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11 September 2006

You people are boring me today. Come on, how can I be expected to procrastinate efficiently when it's so quiet in here?
post by: mudpuppie at: 14:44 | 47 comments
I agree. I'm going to be in and out of the site all evening, and I need some action. Get posting Bunnies.
posted by seanyboy 11 September | 14:47
BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!
posted by mike9322 11 September | 14:48
Penis
posted by eekacat 11 September | 14:49
*shakes head disapprovingly*
posted by seanyboy 11 September | 14:51
*dresses in full drag, sings 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,' in Ethel Merman voice*
posted by jonmc 11 September | 14:59
Wow - A storm just started up and it is a doozy. Hard rain, flickering lights, big old flashes of lightening. Majestic.
posted by seanyboy 11 September | 15:00
This has been the single-most productive day that I've had in months.

It's actually kind of nice.
posted by mike9322 11 September | 15:02
And now, as a special treat - You may surf!
posted by seanyboy 11 September | 15:09
Wow. As soon as it started, the storm passed.

I love storms, apart from the fact that they're a constant reminder that I should really get my roof fixed. Any day now. Really, any day now.
posted by seanyboy 11 September | 15:12
It's very quiet now.
posted by seanyboy 11 September | 15:18
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posted by pieisexactlythree 11 September | 15:19
Where the hell did you find that. It's magnificent!!!!
posted by seanyboy 11 September | 15:20
mudpuppie, all you need to do is look at some of this.
posted by funmonkey1 11 September | 15:32
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posted by Rhomboid 11 September | 15:40
I know, I know, too subtle. Needs more punch.

posted by Rhomboid 11 September | 15:41
*dons her best Marlene Dietrich cabaret outfit, sings 'Mac the Knife'...on rollerskates*

You could always come help me clean house. (How the hell did it get to be such a mess?!?)
posted by elizard 11 September | 15:42
*launches into 'Whiskey Bar', falls down, breaks coccyx*
posted by elizard 11 September | 15:45
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Mudpuppie and her son Seanyboy share a quiet moment.
posted by danf 11 September | 16:09
I find that getting into feminist debates on MeFi helps pass the time, and gets my heart rate high enough that I don't have to feel bad about not being able to exercise this afternoon because my knee's fuck up.

Win-win!
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 16:17
fucked up. Though "my knee's fuck up" is an intriguingly weird phrase.
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 16:30
Hmm. Maybe I'll just engineer mock fights with people here just to pass the time.

Sheesh, occhiblu, it's always about the feminism with you! Elizard, you're pissing the hell out of me with that infernal warbling! And Pi, enough with the freaking bunny already! Mike, you know where you can stick your booga!
posted by mudpuppie 11 September | 16:32
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posted by Rhomboid 11 September | 16:55
Oh, SURE, mudpuppie, you WOULD say that to a woman who owns a calico cat and listens to Leonard Cohen! You might want to examine your own prejudices a bit, you know, before making assumptions about my motivations! Denial's not just a river in Egypt!

(Dude, MUCH more fun arguing here.)
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 16:55
But see, you're just furthering the stereotype Occhiblu! You are PART of the problem! How are women ever going to be able to climb out of this hole we've dug and how is ever going to be okay for women to stay home and raise their kids if people like you go around with their hands on their hips saying "Ooh, look at ME! I'm a feminist and I have a CAT! Lah-dee-dah!!"

And another thing! I really need to get a better stapler!
posted by mudpuppie 11 September | 17:03
(hands occhiblu a cup a chamomile tea. . .hands mudpuppie a cup a peppermint tea. . .expects these ladies to start getting along)
posted by danf 11 September | 17:12
STAPLER!!!!! Don't even get me started on the effects of staplers! Their hierarchical concepts are ruining America! Don't like something? JUST STAPLE SOMETHING OVER IT! Yeah, that's REALLY going to help foster an intellectual spirit of collaboration and lateral thinking!

How on earth can you possibly argue for the equality of women if you USE A STAPLER? Gah. At least my cat sticks to clawing string and climing into LL Beane boxes and doesn't try to HIDE INFORMATION FROM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 17:12
CHAMOMILE TEA IS LIKE CATNIP TO THE LADIES!
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 17:14
Oh right, I forgot about you Neo-Feminists and your irrational hatred for simple mechanical objects. You try to hide your mechanical ineptitude by saying "I don't HAVE to know how to refill a stapler. I was the FIRST WOMAN EVER to break the Glass Ceiling in pork futures!!" But really you just can't figure out how to work the a FUCKING STAPLER, so you RAIL AGAINST those of us who do! And then you go Shopping! It's so obvious! Just admit it already!

And danf, stop defending her! I know you're on her side. All you liberals are.
posted by mudpuppie 11 September | 17:18
But. . .But. . .But. . .do you have any idea what her anger is like close-up?

I HAVE to defend her. . .the bed is just not wide enough!

(plus I am a middle child. . .I can't help it if people fighting makes me nervous.)
posted by danf 11 September | 17:22
Better a neo-feminist who hates stapling (and c'mon, you have to admit that it's DEGRADING for a woman to staple!?!?!?!?!!) than one of you Fifteenth-Wavers who thinks that just because she never got her hands dirty with pork that she's all superior! I spent HOURS picking out those glass shards from that pork, and I had to do it IN THE FUTURE TENSE!!! And now you come along and act like all you have to do is STAPLE and then everything will be sunshine and rainbows, and we can all go back to singing Oolaps like nothing happened.

posted by occhiblu 11 September | 17:31
*pats danf on the head, tells him it's OK, thanks him for the tea.*

(Though given that someone took my MeFi comment that I like to kick guys in the balls while aborting their heirs seriously, I certainly forgive any confusion or consternation here. I seem to be sowing it widely today.)
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 17:34
I beg your pardon! As I have said time and time again ON THIS SITE, I am an unapologetic FOURTEENTH-WAVER you just do not listen because you're too busy talking all the time! I bet you like to go around kicking men in the balls and aborting their heirs you man hater! I bet you're even a lesbian and are just too hypocratic to tell anyone!

Oh god. Not the Oolaps! Not the Oolaps!
posted by mudpuppie 11 September | 17:39
HOW CAN I READ ANYTHING ON THIS SITE WHEN YOU KEEP STAPLING THINGS OVER IT??????

Turn around, bright eyes! But in Finnish or Estonian or something!
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 17:46
*staples Oolaps to occhiblu's forehead*
posted by mudpuppie 11 September | 17:47
The thing I don't understand about feminism is how on the one hand women say they don't like to be objectified, but on the other hand they go out of their way to appear as objects.

And what's with the whole P.M.T thing. For christ sake, you feel a little bit off. There's no need to start going mental and cry and pick stupid fights. It's just ... weak.

And if you want be be respected, stop trying to constantly stab each other in the back. You get a bunch of blokes that hate each other, and they're out for the night. Well, they try and get on. They don't spend the evening constantly putting each other down and demeaning others behind their backs. And this is blokes who hate each other compared to women who say they're all friends.

And when women talk about being as good as men, it's like listening to the angry short guy in the pub. "I'm not short, I'm not short! I'll fight anyone who says I am". Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

All the great strides in equal opportunities have been made by men anyway. Who was it that made lesbianism cool? Men. That's who.

*takes a step back. Awaits onslaught*
posted by seanyboy 11 September | 18:00
I bet you're even a lesbian and are just too hypocratic to tell anyone!

hypocratic? I thought ikkyu was the doctor, not occhi.

I'm so confused.
posted by jonmc 11 September | 18:02
*digs out spare Oolaps, prepares to staple it to seanyboy*
posted by mudpuppie 11 September | 18:02
*staples Oolaps to seanyboy's forehead, has to admit that mudpuppie had a point about the stapling*
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 18:03
jinx!
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 18:04
I thought ikkyu was the doctor, not occhi.

Well, I didn't want to admit it in the MeTa thread, but we're actually the same person.

I mean, c'mon, have you ever seen us in the same room together?
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 18:05
Where's my onslaught?
*petulant whine*
posted by seanyboy 11 September | 18:09
Bunny.
posted by bunnyfire 11 September | 18:19
We stapled! WHY CAN'T YOU EVER APPRECIATE WOMEN'S CONTRIBUTIONS????
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 18:20
well, then, there's this mysterious growth I wonder if you'd take a look at...
posted by jonmc 11 September | 18:21
You know, Hippocratic + hypocritical = hypocratic.

I was being funny.
posted by mudpuppie 11 September | 18:25
ll the great strides in equal opportunities have been made by men anyway
Why are you limiting that to equal opportunity? Everyone knows that all the great advancements in the world have been made by men. In some cases, women have been allowed to take the credit by some soppy man (probably to take her mind off her PMS and give the poor guy a bit of a break from the whining and the constant entreating to "bring me chocolate", if the truth be told).
posted by dg 11 September | 18:27
there's this mysterious growth I wonder if you'd take a look at...

Let me just find my stapler and glass shards...
posted by occhiblu 11 September | 18:33
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