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Fascinating map...An interesting read.

"When you tell the truth, you don't have to have a good memory"

With video was tagged onto the video that @azdr0710 provided. It demonstrates why I am such a fan of 'The Judge". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9uq9EvUABE

I've been known to reschedule for an hour or so because of the 'Judge'... Plus...she's somewhat of a Florida girl. https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/judge-judy-buys-and-sells-in-naples-florida/ https://variety.com/2015/dirt/real-estalker/judge-judy-buys-and-lists-in-naples-florida-1201657389/

It was a bit of an inside joke, and definitely not directed at you.

Absolutely...I've had a blast, and I wouldn't have changed a thing. I've put in the miles, paid the dues, made the mistakes, and lived to laugh about it.

A number of years ago I stopped hiring escorts, with the exception of TB of course and KJ (who was nothing but a gentleman to me), and every time I see a post like this, I'm reminded of why. Thanks to places like Johnson's and guys like Matt, and the more and more frequent trips to Stock and Campus, I've alleviated the drama...

Brains, tongue, pigs feet, chitlins (made from the small intestines of a pig) bison, venison, Elk, quail, Frog legs, turtle, and a mysterious meat from a street vendor in Pattaya. To this day I have no idea what it was, nor do I want to.

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Where's A.S. when you need him.

Outstanding!!

Yes it is a scam. Just happened to a friend of mine. She was remodeling her home and was throwing out a 1950's yellow stove. Perfect mid-century. I encouraged her to sell it via CL, which she did for $300. The phone rang immediately. The caller wanted it, but it was being shipped to a designer in Palm Springs. He would send her a cashiers check for the amount of the stove ($300) plus an extra amount for shipping. The check arrived and it was for $2800. The buyer said that he didn't know how much the shipping was going to be so he wanted her to deposit the $2800 into her account and as soon as the check cleared, she was to take her $300 out for the stove plus another $50 for her trouble, subtract what the movers wanted and then deposit the overage into his account which he gave her an account number for. The check was from a designer in California and the website was all legit. THE SCAM. She called her bank and the fraud department got involved. What happens is that although the $2800 was made available to her in a few days, the actual check would not clear for at least 10. After the funds were available, she would receive a phone call from the shipper telling her that shipping costs would total about $700. The overage would be in the neighborhood of approx $2000, which she would deposit into the buyers account. Unfortunately in 10 days when the check really didn't clear, she would be on the hook for the entire $2800, and the scammer would walk away with $2000. The check with the designers name was a forgery and the phone number went to a phone that was a store bought burner phone from Walmart. All dead ends and untraceable. So yes... C.O.D. "Cash only, locals only." Pick it up and take it away. Oh yes, and besure to have a bill marking pen handy. (Available via the internet). A friend of mine sold $500 worth of stuff at a garage sale to a guy and all 5 $100 bills were counterfeit. It's a scandalous world we live in...

You might consider using the living room as your bedroom. Had a friend years ago that was in a similar situation. The living room was more centrally located and more convenient to access the rest of the house. It turned out to be quite a nice set up.

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Agree... And Uber when necessary.

+1 I'm old, it's got to be on wheels. Tumi only, unless "Grandma loans me her LV"

I have white jeans. I wear them all the time, but NEVER after Labor Day. Why We Can't Wear White After Labor Day By Laura Fitzpatrick Tuesday, Sept. 08, 2009 http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0909/360_white_labor_day_0904.jpg Roland Schoor / Time & Life Pictures / Getty French fashion designer Coco Chanel in 1969, wearing one of her signature white suits The post–Labor Day moratorium on white clothing and accessories has long ranked among etiquette hard-liners' most sacred rules. As punishment for breaking it in the 1994 movie Serial Mom, for instance, Patty Hearst's character was murdered by a punctilious psychopath. But ask your average etiquette expert how that rule came to be, and chances are that even she couldn't explain it. So why aren't we supposed to wear white after Labor Day? One common explanation is practical. For centuries, wearing white in the summer was simply a way to stay cool — like changing your dinner menu or putting slipcovers on the furniture. "Not only was there no air-conditioning, but people did not go around in T shirts and halter tops. They wore what we would now consider fairly formal clothes," says Judith Martin, better known as etiquette columnist Miss Manners. "And white is of a lighter weight." (See pictures of the fashion looks of Sarah Palin.) But beating the heat became fashionable in the early to mid-20th century, says Charlie Scheips, author of American Fashion. "All the magazines and tastemakers were centered in big cities, usually in northern climates that had seasons," he notes. In the hot summer months, white clothing kept New York fashion editors cool. But facing, say, heavy fall rain, they might not have been inclined to risk sullying white ensembles with mud — and that sensibility was reflected in the glossy pages of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, which set the tone for the country. This is all sound logic, to be sure — but that's exactly why it may be wrong. "Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule," notes Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. True enough: it's hard to think of a workaday downside to pairing your black shoes with a brown belt. (See pictures of Pope Benedict's fashion looks.) Instead, other historians speculate, the origin of the no-white-after–Labor Day rule may be symbolic. In the early 20th century, white was the uniform of choice for Americans well-to-do enough to decamp from their city digs to warmer climes for months at a time: light summer clothing provided a pleasing contrast to drabber urban life. "If you look at any photograph of any city in America in the 1930s, you'll see people in dark clothes," says Scheips, many scurrying to their jobs. By contrast, he adds, the white linen suits and Panama hats at snooty resorts were "a look of leisure." Labor Day, celebrated in the U.S. on the first Monday of September, marked the traditional end of summer; the well-heeled vacationers would stow their summer duds and dust off their heavier, darker-colored fall clothing. "There used to be a much clearer sense of re-entry," says Steele. "You're back in the city, back at school, back doing whatever you're doing in the fall — and so you have a new wardrobe." By the 1950s, as the middle class expanded, the custom had calcified into a hard-and-fast rule. Along with a slew of commands about salad plates and fish forks, the no-whites dictum provided old-money élites with a bulwark against the upwardly mobile. But such mores were propagated by aspirants too: those savvy enough to learn all the rules increased their odds of earning a ticket into polite society. "It [was] insiders trying to keep other people out," says Steele, "and outsiders trying to climb in by proving they know the rules." (See the video "Recession Etiquette with Peggy Post.") Some etiquette buffs don't buy this explanation, however. "There are always people who want to attribute everything in etiquette to snobbery," protests Martin. "There were many little rules that people did dream up in order to annoy those from whom they wished to disassociate themselves. But I do not believe this is one of them." (See 10 Questions with Judith Martin.) Whatever its origin, the Labor Day rule has perennially met with resistance from high-fashion quarters. As far back as the 1920s, Coco Chanel made white a year-round staple. "It was a permanent part of her wardrobe," says Bronwyn Cosgrave, author of The Complete History of Costume & Fashion: From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day. The trend is embraced with equal vigor by today's fashion élites, Cosgrave notes — from Marion Cotillard accepting her 2008 Academy Award in a mermaid-inspired cream dress to Michelle Obama dancing the inaugural balls away in a snowy floor-length gown. Fashion rules are meant to be broken by those who can pull it off, notes Cosgrave, and white "looks really fresh when people aren't expecting it." (See pictures of the fashion looks of Michelle Obama.) Much to the chagrin of sartorial purists, that skepticism of the Labor Day law has seeped into mainstream America. From 1960s counterculture to the present day — when would-be fashionistas get as many ideas from blogs and friends as from magazines and Fashion Week — more people than ever are breaking the rule. Even the 2004 manners bible, Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition, gives the go-ahead for wearing white after Labor Day. Which may explain why some who abide by the custom themselves are now willing to compromise. Scheips, for one, "would never be caught dead wearing a white suit after Labor Day." But neither does he completely write off those who do. "I'm sure the Queen of England at Christmastime puts on white ermine once in a while. So if it's good enough for her, it's good enough for everybody else, right?" he says. "You don't have to be a fascist about it."

I disagree, Apps didn't kill gay bathhouses...and, speaking only about Fort Lauderdale, on any given night, most of the bars are standing room only, but I agree with you about grindr and the like. I was at Johnson's in FTL the other night for a friends birthday party. The guys that came up from Miami to dance were almost legendary. A stunning line up of boys, everyone a head turner. I looked over at him and he had his head buried deep in his phone. He suddenly got a hit, "Meet me at the Alibi in a hour," he said, and just like that he was gone. Cracked me up...

A new look perhaps, but the software remains unnecessarily archaic and far too often, almost unusable... That said, Adam Smith and Grandma are still worth the price of entry.

I make it, the dog unmakes it, and round and round we go.

Great post...Last paragraph is hilarious.

I'm with Freshfluff on Charleston. So it's Big Sur in the summer then, and Charleston in the fall?

I always get the ones with the big motor, so quiet is not something that I am familiar with...

When I venture that far south, I love Alexanders.