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i'm not gonna do it any time soooon. portland is blood diamonds tho

that damn ice storm a decade ago turned me off portland forever.

does the topless donut place still exist?

i believe so!

info?

i have heard tales of these fabled titty donuts.

guys does anybody have a question for me or are you just going to keep updating this thread to chat about maine

ME in general is blood diamonds

i think mark's topless donut shop is still open...it was the daytime version of mark's showplace, which changed it's name to platinum plus a couple years ago...i don't know if the donut shop name changed too or what. i have other priorities when i go home, like DUCKFAT FRIES.

SORRY TOMBOT :X

i got sonned by a drainage ditch in a gravity beef on the side of rte 95 in south portland once. bounced from mark's showplace during a bachelor party.

STFU YANKEES

tombot, i got a question. what kind of external hard drive should i get for my music/writing files? i have the laptop and the old emac so should i get one of those wireless hard drive thingies? i don't backup shit at all which i know is very dumb

TOM:

Should I get a handgun? There have been several robberies on my block in the last few months.

secondary question: if not a handgun, perhaps a shotgun? If yes, should I get a bedside shotgun rack? (http://www.the-backup.com/)

IJ

I don't backup shit either. I finally hired a housekeeper though so maybe backing up computer stuff is right around the corner! But you should avoid the Iomega Storcenter, from what I've just read about it on the internet, and also because Iomega just generally sucks. I've heard of quite a few people using Mac Minis as wireless storage solutions, I could ask my pal Josh for more info about that.

Ian: having a loaded weapon in your home just vastly increases the chances that you will die from a gunshot wound, it does not decrease the chances of being robbed to any degree. A much, much better investment would be to see about getting ADT or Brinks for your apartment or apartment building, often they will set you up for free if you agree to let them advertise on your front stoop or wherever, which of course is 95% of the deterrent anyway.

or get a big doggy

If you are worried about getting mugged, then maybe take some krav maga classes and start carrying a nightstick.

OR GET DOGGY

I remember seeing once a dude on rollerblades just hauling around an aluminum ball bat with him. No glove, no other sign of possibly going to participate in softball or baseball anywhere, just carrying the bat over one shoulder.

Tom:

What do you do when you just want to kick back and relax?

sometimes i atak rollerbladers

roxy, I am still trying to figure that one out since I've realized I am too old and have too many responsibilities to be drinking until 2am for half the nights out of the week.

I think for Xmas I am going to ask for a bunch of magazine subscriptions so I always have something to read around the house that doesn't take as much time as books, and I think I'm going to upgrade my netflix, because I would probably be better served by watching movies and reading news than by zoning out with playstation or comforting detective TV all the time. Even when I'm relaxing I feel better if my relaxation involves learning about new things.

tombot who would win in a fight between bruce willis with numchcuks vs. a stormtrooper on rollerblades with an aluminum baseball bat

Tombot, does your housekeeper clean out the litter box?

Even if there's pee on the floor?

you are leaving out a lot of variables I consider important. If I assume the stormtrooper is approaching at speed on his skates and prepared to just clothesline the shit out of mr. willis Mailbox Baseball style then def. the stormtrooper - OTOH with proper timing, Bruce could just as easily duck into a somersault and clip his would-be assailant's ankles with the 'chucks leading to a spectacular make-out session with the pavement

Mr. Plains: I have not gotten around to investigating the litterbox situation since the housekeeping operation took place. I am still dumbfounded by other amazing maid feats too numerous to list here.

And anyway Dr. Ben never pees on the floor (knock on wood)

tangential: my cat crapped in the car on the way back from RI to NY. he had one of my sweaters in there.. RIP green itchy sweater.

Kurt Cobain was still alive when this cat was born.

Stop this nonsense/stop tellin' lies
Kurt Cobain is Still Alive!!

tom is it a coincidence that the id for this thread is 6660

Have you considered this litter box?
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HCzmopvCL._AA280_.jpg

If that was my cat, his ass would be sticking out of the hole while his face was in the litter.

Mr. Redd et le Blecchs: No, I have not. Upon brief consideration of that litter box, however, I would rather the cat's toilet not become a conversation piece, which would invariably occur were I to spend whatever ridiculous sum that thing probably costs.

on the plus side, your cat would be able to pretend it was a spaceman everytime it pooped

i sort of want a toilet that looks like that

max: it would seem that it is a coincidence, since the last time I was credulous enough to put any stock in numerological or other mystic hoo-ha was probably around 1987 at the very latest.

Could someone Photoshop a little space helmet on that cat?

also, max, you should know that real spaceman poopers look like this:
http://www.hightechscience.org/ISS_Toilet_2.jpg

boooooring

tombot have you ever tried teaching a cat to use the toilet?

(a friend of mine tried this with his two cats--he said the smarter one was getting it but the stupider one was dragging her down, so he gave it up)

charles mingus wrote a book abt this

O GREAT NOW THIS IS THE SPACEMAN POOPERS THREAD

http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_toilet.jpg

mr. proof: Yes, I have, many times. However I've been told it requires near-constant attention and much tenacity, which my work and school schedules since becoming a man who keeps cats prevent me from applying to the task.

i understand one of your cats is a doctor, though, so it shouldn't be too difficult

You really gotta have more than one toilet in the house for the cat training to work. Unless you don't mind shitting on newspapers ala Brian Wilson.

could always use a litter box

i understand one of your cats is a doctor, though, so it shouldn't be too difficult

Actual LOL-ing^^^^^

For clarification, his doctorate is in Bein' A Fuckin Clown All The Time