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    Quote Originally Posted by Yukimura
    According the the CNN morning news Halloween actually serves a purpose for adults. It's an excuse for women to dress in sexy outfits and not feel like they are being skanky. As well as a chance for women to mark their men as theirs by forcing them to wear a matching/complimentary costume to any Hallloween parties.
    It took you this long to realize that?

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    I used to think that logic only worked in the minds of high school girls (thanks Mean Girls), but apparently it extends well into the 30's.

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    man, thats werid....it was thinking the exact same thing (about slutty outfits)....when i was comming home from the gym, i passed by the campus bar, and they're having this halloween pub. I swear, every girl i saw waiting in line was dressed like a slut. I even saw a few who were just wearing a dress shirt and panties. I dont even know how that qualifies as a costume? are you dressing as a stripper?

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    It's not much of a costume if they're whores the other 364 days of the year.

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    Similarly on the walk home from the gym, I had a girl dressed as a Sexy Commando walk in front of me for most of the way.

    It was not a displeasing experience.
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    Today I learned that while Strawberry and Kiwi are usually very pleasing flavours, when combined with additives and preservatives and packaged into the juice boxes sold on campus, they become unbearably vile.

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    Hmm... There's this one Wild Strawberry - Kiwi juice sold over here that's actually pretty decent. I wonder what went wrong over there. Or perhaps it's just a matter of personal taste preferences.

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    I'm pretty sure it's due to the fact that no real strawberries or kiwis found their way into that juice box.

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    That could certainly explain a few things. The one over here is from a quality juice maker (it's from Sweden, and even if I risk sounding unpatriotic I've to admit the Swedes have always possessed a special knack for making juices).

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    Today I learned that the great state of Alabama feels that the distribution of sex toys is more deserving of punishment then selling firearms to minors. According to a law recently upheld by the 11th Circuit Court,

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    It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly distribute, possess with intent to distribute, or offer or agree to distribute any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for any thing of pecuniary value...Any person who violates this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than one year. A second or subsequent violation of this subdivision is a Class C felony if the second or subsequent violation occurs after a conviction has been obtained for a previous violation. Upon a second violation, a corporation or business entity shall be fined not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) nor more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000)."
    The part in bold struck me as quite interesting since intent to distribute often comes down to a purely quantitative interpretation. What this means is even if a person purchases ' devices' from out of state if they have too many (probably defined as more than 1 since we're talking about a state of prudes) 'devices' in your house they could be charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute.

    And the penalty...up to a $10,000 fine and/or 1 year in jail. As a contrast the maximum penalty for selling a cigarettes to a minor in Alabama is $50, for selling a firearm it's $500.

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    It would be extremely hard to base a case solely on that in the court, so I doubt they would even try unless it's a rock solid case, like somebody having a warehouse full of dildos and a preorder book already filled by the names and addresses of underage girls, cardboard boxes lined up and waiting to be carried to the post office for shipment... That would be a solid case of an intent to distribute.

    But they would likely lose a case just because somebody has lots of them in unopened packages. There are all manners of collectors around, after all.

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    They wouldn't win the case of course but they would definitely try, no offense but this is Alabama we're talking about and this is circuit court so you never know what could happen. I wonder how this all came about, could sex toys really bother someone so much that they would change the law and impose a 1 year jail term and or a $10,000 fine? I really don't get this one, and never underestimate "Intent to Distribute" its vague for a reason and cops and prosecutors often exploit it to the fullest, I've seen many examples.
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    Heh. I'm sure the supreme court would be delighted to handle a case of determining whether some eccentric collector's dildo collection would be meant to be distributed to underage persons or not... I'm sure they don't have anything better to do, after all.

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    lol, you have a point, and I'm sure the media would love to cover such a case not to mention the frenzy of lawyers who would want to take the case.
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    Lol Kraco it's funny that you say that since the U.S. Supreme Court recently (last month) refused to even hear the case. The Alabama sex shop owner who originally tried to get the law overturned appealed the Circuit Courts decision to them but if the Supreme Court won't hear it she's pretty much dead in the water.

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    High heels are too high, and a little stick of mascara costs way too much for what it's worth. It's more than a whole nail care kit, with various nail polishes, electric nail buffers, and the other stuff.. in those cases.

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    Today I learned where the word "Gossip" came from. It's based on the old word "Godsib", referring to the "brothers in God" relationship that Godparents had among one another. Apparently they were stereotypically chatty and the word changed over time and came to be known by its present meaning.

    Edit: And "present" originally meant "soon" and not "at the current time". Now it's both.

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    I learned that smoking a lot of mediocre smoke only makes you tired and lazy.

    EDIT: I also learned that I have a pretty good sense of smell and taste when it comes to Johnnie Walker. Last night, we did a blind taste test of 4 different Labels of Johnny Walker and I was able to identify which was Red, Black, Gold and Blue. Now I have a scientific experiment and 2 witnesses to back me up when I say I know scotch whisky...well, at least Johnnie. I've had 7 or 8 other scotch whisky brands and some are quite tasty, most of them were single malt.
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