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Subject: Before you leave
A guy arrived home after a long shopping trip, and was horrified to find
his boyfriend in bed with a young, lovely thing. Just as he was about to
storm out of the house, his boyfriend stopped him with these words: "Before
you leave, I want you to hear how this all came about.
Driving home, I saw this guy, looking poor and tired. I offered him a
ride. He was hungry, so I brought him home and fed him some of the roast
you had forgotten about in the refrigerator. His shoes were worn out so I
gave him a pair of shoes you didn't wear because they were out of style. He
was cold so I gave him that new birthday sweater you never wore even once
because the color didn't suit you. His slacks were worn out so I gave him a
pair of yours that you don't fit into anymore. Then as he was about to
leave the house, he paused and asked, 'Is there anything else that your
partner doesn't use anymore?' And so, here we are!
Subject: seasonal humor
Here's a little cynical Christmas humor for ya! HO, HO, HO!!!
WHEN SANTA RUNS OUT OF PROZAC - Postcards from the kids
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YeR FReND,
Dear Billy,
Santa
Love,
Santa
Love,
Dear Joey,
Santa
Love,
Dear Teddy,
Santa
Love,
Dear Michelle,
Santa
Francis
Santa
Dear Susan,
Santa
Your friend,
Dear Thomas,
Santa
Love,
Dear Jessica,
Santa
Timmy
Timmy,
Santa
We don't have a chimney in our house, how do you get into our home?
Love,
Mark,
Santa
Subject: age of consent
Hiya there everyone.
Just thought you all might like too know, i've just seen on the news that the
age of consent is set to be made equal for gays in England as of today. Equal
being 16.
At last the government is showing some balls and standing up too the
hypocrites in the house of lords.
This will be cause for much drinking and partying this weekend for the people
who tirelessly campaigned for equality.
I thank them all.
Tonka
T'was the night before Christmas,
I had come down the chimney
I looked all about,
No stocking by mantle,
With medals and badges,
For this house was different,
The soldier lay sleeping,
The face was so gentle,
Was this the hero of whom I'd just read?
I realized the families
Soon round the world,
They all enjoyed freedom
I couldn't help wonder
The very thought
The soldier awakened
I fight for freedom,
The soldier rolled over
I kept watch for hours,
I didn't want to leave
Then the soldier rolled over,
One look at my watch, and I knew he was right.
This poem was written by a peace-keeping soldier stationed overseas.
Subject: Sir Elton opens charity sale
Ben Boxer comments: The
ultimate consumer,
outspending even the late
Princess Diana and
Jackie O, Sir Elton John is
selling off his mink jock straps
and lace condoms to benefit his
favorite AIDS charity, which
makes him an OK Lord in my
book, certainly more amenable
than the squabblers in the
House of Lords who are still
screaming (unsuccessfully)
against the lowering of the age
of sexual consent to 16 for gay
males in the UK. In the article
below, I have converted the
figures in GBP (Great Britain
or United Kingdom pounds) to
USD (US dollars) to give you a
better idea of the sums
involved. Keep the change.
Headline:
(BBC News, 11/18/00)
Text:
Subject: Re: Delete key
Get over it, or go bye-bye.
Regards from
Mike
Subject: RE: Gentle Sex
OK Ben,
Edward
Subject: Today is Oscar Wilde Day
Ben Boxer comments:
Dorothy Parker, American wit
and writer who is remembered
by the most common of men for
her famous remark that "men
seldom make passes at girls who
wear glasses," once wrote about
Wilde's bon mots:
"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to make an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it."
It strikes me as a fitting tribute to
Oscar Wilde that tomorrow,
Friday, December 1, 2000, the
age of consent for consensual sex
between gay males will be
reduced to 16 in the United
Kingdom.
What has that to do with Wilde?
Recently uncovered historical
records indicate that Lord Alfred
Douglas, a younger man for the
love of whom Wilde would be
pilloried years later, may have
first met Wilde while both were
on holiday at Rouen in France in
August of 1887. "Bosie," as Lord
Alfred was known from
childhood, would not turn 17
until October 22; thus, he was 16
at the time.
Wilde may have been only 33, but
considering that he was twice
Bosie's age, the relationship
should be counted as
intergenerational. Had Bosie
been 30 and Wilde 60, such a
perception would clearly qualify
them as foxhunter and silverfox.
Wilde referred to homosexuality
as: "The love that dares not
speak its name." That was true in
his 19th century as it remains
true for the majority of us in our
21st. I have attached a composite
photograph of this famously
infamous twosome as they really
were, but including actor
Stephen Frye in his convincing
role as Wilde in the film of that
name.
Headline:
(BBC News, 11/30/00)
Text: Callow will read
from De Profundis, the letter
Wilde wrote from prison to his
young lover Lord Alfred Douglas,
better known as Bosie. Wilde's
affair with him landed the writer
a two-year hard labour sentence
in 1895 after he was found guilty
of seven counts of gross
indecency. The sentence, handed
down weeks after his most
famous work, The Importance of
Being Earnest, made its London
stage debut, left Wilde a broken
man. Upon his release he fled to
France, where he lived until his
death. Singers from the Royal
and Guildhall Schools of Music
will perform music from the
Gilbert and Sullivan opera
Patience, which is closely
associated with Wilde. Sir John
Mortimer, who created Rumpole
of The Bailey, will talk about
Wilde and socialism, and his
grandson Merlin Holland will lay
a wreath beneath a window
dedicated to Wilde in the abbey's
Poets Corner. Other performers
invited to the event include Dame
Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons and
Vanessa Redgrave, who played
Wilde's mother in the 1997 film of
his life. Guests will move on to a
reception at the British Library
to join Irish President Mary
McAleese, where comedian
Graham Norton will join Holland
in toasting the writer. The
centenary of Wilde's death has
sparked a revival of interest in
the writer, whose works include
An Ideal Husband and Lady
Windermere's Fan. The British
Library is staging an exhibition,
while Merlin Holland recently
published a collection of his
letters. It had been believed that
Wilde died of syphillis, but recent
research claimed his life had been
ended by a rare ear infection.
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Bosie was a classic twink. Wilde
described him: "He is quite like a
narcissus - so white and gold...he
lies like a hyacinth on the sofa
and I worship him." Of Wilde,
Bosie would write: "I am
passionately fond of him and he
of me. There is nothing I would
not do for him and if he dies
before I do I shall not care to live
any longer. Surely there is
nothing but what is fine and
beautiful in such a love as that of
two people for one another, the
love of the disciple and the
philosopher."