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2018-07-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Tyranysaurus Ulaise3834 2018-07-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 A bus stop. A lady. A dasher.
She's holding an old fashioned slasher.
I keep her in view
As we two form a queue
And am not a bit tempted to flash her.

Of course, that was back when a gal could walk the street with an open straight razor from one end of the Empire to the other without a buncha g.dd.mn busybodies whipping out their cellphones... seems like yesterday but it might as well be "Old Creole Days." Sigh.

Posted by Pearl Shose2904 2018-07-17 02:37|| 2018-07-17 02:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Wasn't where a call for womyn to "kill their rapists" a few days ago?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-17 04:18|| 2018-07-17 04:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Judging from the picture, you have to assume she was an (unfortuntately, HARD)target of opportunity,

Two thoughts occur:

1) Odd that the Saramento Bee posted her photo, but not his, and

2) Benjamin Franklin had things to say about older women, though clearly our miscreant misjudged the level of gratitude available in this case.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-07-17 05:11|| 2018-07-17 05:11|| Front Page Top

#4 You know the old saying - she's got a face for radio.

Posted by Raj 2018-07-17 05:15|| 2018-07-17 05:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm pretty sure both should go to a jury trial.

The flasher obviously if proven.

The woman wasn't acting in self defense.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-07-17 05:44|| 2018-07-17 05:44|| Front Page Top

#6 And there, BP, you have the age-old dichotomy between law and justice.

Posted by Tyranysaurus Ulaise3834 2018-07-17 08:31|| 2018-07-17 08:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Benny Hill on older women: "They don't yell, they don't tell and they're grateful as hell."

This particular case excluded...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-17 08:47|| 2018-07-17 08:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Now that I am actually awake, the following true story comes to mind, as told by Mr. Wife’s elderly Aunt Beadie about her best friend. Aunt Beadie was not really related to the family, but lived next door; she shared the copious fruits of her baking, and Mr. Wife’s father mowed her lawn with as much care as he mowed his own.

At any rate, Aunt Beadie’s friend worked for a 7-Eleven as a cashier ringing up snacks and gasoline to supplement her Social Security check, not having been married to a provident union agitator like Aunt Beadie’s husband had been, and in fact never having been married at all.

One evening, while she was working alone, a gentleman dressed in a stylish raincoat came in to get some snacks. She quietly admired the raincoat, it being very much a baseball jacket kind of neighbourhood where the gentlemen’s ideas of stylishness had always run in a very different direction. Up the stylish gentleman came to the counter behind which she stood next to her cash register, laying down in turn a can of corn and his instrument of delight. The poor dear, utterly flustered by the new experience, picked up the can and smashed it down on the unexpected thing, with exactly the result that can be imagined. The stylish gentleman, naturally, fainted dead away.

He came to just as the friendly policeman was putting him in handcuffs. “Next time, son,” quoth Officer Friendly, ”be smart and buy a loaf of bread.”

Our current miscreant got off easy, though it took his target a little longer to complete her response.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-07-17 09:29|| 2018-07-17 09:29|| Front Page Top

#9 That is a great story!

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-17 10:16|| 2018-07-17 10:16|| Front Page Top

#10 suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police wrote.

"Her face"

Posted by Frank G 2018-07-17 11:06|| 2018-07-17 11:06|| Front Page Top

#11 That is a great story!

Truly, Skidmark. Aunt Beadie died almost three decades ago, leaving us with a few homemade Christmas decorations and the memory of being helpless with laughter when she told that tale to my darling, ladylike mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and me as we sat around her kitchen table.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-07-17 19:58|| 2018-07-17 19:58|| Front Page Top

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