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Oh, etoile. JUST when everybody had almost forgotten about slavery, you had to go and bring it up again and remind everybody it happened. Listen, if I happen to like nice things and Black people can be employed to deliver them to me, then it's win-win, right? You need a spa day, my dear. There's a lovely colored girl down at mine who files off foot callouses. It IS to die.

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This thread is delightfully mad.

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Namo, you got anyone who can lance a butt boil? I got it bad, and that ain't good.

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SueleenGay, I though that butt boils were an occupational hazard of being a whore? You mean you can get them just by talking about whores on Broadway? Wow, the magic of theater.

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Well there's magic in that too.

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Some of you really seem to enjoy making up stories to make someone else look bad. If I may I will clarify a few things only because I do not want things that I did not say attributed to me.

"I'm what I would consider a successful modeling agent and NONE of my gals would ever have, so much as a third of the time you (clearly), have on your hands. Me thinks you should be out on go-see's rather than sitting around here waiting for your next booking."

Yes I do have a lot of time on my hands lately to hang around here and play. I never said I AM a model I said I WAS a model. I am in my thirties so that career was over a few years ago. Being a modeling agent you are aware that the career ends early except for the very few who reach Super model status. I did not.

"Listen, if I happen to like nice things and Black people can be employed to deliver them to me, then it's win-win, right?"

Is this some dig about my mentioning having a cleaning person? Yes I am one of those rare strange people who do not like to do housework so I have someone come in a few days a week to do it for me. I dare say that anyone who had the choice would do the same. Is she slave labor? Hardley since I pay her more than any of her other clients because she is depenable and is a very trustworthy person. She didn't come to my home in chains and shackles. She came to an agency that I did some work for which is supposed to help women in bad situations get back on their feet and I helped her start her own cleaning service using that filthy money of mine. Yes shallow little me does give her time to battered women and people with AIDS. I guess you would say it keeps me in touch with the commoners.

"You need a spa day, my dear."

That was an attempt to use humor toward someone who attacked me unprovoked.

The whole Scooby Doo thing that you keep mentioning was simply that I took my daughter to see the show. Maybe I should have brought her to Macbeth but she was six and wanted to see that show. I was simply trying to say that for a childrens show I found it to be done very profesionally done which I had not expected.

For the record I do not even own a set of pearls. The only diamond I have is my engagement ring and the only other thing I wear is an inexpensive Timex watch given to me on mothers day years ago by my daughter who picked it out herself with three dollars she had saved and rest coming from my mother who took her shopping. It is more valuable to me than a Rolex.

Anything I have, I earned. I will not say worked for as modeling really isn't hard work and doesn't benefit anyone's life but my own. But I earned it myself and did so honestly.

"(which she's not ready for yet, so she's gonna concentrate on movies and modeling)"

Yes I am an actress like many others here. I have had a couple of jobs as an extra like many others here. I never claimed to be a star. And no I am not ready to be on a stage if the opportunity arises. I am afraid of acting in front of a live audience. What is the problem with that? Why is that so strange and amusing to you?

Now go ahead and take everything I said and add your own twist to it. Your not the first people to laugh at me and probably not the last. Bring it on. It doesn't bother me. Just don't put words into my mouth that I never said.

Papa, you're reading things wrong. This is the poor manipulation by victimization phase.

But on a high note, The Wiggles are touring again.

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Is it just me or is the Pirate kinda hot?
And yes, this thread is so divinely incoherent, it's downright Pynchon-ian!

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Updated On: 7/8/04 at 02:00 PM

Borstalboy, I think the pirate is way hot. What he's doing in the group, I have no idea. But once years ago I was visiting a haunted house attraction called "Captain Scurvey's Haunted Lagoon" and the guy playing the Captain was a tall, furry, latern jawed dreamboat. Since then, I've had a thing for pirates.

BstnDldo, I never read a post about you having a cleaning person! But isn't it funny how if you write to type you end up being more times than not even more accurate than you know?

Anyway, since you mentioned your often-thwarted desire to expand your knowledge base, I hereby recommend a really good book for you. (Don't be put off by the word "book." Books are kind of like Vogue but they don't have perfume sample strips and are sometimes a little bit heavier.) The book is called "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" and it's by the author Barbara Ehrenreich.

It's extrememly enlightening and has a fantastic chapter on cleaning service companies. Why, "Nickel and Dimed" was EVEN turned into a stage play, but I'm sure you wouldn't have opted to see it if you had heard about it since it involved women telling their stories. And the stories weren't all pretty. And you seem to have disdain for women other than those you can compare notes on conspicuous consumption with. All the rest of them are just jealous bitches you must have beaten for a job as an extra on a movie, est-ce que j'ai raison?
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Hmm. All of those adjectives are precisely why I like some of these posters.

>Wow...methinks the diva doth protest too much. If you look >back, not once have I accused you of being Paul W. I'm not >exactly sure where you would get me assuming you were Paul from >calling your posts "combative, obnoxious, rude and poorly >informed."

That's the amazing thing, oh successful model and movie extra, she ISN'T one of those women. (I do however know JUST the type you mean to demean.) She even has a HUSBAND! And a comfortable upper-middle class existence. What she did while researching the book, however, was to live for extended periods of time AS IF SHE DIDN'T HAVE MONEY. OR THINGS! (I know, I know, just breathe into a paper bag if that concept is making you hyperventilate!)

She's smart enough to acknowledge that in the back of her mind she KNEW she had a safety net but she did go a WHOLE YEAR without using her credit cards and living on her own. And she found out what it was like to actually try to survive (I'm talking housing, food, transportation and NO EXTRAS like the pamering you deserve after earning [not working hard for, in your own words] your money) as, among other things, a hired gun for one of those cleaning services you describe.

You should read it. Try maybe a paragraph a day. Buy it cheap on Amazon, that way you won't have to touch anything dirty at the libary.

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Updated On: 7/8/04 at 03:44 PM

Don't fight the Namo. To fight the Namo is to lose.

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"The problem being, what? Or am I being overly sensitive to the shoe reference?"

Not a thing wrong with them if that is what you like. I just think a nice heel gives the leg a longer sleeker look that is more attractive.