A fantasy of yours?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

What can I say? We all have our dirty li'l secrets, no?

Bruce Jensen

I don't know any gays,I don't ever want to know any gays either.I
will
NOT!!!!!!!! associate with any gays at all!!!!!!,Period!!!!!!! I
HATE!!!!! gays.gays are ALL a bunch of SICKOS!!!!! All of the folks I
know are straight.
cuhulin

You might be surprised. If you know 100 people (and you probably do),
there is a at least fighting chance that 5 of them are gay.

I know lots of gays (here near San Francisco they tend not to cover it
up so much), and there are probably a slew that I know but of whose
sexual habits I am unaware. None of them - not one - behave the silly
way you see them portrayed on TV. From all outward appearances, they
seem to regular average humans going about their business. Further, I
know a number of people who have a trait or two of the "typical" gay
characteristic, such as slight tendencies to behave like the opposite
sex, and are not gay at all.

My point is, it's hard to tell. You just never know.

Bruce Jensen

Les wrote:

The only time I get a holiday off is if it falls on my days off. And, I
work for the Federal Government. I work from 4 pm to midnight,
typically end up with 12 hrs. overtime every two weeks, work sundays
too.


One year when I was working in CATV I worked double shifts on
Christmas day and New years day. I was paid double time for the first
eight hours and double and a half for the second eight hours so I made
almost a weeks pay in a single day. Unfortunately, I was working
doubles seven days a week for seven months. It damn near killed me.

--
Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

"bpnjensen" wrote:

Steve, this is the first I've heard of this kindly attitude. I've got
horror stories from more than one former Mormon who were persecuted for
what, in the greater world, would be considered nonissues. In a most
egregious case, I have a friend who was accused of being gay and
drug-addicted, and she was excommunicated by the church (with a great
deal of abuse and trumped up scandal) after disagreeing with her
husband about an issue related their children's schooling. Her husband,
being the fine Mormon that he is, got the church in on it, and in the
course of events she lost her job, was divorced and received no
alimony, and essentially had to leave Utah in order to begin again.
She is now married to another much kinder non-Mormon, her children from
her former marriage are happy to visit often because they understand
the crap she had to go through, and she has started a modestly
successful telescope-making business.

If this is a Mormon's idea of "Live-and-let-live", then I'll be dipped
in ****, rolled in peanuts, and sold as a Baby Ruth bar.

Bruce Jensen

Yeah, that would definitely void the rubric of "Live and let live."
Pretty incredible stuff -- I have a friend who lived in Utah for
awhile, and he said there's a caste system for Mormons vs.
non-Mormons. Believe it or not, Omaha is a significant Midwest
center for the Mormons, and they seemed like decent folks to me.

Of course, it's all anecdotal and empirical. You never know with
the human species; there could be a "prime ****ter" around every
corner (and there often is). I still think of that as a human problem,
not a religious one. I think religion can be abused in the same
way that politics or psychiatry can be abused.

Man is wolf to man...sometimes.

73,

Steve
--
Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, Minnesota

Every moment of a human life is an act
of worship.

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.

"Les" wrote:

I'm sure there are holidays in Mongolia, Thailand and many other
countries too. The subject was "official holidays" in America. Or, are
you so brain dead you forgot the topic?

M-O-O-N, laws yes! That spells antenna! Tom Cullins said so!

If their is a "Confederacy of Dunces," you are the General!

"Confederacy of Dunces" is one of the most hilarious books
I've read in my life. I cannot read it, because I STILL laugh
to the point of tears, every time I do so.

'Scuse me, I've got to go jump up and down awhile. It's my
pyloric valve, and all of that.

73,

Steve
--
Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, Minnesota

Every moment of a human life is an act of worship.

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.

Stephen M.H. Lawrence wrote:
"Les" wrote:

I'm sure there are holidays in Mongolia, Thailand and many other
countries too. The subject was "official holidays" in America. Or,
are
you so brain dead you forgot the topic?

M-O-O-N, laws yes! That spells antenna! Tom Cullins said so!

If their is a "Confederacy of Dunces," you are the General!

"Confederacy of Dunces" is one of the most hilarious books
I've read in my life. I cannot read it, because I STILL laugh
to the point of tears, every time I do so.

'Scuse me, I've got to go jump up and down awhile. It's my
pyloric valve, and all of that.

73,

Steve
--
Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, Minnesota

Every moment of a human life is an act of worship.

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.

It was a damn funny book, a classic for certain.

Actually what I had meant to say to CooKoolin, was that in a
"Confederancy of Dunces" he would surely be General Robert E. Lee.

Les