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Clinton's impeachment was just one of the surprises awaiting Tancredo when he landed in Washington last January, the victor of a bruising primary fight and an even uglier general election, when rumors flew not just about his past as a House Crazy, one of the colorful legislators who livened up Colorado's Statehouse twenty years ago, but as a young man who missed the draft because he was, well, really crazy ("Crazy for You," December 3, 1998). But Tancredo faced up to the attacks and fessed up to the voters about his history of clinical depression. And now he's recognizing an even more startling truth: He's not the right-wing radical he once was. Just whose fault is that, anyway?
The man who authored the first school-voucher bill in 1979 -- when he couldn't even get it out of committee -- on Tuesday attended a federal hearing where people were marveling that the superintendent of Denver Public Schools is now pushing for charter schools. "I was either a lousy legislator or way ahead of my time," Tancredo says.
A former schoolteacher, Tancredo has always been addicted to education: His wife was a teacher, his in-laws are teachers, and he continued teaching through his first few years in the Colorado Legislature, which he left for a federal education post under first Ronald Reagan, then George Bush. In 1993 Tancredo moved to the Independence Institute -- the Golden-based think tank that introduced report cards for schools well in advance of Governor Bill Owens's recent directive -- before running for Congress.
And there he's gotten a real education. "The greatest thing about being a congressman is you learn so much," he says. "You have to learn so much about so much stuff."
But he never planned for the lesson delivered last April 20, when two students at Columbine High School -- smack-dab in his district -- killed a teacher and twelve classmates before turning their guns on themselves. After that, Tancredo studied some of his hard-fought beliefs and realized he needed to change his absolutist pro-gun position. In fact, he ended up voting in favor of an expansion of the Brady Bill. "I've thought about it a million times," he says now. "If the tragedy had never occurred and I'd looked at the same type of legislation, I would have been a 'no' vote. Maybe I was knee-jerk. My thoughts about the Second Amendment were theoretical, not practical."
Columbine forced him to get practical. "I'm not proud that I'm telling you that I hadn't thought about it enough," Tancredo says. "But if I'd thought about it for even twenty seconds, I would have seen that there are reasonable restrictions to the Second Amendment." Mind you, Tancredo will never be mistaken for the sort of tree-hugging, tofu-eating pacifist who might get elected from Colorado's Second District (like fellow freshman Mark Udall, who once caught Tancredo stretched across three seats on a red-eye back from D.C., snoozing away). He still owns numerous guns, including two pistols, a rifle and shotguns, and he loves to hunt. "I'm not anti-gun," he says, "but I'm a little more reasonable." And he's willing to put his money where his mouth is: He's rejected contributions from the National Rifle Association, a former supporter that now pickets his public appearances. His stand has earned him lots of hate mail -- he estimates it runs ten to one against his current gun position -- as well as charges of opportunism from his eager opponent, well-funded Democrat Ken Toltz ("Suddenly I see Dependable Cleaners everywhere I look," says Tancredo, referring to the Toltz family business) and a fair amount of notoriety in the national press.
Naturally, given that notoriety, when a woman recently recognized him at a local restaurant, Tancredo began chatting about life in Washington. "Oh, you're in Congress?" she finally broke in. "I remember you from when you were my teacher 29 years ago."
Since the Broncos won't be anywhere near this Sunday's Super Bowl, chances are good that the streets of LoDo will be safe from marauding fans, the sort that loot athletic-gear shops in celebration and just beg cops to blast them with Mace left over from the CU-CSU game. And so Mayor Wellington Webb and his press secretary, Andrew Hudson, felt free to head east to press the flesh in frigid D.C., where the U.S. Conference of Mayors (of which Webb is the head) is meeting.
Meanwhile, back in Loserville, the city has extended the deadline for its major millennium project, the Celebrate 2000 E-Time Capsule, from January 31 all the way to December 31, 2000 -- the actual turn of the next century ("Things to Do in Denver When It's Dead," January 6). According to city officials, the cutoff date was pushed back because of the "growing popularity" of "Denver's interactive archive of memories and predictions" (the site, however, still lists the deadline as the end of this month) -- but the few dozen memories currently posted at www.denver.org are hardly the world-class selection Denver hopes to share with the world.


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The Ballroom Scene:The Downside of a Black Gay Subculture
I find that inside the ballroom scene everything revolves around fun. The dancing, the traveling, and the whole the "scene" is geared towards amusement. You meet people from all around the country that share the same life style, and have familiarity with each other's experiences. However, this lifestyle of fun reminds me of the backbone of the hippie movement. When the good times are over, what are you left with?
The majority of hippies eventually grew up, got jobs, had families and blend into our "American Culture" (whatever that means) quite well. Just like the hippie movement, the ballroom scene is a "young persons scene." Most people involved are within the ages of sixteen and twenty-four. The only problem with living a young life that revolves around having fun, is that in the 21st century its not easy making a living wage when you have no education and no trade.
Many "Ball Room Kids" that I have come in contact with dropped out of high school. Many of them run away from home and live with friends. In the mist of finding acceptance, the negative side to this "scene" is creating a gay culture of poverty and a lack of success.
While understanding the lack of financial stability within individuals in this subculture, to identify the actual downside to this culture, one must first explore the "attitude of the scene."
The attitude of the ballroom scene reminds me of Narcissus in Greek mythology. It's arrogant, vein, and each individual has to always look the best in the room, be the "baddest bitch," and dress like a superstar. Each person is apart of a small community. People in the ballroom scene call these communities "Houses." For example, one is called the "House of Ebony" another is called the "House of Mizrahi." Within these "Houses" they travel and compete with other "Houses" around the country. There is no corporate funding for any "House" that I have ever heard of. So the financial responsibility (along with sustaining this lofty superstar lifestyle) falls on each individual member in the "House."
Most people that I have met in the ballroom scene do not have jobs. While this of course does not apply to everyone, there are three general avenues that I have found common for people in the ballroom scene to support their lifestyle.
2. Crafting
3. Escorting
All of these things are illegal in most, if not every part of the country. I been in stores and turned around to see a particular ballroom kid hiding shoes or clothes in their bag and walking out the store. Crafting is a term used in the ballroom scene. Its means to find someone's social security number and steal their identity. I have friends that are victims to people who "craft." They get phones, credit cards, and even buy cars with other people's identities. I personally think escorting or prostituting is one of the most self-detrimental ways to make money in this "scene." Especially with Aids/HIV still running rampant amongst the gay black community. I know some situations where individuals in the ballroom scene escort so they can get enough money to have a sex change.
When people are rejected by every status quo in society, this is the type of culture that inevitably will form. When students and teachers at school made fun of them, it was the beginning of this subculture. When ballroom kids had family that called them "faggots" and "sissies" the foundation to the ballroom scene was made. When they could not hide their sexuality behind the comfort masculinity, it became necessary for them to find a place of acceptance, a haven (No matter how internally detrimental it becomes to each individual).

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This is a journalistic excess that's obviously now gone over the top. David Haynes, who is editorial page editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, today pens a column in the paper arguing that the state should almost always at the request of journalists or presumably anyone else release the names of state employees (that is, public employees who work for the state) who have been disciplined by their managers. Haynes' column grew out of a case in which the Associated Press asked the state Justice Department for a blanket list of all DOJ employees who have been disciplined. The DOJ provided a list but redacted individual names.
Haynes argues that "even minor work rule violations can have a serious impact on morale, especially if there is a pattern of abuse. Without the names, it is harder for the public to know about patterns of conduct — or if the state responded promptly and fairly." Umm, maybe, but releasing names of people cited for minor work rule violations itself can create an even bigger morale problem. And state employees right now already have serious morale problems, thanks to Scott Walker laws that basically have eaten away at many of their union-based grievance guarantees and civil service protections.
Scott Walker yesterday did his best impersonation of Capt. Louis Renault from the 1942 Bogart flick "Casablanca," saying he was going to get to the bottom of just how state prison wardens got double-digit pay increases without due process, based on an apparently non-existent compensation study and through the back-door method of shuffling them around among their postings beforehand to enable larger hikes. Which basically amounts to something Gov. Chris Christie just did in New Jersey: Investigate himself.
Apparently, we're to believe the governor of the State of Wisconsin simply has no daily control over, nor pays any advance attention whatsoever -- whatsoever! -- to the workings of state agencies and departments under his command. Nor does his office require advance notice in the case of spending decisions that involve giving important managers big fat raises through devious means, while the rank-and-file state government workers trundle along with the one-percent hikes that the nominally tight-fisted Walker administration decreed for them.
Last week the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel bannered a story describing how public employee unions representing Wisconsin workers have lost members and cut political spending as a result of the union-busting Act 10 law signed by Gov. Scott Walker.
But that's the negative side of the situation. The positive side is that unions are still around, and adapting to the Walker assault on worker rights. Salon.com just posted a nice piece on the matter, and it ought to be encouraging. Public workers and their representatives in organized labor aren't giving up, and are taking the fight right back to the lawmakers who stomped on them. Here's one tasty little morsel from Salon's excellent, upbeat report (URL below):
Okay, it's official. Wisconsin is now a political Wonderland, where illogic and craziness reign supreme.
The lead, page-one story in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel provides the evidence, in an oversized headline: AFSCME District Council 48 allegedly negotiated a contract in secret with Milwaukee County! Shocking! Say County Executive Chris Abele and other conservatives, that's just plain illegal! Because, Scott Walker's union-busting Act 10 caused the union local to become "decertified."
Scott Walker, again defending his support of legislation to end local government residency requirements for public employees, is now pushing a new angle in the face of resistance not just from his biggest target, Milwaukee, but also from smaller communities. Local ordinances mandating that public employees including municipal workers, police and school teachers reside in the communities and districts where they work suddenly aren't, in Walker talking points, just an issue about "freedom." Oh, no, they're also about improving public education. But governor, how does that work, exactly?
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A newspaper in the state of New York has removed from its web site an interactive online map of handgun permit holders in two counties, after the database drew nationwide anger and prompted threats against its staff.
Meanwhile, the Gannett Newspapers chain of dailies in Wisconsin is pushing ahead with its project to publish online the names and salaries of most local, state and federal employees in the state.
Poor Rick Esenberg. The entire premise of his blog on public jobs -- that, hey, economically speaking they're not really jobs -- effectively gets shot down by a page one story in the very same issue of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in which his blog is reprinted.
Esenberg, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty honcho and an adjunct professor of law at Marquette University Law School, is a Journal Sentinel "community" columnist and an operand over at the conservative Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.
Stick it to themScott Walker and his minions have since day one been spreading the nonsense that state employee grievance procedures have not been hurt by his union-busting law. He claims the civil service system has built-in workplace protections and there's no need for grievance procedures to be spelled out in collective bargaining with represented employees.
Public jobs downWisconsin state employees, if they're represented by a Scott Walker-finagled, "certified" public labor union, and assuming they will ever succeed in getting absolutely everything Walker's "collective bargaining law" allows them, will at best throw away time and money "negotiating" with the GOP authoritarians for an inflation-capped, base-wage increase.
Under Act 10, public workers can't negotiate health care benefits, work conditions, or really anything. The one thing they can "negotiate" is whether or not their wages will be adjusted for inflation.
But, now we find that this was just the tip of the iceberg.
The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) General Counsel Peter Davis has confirmed that a new rule recently approved by Governor Walker, together with Act 10, will prohibit school districts and other governmental bodies from including most so-called "add-ons" in the pay scales of new contracts. While years-of-experience add-ons largely will be preserved, additional education, advanced degrees and most other add-ons will be prohibited from being put in the contract.
This will hit all public sector workers hard, but will teachers the hardest.
In the increasingly strange world of daily newspaper journalism, where editors and publishers serve on local chambers of commerce and pen right-wing blogs while dissing their staffs for signing recall petitions, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is setting the standard for strangeness.
The recall petition flap didn't affect the Journal Sentinel as it did a half dozen other newspapers around the state. Moreover, the J-S has won several Pulitzer Prizes in recent years for feature and investigative reporting. However, the Milwaukee newspaper's editorial page has veered sharply rightward politically in recent years. And the news department doesn't, in some respects, seem very far behind.
We're thinking mainly of the Journal Sentinel's can't-see-the-forest-for-the-trees feature called Politifact, which rates politician statements as shades of true or false, but which too often chooses to inspect rather unimportant snippets of rhetorical navel lint. At some point soon, should this trend continue, the column will rule on whether it was accurate for some public official to call Wisconsin "America's Dairyland."
OutrageousWhen you read about some horrendous new decision from the Walker administration, never overlook the disturbing likelihood that there sometimes is even more awful stuff going on behind the scenes -- or, in some cases, nothing going on when it should be. For example:
On Monday, two state employee unions, the State Professional Education and Information Council and the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association, filed unfair labor practice complaints with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC).
The complaint in each case: Gov. Scott Walker has failed to bargain with the unions since he took office 14 months ago -- both before and after he got the Republican-dominated legislature to gut collective bargaining with most public employees, local and state.
Walker's signature measure all but ending meaningful collective bargaining finally was enacted late in June 2011 after court challenges. Since then, say the two unions, the Walker administration has not responded to their repeated requests for a bargaining date, even though they succeeded in elections to certify their bargaining status.
One of the most damning aspects of the current Wisconsin Republican majority under Gov. Scott Walker is has been its impatience. The state's GOP leaders have displayed an extreme bias toward moving the law-making progress along at maximum speed. In part they appear to do this in order to neutralize the opposition. In part, too, it may be the GOP's own repressed uncertainty over the effiicacy of its policies. Better to act before you think things all the way through, than admit or just realize that your ideological stance is at best questionable.
Wisconsin state government is sending out emails to public employees reassuring them that Gov. Scott Walker isn't planning to scale back, transform or gut the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), widely regarded as the best funded and best run pension program in the nation.
Why was it necessary for the Walker administration to do this? Because public employees for good reason do not trust Walker. And because Walker sees this latest uprising as another threat to his governorship.
Patrick McIlheran, the self-described "generally a right-wing guy" who used to write a column for the Journal Sentinel, bashing unions and public employees, became a public employee himself last June when he went to work for Sen. Ron Johnson and took his poison pen to Washington.
At the time it was reported that McIlheran would:
work out of Johnson's Washington, D.C., office, will research issues and write about them for the senator. McIlheran also will work for the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, of which Johnson is the ranking member.


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CALGARY - A health care watchdog says better assessment and training is needed after nearly 200 tissue samples were incorrectly processed through Alberta's medical system.
Equipment used to process the samples that can detect cancers is error-prone, while whistleblowers in the area should be protected, Dr. John Cowell, CEO of the Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA), said Thursday.
In 2010-2011, Cowell noted 31 tissue samples handled between Calgary Laboratory Services and the Rockyview General Hospital were processed incorrectly. A further 159 prostate samples were red-flagged coming out of Edmonton's Royal Alexandra Hospital in 2011, he added.
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There's also a lack of co-ordination between health agencies in the tissue sample process and a potential conflict of interest in funding and accrediting pathologists, the HQCA stated.
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Founded on the Canadian Prairie in 1885, the city of Calgary has sprawled to one million people. In 1914, the General Hospital was built overlooking Calgary's downtown, physically severing the Bridgeland community from the city. In 1998, it was demolished. A national competition called for the development of a sustainable community on the 37 acre site.
Bridgeland is an older neighbourhood of modest houses fronting onto First Avenue, a decaying retail street which is intersected by a pair of unique elm-canopied streets. The new plan revitalises and connects the neighbourhood to downtown, addressing the vital need for density and diversity in the inner city. The tree-lined streets extend through the re-established blocks to the new 8 acre park, built on the hospital footprint. One of these streets culminates in the park as a pedestrian stairway, the other is a promontory that memorialises the hospital.
Multi-storey housing borders the park on three sides to create an outdoor 'room', focusing on the downtown skyline and enhanced by a consistent building height surrounding the park. At-grade residential units provide front doors onto the street, and secondary public squares establish housing precincts with visual connections to neighbourhood icons. A new Community Centre is a 'garden wall' on the corner of the park and mirrors the promontory, together embracing the soccer fields. The Community Centre's sustainable green roof provides overlook to the park, which reconnects to the bluff open space system by the removal of a peripheral street. A new perpendicular street forms a pedestrian promenade that connects the entire neighbourhood to the transit station, the Bow River, and Downtown.
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debrak2008: will do There is an extended opening between the dining/great room. I want to remove more of that wall between the kitchen and great room. My house is a ranch with a partially (most) finished basement. The great room has vaulted ceiling, dining has tray, and kitchen has normal. |
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Even though I'm out to my parents and they seem relatively okay with me being gay, I feel as though I still can't tell them anything about gay issues, who I like, what bothers me, etc...
My mom pretends to be interested in who I like but I can tell that she hates the idea of me being with a man. She tells me that if I go out with a guy he will pressure me into sex but it seems to me that she just doesn't want me to have sex... ever. I understand that most parents are like this, but she would have no problem with it if I wanted to have sex with a girl. In fact, I'm sure that she'd go buy me a box of condoms if I wanted to go out with a girl. Instead, she gave me a booklet on how anal sex is harmful to the body.
When I bring up gay rights to my mom she gets angry at the fact that I am so passionate about them. She can't understand why gays want to be married, she feels that only heterosexual Christians deserve the title of marriage. I kindly explained to her that that would fall under a "Separated, but Equal (we promise!)" scenario, but she still doesn't really get it. She assumes that all gay people are anti-Christian and therefore shouldn't want marriage.
My father, on the other hand, makes jokes that seem to show how he truly feels. He said to my cousin the other day, "Greg isn't gay, he's just conflicted." He says this a lot, and it really just annoys me. It's basically the same thing he said when he thought he could "pray the gay away" (to quote South Park). I can tell that my parents still have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that I won't be like they were. I won't get married to some lovely lady, have three kids and live happily, if slightly dysfunctionally, ever after.
Is there any way to make my parents a bit more enlightened about gay issues? They refuse to talk to anybody who's been in their shoes. In fact, the other day my dad's good friend from work asked if I was dating any pretty ladies...
On some level, you just need to stand up for yourself and let them know that this isn't going away and, with some subtlety, that their interaction with you determines how involved they will be with your life moving forward.
I always see things opposite from most people. Your goal isn't to change your behavior to make them more accepting, because that assuming your behavior is the problem. Their boorish, immature knowledge of sexuality is the issue.
So, you just need to assert your own sexuality, call them on their crap, and when appropriate, stop letting them in, as a sort of preview of what life will be like for them if they continue on this path. Because choosing between your parents' acceptance and your own happiness isn't difficult over time.
If you think it would help, sure, buy them a copy of "Now That You Know," or somesuch, but a lot of parents don't bother to read it. By the time my mother read it, she didn't need it anymore, but in that moment, it wasn't something she wanted to address.
Your job is not to keep your parents integrated in your life, but to let them know it is not a given and that they need to get on board, or you'll proceed without them. You're in the right here, and they either need to catch up or, ultimately, wave goodbye. And, if they do, it is entirely their choice and nothing over which to fault yourself.
My experience with this method has been entirely favorable. If you sit there and take their shit, it continues, when you start to push away and live your own life, they want back in, and then you get to define the terms.
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I was kind of in the same situation with my parents. I don't know how long it's been since you came out to them, but it's really hard when all the dreams they've created in their minds (you getting married, having kids, etc) dissolve. It sounds like your dad is just trying to ignore the truth (my dad did that too). But I think if you just give them time they'll get better about it. They might not necessarily be amazing and go march in pride parades, but when they admit the fact that you're gay and it's not going to change, it'll be better. It sure is awkward though when my dad's coworkers ask about girls...
and about who you like and stuff. I dont know...I don't tell my parents at all about guys I think are cute or w/e. I doubt they'll ever really be "in" on that part of my life, at least not any time soon. Which is sad, but sometimes thats just how it is...
Don't worry though, your parents'll become more accepting.
I know how you feel. My parents are like "Kool, you're out... now don't talk about it..." Yea, I know what you mean. To be honest, I have no Idea on how to help you out. What helped me was one day I sat down with them and said: "This is how I've felt since I've been out. I feel like I came out for nothing, because I still am being made to feel like I can't be myself in my own home." You know what I mean, eh? Well, that changed some things. I dunno why it's so hard for people, but I guess as teenagers we can't do too much. So I live my gayness in my room. And @ school. And @ GALAP (My towns gay and lesbian association for those of you who don't know. lol) When I'm out of the house I plan to really freak them out. The gay issue in my house causes more stress that it's worth, so I live as much as I can without getting murdered by my father. Occasionaly push things. But yea. In time, they get used to things. No worries. In the meantime, live your life as much as you can.
Courage is contagious... be strong, and soon you won't be standing alone.
Kool, you're out...now don't talk about it..."
that made me laugh
it sounds so familiar
My mom is pretty great, but right after I came out and she said it was perfectly ok, I became a firehose of information and new experiences. I do this all the time when I learn something new, I become a really talkative nerd about it. I definately got the "ok...I don't want to think about that...", and I know what you are thinking. No, I wasn't graphic, I was just talking about crushes and movie stars and how I figured it out, etc.
She has come around more since then. I think she even adopted one of my gay friends. I probably just shocked her a bit when I came out....maybe.
I decided to take a peek in the closet.
What a suprise to find myself hiding inside!
Yes it's true, as teenagers living under your parents' roof, you have to make certain compromises. However, that does not mean you need to compromise yourself. In other words, if your parents don't want it discussed, well you really need to respect that. But they have to understand that if they bring it up, then all bets are off. You have a perfect right to defend yourself against anything they throw at you. Also, I would make them aware that if they insist on forcing you to keep silent about such an important part of yourself, you're going to keep silent about other things as well. In other words, they don't get to pick and choose what parts of your life you involve them in. By placing these conditions on you, they run the risk of not having you in their lives at all as soon as you are able to go out on your own. I was already out of the house when I told my folks, but when they started imposing conditions on me in terms of who I could bring home to visit and how to behave, I basically said no, either you accept me, gayness and all, or I won't be coming home to visit anymore. They chose to accept me and now they are totally comfortable with it and have been for many years. It's harder to stand your ground like this when you are dependent on your parents, but you can make it clear that if they want you to involve them in your life at all, they need to learn to accept all of you, not just the parts they are comfortable with.
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I'm busy cleaning up my hut today, I can't work with a big mess all around me, I can't get to my stuff! LOL Anyhow, I have 4 BIG boxes of cups, what was I thinking collecting and saving these things, what on earth can I do with them? Would love some ideas, but better yet, if you (Slo) have any sites with "cup work", please share. thanks! |
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See, Jeri: As soon as you ask for something on this forum, your cup usually runneth over w/ideas. Sorry folks, it was a perfect opportunity. SILVA - that's a wonderful post. I can see these cups filled w/succulents. I have a whole bunch of cups too. Might have to use this idea. I think that w/be a perfect project for Janeybo and me to work on while she's here. Thank you so much, MFB for asking, and you, SILVA for coming back w/that. I don't have a thing to offer. |
I like that cup idea so much, I am planning to make one for myself as soon as this Open House thing is over. I love succulents, and this wonderful plant nursery up the road, LandArt, has beautiful little succulents for sale. |
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My ring saw wouldn't permit me to get a cup under it. I bought a cheapy Harbor Freight tile saw w/an open blade up from the table on which you guide the cups, vases, bowls, bottles. It was only $60. Has been outside these few years, and still is my favorite tool. Haven't used the ring saw in years. When you position your wheeled nippers on the side of the cup handle - say on the right side - point the wheels slightly away to the right of center. Then turn your nipper over for the left side of the handle and point it slightly away - to the left - of center. Then w/you nippers, trim any areas necessary for a straight handle piece. Different ceramics cut different ways. Sometimes you get a perfect cut - other times - not so much. Takes practice too. |
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After spending the majority of her life on the West Coast, between Montana and Oregon, Margaret moved to Durham on a whim in the Fall of 2009. Years of experience as a Portland-based music industry publicist segued into a public relations role at Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau. While Margaret greatly enjoyed her role of singing Durham's praises, she recently began pursuing her work as a freelance PR strategist full time. When not out and about, moving and shaking, Margaret can most likely be found on her vintage Schwinn bicycle in three-inch heels.
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Peter Reintjes
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He has master's degrees in journalism from the University of Missouri and in City and Regional Planning from UNC-Chapel Hill. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Finance at Indiana University in his spare time.
In 2006, Carolina Academic Press published his book "This is My Home: The Challenges and Opportunities of Manufactured Housing." In 2009, FHA Secretary David Stevens nominated him to represent consumers on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee. He testified on the need to reform manufactured housing finance before a Congressional subcommittee in 2012.
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Rob Lineberger
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Got a deluxe sample (thanks to pinkdolphi & mua ) of it in 10! It's the lightest so I will not use my CDP primer...effect is matte without overly so. Stays on after 16h whole day without touchup.
I also apply this powder with my kabuki brush after sunscreen! Certainly getting the refill after finishing my sample :)
I use this to set foundation and it is amazing for that. I used up one compact then had to switch to Stila ipf as I couldn't get it anymore and the Stila just had no oil control not to mention a strange metallic finish. I will stock up on this next time I am in Asia.
i thought i'd give chanel a shot, but i should have trusted my gut. firstly, the counter ran out of the shade i was matched to and the counter lady sold me the lightest shade instead - not exactly the worse thing - i look like a ghost when i first put this on but my oily skin managed to oxidise this to the point where the colour pretty much matches my neck (thankfully). the issue i have with this is that it is awfully drying - i have oily skin but this sucker made it feel really tight & itchy. and this settles into my open pores/acne scars/lines, cakes up (even though i used the chanel primer and applied only 1 thin layer because of the light shade) and even my colleague pointed out that it was not working out for me because she could see blotches of the foundation caking up and settling into my acne scars.
i pretty much ditched it 2-3 days in and that was a truly expensive lesson to learn that chanel products and my skin just can't agree.
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I am fairly disappointed in this product, even though I think it's my own fault mostly. I was looking for a fine powder, which would help set my makeup and give me this flawless yet somehow dewy luminous look. However this just sit on top of my skin making it looks kind of dull. This is called a powder foundation, so maybe it was me who bought the wrong product.
i love this powder i use it along with the chanel matt foundation and my skin looks so clear and natural. this won't make you look powery or cakey it works great at controling oil and the thing i love most is you can buy refills so you don't need to bin the pretty packaging :)
I have oily skin that is prone to acne. I was first introduce to this product by Makeupalley a year ago.
For the first few times that I used this product, it worked magic on me and many people complimented that I looked better and natural with this powder.
6 months down the road, this product doesn't absorb or control any oil anymore. I'm not sure if it's a change in my skin or had my skin got so adapted to this product that it is producing more oil.
I will be switching to something else that can provide better oil control feature.
I got a sample of this in beige cendre30 cos the SA ran out of 10 and 20. Obviously, it was too dark and yellow.. anyway, i wanted to test out if my skin will react badly to it, fortunately it didn't. But i felt that coverage is too sheer and it kind of look cakey upon application. Lucky i didnt bought the full-size pact.
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This product is designed for oily skin. Unfortunately does not stand up to it's promise. On application - velvetly and matt withint 2 hours, starts to slide of skin. Very disappointing. Mac studio fix lasts longer on oily skin
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Since I live in the States where this particular product is not available (I regularly curse Chanel and its tendency to make my favorite shades and products Asian exclusives...grrrrr), samples of this item were hard to locate. Well, after a few months of trying I finally got my grubby little paws on some of this in 30 Beige Cendre (I am MAC NC35/Warm Natural 4.5 in Bobbi Brown Natural Finish at my palest, for reference). 30 Beige Cendre is definitely a shade that will work best on individuals with strong yellow undertones and warm skin. That said, this has been a banner year for me in terms of HG foundations, as this one has turned out to be a complete and utter winner in my book - though truth be told, I suspect that the 30 is a bit too light for me, so I will try the 40. The powder is very finely milled and keeps shine at bay for hours (I should add though that while my combo skin definitely tends to get shiny, it is not extremely oily, either), and application is incredibly easy. In fact, in terms of ease of application it puts every other foundation I have tried to shame. The deluxe samples of this come with a tiny little sponge, and somehow this manages to look stellar even when I use that! If you are capable of blotting your skin with pressed powder, then you can apply Mat Lumiere Extreme successfully - no fancy brushes required. Coverage is easily buildable, especially when you wet the sponge a little bit, but if you have pretty clear skin dry application is certainly sufficient. This product has no scent - at least none detected by my bionic nose - and every single time I wear it, I receive compliments on my skin without fail. (I should note here that I have been applying it over Murad's new Hybrids primer, in either the matte or the dewy finish - it works wonderfully with this product). It leaves my skin matte, but without the flat, artificial matte finish that characterizes so many powder foundations in my experience. I also appreciate the fact that you can purchase refills for this product as opposed to purchasing an entire new compact every time. My sole issue is that this particular shade will only work for me at my palest...for the rest of the year I will need to purchase a darker shade. Time to go sample hunting again - but at least now I know that it will be well worth the effort. This is a wonderful product, and worth every penny. Now if I could only convince Chanel to sell it in the States...
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This is my HG Powder Foundation. I've tried Mac Studio Fix, Shu Uemura, Laura Mercier, Loreal, Clinique etc etc but after I tried this I just stopped looking. For a powder foundation this really minimizes my large pores and blurs imperfections. I don't use it with concealer because until now I'm still looking for my hg concealer. It really doesn't make my skin too oily and too chalky err matte, just a dewy healthy look! We have to be realistic here girls! There's no powder that would stop your skin from producing oils! So I use oil control film for my nose, chin and forehead and there you go! perfect. It Doesn't break me out either!!! Light on the face like you're not wearing anything! I use it everyday! For Powder Foundation you have to prep your skin first! Moisturize!!! The night before and before applying make up. Make sure it's Oil free for those with oily skin. I have combination skin where I have really oily areas but it's flaking at the same time! Use setting powder or it won't last that long (that's why I only gave it 4 lippies)
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Spark Healthy
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I get this made forme at lunch by a sweet and dear woman who turned me into the Amy Pizzza junky. Submitted by LLB1971 Carbs: 30.2g | Fat: 18.1g | Fiber: 6g | Protein: 12.3g | Calories: 315.3
Forget fancy spices--four ingredients are all you need to make this deliciously simple supper. Submitted by VRAKLIS Carbs: 14.9g | Fat: 5.5g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 18g | Calories: 183.1
This recipe came about because I had just made vegetable enchiladas and had leftovers, plus quinoa from earlier in the week. Thankfully, this experiment yielded a hearty, delicious meal. Submitted by STEPFANIER Carbs: 51g | Fat: 8.1g | Fiber: 12.5g | Protein: 15.5g | Calories: 328.7
Incredible! 5.0/5
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Inspired by Jamie Eason's chocolate protein bars recipe from bodybuilding.com. Submitted by FIT-WHIT Carbs: 23.1g | Fat: 6.6g | Fiber: 5.1g | Protein: 10.8g | Calories: 144.4


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1. The 13-28 Phoenix Suns parted ways with coach Alvin Gentry today after the team slumped to the worst start in the Western Conference.
Gentry had been with the Suns since the 2008-09 season, and finished with a career record of 158-144.
2. Suns center Marcin Gortat had some kind words for his former coach on Twitter when he heard the news.
5. About an hour later, though, Gortat remembered an old flame…
Former Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy is currently without a job, but he coached Gortat over four successful years in Orlando. Wasting no time, Gortat began to openly campaign for SVG.


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Though he left his home in Argentina nearly twenty years ago, Carrera still gets back whenever he can. Once a year, twice -- he stays connected, and through his restaurant, Buenos Aires remains a part of him. "I love it there," he says, laughing. "But if you go, don't bring your wife."
I chuckle, thinking that if I were ever to hop a flight for points south without Mrs. Critic beside me, I'd better be prepared to stay. Like, forever. And to change my name and erase my fingerprints as well, because otherwise, she'd find me. And it wouldn't be pleasant.
1319 22nd St.
Denver, CO 80205
Category: Restaurant > Pizza
Region: Downtown Denver
"Were you here last night?" Carrera asks, bringing the conversation back to Denver's own Buenos Aires. "For the gnocchi?"
On the 29th of every month, Buenos Aires offers gnocchi in Bolognese sauce. It's some kind of Argentine tradition: You come, you eat, you leave a dollar under your plate for good luck, like an offering to the gods of good service. The Irish do something similar around the holidays, wrapping a coin in waxed paper and burying it at the bottom of a bowl of champ (mashed potatoes with butter and spring onions), like an oblation to the gods of dentistry. Arguably, it's the lucky kid who gets the coin -- although to me, the silver dollar has never seemed worth the trouble of the cracked tooth that traditionally came with it.
Sadly, I'd had a conflict the night of Buenos Aires's November gnocchi feast. "Oh, well," Carrera says. "There's always next month, right?"
In the meantime, the homemade gelato -- all two dozen homemade flavors offered every day -- is going well, and tastes just the way it does back home, according to Carrera. I've tried the strawberry, the lemon, one of the dulce de leches, and they've all been fantastic. But Carrera doesn't want to stop there: He'd also like to open an Argentine barbecue restaurant. "A nice one," he says. "Fancy. Next time you come in, I'll tell you all about it, okay? Argentine barbecue is something special."
So is his pizza.
Buenos Aires isn't the only downtown joint that's taken pies global. But Pizzeria Mundo, which opened six weeks ago at 1312 17th Street, has a different notion of internationally influenced pizzas: It simply names them after cities (or areas) around the world, then covers them with the ostensibly appropriate toppings. This all sounded fairly ridiculous until I got a look at some of the combinations that owner John Pool has come up with. (A restaurant rookie, Pool's in business with his brother Patrick, a veteran of Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix, which has a reputation as possibly the best pizzeria in the country.) The New York, for example, is a fairly straightforward version of the classic Bronx 'za, with cheese, pepperoni, sausage and -- strangely -- a spicy red sauce, one thing New York pies actually made in New York never have. But then a quick ride on the virtual D-train will take you to Coney Island (home of The Warriors, the Wonder Wheel and the Coney Island hot dog) for a crust covered in chili, chopped onions, sliced all-beef hotdogs, cheddar and mozzarella. Then there's the Buffalo, with carrots, celery, blue cheese and chicken set on a slather of wing sauce, and, heading north, the Kennebunkport, done like a lobster bake, with white corn, roasted potatoes, sausage, bechamel and chunks of lobster.
Pool also does a Kansas City barbecue pizza, a cheese-centric Wisconsin with tomato pesto, and a Death Valley version featuring habanero pepper sauce, rabbit and rattlesnake sausage and nopalito. He crosses borders for the sweet-potato-smeared Jamaican jerk pie and the Kathmandu, with tikka masala sauce, tandoori chicken, roasted onions, green peppers (I'm not sure where they came from) and cheese. The house makes its own mozzarella, turns its own crusts, makes its own sauces -- the whole nine. And that care, coupled with the absolute and overwhelming freakish weirdness of Sherpa pizzas and Chinese pizzas sharing space alongside the Buffalo, New York and four-cheese Wisconsin, is admirable.
Some guy tells me he's going to add a French or Belgian or Russian-inspired pie to his otherwise standard list of double-cheese-and-pepperonis, I'll tell him he's nuts. But some guy tells me he's throwing out the pieman's handbook entirely in favor of making pizzas with hummus, hoisin and paprikash sauce? I say go, man, go. That's just the kind of paradoxical, obsessive, erratic, bone-dumb genius that I love seeing.
Pool even has a Colorado-style pie on his board. It's smoked pork loin, green chile, scrambled eggs, red bells, cheddar and mozz. But I have to wonder: Where are the bull testicles, the Coors Light and the pieces of old John Denver records?
Big man, big plans: Speaking of testicles, money-man and nouveau restaurateur Jim Sullivan must have quite a pair, since he's now looking at not one, not two, not three, not four, but five new operations.


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Kinder, Not-so-Gentler
Mark Steyn plumbs the depths of border security—so you don't have to:
I am looking this bright Easter morn at a Department of Homeland Security "Custody Receipt for Seized Property and Evidence". Late last night, crossing the Quebec/Vermont border, my children had two boxes of "Kinder Eggs" ("Est. Dom. Value $7.50?) confiscated by Customs & Border Protection.
Don't worry, it's for their own safety. I had no idea that the United States is the only nation on the planet (well, okay, excepting North Korea and Saudi Arabia and one or two others) to ban Kinder Eggs. According to the CBP:
Kinder Chocolate Eggs are hollow milk chocolate eggs about the size of a large hen's egg usually packaged in a colorful foil wrapper. They are a popular treat and collector's item during holiday periods in various countries around the world, including those in Europe, South America and even Canada. A toy within the egg is contained in an oval-shaped plastic capsule. The toy requires assembly and each egg contains a different toy. Many of the toys that have been tested by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in the past were determined to present a choking hazard for young children.
And yet oddly enough generations of European and Latin American children remain unchoked. Gotta love that "even Canada", by the way: Is that an implied threat that Kinder Egg consumption is incompatible with participation in NORAD or membership of NAFTA?The Food and Drug Administration has issued an import alert for Kinder Eggs, because they are a confectionery product with a non-nutritive object imbedded in it. As in years past, CBP, the Food and Drug Administration and CPSC work in close collaboration to ensure the safety of imported goods by examining, sampling and testing products that may present such import safety hazards. Last year, CBP officers discovered more than 25,000 of these banned chocolate eggs. More than 2,000 separate seizures were made of this product.
Let's see – CBP, FDA, CPSC. I'm impressed it takes a mere three agencies from the vast alphabet soup of federal regulation to keep us safe from the menace of confectionery products with non-nutritive embeds.As Janet Napolitano would say, the system worked. I hope America's chocolate soldiers are enjoying their seized eggs this Easter.
Bonus prediction: What's the betting that the first jihadist to weaponize a Kinder Egg makes it on to the plane?
PS My kids asked the CBP seizure squad if they could eat the chocolate in front of the border guards while the border guards held on to the toys to prevent any choking hazard – and then, having safely consumed the chocolate, take the toys home as a separate item. This request was denied. Could have been worse. Could have been a $300 fine, plus a $250 fee for seized-egg storage.
PPS The real choking hazard is the vise-like grip of government.
Lest you think he was joking about the fine and the storage fee.
Now, all of this would be little more than an amusing anecdote if I didn't find this on the front page of the Boston Gob this morning (next to the bird poop, but who could blame him):
State officials failed to regularly inspect three-quarters of the escalators in Massachusetts shopping malls over the past three years, state records show, raising doubts about their safety in the aftermath of the horrifying death of a 4-year-old boy who fell from the top of an escalator that lacked a safety guard.
I can protect my children from chocolate eggs, but not so much from killer escalators.
Is it too much to ask from government—rhetorical question!—to stay the [bleep] out of matters where they have no business and to take care of matters where they do?
I wish I could say I look forward to the multi-part expose of patronage and corruption in the Department of Escalator Inspection—and Governor Patrick's expressions of dismay and outrage—but I'm not. I'm tired of this [bleep].


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Pamela Poovey | |
First appearance | "Mole Hunt" |
Voiced by | Amber Nash |
Information | |
Age | 32 |
Height | 5'7" |
Weight | 250 lbs. (according to her ID) |
Eyes | Green |
Hair | Blonde |
Aliases |
Snowball Shiroi Kabocha Cokie Monster |
Languages |
English (native) Japanese (conversant) Italian (conversant) |
Affiliations | |
Occupation | ISIS H.R. director, field agent |
Skills | Fighting, farming, human resources, arts & crafts, puppetry, drift car racing, fish fighting |
Personal Life | |
Pam's Gossip Train | |
@pamsgossiptrain on Twitter |
" | Holy shit snacks! | " |
Pamela "Pam" Poovey (voiced by Amber Nash) is the Human Resources (H.R.) Director at ISIS. She frequently comes across personal information about the other employees that she exposes on her blog. Pam sometimes uses a dolphin hand puppet to encourage communication during H.R. mediations.
Pam grew up on her family's dairy farm known as Poovey Farms, where she helped raise Holstein cows and produce dairy products like milk and cheese. She is an extremely tough person, probably because she grew up on a farm and paid for college by participating in an underground fighting ring. Pam has an opportunity to demonstrate her strength when a group of kidnappers try to force her into a van. Later, while they are beating her, she taunts them for being weak. She kills the last surviving kidnapper by snapping his neck.
Pam also has a high tolerance for drugs and alcohols which she imbibes on frequent occasions. Upon her return from Jamaica in Season 2 A Going Concern, Pam is seen chain smoking large joints throughout the episode labeling all those who refuse to partake as racists. Her penchant for marijuana comes to rise yet again when Malory asks her to send out a memo regarding an upcoming employee drug test in El Contador; for when she phones Pam, Pam is getting high and hides her exhale by coughing, to which Malory, lucky for Pam, confuses with beat boxing. Furthermore, when it comes to alcohol Pam seems to be the only employee (besides Malory Archer) who may have the capability of drinking head to head with Archer (possibly even surpassing him), and this shows in the same episode in which Archer finally gets drunk enough to have sex with her. From mixed drinks like Shandies and Margaritas, to hard alcohol like Absinthe and Jägermeister, Pam truly possesses a wicked capacity for putting it away.
Employment at ISISEdit
Pam is generally not a good human resources director, doing such things as gossiping around the office, drinking on the job, and constantly trying to sleep with co-workers, or keeping tons of dolls around for suspect identification in an office gang bang (with her fingers crossed). Despite being seen as unattractive by many of her co-workers, she has had sex with four members of ISIS. In "Dial M for Mother," she guilted Lana Kane into having sex with her on the condition that Lana be allowed to pretend Pam was Alex Karras. In "Swiss Miss," she was involved in a three-way with Conrad Schlotz and Malory Archer. Sterling Archer himself has declared Pam to be the best sex he's ever had. She has had sexual encounters with Cyril Figgis at least twice.
Pam was deported from Jamaica, possibly for marijuana trafficking, in "A Going Concern."
On her back, Pam has tattoos of 13 tally marks (most likely referring to the number of people she's killed fighting in college, or in reference to "12 jurors 1 judge" indicating time in prison) and an excerpt from the poem "The Destruction of Sennacherib" by Lord Byron:
- "For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed: And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!"
Family Edit
Her father is still alive, possibly still residing at Poovey Farms dairy farm. Pam made a model farm out of marzipan and graham crackers for his birthday in "Stage Two", even though it was probably in poor taste, due to him having diabetes. Her mother is dead, likely of Lou Gehrig's disease, mentioned in "Movie Star". In "Sea Tunt: Part II", Pam mentioned one sibling, a sister named Edie. Pam is an aunt to a child of her sister Edie, as she mentioned that her sister couldn't have the baby in the house and had to have it in the barn (Arrivals/Departures).
Sexual PartnersEdit
- Sterling Archer
- Lana Kane
- Malory Archer
- Doctor Krieger
- Conrad Schlotz
- Cyril Figgis (while Cyril was passed out in Blood Test and later when both were both blackout drunk in Heart of Archness: Part III)
- Unnamed guy with a roommate (El Secuestro)
- The gang members in Jeu Monégasque, Cyril referred to Pam "handing out blow jobs like puffy stickers".
- Three members of the Yakuza.
By the end of Season 4, Pam has had sex with all of her major co-workers at ISIS (male or female) except for Cheryl and Ray. She briefly had a friends-with-benefits arrangement with Archer, and sexually assaulted Cyril while he was passed out. A frustrated Lana had pity sex with her in season 1, claiming she was going to pretend Pam was Alex Karras during the act. An intoxicated Malory had sex with Pam by way of a threesome with Conrad Schlotz, who upon sobering up threatened to kill Pam if she ever told anybody.
Trivia Edit
- Candi McElhannon served as the model for Pam.
- Pam is allergic to soy.
- Pam is constantly mocked for her weight, although she is rarely affected by such treatment.
- She is openly bisexual.
- Pam constantly spreads gossip around the office with no apparent sense of self-censorship, even spreading gossip on very dark subjects such as breast cancer diagnoses. Attempts to attain information are often coerced out of Pam when the rest of ISIS attempts to keep quiet.
- Leaves frequent Pam Graffiti around not only the ISIS offices, but in various places in the city.
- She paid for college by participating in an underground fighting ring, and agreed to join Kreiger's "Bum Shock Fights" by adapting a pair of shock gloves, which she referred to as "game changers."
- Her favorite munchies are bear claws.
- She can consume massive amounts of alcohol.
- She has $42,424 in her ISIS 401(k) - "Jeu Monégasque"
- Two of her favorite drinks are Green Russians and Schützenmeister.
- Her driver's license lists her address as "15 Evergreen Drive, Queens, NY 11428" - but this is not a real address, although 11428 is the zip code of Bellerose, which is a neighborhood in Queens.
- Her personal best for stuffing pool balls in the mouth is four - "Tragical History", although this resulted in the tragic consequence when "some a-hole" slapped her on the back in a bar, causing her to swallow and later pass them.
- Pam was a recurring character in season 1, but got upgraded to main character in season 2.
- In season 3, Pam became a highly accomplished drift car racer known as "Shiroi Kabocha (白いかぼちゃ)", which she believed translated into "The White Shadow" until to her aggravation, she learned it actually meant "White Pumpkin."
- In season 3, she became sexual friends with benefits with Archer, who tricks her into being a stow away on the space ship in the "Space Race" story arc. As of season 4 this seems to have ended however.
- She has a Siamese fighting fish named Germaine, and has racked up $14,000 in debts from betting on fish fights. Thuy is her translator in the underground fish fights.
- Pam has a history of drug use. In the first several seasons she can be seen smoking cannabis. In Archer Vice she becomes addicted to cocaine, simply eating it by the kilo.
- In Archer Vice (season 5), Pam is seen to have lost a considerable amount of weight due to her cocaine addiction.
- She was briefly addicted to cocaine in Season 5.
- In Papal Chase (season 4), Archer reveals that Pam is a Lutheran during the car chase, to which the Pope points out, "Luther had some valid complaints".
- "Holy shit snacks!"
- "Sploosh!"
- "Bearclaws! Num num num num num!"
- "You better just fuckin' kill me."
- "Come at me, bro!"
- "Bring it!"
- "Inappropriate."
- "40 oz. in my lap and its freezin' my junk."
- "Shut your dickholster."
- "Who taught you how to punch? Your husband?"
- "Yeah! And unlike your dusty vagine, it's not gonna stay empty."
- "Sorry about your homie... homies!"
- "Aw, man! I just totally lost face!"
- "You're so hot for him, I could re-heat this chili in your cooch." (on the torch Lana carries for Archer, in Heart of Archness, Part 1)
- "Dicknuts!"
- "I swear to god you could drowned a toddler in my panties right now"
- "Houdini died of AIDS"
- "Racist."
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