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silverfoxesclub-digest
Friday, October 20 2000
Volume 01 : Number 019

In this issue:

-My fat fingers
-Fw: My fat fingers
-unusual ad response
-Self-portrait
-The promised photo of Akira Kurosawa, great filmmaker
-Re: My fat fingers
-Political
-Re: The promised photo of Akira Kurosawa, great filmmaker
-AOL continues on its gay way!
-Testing the BSA waters
-The Penis Poem
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:52:43 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: My fat fingers

I am not only a fat head, but I also have fat fingers, not to mention a BIG butt.

My apologies to the digest subscribers. My fat fingers mistyped the Image Archives password in the digest.
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:26:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: excited

Subject: Fw: My fat fingers

Beatiful Ben,
I'll send you 10 little smooches for your 10 fat fingers. And the eleventh, a bigger one... THE BIGGEST! for the BB'sBB. Just in the center of the middle of the Ben Boxer`s Big Butt.

Bye.

By "the excited"
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:16:39 EDT
From: Parnassos@aol.com
Subject: unusual ad response

Oscar, stick to your guns. I praise you for asking the rest of us to help you dispell and neutralize this poisonous response. I gladly take my share, and consider it dispelled. The poisonous response bespeaks the character of the writer.

Steve, 55, in the northern Detroit burbs, in, I believe, my first general post to the list.
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:14:09 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: Self-portrait

Vincent Van Gogh has nothing on me. I saw his self-portrait a long time ago in Amsterdam and decided someday I would have one of myself. Here it is. All that remains now is to cut off my ear. Have I got it right? It WAS his ear he cut off, wasn't, not his...oh, my...I am getting so confused in my old age.

Speaking of Van Gogh, we Americans generally pronounce it van-GOH, as in a souped-up SUV traveling at top speed.

Oscar in Holland, you prolly pronounce it right. Let us know. The intelligentsia, of which I ain't one, often say FUN-HOCK with a lot of spit on the HOCK. Enlighten us, Oscar, please.

Speaking further of Monsieur Vincent (Van Gogh), has anyone ever seen Akira Kurosawa's film called "Dreams"? A cinematic triumph, like most everything Aki did. There is a segment in there where a Japanese tourist walking about in Europe stumbles into a Van Gogh painting. It is so authentic and so beautifully done that it would turn anyone into a fan of both artists (Van Gogh in one art medium and Kurosawa in another, although Kurosawa started life as a painter and then turned to making films to earn money to support his art and wound up becoming one of the greatest cinema artists of all time).

Everything Kurosawa did in films is worth seeing. I have seen most of his work and have in my private collection several of his greatest. My partner had never seen a Kurosawa film until I showed him "Ran." He was enthralled. Then I showed him "Kagemusha," which is my favorite except for an earlier work, "Seven Samurai" on which the American film "The Magnificent Seven" was based. Actually, "The Magnificent Seven" was Kurosawa's original title for the movie that he released as "Seven Samurai."

Kurosawa died only two years ago, at the age of 88. I will send a picture of him to the list after this goes out. I only send one picture per e-mail because it is easier for people to download that way rather than in clusters or zip files.
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:20:36 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: The promised photo of Akira Kiropsawa, great filmmaker

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:42:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: RancherOK@webtv.net

Subject: Re: My fat fingers

bless allten of those chubby fingers and here's a smooch for that big butt( I live it soooo much)

sam
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:11:03 -0400
From: "luvhog"

Subject: Political

Found this on a site and thought I would pass around what many are thinking.


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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:26:00 EDT
From: "Ronald James"

Subject: foxhunter shower buns.

I really liked the picture....Do you have more..test me

ronniejim30@hotmail.com
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:
0:30 EDT From: Parnassos@aol.com

Subject: Re: The promised photo of Akira Kiropsawa, great filmmake

Great Caesar's Ghost! The pic is enough to turn me into Older for Older. One Hot Man there. Thanks, Ben

Steve in the Detroit burbs
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:13:27 +0200
From: "SGMS"
Subject: AOL continues on its gay way!

This posting was sent to another list by my partner, I thought I'd forward it here.
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From an egroup posting:

Subject: AOL CHIEF DONATES $8 MIL TO ANTI-GAY GROUP

AOL chief donates $8 million to church that funds ex-gay ministry

by Barbara Dozetos
Gay.com Network

The church that received a large donation from the Case Foundation announced who the donor was Monday.

America Online chairman Steve Case and his wife, Jean, donated over $8 million last month to a school run by the Rev. James Kennedy, whose church also sponsors anti-gay programs including the "ex-gay ministry" Worthy Creations.

Jean Case graduated from the Westminster Academy in 1978. The Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sits adjacent to the school. According to its Web site, "It exists primarily to educate the children of Coral Ridge families."

Among its other ministries, the church lists Worthy Creations, which "provides a way out of the gay lifestyle for those who desire to change." This program and the church's Center for Reclaiming America, run by Janet Folger, launched the summer 1999 national ad campaign thanking Sen. Trent Lott and pro football player Reggie White for their public anti-gay views.

Eighteen other right-wing organizations, including the Family Research Council and the Christian Coalition, joined in to fund the "Truth In Love" ex-gay ad campaign, featuring Anne Paulk, wife of John Paulk. He was removed last month from his position as chairman of the conversion ministry Exodus International after he was spotted in a gay bar in Washington, D.C.

Jean Case is CEO of the $135 million Case Foundation, which has a pattern of giving money to pro-youth and family-oriented causes.

Posted October 18, 2000

Full Story:
http://content.gay.com/channels/news/heads/001018_chase_aol.html
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 06:35:46 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: Testing the BSA waters

Headline:
California Scout leader comes out
(The Advocate 10/20/00)

Text:
The leader of a Boy Scout council in Santa Barbara, Calif., came out as gay at a meeting of the county board of supervisors Tuesday night, the Santa Barbara News Press reports. Leonard Lanzi, executive director of the Los Padres Council of the Boy Scouts of America, told a chamber packed with both opponents and supporters of the Boy Scouts that he is gay but backs the Scouts despite its antigay policy. .I am a private person, and I am gay,. he said. .I uphold the Boy Scouts. policies. I would not work for the Boy Scouts if I did not know that they save lives.. Lanzi said he was coming out because .as a Scout, I have to be credible. I could not speak up without some people saying I was hypocritical.. Lanzi.s announcement was met with applause, with many of the speakers who followed him offering their support for him and his work. Lanzi, 38, has been a leader in the Scouts for 14 years. He told the paper that he hopes that the board, which signaled its inclination to sever its ties to groups that discriminate, and the Scouts could come to some compromise that won.t hurt youths. .I don.t know if I.ll be a part of that solution,. said Lanzi. .But I hope so.. Two weeks ago Lanzi told the paper he is not an .avowed homosexual.. Lanzi was not identified by name in that story. BSA officials were unavailable for comment following Lanzi.s comments.
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 06:45:52 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: The Penis Poem

The Penis Poem

My nookie days are over.
My pilot light is out.
What used to be my sex appeal
Is now my water spout.

Time was when, on its own accord
From my trousers it would spring,
But now I've got a full-time job
To find the blasted thing.

It used to be embarrassing
The way it would behave
For every single morning,
It would stand and watch me shave.

Now as old age approaches,
It sure gives me the blues
To see it hang its little head
And watch me tie my shoes.

-- ANONYMOUS

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