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-Re: New Zealand bashers sentenced to prison terms
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: New Zealand bashers sentenced to prison terms Robert Feinstein wrote: Good point, Ben. Don't most straight people go through a "phase" where they experiment with the same sex?
Eaton responds: Subject: A Twisted E-Mail (some jokes)
"Financial needs" - Rated PG
Joe: Why don't you play golf with Bob any more? Mike: Would you play with someone who curses after each shot, cheats in the bunkers and enters false scores on his card? Joe: No!
Mike: Neither will Bob.
Subject: New Lawsuit AUSTIN, Tx (Dec. 11) (AP) - Attorneys for President-appointed George W. Bush filed suit in federal court today, seeking to prevent Santa Claus from making his list and then checking it twice. The complaint seeks an immediate injunction against the beloved Christmas icon, asking the court to effectively ban his traditional practice of checking the list of good boys and girls one additional time before packing his sleigh. The suit, filed in the Federal District Court of Austin, Texas, asks a federal judge to "hereby order Mr. Claus to cease and desist all repetitive and duplicative list-checking activity, and certify the original list as submitted, without amendment, alteration, deletion, or other unnecessary modification." "There are no standards for deciding who is naughty, and who is nice It's totally arbitrary and capricious. How many more times does he need to check? This checking, checking, and re-checking over and over again must stop now," said former Secretary James Baker. Gov. Bush cited the potential for unauthorized list tampering, and blasted what he called the "crazy, crazy mess up there at the North Pole." "Their security is really awful, really bad," said Bush. "My mother just walked right in, told 'em she was Mrs. Claus. They didn't check her ID or nothing." Meanwhile, Dick Cheney, Gov. Bush's running mate, issued a direct plea to St. Nick himself. "Mr. Claus, I call on you to do the honorable thing, and quit checking your list. The children of the world have had enough. They demand closure now," Cheney said, adding that his granddaughter has already selected a name for the pony that she's asked for. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was quick to respond to this latest development with plans to lead protesters from Florida to the North Pole via dogsled. The "Million Man Mush" is scheduled to depart Friday. "We need red suits and sleighs, not law suits and delays," Jackson said.
Santa Claus could not be reached for comment, but a spokes-elf said he was
"deeply distressed" by news of the pending legal action against him.
"He's losing weight, and he hasn't said 'Ho Ho Ho' for days," said
the spokes-elf. "He's just not feeling jolly." Subject: Re: Our new President and Harley's voting record.
Ben Boxer wrote, in part:
I voted for Nader..... Film Review: "Billy Elliot' Set in a grim mining town of northern England during a coal workers' strike in the mid-1980s, it tells the story of an 11-year-old boy, Billy Elliot (played by screen newcomer Jamie Bell), who takes boxing lessons at the insistence of his tough, coal-miner father and brother. A lonely child, he furtively plays his dead mother's piano and can lay claim to only one friend, another lonesome boy his own age. One day during a boxing lesson, he catches sight of a ballet class of young girls on the opposite side of the school gymnasium from the boxing ring. With endearing charm, and despite violence during a family crisis and a constant storm of riot police trying to break the strike, the film shows how Billy is captivated by the movements of ballet and is secretly taken under the wing of a difficult teacher who sets his lonely soul free in the realm of dance despite stern admonitions from his dad. The young actor who plays Billy does all his own dancing and is brilliant at it. Tap-dancing and leaping through the streets of his ugly town, he whirls and boogies and takes you with him all the way with no trace of effeminacy, in the manner of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. One of the film's most interesting points is what Billy's dancing brings out in the people around him: unreasoning brutality from his father and older brother, clarity of mind and purpose from his feeble, dotty old grandmother, a vast reservoir of strength from his dedicated, chain-smoking teacher, and the ultimate surprise when his one and only young-boy buddy greets him at the door in make-up and a dress. How it works out is so deft a bit of storytelling that you will live through all of it with Billy, feeling his fears, crying at his agonies, dancing with him as he struts up stairs and bounces off fences and walls, aching for his success and thrilled beyond measure when he finally soars out of his stark reality and into a different world. "Billy Elliot" is NOT a tony ballet movie. It's Billy's movie, grim and dark, and bright and beautiful. It's not a kid's movie, either. It plumbs adult depths, exposing the selfishness and cruelty of hard, inward-looking people and transforming their sour unhappiness into the open face of love. Billy's own words describing his feelings when he dances best sum up the overall effect of the film. "It's like fire," he says, "like electricity...yes, electricity." ------------------------------
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