Monday, January 31st, 2011
- The prairie dogs. They’re judging me.
- Former call girl Maggie McNeil debunks that CNN scare story on underage prostitutes and Backpage.com.
- Agitator pal, one-time guest-blogger, and two-time Agitator.com fantasy football points champion Baylen Linnekin has written a fascinating paper on the role colonial taverns played in shaping the First Amendment’s Assembly Clause. Also, look for a great article from Baylen on the regulation of food trucks in the April issue of Reason.
- Via Reddit, this Wikipedia entry has nine sections, five subsections, and 128 footnotes.
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That wikipedia entry isn’t worth the paper it isn’t printed on.
Regarding the toilet paper, I will go on record and state the I am in the proud minority that prefers the ‘under’.
My reason is pretty simple, though I’ve never seen it mentioned in arguments before – when toilet paper is hung underhand, you can pull the sheets away one handed with a hard yank straight down. This is pretty difficult if not impossible to do when the sheets are coming off over the top of the roll.
QFT!
The prairie dogs. They’re judging me.
Harshly. ;-)
When I see Amber Lyon cavorting around town in tight jeans and fuck-me boots seductively telling prospective clients she’s underage, I always
think “Isn’t that illegal?”
But of course only Amber has access to the secret code
of terms that actually denote underage trafficking. Fresh, pretty, cute–they’re all secret codes.
I think she’s been watching too many James Bond and/or Cold War films.
I can’t believe I went all the way through the prime of life and haven’t heard about “fuck-me boots” until now. Seems like a pretty cruel joke that I should find out about such important fashion statements after it’s too late to matter.
I lay the blame for that entire Wikipedia article the people that still cling to hanging it under.
Call me a rebel, but I have no toilet paper orientation preference; I just don’t care. Not something worthy of caring about.
I’m an agnostic on the “over/under’ debate. Whichever way it goes on, so be it.
WRT Matt’s argument for “under’: One can tear off sheets on a roll hung over single-handed by pulling sharply sideways.
My biggest TP complaint is those huge rolls locked inside the canisters in public washrooms: The paper is so thin that you cannot pull enough paper to get a good handfull.
Don’t trust prairie dogs: Out there undermining the country, watching us from their hideaways, plotting against the very soil. Make ‘em learn English!
#10 | Aresen |
And the prairie dogs are talking about us in a language we can’t understand!
I bring another perspective to the Underage Sex Slavery story; the historian’s. Historically, any time the american news media has gotten worked up over sex slavery, white slavery, or the like, all it has signified was that reader/viewer-ship was down and all numbers quoted have had their feet planted firmly in mid-air.
Bah!
I say again, Bah!
Everyone knows that the proper orientation for toilet paper is vertical. Just stand it up on the tank. That wall hanger is for girls.
I don’t know what toilet paper is. I just use the three shells.
Three shells it is! But you must set them concave down.
Prairie dogs: judgemental little bastards.
Plus: love the comment, “Make ‘em learn English!”
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I LOVE Maggie McNeil’s blog. She is the voice of reason in a subject full of hysteria and emotion.
Radley, thank you so much for the link! And Zoltan, thank you for the compliment! :-)