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And I came in because there were lots of posts and I expected wit.

MG

I just hope for one of those photos where I can see up her skit and she ain't wearing any undies. She isn't even my type...

EWWW!! :bad: There's lots of women I'd like to see naked, and she ain't even in the top 1,000,000. In fact, there are some MEN ahead of her on that list!

Al, not even when she was, you know...young? :rolleyes: Tell me that photo I linked(I homage to an Angie Dickinson shot from the late 50's) is not hot.....

Posted

And I came in because there were lots of posts and I expected wit.

MG

I just hope for one of those photos where I can see up her skit and she ain't wearing any undies. She isn't even my type...

EWWW!! :bad: There's lots of women I'd like to see naked, and she ain't even in the top 1,000,000. In fact, there are some MEN ahead of her on that list!

Al, not even when she was, you know...young? :rolleyes: Tell me that photo I linked(I homage to an Angie Dickinson shot from the late 50's) is not hot.....

i'd like to see the angie dickinson shot!

:excited:

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[quote name='Big Al' post='739600'

Al, not even when she was, you know...young? :rolleyes: Tell me that photo I linked(I homage to an Angie Dickinson shot from the late 50's) is not hot.....

i'd like to see the angie dickinson shot!

:excited:

Is this it? All I see is skin. She could walk past me on the street and I wouldn't know who she is.

britney_spears_1c.jpg

Posted

And I came in because there were lots of posts and I expected wit.

MG

I just hope for one of those photos where I can see up her skit and she ain't wearing any undies. She isn't even my type...

EWWW!! :bad: There's lots of women I'd like to see naked, and she ain't even in the top 1,000,000. In fact, there are some MEN ahead of her on that list!

Al, not even when she was, you know...young? :rolleyes: Tell me that photo I linked(I homage to an Angie Dickinson shot from the late 50's) is not hot.....

i'd like to see the angie dickinson shot!

:excited:

really i would!

Posted

I looked because I was hoping it would be a link to a good Onion story. It's a reasonable headline for such.

Okay--here's one...

Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book

JANUARY 19, 2008 | ISSUE 44•03

GREENWOOD, IN—Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as normal and well-adjusted as can be. Yet, there's more to this 27-year-old than first meets the eye: Meyer has recently finished reading a book.

Even outdoors, Meyer can't seem to think of anything better to do than flip through some American classic.

Yes, the whole thing.

"It was great," said the peculiar Indiana native, who, despite owning a television set and having an active social life, read every single page of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. "Especially the way things came together for Scout in the end. Very good."

Meyer, who never once jumped ahead to see what would happen and avoided skimming large passages of text in search of pictures, first began his oddball feat a week ago. Three days later, the eccentric Midwesterner was still at it, completing chapter after chapter, seemingly of his own free will.

"The whole thing was really engrossing," said Meyer, referring not to a movie, video game, or competitive sports match, but rather a full-length, 288-page novel filled entirely with words. "There were days when I had a hard time putting it down."

Even more bizarre, Meyer is believed to have done most of his reading during his spare time—time when the outwardly healthy and stable resident could have literally been doing anything else, be it aimlessly surfing the Internet, taking a nap, or simply just staring at his bedroom wall.

"It'd be nice to read it again at some point," Meyer continued, as if that were a perfectly natural thing to say.

While it's difficult to imagine what compelled Meyer to read more than just the back cover of To Kill a Mockingbird, friends and family members claim the strange behavior goes all the way back to his childhood.

"I remember when Phil was a little kid, instead of picking up a book, getting bored, and then throwing it at his sister, he'd actually sit down and read the whole thing," said mother Susan Meyer, who declared she has long given up trying to explain her son's unusual hobby. "At the time, we thought it was just a phase he was going through. I guess we were wrong."

Over the years, Meyer has read dozens of books from beginning to end, regardless of whether he was forced to do so by a professor in school or whether a film version of the reading material already existed. According to girlfriend Jessica Kohler, he even uses a special cardboard marking device so that he can keep track of where he has stopped reading and later return to that exact same place.

"I used to find Phil's reading kind of charming because I had never really met anyone who read outside of a waiting room," Kohler said. "But more and more, it just feels odd, you know? He can't even go to the beach without bringing one of his books along."

According to behavioral psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Schulz, Meyer's reading of entire books is abnormal and may be indicative of a more serious obsession with reading.

"Instead of just zoning out during a bus ride or spending hour after hour watching YouTube videos at night, Mr. Meyer, unlike most healthy males, looks to books for gratification," Schulz said. "Really, it's a classic case of deviant behavior."

"At least, that's what it seems like from what little I've skimmed on the topic," she added.

As bizarre as it may seem, Meyer isn't alone. Once a month, he and several other Greenwood residents reportedly gather at night not only to read books all the way through, but also to discuss them at length.

"I don't know, it's like this weird 'book club' they're all a part of," said Brian Cummings, a longtime coworker and friend of Meyer's. "Seriously, what a bunch of freaks."

Posted

Al, not even when she was, you know...young? :rolleyes: Tell me that photo I linked(I homage to an Angie Dickinson shot from the late 50's) is not hot.....

i'd like to see the angie dickinson shot!

:excited:

Is this it? All I see is skin. She could walk past me on the street and I wouldn't know who she is.

britney_spears_1c.jpg

That was Britney Spears? I thought it was a blond Jennifer Lopez, or maybe Christina Aguilera.

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These poor people. First Benazir Bhutto, now Britney Spears. When will it stop?

Press Trust Of India

Islamabad, January 14, 2008

First Published: 15:58 IST(14/1/2008)

Last Updated: 02:46 IST(15/1/2008)

Britney Spears moving to Pakistan?

What is it about Pakistani men that glamorous women from the West find so irresistible? The latest rumour of pop singer Britney Spears possibly converting to Islam and moving to Pakistan with her companion Adnan Ghalib has set off a debate among women in the country.

The grapevine is abuzz with twice-divorced singer Spear's romance with little known Ghalib, a man of Pakistani origin. Spears, according to Britain's Sun newspaper, wanted to fake her death and embrace Islam and move to Pakistan and start a new life!

Ghalib, 35, who works for a photo agency, is being described as "a gold digger" whom the "lonely" and "vulnerable" Spears cannot do without.

According to media reports, Ghalib's respectable Sunni Muslim family in Birmingham is so horrified by his antics that they have disowned him.

"His parents Ghalib and Saghra are devastated. This week his dad gave him an ultimatum, 'Give up Britney, or you are dead to me,' which Adnan ignored," a friend of Ghalib was quoted as saying.

But much before Spears, there was Jemima Khan, the glamorous daughter of a millionaire who married the much older cricketer Imran Khan against her family's wishes and moved to Pakistan. Their marriage did not last and she was back in London with her two sons in less than a decade.

The romance of Diana, the Princess of Wales, who reportedly found her "Mr Wonderful" in a Pakistani cardiologist in London, is another case in point.

Hasnat Khan decided not to marry his love because of the great cultural divide. Unfortunately, his marriage to a woman of Afghan royalty did not last reportedly because of his Diana connection.

Sehr Naqvi, a homemaker, said: "I think Pakistani men are more committed and, of course, the Pathan genes hold them in good stead. Britney Spears is hardly a good example - well, she could fall for anyone - but we have had Jemima and Diana too falling for Pakistani men."

With the news of Hasnat Khan breaking his silence over his "affair" with Diana, the topic is hot at dinner tables.

"May be he didn't speak about Diana because his own marriage was not working out. We learnt that he has separated from his wife of 18 months just yesterday. But he seems still so much in love with Diana," Naqvi said.

Like Naqvi, many feel Diana and Jemima were good news for Pakistan, but they can do without Spears. "I can imagine how the orthodox amongst us would react. I can almost see a fatwa against Spears coming," said Shazia, Naqvi's 22-year-old daghter.

Shahida Haq, another homemaker, wondered what is it about Pakistani men that makes them so "special" to Western women. "Look at the way they treat our women. I think they are so chauvinistic and full of themselves. I wonder what these women find attractive in them? "May be they should launch their charm offensive on Pakistani women. That's something we women will never complaint against," Haq chuckled.

© Copyright 2007 Hindustan Times

Edited by 7/4

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