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Teen Poverty In America
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Posted on 10/17/2005 6:16:44 AM PDT by joesbucks

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To: metmom

wnat=what Dang! I even proof read it.


21 posted on 10/17/2005 7:06:58 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: R. Scott

Thank you for your post.


22 posted on 10/17/2005 7:12:46 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Yarn-ho.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

About a dozen years ago I found (as another poster did) that I had become my father. When I read the article I immediately remembered my mother buying doilies and making sure there was one on the back of every chair I sat in when I wore the DA haircut. Every time they demanded I get a crew cut I said I would – if they paid for the haircut. By this time – I was about 15 or 16 – I was buying my own clothes and haircuts. I lost my DA when I was drafted, and was proud that the barber at Fort Jackson had to stop several times to clean his clippers.


23 posted on 10/17/2005 7:18:54 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: R. Scott

On the fat roll... some of these girls aren't necessarily "fat", but the too-tight jeans riding so low on the body do distort things tremendously, to the point that the disruption is more than just temporary--I've been seeing girls in formal dresses who still have that weird "muffin top" on the hip, when they should be a nice smooth curve from ribs to thighs. It's really sad!


24 posted on 10/17/2005 7:30:19 AM PDT by Missus (We're not trying to overpopulate the world, we're just trying to outnumber the idiots.)
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To: Missus

But it's the style!
And for some, that's all that counts.


25 posted on 10/17/2005 7:32:31 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: R. Scott

Clothing is a language. Look at what today's fashions say and where they find their influences.


26 posted on 10/17/2005 7:35:38 AM PDT by durasell
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To: tonycavanagh

Uhhhhhh.....just exactly who is "U"?


27 posted on 10/17/2005 7:38:49 AM PDT by NRA1995 (When liberals speak I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....)
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To: joesbucks

A wonderfully written piece. Haha!


28 posted on 10/17/2005 7:42:14 AM PDT by Idisarthur
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To: NRA1995

U Short hand LOL (Short Hand again) Y use short hand


29 posted on 10/17/2005 7:54:31 AM PDT by tonycavanagh
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To: ECM; WV Mountain Mama
LMAO!!!! My favorite is the girls pants that are low and the tight shirts that are too short that expose that roll of fat over their hips. Tres chic! These kids are all too poor to own a mirror too. Oh the humanity!

Oh God...that whole 'bare mid-riff wtih the roll of fat-thing' really, really bothers me...*gags*.

I believe that these are known as "muffin tops." As in the way a muffin looks, sort of how the top of the baked muffin overflows the muffin tin.

I think that it was coined by Neal Boortz.

Mark

30 posted on 10/17/2005 7:57:12 AM PDT by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: tonycavanagh
U Short hand LOL (Short Hand again) Y use short hand

I know what it means, just making fun of your being too lazy to type the word "you"

31 posted on 10/17/2005 7:57:31 AM PDT by NRA1995 (When liberals speak I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....)
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To: NRA1995
LOL, I blame mobiles and text I have got into the habit of writing U.
32 posted on 10/17/2005 7:59:34 AM PDT by tonycavanagh
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To: durasell
I'm an old guy and maybe a fuddy-duddy -- however, I was recently in a chain restaurant in suburbia and saw an 8 year old wearing a t-shirt that said, "Pimpin' Style" emblazoned across the front. When did this kind of thing become acceptable?

My favorite are the 9-year-old girls that wear pants with 'Hottie' or 'Baby Doll' on the butt. Once I saw one like that--in church. Clearly, there are some parents out there that need to be "Pimp Slapped."
33 posted on 10/17/2005 8:03:57 AM PDT by Antoninus (The greatest gifts parents can give their children are siblings.)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

>>>LMAO!!!! My favorite is the girls pants that are low and the tight shirts that are too short that expose that roll of fat over their hips. Tres chic! These kids are all too poor to own a mirror too. Oh the humanity!>>>

My stepson's girlfriend is like that. Sweet girl, but I don't know why her mama never taught her how to dress.


34 posted on 10/17/2005 8:15:22 AM PDT by sandbar
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To: joesbucks

It is best to help this poverty stricken rable by pressing them into military service for God and country.


35 posted on 10/17/2005 8:16:32 AM PDT by American Vet Repairman (Gun control is a double tap and a head shot.)
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To: no more apples

>>>They look like a busted can of biscuits, don't they?
ROTFLMBO!!! Very apt description!>>>

OH MY GOD! I am going to have to remember that with my two 20 & 21 yr old sons!!! Next time they bring over a busted can of biscuits for dinner, can you imagine the jokes??? Poor things, I hope I can convince my three girls to dress for their figure when it's time to battle over that.


36 posted on 10/17/2005 8:17:35 AM PDT by sandbar
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To: no more apples
their underwear was only held together by a single piece of string.

ROTFLMAO! Designed from the original Wedgie.

37 posted on 10/17/2005 8:35:08 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Time to remove the Gays from the hierarchy!)
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America is the only country in the world where our poor wear $100 sneakers, don gold chains and a good portion are overweight.


38 posted on 10/17/2005 8:40:19 AM PDT by NotADove (Cure a Liberal, view The Siege of Western Civilization)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

They call that "muffin top."


39 posted on 10/17/2005 8:49:30 AM PDT by gogeo (Often wrong but seldom in doubt.)
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To: eccentric

I was told that you didn't have anything to worry about with guys like that, until they pulled up their pants...that meant they were ready to fight.


40 posted on 10/17/2005 8:50:42 AM PDT by gogeo (Often wrong but seldom in doubt.)
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