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What (or who) decides what items on this index gets moved? Are there guide lines? Once I had a question about liposuction and it was moved to a different forum. Ok, maybe this doesn't seem to be a typical "gay" topic, but when I read some of the topics remain (such as which hotel, restaurant to go to... which bar is the worse...) I wonder what the criterial is.
... from the narrations under the Forum topics. Anything about Thailand, including but not exclusively gay "activities" in Thailand, are in Gay Thailand. Any other "gay" topics will be in Any Other Country. Everything else (including liposuction) belong the "everything else" Forum, known as Global. People who want a bitchfest about how the Board is run can go to Posting Guidelines & Discussion. If you take the time to read the narrations rather than the short description, it's obvious. Needless to say we still have our simpler members who object to topics about Thailand being in "Gay Thailand" (posters in my schoolboy chum Herbert Gusset vein) indignantly demanding "What has this to do with gay Thailand?"
-Looks like I pinched someones nerve :bounce: :bounce:
Don't worry about it, he's dead from the neck up and won't feel a thing !! :cheese:Quote:
Originally Posted by thrillbill
I'll get over it. The post falls into the same category as posters who ask questions like "What airlines fly from the international airport to Phuket?" when the information is readily available on the Thai Airlines site, or ask almost any other question that can be answered by a quick googleQuote:
Originally Posted by thrillbill
-- No, you're wrong. My question was not one that could have been answered by Google.
There's no fool like a damn fool. That was not my point. What I was saying was, more generally, Open Your Eyes. Put Brain Into Gear Before Leaping Into Print. The answer to your question was on the Index page if you had bothered to read it, just as the answer to other people's questions can be found by some very simple research. However most people seem to be too lazy or too stupid to use what tools we have, and instead post damn fool questions like "Does anyone know know many testicles the average monk has?" or "What's the difference between each Forum?"Quote:
Originally Posted by thrillbill
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Originally Posted by homintern
Incompetence, homintern ! :clown:
His own?... Or?Quote:
Originally Posted by homintern
Most people don't know there are many, many churches in Las Vegas or that many gamblers toss casino chips into the collection plates--Or... that there is a religious order devoted entirely to sorting and returning them to the casinos for cash:
They are THE CHIP MONKS! :pop:
Nice one Edith. Never had an "average" monk. One eyed monks are a completely different matter.
I have no idea about the testicular status of monks, but we can be fairly sure about the Pope.
From the Chronicle of Adam of Usk, written in 1404 and here describing part of the ceremony involved at the coronation of new popes when (in light of fears that a woman might disguise herself as a man in order to be elected pope [see Wikipedia entry on "Pope Joan"]), a suitable precaution was taken...
"...the pope, dismounting from his horse, enters the Lateran for his enthronement. And there he is seated in a chair of porphyry, which is pierced beneath for this purpose - that one of the younger cardinals may make proof of his sex. And then, while a Te Deum is chanted, he is borne to the high altar..."
What fun!
What an interesting find Marsilius . . . never heard of that particular Catholic neuroticism (coming from within a Church loaded to the hilt ~ or in this instance, the kilt ~ with such peculiarities), and a good find to keep in the back of one's mind in case a good obscure analogy is needed for the Members of the Board.
I have little doubt that 'Adam of Usk' will be the next great inspired handle taken up by some new Member (so to speak :blackeye: ).
Cheers ...
And what is the difference between a priest and an acne pimple? It's obvious. A boy usually reaches the age of 14 before an acne pimple comes on his faceQuote:
Originally Posted by Edith
"There Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing, Baby!" AKA the, 'And People think I'm nuts!' Department.
Dem Popes, Dem Popes, Dem Dry Popes: :pop: *
In the 15th century, or thereabouts, Pope Urban (Ur'-ban) the something-or-other (Methinks would, more appropriately, be pronounced Ur-ban'--But perhaps was not because Urban had bats in her turban.) banned smoking because ... BECAUSE ... she said smoking causes sneezing--And sneezing is the closest one comes (I refuse to stoop to the impolite, 'cums.') to a sexual experience. :sex:
The ban was lifted a hundred years later. Perhaps because during the interval many discovered it was a piss-poor substitute for the real thing--But, more likely because Raliegh brought real tobacco back from his travels and they could stop smoking sheep shit rolled up in tin foil (That was a line in an old lana Turner movie--I don't remember the name of the movie but she said it to Retardo Montalaban.) ... or the Phillip Moris company put a bribe in\explained what a cash cow tobacco would be tax-wise. Anyway, by that time the trendy were smoking AFTER sex when the damage, (AKA: 'Fun'.), was already done.
*Sorry, couldn't find a pic of old Urbby, best (Or worst, depending on how you look at it.) I could do was an emoticon of old Pussy the 12th whose namesakes, Pussy 6 & 9, had banned noisemakers and chewing gum at orgys. While well intended, rather redundant.
Which reminds me: In the vestabule of St. Patrick's Cathedral, there was once an ornate glass case containing a life-size wax likeness of Old Pussy-by-the-Dozen. A queen I knew went crazy, one Saturday afternoon, trying to find where to put a dime to get her fortune told! I offered to take her to 42nd Street but she said it was raining and she was wearing her beat open-showed twos. What one had to do with the other, I've never quite understood.
My retirement job is to conduct tours around the 25 or 26 churches and cathedrals dotted throughout the Mediterranean, each of which claims to have as a holy relic the True ForeskinQuote:
Originally Posted by Edith
As the (rest of) the foreskin story goes; Lord Elgin ... Lord Lovaduck ... some Lord, bought one of those Jesus ones at auction and one that was claimed to be that of St. Peter and another touted as that of John the Baptist.Quote:
Originally Posted by homintern
Lordy set them out, on the coffee table, in an ornate satin-lined gold display box.
The next afternoon, he was having a drinks party.
The Arch Bishop of Canterbury, being first to arrive, thought they were cocktail peanuts.
His Holiness ate one of them.
And told M'lud it was not only gauche but rather silly of him to show his nuts off so; "They are old and dried up and should be removed at once!"