I admire your restraint, but I feel that it is high time we stopped belitteling “fishwives” for such people perform a good and honest (if noisome) labour. Should we not remember without fishwives and their fishmonger husbands we should be without caviar, smoked salmon, lobster and many other of life’s little necessities.
Sorry…gum chewing grates on me like fingernails on a blackboard. It should be illegal. Especially for anyone over ten years old.
Very well then, thou art a fishmonger. Of course you’d say something like that!
No.
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Eve, if I had a time machine, one the things I truly cross-my-heart would do is offer to take you back for an evening to 1908; I could escort you to opening night of “The Devil” or somesuch. I can think of no one that would appreciate a chance to see - live - the people and places of that time as much as you. (And me!)
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[WillyWonka]Chewing gum is really gross/Chewing gum I hate the most[/WW]
Robin
Our luck, we’d see the George Arliss production, without a young Theda Bara in the cast! Let’s go see Anna Held in Miss Innocence instead, and have a bottle and a bird at Rector’s afterward . . .
As long as we get to Rector’s before The Easiest Way scandal hits it, I’m in…
“I’m going to Rector’s to make a hit, and to hell with the rest!”
[Silence. Cricket noises. Tumbleweed rolls through.]
Just for my own curiosity, could you put this statement into context for me? I did a little poking around, and didn’t find you making similar statements in other threads, so I find myself a bit curious as to why you decided to take a swipe in this one. I do like to at least try to keep up on the goings on around here.
So, what’s the deal? Did Eve kidnap your puppy? Are you a spokes model for cud chewers monthly, and take offence at the bad mouthing of your industry? Did you suffer a disfiguring accident attempting to chew gum and walk at the same time?
Seriously. What’s the deal?
I have no problem with people chewing gum, but only if it’s done in such a way that I have no idea they’re chewing gum except for a slight movement of the jaw.
{Slight hijack}
Have you ever seen someone chewing gum, then when they talk to you, the gum is sticking out so you can see it? Ewww.{/Slight hiijack}
Is there like an “S” coming or something?
Well, if Kalhoun doesn’t like it, that settles it. I just spit mine out and won’t indulge again.
Overreact much?
Brownies should be illegal as well. Because they’re a little slow on the uptake.
Well, if I got whooshed, my bad. If not, then what are you saying? Me being slow and all.
I was exaggerating, my friend. It was just a joke. I really don’t want gum-chewers to go to jail. But it really is annoying to watch or listen to. Just a personal pet peeve of mine.
How do you feel about co-workers crunching ice?
Shit! I already wrote my congress critters demanding anti-mastication legislation. Your posts inspired me and made me feel like I was not alone in me views. Now I’ll just look like a loon.
They should be hunted like wild animals for sport. They should be forced to endure crushed ice enemas. We should be allowed to cram railroad spikes in their eyes and then pee in the empty sockets.
Damn Skippy, if you were someone I knew, I could use my favorite overused quote.
"Why should today be any different from any other day.