a story to make my grampa proud

this story from reformed hippy-resembler Jason at Avoca Pundit starts off questionably, because he quotes that fraud Randy Jackson; fraud-quoting aside, it's funny, go read it...

if my grampa would have passed by Jason in the bookstore, he wouldn't have worded it the way Jason's bypasser did; he would have said something more like, "you long-haired hippy boy, you need a haircut". then he would have quoted 1 Corinthians something or other to him. i love my grampa.

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[jason of avoca]

Randy Jackson is a Grammy winning producer. I would hardly say he is a fraud. Anyways, I think your grandfather would have gotten along w/ mine. When he was alive, no male on that side of the family was allowed to have long hair. I can remember him calling guys with long hair girls.

[sarahk]

oh, but jason, the man has no ear for music! maybe he can produce, that doesn't mean he isn't tone-deaf and therefore has no business discussing tone quality.

see this rant, it will explain my point.

oh yes, i had a long-haired hippy boyfriend in high school, and my grampa gave him such a hard time; called him girl, etc. called my bro a sissy. good times.

[Venusitn]

Jason. I saw Troy and was like, all this for a woman? And in this day and age she looks like everyone else? And I have a thing that strong/tough masculine man, like the Archiles character, should be brunette. Not sure why but blondes just don't fit that part to me.

I laughed about your covering the books with other books. My big thing I get such a stupid kick out of is I take all the prepaid credit card envelopes and send them other junk/trash mail I get. They have to pay more than 37 cents when one of those is delivered back to them, but it is based on weight. So most days I have 4-5 really overly stuffed prepaid envelopes on my counter waiting to be mailed. I often have to tape them shut. Hey, CapitalOne might be interest in the Texas Ballet, or how to get a 12 month guarantee on their carpet cleaning from Kiwwi or whoever does that stuff. And I make sure to have nothing with our name or address and I blacked out the ID imprinted on the envelope.

And in this day and age, to think people are still judgemental based on the outside appearance.

[jason of avoca]

I read your post and you call Simon sexy, so yor opinion is now suspect.

Venusitn, as far as strong/tough mascaline men have to brunnette, I have to take issue. I have blonde hair even short. When I get my weekly AOl disk in the mail I write return to sender on it and send it back from whence it came.

[Venusitn]

Hey Jason, I guess I think of blondes as Calvin Klein men. And I do find men pretty much in general sexy. So not sure why I think that, I just wanted Brad to have dark hair! LOL

For some reason I kind of like Simon also, it is the attitude.

[Chad Coleman]

A long-haired feller reading a Bush haters handbook?

I woulda had to put him in a half-nelson and take him down.

Then give him a nuclear weggie, with extreme prejudice.

[sarahk]

jason, touche! i totally deserved that, LOL.

venus, you're wrong about blonde guys. blondes do shaggy hair the best and as long as they aren't wussy no-sports-watchin' boys, throw in a set of beautiful green or brown eyes and watch. me. drool. speaking of men who are brutally hot as blondes, y'all are missing the best part of this -- orlando bloommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm; i am looking forward to Troy for its hot elfboy factor.

chad, i suppose looks can be deceiving, and i mighta thunk jason was a hippy (and as the IMAO Babe, it would have been my responsibility to punch him).