Sometimes people are just funny regardless of so-called education, money, or power. Enjoy (or not at your discretion) the below link. Take care. Vern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_3xvXy9eVM

PS: Edited to add second link for a different fan base to enjoy. Choose your humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxXh6ZWfbDg

MrsPiddles wrote:

Okay, I'll jump into this one. Why is it okay for women to wear men's clothes, but not so much when men try to wear women's clothes?

Don't know; ask someone from Scotland. Take care. Vern

Concerning the original subject of "1 in-line comments" I would say if one is looking to see how many comments have been left after only one, then proper grammar of such is really not worth addressing. Take care. Vern

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Iris Pearl wrote:

Thank you, Vern! Wow, you've seen far more of Aus than I have! It is a beautiful country. Did you have a favourite place? My two are Broome and Byron Bay. Yes, we're generally a friendly bunch.

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I loved most all of it, but Sydney and Perth were my overall favorites. Sydney is the only large city (about two million) I have found that I actually wouldn't mind living in. The mass trans combining trains, buses, ferries, is to die for. Everything was overbooked for the race in Melbourne so we didn't stay the planned time and left the day after arrival -- might've been different another time. Did the camel ride on the beach at sunset at Broom on my birthday and that was fantastic. Kind of disappointed with Ayers Rock after all the hyped expectations, lol. Wonderful country all in all and I heartily recommend to anyone who has the opportunity to take advantage. We were there about six weeks total and even that wasn't enough. Biggest regret is we didn't leave nearly enough time for your neighbor, New Zealand -- only a week which was way too short. Take care. Vern

A.T.Schlesinger wrote:
vern wrote:

You're not supposed to see the safety pin; it's under the chicken, invisibly holding it in place kind of like the strong nuclear force. Take care. Vern

Be careful, Vern, or you will start a new religion.

My safety pin could never replace the Flying Purple Mongoose though it does require a bit of faith in all the marvelous things it does like miraculously keeping a fully loaded diaper in place -- not to mention my chicken. Take care. Vern

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Welcome, Iris, to the place where you don't have to stay a stranger for long, but may stay strange as long as you wish. BTW, I visited Australila a few years back, a very beautiful and for the most part friendly country -- all seven "states." Take care. Vern

A.T.Schlesinger wrote:
corra wrote:
A.T.Schlesinger wrote:

corra: TL/DR

Here's the abstract:

That insanely long post was about Taurus divided by the member of the KKK before wash day? I may have to go back and read it--when I have a free week.

Vern: I see no safety pin. But then I also see no God, and a lot of people say that's  a thing too.

You're not supposed to see the safety pin; it's under the chicken, invisibly holding it in place kind of like the strong nuclear force. Take care. Vern

A.T.Schlesinger wrote:

Vern: I'm pleased you finally got an avatar. But one question; is that a really small person wearing the top of an acorn?

Actually, I found that Tam o'shanter hat in the trash as a kid and placed the little fuzzy chicken (also found in the trash) on top of it with a safety pin - not sure where I got the safety pin, lol. That was my class picture. But, geez, surely you remember me explaining the avatar before; it's also in my profile and been there pretty much since this new site opened.  I might have to add some bells and whistles to make it stand out. Take care. Vern

PS: Edited to clarify existence of avatar info.

max keanu wrote:

Here's my contribution from my novel, APHRODITE'S RAINBOW, wherein I created a variation on the F/F theme I referred to as F/AF for: female / android female:

"Harley Davidson! Oh goodie! Harley Davidson! Oh goodie! Goodie!“ Prunella said in animated excitement. Her processors overloaded at the prospect of seeing her man again. Her long repressed memory circuits double looped over and over, her love pulses created a divide by zero error causing her to sing like a yodeling fool at an idiot’s convention, complete with super-reverb and Alpine echoes.


“Oh my blithering, beautiful idiot android, you're so tantalizing. But until tomorrow comes we love, we will love all night long, ” Isellit whispered, forgetting all about Prunella's death-radiating, rainbow emitting vulva, while lowering her beautiful face and hungry tongue down between Prunella’s naked thighs to experience Aphrodite’s Rainbow, the last and best rainbow-hued light show of her life."

Can I get this on video? Sounds like Barbarella  in the orgasmostron. Take care. Vern

Tom Oldman wrote:

On my home page, that listing is waaaaaay down at the bottom and takes a bunch of scrolling to get there. Plus, there are only 7 slots for new postings. At the moment, I have 12 emails in my inbox with no idea who they're for.

~Tom

Oh, geez (rolls eyes) what does that scroll take anyway, a nanosecond? I'm still amazed by Earthlings lol. You do know you can see all the rest by clicking "Read more content from your connections" at the bottom of the list, right?. I'm training my telescope on another galaxy. Take care. Vern

In one click to your home page, you can see all the recent postings of your connections. I mean, aren't you going there anyway? I stopped all email concerning postings and haven't missed them one bit. To each their own, but sometimes I think I'm living on a different planet. Take care. Vern

meteor shower

My anniversary.

There is hardly a thread on this site (or the old) garnering more than a few responses which does not veer to some degree from the initial subject matter. I consider that a good thing in most instances. Natural conversation goes that way when interesting characters are involved. Take care. Vern

shooting star

Trump's hands

Dill Carver wrote:
rhiannon wrote:

... males seem to like Jeb & Rhia:  the Love Story, and females are more represented among reviewers in the New Fairy story.....
men like the sexy ingenue and women like the kick-ass adventurer....  what, if anything, should I do about that?

I'd say tone it down.

Given such a powerful and distinct contrast I'm wondering if it would it be dangerous for a transgender person to read these stories? I mean, given the different reactions between genders, it would at the very least cause the transgender reader to be at odds with her/his self. I'm wondering if intense reading could lead to a seizure; nervous breakdown or even spontaneous combustion?

LOL! I do love your take on this. The point is made a whole lot better than I did. Take care. Vern

Responded in premium group forum. Take care. Vern

nuts

I would first ask if anyone reviewed both stories and if so then their response should provide an answer. If no one reviewed both stories, then that might provide an opportunity to request one of them to do so and relate their preference and reasons for such. All in all I would think it is merely a statistical quirk unless the pattern remains over many reviewers and with the order of presentation changed on occasion so that one is not picking the first one to review by the order it is presented (a possible gender bias maybe, who knows). Good luck. Take care. Vern

crackers

fits

Congrats to the finalists and all who entered. Take care. Vern

no winner

I probably wouldn't even look at the author until I finished the story and might want to buy something else by said author, but then I rarely brose through book stores any more. And only on a few occasions have I bought a book (more accurately had my wife buy it for me) because of the author; most in my opinion don't repeat the excellent experience I received from the first one. I'm just too damn picky, lol. Sometimes I will pick up a book my wife is reading and just start reading wherever she has it marked and if I find it interesting will ask to read it when she finishes, or perhaps before if she gets busy on something else. I may not be typical in that regard. Take care. Vern