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One Up: U.S. fires missile at toxic satellite.
One Down: Meteor came close but didn’t hit.
Stay Down: Longer idle for unemployed.
Touchdown: Torture flights secretly used British airstrips.
Something to Talk About: The right is revolting over this McCain story.
Budget Cutter: “I hope I never said we’d save $1 billion.”
Ribbon Cutter: Federal Way favoring ceremonial mayor.
Cookie Cutter: Four board games for silver screen.
Talks Putter: Some see progress in Kenya, others don’t.
Investment Shudder: King County loses millions.
Plagiarism Accusations Are the New Black: First Obama and now the “noose” professor.
Middle Class: Stanford provides discounts on tuition.
Less Trash: Seattle proposal for recycling.
More Cash: Seattle prices inflating.
From Popularity Plus: Good Manners for Young Moderns, by Sally Simpson. Copyright 1947.
URGED TO GO?Urged to go where parents say no? It can be rugged.
You’re double dating and someone suggests the Kute Kat Cocktail Bar. For you, this is strictly off the reservation.
In many states it’s actually illegal for teeners to frequent cafes. Perhaps the Kute Kat is ready and willing to admit minors. But you and your parents are law-abiding citizens, aren’t you?
Even when there’s no state statute, your parent’s word is the law. The place your pals have picked may have an unsavory reputation. It may be a super-sophisticated spot where you’ll be gossip-bait.
Whatever the reason for you family’s thumbs-down, it can create a shattering situation. If you moan about mom’s injustice, you’ll let yourself in for temptation: the what-Mom-doesn’t-know-won’t-hurt-her line. If you sulk and pout, you’ll be tagged a poor sport.
Let’s face it: you’ll have to use all your tact, but cheerfully. Try suggesting another place. And make with real enthusiasm about its superior food and fun and music. Or invite the crowd over to hear the platters and raid the icebox.
Strictly "off the reservation".
Heh.
Shouldn't it be the Kute Kat Kocktail bar? aka the KKK bar?
meh. it is safer to stay home and smoke grass. I'm sure there is a negroe or mexican nearby that will sell some to you...
Laws are stupid.
Wouldn't want to go anywhere super-sophisticated, after all.
Inflation sucks.
Sally Simpson sounds like a real prude. If I want a date that safe I'll take my aunt.
Didn't Nada Surf pull a song out of this book?
Gossip-bait! That's me.
The US military managed to hit a target that wasn't a classroom full of Iraqi children?
It's a freakin' miracle!
When Sally wants a drink, she doesn't want any jail bait stinking up the place. Who would?
They hit that satellite by putting the missle for "wedding party" mode.
I don't want "the crowd" to hear my platters or raid my icebox. Bastards.
@9 - yeah, but they knew the exact trajectory, speed, and had a clear lock signal ... these "intercepts" are always fixed in some manner.
That said, people had way more fun watching the lunar eclipse last night.
"Michael Bay and his Platinum Dune production company are signed on as producers for a Ouija project, and David Berenbaum has signed on to write a draft of a script. He said Hasbro is in negotiations with Ridley Scott on Monopoly."
Fucking. Kill. Me.
Yeah, I don't see how a movie based on Stretch Armstrong could be anything other than a steaming turd. And Clue? They already did a Clue movie. Why bring that back again?
shit
i just lost my job yesterday...then again this storys from the rust belt...that place has been on the decline for awhile now....anyone know of anyone looking for a hard worker willing to work long hours for little pay?
whoo! beer and doctors still under the national curve!
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