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ossobuco wrote:

Amigo, to save yourself from craziness, you might skip to page 44 - it's around there that some of the present Unpleasantness starts.

If you don't know how to just land on page 44, change the number at the under of the URL address to 430 and then press enter...

That's a neat trick, Osso!

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littlek, I tried to catch you yesterday, but had no luck. I wanted you to read a front page story in the New York Times regarding Sudan, and more specifically the stuff that isn't usually reported in the news.

Check it out if you can find a copy.

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I meant to say at "the end of the URL", not under. Duh.

That trick is hard to explain. I tried to do it once on some thread and only confused whoever asked..

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Is it this one, Gus?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/world/africa/25cnd-chad.html?ref=world

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That was nice, Gus. I have been hearing more about Darfur in the news lately (well, on NPR).

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Actually, that wasn't the article I was talking about.

The article I read had to do with the enormous wealth in certain areas of Sudan. New oil money and all that and how other countries are ignoring sanctions and rushing in for a piece of the action.

I'll see if I can dig it up.

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Oh, I saw that too, in a flash - I didn't read it, saw the photo - that was amazing. Might be in the magazine..

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Here it is

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You can perhaps tell I've a scattering mind. I can only take so much horrible seriousness before I need to read about three kinds of ice cream parlors...

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I guess I don't understand what you mean by that, osso.

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Well.... isn't that interesting. So, will the world react more strongly if the fighting moves East towards Khartoum?

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Wow! This is reason enough to stay home on friday nights - HM#3 goes out. He came home talking loudly into his cell phone, said hello, and promptly left! Wohoo!

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

I guess I don't understand what you mean by that, osso.

That was odd. I wasn't really remembering the photo that went with the article you linked, Gus; I just looked at it now and saw the ladies were eating ice cream.
I was referring to some article recently about ice cream parlors getting fancier. And... that I have this penchant for reading articles about something like that, or say, how to make a perfect cup of coffee... instead of reading about Darfur. It was a self annoyed comment about my escapist tendencies.

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Well, the discussion from the digeridoo night didn't shame HM#3 into being fully clothed at breakfast like we'd thought. The cold weather had done it. I know this because we forgot to turn down the heat last night so this am was toasty in our apartment. He cooked crepes in his little boy pants.

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"Damn, man, put some pants on! Nobody wants your chorizo with their breakfast!"

With enough jocularity that it's friendly banter and enough force that it's clear you mean it.

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I dunno..... his own friends were ridiculing one former acquaintance for coming to breakfast in his underpants - the whole group laughed and laughed about how rude and ridiculous that was. He looked uncomfortable. That didn't stop him.

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<but, I'll practice that line just in case>

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But you're not just making fun of him. You're also telling him to put some damn pants on. Making fun is just to take the sting out of it, let him know it's not malice, but that this sort of behavior just won't fly.

Or maybe it's just a guy-to-guy thing. I dunno. I suppose I've had fmale housemates who were all right with this sort of communication and others who weren't...

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I don't think I could pull off the jocularity part - too much water under the bridge by now.

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Prolly true, prolly true.

On the other hand, if he's as clueless as the image I've got in my head, he probably doesn't even realize there is a bridge. Prolly thinks he's just a colorful character with some idiosyncratic personal habits that just make him all the more lovable. All us pompous azzoles are like that.

Alernatively...

Pin up pictures of well-endowed male underwear models all over the kitchen. Never underestimate the power of cheese -- I mean, shame...

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