azraelle

I've had mine for many years. Just as much power as the industrial units from Milwaukee and others, and 5 lbs less weight. One disadvantage: the motor is on the opposite side than most other sircular saws, sort of "left-handed" and requires some getting used to.

I don't care what anyone says, she looks like Karen Carpenter did a few weeks b4 she died of anorexia nervosa. In other words, not hot, just starved. Not a turn on at all.

In no particular order (most recent versions, unless otherwise stated): 1) The Last of the Mohicans 2) Robin Hood Prince of Thieves 3) The Thirty-Nine Steps 4) Invitation to the Wedding 5) Hopscotch 6) Hackers 7) Down Periscope The Long Kiss Goodnight 9) The Alamo 10) Paulie 11) Silence of the Lambs 12) Dirty Dancing 13) Klute 14) In G.O.D. We Trust 15) Blazing Saddles 16) Enter The Dragon 17) The Sweetest Thing 18) American Pie (1) 19) Starship Troopers 20) 10 Things I Hate About You 21) The Princess Bride 22) The Outlaw Josie Wales 23) The Craft 24) The Mask of Zorro 25) No Man is an Island (~1945) 26) Men At Work 27) Lord Jim 28) (a J-Lo/George Clooney flick ~1998) 29) 9 to 5 30) Coal Miner's Daughter 31) Pump Up The Volume 32) Kelly's Hero's 33) M.A.S.H. 34) Gleaming The Cube 35) The Cutting Edge Sorry, got carried away there!

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The first shoes with heels that I had a chance to wear was when I was 11 or 12--my grandmother had recently died and several boxes of her stuff were hauled from her house, and stored in our garage. There was a pair of size 7 or 8 "granny pumps" with narrow blocky heels, 2-1/2" at the back or so, with some sort of cutout decorations on the uppers, somewhat like men's wing tips. They were dark blue, and I tried them on. They were tight but oh so wonderful the way they felt. I was so disappointed that I grew out of them after only a few months! Then when I was 14 or so, (relatively) high-heeled back zipper, then side zipper, boots became the rage for guys--I was in heaven. Unfortunately the style didn't last more than about a year and a half. It wasn't until I was 26 or 27 that I aquired another pair of decently high heeled boots, mail order from Lane Bryant, about 2-1/2" at the back.

They'll be back, just like bell-bottoms--fashion designers can't resist resurrecting fashions dead and buried (or perhaps the only way to make a living is to make every woman change her wardrobe every few months?).

Blue Makita hypoid drive circular saw!

Bottom line: she doesn't want to get pity from "other people" and she doesn't understand why it is so hard to suppress that weird desire.

Most women will never understand, unless they've ever been addicted (and "recovered") to something like heroin or crack cocaine, because having a penis (and a Y chromosome), and the sexual urges that result therefrom, are every bit as difficult to control or "suppress" as the urge to give in to the addiction. No, I'm not an addict (in the conventional sense), but have known a few. If you consider the endorphins that flood the system during sexual fantasizing or roleplaying as drugs (and their chemical structures do resemble opiates), then I am most definitely an addict, and I suspect several others on this board are as well.

Most women think, and more to the point feel like Laurie describes. I suspect most wouldn't be able to put into words exactly what they feel, other than that it is fundamentally WRONG for a man, especially their man, to be wearing women's clothes of any kind. It's visceral, lower brain stem, probably illogical, could be proven without merit in any court of law, but it still will be there! It is as set-in-stone as a person's faith or religion, and every bit as easy to change--e.g. only the person that has it can change it, and only when she finds a motive to do so, if indeed she ever does. I used to believe that love transcended all, and indeed, if a woman ever does find a motive, it will be love (not fear). Yeah, you messed with her trust, but the distrust goes to the visceral core--it's not the clothes, it's "can she trust her intuitions anymore [about you and who you reallyare, or what]? ".

Evanescence, Linkin Park, and Michelle Branch.

If the balls of your feet hurt from wearing high heels, you might consider going on an Atkins diet (or something similar) and losing some weight. I speak from some experience--I have lost 32 lbs in the last 2 months, and my feet (and knees) feel the difference. Another 60 or so to go though...

I have a thing for vintage FJ-40 Toyota Land Crushers, myself. Used to own one before my divorce. They would go anywhere. I asked the members of my Land Cruiser club if they would mind if I invited a friend along with a Jeep CJ-40, and they said "Sure--entertainment!". And sure enough they got stuck! Don't know much about Range Rovers, except that getting parts for them is expensive as the devil, and the older Land Rovers had a reputation in America of leaking oil like a sieve.

Fighting for the crispies on top of a pork roast at Christmas. There's nothing like it. Some of you may call it crackling. I call it damn good.

I always get funny looks when I ask for them, and the extremely well-done portions of ribs, etc--the crusts as I call them. But I haven't got a Danish cell in my body.

Yes I would wear them, if they were knee-high, but I don't know where.

I've noticed much the same thing, Heelsfan, tho I'm not as fast a typist so I can't be as verbose, sorry. Good "trainers" in womens' size 13 (US) are difficult to come by, unfortunately, tho New Balance and Nike have been known to make some. The only pairs of men's footwear I own are a pair of New Balance running shoes for over-pronaters, and a pair of very conventional cowboy boots made out of water buffalo hide. My low-heel dress shoes are size 12 wide womens'.

A bunch of Evanescence mp3's I downloaded.

You could try KaZaAlite--I managed to download a divx of the movie, but couldn't get it to play with my antiquated software, so I trashed it.

WOW

Why am I always the last to know these things ?

Just got through seeing it. From a heel wearing perspective, including seeing the same pair of boots/pumps from scene to scene, running in stillettos, etc., it was a great movie. From just about any other perspective--you know, plot, believability, idiocy, etc.--IT STUNK!!! :x There's enough heel wearing to jade just about anyone, even on this board--I got quite bored, in fact, if you'll pardon the pun. Oh well.

bijan

About 20 wpm on a good day. I'm SOOO ENVIOUS.

Coincidences never cease--I saw that episode a while back--it's the only Friendsshow I've ever watched!

You should have offered her some pointers, Hoverfly. If you went about it right, you might have made a convert.

Surely you have graphics shops in Belgium...could you not take a photograph to one and, for the equivalent of a dollar or so, have them scan it for you and stick the digital version on a floppy disc? But don't feel obligated or pressured--just a suggestion.

indescribably breathtaking Phuong!!

There was a movie made not too long ago about a "tomboy" who was hospitalized for psychiatric problems of not being feminine enough--based on a true story back in the 60's or 70's called Girl, Interrupted starring Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder. If parents have enough money, the tendency is for expensive private psychiatrists to milk them for every possible dime in the guise of convincing the parents that there is something wrong with Johnny or Janey, and that a few months of encounter group therapy and counseling will "cure" them, the length of time frequently corresponding to how much money can be milked, or how large the insurance policy is. Rich parents have this attitude that they don't have to do research to discover the truth of the claims--that's what they pay EXPERTS for. It just never seems to enter their head that credentialed experts wouldn't have altruistic motives, or would lie to them.