Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 655 Editor's Choice: 32
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The MILFS and cougars question
[Read the article: My partner is being stalked by a trolling MILF]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A MILF is NOT just any attractive woman who's also a mother. MILF is used when a young guy goes over to the house of a girl he knows (even his girlfriend's house) and becomes smitten by her mom. Then by extension, a MILF can be any woman of the guy's own mother's age group whom he finds attractive.
MILF is from the guy's point of view, and wouldn't be used by either the MILF herself or the girlfriend of the young man. It implies the experience of a guy being pleasantly surprised by the attractiveness of a woman old enough to be his own mom. And it's pretty passive. It implies that the woman isn't particularly doing outrageous things to get the guy's attention.
Now cougars are deliberately loud and proud and calling attention to themselves. They are old cats out for a young gazelle just to prove they can catch one, and pathetically refer to themselves as cougars as if it's a badge of honor. (Like young boyprey wouldn't F anything that was shoved in their faces.) I suspect 90 percent of the bar is laughing their asses off at them.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure both terms are out by now as far as the young 'uns go. It takes fogies like us to be grasping for definitions for slang terms years after the kiddies invented them.
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It's a metaphorical mess.
[Read the article: Our house is so messy my husband's threatening to leave]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your so-called husband lives downstairs? Nice marriage. No wonder you don't want to clean "his" house. Screw it. Let the place rot, he'll leave, and I bet you you'll be so happy about it you'll pick up a mop, start whistling, and clean like a merry little maid.
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Hot tip
[Read the article: The politics of an economic nightmare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But on the bright side, sales of anti-depressants and alcohol are going to soar. Gentlemen, place your stock orders.
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Subpriminal
[Read the article: Subprime: Word of the Year!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Subprime always made me think of meat that couldn't quite cut it. Hey, wait a minute, that IS what it is.
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Enchanting is right.
[Read the article: What's that enchanting MacBook Air ad song?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lovely song and video, especially the ending. Swim free or die! Thanks for posting this.
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Impotent Democrats, Impotent Rebates
[Read the article: No more food stamps. You've eaten enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even if you think food stamps are the greatest evil to pollute this great nation, I can't imagine how anyone can accept that the pathetic, doomed "economic stimulus" that is a tossed rebate was purchased at the cost of raising food stamps a single penny to a single struggling American.
Way to go, feebleminded, heartless representatives of America. Once again, I am so, so proud that I bother to vote Democratic.
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Unfathomable
[Read the article: "Untraceable"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why would Diane Lane whore herself out to this vomit? I thought roles were opening up for ladies over 40.
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7 years summarized
[Read the article: We'll take that as a "no"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Bush should skip the annoyance of showing up to stumble through a SOU address. Just run an endless loop of this little ditty: "They tried to make me to go rehab. I said no, no, no....."
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New Flash:
[Read the article: Republicans make Fox News sick]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yesterday, today and tomorrow, there are only 2 reasons to watch Fox:
1. Simpsons
2. House
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Apparently 99.9999% of us have not been punished enough.
[Read the article: McCain: Greedy people should be punished]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If McCain wins, we will ALL be punished. Except the greedy, I mean.
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Making the world safe for the greedy.
[Read the article: McCain: Greedy people should be punished]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A week or so ago, I caught a clip of McCain passionately telling an audience that corporate taxes MUST be reduced. I couldn't help but catch the expressions of some ordinary-type supporters in the frame with him. They looked kind of confused and clapped with that dazed distraction you see in audiences that aren't sure whether they just saw something good or not.
I guess if you're dazzled by McCain's being a real war veteran and all that, you just kind of go along with his actual viewpoints.
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Yes, die, romantic comedies!
[Read the article: "Over Her Dead Body"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh God these posts are hysterical! Thanks for the laughs. Someone needs to put them together and create a romantic comedy about romantic comedy posters.
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Big screen couple
[Read the article: "Over Her Dead Body"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, the Obama/Hillary debate from the other night would make a wonderful romantic comedy. For real, I saw more sparks of witty sparring and genuine affection that night than I've seen anywhere else in years.
Either can play the president with the other playing the vice-president, and it will be a pleasure to watch!
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@Betty Boop re: minimum wage/milk
[Read the article: My big, fat, unpaid credit card bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your post got me pretty interested in what things cost relative to wages in the days before we lived on credit, so I looked up info for 1950. Actually, a gallon of milk cost MORE than the minimum wage: 82 cents for milk, 75 cents for work. (The average yearly income was $3,216.)
People simply did not accumulate the way they do now, in terms of home size, cars, clothes, entertainment, appliances (and certainly not electronics), eating out, books and records, you name it.
Back in the 1950s, "propaganda" was a word heard nearly every day, but somehow only applied to that nasty nation behind the "Iron Curtain." What would be the correct word for the process by which we've bought in to how much STUFF we must buy, buy, buy, and now, now, now. ..
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@sclloyd
[Read the article: And then there were two]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know what you mean about the "sexiness." But not in a literal way; I got a Hepburn/Tracy energy from them, as two extraordinarly intelligent, witty, decent people who would be a tremendous power duo.
I think as a presidential/vice presidential team (with either in either position), some great, and truly smart, things could happen in this country.
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Jet set
[Read the article: Undecided '08: Should I vote for Clinton or Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On a domestic level, I believe either will work their hearts out to get this country back up to snuff. So the tiebreaker for me is the movie that plays before my eyes when I imagine either of these essentially decent and wildly intelligent candidates on the world stage.
My imagination sees Obama working miracles in building back this country's lost respect, one charmed world leader at a time.
And that rocks my vote.
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Obama Envy
[Read the article: Bill Kristol: "White women are a problem"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ha! Probably what he was REALLY thinking was, "White women are a problem, they like black men."
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He'll squeeze nicely into that little niche.
[Read the article: Karl Rove and Fox News, (officially) together at last]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good. He needs to work in a place where he can't do much damage. I'd be much more upset if he decided to go into nursing or something.
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Issues, not tissues!
[Read the article: Clinton "cries" again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look, wake up when she's caught in a mensroom doing weird hand signals and foot wriggles, okay?
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Freudian slippage
[Read the article: Clinton "cries" again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]oops - I meant wake "ME"