[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
Don’t fret, dear friend. For you are old enough to a rent a carpet shampooer or a car, something society has not deemed me old enough to do. I can drive, enlist in the military, get a tattoo, buy booze, and gamble, but God FORBID I get my hands on a carpet shampooer.
Although after you turn 25 and can rent the carpet shampooer to shampoo your rental car, life is pretty much downhill until retirement.
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Yes, I do look back ever so fondly on the day I rented my first carpet shampooer. It was a model ST3000, with only 500 sq ft of carpet cleaning on it at the time. It was like a dream!
[QUOTE=Telperien]
Well, we can’t have you getting drunk and shampooing carpets! That’s just crazy talk.
Or is it getting a tattoo of a carpet shampooer? I never remember.
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Hey, I love that tattoo, so I’d appreciate you shutting up about it. I mean, yeah, it’s a tramp stamp, but what man doesn’t love nailing a chick from the back and having a Hoover Steam Vac staring back at them? Sexy. That’s what it is. :mad:
John Mace, I can’t wait for that day to come for me. When I sign those papers for the rental, it’ll be a moment to share with friends and family alike.
In the mean time, all I have is my Hoover tramp stamp.
[QUOTE=flight]
I grew up in PA, and we have a saying there, “Pennsylvania is a little Philadelphia, a little Pittsburgh, and a whole lot of West Virginia.”
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Heh. Growing up in Maryland, we had the same saying, only it was Washington DC and Baltimore saving us from total WV-hood.
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
Hey, I love that tattoo, so I’d appreciate you shutting up about it. I mean, yeah, it’s a tramp stamp, but what man doesn’t love nailing a chick from the back and having a Hoover Steam Vac staring back at them? Sexy. That’s what it is. :mad:
John Mace, I can’t wait for that day to come for me. When I sign those papers for the rental, it’ll be a moment to share with friends and family alike.
In the mean time, all I have is my Hoover tramp stamp.
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[QUOTE=TommyTutone]
From what I understood, he wasn’t getting religion into the school as much as making sure things like evolution and references to ‘millions of years ago’ eliminated from the school. I could not tell if he was successful in this or not, and will try to find out tonight.
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Seriously, if this guy has made any progress at all, what you can do is to go in front of the school board and oppose him. You might stop this from becoming policy, and avoid an expensive lawsuit which you will be paying for. I suspect a lot of people might be nervous about going up against the religious nuts, depending on your community.
When I moved to California, I was a bit nervous about this, and got myself on the high school site council and on a textbook review committee. I needn’t have been. The science teachers in the district picked an excellent set of texts, including one with a two page interview with Richard Dawkins. California got an A in evolution education.
Maybe you’ll get lucky and the school board will laugh at this clown.
Still dinosaur things are always in good taste. I had lots of plastic dinosaurs when I was a kid.
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
We could go get smashed on Apple-tinis then you can get a matching tat. What do you think? I fail to see how this could possibly be a bad idea.
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Ooh, you know what would be better? Let’s get “carpet shampooer” written in chinese instead of a picture? That would be so awesome!
(I actually do have a kanji tattoo, but it doesn’t say “carpet shampooer”… at least I don’t think it says that)
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
Although after you turn 25 and can rent the carpet shampooer to shampoo your rental car, life is pretty much downhill until retirement.
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Bah! You kids and your rental “carpet shampooer(s)” back in my day if we wanted our car’s carpet shampooed we had to do it at the car wash
At the car wash
Talkin’ about the car wash yeah!
Come on and sing it for me car wash.
Car wash yeah!
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
We could go get smashed on Apple-tinis then you can get a matching tat. What do you think? I fail to see how this could possibly be a bad idea.
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Fabulous idea!
[QUOTE=jakeline]
(I actually do have a kanji tattoo, but it doesn’t say “carpet shampooer”… at least I don’t think it says that)
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Damn, I wish my kanji tattoo said “carpet shampooer” instead of “wicked.”
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
Hey, I love that tattoo, so I’d appreciate you shutting up about it. I mean, yeah, it’s a tramp stamp, but what man doesn’t love nailing a chick from the back and having a Hoover Steam Vac staring back at them? Sexy. That’s what it is. :mad:
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In the mean time, all I have is my Hoover tramp stamp.
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I’m stuck…really stuck…of a vision in my head that there is a woman or two out there that does have a tatoo of a guy running a Hoover shampoo vacuum just above her thatch of carpet…the closest thing that I’ve seen is a a tatoo of a guy pushing a lawnmower on the edge of her thatch…the little tatoo guy looked happy and was humming a few notes as he laboriously worked the push mower with great gusto. I can imagine the same thing going on with a carpet shampooer and vacuum. Some women prefer cleanliness over well groomed…hmmmm…I guess. I wonder if there is one of Paul Bunyon whacking away at the edge of the forest? How about a combine collecting a field of wheat? Maybe a farm girl has that one.
[QUOTE=Yeticus Rex]
I’m stuck…really stuck…of a vision in my head that there is a woman or two out there that does have a tatoo of a guy running a Hoover shampoo vacuum just above her thatch of carpet…the closest thing that I’ve seen is a a tatoo of a guy pushing a lawnmower on the edge of her thatch…the little tatoo guy looked happy and was humming a few notes as he laboriously worked the push mower with great gusto. I can imagine the same thing going on with a carpet shampooer and vacuum. Some women prefer cleanliness over well groomed…hmmmm…I guess. I wonder if there is one of Paul Bunyon whacking away at the edge of the forest? How about a combine collecting a field of wheat? Maybe a farm girl has that one.
[QUOTE=jakeline]
Ooh, you know what would be better? Let’s get “carpet shampooer” written in chinese instead of a picture? That would be so awesome!
(I actually do have a kanji tattoo, but it doesn’t say “carpet shampooer”… at least I don’t think it says that)
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I have a tattoo in Arabic that my friends still try to convince me says “Eat Pig Or Die”; but you know, maybe I’ve got “carpet shampooer” on my ankle in Arabic. That’d be hard fucking core.
[QUOTE=Lightray]
Bah! You kids and your rental “carpet shampooer(s)” back in my day if we wanted our car’s carpet shampooed we had to do it at the car wash
At the car wash
Talkin’ about the car wash yeah!
Come on and sing it for me car wash.
Car wash yeah!
Woo! Car wash.
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Ha, funny and completely unrelated story. One time, some of the most nerdy in the class above us (you know, one year older) in high school took it upon themselves to torment this one teacher. So they messed with his computer so when it booted up, there was a huge picture of two chicks washing a car with “Car wash” BLARING. Man, that brought the funnies every single time he’d forget and turn on his computer.
[QUOTE=Telperien]
Fabulous idea!
Damn, I wish my kanji tattoo said “carpet shampooer” instead of “wicked.”
Or “wicked carpet shampooer.”
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Excellent! So tomorrow we shall all go get apple-tinis and kanji “Wicked Carpet Shampooer” tattoos, yes?
[QUOTE=phouka]
And BTW Tommy Tutone, I’m so sorry your child’s teacher got stuck with that idiot. Perhaps you could but her some pro-science posters to put up in her classroom, or find some children’s books with topics that would expose all the children to knowledge.
And then, maybe buy her a fifth of her favorite adult poison, for those days when she has to deal with the idiot.
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I agree here. It’s the poor teacher that bears the brunt of this guy. Though he may be so busy dealing with the School Board, etc. that she escapes some of it.
But I hope you at least tell her that there are sensible parents out there, and that they support her teaching efforts.
The dinosaurs for your kid are a great idea. If you can afford it, buy some for the classroom, along with one of those posters showing which dinosaurs lived at what times, over “millions and millions” of years. Educational material for an underfunded classroom, fun for the kids, and – bonus – it’ll really piss off that guy.
[QUOTE=marshmallow]
I’ve seen a lot of things thanks to the internets. Now I can add “monkey making sweet, sweet love to an ET doggy style” to the list. Thanks.
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Alright. Nobody mentioned this, so maybe I am just a bit dense.
What on earth is that supposed to signify? And more importantly, am I ill for finding it rather adorable?
[QUOTE=Voyager]
Seriously, if this guy has made any progress at all, what you can do is to go in front of the school board and oppose him. You might stop this from becoming policy, and avoid an expensive lawsuit which you will be paying for. I suspect a lot of people might be nervous about going up against the religious nuts, depending on your community.
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Too late. I have no idea if this is the county in question but it is a case which has been fairly high profile in Metro Atlanta the past few years – so even if it is not the same county, all the other school boards are keenly aware of how it turned out. So they are unlikely to step into this particular pool of muck again anytime soon.
The more you say this the more it’s sounding like some kind of bizarre sexual fetish. I’m not sure I want to even hazard a guess as to what it might mean.
