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Old 07-12-2012, 11:33 AM
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BottledBlondJeanie, your predictive powers are astounding!
You think that's impressive, you should see her walk on her hands!
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Old 07-12-2012, 11:39 AM
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You think that's impressive, you should see her walk on her hands!
I thought she just had bad breath.
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Old 07-12-2012, 11:58 AM
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That's actually funny coming from someone as disingenuous as you. I offer,as my cite, every gun thread in which you ever participated where you stated you weren't anti-gun. Of course, you do balance a certain fundamental mendacity by overestimating, by several orders of magnitude, your own cleverness. The post I quoted above serves nicely as an example. So does the recent thread about angels where you trotted out all the standard atheist boilerplate as if you were unveiling original and penetrating insights. I don't know if Mint Julep's story is true or not. I do know that you are a monumental douchebag.
Another off-topic weak-ass pitting...but at least this time you finally did it in the proper forum. I give it 4.5 out of 10.
You can respond with some more off-topic stalking/rants if you wish, but I'm done toying with you.
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Old 07-12-2012, 12:03 PM
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Ejido land (distributed through the agrarian reform program) is owned by the state; ejidatarios have usufruct rights that can be bequeathed to family members but not (legally) sold or rented. As of 1992, ejidos can be privatized but not many have been.
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hee hee, you said usufruct
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Old 07-12-2012, 12:05 PM
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<continuing hijack> Ejidos, along with another form of village called comunidades, make up Mexico's "social property." Together this covers about 50% of Mexico's land area. Most of these village lands are rural, but a few are on the urbanizing fringe of big cities. Much of the Riviera Maya (the coast from Cancun to Tulum) is ejido land. Since the 1992 neoliberal land tenure reform, an ejido (village) assembly can choose to lease its land to, say, a developer;or, they can have their individual parcels surveyed and converted to private lots (dominio pleno). As Emiliana indicated, only a minority of the 30,000 ejidos have taken this last step; and, even within those, most just have privatized a few parcels, so far.
I don't know how I could have gotten so confused.
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Old 07-12-2012, 12:11 PM
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His response to my question about the location of the incident, "somewhere near Tulum". So I did hear the story correctly but I dont dismiss your doubts and questions. My best wishes to any family and friends you have in the area, and I hope this account does not upset you further.
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Old 07-12-2012, 12:14 PM
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Probably best if I retreat back into my hole, silently reading and not posting. I enjoy that very much regardless.
Before you come crawling back from your hole, you'd better be prepared to answer for this whole "Julep" thing too. I did a cross-analysis if your posts and ran them through a content disconfigureator, and the results came back with just one word: mojito. Minty, yes, but note the Spanish overtones. And we all know where they speak Spanish. That's right--in Hitler!
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Old 07-12-2012, 12:43 PM
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Another off-topic weak-ass pitting...but at least this time you finally did it in the proper forum. I give it 4.5 out of 10.
You can respond with some more off-topic stalking/rants if you wish, but I'm done toying with you.
Your belief that you operate on a whole different level than the rest of us, as shown here, is partially correct. It is a different level, but not, alas, a higher one. To feign lofty disdain, as in the post quoted above, is a typical pose of yours when you have no real response. I've seen you in enough threads to know quite well that if you (usually incorrectly) believe you have concocted some devastating retort or found some "gotcha" you make haste to post it.
"Toying with" me? When have you ever successfully "toyed with" me, or with anyone? Telling me about board rules isn't toying with me. (See lofty disdain, above).
You'd have done better to just ignore me, douchebag. When you can't quote rules or hide behind whatever lingering goodwill the mods hold for you, your responses are pathetic.
Now don't let me keep you if there is a thread elsewhere that you think is in desperate need of douchebaggery.
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Old 07-12-2012, 12:56 PM
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Before you come crawling back from your hole, you'd better be prepared to answer for this whole "Julep" thing too. I did a cross-analysis if your posts and ran them through a content disconfigureator, and the results came back with just one word: mojito. Minty, yes, but note the Spanish overtones. And we all know where they speak Spanish. That's right--in Hitler!
You couldn't work in an Illuminati reference?
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Old 07-12-2012, 01:59 PM
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I'll start popping the popcorn, somebody get the lawn chairs...
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:12 PM
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In fact, let the "don't let this make you leave" posting begin.
Don't let this make you leave a big steamy dump on your bosses desk.
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Old 07-12-2012, 05:00 PM
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Me too! Many vacations at the Hotel Club Akumal Caribe. Many nights trying unsteadily to get out of the swings at Lol-Ha.
I love those swings!

I had a friend of a friend who used to own a villa on the bay walking distance from those swings.
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Old 07-12-2012, 05:40 PM
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....aaaaand the highly touted pay-per-view Scumpup v Czarcasm bout has lost its sponsorship and will not be held.

**throws stale popcorn**
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Old 07-12-2012, 05:48 PM
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....aaaaand the highly touted pay-per-view Scumpup v Czarcasm bout has lost its sponsorship and will not be held.

**throws stale popcorn**
Czarcasm isn't nearly as clever as he believes himself to be, but neither is he as catastrophically retarded as, say, gonzomax was. He's smart enough to know when to back away. He already shot his wad by referring to the board rules, anyway. Taking a tone as if he still owned a mod hat is about the best he can do.
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Old 07-12-2012, 08:26 PM
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What were we talking about when we started this thread?
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Old 07-12-2012, 08:29 PM
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The Cubs chances at making the World Series.
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Old 07-12-2012, 08:33 PM
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Old 07-12-2012, 08:49 PM
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I know what you're thinking. "Did he stab me seven times or only six?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a #4 Phillips, the most powerful screwdriver in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
Doper minds think alike; this was my first thought as well.

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anya marie, I've heard that theory before applied to Spanish lastnames, but that would make 99% of our patronymics (including some which originated with the first post-Muslim invasion kings) Jewish. Take with big chunk of salt.
I heard it the other way around- that names ending in s are often Jewish, and names ending in z aren't.
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Old 07-12-2012, 08:52 PM
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What were we talking about when we started this thread?
Having one too many screwdrivers and getting a sharp stabbing pain in the gut.
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Old 07-12-2012, 09:24 PM
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Perhaps a fitting end to this here.
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Old 07-12-2012, 09:24 PM
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....aaaaand the highly touted pay-per-view Scumpup v Czarcasm bout has lost its sponsorship and will not be held.

**throws stale popcorn**
Yah. I am dissapoint...
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Old 07-12-2012, 09:28 PM
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Having one too many screwdrivers and getting a sharp stabbing pain in the gut.
Reported for movement to the medical forum.
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Old 07-12-2012, 09:32 PM
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In Soviet Mexico, victim stabs YOU
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Old 07-12-2012, 09:33 PM
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Reported for movement to the medical forum.
Is that the one Handy mods?

<---- stabbing pain in my eye
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Old 07-12-2012, 09:44 PM
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Is that the one Handy mods?

<---- stabbing pain in my eye
Yes, he is too busy moderating to post anymore.


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Old 07-12-2012, 10:06 PM
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Perhaps a fitting end to this here.
I'd stab someone to stay there.
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Old 07-12-2012, 10:17 PM
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I'd stab someone to stay there.
Your point being?

Yeah, yeah, I know, "Reported for movement to Unimportant Things I Must Post About."

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Old 07-12-2012, 10:27 PM
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In Soviet Jewish Mexico the blender blends you into drink

In Soviet Jewish Mexico the door kicks your ass. HARD.
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Old 07-12-2012, 10:52 PM
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In Soviet Jewish Mexico the blender blends you into drink

In Soviet Jewish Mexico the door kicks your ass. HARD.
In Soviet Jewish Mexico, they make their punch from Vodka, Maneshevits, and Tequila. With lime, salt, and "the worm". And foreskins.
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Old 07-13-2012, 04:23 AM
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Must be a real thrill for Mint Julep to be white-knighted by Tony Clifton.

Now that's funny. I don't care who ya are, that's funny.
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Old 07-13-2012, 04:33 AM
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I heard it the other way around- that names ending in s are often Jewish, and names ending in z aren't.
Many of the ones which have two forms, one in -s and one in -z, are Portuguese and Spanish respectively (Pérez/Peres, to choose one which is both common enough in goyim since the Middle Ages and the lastname of a well-known Jew).


Two others I've heard are toponymics and professions...

I think the people who say that get confused by something else:
Many of the Jews who chose to convert and who had "Jewish-sounding lastnames" chose a new one; they chose a new one which was common enough among Christians, one which would not scream "ex-Jew". Toponymics, patronymics and professions were common enough, so many Jews chose one of them - but it's a case of "[all apples are fruits] plus [some apples are red] does not equal [any red fruit is an apple]". Many of those were common to both Jew and goyim, pre-expulsions, what happened was that the "typically Jewish" ones got tossed at that point.

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Old 07-13-2012, 04:47 AM
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This would have been better if it had turned in to a good cat fight. I'm wagering Mint could kick the shit out of Jeanie. Hard to say though. All I know is that in a good cat fight, we all win.

I'm still scratching my head as to why Jeanie really cared in the first place. Did Mint steal her thunder in another lifetime or reject her as a lover or is she perhaps just as much Dramatic Royalty?

I'd bow but I'm afraid as gassy as I am it would come across as rude.

I feel a good dump coming on and at my age you don't waste those opportunities.

Nevertheless, back to your regularly scheduled hijacks. Carry on.
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Old 07-13-2012, 06:08 AM
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Many of the ones which have two forms, one in -s and one in -z, are Portuguese and Spanish respectively (Pérez/Peres, to choose one which is both common enough in goyim since the Middle Ages and the lastname of a well-known Jew).
Actually, Shimon Peres was born Simon Persky in Poland; he changed it to Peres because it sounded more Israeli. Also, unlike the Spanish name, it's pronounces PEH-ress, not Peh-RES.

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Old 07-13-2012, 06:17 AM
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In Soviet Jewish Mexico the blender blends you into drink

In Soviet Jewish Mexico the door kicks your ass. HARD.
Reported General Questions for movement to THIS thread.
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Old 07-13-2012, 06:24 AM
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Actually, Shimon Peres was born Simon Persky in Poland; he changed it to Peres because it sounded more Israeli. Also, unlike the Spanish name, it's pronounces PEH-ress, not Peh-RES.
The Portuguese name is pronounced PEH-res, Alessan. And the Spanish one is, depending on your dialect, either PEH-rez or PEH-res. The tilde marks the stressed syllable; it's Pérez, thus the PE is the stressed one.

Thanks for providing a sample of exactly the kind of confusion we're talking about People from Parts Elsewhere confuse Portuguese and Spanish lastnames, hypercorrect them, mispronounce them... all the time. Same as we do with those which are exotic to us, of course.

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Old 07-13-2012, 06:40 AM
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In Soviet Jewish Mexico the door kicks your ass. HARD.
This happens only in Soviet Jewish Mexico, already?
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Old 07-13-2012, 08:04 AM
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Perhaps a fitting end to this here.
I'm gonna Photoshop a picture of myself into that scene and pretend I'm really there
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Old 07-13-2012, 08:22 AM
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I'm still scratching my head as to why Jeanie really cared in the first place. Did Mint steal her thunder in another lifetime or reject her as a lover or is she perhaps just as much Dramatic Royalty?
I think there is a certain type of person who will have looked at the umkay thing and thought,
"mmm, wish I had been the one to expose her, I could have gotten some sexy e-cred and respect from the smelly masses."

So there will be people on the look out for the next board drama, keen to be the first to proclaim it all a hoax so that they can then bask in the glory of being the first to spot the troll.

Quite sad really, and probably Ed Zottis fault.
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Old 07-13-2012, 09:22 AM
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No need, you're already there.
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Old 07-13-2012, 09:39 AM
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To continue this hijack, as an ejidatario I can attest that many ejidos or parts of have been privitized, mainly on the coasts. And the land has been purchased by many foreigners either through a fidecomiso or corporation.

Most small pueblos are surrounded by ejido land and as the population grows they spill over onto ejido property which in many cases gets converted to private land.
Okay, I would just love an Ask the Ejidatario thread but I don't suppose there would be a big market for it.
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:03 AM
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Isn't it usually Flores though? As opposed to a name that usually is transcribed with z? E.g., Alvarez, with its obvious origins?
He's a closet Portuguese.
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:11 AM
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He's a closet Portuguese.

Ah. I was thinking closet Moor.
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:33 AM
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In Soviet Jewish Mexico, they make their punch from Vodka, Maneshevits, and Tequila. With lime, salt, and "the worm". And foreskins.
It's the foreskins that really make the drink zing!

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I was thinking closet door.
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Old 07-13-2012, 03:23 PM
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This would have been better if it had turned in to a good cat fight. I'm wagering Mint could kick the shit out of Jeanie. Hard to say though. All I know is that in a good cat fight, we all win.

I'm still scratching my head as to why Jeanie really cared in the first place. Did Mint steal her thunder in another lifetime or reject her as a lover or is she perhaps just as much Dramatic Royalty?

I'd bow but I'm afraid as gassy as I am it would come across as rude.

I feel a good dump coming on and at my age you don't waste those opportunities.

Nevertheless, back to your regularly scheduled hijacks. Carry on.
I am surprised that someone who is clearly a full-on jackass, such as yourself, would be upset about this rather gentle Pitting. Strange.
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Old 07-13-2012, 06:05 PM
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It's the foreskins that really make the drink zing!



I was thinking closet door.

I was thinking, What are ya, some kinda moron?
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Old 07-13-2012, 06:45 PM
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Ah. I was thinking closet Moor.
No closet anything, just a regular Mexican, except from east LA by way of New Mexico.
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Old 07-13-2012, 07:13 PM
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I was thinking, What are ya, some kinda moron?
Yes, foreskins are definitely not Kosher.
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Old 07-13-2012, 07:32 PM
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Yes, foreskins are definitely not Kosher.
That'll skin your pickle.
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Old 07-13-2012, 07:46 PM
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This thread has all the types of response that you see from the SD. Clearly a moderator run board.

I'm not happy

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=508338
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Old 07-13-2012, 07:57 PM
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This thread has all the types of response that you see from the SD. Clearly a moderator run board.

I'm not happy

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=508338
And just so you know, I'm seeing ex-officials/mods that have been good contributors but are pretty clear about defending the boards unwavering position around containing certain words and behaviours. Too much though.
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