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Name:
ProsperityJoy
Comment: Hello Everyone!Hope you are having or will have a pleasant day. I wanted to comment on the diet issue. There is something very important to remember (as someone stated) "The body is a good friend but a treacherous enemy". When something goes wrong with the body it is hard to do anything else. It is our instrument to use while on earth and we should give it its just due and no more. Most overweight comes from "eating when not hungry". This is basically "emotional eating". That is why people feel better who are overweight and then lose the extra weight. It is not just the "body weight issue" that makes them feel better but they have made an inner change that has resulted in the weight l loss. In order to "keep" the weight off you will have to stay changed within. The "inner rules the outer" so to speak. 1. Exercise is extremely important. It helps to release subtle energy from the spine region which helps to keep balances of energy in the body and to ward of diseases. Its also easier to heal if you make a habit of exercising. Very, very important.
2. When you become stressed, excited, over zealous, or even happy. Don't go to eat something. This is when the overeating starts. Remember you are really feeding emotions. Have something to drink a cup of tea etc..Or keep some hard candies around. That will give your mouth something to do! LOL
3. Stop when your stomach lets you know it is full, or better yet before it is full. Eat slower.
4.Have a "pig out" day. This day you can eat anything you want and how much you want. So instead of one piece of cake you can eat it all! This helps not to feel deprived. And you can tell your lower self (the one that only wants to do what it wants and not care about the consquences)"be patient and on *which ever day you choose* we are gonna have that food for you." You have to speak to the lower self like a little child. After your pig out day stay put with your discipline.
5. Drink lots of water it helps to clear toxins out of the body.Try to stay away as much as possible from meat especially "red meats" (pork, beef) These foods clog up the arteries and it works havoc on your digestive system. It takes days and even weeks to get these food out of the system. You know pretty much the other foods to adhere to such as fruits, vegetables etc..
*The point is that the body is our temporary home. But we should take care of it just as well as we take care of our car, those new shoes etc.., and not use it as a garbage can , so to speak.When the body brakes down then life as you may have known it is just about over. That is the main reason to keep it strong and in good working order not just for vanity purposes. Anyways...Take Care Guys...Aufweidersehen..Peace
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Name:
TAZBABY
Comment: Good Morning Everyone! Happy Tuesday, Good Long Post ProsperityJoy
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Name:
Prubin40
Comment: Good Morning Ya'll. My kid will graduate from highschool this friday. I'm getting hyped because I will be alone for the first time in 17 years. I love her but that heffa is a slob. I can't waite untill she's gone so I can keep my house clean.LOL
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RyTay27
Comment: Good Morning Everyone!!!!!
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Name:
RyTay27
Comment: >>Prubin, congrats!!! I have 2 split tails also and they are both sloppy, lazy children. I keep my foot on both of their necks, my 12 year old has kitchen duty and my 7 year old has bathroom duty. I told them there is no way in the world I will have 3 women living in the house and have a nasty bathroom or kitchen.
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Name:
WhoStoleTheSoul
Comment: Jessica Simpson trying to pass? Check the linkage: http://spilledinq.blogspot.com/
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Name:
Prubin40
Comment: RyTay27> I had to send my neice home because she was a slob too. She would leave the comb in the bathroom with hair in it. She never closed the icebox and she lefted paper everywhere. I couldn't take that.
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Sharmona
Comment: Good morning all...how is everyone today? Okay, I thought I was the only one with a niece that had to be sent home because she was NASTY!!! This little heifer would leave dirty clothes all over the bathroom, trash just overflowing. just nasty. So one day, while she was at school, I politely packed up her clothes and gave them to her as soon as she got off of the school bus.
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bigchassie
Comment: DE CHASSIE IS HURRE!! Hello, hello, hello, my dahlings! well, guys it's tuesday, and you know what that means.....
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m_moise76
Comment: *cracking the door open slowing, wondering if anyone would recognize me* Hello everyone!!! Its me, I am off today cause my oldest is not feeling well. What is going? I miss you all. I have a lot to tell everyone. Lets see where do I begin....
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YLawdY
Comment: Good morning family. Great post Prosperity. How come yall were eavesdropping at my house this morning? My daughter and the dayum hair all over the bathroom sink is an ongoing issue!!! The clothes all over the floor, chair, stereo!!!!
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Prubin40
Comment: Sharmona> Don't talk about dirty clothes. I have a washer and a dryer and she and my daughter would have damn clothes all over the place. I told them to wash everyday and on the weekends but they wouldn't. My daughter got damn dirty clothes in every basket in the house. I can't waite untill Aug.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: m_moise...Where you been gurl! Missed you. *big cyber hug*
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Sharmona...did you at least give her cab fare?
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Prubin40
Comment: YLawdY> Don't talk about the steroe. My kid burns Cd's and leave them all over the house. I throw them in the trash. I don't let her listen the the steroe while I'm in the house. It's to loud. I will ride that in the car with the music loud.LOL I love loud music in the car only.
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Name:
MDhornet
Comment: Happy Tuesday. Lemme go see if anyone is talking about the crazy Girlfriends from last night. Hopefully someone can tell me why they had Joan looking like some crazed crack ho.
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m_moise76
Comment: Girl I have been MIA due to a new job, and unfortunately it looks like that is the way it will be for a little while longer. The job is wonderful, people are great and I am learning a lot of IT things that I can take with me anywhere if I decide to leave or for advancement. For those of you who remember that I was doing the online schooling, well I got some good news the other day I am 4 classes away from getting my A.A, so I am taking 3 for the summer and 1 in the fall. Also in the fall I will be starting on classes at UCF for my BS. Things are going well. We are looking into whether to buy or build our own house, so you know I am really excited about that.
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m_moise76
Comment: MDhornet I had the televison on last night and I saw some of Girlfriends last night not nearly enough to understand what the heck was going on? Can you tell me where Darnell was going? Why the hell was Joan drunk on the side of a road?
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YLawdY
Comment: FOR ALL YOU CYBER STRIPPAS! At strip clubs, hip-hop is big business By Gail Mitchell
Sun May 7, 11:44 PM ET
It's no longer just the hardworking women who make money at strip clubs. These late-night hangouts, with their booming sound systems and gender-mixed crowds, have become big business for the record industry, particularly for hip-hop labels.
"Strip clubs have become the main breaking place for records, especially in the South," says Jermaine Dupri, president of urban music for Virgin Records.
The music industry increasingly has embraced the strip club out of necessity and convenience. Tighter radio playlists mean it's harder than ever to break a track on the FM dial, and regular dance clubs -- where songs get played for a moment and then lost in a mix -- tend to play what's already on the radio. At strip joints, DJs are able to play full tracks and can take a chance on underground and unproven material.
Two principal DJ collectives have sprung up that target the strip club circuit -- the Hen House in Detroit and Atlanta-based Hittmenn DJs, a 72-DJ collective established three years ago by Robert "Kaspa" Smith, now president, and CEO Greg Street.
"Right now our DJs reach 32 million people in 29 markets," Smith says.
PART OF THE LIFESTYLE
That's major reach for lifestyle promotions, Interscope urban promotion executive Kevin Black says. "When we work records, we work lifestyle venues like barbershops, beauty shops, skating rinks, bowling alleys -- anything with a culture to it. And strip clubs fall into that category."
"Word-of-mouth is still one of the biggest promotion factors out there," Universal Motown VP of rap promotion Troy Marshall adds. "That has helped turn strip clubs into big business."
Perhaps most important for the record promotion business, plenty of strip clubs break the stereotype of lecherous men in raunchy, smoke-filled haunts. At Sue's Rendezvous in Mount Vernon, New York, for example, DJ Carl Blaze of New York's top-rated R&B/hip-hop station WWPR (Power 105.1) plays the hits to a smartly dressed crowd. And while women -- ones not on poles -- are a minority, there are still plenty of them.
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YLawdY
Comment: "It's just another night out for us," one young woman at Sue's told Billboard. "Great music -- and this is where the men are."
Today, strip clubs are one of the fastest-rising segments among entertainment venues. There are more than 7,500 strip clubs across the United States, according to the Strip Club News Web site. Key venues are located in such prime markets as New York (Sue's Rendezvous), Detroit (Platinum), Charlotte, N.C. (Champagne), Miami (Diamonds) and Atlanta (Body Tap, Magic City, Strokers).
Houston's Club Onyx, for example, is an upscale venue established nearly two years ago to tap into what its Web site calls one of the "fastest-growing but underserved demographic segments -- the universe of highly successful and increasingly affluent urban males."
NETWORKING NEXUS
The strip club circuit also is a great place to see and be seen for those in the hip-hop business. Virgin's Dupri, who declares that "strip club airplay is (more influential) than radio airplay in Atlanta," has signed artists as a result of his strip club forays. These include rappers Mannish Man and T. Waters.
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YLawdY
Comment: "Strip clubs are definitely a good place to meet people, learn things and see what's happening in other people's worlds. I'm probably the only label president there every other week," Dupri says with a laugh.
Record executives love the easy access to quick feedback provided by strip clubs. "You can often gauge how hot your record is by the number of times strippers request the song during a given night," says one major-label promotion executive who requested anonymity.
Among the bounce-friendly, beat-banging R&B/hip-hop hit records that Atlanta's Hittmenn collective has promoted first in the strip clubs are Ciara's "1, 2 Step," Dem Franchize Boyz's "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It," Young Jeezy's "Trap or Die" and D4L's "Laffy Taffy."
"Lil Jon, the Ying Yang Twins and Ludacris are all artists who were helped early on" by strip club exposure, Smith adds. "Now today they are some of the biggest artists in the country."
LOOKING BACK
Urban music's working relationship with strip clubs dates back to the late '80s, when Luther "Luke" Campbell and the 2 Live Crew first gained notice. The dancers who worked with the censorship-threatened performer onstage and in his videos were strip club dancers.
"I didn't have a big budget where I could hire regional people," Campbell recalls. "I had to be creative and use all the different avenues I could think of."
Campbell is in the midst of promoting his first new project in several years: a three-CD boxed set titled "Uncle Luke -- My Life & Freaky Times," due May 16. Once again his promotional strategy includes strip clubs. Campbell is staging an "Are You Ms. Freaky Soul 2006" competition at strip clubs across the country. Prizes include $10,000 in cash, a Rolex watch and the opportunity to tour with Uncle Luke.
And Universal Motown's Marshall is coordinating a promotional strip club tour in June on behalf of "Go Head," a new track by Ali & Gipp. The plan includes visits to venues in 17 cities, including Houston's Onyx.
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moodring100
Comment: GOOD MORNING!Sigma>>Prison BREAKKKKKKK
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bigchassie
Comment: M_MOISE>hey gurlie! welcome back! *cybersisterhug* now, since Moise is back, maybe we can see Mothership, and that dayum prodigal heffa LA2ATL back up in here too!
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bigchassie
Comment: YLAWDY> but wasn't hip hop music established in the movie "The Player's Club?" several years before?
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YLawdY
Comment: bigchassie ...don't be asking no logical questions.
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Name:
star
Comment: Girlfriends was different last night. Poor Joan, she finally began to put herself first, but then she just got caught up in the whole A list lifestyle. I mean she looked so stupid at that party, then she got sick, then she asked old boy for a ride home. He went off on her. I was like dayyyummmm! Then she wrecked her ride, then she shows up to the courthouse in that dirty jogging suit jacket! Man! I was happy for Mya and her new house, they need to do something good with Lynn. Good season finale.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: Morning y'all. YLAWDY, I'll see you at about 12:30 today. We're having lunch at Delilah's Den, right? You know, to eat them good wings and listen to music! (LOL) Actually, I watched this MTV2 documentary on the Ying Yang twins a while back (LOL) and I gained a new-found respect for them. They might look stupid and sound stupid and are stupid but they stated, point blank, that they make music for the strip clubs and the strip clubs love them for that. Hey, that's a niche market that was untapped at the time. You gotta give those two clever Sambos credit where credit is due.
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B00TANEB00TUS
Comment: Morning folks....Quick poll....If a co-worker of yours...who happens to be middle eastern walks up to you at work and tells you to remain at home the next day...would you?...Huh, would you stay home?....Me, I'm staying the he11 home....
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moodring100
Comment: BOOT>>YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL US TWICE lOL
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Morning all real busy Asize 12 most of my stuff is stretch too. But today I have on a regular size 16 Clio suit the fit is nice but honey I am much happier to be in a 16 than a 26 Yet still I rise. Why did this nut pull up into the police station and shoot three cops. They smoked his butt too. What he did we call suicide by cop. Thats when a person whats to die but it too punk to take themselves out. Good riddence to bad rubbish. Have a stunning Tuesday everyone
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honeychile
Comment: Morning all! Hey Moise! We've missed you..and congrats on how things are going with the job and school. I wish I could take more than a class at a time these next semesters, but oh well. I'm rooting for you, girlie! BOOT> Yeah, you stay yo azz home...what the hell?
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Name:
bigheadbull2
Comment: Boot I would stay home but before I left for the day I would pass on that information to someone higher up ( homeland security maybe)
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Name:
B00TANEB00TUS
Comment: ...One mo Bootane comment...I'm sick and tired of Michael McDonald singing old R&B classics...I hear his voice everywhere....Let him sing minute by minute, what a fool believes, taking it to the streets...but don't let him become the voice of classic soul...I like his style but dayum enuff is enuff....You also have Darryl Hall singing Philly soul classics...I like his style too but dayum....thanks for the vent...have a great day...I know Luther and Marvin ain't here no 'mo...but....Where is the next great soul singer...Not gimmick but true soulman singa?
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Thats wants to die duh
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Name:
Thunny
Comment: Yeah n*gga, see me in the air %*$!(
Lear jet then I'm there n*gga
A 'G' somethin and I'm coastin
Hit a bird out the sky see him close in to the ocean
Yeah n*gga, I wear Billion Bapes, not Air n*gga
It's like five hundred for a pair n*gga
Whatchu fallin out your chair n*gga?
Dont stare n*gga
Yeah n*gga
N*ggaz act so phony
See me rockin my roley, you wanna call the po-lice
I'm Skateboard n*gga, you dont know me, ho please
I'ma show you mo' beats, mo' fees, mo' keys, mo' V's
BBC? Wait a minute, mo' cheese
Mo' hoes be flyin overseas
I told you I'm in the air n*gga, hmm, yeah n*gga
You see what's in my ear n*gga?
Quarter million for the pair n*gga
Dont ask about this here n*gga
Cuz a ring's somethin you dont wanna hear n*gga
See you scared n*ggaz, whatchu dare n*gga?
I pay Liberace fare n*gga, so yellow so rare n*gga
So there n*gga, hmm, yeah n*gga!
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MidwestMan1
Comment: Morning All, nice to see you m_moise76, Boot I'd be staying da hell home too for a few days!
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Name:
OSUN
Comment: Good Morning everyone. To all the neat freaks, keeping my house and car neat is something that I struggle with. They are not nasty, but messy. I have to make a great effort to keep things clean. Cleaning and maintaining a relationship with a male is like another full time job for me. Paper seems to be drawn to me. I don't understand how I have so much paper in my house. Prubin I understand that you want a clean house but the neice and the hair in the comb situation is a bit Monkish don't cha think?
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: star, thanks for the Girlfriends recap. I actually watched it, like, for the 1st time in months, maybe a year. Hell, I'm trying to catch up on the shows via BET and they don't show them in sequential order! Anyway, I watched it and maybe I missed the 1st 15 minutes of it, but I didn't know what the hell was goin' on with Joan. All I know is that the stylist who hooked Tracey Ellis-Ross up last night tore a page out of the "Mahogany" scrapbook and did the hair, make-up and dress totally Diana Ross circa 1974. That's the best I've ever seen her look.
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Name:
rayne
Comment: Boot- I would secretly contact the FBI & do a lot of praying.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: BOOTANE - I don't have a problem with Darryl Hall or Michael McDonald singing R&B standards. Their careers span decades and they've proven themselves to not be "gimmicks." Both of them have always been soulful. It's not like they're jumping on a bandwagon of some sort or going through a mid-career crisis. Like Rod Stewart - all of a sudden, he thinks he's Dean Martin or Bing Crosby or somebody. And Bon Jovi has a country hit. WTF? But no, Michael McDonald and Darryl Hall are doing the type of music that they've always done.
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bigchassie
Comment: BOOT>to be honest, i don't think there are no more great soul singers anymore. especially the ones that reaches the same caliber like the legends of the past has, now maybe what is that guys name Anthony something. he has a nice old school/gospel flavor to his sound.
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Bootane< Was that question hypothetical, about the middle eastern guy? Also, there are some good soul singers out there it’s just that the media hasn’t chosen to put any of them on a pedestal yet. Star< Girlfriends was great. I LOVE Wayne Brady, I missed the episode where she did him wrong, but I didn’t like how he was putting her down. Why is it that when you don’t want to talk to a guy they always gotta hate talking about “oh u aint’ cute anyway.” Obviously you thought so when you were tryin’ to hit it. Anyway, I’m glad Todd gave up on the custody thing although if she had done those things to my baby I would have had her azz hemmed up. Maya and Darnell, I don’t know, something about them irks me. I wish the producers of that show would stop trying to convince me that Lynn’s azz can sing.
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Soundin like benita batrell from in living color " Don't nobody talk about Michael McDonald cause that's when I go off " Thats a singing white boy and he was doin it waaay before Justin and them other fake soul singers sprang up.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: Boot/Chassie, I think there are still soul singers out there, but that's not what sells now. Anthony Hamilton has a great voice. That dude named "Donnie" that had the song "Cloud Nine" is phenomenal. But they're both little extra-dark, pear-shaped nappy-headed brothers who are not marketable. They sing too good and look too bad. The same standards that would allow Beyonce to become a singing sensation and have Kelly Price doin' "Mama Don't..." plays.
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bigchassie
Comment: BOOT>i like Micheal McDonald. his style never changes. in fact, there are a lot of good white musicians that has a great soulful sound, called "blue-eyed soul" AWB, Tower of Power, Doobie Bros, Hall and Oats. i remember jamming to them right along with Bootsys Rubber Band, and Parliment funkadellic, and Grand Central Station.
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Nappy< Co-sign on the singer issue. I went to go see Kelly Price in "Why did I get married?" and her voice fills up the room and your soul. It is simply amazing. Anyhoo, ever since videos got in heavy rotation image is everything. Back in the day it was a 'treat' when you actually got to see what a singer looked like. and let's not forget that when a lot of those older soul singers were alive they were nowhere near as celebrated as they are today. Luther was probably an exception due to the fact that his music was so incredibly catchy and he always had access to the best writers/producers. It wasn't soul in the purist sense.
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Thunny
Comment: Yeah n*gga.
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Name:
yunvme
Comment: <yawnin and strechin> thought I heard somebody mention Diana Ross. Girlfriends Girlfriends. Joans Dress. Thoughts? (now if that dont say gay, I dont know what does...lol)
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Name:
ThruTheFire
Comment: Nappy.......last night joan went to an "a" list party, missed maya's housewarming (because of the party). got there got tow up, hurled in the bathroom (at the party). asked wayne brady for a ride home and he really dissed her, he called her pathetic. she ended up sleeping it off on the side of the hill, started her car, bent down to pick up her shoes and the car started down the road (without a driver), her car ended up in someone's pool. when she finally made it to court to be a character witness for toni, she was late and the 3 girls were walking away. now, i have a question for anyone............why are joan and toni beefing?
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: IJA - I will as.sume that you never saw Luther in concert. It was indeed "Soul" in the purest sense. Just like Lou Rawls is nothing like Marvin Gaye is nothing like James Brown, Luther was very unique and couldn't be compared to anyone else. He was the pure essence of soul.
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bigchassie
Comment: yall know who i'm feeling? that song by Ghostface and Ne-yo (forgot the name of the group, Ghostface sumthing or nother) and the title iludes me too. "Why you do your man like that?" SOMEBODY HELP ME OUT? WHAT IS THE NAME AND SONG? YALL KNOW WHAT SONG I'M TALKING ABOUT?
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MDhornet
Comment: Man, Nappy you got me cracking up over here. "They might look stupid and sound stupid and are stupid???? You gotta give those two clever Sambos credit where credit is due???" Okay, (talking to myself) take a breath. Stop laughing.
Um BOOT, you did ask this co-worker what the he!! they were talking about right?
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bigchassie
Comment: I also like Lupe Fieasco too.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: Yunvme - You know how I feel about Diana n her chillun. ThruTheFire - I tuned into Girlfriends the last few seconds that Joan looked normal. Next thing I knew, she was waking up in the grass. Thanks for that re-cap!
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Name:
honeychile
Comment: IJA> If you are trying to email me, our system is on the brinks right now, I'll hit you up when it's back up.
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MDhornet
Comment: I just don't get the whole Joan storyline period. Maybe I was just gone from Girlfriends too long. I find it hard to buy that a successful career woman is that damned pathetic. I just don' understand the storyline.
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Hey Ms IJA and Ms Chassie . Luther was class personified on stage. Thing was a perfectionist in everything he did. You did not mind shelling out 100.00 to see and hear him cause you knew he was worth every cent. Showmanship at it's best no doubt
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Nappy< When I think of soul music and soul singers, Luther doesn't come to my mind, Johnny Taylor, Otis Redding etc. come to mind. More intricate melodies and textured voices come to mind. I didn't put Luther down by sayin it wasn't soul in the purist sense, but obviously you thought so. And no I do not think that anyone is "incomparable"
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YLawdY
Comment: Nappy...you aint right in da head. See you at lunch...To the window....to the wall..
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Why did they let that chick on Girlfriends have custody of the baby? She couldn't keep my goldfish.
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Let's talk purest. Donny Hathaway,Fred Hammond, John P. Kee, James Moore(baddest dude to ever open that whole in his face to sing)Marvin Gaye(take his music if stranded on an island)Johnathan Butler and the list goes on, Oh and my Steveland Morris
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: mdhornet....I wouldn't ask no questions. I'd be like "Asalaam Alaykum" and sleeping in the next day.
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Name:
bigheadbull2
Comment: ylawdy stop LOL@you
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: IJA - Well, soul is a relative term, just like beauty. Some will argue then cut you over whether or not Teena Marie is soulful.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Jerry Butler, Sam Cooke, Smokey, Teddy Tenderazz....
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Nappy_Edges ...I will argue with you AND cut you if you say my gurl aint soulful. Her new CD drops today and she did it all herself. Soul and skillz. She deserves her card.
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TAZBABY
Comment: OOh Boot about the Middle Eastern person telling me NOT to come to work, I would stay at home but because I am curious I would have to ask him Why you want me to stay at home? Then I would sound the alarm. Yep I would Snitch my azz off.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: YLAWDY - Naw, girl...after lunch at the strip club, we gonna band together with our razors and box cutters and jump somebody ELSE'S as$ who don't think she's soulful. I loves me some Teena. Homegirl opted to have a lukewarm career in R&B music. She could have been the white folk's blue-eyed Queen of Soul and made a zabrillion dollars doing so. But no, she kept it "real", whatever that means.
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TAZBABY
Comment: I had a hard time with Girlfriends last night because I have missed the two previus episodes. But Joan is an Attorney and I just didn't feel her being sloppy last night. If folks gave me the cold shoulder like they were giving her I would have been out of there. Drunk and all. I'm glad toni got her child and happy Maya and Darnell got their house but Lynn cannot Sing no Not to me not at all. Now was that the season finale? Is that how it ends. Oh Yeah, I love Toni's Mother She crack me up all the time.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: Wait wait wait a minute. I thought Joan quit/got fired from the law firm and opened up a Tapas restaurant with William as a backer. I thought BET had me all caught up?!? (LOL)
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Nappy_Edges ....was that you a coupla lawn chairs over with hair frying, skin burning sitting in that hot azz sun at Unity Day last year waiting to see Teena?
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Name:
yunvme
Comment: Joan is not a practicing lawyer anymore. I really hope the show doesnt get canceled. Thats not the way to go out. To many unresolved issues.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: *Impatiently tapping foot* How come that crazy A chick got the baby?
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: And why come those women seem to get dumber each season rather than maturing with age like the rest of us *diva pose, nose in the air*
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: YLAWDY - YEAH YEAH, um, no, that wasn't me. Last time I went to Unity Day, I saw SuperCat smokin' a blunt outside of the Embassy Suites on the parkway and a cop went up to him and shook his hand. I was supposed to see Tony Toni Tone but they were rained out. SuperCat, TTT, you do the maff to figure out my last Unity day.
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bigchassie
Comment: BIGHEAD> 100.00 to see Luther. dayum! i remember back in the day when you wanted to see three groups like Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliment and Funkadellic for 20.00 dollars!
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: YLAWDY - Tony's ex little white man suddenly dropped the charges once he got on the stand. I wasn't paying attention real good, but he looked at her from up on the stand, she looked pitiful and dumb then he felt sorry for her. They hugged and it was over. Dumb.
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MDhornet
Comment: bigheadbull, definitely feeling you on Jonathan Butler. I could listen to him all day. I fell in love with him back in the late 80s I think it was when he did that song Sarah Sarah. It just spoke to my fragile teenage heart. His voice is beautiful to me.
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MDhornet
Comment: Hope that's the same Jonathan Butler you're talking about - does a lot of jazz, gospel now??
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B00TANEB00TUS
Comment: Look, I ain't sayin McDonald is a gimmick...but ya gotta admit he's all ovah the place singing Motown classics...True, his voice is distinctive..."oooh, yeah now" growl...."Oooh yeah now"....I have a greatest hits CD of his....Next time you hear him....trust me, it will be soon...Count the "ooooh, yeah nows"....It's about 5 a song....Ooooh, yeah now...About the middle eastern dude asking me to stay home....No, I wouldn't ask questions....but I'd tell a friend....friends....Yeah...it's a hypothetical question
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bigchassie
Comment: NAPPY>oooh gurl, you took me back to the day! shoot! i remember hittin my first toke! it was at the Blue Swan Nightclub back in 78! my best friend and schoolmate Gloria Jacks gave me my first joint and i took a deep inhale and coughed my arse off! i didn't get a real good high till i hooked up with this actor guy by the name of "S" (can't say his real name cause he's a big time actor now) and hooked me up with some Sess and hunny i was like...DAYYYYUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! talk about real mellow! yeah, those were the days!
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yunvme
Comment: Re: Toni- before they went to court Toni and her husband had a brief talk. She said, "I knou you not gonna bring up that %*$ault charge in court". He was like why not? She said, just remember that anything you say about me in court, you will one day have to explain/say to our daughter. Fast forward to court. He told his lawyer he really didnt want it brought up. She said "do you want your daughter". She proceeded to ask him about Toni's night in jail for %*$ault. He looked over at Toni and as much as he has been shady in the past, he saw the mother of his child, and didnt want to dog her like that. He knows she's a good mother and didnt want to "go there". Perfect TV resolution.
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MDhornet
Comment: TAZ, I'm witcha. I kept wondering why she didn't just leave. Who's that desperate for attention?
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TAZBABY
Comment: Hey MDHornet, I was frowned up looking at that scene. First, she wasn't dressed for the occassion, everyone was casual but her, I would have turned around then and left especially since I was alone and after throwing up, I would have just quietly slipped away. That dummy walks back into the party all willie neely looking messy. Who writes that show? Classy Black Women don't do that...Do they? Well I don't and won't. But I had to crack up when she was talking to her girls telling them to stay inside her dress.
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bigchassie
Comment: I Need to find a good Martini resipee. i ordred from Macy's this ten piece Martini Server set with the shaker and martini glasses and tray so i'm going to see about learning to make a good martini.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: Bootane, what're you talking about? I haven't heard Michael McDonald anywhere recently! I know that maybe a year, maybe even 2 years ago he came out with a Motown CD. I haven't seen any infomercials or anything. Are you sure he isn't all over the place, and by "place" I mean your own mind?
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TommyStrong
Comment: good morning everybody...how about this...in the NYC market Girlfriends was pre-empted with 2 episodes of Tyler Perry's new sitcom...I am very happy for Tyler and all of his success but this new show.....if I had paid to see it I would demand my money back! CTFU@YLawdY - Tenderazz, havent heard that in years! lol
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YLawdY
Comment: Bananas containing three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant , sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression:
According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS:
Forget the pills -- eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood..
< B>
Anemia:
High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure:
This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it the perfect way to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration have just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power:
200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation:
High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers:
One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn:
Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief..
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YLawdY
Comment: Morning Sickness:
Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites:
Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affec ted area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves:
Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
< STRONG>Overweight and at work?
Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers:
The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control:
Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature. < /B>
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD):
Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking:
Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress:
Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes:
According to research in "The New England Journal of Medicine," eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the car bohydrates, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"
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YLawdY
Comment: I think Michael McDonald's on a couple of commercials doing soul music. One is for a phone company and the other escapes me at the moment.
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Name:
asize12
Comment: Hmmm, 89 messages @ 10am???? Very impressive! Looks like we're on the road to a chatty Tuesday!
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: They left out a couple of other uses for bananas in that article...One is as a facial mask and the other....
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Name:
asize12
Comment: Where are my manners??? GOOD MORNING KINGS & QUEENS!;-) Happy Tuesday:-)
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: Chassie, there are literally hundreds of different martini recipes. Are you looking for a classic one? You know, the James Bond type? Or the girly-flavored ones? The main ingredient is a good, smooth vodka and I say use anything but Smirnoff. Skyy is good and not too expensive. So is 3 Olives. Other than that, it all depends on what your favorite flavors are.
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YLawdY
Comment: asize12 ....where are you? Had me looking at my clock sideways for a minute.
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Name:
Prubin40
Comment: OSUN> What does Monkish mean? I don't mean a small amount of hair. She never cleaned the comb.
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Honeychile< I didn't try to email you yet. I just got out of these meeting that will probably spurn a lawsuit, so I'm glad your email is down lol. I don't need to be playing around. Nappy< I know that's right about the term soulful or even the term good music. My mom and godfather can't stand Stevie Wonder, I'm like wtf.
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YLawdY
Comment: asize12....If you lived in Siberia and you wronged the Russians government, where would they send you?
What should one call a male ladybird?
How come overtones and undertones are the same thing?
If you take an oriental person and spin him around a few times, does he become disoriented?
Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn't usually wear any pants?
If Barbie is so popular, then why do you have to buy her friends?
I know you can be overwhelmed, and I know you can be underwhelmed, but can you just be whelmed?
Why are turds pinched off at the end?
What would Cheese say if they got their picture taken?
What would Geronimo say if he jumped out of an airplane?
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Tommy< somebody sent me an email about Tyler's new show coming on. I think it will be on in DC soon...isn't it something about the wife being on drugs and burning down their house so they move in with the husband's parents?? I'd tune in to see Allen Payne...what exactly made the show so bad?
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asize12
Comment: >MDhornet, Girlfriends was THE BOMB (dam*n, do people still say that?) Anywho, yes, Joan looked like a straight CRACKHEAD and that's exactly what she gets for treating her friends like that! From the looks of it, I don't think the show will end cuz it said "Season" Finale, not Series Finale.
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YLawdY
Comment: Prubin40 ....she was referring to this annoying detective on USA/TNT one of those initial channels that has OCD. His name is Monk. The name of the show is Monk. P.S. I would like to blow him up!
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TommyStrong
Comment: IJA>the show was absolutely terrible! I always considered Allen Payne a decent actor but he proved to be anything but last night....the show was stupid and bufoonish...Tyler said on a local morning news show yesterday that it will take you back to the daze when sitcoms were funny but addressed serious issues ala All in the Family or Good Times...but altho I love Good Times, I look at them now and i'm like this shyt is terrible! The acting was terrible, the jokes were poorly written - just like House of Payne!I was disappointed...the premise of the show is his wife is a crackhead and he and his father are firemen....the wife has been spending the money he gives her to run the house w/on drugs....she burns down the house to get the insurance money forcing them to move in w/his family (he and father have an estranged relationship)...come to find out the ins was cancelled becuz she didnt pay the bill....why would she burn down the house for the ins money knowing she hadn't paid the bill? It was just stupid...so the cops are lookin for her and she runs off leaving Allen at his parents w/the kids....if you've see any of Tyler's plays it kinda has that feel to it...i waiting for Pops to break out in a song!
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Name:
TAZBABY
Comment: AAh YLawdY, I love me some Monk, he cracks me up. I saw it this weekend, too funny.
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Name:
asize12
Comment: >ThruTheFire, Joan & Toni are beefing because Joan has done a total 360 and start just looking out for herself & in the process, she got the "big head" and became fulla herself and she just put her friends on the backburner. >Napps, I LOVE Donnie! He kinda reminds me of Donnie Hathaway & Stevie Wonder mixed together. And you're right, he's dark skinned w/ "nappy" hair so he's not marketable. *that is just SO stupid to me!* I love him because he talks about black pride and his entire cd is so beautiful, it's a classic.
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YLawdY
Comment: For all the Girlfriends fans, a quote from a news article today: Safely returning
“America’s Next Top Model,” “WWE,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Smallville,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” “Girlfriends,” “Beauty and the Geek”
“Model” and “WWE” are the only shows already renewed, but the other five are safe, representing the top programs on each network (except the WB’s “7th Heaven,” which has been canceled).
“Girlfriends” and “Chris” are expected to carry on UPN’s urban sitcom tradition on Monday, perhaps with Wayne Brady’s new “Flirt.” Or they may be paired with “Model,” though CW would be smarter to attempt to finally launch a successful show out of the former.
“Girls” and “Mars” would certainly be compatible, but the CW may want to launch a new show at 9 p.m. Tuesday instead. “Smallville” and “WWE” will likely stay on Thursday and Friday, respectively.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: asize12 - It was the season finale, but the show has not been renewed yet. Remember, this IS a ghetto-asded network we're talking about here. Remember how "Moesha" ended? Ray J got kidnapped by Lil Kim and Brandy fainted. Theee end. (LOL) I believe that was the season finale "Cliffhanger." There was no series finale.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: YLAWDY - I stand corrected regarding "Girlfriends."
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Tommy< ok yeah, that's stupid. Co-sign on the Good Times analysis although I still watch the reruns as if I've never seen them. Much of what Tyler does is not necessarily appreciated b/c it's funny, much of it is irony, like the irony of the gospel music that incorporates a pistol toting granny that smokes and listens to rap music. Without the irony I'm not sure how effective his writing is. Another thing I noticed about Good Times and other shows of that era, now that I'm thinking about it, is that the actor's voices are SO LOUD. I wonder if that comes from being plucked off broadway where you have to project.
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OSUN
Comment: Prubin, I was joking with you. There is a show called Monk and he has an extreme case of excessive manic obsessive compulsive disorder or something like that. Everything has to be sterile and neat and in its place. He is a germaphobe and carries wipes to sanitize his hands after he shakes hands.
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ImJustAsking
Comment: YlawdY< What about HALF AND HALF????? I only watch 2 black shows, that and girlfriends. Nappy< I was for sure it would be cancelled as well. And knowing how the TV industry is, it may still be.
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bigchassie
Comment: NAPPY>Skyy is a vodka? i didn't know that. i love that blue bottle too. so pretty. i like Absoult and grey goose. i'm gonna have fun making some good marini. i want to make it "JAMES BOND STYLE! SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED! LOL!
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: NAPPY> *James Bond music playing in the background*
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Name:
TommyStrong
Comment: asize12>one of my favorite singers who I will put up against Patti, Aretha or any of them and she used to be in a group w/Kelly Price is Melonie Daniels...she is arguably one of the greatest vocalist alive...but...shes overweight and unappealing to some so record companies say that cant market her.....but they push people whose skills are mediocre at best like Ashanti becuz she's cute and Beyonce got looks and body (dayum!) but neither can hold a candle to the real singers that arent given the chance they deserve.......another favorite of mine is Cheryl "Pepsi" Riley
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Name:
OSUN
Comment: Nappy Miles was kidnapped due to Ray J's association with Lil Kim's character and her people.
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: NAPPY> maybe while i'm shaking the martini in the skaker i can conjure up Sean Connery in his white tux! lol! OOH JAMES! *Sulty, smokey voice a la%*$!(@ galore*
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: Mawnin Y'all ... lemme scroll up to catch up
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Name:
TommyStrong
Comment: IJA>i love Good Times but at the same time i'm like the acting and directing back then was terrible...and yes they were loud...you're right - its probably becuz most of them came from Broadway...Tyler's show has potential but he needs to recast a couple of people and the writing has to get better
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: OSUN - bottom line, somebody drank a pretty bottle of Skyy Vodka, wrote the last Moesha script and left me thinking of the stupidest plot known to tv mankind.
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Name:
TommyStrong
Comment: i dont remember anybody getting kidnapped...the last thing i remembered was one of the girls was pregnant but they didnt know who
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: TOMMYSTRONG> hi sweetie! say, who sung that song called "Affair" was it Cheryl Pepsi Riley or Charelle?
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: Jessica Simpson trynna past for smart? .... CTFU!
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: Chassie - yes, Skyy is delicious and it is indeed vodka. I can drink it straight, but it must be straight from the freezer. Grey Goose is my all-time favorite, but I only get it twice a year. Or more if I remember to get it at the duty-free airport shops. It's expensive, but worth it. You can always count on me for vodka recommendations. I know that a wine connoisseur is called a sommelier. I wonder if there's a fancy name for vodka connoisseurs? Other than alcoholic.
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Name:
yunvme
Comment: Cheryl Pepsi Riley "Thanks for my child". I remember they use to play both versions to death in NYC. Loved that damn song.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: MDhornet, based on the way Joan's character acted last night I hope that is the end of Girlfriends ... I could barely stand to watch her acting like an azz
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Nappy< I’m glad you brought up Vodka, how can people say vodka is delicious? I thought the definition of vodka was tasteless, colorless, and odorless? What constitutes the deliciousness?
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Name:
asize12
Comment: *sigh* >ylawd, girl I'm ova here CRYING laughing & these folks at my job think I'm a retard! LMAO!!!! I LOVE those stupid questions! Thanks sis!
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: Tommy-most of the Good Times cast was from Broadway...but I'm not sure if Thelma was. What was her excuse for being so loud? Was she partially deaf? I love Bernadette Stanis - she's one of the finest, most beautifullest sistahs to ever get an acting job. And I mean that lesbionically. Her acting, however, was good n terrible. She's still beautiful, though.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Melonie Daniels?? Who is she? Your high school sweetheart, chick in the church choir?
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: NAPPY> oh great! thanks! i love to get some of that skyy. love that pretty blue bottle! that will look good with the rest of my bottles!
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Name:
asize12
Comment: >tommy & IJA, when did Tyler Perry's show come on? What's the name of it?
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bigchassie
Comment: NAPPY> there is this website called the webtender.com. they got some serious drink resipees. like a peach orgasum, a kiss in the dark, to hot holy sheyatt!
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: IJA - Regarding vodka, I can start by saying that Smirnoff is the worst because it has an awful taste. Like rusty tap water. Grey Goose is best because it indeed has no flavor and is so smoothe going down, it feels like you took a puff on an inhaler instead of drinking alcohol. Skyy has a slight vanilla-ness (or something) to it. It feels good going half-way down, but has a sting the rest of the way, which I love. So yes, they are tasteless in essence, but they all have a distinctive feel or texture, if you will.
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YLawdY
Comment: UNDER THE HEADING WTF??? Court sentences German cannibal to life for murder 2 hours, 14 minutes ago
A German court on Tuesday handed down a life sentence for murder to Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal jailed for killing a man and feeding on his flesh, overturning a previous manslaughter conviction.
Meiwes, 44, was on trial for the second time after Germany's top criminal court ruled his 2004 conviction was too lenient.
Meiwes severed the penis of computer engineer Bernd-Juergen Brandes in a bizarre pact hatched over the Internet. Both men tried to eat the severed organ, but without success. After heavy bleeding, Brandes finally fell unconscious.
Believing him to be dead, Meiwes laid his victim on a bench and plunged a knife into his neck while videotaping what he was doing. He later froze parts of the body and ate some of it.
The Frankfurt court ruling means Meiwes could be eligible for parole after serving a mandatory 15 years in jail.
Last week, prosecutors demanded Meiwes' original eight-year manslaughter sentence be overturned and that he be jailed for life, arguing that he could murder again and this time without his victim's agreement.
Prosecution lawyers argued that Meiwes had killed to satisfy his sexual urges but his defense team said he had acted on his victim's request, a crime similar to euthanasia which in Germany carries a maximum prison term of five years.
During the trial, the court heard how Meiwes made contact with Brandes over the Internet and then met him at his home in the western town of Rotenburg in 2001.
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yunvme
Comment: alright Nappy. You betta know your vodkas girl.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: re: Soul music ... Anthony Hamilton is the voice of pure soul right now, not to mention that he has intricate arrangements and everything ... IJA, Luther is pure soul, no question ... just listen to a greatest hits ... pure soul doesn't always sound like James Brown or Johnnie Taylor, but I do understand what you are saying ... Luther really came up during the disco era for one and two he did attempt to cross over in his later releases
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bigchassie
Comment: NAPPY>yeah, i know about the sommonlier as being a connosuer of wine. good quesstion on vodka. probally called a %*$! arse drunk! lol! (hic!) verrrryy good year!
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: Chassie - after you get your vodka then you hit the liqueur aisle of the wine & spirits shop. You'll then start getting all the flavored liqueurs to go with. For the fruity ones, try to get some fruit garnish to go with it. There's nothing more succulent than vodka-infused watermelon..................yunvme, I don't know whether to be proud or shamed of my grain-licka knowledge.
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YLawdY
Comment: Nappy...what about Mohawk? My dad gave me a shot of that once when I had a chest cold and I swear it broke up everything in my chest almost instantly.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Or was that brandy?
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: Speaking of grain-liquor knowledge, did you know that you can distill a cheap vodka at home to make it on par with the good stuff? Yes, with a water purifier, you can take, say, Smirnoff and "purify" it the same way that you'd purify water. Gotta run to my AA meeting, I'll catch up later! (LOL) I've never tried that - I saw it on "Mythbusters" which comes on Discovery or TLC.
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Nappy< I was asking b/c on dateline they got self proclaimed vodka snobs to do taste tests using low end - high end vodka and for the most part people couldn't tell the difference. Then they had some experts from I believe russia, or wherever Vodka's home is, and they were talking about the definition of it etc.
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: YLAWDY - the brown liquors are usually the ones that linger in the chest and bust up bronchitis. I've never heard of Mohawk.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: Nappy, you need to try Thors Hammer vodka *wink* I pretty much stick with Absolut though ... Skyy and Grey Goose don't sit well with me ... IJA, the first sip of all of them has taste .... after a while you don't tasste as much *snicker*
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: asize12< I didn't see it, but I have the email for the dates that have been posted so far. I believe they got it off his web site.
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Name:
yunvme
Comment: Nappy- knowledge is always a good thing. Unless we were face to face and you were all in my face slurring words and spittin', trying to explain the difference between the vodkas.
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Name:
SanDiego
Comment: Hey everyone I'm off today cramping so bad feel all in my back, What yall think about Girlfriend lastnight it was not good at all. have a good day
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Priceless< if you would have listened closely to your T.I. cd you would know that "there's no grey goose if you don't get loose."
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Name:
asize12
Comment: >IJA, what's the name of it?
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: LOL@yunvme. As badly as I wanna go get a swig of Skyy outta the bottle right now, I've got to pick up my son in 3 hrs. Don't wanna be smellin' like Saturday night on a Tuesday afternoon. IJA - Then I must be a Black Russian (LMBAO) because I too can taste the difference. Flom now own, I vant to be called Napprishka Edglikov. Okay, gotta run for real now. PRICELESS, I'll look up Thors Hammer. In Pennsyvania, the licker stores are all controlled by the state, so they don't have that many options. The popular vodkas are always in stock, but others come n go. I'll ask if they have Thors Hammer next time I go. Or I'll look for it in Delaware and N. Jersey.
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ImJustAsking
Comment: asize12<Okay here's the big news. Many of you may remember a few years
ago
I was going to do a TV show. I was very surprised to find out that in TV
When you go the traditional route you really have no control over your
show.
They tell you what to say how to say it, and when to say it. God forbid
you
Try to say Jesus. This didn't sit right with me at all. When it comes to
me
And us, I feel like I know what we want to see so if it doesn't feel right
To me I have no problems walking away no matter how much money. I was not
About to go on TV and have you all talking about me saying this show is
Terrible...what was TP thinking. It wouldn't have been because I didn't
Give my ideas, but because they shot it down and I was out of there on the
Next thing smoking.
With all of that said and because of your investment in me I was able
To write produce and finance 10 episodes of my first sitcom called "House
Of
Payne." Allen Payne (Jason's Lyric, New Jack city) plays a fireman named
CJ
Whose wife has a drug problem and burns down their house to cover their
Mounting debt. So, they have to move in with his parents Cassie Davis,
and
Lavan Davis form "Madea Goes to jail." CJ has two kids and he and the
grinds
Have very different ideas about raising these kids.
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: continued!!!! I wanted this show to be what my movies are, funny but serious with
Life lessons in them. Like my plays, but for TV. Do you remember those
shows
Like "All in the Family", "Good Times", "Rosanna", and "Cosby". The shows
That everybody wanted to watch because they not only made you laugh, but
They had some heart. Well, this is one of those shows with heart.
This was a huge gamble, but if I know anything I know my faith. And
I know my folks, And that's why I did it. If you give it a chance I know
You're going to love it. This has never been done before, not like this,
But I know it will work. I'm always asking ya'll to do something, buy
this
Book, pay to see my movie, buy a ticket to the play, buy the DVD. Well,
now
I can say this wont cost you anything, just a little of your time.
Now, these ten episodes will run only in ten selected cities. If I
Had my choice it would have been all over the country. I'm working with a
Company that needs to know that people will watch it if it goes to the
rest
Of the country. So it airs in New York and Houston on May eighth, and
eight
Other cities soon to follow. Here is the schedule as I know it. As we
get
Closer to the release date of your city, I'll send you some reminders. I
Hope I don't work on your nervous by then. (smile) If you are not in these
Cities and you know people in them, please call them and ask them to
watch.
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Name:
mickipoo
Comment: hey fam. I posted late last night and most of y'all missed it so here it is again. Randomness of life . . . why did I go to a wedding this weekend in the DC area and LL's wife was in attendence looking a HAM?!?!? I was shocked because I thought she would dress better than that. Why did girlfriend have on some wide leg jeans . . . I mean they were cute and all but is that really wedding attire? She didn't bring her fine husband.
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: CONTINUED...New York - CHANNEL 9
MONDAY MAY 8TH AT 9PM THEN AGAIN AT 10PM THEN MONDAY THRU FRIDAY FOR TWO
WEEKS AT 11PM
Houston CHANNEL 20
MONDAY MAY 8TH AT 9PM THEN AGAIN AT 10PM THEN MONDAY THRU FRIDAY FOR TWO
WEEKS AT 11PM
More information on the following cities to come:
CHICAGO JUNE 19 THRU 26TH CHANNEL 20TH
PHILLY CH 17 TH
JUNE 17 THR 24 TH
WASH DC CH 50 TH
JUNE 17 THRU 24 TH
ATLANTA TBS CH 17 TH
JUNE 7TH WVER WEDNESDAY 9 AND 9:30
DATES FOR THESE CITIES WILL BE IN JUNE STILL TO COME.
DALLAS CH 21
MIAMI CH 33
BALTIMORE CH 54
RALIGH CH 28
P.S. Maybe you can forward this email to other people in the area. We need
Every body to watch. I know you're going to love it.
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: IJA - Girl, I was soo damned confused, I read half this article and thought you were talking about yourself. I'm like "wha, who...when was she gonna do her own tv show?" Okay, I'm gone for real now...
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: NAPPY/IJA>I tell yall, now i'll deal with some vodka. i forgot how good vodka taste with orange juice but i swear, i will never (as much as i like it too) mess with tequila again! hunny, friday when i left work and i tell yall i only had one, just one glass! and i was through! toe up from the flo up!
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: IJA...are you TP's press agent?
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Name:
asize12
Comment: Momma Chass, when are you coming to the Lou? We should do lunch:-)
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Nappy_Edges...I was confused too. Especially when she referenced TP. I was thinking "What,she got a stage name". "Heffa turning down offers like she paid or something? Skripping maids don't make THAT much." CTFU
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Name:
TommyStrong
Comment: Chassie>Cherrelle sang Affair....Yunvme>Thanks for My child did nothing to showcase Cheryl's voice...she has an incredible gift - did you see Madea's Class Reunion? Shes in that singing her azz off...Nappy>I thought Bernadette Stanis was a decent actor - or maybe i was blinded by her beauty becuz that heffer looks good as hel1....Priceless>Grey Goose doesnt sit well w/me either and sometimes I have problems w/Belvidere as well....YLawdY>LOL...yes Melonie is the chick in the church choir and is a good friend...she has sung background for everybody and I do mean everybody...mostly Mariah (for over 10 years), Fred Hammond, Karen Clark, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Donald Lawrence, Michael Bolton, Olandra Draper, Youthful Praise, Kim Burell, the list goes on and on....she is incredible...she also sings the theme song for Half and Half
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: ylawdy< noooooooo I'm T.I.'s press agent. I posted that so asize12 would have her questions answered b/c she seemed real interested lol.
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: YlawdY and Nappy< I went back and read it, and it did sound like I had a TV show LMAO...*sigh* maybe one day...
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Name:
asize12
Comment: LMAO @ Napps! Girl, you & me BOTH! I was reading it and I was like "Ooooh, IJA been holding out on us w/ her tv show"! LOL
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: IJA, I still believe I have to rock out wit my c.o.c.k out to enjoy TI *smirk*
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: NAPPY> *Hold up shot glass of skyy vodka in the air in toast, with russian accent* "PROST! LITTLE MAMUSKA! *jerks back shot while drinking straight*
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Pricless< ho, I told you weeks ago to relisten to that cd, I even gave you suggestions on songs. Now, you WILL be converted to Clifford Harrisology. hmm *rubs hands together evilly* I'm goin to have to change my strategy with some of you people.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Priceless ..???!!!
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: IJA, you need to change your evil ways *smirk*
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Name:
yunvme
Comment: Priceless- um...do what now?
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: ASIZE12> i will be there saturday. i will be staying till wednesday. hit me tonight on IM and i will give you my sisters number where you can notify me or e mail me at chassiedot2002@yahoo.com.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, what you need to know? *smirk* if it's my previous expression I heard Christopha from the Sopranos say that sunday when he was telling his homeboy to go on and get focked up *snicker*
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Priceless ....*looking prim & proper* I don't think that's an appropriate expression for a "lady" of your calibre. Now if it had come from....
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Priceless< the sopranos must have stolen that line from Stifler in American Pie. I guess they introduced it to a more mature audience. *looks smug* LMAO
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, if it had come from 308!? ... CTFU! you know after she say some shat like that she have to say "PRAISE GOD" ... but on the real how ladylike can one be whilest listening to Sir T.I? *smirk*
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: IJA, you youngins think you evented most shat .... it's an old expression but I heard it on the show sunday and was tripping off of it
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Name:
bigheadbull2
Comment: mdhornet that's the one. He sings this song called Falling in Love with Jesus and I am done for the rest of the day cause I know just how he feels. I am a blubbring mess by the end of that song you can feel the annointing on it.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: oops I meant invented *sucking teeth* and before you can say anything IJA STFU! *smirk* Nappy shouldn't have been passing around vodka so early in the day
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Priceless< ok good, so does that mean you will be breaking out Urban Legends and unzipping your pants?
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: IJA, why would I unzip my pants? take yo lil superhead freaky self on outa here *mean mugging*
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Name:
asize12
Comment: Okay momma chass, what about monday? I only get an hour lunch, will you have access to a car?
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: ASIZE12>I think so, let me see what i can do. i may have my big headed brother with me. he just got back from Germany. i haven't seen him in almost 15 years.
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Name:
letmein
Comment: WHERE YOU AT THINKER? THIS FOR YOU!! LOL!!!
Mexican earthquake
A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale hits
Mexico. Two million Mexicans have died and over a million are injured.
The country is totally ruined and the government doesn't know where to
start with asking for help to rebuild.
The rest of the world is in shock.
Canada is sending troopers to help the Mexican army control the riots.
Saudi Arabia is sending oil.
Other Latin American countries are sending supplies.
The European community (except France) is sending food and money.
The United States, not to be outdone, is sending two million
replacement Mexicans.
God Bless America !
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Name:
bigheadbull2
Comment: ylawdy LOL@ what would cheese say funny
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: wonder where is my gurl Zydeco at? *South hampton accent* OH TIFFY DEAR? CARE FOR SOME TRUFFLES? LOL!
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Pricless< I think Harriet is starting to rub off on you, you responded to sh!t that hasn't been said yet. umm...415...654...308! that's it 308 LMAO.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: CTFU@letmein ... that is a good one
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Name:
bigheadbull2
Comment: No offense Tommy but this is the one time I would not be checkin for Allen Paynes acting abilities. I have never seen him as a very stong actor but when you look like him all you have to do is show up.
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Priceless< if you don't unzip your pants how else will you get your c.o.c.k out, I know you got one. LMAO
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: IJA, why are you concerned about my c.oc.k? I thought you only trolled for men *smirk*
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: bighead, Allen Payne usually does more than just show up though ... I heard he was difficult to work with ... have you starred in any plays with him?
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Name:
Tenacious
Comment: Afternoon everybody! Happy Tuesday!
OKAY, what about that foolishness with David Blaine last night during Primetime w/ thousands of people watching? WTH!Apparently, (according to the news)he could only hold his breath underwater for 7 min instead of 9 (almost died) but he received much coverage and pub around the world?!?!? Obviously, there is some financial incentive involved (enough to live off of until his "new" stunt next yr) but WHY??? Only clear folks...let your behind approach ABC w/the same great idea or better yet see how many people show up to watch your tail AND don't even think about getting a QUALITY, well-written television show for US on ABC during primetime( My Wife and Kids w/ D. Wayans doesn't count..hated it!)... *OKAY, I'm done*.
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Name:
Tenacious
Comment: >Speaking of plays I see where Sherman Helmsley created and is currently touring with a play called "Sweet Potato Pie". The plot is built around this great pie and the restaurant that sells/serves it...so much so that Ginuwine stops in while on tour and never leaves? I'm all for folk gettin' their money/hustle on but come on....do people think we will go see/support anything?!?!?
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: Tenacious, Blaine has friends in Hollyweird so he keeps getting attention for stupid shat ... when they showed him come up for air my only thought was "fock outa here ... I don't care if this fool suffocate or drown"
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Name:
MidwestMan1
Comment: Preach on Priceless, I saw that shat on the news this morning and was like "AND!"
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Name:
Tenacious
Comment: >PRICE...Yeah, I know...not what you know but who.. they even had a promo he did w/Kobe on the other night during the b-ball game. He asked Kobe how long he could hold his breath and they had a little contest...whateva!
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Tenacious ...guess Kobe didn't hold his breath long enough either or held it too long.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: midwestman, I was looking for you yesterday to talk Sopranos ... I'm getting sad knowing it's bout the end
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: Tenacious, I might be entertained watching Kobe suffocate *snicker*
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Name:
MidwestMan1
Comment: Priceless I thought it was wack this week, I'll chat wit u in a minute got a quick meeting to hit.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: (May 8, 7:50PM ET) -- Rapper Kanye West has been sued over a Mercedes that is allegedly being held hostage.
In Sept. 2002, West's company, Konman Entertainment, Inc., leased a Mercedes G500 for $1,295.00 a month. West personally guaranteed that the lease would be paid.
The lease expired in Jan. 2006. But according to the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the car was not returned and the defendants stopped paying.
In all, DCFS Trust, which holds the note on the car, is suing for $53,747.15, which represents the value of the car. In addition, DCFS is seeking back lease payments and late charges. Both West and Konman have been named as defendants.
The suit also seeks punitive damages
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Lionel Richie blames himself for his daughter Nicole's alarming weight loss, claiming she is suffering from trauma and stress caused by his divorce.
The Hello star admits he has been worried about Nicole's weight for a while, and was relieved when she finally admitted she had a problem and is seeking help.
Richie says: "When I saw how thin she was, I was concerned and worried. I would love to see her with more meat on her.
"When Nicole worries, she doesn't eat - that's just the way she is. She is very sensitive and has been through a very tough time. Our divorce was difficult for her.
"When you go through trauma, you either gain a lot of weight or you lose it."
Nicole said last week: "I know I'm too thin, so I don't want any girl looking at me and saying: 'That's what I want to look like'. I'm not happy with the way I look. I have a problem and I want to fix it."
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Braaahahaha....May 9, 2006 -- Rapper Jamal "Gravy" Woolard was shot in the butt by a member of his own entourage - who fired a wild shot in the direction of bullet-plagued radio station Hot 97 as he ran away from the entrance, sources told The Post.
A videotape removed from a surveillance camera near the hip-hop station's SoHo studios on Hudson Street captured the April 26 shooting as a crowd of hangers-on was seen running from the building.
One person in the mob pulled out a 9mm handgun, threw his arm back and - without looking in the direction of the building - opened fire, cops believe.
The shooter has yet to be identified, the sources say.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Meanwhile, rapper Ludacris and R&B superstar Usher may be buddies, but that didn't stop their respective entourages from nearly brawling at the Stuff Magazine/Jack Daniels Derby pre-party Friday night at Jillian's in Louisville. The drama unfolded after Usher's bodyguards let Ludacris sit at Usher's table, but stopped the rapper's security team from following behind him. Pretty soon, each star's respective head of security was nose-to-nose
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Can't they see? The moral of the story is...... don't have an entourage. Entourages seem to get you in trouble. Luther didn't have no entourage, no trouble.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, Lionel need to STFU! that girl is grown and she tripping off his divorce? PULEEZE! she got that yt girl disease of wanting to be a pencil thin *sucking teeth*
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Name:
Tenacious
Comment: >MWM...Did you decide on a financial vehicle for your extra cash? Since you are the financial guru..do you hold any satellite stock? I see where sirius is selling for under $5 right now..I didn't get jump in on xm when it was $4 and now it is selling for about $17. your thoughts??
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: ok I'm back. I'm glad Nicole Richie is finally admitting that she has a problem. She and Lindsay Lohan been running around together smiling for the cameras like everything was all to the goood.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Rapper DMX has set an Aug. 1 release for his first project in a three-album deal with Sony Urban, "Year of the Dog, Again." The Scott Storch-produced single "Lord Give Me a Sign" is at radio and iTunes now. The new album was originally recorded for Def Jam but only a handful of the original songs will appear on the final release.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: midwestman, it was not an exciting episode but they set the stage for what is going to happen in the last 3 episodes ... some bodies will drop for sure ... Pauly is mean and hateful so he can go and I might do a little dance .... Christopha is messing wit that shat again with a baby on the way ... I was like I hope he ain't sharing needles with that guy and he just got married, WTH?! ... we can chat when Bobo free yo azz *smirk*
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Just thought I'd write tomorrow's edition early. Dear Mr. Bailey, I have skillz. CTFU
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Name:
TJthemilitant
Comment: PRICE..I'm witcha on my Sopranos coming to an end..I was so disappointed in Christopher using again..I can see him OD'ing, Tony getting killed by the wine guys he Christopher ripped off...I wonder what will become of Vito the fag?..Will him and the pancake guy just ride off into the sunset?..I hope they don't leave a bunch of cliffhangers for us to guess..Adrienna's mom had me weak when she asked Tony's wife "and how's your daughter?..Mine is dead"!
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: IJA, I was so glad that Nick Lachey clowned Lindsay after saying he better watch out cuz if she see him on the street he in trouble ... this lil skinny trick think everybody want her ... wasn't it 50 cent that was supposed to be lusting after her according to her a while back?
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: If I wanted to start my own infotainment site, how would that work? How does EUR get paid? I've been reading EUR for a very long time, so there's some dollars in it somewhere. How does this stuff work? Shyt, I got things to say.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, and you know those will be the stories headlining the EUR tomorrow *snicker*
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Priceless< yep! I believe she said that 50 cent and Usher both wanted her! lol Her head is BLOWN up...unlike her body...which is cracked out. YlawdY< girl you better leave EurWeb alone before they block your account.
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Name:
mickipoo
Comment: hey . . . did anybody watch Bobby Brown on Tyra? What was he talking about? I totally forgot to watch girlfriends last night. Damn. Thanks for the TIVO y'all.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: IJA...they wouldn't do that would they? What about freedom of speech, freedom of the press and all that good isht?
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: TJ, Adrienna's mother knows her daughter would not disappear and never contact her even though they had issues ... I felt bad for her and Carm know deep down that they whacked that chile ... Vito is getting whacked ... maybe not while rolling around in the grass with johnniecake boy but it's coming ... Tony and Christopha with that petty crime shat just seems off like when he stole Betty Becall in the face and took her goody bag
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Name:
asize12
Comment: >mickipoo, it's re-airing tomorrow after ANTM. It was good too!
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: MEANWHILE...BACK AT THE RANCH......
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Name:
Tenacious
Comment: >TJ. Hey *waving* the playoffs have been gooooooood. I see the Pistons/Spurs in the finals again.
>YLAWDY..I think they get paid off all the ads.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Dear Mr. Bailey,
I was just funnin. I have the greatest respect for your entrep..., for your skillz and longevity in an ever changing medium. Please don't block my account. I dearly love visiting with my F4A family and might slip into an irreversible depressive state if denied this pleasure. P.S. Got any job openings.
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Name:
yunvme
Comment: yall leave David Blaine alone. Every generation has there own dare devil. For the longest time I've been wondering what was up with all these stunts. Then I saw him last night talking with Evil Kineval. David is branching out. He is now a magician/ daredevil.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, them annoying azz pop up ads with diseased feet and roaches running across the screen pay for this site ... you too could support your site with such nastiness *snicker*
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Imma have pop skrippers and hos on my site. You know, draw that whole other demographic.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: that was pop up skrippers and hos. Has anyone ever bought anything as the result of a pop up ad? For that matter, has a television commercial every convinced you to buy something? If so, what was it? (This essay question is worth 20% of your final grade)
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Name:
asize12
Comment: LMAO @ lawd! You stupid! How could Mr. Bailey resist not hiring you? ;-)
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Name:
mickipoo
Comment: thanx asize12 . . . imma have to look for it. it's gonna be like getting a dose of BBB. (that was the funniest show to me)
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Mr. Bailey wouldn't hire none of us....he already knows we spend too much time goofing off on the job. CTFU
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: What is BBB?
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, I can't see them banning you when I'm still around with my potty mouf *snicker*
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Who is it they send e-mails to?
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Name:
Tenacious
Comment: >PRICE..I stopped watching The Sopranos after the 2nd episode when they had Tony in the hospital going in, out and all around..that was the worst! I thought folk waited almost 2 yrs for this crap (the writing isn't what it use to be IMO)...I will have to go back and watch after the season is over! Cuz you know they are going to re-run it 50million times...
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: yunvme, at least Evil did something exciting and broke half his dayum body doing it ... Blaine is boring as heyell like somebody wanna sit around and watch him in a glass box doing some stupid shat once a year *sucking teeth*
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Name:
LastMinuteLagger
Comment: mickipoo> Speaking of BBB it is returning for another season, based on some clips of upcoming new segments that Tyra showed; and I can't wait cuz that show was entertaining to me.
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Name:
mickipoo
Comment: BBB = Being Bobby Brown
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Name:
MsFresno
Comment: As far as the Sopranos goes dont forget that there will be 10 more episodes later on either in the fall or in january. They did a full 22 episode shot this time. Prison Break good lawd did that fat boy really think he was going to be able to go across that rope. It was classic when they were down in the pipes and saw that C.O. down there and the tweener punched his arse. Woo that show is the BOMB.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, many people have received emails besides me ... musb is one that comes to mind but there have been others
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: Tenacious, I was bored as heyell with the first few episodes but it picked up .... this past week was the not real entertaining but it will finish with a bang I'm sure .... I watched BBB a couple of times but I get embarrassed for him and Whitney sometimes and I have to turn away
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Name:
asize12
Comment: >mickipoo, BBB was one of those show's that you hate to love! I liked watching it too! *Hell to da naw!*
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, I bought one of those Light Relief gadgets after watching the informercial
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Name:
Tenacious
Comment: >MSFRESNO. Prison Break was good..the heavy guy knew he was "got" so why even try...he wasn't going to make it across regardless first or last....do you think the dr is going to fall off the wagon...since she was having flashbacks of her drugging days??
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: MsFresno, for real?! m'kay that is good to know cuz they need to end the Sopranos in a tiddy way if they know they are finishing it ... not all HBO series end well like The Wire left too many holes that needed to be closed
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Name:
mickipoo
Comment: asize12 . . . that was the problem I didn't want to admit that I liked the show. It was like a car accident you didn't want to watch but you couldn't help yourself. That and Flavor of Love were my guilty pleasures. and Hell to da naw became one of my favorite phrases.
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Name:
mickipoo
Comment: price . . . The Wire hasn't ended yet. My girlfriend here at work lives in Bmore and they've been taping. I believe it's scheduled to come back on in the fall.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: mickipoo, that is phillygirl has been trying to convince me of ... I'm not far from Baltimore but I had not heard about them taping new episodes .... if they know they have another season you would think HBO would be promoting it ... they are advertising shows that are premeiring in August even
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Name:
MsFresno
Comment: @tenacious I dont think the Dr will fall off the wagon. I think Michael is going to go get her next season and she will be helping him find out the truth next year. All of those inmates are going to be fighting to get to that 5 million dollars that the old man has buried in Utah. I wonder what TBag is going to do with those handcuffs. And can you believe that man killed that guy and his father.
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: I haven’t posed a question of the week in a while so let’s go. QUESTION OF THE WEEK. Attention please. What do you think is the best way to nonlesbionically meet women? I’m trying to make some non-married friends my own age. Do you think it’s acceptable to approach a young woman on the train and strike up a convo and ask her out? I have friends here, but they are generally a little older or married. I met them all at one of my many hobby activities. I’m trying to branch out. What do you all think?
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Name:
Harriet
Comment: COLOR ME BAD were some white boys who could sing.
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Name:
Priceless
Comment: IJA, you just making it so dayum easy for me to clown today *stifling urges to strike* okay besides the Internet you can meet people your age by standing on the corner and throwing rocks at the ones you like *snicker*
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Name:
ImJustAsking
Comment: Priceless< I wasn't asking you, I don't want no advice from a chick with a d!ck.
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: IJA...IMO opinion approaching a young woman on the train and asking her out will probably trigger some weird responses, from is this heffa 308, to the lesbianically speaking. There aren't woman your age at your hobby activities? Well, sign up for some hobby activities that do have woman your age. BTW, what do woman your age do?
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Name:
YLawdY
Comment: Priceless ....that was funny.
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Name:
Tenacious
Comment: >MSFRESNO.Yeah, I believe it they are ruthless. Maybe, TBag is going to lockdown the guy he had beef with before since he seemingly still doesn't trust him...the one who got the plane (I forgot his name). Also, what did Michael say to the newbie who ratted them out to the C.O last night and how did he find out he had loose lips...I missed it last week!
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: I GOT A BUNION with a eyeball on it!!! (LMBAO)
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Name:
Nappy_Edges
Comment: IJA - It's okay to strike up conversations on trains with women, but not all "how YOU doin' I like your hair." You know, how you stepped to me last summer and I thought you were a dude tryna get wif me. (LOL)
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YLawdY
Comment: Nappy_Edges ....there are cures for what ails you.
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ImJustAsking
Comment: YlawdY< ok maybe not the train, but I'm just saying when I'm out, I think I should try to strike up conversations with girls my age and see what happens. I don't know what black girls my age do...not my activities...I mean, I take bellydancing, go to the gym, attend seminars here and there...I met a couple girls at my bootcamp thing but they're both like 29 or 30 and married, umm, I'm about to start taking acting lessons but that won't help, I'm involved in some political things but mostly there are white people at those...
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Nappy< you WANTED me! I just didn't want to be rude. And I know what you were referring to with the bunion comment. LMAO
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Priceless
Comment: IJA, see first you need to stop hanging wit pankies cuz a cock is equivalent to a coochie unless you are a white man *smirk*
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YLawdY
Comment: Any particular reason you're looking for different friends? I don't know, but I'd guess friends that share the same interests and hobbies would trump friends "cause you're my age".
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Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, women her age apparently troll for men ... she wants a partner in crime *snicker*
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YLawdY
Comment: Yeah, I got the bunion comment too. That aint nice.
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asize12
Comment: >harriet, I heard on the radio about a year ago that the lead singer worked at a tire place in Texas and was getting sued for child support.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: IJA - Girl, I don't want nobody buhcept Midwestman and sometimes Debonair. You were all like "oh, you can't speak today" and was always talkin to me n what-not. I was kind of ignoring you because I thought, with a name like ImJustAsking, you were some smart-aleck TesticAl type kid. I was like, "boy, step to me when you reach manhood." But lo and behold, you were born with lady parts. And I accept that fact now, sometimes.
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Dovelyone
Comment: What's up! I've been a lurker for months...it took me a minute to join 'cause y'all can be a fierce crowd! (Smile!) But I had to respond and agree with bigheadbull2's comment about "pure singers", esp. Fred Hammond, James Moore, Marvin Gaye, Jonathan Butler, and my all-time favorite: MR. Steveland Morris!
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Priceless
Comment: IJA, if you are actually looking for girls you might need to stop by the local jr. high or high school but for the record your age group is considered women not girls *smirk*
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TommyStrong
Comment: CTFU @ PRICELESS>*by standing on the corner and throwing rocks at the ones you like*
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: YLAWDY - Perhaps I do indeedy have a bunion with an eyeball. You don't know...hmph!
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TommyStrong
Comment: CTFU @ Nappy_Edges *I GOT A BUNION with a eyeball on it!!* LMBAO!
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Harriet
Comment: TommyStrong- I have to disagree about Good Times. I spent the weekend watching a GoodTimes marathon with my mother and the acting was very good. I will agree that some of the jokes weren't that great although I am most sure that we found them hilarious thirty years ago. The episode most comedic to me was when Girdy came over with that meat loaf that the Evans thought was made of dog food. That was writing and comedic genius. On a serious tip was the episode in which James got the job which would pay him more than he'd ever made in his life, but Florida did not want her man to go and in the end James didn't go. I thought it showed outstanding committment and devotion to their love and family which is something the ghetto nor the projects are really famous for. On a social tip was the episode where Eddie was stealing Michael's lunch every day and Michael brought him home and James whipped his azz. That boy couldn't even sit down on the couch when James got through with him! I thought it showed outstanding committment to their love and their family. JJ was an artist and his family supported his artistry to the tenth power. Thelma wasn't a project byatch, nor pregnant nor trashy. She was always glamorous and pretty and smart. Michael was the militant in his dashiki shirts. To me, Good Times was an excellent show.
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YLawdY
Comment: Dovelyone...welcome. If you've been lurking, you know the drill...vitals please and $5 fee.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: I was quotin' David Allen Grier (eye twitchin, lookin' around suspiciously 'cause the eyeball is staring at me)
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YLawdY
Comment: Thank you for that moving social commentary on the social relevence of Good Times. LOL
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YLawdY
Comment: Priceless....how old are you?
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Dovelyone
Comment: YLawdY, I didn't know there was a registration fee! LOL! Well, then can I pay on it 'cause I'm a FULL-TIME graduate student and I commute so er ah... that's one vital!
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Priceless
Comment: Dovelyone, well come into the light my child and show yo dayum self *snicker*
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Priceless< then what is your age group? hags? Nappy< Hush up! I wasn't studyin' you.
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YLawdY
Comment: Dovelyone ....single? married? kids? age? Oh yeah....unlike some others up in here, I will take food stamps for your fee.
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Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, too old for IJA to be throwing rocks at .... CTFU! *holding side*
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Dovelyone
Comment: Whatch'all wanna know about a sistah?
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: And on the fashion tip, I loved JJ in those one-piece "baby" pajamas with the stupid Gilligan hat. And Michael with the Eddie Munster hairline and Brillo soap pad TWAfro. And Florida in nothin' but oranges and plaids, for that "slimming" look, I guess. And instead of powdering their faces, didn't they all seem extra greesy, especially James and Florida???
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asize12
Comment: >Dovelyone, W.E.L.C.O.M.E.!!!! *cyberhug* We ain't no fierce crowd! We iz as sweet as sweet potato PIE! LOL!
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YLawdY
Comment: *looking sober, using my best Judge Mabilene (sp) voice*..Priceless, we should be mentoring the young, not tormenting them. How you gon feel when she turns into a raving, pole dancing, trolling lunatic because of lack of proper guideance? Or worse yet, develops a bunion with an eyeball? Uh?
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TommyStrong
Comment: hey Harriet>dont get me wrong...i love Good Times and I watch it every night but i'm just seeing things differently now...and for the most part some of the acting was not that great....i agree, it did show all the things you mentioned and back then i thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread becuz that was all we had and like i said i still watch it...its just i'm looking at it from a different perspective now...initially James wasnt suppose to be on it but Esther Rolle said she wouldnt do it w/out a strong father figure and i'm glald she did....that let Amerikkka know that not all fathers run out on the chillen and it also showed that people living in the projects werent "ghetto" acting...but JJs buffoonishness (is that a word) took away from it IMO - thats why John Amos mean azz left...the episode w/Gertie and the meatloaf has to be the funniest thing ever to appear on television! I have tears in my eyes every time it comes on! I'm LOL now just thinkin about it...
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Priceless
Comment: CTFU!@Nappy you mean oranch doesn't still have a trimming affect?
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asize12
Comment: >Napps, don't forget James w/ his tight as*s khaki corduroys! LMAO!!!
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YLawdY
Comment: Nappy_Edges ...that grease let us know they was serious about "scrapping and surviving". Made them look hard working. Notice how George and Weezie weren't never greasy. Hey, that rhymes..go lawdy, go lawdy *doing the running man*
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Dovelyone
Comment: Thank y'all for the warm welcome!
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YLawdY
Comment: Uh..Tommy..hmm, I don't mean to be rude, but.......
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asize12
Comment: >tommy & harriet...*JJ's prayer* "The Lord is my german shepard" ...classic!
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Priceless
Comment: ROTFLMBAO! see why you gotta say that about Jame's corduroys ... however Wilona was foine and fly ... Tommy I am glad that Esther stood her ground on having a father figure in the show cuz pankie insists of devaluing our family unit ... that is why I like that shows like Everybody Hates Chris, My Wife & Kids, Bernie Mac were current shows that had a father figure in them regardless as to whether you like the shows
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TommyStrong
Comment: uh oh...yes YLawdY? asize12>LMBAO...and Wilona - Bon apetite ya'll!!
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Wilona still looks good. They always throwing some ratty wig on her to make her look older. I remember she played the grandmother on The Wayans Brothers. I hated how on the E True Hollywood story they told about how Wilona and Florida stopped getting along.
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Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, not even Florence had any grease on her face ... when you move on up to the eastside yo shat be like that *snicker* even the doorman was powdered down
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TommyStrong
Comment: asize12>Michael and James playin wishbone w/Wilona over the seat....LOL....speakin of Florence all of my favorite Jeffersons revolve around her....the one w/Billy Dee Wms...the one when the guy was selling George the vans that had been under water...the one when she was actin like a slave to get back at him...LOL...she made that show for me
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Priceless
Comment: IJA, why did they fall out? I missed that E! True Hollywood Story
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asize12
Comment: >price, I LOVE watching Good Times now cuz if you pay attention, Wilona wears some cute clothes! One day she had on these dark green leather boots that were off the chain! She wears cute coats too.
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asize12
Comment: Another reason that I like watching Good Times is to see the slang that was used back then & to see some of our well known stars that weren't well known back then. Remember the one w/ Debbie Allen on it when her & JJ eloped? That was a good one. *singing* ~~just lookin' outta the window...watching the asvalt grow...~~
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YLawdY
Comment: Dayum, dayum, dayum....don't nobody spend as much time being worried as Florida. You know how we do...aint got bill money, oh well, they get it when we get it, but that constant state of worry on her face, even when she was smiling...
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: Wilona was such the typical fly-as$ lady in the ghetto. She has no apparent source of income to support her hair and clothing budget. The one that has her men on rotation. Ya know, one for the groceries, one for the hair money, one for the rent money, etc.
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asize12
Comment: Does anyone on hear watch the OLD Twighlight Zones?
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asize12
Comment: hear=here
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YLawdY
Comment: Yeah Wilona did wear some nice stuff. They was all living in the same projects. How come Wilona wasn't worried all the time. She was the only one having Good Times.
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Priceless< actually I think what happened was Florida didn't want Willona on in the first place but then she got over it. I can't remember what her gripe was. The rest of the tension came from them trying to make JJ the star, and John Amos and Ester Rolle didn't like that.
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Priceless
Comment: Tommy, that's cuz Florence had real comedic timing but sometimes I would think that trick need to be fired cuz ain't no wealthy black woman gonna wait on her staff *SMH*
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: YLAWDY - Being shiny makes you look even more worried and Florida was a worrying-as$ed woman.. Damn, her short, rolled neck looked painful. She looked sweaty and greasy. But not in a stank way. I'm sure she smelled like Dixie Peach hair grease.
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YLawdY
Comment: Or Royal Crown. You know, thinking on it, my M-I-L kind of reminds me of Florida, short rolled neck and all.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: Wilona was probably part-timing on Lenny's payroll a few nights a week. Lenny was a pimp, right?
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mickipoo
Comment: IJA . . . have you tried joining any professional organizations related to your job, social organizations or church groups? I'd be leery if you rolled up to me on the Metro talking bout "how you doin?" I'd probably think you were dyking it out . . . not that there's anything wrong with that if that's your thing. It's just not my thing.
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YLawdY
Comment: I don't remember Lenny. I have to say that JJ was an embarrasment even back then.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: IJA - did you pledge a sorority? For some reason, I think "Delta" everytime I see your picture.
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asize12
Comment: LMAO @ Napps! Florida DID look greasy, huh? Reminds me of the good ole' days when momma used to apply vaseline to my face so that my face wouldn't be 'cold'! LMAO!
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Priceless
Comment: Recently I watched the short-lived show that Richard Pryor had and it had peeps in their early stages of their careers also like Marsha Warfield, Tim Reid, Robin Williams, John Belushi, Sandra Bernhardt, and the first Lionel on the Jeffersons .. plus a young Mya Angalou playing his wife when he would come home drunk ... oh and John Witherspoon looking foine as heyell .. I had to do a double take
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: YLAWDY - the dude with the process and all the stuff inside of his coat: "My name is Len-nay, and if you need it, I've gots plen-taaay." THAT Lenny!
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Priceless
Comment: IJA, was Esther hating on her cuz she was foine? I do remember them griping about making JJ the star ... that is the problem that most sitcoms have issues with ... they sell the show as an ensemble cast and when a star emerges everybody wanna keep it equal
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Mimi
Comment: Willona didn't worry cuz she didn't have no chirren! Also, she worked at the boutique, remember?
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: asize12, call me old-fashioned, but I still "grease" my son every morning before he leaves the house. I'm a thoroughly modern woman, but I HATE TO HELL ashiness on a chocolate brown child and I go through a vat of Vaseline about every 6 weeks.
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asize12
Comment: lawd, you remember Lenny! *doing my best Lenny impression* ~My name is LEN-NAE...~ then he goes on & on about what he's got for sale hanging from the inside of his coat while rhyming the whole time! I think HE started rap! LMAO!!!
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: In the summertime ASIZE12, from the chin-up, he is greazed. From the underside of the chin down to the underwear, powdered. (LOL)
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Mimi
Comment: Did anyone see the episode with Phillip Michael Thomas? Big Shirley from Waht's Happening? The guy from the porno's? (Cletis)
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Priceless
Comment: didn't Lenny also play on Sanford & Son or some other comedy? I cannot remember his name but he was your typical neighborhood pimp ... I chose to believe that Wilona dressed so fine cuz she got an employee discount at the store ... she did work in retail y'all
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asize12
Comment: LOL @ Napps! Girl, I ain't mad atcha! Gone head & grease that baby up! Shoot, he's ready for a fight 24-7! LOL! You ain't found no lotion that can get rid of the ash? I use St. Ive's 24 hour, it actually works on ashy as*s folks like myself! LOL But, I suppose vaseline *the wonder jelly* keeps the ash on the DL all day;-)
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YLawdY
Comment: Yall remember that Johnson's Baby Cream? So thick and stiff, it felt like you're skin was coming off trying to rub it in? Now that gave you a shine! My mom used to grease us down and she wasn't none to gentle about it either.
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YLawdY
Comment: She worked in RE-TAIL...you work it out.
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Priceless
Comment: Nappy, my sister does the same to her 8 yr old girl ... her older brother always tells his mom that the poor child gonna get petroleum poisoning *snicker*
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: asize12, St Ives is like scented water on my child's skin. He is the color of Hershey's Special Dark chocolate. I do not want him looking ashy whatsoever, so I've got to go with the big guns. Vaseline it is. It's waterproof and it lasts all day. Actually, Lubriderm or Keri would probably work, but I don't need to spend that type of money on a 5yr old boy's skincare needs. (LOL)
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YLawdY
Comment: Sometimes you gotta work with the wonder jelly. My daughter is high yallo and the ashiest child on this earth. She's got lotion resistant ash. "C a n t p ena trate the ash..Must call for back up." Wonder jelly to the rescue.
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: PRICE - I've used petroleum jelly since my son was 3 days old. I used to put a layer of it on his butt so the poop would never touch his skin. He had the most beautiful, non-rashy butt of any baby, ever! (LOL) Still does. I'll deal with petroleum poisoning, but I can't deal with ashiness!
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Priceless
Comment: YLawdY, you know pankie would have exploited Wilona being a ho if she got down like that *smirk*
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TommyStrong
Comment: new article on AIDS in the African-American community...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12665721/site/newsweek/?GT 1=8199
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YLawdY
Comment: I just had one of those laugh out loud, pank people looking at you moments. I sent the Mexican joke from up there *pointing up* to some folks. My brother responds with one line.."You're mother is not going to be proud of you." I guess I should say the same to the perpetrator that posted the joke. ROFLMBAO
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asize12
Comment: Napps, cocoa butter gets rid of ash too. I use it on my feet.
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YLawdY
Comment: Good night family. Have a good evening.
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bigchassie
Comment: i tell you who tripped me off seeing on tv and he was so young and cute back then...Terrence Howard on Living Single :the first season. when he was Max's young boy toy and Regine, Sinclair and Kadeegh was teasing her.
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bigchassie
Comment: YLAWDY>good night, kiddo!
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Mimi
Comment: Ash Buster: Vaseline with a couple drops of water--aaahhhhhhhh!!!
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Nappy_Edges
Comment: size12 - Getting rid of ash is one problem. Preventing ash is a whole 'nother ballgame. Cocoa butter dries up or rubs off very quickly. Quicker than vaseline. I do use it a lot in the summertime and when we go to the Caribbean. It's a good after-sun balm.
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My2Pennies
Comment: Glynn Turman, another friend and former "Cooley High" cast member (he played Preach), added: "Eric ran smack into the wall of `Don't Care,' where this town just doesn't care about its talent. It has no use for talent; it only cares about survival."
Shelter life has its distractions, but Monte says he has found peace of mind in the quiet routine of his work. There's time and space enough to create in a place where many of the residents and staff know him as Kenneth Williams, his birth name.
"I feel safe here," he says. "I feel I won't get burned, and I've been burned too many times. The lights are paid. The doors are locked. I meet a lot of people from all walks of life. My life has been like a river. I meet people and move on."
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My2Pennies
Comment: oops i messed up..lemme start over...lol
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My2Pennies
Comment: Since u guys are talking about Good Times, I thought I'd post a story the LA Times ran recently on one of the co-creators, Eric Monte, who is now homeless.
Good times -- and bad
He went from Cabrini-Green to Hollywood fortune. Then he lost everything. Now Eric Monte lives in a shelter and keeps his dreams on his laptop.
By John L. Mitchell
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Published April 19, 2006
BELL, Calif. -- Long after "lights out," he labors quietly at a keyboard. His "room" is a cubicle large enough to hold two cots, two lockers and a shared desk. Among his few personal items: a cell phone, a wireless laptop, a laser printer. "Home" is a shelter run by the Salvation Army; he is one of nearly 300 people who sleep in the former military depot in Bell, every night.
For Eric Monte, the last few years have been a blur of disasters. A series of strokes led to a spell of anti-seizure medicines and the loss of some memory. A year of crack cocaine abuse robbed him of money, dignity and a circle of Hollywood friends. Attempts to sell a self-published book drained the last of his savings.
The laptop, he insists, holds the key to a comeback: 30 movie and book projects waiting to be pitched.
And that just might be true.
Thirty-five years ago, Monte was among a group of young African-American writers and directors who sparked an explosion of black culture. He wrote and helped create some of the most popular -- and groundbreaking -- movies and TV shows of the 1970s. He started with one episode of "All in the Family," moved on to co-create "Good Times" and wrote the 1975 film "Cooley High," which, in turn, inspired the hit 1976 TV series "What's Happening!!"
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My2Pennies
Comment: With success came an NAACP Image Award, a house in Tarzana at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains, a Mercedes-Benz and the excitement of helping to spur a new generation of programming. Not only would Monte's shows portray African-American families, the individual characters would be multidimensional and the scripts would avoid negative stereotypes. He would break with tradition and illustrate that life for the working poor isn't all about crime, drugs and cheap laughs.
But Hollywood, he says, did not share his vision.
Monte, considered by some -- even his friends -- to be his own worst enemy, was prickly about script changes and refused to endorse plots he considered degrading to blacks. He wanted more control, but when it came to ownership, he says he was frozen out.
In 1977 he filed a lawsuit accusing ABC, CBS, producers Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin and others of stealing his ideas for "Good Times," "The Jeffersons" (an "All in the Family" spinoff) and "What's Happening!!" Eventually, he says, he received a $1 million settlement and a small percentage of the residuals from "Good Times" -- but opportunities to pitch new scripts dried up along with his money. He lost the car, the four-bedroom house he shared with his two daughters and almost all the trappings of his successful life.
Today, the 62-year-old Chicago native receives occasional residual checks, enough to cover the $300 a month the shelter charges for housing, three meals a day and counseling. Meanwhile, reruns of his shows continue to be broadcast daily on TV Land and other channels worldwide. When one of his episodes airs on the shelter's wide screen, Monte doesn't watch.
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My2Pennies
Comment: "I'm not bitter; I'm angry," he says. "Bitterness is something that stays with you. Anger comes and goes. When I see those old shows, they make me angry."
Time to move on
Few of his friends know that he lives in a shelter; those who do suggest that he move on with his life.
"That's a bitter pill to keep sucking on," said Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, who played Cochise in "Cooley High."
Glynn Turman, another friend and former "Cooley High" cast member (he played Preach), added: "Eric ran smack into the wall of `Don't Care,' where this town just doesn't care about its talent. It has no use for talent; it only cares about survival."
Shelter life has its distractions, but Monte says he has found peace of mind in the quiet routine of his work. There's time and space enough to create in a place where many of the residents and staff know him as Kenneth Williams, his birth name.
"I feel safe here," he says. "I feel I won't get burned, and I've been burned too many times. The lights are paid. The doors are locked. I meet a lot of people from all walks of life. My life has been like a river. I meet people and move on."
Monte was full of stories when he arrived in Los Angeles nearly 40 years ago, a street-savvy high school dropout who grew up in Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project. He was homeless then, too, living the life of a hippie and selling drugs. Then a series of theater classes at Los Angeles City College inspired him to pursue a childhood ambition. He wrote poetry, and then plays.
Eric meets Lionel
His work eventually caught the attention of a fellow student, Mike Evans, who had won a bit part in the 1971 sitcom "All in the Family." Evans persuaded Monte to write an episode expanding his role as Lionel, the son of George and Louise Jefferson -- Archie Bunker's African-American neighbors. The script, submitted to the show's producer, Norman Lear, was accepted.
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asize12
Comment: >Napps, fo real??? I'mma try it & see if I notice the difference, thanks for the info!
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My2Pennies
Comment: Eric "could be stone-cold sober and write a joke that would be funny, let's say an eight," Evans recalled. "If he would start drinking cheap wine, he would write jokes and for a while everything out of his mouth would be 10s. Everything would be funny."
Monte had his foot in the door at what would become one of the most influential shows in the history of television.
Before "All in the Family" debuted in 1971, television sitcoms stayed clear of politically hot issues, said Robert Thompson, director of television and popular culture at Syracuse University.
"`Gomer Pyle' was the No. 2 show in America while the Tet Offensive was going on," Thompson said. "Television was a parallel universe where none of the bad things happened. The Cold War, the Vietnam War, the civil rights unrest, none of that stuff really made it into entertainment television. `All in the Family' changed that in one fell swoop. Television went from being a medium that virtually ignored what was going on in the real world to one that went in the other direction."
Evans and Monte say Lear was intrigued by another of their ideas, a sitcom featuring a poor African-American family living in a Chicago housing project. That idea became the 1974 hit "Good Times."
Evans and Monte were given credit as co-creators, and Monte was hired as one of the show's writers. He says he was paid a salary of $2,000 a week, and received another payment for any of his scripts that were accepted.
"Good Times," one of the first television comedies to feature a mostly black cast since the controversial "Amos 'n' Andy" was canceled in the 1950s, focused on a loving black family with hardworking parents, struggling to overcome the real-life dramas of eviction, crime and discrimination. It is widely credited with paving the way for the major crossover black sitcoms -- such as "The Cosby Show" -- that followed.
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My2Pennies
Comment: But almost from the start, Monte says, the "Good Times" plots were laced with stereotypical images and dialogue written by white writers who didn't understand black life.
The show's stars, John Amos and the late Esther Rolle, fought with producers over the show's emphasis on their TV son, Jimmie Walker's character J.J., with his toothy grin, bug-eyed antics and trademark catchphrase: "DY-NO-MITE."
Monte says he left the show when production began on 1975's "Cooley High," an autobiographical film he wrote in an attempt to dispel myths about growing up in the projects.
"I grew up in the Cabrini-Green housing project, and I had one of the best times of my life, the most fun you can have while inhaling and exhaling," he says.
A year later, "What's Happening!!" a sitcom loosely based on "Cooley High," aired on ABC. Monte was given credit as creator but says he received no money. He filed a lawsuit seeking $400 million from ABC, CBS and the producers of "Good Times," "The Jeffersons" and "What's Happening!!"
"Eric would pitch an idea, and the next thing that would happen is there would be a character in a series and he was barely getting paid for it," said attorney Virgil Roberts, who represented Monte at the time his suit was filed. "He'd come up with an idea for a show, but when all the dust cleared it was their show and he was going to be hired only as a writer. After I filed the lawsuit, nobody would work with him."
By early 1980s standards, the $1 million settlement was a lot of money and an indication that Monte's case had merit, Roberts said.
Lear declined to comment on the case. "I don't want to traffic in that," he said in a phone interview. "Whatever the credits reflect, I'm happy to go along with. It pains me deeply to hear that he's homeless. Eric is a lovable, knowledgeable, sweet human being who just had no control of himself. He got in his own way emotionally. He was a dear lost soul. It wasn't a pleasant time dealing with Eric."
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Comment: Unable to get work in television, Monte turned to theater. In 1988, he says, he used $700,000 of his own money to finance his play "If They Come Back." The results were disastrous.
Over the years he continued pitching scripts for episodic television, but only two were bought: for the sitcom "Moesha," and "The Wayans Bros." Both shows debuted in the mid-'90s.
By 2003, Monte had developed a craving for crack cocaine.
"People around me were getting high on crack, and I decided to give it a try, and that was a major mistake," he says. "The only thing crack did for me was give me a tremendous desire for more. I did it for two years and gave it up."
He left Los Angeles to live with his daughter, Deborah Williams, in a suburb of Portland, Ore.
"He had no money and had to get away from those people who were nothing but users," she said. "Once he came up here, no drugs, no this or that. He was able to get back on track."
A publisher
With $10,000 from a "Good Times" movie option, Monte self-published a book, "Blueprint for Peace." In it he wrote that peace could be achieved if humanity followed seven basic principles: merge all nations into one, stop manufacturing weapons of war, adopt one universal language, eliminate money as the medium of exchange, abandon the concept of land ownership, abandon the concept of inheritance and control population growth.
Monte rented a booth at last April's Los Angeles Times Book Festival, but he failed to sell a single copy of his book.
Broke again
In the meantime, he was out of money again. "I do it all the time," he says. "I don't care about being inconvenienced. That's how I look at being broke, as a minor inconvenience."
He was on the street again, too, living in a park and then a downtown hotel. When he showed up in August at the shelter in Bell, traces of marijuana were found in his system. He was told that that shelter had a strict policy against drugs and alcohol. He hasn't tested positive again.
It's 5 a.m. The fluorescent lights flicker on high above the beds where more than 100 homeless men spent a quiet night in a section of the cavernous shelter. A voice on the public address system breaks the silence: "Good morning! It's that time of day again." Breakfast is ready.
Eric Monte eases out of the sleeping bag on one of the metal cots in his cubicle. As men drift by on their way to the cafeteria, Monte begins his morning routine of push-ups and other exercises.
"Hey, Papa Doc," one man says. "How goes it?"
"I'm alive and well in Southern California," Monte responds.
Skipping breakfast, he turns his laptop on and begins revising one of the projects he has stored in his computer.
To see pics of him, go to http://www.latimes.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=e ric+monte&target=blendedsearch&first-page-size=5 and scroll down.
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bigchassie
Comment: 2PENNIES> yeah, i remember reading about that. man, what a heart breaking story.
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LawdHvMrcy
Comment: Wait a minute-- who is up in herre talking bad about Good Times?!?!?!
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OSUN
Comment: Mimi, Thats it. I was wondering where I saw Cletis before. I thought he was familiar. Isn't he the same guy that played Smalls in a Soldiers Story?
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bigchassie
Comment: yall...i'm just sitting here grinning to myself cause a lovely memory came into my mind. i remember when i was about 17 years old and i went to the Junior Acheivement Ball and my friend Gary took me and i had on this pretty pastel green dress and Gary looked so handsome in his suit. well, we was in the elevator and i was saying when my sister was putting make up on me i told her not to put on no lipstick on me because i know i won't get kissed tonight. and Gary looked at me and said "oh yeah?" and he bent down and kissed me. and me made my panties wheytt! lol! i will never forget that dance for as long as i live! then afterwards we went to White Castle to get some burgers. what a fun date! those were the days! lol! thought i'd just share that with yall. golly! i feel so old!
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LastMinuteLagger
Comment: Nappy, YLawdY> Careful now, ya'll showing your ages (pointing way up there) talkin bout Dixie Peach and Royal Crown grease. YLawd, you forgot to add the 'Pomeade' onto the Royal Crown; uhhh, am I showing my age too?
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bigchassie
Comment: GOOD NIGHT YALL!
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Mimi
Comment: OSUN: yep, I bleeve that would be he!
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