Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 105 Editor's Choice: 1
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Me, here. In Central New York state.
[Read the article: Ask Pablo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are infamous for a week of Spring, a sadly short month of Fall, three hot n' humid months of summer, and the rest is winter (rain in November and December, socked in with snow January - end of March). It's the nasty summer months I suffer through. You can always put on a sweater in winter!... In the morning, all windows are open until the inside and outside temps are the same - then they are all closed. Yes, it's hot and stuffy in the house in the day. I cope with ceiling fans and floor fans directed right at me and pass the day when at home in a kind of heat stupor, and that's all right as long as no one bothers me!... I have two small ice blankets in the freezer meant to go on top of your picnic cooler, and when I get a hot flash I put one behind me and one on front of me until my temperature goes down....Between 4 and 7 is the hottest, so I go out somewhere, go sit in the shade in the yard, or go on the computer in the air conditioned bedroom. Then the windows are opened, fans put in to draw in the cooler air at night, and so it goes until morning. Repeat as needed....This works in a medium sized house in the suburbs. If I lived in an apartment, I would most definitely go with an air conditioner. If I lived in a McMansion, well, I guess you have enough money for central air.
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How about a Dollar Store wedding?
[Read the article: Bridesmaid revisited]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously. I saw, online, pictures and instructions for making a stunning wedding gown out of materials found in the dollar store - white vinyl tablecloths or shower curtains, I believe, lace, beads, gems, silk calla lillies. Everything else you need is there! Beverages (take your pick!), appetizers (chips, dips, nuts, pepperoni/pickles on toothpicks), entrees (canned soup, pasta with sauce, surely some kind of bread or rolls can be made from mixes), sweets (lotsa candy and cookies, nicely arranged on a side table), centerpieces and table coverings, cups/plates/eating utensils, bridesmaids gifts...you can make a humongous wedding cake from cake mix, baked in a wide variety of aluminum pans, frosted and decorated to kingdom come, beautiful bouquets for bride and bridesmaids, and even have CDs for music, including hits of the 50's and classical music. One-time-use cameras for everybody are widely available. I think it would be fun as hell! Really, everything the bride needs is there. Except for the groom. (Let's see ... if there's enough duct tape in black, or maybe white, I'm sure we could whip up a nice suit for him; if they can make prom gowns out of duct tape....)
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I, Myself, LOVE Malls
[Read the article: The couple who lived in a mall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've always fantasized about living in a mall, too. Though my fantasies were the only-living-human-left-in-the-world kind. Or accidentally locked in overnight and free to roam at will, trying on stuff, that kind of thing. I love malls and don't spend much money there, but I love the air conditioning, the food court, and the bookstores, simple-minded a**hole that I am. (I spent hours in Bonwit's at one time, with its gorgeous Tuscan Villa decor. Sadly, it went out of business and was replaced with the hideous, appalling, butt-ugly H&M full of ugly sleazy rags and TVs with rap videos glued to the formerly beautiful walls. I was inordinately pleased when half of it was closed down due to lack of sales.)
Anyway, I'm sad that the enclosed mall is no longer popular and is being replaced with lines of overpriced stores you have to drive up to. In the winter, I'm supposed to slog through the parking lot and tramp from store to store to store in the ice and snow? NO WAY. This is why the despised Walmart is still in business - cheap, everything under one roof, like an ugly mini-mall. At least you get a shopping cart and don't have to keep running back to your car before another frozen trek.
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(*sigh*) There IS no "deeper meaning"
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's wrong with you people, obsessed with the deeper meanings of 'ass jokes'? That's what they are, jokes. Are you perhaps suffering from homosexual panic? There is no funnier part of the human anatomy than the area below the belly button and above the knee. Ask any 12 year old. Jeez.
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THIS IDEA HAS 'FAIL' WRITTEN ALL OVER IT
[Read the article: I seem to be moving in with my boyfriend -- but why?!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope you are reading these responses, LW, and getting a CLUE. Don't move in. Period. You will regret it, deeply, and it will NOT work out. You will be miserable, the kids will be miserable, and where will this boyfriend be? Off working how many hours a week?
You will be a FOOL if you move in. We warned you.
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Bumper sticker: "McCain/MILF in 2008"
[Read the article: McCain's Palin pick is the epitome of tokenism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am unimpressed, and troubled by everything I've read about her so far. Lugging a set of boobs around does not mean women are going to automatically vote for her! I think she would be an ideal candidate for taking Dick Cheney and his friends up on a helicopter to shoot wild animals (she has been in favor of this 'sport' twice). I think she's useful for standing there while the Republicans point and say, "lookit! A woman! We're hip! We're with-it!" I simply don't see anything she has to offer women, anyway - anyone who cranks out 5 kids (and one retarded) scares me! ... Bizarre choice, McCain. May it backfire on you big time.
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Phoenix Petrels and Red Footed Boobys and Sarah Palin and her Boobys
[Read the article: This place is the bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](since we're tossing her name around here) Sarah Palin, who likes to shoot wolves and polar bears from a helicopter, could take Dick Cheney and friends in a helicopter to shoot at these rare bird species! Pity there aren't any larger targets there.