this was just forwarded to me at work

[Baliset]

Mark Your Calendars For This Saturday!!!


As You May Already Know, It Is A Sin For A Taliban Male To See Any Woman
Other Than His Wife Naked, And That He Must Commit Suicide If He Does.


So This Saturday At 4 P.m. Eastern Time, All American Women Are Asked To
Walk Out Of Their House Completely Naked To Help Weed Out Any Neighborhood
Terrorists. Circling Your Block For One Hour Is Recommended For This
Anti-terrorist Effort.


All Men Are To Position Themselves In Lawn Chairs In Front Of Their Houses
To Prove They Are Not Taliban, And To Show Support For All American Women.


And Since The Taliban Also Do Not Approve Of Alcohol, A Cold 6-pack At Your
Side Is Further Proof Of Your Anti-taliban Sentiment.


The American Government Appreciates Your Efforts To Root Out Terrorists And
Applauds Your Participation In This Anti-terrorist Activity.


God Bless America. It Is Your Patriotic Duty To Pass This On.

 

[FuSoYa]

Sat Feb 07

AM Rain 43°/17° 70 %

 

[0sm0se]

This is by far the cleverest way I have seen yet to importune easily impressional females into stripping down and walking around naked. I applaud this patriot for his knowledge of the enemy and ways to either shake his beliefs with some beautiful bodies or make him off himself. Seriously, killing is so much work, it would be so nice to just sit there and watch them do it as opposed to doing all the work yourself.

 

[avi]

 

[xfer]

1. Tucson porn-proprietor Tyrone Henry wants you to know that blowing your load on the faces of blindfolded, underage girls who think they're participating in a facial cream marketing study is not fraud or any other crime, no matter what the Arizona Court of Appeals said last month. He also wants you to know he was framed.

Whether he did it or not, he's serving a seven-year sentence because of the creative legal work of a Pima County prosecutor, Brad Roach

In the summer of 2000, Roach was assigned to prosecute Tyrone Henry after two teenage girls said he lured them to his home to try out a product called "White Dew" facial cream he was developing. Instead of exfoliation, they said they got ejaculation.

The girls, 15 and 16 years old at the time, said Henry showed them examples of women with "clumpy" white cream on their faces and then blindfolded them. The girls said they heard heavy breathing and Henry say, "It's coming," and then felt a thick, warm substance applied to their faces. They said he took photos, paid them $10 a piece and convinced them to make follow-up appointments. Thinking about it later, they realized they'd been hoodwinked and called the police.

Roach admits the hardest part of the case was figuring out what charge he could hang on Henry. It wasn't sexual assault because he didn't touch the girls sexually, and they didn't touch him. And it wasn't indecent exposure because the girls were blindfolded.

"It was fascinating," Roach said. "I don't want to say it was a once-in-a-lifetime case, but it's only once in awhile do you get something this bizarre."

In the end, the only charge Roach could get to stick was "fraudulent scheme and artifice." The Division II of the Arizona Court of Appeals concluded that Roach had made the right decision, knocking down Henry's appeal.

"It was a huge loophole," Roach said. "No one in the Legislature had ever thought of it. It's not the sort of crime that had come up before."



2. Why the over-capitalization? Seriously? Nathan's got a heavily capitalized song or two in his liner notes, and I studied them for a while trying to figure out if there was a secret reason.

 

[FuSoYa]

wtg is #2?

 

[xfer]

you mean you agree with me about capitalization? or you don't know what I'm talking about?

 

[FuSoYa]

oh 2 was your own comment? i thought it was part of the article you pasted.

i bet greg's email just came in all caps and when he pasted it in, the board UM-ified it

 

[xfer]

aha! good call.

but even outside the board i do notice people capping every word in a whole paragraph/message (sometimes song lyric post) a lot. is that an emphasis technique? it takes so much effort i don't think it can be accidental.

 

[Autumn Falls]

I think the capitalization of every word is quite annoying as well. Unnatural and stiff... or something.

 

[xfer]

i think that's a leftover from impressions of Elizabethan English (like in Pynchon's Mason and Dixon), where every other word was capped up.

 

[kleo706]

Odd things one does in certain cases in written English can become universal for certain writers. Take the tendency to pluralize using "'s." From the conversations I had with some practitioners of that, they seemed confused as to what "'s" meant, never mind how to use it properly. Then there's comma usage. Some writers will get told they could do with a couple more and proceed to splice like mad or place them after every nth word.

 

[The Dope]

People who use "'s" to pluralize don't deserve to be called writers. They are butchers.