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Mark Steyn: The trouble with insolent breasts
Macleans ^ | 06/29/06 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 06/29/2006 6:45:28 AM PDT by Pokey78

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1 posted on 06/29/2006 6:45:31 AM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...

Steyn ping!


2 posted on 06/29/2006 6:46:54 AM PDT by Pokey78 (‘FREE [INSERT YOUR FETID TOTALITARIAN BASKET-CASE HERE]’)
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To: Pokey78

Ha Ha!!! Daisy cut the cheese!!!!


3 posted on 06/29/2006 6:50:26 AM PDT by Mathews (Ambition, absent a moral compass, is naked destruction.)
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Steyn has come unhinged.


4 posted on 06/29/2006 6:51:24 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Jack Bauer" is Arabic for "I'm f*cked.")
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To: Pokey78
Love reading his stuff.
5 posted on 06/29/2006 6:52:46 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: Pokey78
"I have met, somebody," he said. "It is, I think, serious." That comma between "met" and "somebody" irritated me far more than the sex. They're like rests in orchestral scores: you feel he's advertising his characters' thoughtfulness. Better that they ride each other's bottoms through the night than they ride each other's commas, which is how they pass much of the day.

God how I love Steyn's writing. He wields such magnificent turns of phrase--I'm alternatively awestruck and jealous.

6 posted on 06/29/2006 6:52:55 AM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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Almost as funny as the post-coital activities in Kingpin......
7 posted on 06/29/2006 6:55:41 AM PDT by edpc (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly - Thomas Paine, American Crisis)
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And if you think you're lucky to grab a piece of ilial crest on a first date, wait till Wolfe gets to the "pelvic saddle" and "otorhinolaryngological caverns."

ROTFLOL

8 posted on 06/29/2006 6:56:06 AM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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News / Activism?


9 posted on 06/29/2006 6:57:39 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: taxed2death

There's plenty of activism in this piece. Just read about poor Daisy's exploits in Judith Krantz's prose.

;O)


10 posted on 06/29/2006 6:59:53 AM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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Well, it IS a pretty darned funny piece....I'll admit that.


11 posted on 06/29/2006 7:02:53 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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...breaking...


12 posted on 06/29/2006 7:02:56 AM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual...if they sense scorn or ridicule, they'll flee)
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To: Pokey78

Steyn explains so well why I always prefer the "airline" version of movies. There is so much to be said for the "fade to black" and the door closing.


13 posted on 06/29/2006 7:07:33 AM PDT by maica (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle --Abraham Lincoln)
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I can't believe he mentioned that scene from Princess Daisy -- I remember thinking it was so weird, and a little disturbing, that Krantz had written it (See? She's a real person!). (But not as disturbing as a certain unmentionable scene in Endless Love. *shudder*)
14 posted on 06/29/2006 7:09:49 AM PDT by AnnaZ (I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?)
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To: Pokey78

Hmmm.

If he doesn't like reading this stuff, how come he knows so much about it?

;-)


15 posted on 06/29/2006 7:11:46 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Whatever happened to Cynthia McKinney?)
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...which is one of those phrases that always reminds me of the queen of Australian comedy, Dame Edna Everage: introducing a show from her hilltop retreat, she declared, "Everyone is welcome to Mount Edna."

ROTFLMAO! Steyn is truly the One-Man Content Provider!

16 posted on 06/29/2006 7:11:53 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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"When it comes to sex scenes, if you can't break new ground, at least break new wind."

A classic....can we quote you on that?

17 posted on 06/29/2006 7:14:14 AM PDT by traditional1
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I wish Mark Steyn would get his own syndicated radio talk show. We need him to get nationwide exposure!!! bttt


18 posted on 06/29/2006 7:22:42 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ( "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." -- Dwight Eisenhower)
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Steyn has come unhinged.

... interesting comment, in the context of this article about "bad writing about sex." Quite an interesting mental image....

19 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:54 AM PDT by r9etb
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Steyn at his best -- and that's saying a lot. Hilarious!


20 posted on 06/29/2006 7:26:20 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
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