since & speaking out for those who cannot...the vegetables. I feel their pain.
Vegetable Rights & Peace, Man.
I've never been there unless I was tipped off as well. It takes too long to get the smell out of my monitor.
Heh. I was dragged out of my 9th-grade spanish class in 1984, when VP Bush came to town, and my high school, campaigning for Reagan. There was some "miscommunication" between myself and my nosy teacher who somehow came up with the silly idea that I, a 14 year old boy, was somehow a threat to the VP... now, to keep it short...
Needless to say, I was handcuffed, and kept under watch in the school office, as they tried to determine how much of a "threat" I really was, while my fellow students were in the assembly listening to Bush speak. I wanted to be there, too, and so I did what any kid would have done - waited until I had a few seconds where I wasn't being watched, and bolted out the door...
Thanks to a friendly school janitor who thought my friends had cuffed me as a joke, I was able to get the hancuffs off, sneak the back way into the assembly, came out behind the stage... Uh-oh. I was about 20 feet from the Vice President and thought "I'll just mosey along the very edge of the stage and head on over there to sit with my friends, and the next thing I know I was under a really big pile of really big embarrassed men...
My mother was seriously unthrilled at being called at work to come deal with her errant son. A few of the USSS guys were also seriously unthrilled at the chewing out they got for not being able to keep a 14-year old kid under control...
Incidently, this issue came up when I joined the navy a few years later and needed a security clearance...
Ah, the good old days...
Speaking of girly men, there is a fashion writer in my local paper who thinks it's a must that men have all their body hair shaved, since it supposedly grosses women out (personally, I prefer a man with chest hair). Of course, this same fashion writer also thought the women who wear the "I'm a Tramp" type of shirts were making a great fashion statement.
But still exists elsewhere on the net (on at least one british site that I know of. )
1. the USSS wanted your autograph..and/or
2. They thought you were the guy in the Devil suit?
Barbarian ; )
The"LEFT"is doing ALL that they can to turn this nation into another Nazi Germany!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOLROFRFI!
That's friggin perfect.
I'm printing out your post and showing it to my 84 year old mother tonight. Then I'll dare her to tell my children more tales about me being an unruly 14 year old. LOL, great story.
Reminds me of an old joke:
A man is sitting comfortably in a lawnchair on a hot day while his wife is mowing and sweating over the lawn. An older woman walks by and in disapproval says to the man: "You should be hung!".
The man calmly replies: "I am. That's why she's doing the work for me."
My mother STILL uses that story to explain to people her premature grey hair... of course, her part of it was the best (or worst, depending...).
They called her when they first "removed" me from class. I was gone by the time she got there, and when she said "I'm here about my son" or words to that effect, she was greeted with "Well, we don't exactly know where he is at the moment. We're trying to find him..."
Sh told me, much later (after her anger subsided) that she had visions of me, at that moment, "on the lam" LOL...
That poor woman. She was a saint.
Knowing the history of x42, I wouldn't have thought that remark a threat.
Those people have waaay to much time on their hands, and not enough functional brain cells between the lot of them.
Go Doug Go!
Well DAMN!
What a troublemaker!
That puts this story to shame. You are the winner. 14 years old?
Moi? It was all a misunderstanding. It was!
Yup. 20 years ago. I'm better behaved now, but still managed a few visits during the Clinton years. Those were ummm "misunderstandings" too.
That's about as funny as the "Solo Freep" that someone got on Clinton (come out with hands up chant) and got a direct stare from him. Forgot who it was. A regular DC Freeper.
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