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Year in Review: My Top 10 Football Moments of 2010
10) A tale of one city – Manchester City vs Manchester United & last-minute joy/heartbreak
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, well that's just careless. One of the major emerging stories in English football since Sheikh Mansour's takeover at Eastlands in 2008 has been the renewed rivalry between Manchester's leading lights, United and City. Carlos Tevez's crosstown defection and the ensuing 'Welcome to Manchester' taunting only spat fuel on the rumbling fire.
When the two teams went on to meet four times in 2009/2010, the encounters were epic – perfect demonstrations of what the Spanish call Morbo – the tendency for rivalries to grow and regenerate by feeding off their own dramas. Not one, not two but three last minute winners from Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney and Paul Scholes helped add to the self-sustaining ecosystem of Mancunian enmity – not to mention the Tevez/Neville 'bootlicker' comments, and with the two teams now battling it out at the top of the table 2010 marked the return of spice to one of English football's grandest derbies.
9) Barcelona 1-0 Internazionale – Mourinho and the sprinklers
Arguably the most memorable game of the Champions League 2009/10. Having dispatched of Arsenal with a mixture of ruthlessness and style, Barcelona were considered hot favourites to do what no other team has done in the Champions League era and retain the title. But in the semi-finals Internazionale and familiar old foe Jose Mourinho stood in their way. After a 3-1 defeat in the San Siro, Mourinho ratcheted up his usual pre-match hot air and bluster, calling Barcelona's desire to reach the final, held at the Bernabeu, "an obsession."
Mourinho's gameplan – to cede possession and defend their lines at all costs – became all the more difficult with Thiago Motta's early sending off. But Inter clung on for dear life and, despite their entire team completing less passes than Xavi on the night, Inter's 1-0 defeat sent them through.
Cue pandemonium on the away team's bench, an on-field sprint and Narcissus-like pose from Mourinho on the Camp Nou turf and the sprinklers. An incredible display of thou-shall-not-pass defending from Inter and a memorable night's football.
Barcelona 1-0 Inter Milan – unbreakable Inter and the tale of Wile E Coyote
8 ) Lionel Messi 4-1 Arsenal – a path to greatness
"The path to greatness is along with others." Baltasar Gracian.
There are two traditional schools of thought in football that contradict one another greatly. 1) that the Champions League is now 'bigger' or 'better' than the World Cup in terms of quality and 2) that to be considered great, a player must do it on the biggest stage of them all – a World Cup.
Somewhere between the juxtaposition of these two flawed theories lies Lionel Messi. Messi was criticised for not carrying Argentina to greatness in South Africa. Nevertheless, despite the critiques that came with not scoring a single goal (he would have but for some admirable goalkeeping by Vincent Enyeama, and though unspectacular actually had quite a good tournament), Messi was exceptional in the Champions League and has had a golden year.
In 2010 Messi won the Pichichi (top scorer in Spain) and was also top scorer in the Champions League. Since the start of the 2009/2010 season Messi's record reads a staggering 67 games played, 65 goals scored. But the true beauty lies in how he makes it all look so easy.
In April 2010 Messi's four brilliant goals against Arsenal at Camp Nou simply blew away the Champions League opponents. And as he walked off the pitch afterwards, cool as you like, bouncing the match ball up and down like a child in a playground, this game became another stunning milestone on Lionel Messi's path to greatness.
Barcelona 4-1 Arsenal – The Lionel Messi Show
7) Chile 1-0 Switzerland and the meaning of a World Cup
This was a particularly special moment for me as I was at the game in Port Elizabeth and was fortunate enough to be there to witness the power of the World Cup firsthand. You see, while watching a World Cup on TV is enthralling enough, actually being there to witness it adds so many more dimensions to the experience, and provides one with a real appreciation of just how enormous an event it is for people worldwide.
Chile 1-0 Switzerland is the sort of result that, had I been at home in England, would likely have been mentioned little, but perhaps for a few pundits lamenting that the entertainment on show wasn't quite up to their lofty standards. Yet for Chile this was an extraordinary result and an extraordinary moment. Prior to World Cup 2010, Chile had not qualified for 12 years and hadn't won a World Cup match for 48 years. But after beating Honduras in their opening game, a 1-0 win over Switzerland sent Marcelo Bielsa's all-out attacking force through to the knockout stages, sparking wild celebrations in Chile.
As I left the stadium and made my way into the dark of the Port Elizabeth night, I got caught up in a huge impromptu party in the bowels of Nelson Mandela Bay stadium. Chile's travelling contingent went crazy. They wanted to celebrate and they wanted to celebrate immediately. For over an hour and a half, the stadium's concourse in South Africa may as well have been Santiago, Chile such was the exuberant, joy-filled atmosphere. A sea of red, blue and white, flags waving, dancing, chanting, strangers embracing like long lost brothers. It was an incredible outpouring of glee and human emotion, a pleasure to be a part of and a real insight into the magic of the World Cup.
6) "Iniesta de mi vida!" – Andres Iniesta settles it for Spain
"Iniesta de mi vida!" A popular saying in Spain after the World Cup final and a trending topic on Twitter in Spain, the phrase is basically a nonsense. Uttered on live TV by co-commentator Jose Antonio Camacho after Iniesta's World Cup winning goal in extra time, it's literal translation is 'Iniesta of my life.' Whatever that means. It is, basically, gibberish. Somehow though, this non-sensical, barmy utterance of joy exploding out of Camacho's mouth actually came to sum up the emotions of everyone in Spain perfectly. It was the Iniesta of all our lives.
Relive the moment in Iniesta's own words:
Torres tried to pass it to the centre but the defence intercepted it and the rebound fell to Cesc. My instincts told me to fall back a bit and Cesc gave me a marvellous pass. I received it perfectly and only controlled it a bit. When I was controlling it, I noticed a silence in the stadium. It was strange, but I noticed it. Is it possible to hear silence with almost 100,000 people present? I heard it. It seemed like the entire world had stopped, as if everyone had frozen.
After I controlled the ball, it bounced into the perfect position for me to shoot and I knew that it would go in. Why? I don't know how to explain it, but I knew. I waited a bit for it to come down and I shot. I know, it's difficult to understand. But, in that moment, I knew that it would go in.
5) Iker Casillas save vs Arjen Robben, World Cup final
In terms of a single moment captured in time, Iker Casillas' pistols at dawn save from Arjen Robben's shot in the 62nd minute at Soccer City in the World Cup final was particularly memorable.
Played in by a sumptuous defence-splitting pass from Wesley Sneijder, time stood still like a fight scene in The Matrix as Robben went clean through on goal. All that stood between him, The Netherlands, a date with destiny and a place in World Cup folklore was one man – Iker Casillas. A battle of wills ensues. Eyes fixed, they gaze deeply into each other's souls. Casillas bobs forward and bends his knees. Robben plays poker face, looking to sell a dummy while simultaneously keeping his body upright and still. Former teammates locked in a deadly duel. The fate of two nations hangs in the balance. In such moments lives change forever.
The handkerchief drops. Robben aims right. Casillas dives left. It's over. The game is up. But an outstretched boot changes the course of destiny. The ball's trajectory alters. Ever so slightly. But enough. Slowly, it spins wide. The guns fall to the floor. Spain survive. Robben falls to his knees, a haunted look on his face. Casillas is ghostly white with relief. The Duke of York stands over his wounded victim. Puyol clenches his teeth and slaps Casillas' hand. The duel is over.
4) Germany 4-1 England – Modern generation has it's 'Magnificent Magyar' moment
Strange to think that had Frank Lampard's goal been given it could have all been so different for England, and the result against Germany might not have gone down as the seismic, belief-shattering thumping it turned out to be. But referees' assistant Mr Mauricio Espinosa of Uruguay didn't see it, England went on to get thrashed and English football as a whole has been left to confront it's own numerous inadequacies and failings ever since.
Not a single English player made Fifa's Ballon D'Or shortlist for 2010 and the state of English football today has been debated ever since Mesut Özil glided past Gareth Barry like Usain Bolt racing Homer Simpson to square for Thomas Müller and stick the knife in for what might on these shores be termed 'a right old pasting.' England's entire World Cup campaign obliterated in one afternoon – and with it the bluster and bravado that for so long dominated the discourse when debating English football and it's self-proclaimed 'best league in the world.' Richard Keys hasn't been the same since.
Germany 4-1 England – Notes on a Thrashing
3) Uruguay, Ghana, Asamoah Gyan, Luis Suarez – A Morality Play & Heartbreak for Ghana
Football is often like pantomime. We create heroes and villains and once the boundaries are defined that's that thankyou very much. Luis Suarez's handball on the line against Ghana was considered an act of treachery in some parts of the world, an act of heroism in others. Either way, this was the single most dramatic moment of World Cup 2010 in my opinion and so heartbreaking a way for a team to lose a football match you would struggle to conjure a more brutal means of elimination if you tried.
Watching back Asamoah Gyan's penalty hit the bar still leaves me short of breath and covered with goosebumps even now, and like many of the memories here one has the impression that the entire world paused to come together and centre on that one moment in time. Gyan's tears, Suarez's glee, sat aloft on the shoulders of his teammates, Abreu's final twist of the knife with his brilliant chipped penalty, Ghana – and by extension Africa – denied an historic semi-final place. As a despondent Ghanaian friend of mine remarked afterwards, 'life just isn't fair.' Brilliant drama.
2) Barcelona 5-0 Real Madrid – The new Dream Team's crowning moment
All I can really say about this game is that Barcelona gave what was probably the single greatest demonstration of pure football genius I have ever seen in my lifetime. Played on a Monday night, as if to emphasise the focus of the eyes of the football world on club football's showpiece event, Pep Guardiola's side ripped Real Madrid to shreds the way Manny Pacquiao does his opponents in the boxing ring.
A prolonged, 90 minute series of wonderfully crafted swift jabs and hooks, punctuated by five haymakers of jaw-shattering brutality. The look on Florentino Perez's face at 4-0 in the second half said it all – "I've spent hundreds of millions of Euros, year after year, signed some of the world's best players and brought in one of the world's greatest coaches and we are getting absolutely thumped. What do I have to do to beat these guys?!"
The week before this rout, Barça beat Almeria 8-0. Two weeks later they put another five past Real Sociedad. Like the Dream Team of Johan Cruyff in the early 1990s, the Barcelona of Messi, Xavi, Puyol, Pique, Busquets, Iniesta and co are an exceptional, era-defining team. This was an exceptional, era-defining performance.
1) 11th June 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa
For more on this one see an article I wrote while in South Africa – "I cried, we cried."
Arriving at Sandton City fan park with another 100,000-odd South Africans to watch the opening day of a World Cup the nation – and continent – had been anticipating for years was a hugely emotional experience. And I have to be honest and admit that emotion just about got the better of me when Bafana Bafana lined up for the national anthem ahead of the first game of World Cup 2010 against Mexico as everybody in the fan park stood to salute and sing their national hymn. Siphiwe Tshabalala's opening goal of that game, one of the best team goals of the tournament, only added to the wonder of a truly moving occasion.
Honourable mentions:
The rise and rise of Blackpool and Ian Holloway – Blackpool's balls-out, adventurous style has been like a breath of fresh air for top-flight English football. Whether at Molineux or Anfield, Ian Holloway sets his teams up to pour forward at all opportunities, and so far despite the inferior monetary value and wage packets of his players it has paid off. Blackpool sit comfortably in the Premier League table and are poised to stay up. Watching Holloway go on the offensive about the football world's topic du jour in his press conferences every week has also been hugely entertaining.
The Togo team bus attack in Angola – An incredibly low moment in the year but one that unfortunately cannot be ignored, the deadly gun attack on Togo's team bus on it's way through Angola to the African Cup of Nations in January marked a dreadful start to Africa's year in the spotlight.
And the winner is… Russia / Qatar – FIFA's decision to take the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to new frontiers proved controversial to say the least.
Marcelo Bielsa's attacking philosophy – 3-3-1-3. How's that for a formation? Marcelo Bielsa's tactically innovative style and quirkily charismatic nature endeared him to an entire nation, as well as winning him admirers worldwide.


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Woman claims she is too pretty to have a job
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1 - 20 of 23 Comments Last updated May 25, 2013
#1 May 23, 2013
I'll give her a job. She can clean my Willy with her mouth.
"33-year-old Laura Fernee blames her good looks for a host of problems in her life, including her unemployment. Fernee says she was forced to quit her job after being constantly harassed by male co-workers and dealing with female co-workers who were jealous of her beauty. Now, Fernee lives in an apartment paid for by her parents and hasnt held a job in two years. But she is also claiming its simply not her fault."
#2 May 23, 2013
Looks like your blow up doll crapass...Is that why you're whining ???
#3 May 23, 2013
Your blow up doll looks like Al Franken.
#4 May 23, 2013
Original ?? Not so much, but at least WE agree on YOUR blow up doll and it's interesting you know they have a Franken model, huh ??? DO YOU call that a change up ???
Since: Sep 11
#5 May 23, 2013
What a whiney brat!
She says she endured constant harassment in regards to her face and body, while co-workers ignored her professional achievements.Male colleagues were only interested in me for how I looked. I wanted them to recognize my achievements and my professionalism, but all they saw was my face and body," she says.Even when I was in a laboratory in scrubs with no make-up, they still came on to me because of my natural attractiveness. There was nothing I could do to stop it.
She obviously has no idea what corporate life is like. She could have reached out to HR and had most of these clowns fired. She could have slapped them silly and, as long as she got to HR first, gotten them fired. She could have worked really hard and bettered herself and become the boss of those pigs and fired them herself. Sounds like she thought her good looks would be all she needed to become a CEO and learned the hard way that it is never enough just to be pretty.
#6 May 23, 2013
Is that from your "perspective" or are you angry you'd never get that good looking a woman to notice you, troll ???
#7 May 23, 2013
You can't even get a fat ugly black homosexual to notice you. Even the Pit Bulls ignored you after you covered your willy with peanut butter and crawled in front of them on all fours. You're just that ugly.
#8 May 23, 2013
I have so much empathy for her.
It is tough going through life being seen as a piece of meat by women, I imagine it must be hard for her too.
We Good Looking Types are Victims too ya no!
I bet you all thought it was just my Personality that so attracted Masturbators like Red Reamer, No Integrity Poster of Many Names, and Slewblomkin..... dintcha?
#9 May 23, 2013
Was this post an e-mail to your mother ?? It got misdirected, dumbass....
#10 May 23, 2013
Under the Culvert in the Swamp Troll,
Do have any clue what an Internet Troll is?
What you do 18/7/365 is defined as Trolling.
I think that you really do not understand what the word means. YOU accuse people you Troll all day, of being Trolls.
Do you know how Mentally Ill you are?
#12 May 23, 2013
Not true!
Red Reamer has been trying to get his Love Interest Slewblomkin into Red's Mens Room Stall, for about 6 months now.
Slewblomkin may be Stupid and Cheap, but he ain't easy.
Slewster is demanding that Red Reamer have a BOI or Two at the Glowryhole before Slewblomkin will insert his short stuff.
#13 May 23, 2013
Here you go dear con/crapass,
Affected by alcohol to the extent of losing control of one's faculties or behavior.
A person who is drunk or who habitually drinks to excess.
adjective. drunken - intoxicated - inebriate - tipsy - groggy
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#14 May 23, 2013
Redeemer and Slew are way too fat to have sex with each other. The fat gets in the way. Just like a short necked turtle who can't poke his head out of the shell.
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#15 May 23, 2013
Sweet one Champ!
#16 May 23, 2013
Thus the Little BOI's.
As you recall Our Whacking Bush Slewblomkin, told about 4 months ago about his Gay Porn Collection. Psycho Slewster has has a taste for the Twinks as he has revealed.
Red the Reamer and Slew do not have sex together, they have their Gay BOI Porn in the Stalls with them, and they grunt up to the Glowryhole and pass ol' short stuff into the orifice.
Sick Slewsie cannot look upon the man that is pleasuring him, and yes, he cannot reach him, but ol' Red Reamer can slather that ol' slimy chittlin' of Slews that is passed through the Glowryhole.
I like Demokrats, they are so normal.
#18 May 23, 2013
Supple Gunt,
I place such a High Value in the Opinions of Defectives like you.
These Playground Tactics of yours are really starting to wear me down.
I am actually thinking that maybe you are "right about me", and that Your Racism is the, one true path.
#19 May 23, 2013
Why would anyone find a michael jackson look-a-like attractive? How revolting.
#20 May 23, 2013
I also saw the resemblance. Remember, Michael Jackson looked like a young pudgy faced Barry Obama, than Michael changed his face to look like Peter Pan. He thought he had a better chance with young boys by looking like Peter Pan.
#21 May 23, 2013
Two Legs and a Heartbeat (Heartbeat Optional), and under 250 Lbs......YOU know the Brotha's are all over that shaaat!
Since: Sep 11
#22 May 24, 2013
Peter Pan? And here I always thought he was shooting for Diana Ross.
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When you walk into a restaurant do you have any idea what standard of hygiene that restaurant practises?
Can you tell just because the decor is smart and trendy, the tablecloths crisp and white, what might be lurking back of house?
Poor hygiene in restaurants can result in food poisoning. In some countries food safety inspection details are published on a website and restaurants have to display their hygiene score. Currently in Australia it's almost impossible to find out if a restaurant is up to scratch.
For the most part we are kept in the dark about dirty restaurants and other food outlets.
With Contaminated food from restaurants, commercial caterers, bakeries, takeaways and nationally franchised fast-food premises being suspected or confirmed as the culprit responsible for around 65% of reported food poisoning outbreaks in Australia, perhaps we should be able to recognise a safe place to eat as easily as we recognise a good menu.
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My name is Jeff. My wife Millie is the joy of my life. She's sweet and giving and funny and loving and as devoted as she can be, and I can't imagine life without her.
The only thing that ever bothered me was that Millie didn't realize how beautiful and sexy she is. That may not sound like a big problem, but it is. Or was...
Millie is what you call a "big-titted plumper," and a more gorgeous specimen of plumperhood you're not likely to see. Imagine this: Shining brown hair in a short pixie cut, flawless skin like fresh cream, a sweet round baby face with cute dimples, huge blue eyes, full, kissable lips, and a cute little cleft in her chin. Add to that: Full, broad, curvy hips, a big, round, perfect, grabbable ass, plump and shapely arms and legs, pretty, chubby little hands and feet, a softly rounded but not fat belly, a relatively small waist giving her thar delicious "hourglass" look--
And the biggest, most beautiful, and most outrageously sexy tits in the world.
I mean that last. I've been looking at plump women, fat women, big-titted women, and so on, in magazines for 20+ years--and I've never seen a pair to equal Millie's. Her tits are 58-HHHs, to start with. And no, you CAN'T imagine what that means.
They're beautiful, creamy-white, and just enormous. Without a bra, they sag a good bit, but that just makes them even more sensual and delicious. Any big tit lover knows exactly what I mean. They're huge and heavy and full and long and pointed, like pale, blue-veined, soft, oversized footballs. Plus, Millie's incredible nipples look like big, fluffy, pink funnels; her aureolae are five inches across and cone-shaped, with fat, rubbery tips more than an inch long.
Those big knobs of hers are tender and delicate, with dark-blue veins visible beneath the pale-pink skin--and when she gets excited, they don't crinkle up and get hard. They SWELL, and turn a darker pink, and her nipple veins throb. When Millie's hot, her knobs look like a teenager's "puffies," but as big as your fist--and her titty-tips stick out a full inch and a half, all stiff and twangy like Vienna sausages. I get a hard-on just thinking about them.
She has to wear industrial-strength bras, of course, but even then you can sometimes tell through her clothes when her nipples are erect. When she's braless, you can see them from across the street even when they're not.
Millie's clothes were the biggest part of the problem. She was always so convinced she was "fat and ugly"--or "fatandugly," as she used to say it, as if it were one word--she never wore anything but frumpy, shapeless old-lady dresses, muumuus and caftans and dumpy-looking housedresses. All her nightgowns were flannel and floor-length, and boring as hell.
I was grateful she liked to make love naked with the lights on. At first, that was about the only time I got to see her that way, then and when we showered together...
Um. Sorry. I just started thinking about how Millie shivers and squeals when I soap up those big nipples, and my mind drifted for a minute. We always end up fucking on the floor of our big shower stall, with her squatting over me with her slippery, squeezy pussy tube milking my dick and her amazing tits bouncing and swinging in my face...
Um. Drifting again. Jeez, this is going to take me a long time to write.
Anyway. I had always told Millie how I adored her body just like it was, how perfect and sexy and HOT she was, how I wouldn't trade her for any bony, skinny supermodel in the world, and so on; but she never quite believed me. She always thought I was just being kind, and she never quite figured out why I married her in the first place.
She told me more than once she knew I thought she was "disgusting," and no matter how I argued with her or reassured her or sang her praises, she stayed convinced that she was "fatandugly." Millie's dad used to put her down and call her names (the bastard), and she just never got over it.
It took some planning and a little trickery, but now she gets it. Here's the story. It started with a card game...
Card games mean a lot to us. We're pretty much stay-at-home types--partly because Millie is so self-conscious about her size, but mostly because we just prefer each other's company and like to be alone together. And one of our favorite activities is poker.
Many couples have problems when it comes to dividing the chores, but we never do. We play poker for them. Not this nutty new "Texas Hold 'Em" stuff, but plain old draw and stud poker.
It's fun; "I'll see your vacuuming the house, and I'll raise you washing the windows," and like that. (That was a big bet, and Millie won, too. Ace high flush. Pissed me off. I had a straight to the queen.)
We started doing it early in our marriage after a big fight over whose turn it was to change the cat's litter box. We both liked to play, like I said, and it was dull to play for matches or chips anyway; so playing for chores quickly became a routine.
We don't just play for chores. We also play for "forfeits," having to do stupid or embarrassing or sexy stunts for each other's amusement. Doing my chores wearing one of her dresses, Millie peeling grapes and feeding them to me, getting the mail (out at the street) in our underwear, and like that.
The forfeits were often, even usually, sexual in nature, and the more we played, the more that was true. Before long, sex was pretty much all we played for. I'd have to walk around the house all day with my bare dick hanging out--no small matter, if I do say so; when I'm hard, I have about nine inches of meat that's almost five inches around--or jack off in front of her till I came. Or Millie would have to watch TV without moving with her vibrator up her pussy, or go to the Mall wearing a wool sweater over a bra with the nipples cut out of it. (The prickly, itchy fabric rubbing her huge. bare, sensitive knobs drove Millie crazy, and when we got home we fucked like bunnies on amphetamines.)
Millie hated it when I made her show herself off, but it was part of the game and she insisted on paying off her bets. Once I made her push two peanuts across the living-room floor with her enormous nipples, crawling on her hands and knees in nothing but her panties. She bitched and moaned and fumed and complained, but by the time she was done we were both laughing--and fiercely turned on. (Bunnies on speed again.)
Dragging her fat faucets on the carpet had done it. Those big knobs of hers are not only incredible to look at and play with and suck on, they're also like starter buttons for her pussy.
Sex was never a problem in our marriage; we both loved it. It was just the way Millie dressed and felt about herself.
Anyway, the rules of our poker games are simple: after who is doing what chores is settled in the first dozen or so hands--sometimes just two or three, if the hands are good and the betting is hot--we start playing for forfeits.
With each round of betting, the bets get more outrageous. If you stay in and lose, you have to do the last one you bet against, and if you fold you do the last one before that.
The ante, or opening bet, for both of us, is always the same; oral sex. If Millie drops out after the deal, she owes me a blowjob, to be performed on command. If I fold first thing, I have to eat her pussy. That happens often enough in every game, and we usually start the week owing each other six or seven cocksucking and muffdiving sessions each.
Here's an example from a few weeks before the fun really began, and an important one, as you'll see. It was a stud game, five-card; one down, four up, no draw, with a round of betting on each card after the first two are dealt. At one time, before "Texas Hold 'Em" became fashionable, it was THE big-money game for professionals. No draw, no wild cards, just straight-up poker.
On the night I'm thinking of, in the first hand after the chores were assigned. I dealt myself a Queen down and a Jack up; Millie had an ace showing, which meant it was her bet. She opened with her usual first bet after the ante: "You have to eat me 'no-hands.'" (That meant with my hands behind my back. A challenge, but hardly a painful loss.)
I countered with my own usual first bet: "Blow me naked and blindfolded."
"I call," Millie said. That meant the round was over, and those were the stakes so far. I dealt two more cards. Millie got a ten, and I drew a Queen to match my hole card. She was still high. "Jack off till you shoot while I watch," was her bet. She loved to watch me do that.
"Dance naked while I do it," I said. If I lost at this point, Millie would remain fully dressed and just watch me masturbate, probably with a bowl of popcorn like it was a movie. If she lost, I'd have some suitable entertainment while I did it. She'd be embarrassed and resentful, but she'd do it anyway.
These were pretty common bets for us. "Do it on the back patio," she said. She was raising me. I wondered if she had another ten, or worse, an ace, as her down card. I doubted it was an ace, or she'd have bet more heavily in the first round. A pair of tens, then.
I was holding a pair of Queens. Lookin' good."Ditto," I said.
Millie's big blue eyes got even bigger; dancing naked outside would be hard for her. "Call," she finally said.
Another card. A lousy four for me, no help for my Queens. Millie grinned at her card--another ten. This could be trouble.
"Air blowjob," she said. "One hour."
That would be sweet torture. She'd kneel in front of me and just tease my dick, acting like she was about to suck me--blowing on it, kissing the air and flicking her tongue a millimeter away without actually touching it, opening her mouth and actually putting it over my dickhead, warming it with her hot breath, then pulling away before she actually made contact. I was forbidden to touch myself, and Millie could keep it up for ages.
What made it hellish--besides looking at her beautiful round face, her heavenly lips and sparkling, teasing eyes--was that every now and then, with no warning, she'd actually lick me or suck on my dickhead for a split second, or plant a big, sloppy wet kiss on it--and them go back to teasing.
And worse, sometimes she'd keep her mouth on me and slurp and suck and work on my bare dickhead till I came--and then she'd either keep sucking and slurping on it while I spurted in her delicious mouth, or she'd cruelly pull back at the very second I started to cum and leave me helplessly shooting my wad in the air as she giggled and watched.
The uncertainty and the anticipation we're what made it torture. The sexual tension was unbelievable, and I'd get so hard it hurt--an hour of that treatment would have me begging for release--but sometimes it was so good I'd almost pass out. I never knew what Millie was going to do. I loved it and hated it, both.
She smiled wickedly. "Why does that bet always make you sweat?" she whispered, then licked her lips seductively and blew me a kiss.
I grinned back at her. "You know why, you big-titted bitch." She laughed and shook them for me. I had recently at least convinced her that her huge milkers weren't "disgusting," and she had grown to enjoy teasing me with them.
"So, Jeff; call, raise, or fold?" she asked with a confident smirk. I still liked my pair of Queens. In five-card stud, it was a very good hand.
"Call,"I said.
Another card. A six for Millie, and the jackpot for me: another Queen. Now I was high, with a pair of Queens showing and a third one in the hole. I made a big show of thinking hard. I finally said, "Dance naked on the patio in nothing but oil--and with your pussy shaved bare."
Her mouth fell open, and she stared at me. This was a very big bet. I had bet her a pussy shave before, but I had never won one. It usually made her fold.
Millie looked at my cards suspiciously. "You're bluffing," she finally said. "Those Queens are all you got, cowboy, and they ain't good enough. Air blowjob for two hours--and I do it topless." She sat back with a smug expression on her cute baby face.
She had the three tens, then. Good. I was glad I was going to win; what she had just bet would have been agony for me. "Call," I said.
It's a good strategy in poker to be known as a bluffer. Then, when you really have the goods, your sucker (so to speak, heh heh) will stay in.
Last card. Nothing of consequence; a nine for Millie, a seven for me. My bet again. "Everything you've already bet," I said, "plus you keep your pussy shaved bare for a whole year."
I was wearing my best poker face; I looked like I was trying not to show that I was bluffing.
She fell for it like a ton of tits. "Hah! You keep trying, but I'm not buying," she laughed. "Call." She flipped over the third ten. "Tough shit, Jeff."
I flipped over my third Queen. Her big eyes bugged out, and then she glared at me. "DAMN it!" she fumed. "I was SURE you had another Jack under there!" That would have given me two pair--a good hand, but not good enough.
I grinned. "Another hand?" I asked insinuatingly.
"I think I'm far enough in the hole already," she said, still glaring.
"In the hole? But that's where I'M going to be," I said.
We looked at each other for a moment--and then she burst out laughing, and I did too. One of the things I love about my Millie is her sense of humor. She can always laugh--even when she's embarrassed, resentful, and pissed off, like then.
I stood up. "C'mon, Big Tits. Time to pay off that bet." I beckoned with one finger, and Millie rose and walked ahead of me into the bedroom. I noticed her pretty hands were quivering as she undressed.
I knew her well enough to know exactly what she was feeling; embarrassment and doubt about how she looked naked, and a fierce excitement that maybe, somehow, for some reason she didn't understand, I'd still get hot and horny looking at her. It thrilled her, but she still didn't get it. We had only been married a few months--she was 20 and I was 24--and life together was still new for both of us.
When she was naked, I had her lie down on a towel I'd spread on the bed and pull her knees back and wide open. We both knew I'd have to be the one to shave her pussy. Her tits were so huge she had trouble even seeing it without a mirror.
I looked at her and grinned as she looked up at me over those huge tits, her face pink. Such a beautiful sight, my sweet, fat Millie, buck naked and spread wide open. In a few minutes she would look even better. My cock was already hard, but I got harder thinking about it.
"Well? Let's get this over with," she said. I went into our bathroom and got my own electric shaver. I flipped open the trimmer and sat down between her legs, grinning. This was going to be fun.
As Millie waited patiently, I clipped her pussy hair--already thin and sparse--to a short stubble. Then I used the regular shaving head to remove that. I shaved her plump, pale mound baby-smooth, then pulled and stretched her skin to clean up all the stray hairs around it and especially between her soft, chubby outer lips.
When I was done, her sweet, plump, pale crotch was as bare and white as a peeled egg. I sat back and admired my work. My Millie was barer and more beautiful now than I had ever seen her.
She looked up at me, her face pink, her eyes half-closed and smoky-hot. Her big nipples were swollen to softball size and glowed a hot pink, with tips that stood out stiffly, bigger than her thumbs.
I grasped them in my fingers and tugged lightly, twisting. She was already breathing hard, and at my touch she gasped and bit her lip, eyes closed. "Oh, Jeff--"
I clenched my fists on her huge, swollen aureolae, crushing them in my fingers like I was squeezing oranges. She gasped and hissed and rolled her pussy up at me. I twisted them back and forth, and she groaned, "Oh, God, Jeff--Oh, God, milk me off--"
That was what we called it when I abused her tender knobs till she came from that alone. I released her swollen nipples, even bigger and darker now, and watched her hunch and writhe on the bed. She grabbed her tits and shook them up and down, whimpering "Please--please milk me some more--Milk my tits and fuck me--"
I wanted to fuck her senseless, but I wanted her to pay off her bet, too. Each time I made Millie perform naked in front of me, I sensed that her confidence grew a little more. It was good for her.
I also wanted to see her wiggle and jiggle outdoors, naked and shaved and shiny with oil all over. I wanted to see that real bad.
I was stroking her fat, baby-smooth mound and letting my finger slip between her soft pussy lips to caress her hot liquid center now and then. Her plump hips were still pumping, rolling her chubby bare cunt up at me urgently. "I want you, Jeff," she gasped again. "Fuck me... Fuck me naked..." "
A little later," I said. "Let's go outside. I'll get the oil." Millie whimpered, but she slid off the bed and stood up, trembling a little. It was so endearing, the way she crossed her little hands protectively over her enormous tits. it was like trying to hide a pillow with a couple of feathers, but it was sweet and made me want to kiss her.
So I did. I took her in my arms and kissed her soft lips tenderly. "I love you so much," I said, "and you are so SEXY..."
She looked up at me, still quivering, and snuggling close to hide herself as well as to be near me. She said, "Fooey. You're just weird. But I love you too."
I kissed her again. "If you only knew how many guys would kill to have a woman like you..." I left the sentence unfinished, and let her go.
"Outside, Big Tits," I said. She giggled nervously and started for the door.
I walked behind her down the hall, admiring her from behind. Her big, bare ass rolled and wobbled deliciously. The long hourglass sweep of my Millie's pale, perfect bare skin--from her shapely shoulders, down the curve of her bare, smooth back, broadening to encompass that plump, tempting bottom, then tapering down her chubby but perfect bare legs to her pretty little bare feet--was breathtaking. I was glad she kept her hair so short--it would be a shame for her to hide even her lovely white shoulders with long hair.
I could see her huge breasts gently swinging from side to side even from directly behind her. God, what a babe, I thought. And she's mine.
As we passed the bathroom, Millie looked back at me. "Aren't you going to get the oil?" she asked.
"Not that oil," I said, referring to the scented baby oil we sometimes used to massage each other. "We'll need more than that. I want you so covered with it you're dripping."
"Oh..." For just a heartbeat, Millie unconsciously stroked her big, swollen nipples with a faraway expression on her innocent baby face. Then she shivered and kept on walking down the hall, stark naked.
I knew it made it extra-scary for her to leave all her clothes all the way back in the bedroom, especially when she was about to go outside; but I liked that. I liked her not only bare naked, but very conscious of being that way. I wanted her to feel naked on the inside as well as on the outside.
We went on to the kitchen, where I took a new half-gallon bottle of cooking oil from the pantry; then we went on to the door into the back yard. I picked up our boombox from the living room on the way.
I opened the door, and Millie leaned over and peered out cautiously, hands over her breasts. We had a privacy fence, eight feet high and solid wood--but it still made Millie tremble with self-consciousness to go outdoors in the nude.
Finally, she stepped out onto the patio, her bare little feet cautious on the flagstones. She was totally naked, without so much as a trace of lipstick on--and now without even a trace of pussy hair to hide her plump, intimate slit.
It was a Saturday, late in the afternoon, and warm. Millie stood trembling, feet together and hands clasped over her pussy, as I plugged in the boombox and took the cap off the oil. I walked over to her, holding the bottle. "Hands on your head," I said, and she obeyed, looking around nervously.


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"Couldn't listen"
This review is based on about one and a half hours or so listening as I couldn't take any more than that. I couldn't stand the narration style (although I can see he is ' being in character') and I didn't like the main character or really understand what his role was for ages. It felt confused and disjointed and I won't be revisiting this one.
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"Great listen!"
An unusual protagonist, a well paced novel written with irony, that talks about something important in an accessible way- what else can you ask from a novel? I really enjoyed this, and loved the protagonist's way of describing what's happening around him. I'm certainly going to listen to more books by this author.
"Different and compelling."
This was compulsive listening and I didn't want to put it down. I found it genuinely chilling in parts. Recommended.
"Highly derivative attempt at apocalyptic sci-fi"
Well written, and based on the premise that the CERN neutrino anomaly was proved by others to be the seismic shift in scientific thinking it might have been had it been more than an anomaly due to equipment tolerances within the accepted scientific range.
Deliberately choosing as the narrator someone on the Asperger's spectrum did lead to the narrative flow being stilted and, at times, annoyingly repetitive. This might have been less annoying on the page, but did lead to this listener zoning out and having to go back. But, from my experience, these traits are true to the character. The sustainable development message that underlies the plot was well-informed, but might have been wrapped up in the narrator's conclusive remarks in the final chapter.
Those are the negatives. On the positive side it is, as mentioned, well written and well informed. The narrator succeeds in giving what could have been a charmless lead character the depth and wit that has gone into writing him.
However, it owes more than a little to just about everything ever written by John Wyndham - from Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes, via the Chrysalids to Chocky with great chunks of the Midwich Cuckoos thrown in for good measure. John Wyndham's originals - albeit written against a cold war, rather than a capitalist, resource-exploitation background - are still relevant and a more original and pleasureable experience than this.
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Invite New Members to your Organization
Posted by Laura Herrod on Thursday, October 10, 2013 in Uncategorized.
Want to increase participation in your organization? Reach out and invite new members through Anchor Link!
You can update the status of current members, whether removing them or promoting them into positions. You can also invite other people on campus to become members of your organization.
Accessing Organization Roster
1. From the organization's home page, select the "Roster" tab on the top.
2. The complete roster for your organization is now displayed.
1. From the roster page seen here, select "Manage Roster" near the top of the page. **This option is only available to the leaders with the privilege assigned to them.**
2. Click on "Invite People" in the top right corner.
3. Enter the email addresses of the individuals you wish to send invitations for membership.
4. Click "Send Invitations" when all people have been added to the list.
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Since I was a child I have written, but the challenges of writing with babies and small children at home took me unawares. All through my pregnancy I wrote academic books and then as soon as my babies were born I had no idea how I was going to continue to write. Here are some tips that helped me, and positively changed my writing... Prioritise your writing - whether it's ten minutes or two hours, give yourself a pocket in the day to write. It's important for your sanity, for your well being … [Read more...]
Top Ten Tips for Writing with Babies at Home
Flash Points: Beyond Mommy Blogging
I'm so excited to announce that Pagan Families contributor Hannah E. Johnston has just released Children of the Green: Raising our Kids in Pagan Traditions. In celebration of the new book, June's Pagan Families Flash Points round-robin topic is all about writing and parenting: Beyond Mommy Blogging. How do you make time and mental space to write with babies or small children around? What factors do you consider when deciding whether to write about your children or other family members? Wher … [Read more...]
Birth as a Spiritual Experience (Thesis Project)
"Here is your sacrament Take. Eat. this is my body this is real milk, thin, sweet, bluish, which I give for the life of the world… Here is your bread of life. Here is the blood by which you live in me." --Robin Morgan (in Life Prayers, p. 148)"…When I say painless, please understand, I don't mean you will not feel anything. What you will feel is a lot of pressure; you will feel the might of creation move through you…" – Giuditta Tornetta in Painless Childbirth"I am the holy mot … [Read more...]
Midwife's Invocation
I'm working my way through a class at Ocean Seminary College that is based on Karen Armstrong's book Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. One early assignment was to find a reading articulating a spiritual perspective/teaching on compassion. I turned to one of my books, Sisters Singing, in which I marked a prayer called Midwife's Invocation. As a birth educator and activist, I have been devoted to birthwork as a cause for many years, something that for me is rooted in social justice as well as … [Read more...]


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Royal Ontario Museum Blog
Monthly Archive: December
Major League Museum
Photo courtesy of Chuck Kochman 2014.
In Conversation with the Hon. Jean Augustine about "Exploring Black Feminine Identity" at the ROM
This Sunday, October 18 at 12:30 pm, join a panel of leading Canadian cultural critics as they explore the historical and contemporary constraints that can and have shaped Black female identity in Canada. This event is an opportunity to engage in conversations with leading experts to rethink critically the way history is told and understood not only in the media, but also in the museum itself.
The ROM's Very Own Batman Returns
ROM Biodiversity (@ROMBiodiversity) was in the fields and forests of Sri Lanka for an intense four weeks between Aug 23 - Sept 19, 2015, completing the first comprehensive survey of bats and other small mammals that live on the island in close to 80 years.
The Ongoing Mystery of the Franklin Expedition
Guest Blog written by 2015 Environmental Visual Communication student Jeff Dickie
With an excavation recently completed this summer, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition continues... still elusive in her watery grave, what secrets will HMS Erebus finally give up about her ill-fated mission?
ROM Game Jam Space Rocks! Recap
Over Game Jam weekend at the ROM, 90 developers learned about the ROM's "Space Rocks" research & collections and programmed, made original music scores, crafted 2D and 3D animations – culminating in original games, made from scratch!
Museum Monday with Melissa - October 6
Hope everyone had an amazing weekend. With FNLROM starting off the season and Nuit Blanche !
One of the exciting upcoming events is Masters of Dreams: The French and Swiss Jewellers. It is taking place Tuesday, October 6, 2015 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm.
#emptyROM - @stilez
Our last set of #emptyROM photos are IN! @stilez on Twitter and Instagram is a well known Toronto photgrapher and we love it every time he comes to shoot the ROM.
Below are a few photos he shared with us from our first #emptyROM tour on August 19th.
#emptyROM - bora.vs.bora
New #emptyROM photos from our friend Bora!
Hopping Their Way to Your Heart
Guest Blog written by 2015 Environmental Visual Communication student Lian Jong
Lian sat down with ROM Herpetology technician Amy Lathrop to get some insight into the museum's vast Natural History collections, in particular, its reptiles and amphibians.
Remembering Mr. Francesco Grosso
Many staff, volunteers, and visitors may remember Mr. Francesco Grosso, who was part of ROM life for 45 years as he entertained and captivated young and older audiences at our Queen's Park entrance with his travelling push-cart filled with treasures and treats. Visitors and staff, and more recently their grandchildren, often looked for him and asked after him. We are very sorry to learn of Mr. Grosso's passing last week.


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After attending a one hour class on art history and basic concepts of mosaic design, students will design, transfer design to cement paver, safely cut art-grade glass to shape, create permanent mosaic glass design on cement paver, secure with cement mortar and watersealer. (Optional: students can gift wrap and present to parent for Mother's or Father's Day!)
From the Author: So much more is learned during this 12 hour (broken up by 3 weeks) art event! This project is a much anticipated annual 5th grade project with twelve years now of Garden Stepping Stones going home for Mother's Day. We do this only one time per year - with the 5th grade students - for the Annual Mother's Day Gift! It takes some serious time and effort of many volunteer parents, teachers, custodians - everybody gets to make a STONE! It has become a tradition that parents do NOT want to allow slip away with all the other budget cuts here in our school system.What You Need:
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Caterina Shyne
She is little, but she is mighty!
Caterina or better known as mom has been on a long journey to get here. She is now a well accomplished chef who has worked along side some extremely talented people including Paul Prudhomme but if you ask her who was most instrumental in her life long passion of cooking she would tell you that her nona comes first. As a little girl cooking in a small kitchen in her home town of Calabria, Italy she would spend all day long creating beautiful dishes for family and friends while the other children played outside. The kitchen has always been where her heart is. Caterina moved to the United States at 16 years of age and worked her way to the dream she now lives. The family collectively has 8 restaurants in Seattle, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach and Kauai. She is the Executive Chef at each location.
Mariya Byndyu
Mariya is an extension of our family and has made it her mission to execute the recipes past down from generations before to the best of her ability. You can say she delivers. She has been holding down the kitchen, the pillar of Lucia for over 15 years now. She has been fortunate enough to work side by side with mom Caterina and has grown into an incredible chef.


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OK, maybe I shouldn't of started my thread that way but I hav't posted in a while and I figuered I will share my thoughts
I love my boat, but since I discovered a crack under the bottom of the boat (right below the stringers, under the front of motor) I have been a little upset. Fixed it several times, keeps coming back.
Called Carter and he was no help. I can't beleive he would build a boat and not even offer advise on how to reinforce it properly
Oh yeah its a 28 sxt, blown 572 with a turbo 400 turning a #4 , if anyone cares to know


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Hermitage Hospital
The Hermitage Hospital is a private hospital located in Lucan in West Dublin. Red Cow Moran Hotel is a short distance from this hospital. The hotel's specialised medical teams provide medical, surgical and advanced radiotherapy care to patients.
The Hermitage Medical Clinic has 39 consultant suites with practitioners specialising in the following: Allergy, Breast Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Dermatology, ENT Surgery, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Health Screening, Interventional Cardiology, Maxillofacial, Neurology, Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Oral Surgery, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Periodontology, Plastic Surgery, Prosthodontology, Psychology, Respiratory, Rheumatology, Urology and Vascular Surgery.
The Hermitage Hospital now operates its emergency department Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm, Saturday & Sunday 10.00m to 5.00pm.
Directions from the Red Cow Moran Hotel to the Hermitage Hospital:
If you require accommodation near the Hermitage Hospital the Red Cow Moran Hotel is your ideal choice located less than 10minutes away.
1. Take the M50 exit Northbound (Airport exit also)
2. Take the first exit off the M50 Motorway, the N4 exit (signposted The West). Keep to the left side of the exit.
3. Follow signs for Liffey Valley Shopping Centre ( this will be the first exit off the N4). Stay on the right side of the slip road.
4. Once you have reached the end of the slip road you will arrive at a roundabout. Take a right, bringing you under the N4. Please note that once you arrive at the first set of lights the immediate left is not accessible as it will bring you against emerging traffic.
5. Take the next left off the roundabout and gain access to the facility by taking a left at the next entrance.


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Re: SERGEANT SAUSAGE
That's... definitely Sgt. Slaughter. So, wouldn't this be considered pop culture,
That's... definitely Sgt. Slaughter. So, wouldn't this be considered pop culture?
Re: Monsters need to eat too
Hmm, I believe the 's implies ownership, no?
Re: Cold Pizza
yeah, where is the mascot? might wanna read the rules.
Re: Zombie Toast
This is probably going to get rejected for "Similar shirts exist"
Caddywompus wrote:What do you guys call a piece of bread with a hole filled with a fried egg?
We call them "Peek-a-Boo Eggs"
haker85 wrote:Who doesn't love Bill Cosby's Chocolate Cake act.
Dad is great! He feeds us choc-lat cake!
Re: Sleep? What's That?
Would like it better without the text.
Re: COFFEE!
Nnng..... coffee.....
I just moved this last week. This shirt would've been appropriate.
Absolutely, but i'll never win anyways so I figured what the heck
ha, adorable and clever. next to bacon, coffee may be the finest breakfast food.
Re: Espress-Os
LOL, that's what I looked like when I was trying to finish up this derby contest :-O
trekmiss wrote:Would like it better without the text.
i dunno, i like the style and color of the letters. not crazy about the phrasing, but it looks good.
super intense, btw. nice one!
Re: General Custard
i really like this for some reason. it looks all cartoony but it's nicely done. and though i don't eat them anymore, i will have a crush on donuts forever.
Re: GutterBalls!
I'll spare you the details... (I'm all punned out)
Re: Bigfoot Flakes
ewwwww... gross... yuuuuck.. awesome. i'd eat that.
fishbiscuit5 wrote:I don't speak Spanish!
...nor French apparently.
eeschultz wrote:I had the same problem - I was going down the path of the blood theme and didn't realize it was a double theme.
Also, I was still processing the concept of big, smiling blood cells splashing around in a cereal bowl.
ditto. all the pluses and minuses were a nice touch too, but after reading the comments... ohhhhhhhh.....
Re: Need I Say More?
this might be the most gorgeous bacon in the derby.
chachachino wrote:ewwwww... gross... yuuuuck.. awesome. i'd eat that.
Disgusting.... so would I.
Re: Pixel Pixie's 8 Bit Bytes
The Pixel Pixie (with a pixie haircut!) is the mascot of 8 Bit-Bytes, which just came out with a heart healthy version ;)
Hope you like it!
profbrendan wrote:This is pretty dang funny and nicely designed to boot. I really like the slogan.
Thank you kindly.
Re: Honest Packaging
nice layout. funny. hfcs and trace amounts of whole grain. frightening how true that is.
CrescentDebris wrote:I'll spare you the details... (I'm all punned out)
Re: You're Toast!
It appears he's cracked. I hope you like the design and please vote.
Pixel perfection!
Re: Eat Cereal
wish it were bigger but i like it.
nice work! but ... maybe bigger...
gmv anyway tho.
Re: The Muffin King
The breakfast of royalty!
profbrendan wrote:Great artwork and style, the only thing I worry about is that it might stray into off-topic due to not really being breakfast food, you know? Best of luck though.
Why? Don't you eat sandwiches for breakfast?
Re: Not So Happy Hotcake
Awww poor guy! GMV and now I crave pancakes.
Count me in for 1.
Re: I heart Gruel
The amusing thing about gruel is that it has been considered to be a staple food, but has been given a very negative connotation by Oliver Twist.
Now if it was the Iron Sheik, he would put you in camel clutch, make you humble.
Re: Sheriff Squirt
I love that he's holding a grapefruit spoon. Awesome!
Re: Bacon and Eggs
Those expressions... they equal a vote. Love it XD
Hahaha! ohhhhhh my. Your signature cartoon style works wonders here. This is excellent. If it prints im buying one for myself and one for my nutrition professor.
somb wrote:Ever wondered what was the favorite breakfast of half-dead kids ?
I always thought it was their parents. 0_o
This is fantastically done! Definitely GMV.
Heh, this is great. The sharp color contrasts are really eye catching. And the message is just funny enough to be relevant with or without the picture even.
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History of Humble ISD
Another early settler to the area was a Civil War veteran from Louisiana named Pleasant Smith Humble. Pleasant Humble purchased part of the land originally owned by Joseph Dunman, and settled near the banks of the San Jacinto River. He took over operation of a ferry that had been in operation since the 1850s, and also ran a grocery store.
Over the next few years, more families moved into this northeastern part of Harris County. In 1873, just a few years after the conclusion of the Civil War, the earliest known school in the area was opened by Joseph W. Dunman (1824-1903), son of early settler Joseph Dunman. The school was called Joe Dunman's Schoolhouse, and was used as a polling place by the local citizens. The school was located on the Atascocita Road, just north of the present-day location of River Pines Elementary School. Joe Dunman's Schoolhouse was a privately-owned school. Students at the school were children of wealthier families in the area who could afford to pay for their children to be taught reading, math and classic literature. At the time, Texas had an ineffective public education system, and most children in Texas did not receive an education.
Growth of the Community
In 1875, Paul Bremond secured a contract to build a railroad from Houston to Louisiana. As the tracks were built through the woods of East Texas, sawmills opened along the trains right-of-way. Many sawmill communities developed and thrived along the railroad....including some in the Humble area. By April of 1877, 28 miles of track of the Houston East & West Texas Railway had been laid from Houston to New Caney. As the railway neared completion, and to generate funds, Bremond ran daily entertainment excursions for the citizens of Houston. In 1878, one popular excursion ran 19 miles from Houston to San Jacinto Springs, located on the north side of the San Jacinto River near present-day Hamblen Road. At San Jacinto Springs, Bremond's company provided dancing, fishing and swimming. These excursions introduced Houston residents to the natural beauty of this part of Harris County.
In 1876, the Texas legislature passed an updated constitution which increased the availability of schooling to more children across the state. The Constitution of 1876 resulted in the creation of more school communities across Harris County (a school community is akin to a small school district). The closest school community to the Humble area was established on the west side of the railroad tracks on December 22, 1876. Harris County School Community No. 13, the Durdin School Community, had only one school, called the Higgs School. The Higgs School was located on present-day Lee Road near FM 1960. Pleasant Humble was on the school board for the Durdin School Community. Strangely, residents in the area did not organize a school community around Joe Dunman's Schoolhouse on the east side of the railroad tracks. Joe Dunman's Schoolhouse continued to operate from 1876-1883 as a private school.
The first town-like community to develop in the area centered around the Lord and Noble sawmill on the east side of the railroad tracks. By 1882, Lord, Texas was an established community, consisting of four sawmills, livestock business, and a US Post Office. The Higgs School was the closet school to this community.
A school community was finally organized on the east side of the railroad tracks in 1883, called the Dunman School Community. Joe Dunman's Schoolhouse was the only school in that school community, and it reported a student population of 13 in 1883.
Harris County Common School Districts
In 1884, Texas passed the Common School Law, which provided for a system of county schools to be established across the state. All of Harris County was divided into county school districts, each with at least one school and a local school board. The law mandated separate schools for white students and colored students. It also mandated the teaching of writing, reading in English, penmanship, arithmetic, English grammar, modern geography, composition, and other subjects. The law established a taxation system to pay for the public schools, thereby providing a free education to all students living in each district (although there were still racial issues). The Common School Law of 1884 was the beginning of the current education system still in use in Texas.
The area on the east side of the railroad tracks was established as Harris County Common School District No. 28 (Dunman's School District). The district boundary was similar to today's boundary for Humble ISD. Joe Dunman's Schoolhouse was the only school in District No. 28. By 1886, the district had opened Joe Dunman's Schoolhouse No. 2 for colored students. This was a progressive step for District No. 28, since fewer than half of the Harris County school districts offered an education to colored students. The area on the west side of the railroad tracks, where the Higgs School was located, became Common School District No. 29. In 1935, District No. 29 became the Aldine Independent School District.
Two School Districts
As the community of Humble began to thrive around the railroad tracks, the residents wanted a school located closer to the town (Joe Dunman's Schoolhouse was located in the center of the district, far from the new community). In 1888, the residents petitioned to have District No. 28 split into two districts. The northern section remained as District No. 28 (Humble), and the southern section became a new district, District No. 35 (Dunman). Joe Dunman's Schoolhouse ended up in District No. 35, and was renamed as the Dunman's Prairie School. A new school called the West River School was built for District No. 28, on land donated by William Humble (son of Pleasant Humble). The West River School was located at the corner of Isaacks Road and Old Humble Road, where the Humble Cemetery is now located. The school for colored students was renamed to the Narrow Gauge School. In 1896, District No. 28 had a student population of 62 (27 at the West River School, 35 at the Narrow Gauge School), while District No. 35 had a student population of and 41 at the Dunman's Prairie School.
Superintendent #12 (2016 - today):
Dr. Elizabeth Fagen
Dr. Elizabeth Fagen joined Humble ISD in July 2016 as Superintendent. Born and raised in Iowa, she earned her bachelor's degree from William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and her doctoral and master's degrees and her education specialist degree from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Beginning as a high school biology and chemistry teacher, she progressed into positions as associate principal, principal, and executive director of high schools. Ultimately in Iowa, she became Associate Superintendent of Des Moines Independent School District. Dr. Fagen then spent the next 8 years of her career as a Superintendent, serving the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona and the Douglas County School District in Colorado.
Superintendent #11 (2001-2016):
Dr. Guy M. Sconzo
The current Superintendent of the Humble Independent School District is New York native Dr. Guy M. Sconzo. Dr. Sconzo was appointed Superintendent of Humble ISD in June 2001. He earned a Masters degree from New York University, and a PhD from Ohio State University. Under Dr. Sconzo's leadership, Humble ISD has grown from twenty-six campuses to over forty campuses, including the additions of the CATE center and the Instructional Support Center.
Superintendent #10 (1982-2001):
Dr. Michael W. Say
Dr. Michael W. Say, a native of Port Arthur, was elected Superintendent on April 13, 1982. He earned his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Houston. Prior to his employment with Humble, he was Superintendent of Instruction and Support Services for Houston Independent School District. In 1992, Dr. Say was named Superintendent of the Year for the Houston/Gulf Coast area. During his time as Superintendent, Humble ISD grew from thirteen campuses to twenty-six campuses, plus the addition of the Community Learning Center.
Superintendent #9 (1961-1982):
George E. Turner
A 1942 graduate of Charles Bender High School, George Emmitt Turner (1925-2002) was appointed Interim Superintendent upon the death of Dr. Floyd Burton. He officially became Superintendent in January, 1962. He led the district during years of rapid growth in the Kingwood and Atascocita areas. During George Turner's tenure as Superintendent, Humble ISD grew from four schools to thirteen schools.
Superintendent #8 (1942-1961):
Dr. Floyd Burton
Texas native Floyd Hayne Burton (1903-1961) earned his Doctorate degree in June, 1953. His starting salary was $2,700 per year, plus he was given use of the Superintendent's house. By 1956, his yearly salary was increased to $9,000. On September 12, 1961, Dr. Burton died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Under Dr. Burton's leadership the district grew from two schools (Bender HS and Humble Grammar Schools) to four schools (with the addition of Humble Elementary and Lakeland Elementary).
Superintendent #7 (1933-1942):
Frank William Allenson
A native of Kansas, Frank William Allenson (1898-1976) served as Principal of Charles Bender High School from 1930-1933. On April 14, 1933, he was elected to the office of Superintendent, a position he served in for nine years. During this time, the Humble schools were consolidated from five schools of low enrollment, to two schools: Charles Bender High School and the Humble Grammar School. He resigned as Superintendent, at the end of the 1941-1942 school year, to accept the position of Superintendent of the Brenham Public Schools.
Superintendent #6 (1930-1933):
Albert Guy Moseley
Albert Guy Moseley (1895-1942) was first hired as Principal of the Humble Grammar School for the 1926-1927 school year. The following year he became Principal of Humble High School. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Sam Houston State Teachers College. He had ten years experience as a teacher when he was elected as Superintendent of the Humble ISD on April 18, 1930. He served as Superintendent for 3 years.
Superintendent #5 (1925-1930):
Earl Kilbe Barden
A native of Indiana, Earl Kilbe Barden (1883-1950) was elected Superintendent of Humble ISD on May 26, 1925. He had previously been Superintendent of the public schools in Dayton, Texas. He was the first Humble Superintendent to be allowed to hire a secretary (to assist him in clerical work). In 1928, he served as President of the Southern Association of Teachers. He also served as Census Trustee for Humble ISD beginning in February, 1929. He resigned in 1930 to accept the position of Superintendent of the Sugar Land School District.
Superintendent #4 (1924-1925):
David Roberts Hibbetts
Texas native David Robert Hibbetts (1877-1969) was appointed Interim Superintendent for the 1924-1925 school year. He earned his Bachelors degree from Valparaiso University, and his Masters degree from the University of Texas in Austin. During his one year as Superintendent, he also taught German for the high school.
Superintendent #3 (1919-1924):
Edward Elbert Bagwell
A native of North Carolina, Edward Elbert Bagwell (1871-1947) was appointed Superintendent on May 29, 1919, during his 23rd year of teaching. He earned his Bachelors degree from the University of North Carolina. Beginning in 1922, he served as Census Trustee for the District. Humble ISD consisted of six schools at the time. He resigned in 1924 to accept the position of Superintendent for the public schools in Yorktown, Texas.
Superintendent #2 (1911-1919):
John Franklin Crawford
John Franklin Crawford (1860-1930), a native of Mississippi, was the Superintendent of Humble for 8 years. He also served as Principal of the Humble School 1911-1914. In 1917, his duties were expanded to include being the Corresponding Secretary of the School Board. He served as Superintendent of Common District No. 28 (1911-1918), then District No. 50 (when Districts 28 and 35 were combined in 1918), and finally for the Humble ISD when it was created in 1919. His supervision during the early years was crucial to the development of Humble ISD today. Crawford left Humble in 1919 to become the first superintedent of the Goose Creek ISD, where he served until 1924.
Superintendent #1 (1909-1911):
Daniel Henry Womack
Daniel Henry Womack (1867-1957), a native Texan, is the first known Superintendent of the Humble Schools. He served as the Superintendent of Harris County Common School District No. 28 (Humble), which consisted of two schools. In addition to being Superintendent, he also served as Principal of the Humble School in 1909 and 1910. He later became a university professor in Austin.
Humble ISD History provided by Dr. Robert Meaux


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Josephus wrote:I just didn't bother. I figured one of you would post the translation or the rightside up image, but no-one ever did.
Someone did, I think, but then took the image away.
And yes I did paste it in Paint Shop and flip it.
It's a reflection, not a rotation, by the way--thus maybe it really says "Where's Wonderstew?"
Josephus wrote:THE HA! AM BAK!
I don't think you can say MTG or L8R in one syllable
0x776F6F7421 wrote:I don't think you can say MTG or L8R in one syllable
gwp wrote:Yeah, and those beautiful cats have to put up with them too.
That's OK though. I hear this particular pair can't reproduce. (Or won't. Same difference.)
Not extinct yet, but SLIMIKIN PICKINGS
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Finally found time to enter this great contest.
Orcrist42 wrote:
Finally found time to enter this great contest.
Drought, I smell a Drought. ReRuns... MADm
Its that time again. We've shared joy, laughs, nostalgia, and a profound awareness of those entities which are quickly disappearing from our world. Now it is your turn to do your patriotic duty and vote in this the 53rd Dodgeball. Your contestants are:
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Look over the above entries carefully. Choose wisely and clog my PMs with votes for your top 3 individual entries! Please rank them 1 through 3 and they will be scored on a weighted scale. A winner will be announced in a timely manner after voting is completed. Voting continues until MIDNIGHT, November 7th (roughly 24 hours from now, give or take). Voting is open to any person, entity, personality, figment of imagination that has a woot account. Vote for your favorite, vote for someone who made you laugh, vote for someone you are secretly stalking.
Thank you all AND Happy Voting!
uman44 wrote:I just found out my college has Photoshop on all the computers... now I can waste a LOT more time. Like I said, its the transfer from mind to paper/screen that is the rough spot. I have lots of good ideas... just no medium by which to express them... but that will come with practice. [/seriousness]
more things for me to photoshop please!
Try Chop This! over in EBW. tis a great way to practice.
I did my part
Whoops... that should be tasmanian TIGER...
SkekTek wrote:
Whoops... that should be tasmanian TIGER...
which is actually more closely related to wolves than cats. Very nice!
ouch: Off topic/not pg-13/not sand
Sweet, just like I did to read it.
darthv8r wrote:not sand
Wait, those aren't sandbags??! Which dearly held childhood belief will be shattered next? The horror.
There is still plenty of time to vote! A rough tally of just the first place votes has a 4 way tie. Add in the other votes and it is still a close match! PM me your top 3 in ranked order AND tell me which entry they are for!
This game isn't over yet!
All these upside down votes, where did I put my copy of the bad day virus. . . ..
and the winner is???
brianw1957 wrote:and the winner is???
Patience is a virtue. . . .
KtCallista wrote:Patience is a virtue. . . .
...that most of us Wooters probably lack, judging by the attitudes and postings during Wootoffs ;)
Can I get that now?
What's with all the upside-down stuff?
no1 wrote:What's with all the upside-down stuff?
gwp wrote:
Mr. GWP,
Man, what ever happened to English? Or even just the regular alphabet?
Did Dr. J ever contact you? I think he wants a counter in his sig that tallies his derby votes.
good one for Daj
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UK Music Fans Legally Able to Rip Music From CD Soon
Even many, many people do it–and programs like iTunes include the capability to do so–it is technically illegal for citizens in the UK to rip music from CD to be used on MP3 players. That is set to change soon however, as Music Week reports that the UK government is planning to reform copyright laws, with Business Secretary Vince Cable saying that it is "not only common sense but good business sense."
The new measures will allow the copying of music for personal use, parody and for teachers to use in educational purposes. However, songwriters are criticizing the plans, claiming that their music can be copied and replicated without permission from artists. They are calling upon the Government to introduce a levy paid by music-playing device manufacturers called an "iPod tax." Musicians' Union general secretary John Smith said of the news, "We feel strongly that the lack of fair compensation will significantly disadvantage creators and performers in relation to the vast majority of their EU counterparts."


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Join with us and tell the Governor's Office to release the Water Supply Master Plan to keep our drinking water safe.
Good planning and good policy are key to protecting our clean water . . .
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text: Tulsa, Oklahoma has placed a bid for the 2024 summer Games. Tulsa is, admittedly, a long shot. They lack the required number of hotel rooms, and the price of the games is, according to the NY Times, "...more than half the state budget." They'd also be the smallest city to host in the modern era. However, what Tulsa says they do have going for them in a major way is space. Frontier as far as the eye can see. The likelihood of the US even getting a finalist, though, is not good: Tulsa plans to hold their games just before July, earlier than normal, to avoid both tornado season and their extremely hot summers. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/s...lsa-a-mid-american-olympic-dream.html?hp&_r=0


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Snowboarding Forum - Snowboard Enthusiast Forums (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/forum.php)
- Mervin (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/mervin/)
- - Review / let down by Lib Tech Skunk Ape HP (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/mervin/73074-review-let-down-lib-tech-skunk.html)
Review / let down by Lib Tech Skunk Ape HP
The good parts:
Love, love how it rides. Came from a burton custome camber. Took a day to get used to the rocker but it was well worth it. All the hype is true: easy to lift in powder, switches/turns beautifully, magnatraction keeps you on your line.
If it wasn't for what I'm about to write below I'd be a live-long lib tech buyer
The bad bits:
The bio bean top sheet is terrible. It gets cut to ribbons by anything that touches it. It's too soft. You're left with chunks missing and sharp burs. Actually ruined my new gloves, all the nicks ripped my gloves carrying the board around (maybe the only thing softer than the top sheet is your gloves and jacket that it'll rip holes in.
Even worse, the core snapped at the nose. Note sure which happened first, the break in the core or the creases in the top sheet - which could have lead to weakening the compressive strength.
End result:
I don't trust bio bean top sheets. Not sure i want another LT board because of this. Which is a shame because I was loving it.
Not idea if the nose/core snapping was a bad piece of wood or a reflection of all their boards. The skunk ape HP is meant to be for big guys, I'm not good enough to b jumping off mountains, I'm on piste and popping a few basic tricks - there's no reason this plank should have snapped.
I'll post a pic when I figure out how to
Oh. I'd love to hear about anyone else's view on LT's bio top sheets and board strength.
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I'm not trying to defend Lib, no one makes a perfect product. But seems like no boards could hold up to the abuse your putting them thru. Nicks in the topsheet are normal for any board, if you had burrs you could have cut em off. And there is no core in the tips and tails of Libs boards. So if you snapped it before the curve on the nose you may have core damage, but the way you described it sounds like not.
To post a pic host it somewhere else like flicker then post like this [img]copy http here[/img]
I'm curious to see what your actually talking about.
Thanks for the reply, I think you might have misread what I've used it for. This happened 4 days into first using it. I ride on pisted blues. Not good enough to be doing anything crazy.
Regarding the burrs. My last board was in better topsheetcondition after 10 weeks of use. Yes i could have cut the burrs off (and carried a knife with me), but my board would like my board was used as a chew toy for a shark. The bio beans doesn't seems like a suitable material for general commercial use.
Also not having an edge around the nose is a let down, I got a massive gash in base at the nose when I clipped someone's ski.
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Not having a wrap around edge is good, You would be paying more to fix it if you bent the edge when you hit that skier. That gash is easy and cheap to fix, if you hit hard enough to make a big gash you probably would have caved in the edge. Again a pic would help tons.
And you have a knife at home do you not?
I have honestly have not really heard anything good or bad about the bio beans topsheet. But I trust Mervin knows what they are doing with their technology.
Here's the pics. I should have taken a recent one before I returned it to the store to show the two creases met
I've emailed lib tech. Told them about my experience. That've taken it to my local store where I bought it (who are returning it to LT for me).
Of the two bad things, I'd like to split them up and view them like this.
More than happy to try another one of their boards as they ride great.
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Woah those pics are fucked up. Definitely seems like a manufacturing flaw or something. Hope it all works out good for you.
I have a lib from 07 with the golden fleece topsheet and there is almost no damage to it. Just had a bit of delamming on the tail from slamming on it and a few tiny chips on the topsheet.
Glad it sounds like a fault and not the norm. Want to love their boards.
Should have taken a pic from the side that shows the layers separating (I.e. th gap forming between the top sheet and the gap forming between the bottom and middle sheet.)
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Junior Tennis – (members & non-members welcome) Thousands of kids have learned the game of tennis at BHC. Taught by USPTA certified professionals teaching the NEW USTA Junior Quick Start program making it easier and more fun than ever for your child to learn the game of tennis. BHC offers classes for children as young as 3 years of age. Click Here for the Newest Program BrochureYy
Beverly Hills Swim School- (members & non-members) Teaching children water-safety and to swim since 1989. Thousands of children have learned to swim at BHC, with the Red Cross Learn-to-Swim program. This program has over 90 years of history teaching lifesaving and recreational skills in the water. Our certified instructors teach tots with parents as young as 6 months of age safety skills in the water. Infants and children
of all ages can learn to swim in our group swim program with small class sizes or in a private or semi-private lesson. Click Here for the Newest Program Brochure.
KidzWorld- (free for members) This is a fun, safe, well supervised place for your kids, ages 6 weeks and older, while you workout. Click here for KidzWorld information.
Xrkade- This fun arcade style fitness center for kids offers all the modern day fun of gaming with the fun of exercise. Kids have so much fun they do not even realize the good the activities are doing for them. Click here for Xrkade information.
Kids Parties- (members & Non-members) Birthday Parties are a hit at BHC, choose from many types and options to make this a fun event your child and their friends will remember. Click for more info on Kids Parties.
Bar/Bat Mitzvahs at Beverly Hills Club offer the fun of an all out kids party plus a we transform the club into an atmosphere for perfect for evening for adults and kids– NOW THAT's A MITZVAH! Click to for Bar/Bar Mitzvah information.
Summer Camps- (members & non-members) Summer is so much fun for kids and juniors that attend our BHC Summer Camps. Safety Camp, Baton and Dance, Swim Lessons, Tennis Camps, Adventure Camps, Extreme Camps. Art Camps, Boys Only Camps, Martial Arts and so much more. Click Here for Summer Camp Brochure.
Kids Fall/Winter/Spring Programs- (members & non-members) Sports, Kid's, Fitness, Choi Kwon Do, Dance, Art and Kid's Nite Out. We even have new classes for toddlers to 5 year olds! Click Here for the Newest Program Brochure.
School Year Camps- (members & non-members) Whether school is in- out or in session, BHC offers a variety of camps throughout the whole school year. School Break Camps, Snow Day Camps, and Tennis Camps! Click Here for the Newest Program Brochure.