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Valentine Repercussions

KtLW has left me and I'm at a loss to explain why...

Taxes are up again this quarter and she told me we had to cut back on expenses--I had to give up drinking beer. Now, contrary to the *persona* I normally use here, I'm not a big drinker. At most, I'll do four or five beers on a Saturday afternoon.

So I gave up beer.

But I noticed the other day when she came home from an expedition to the mall with her girlfriends, one of the receipts included $85 for makeup.

I said, "Wait a minute--I've given up beer and you haven't given up anything!"

She replied, "I buy that makeup for you, so I can look pretty for you."

I said, "Well, geez--that's what the *beer* was for!"

I don't think she'll be back...

Heh. Tip of the flight helmet with the ding from the AK round to OB.

23 Comments

Well hell, why didn't you say beer was tight? We zombies wouldn't drink as much outta the garage firdge. Good thing KtLW don't blog, Bill. I can imagine she'd split your scalp over this one.
 
Oh... one can only hope.....
 
*snort* *stepping around the minefield vewwy vewwy cawefuwwy.*
 
KtLW has difficulty with the concept of the 'net. From what I gather, she thinks that anything other than the the Food Network or e-mail is a chat room, a pr0n site or both. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Nah.
 
Heh...so, bill, what you really wanted to say was the beer was for KtLW to drink.
 
I'm just thinking about how much beer 85 bucks can buy...
 
Hee! Whenever beer comes up, we can always rely on *that* to bring MaryAnn-im-Deutschland out of lurker status!
 
Yeah--MaryAnn's having wistful thoughts of a beer-bust for the PH awardees stuck in Landstuhl. I could go for that idea...
 
Damn! Busted!
 
I'm available for beer-wench duty at Landstuhl.
 
You're on. As soon as the weather gets nicer we'll be expecting you for our monthly picnics at the outpatient barracks in K-town.
 
Heh. *Now* who's busted? *ggggrrrr-akakakakakakakak!* %$#@! Down, PG-17c, you li'l ankle-biting thesaurustic-headed construct!
 
Picnics, Bill, picnics. You know, paper plates, potato salad, coupla beers, that type of thing. You have an overactive imagination.
 
The problem isn't Bill, it's the bassid who sabotaged (I blame Rove) the PG-17C.
 
Now why would Rove go after the PG-17C. That would just get us to the PG-17D faster and I doubt he'd prefer D over C. Unless, of course, provides more demonstrable silliness that quickly moves us on the E or Q or something.
 
Uhhhhh, Punc? Wouldn't demonstrable silliness run "Q" "E" "D"...? Heh.
 
Quality Education Data Inc? Prolly.
 
Or would that be quantum effect device?
 
*sigh* Quid. Erat. Demonstrandum. Demonstrable? Hencely, whencely, thusly, ergo, q.e.d.? Tsk. What would Renny Daycart say about this...
 
Not to be confused with q.e.f., of course. But I'm lost on the PG-17 stuff, being new around here and all...
 
MaryAnn - the PG-17C is the third iteration of the Comments Moderation 'Bot built by Bad Cat Robot Laboratorys, Inc. BCR Labs built the original PG-17 to maintain ratings control here at the Castle, so that Argghhh! would not get blocked by Net Nanny-style software, as well as to maintain an even strain by imposing some measure of decorum, taste, and elegance to the Castle. The fact that we are on Model C says something, um, well, it says something. The PG-17 reminds people that entendre' and witty bon mots are preferable to f*ck, sh*t, c*cks*cking b@st@rd, etc, in the comments. Sometimes the PG-17C manifests itself as substituted characters, elided words, or even comments gone missing if they are irreparable. The PG-17C also has email access, and will sometimes send admonitory notes to offenders, especially when the "attack the message, not the messenger" Rulez are violated in raging comment discussions. In dire need, the PG-17C also has authority to turn off comments altogether, to either fend off a Moonbat Attack, or to force fighters to their corners for reflection. The PG-17C is the Conscience (and a somewhat schoolmarmish one, because this group needs it) of Argghhh! and serves to keep this place from becoming like Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, LGF, or the Rottweiler's place as naughty-word flame wars develop there all the time - and in the Armorer's mind, that is *very* distracting and unpleasing to the Armorer's eye. It keeps our traffic down because we aren't as entertaining on some levels, but it also keeps this a place where you can have some fun, talk some serious stuff without Moonbats of either side whacking on you (or the PG-17C will at least drive them off), and you can be a little naughty, too. Just ask Were-Kitten. Kinda like Cheers, "where everybody knows your name," there's lots of good natured (and ribald) ribbing that takes place - but the Armorer prefers ribaldry to be clever, not crude. If it descends to the point of "Get a Room" there is the Jungle Room, a euphemism for take it to IM or email or something, but don't start banging each other in the comments, please. All that said, someone uploaded a farking euphemism dictionary into the PG-17C and sometimes it gets schizo because it knows you're being naughty, but you aren't quite breaking the Rulez. It gets very nervous, because the little fella really is quite dedicated to his job. For some reason, this happens to Bill a lot. Neffi, too.
 
*Click* Ahhh... Thanks.
 
I think somebody downloaded a Harlequin novel bodice-ripper into the euphemism thesaurus, too... I mean, c'mon--*busted* fer *ggggrrrrr-akakakakakakakakakakak!* Okay--that's it. *nab* Time to re-install the Roget's...
 
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