A blonde was asked "What's the difference between a nail, a screw and a bolt?"

She replied "I don't know - I've never been bolted"...

OMG! I have never seen this thread slip to the second page.

Is everyone working at Todd's campaign headquarters?

Hey Nams,

Todd's libertarian spirit doesn't match his spending liberalism. He prohibited all computers, paper spend, phones, ad. This is going to be the cheapest campaing in USA history.

larousse,

I see your second president was sworn in as president of his parallel government. Does this mean they have to build a new casa blanca or will he just set up his tent right next to the old one? I gotta tell you that, from the outside, Obrador looks like he is a couple of tamales shy of a buffet.

I guess he'll settle in the public square called Zocalo. Could you please explain the tamales-buffet analogy?

Pio,

Does your camp celebrate TG?

No but my house does.

I know the zócalo very well. I always stayed at the Majestic Hotel when I was in Mexico City. It has a roof top restaurant that gives a great view of the zócalo, the catedral and the really big flag.

a couple of tamales shy? Está loco el hombre!

BTW, zócalo is pretty much a Mexican Spanish word from my experience. I admit I haven't been to all the Spanish speaking countries but in all the other ones I have been in, nobody understands "zócalo".

We have a small problem and I think I may need another hamster cage. Mama hamster is now spending 24/7 trying to chew through the metal bars. The six little baby hamsters are now venturing out and eating lettuce and you can hear their little razor sharp teeth. I can't imagine how her breast feeding six of them at a time must feel. Ouch! At first I thought she was just suffering post-partum depression but now I'm not so sure. Poor papa hamster can't get anywhere near her and is relegated to his little corner of the penthouse. Poor little guy only comes down for water and, if mama happens to be at the dish and he starts to come up behind her, well, she lets him know in no uncertain terms that he is not welcome in that proximity.

I think she is wondering now whether she wants to have any more kids or if twelve (less the four she ate) is enough. If they have more kids, they would just need to move to a bigger cage. So much more to take care of and she looks pretty tired all the time as it is. She doesn't even bother to groom herself any more. She is full of grey hairs. Quite frankly I don't think mama and papa are getting along all that well. He never seems to help with the kids. I just don't know what to do.

Where is everyone? The guys are here. Well the BigK will be shortly. Only larousse represents the softer side of TKO. I assume larousse is a female - duck!

2much, 2regret, luna(did you leave your heart in SF or all of you?), stph, nams - where the heck are the ladies of TKO? Sounds like a pictorial layout in Playboy magazine: Girls of the Southeast conference. Anyway, I seek volunteers to work in my campaign headquarters. You do not need to be political nor is it necessary that you believe or support Libertarianism. You should be verbally compelling so you can motivate folks to at least think through their positions on problems we face as a country. The pay is non-negotiable: zero. Zilch. nada.

Any volunteers? I can direct you to the local campaign headquarters in your area.

And stph: six days and counting. If you are not back on TKO in six days, I will leave TKO and MB for good. My way of protesting the shoddy way in which you were treated. Please come back: Pio needs me.

Pio,

You are too smart, it's disgusting.

You observation was right. The RAE, Dictionary of the Real Academia Española says that only in México, the RAE writes (Méjico) zócalo is used to describe the main plaza of a city. I'm almost sure that the only central plaza called zócalo is the one in Mx. City.

I like the Majestic main hall.

Zócalo. From latin socculus, the soccus, zueco. Lower part of a building. Base for a statue. Lower strip of painting on a wall.

Todd,

If your volunteers look like Playboy pictorial you can consider yourself President of the southeast conference.
I should excuse of voluntering for you. I'm in a further Southeast and when I talk I appreciate if the man keeps his eyes in my face instead of my frontal assets. Thanks anyway.

Todd,

2regret is taking time for herself because she got some really bad news. Luna is still in SF AFAIK. I'm not sure about 2much and larousse can't keep your working hours. Heck - nobody can. Come to think about it I'm not really sure that larousse is a woman. I just always assumed that but can't remember why. I guess larousse COULD be a man ... a really strange man.

I agree that stph20 was treated pretty badly. Whether right or wrong, it was cruel in the manner in which it was done. I find this particularly distasteful since she had her own thread specifically to discuss her sitch where plenty of people were posting and I understand she was posting in yet another forum where she was getting similar advice so it looked to me that people were simply trying to run her off. Whether they were or not, that was the result. So I agree with you. If stph20 doesn't post within six days, I'm leaving too. But don't worry Todd, you'll always be in my thoughts and my dreams (sorry - OM wrote that to gemela and I just liked it).

larousse,

I don't know about all cities but I'm pretty sure the plaza in Cuernavaca is called the zócalo too.

Oh Please guys. Stef is throwing herself under a bus and you wanna buy front-row seats? Gimme a break.

Hopefully Stef can differentiate between my support for HER and my non-support of her actions. Seen the results of inaction too often. MB is full of such cases. But I will support Stef herself regardless of her decisions regarding her WH.

But I will never sit idly by and pat her on the head when I see her throwing herself over a cliff. I cut off contact with such people who enabled my wife's affair and would not stand up for good.

Criket !

You guys have discovered my little secret. My name is Jean Paul and my more famous movie Les 400 coups. I did get a really nice imitation of a high pitch voice.

If Steph comes back Pio may promise not to make her cry, for a while, that's it.

bigK,

Let's not distract here. I am not advocating what stph20 is doing in any way shape or form. that is not what is at issue. I think stph20 was getting all that advice on her thread and also on another forum. it just looked to me like the police were trying to hunt her down and give her no place to hide. I read those posts to her. They were very cruel. Sorry but they were. I am especially upset by the post ML wrote and then edited (I still have the original and read it every day). I can repost it if you have forgotten.

OTOH, I have been doubting the value of me being here as well for quite some time. It's probably just a matter of time before the police come after me too.

Pio - ML's edited post was to KiwiJ I thought? Did she delete and edit another one? Stef needs a safe place for sure. But she wants approval for her actions not support. There are many people who's actions I disagree with on MB but I can still support them. Stef can't differentiate.

For the record, it wasn't your post that bothered me. It must be frustrating to know what a newly minted BS should do, to dispense advice and be ignored. All I am saying is the solution is not to ignore stph, or stop giving advice, or to post garbage that runs her off. I can see no linkage between that and helping her. What she needs is support and repetition.

and what she needs is people to stop posting advice contradictory to MB all in the name of support when all it allows is her to feel validated and justified in her indecision.

I think I have been repetitive Todd. I am very distressed Stef wants to leave. Being ignored doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's her life. Being told I am unsupportive because I won't support her actions does bother me. I am there for her regardless of what she does but I am not her friend if I enable her.