Comments on: “It’s illegal for a prick to touch an asshole in this state” http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:56:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: nothingmuch http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-213516 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:26:28 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-213516 My ex has worked at an adult video/magazine/toy store (not Forbidden Fruit) in Austin for years. Their policy is to say that any dildo or vibrator is a "novelty item only," and never to describe how it's supposed to be used. Undercover police officers will occasionally come in and start asking the clerk, "what is this? what's it for?" and they have to just repeat, "it's a novelty item, I can't tell you what to do with it," or they could be arrested and hauled off to jail. It's crazy. So much for freedom of speech. My ex has worked at an adult video/magazine/toy store (not Forbidden Fruit) in Austin for years.

Their policy is to say that any dildo or vibrator is a “novelty item only,” and never to describe how it’s supposed to be used.

Undercover police officers will occasionally come in and start asking the clerk, “what is this? what’s it for?” and they have to just repeat, “it’s a novelty item, I can’t tell you what to do with it,” or they could be arrested and hauled off to jail. It’s crazy.

So much for freedom of speech.

]]> by: nothingmuch http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-213199 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:15:21 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-213199 I pick up accents, too. The only time I've ever had anyone laugh at my pronunciation, though, was when my best friend in high school thought it was hilarious that I pronounced the word "ambul<i>aa</i>nce" instead of "ambul<i>eh</i>nce." I pick up accents, too.

The only time I’ve ever had anyone laugh at my pronunciation, though, was when my best friend in high school thought it was hilarious that I pronounced the word “ambulaance” instead of “ambulehnce.”

]]> by: Appalachia Alumni Association http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209777 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:24:03 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209777 <strong>The Dildo Diaries...</strong> Check out this 11 minute segment of The Dildo Diaries, a documentary about Texas' ban on dildos. It really gives you an appreciation for how ridiculous the Legislature can be....... The Dildo Diaries…

Check out this 11 minute segment of The Dildo Diaries, a documentary about Texas’ ban on dildos. It really gives you an appreciation for how ridiculous the Legislature can be…….

]]> by: Yig http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209494 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:22:20 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209494 Well, at least he's up front with his crazy. No studies, no white papers from a think tank, no fancy talk. He'd prefer to lynch the sodomites, but will settle for the more legally expedient fine. I can understand that he thinks butt-fucking is filthy and icky and "a bad habit", but how many people are so deeply concerned about the "bad habits" of others that it moves them to take up the time of a state legislature? It wasn't even like there was a massive letter-writing or telephone campaign by his constituency to move him to do this-wholly on his own initiative. The hilarious surreal conversation with the dildo saleslady is also something. If I wasn't sure that Rep. Chisum et al. were deadly serious about that sort of thing, I would have at first assumed it was some kind of joke-a legislative nudge to put people into a situation where they can't help but laugh. They could've passed it along with the statewide Silly Walks initiative. Well, at least he’s up front with his crazy. No studies, no white papers from a think tank, no fancy talk. He’d prefer to lynch the sodomites, but will settle for the more legally expedient fine.

I can understand that he thinks butt-fucking is filthy and icky and “a bad habit”, but how many people are so deeply concerned about the “bad habits” of others that it moves them to take up the time of a state legislature? It wasn’t even like there was a massive letter-writing or telephone campaign by his constituency to move him to do this-wholly on his own initiative.

The hilarious surreal conversation with the dildo saleslady is also something. If I wasn’t sure that Rep. Chisum et al. were deadly serious about that sort of thing, I would have at first assumed it was some kind of joke-a legislative nudge to put people into a situation where they can’t help but laugh. They could’ve passed it along with the statewide Silly Walks initiative.

]]> by: Frumious B http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209321 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:05:52 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209321 If you want to buy an anatomically correct condom demonstration model, you have to go to the Nueches location off 6th St. The North Loop location sells clothing and lingerie. If you want to buy an anatomically correct condom demonstration model, you have to go to the Nueches location off 6th St. The North Loop location sells clothing and lingerie.

]]> by: ACG http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209244 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:11:43 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209244 When I moved to Georgia from Virginia by way of Tennessee, people in Georgia thought I was English. Then, whenever I returned to Virginia to visit family, they laughed at my southernness, and when I did my college visits in the Boston area, I somehow turned into Scarlett O'Hara (which I think was just a reflex against the "pahk the cah" thing). Interestingly enough, when I went to school in England, I was told that I was pretty much accent-free - until I got on the phone with someone back home, at which times I found myself surrounded by Englishfolk wanting to hear me say "y'all" and say "Oh, mah gawd" and call my mother "Mama." I had a coworker who grew up in north Georgia and ended up going to college in south Georgia. When she came home to visit at Christmastime, her mother just shook her head and clucked, "Will you just listen to her talk! Baby girl, your accent is plum <i>rurnt.</i>" When I moved to Georgia from Virginia by way of Tennessee, people in Georgia thought I was English. Then, whenever I returned to Virginia to visit family, they laughed at my southernness, and when I did my college visits in the Boston area, I somehow turned into Scarlett O’Hara (which I think was just a reflex against the “pahk the cah” thing).

Interestingly enough, when I went to school in England, I was told that I was pretty much accent-free - until I got on the phone with someone back home, at which times I found myself surrounded by Englishfolk wanting to hear me say “y’all” and say “Oh, mah gawd” and call my mother “Mama.”

I had a coworker who grew up in north Georgia and ended up going to college in south Georgia. When she came home to visit at Christmastime, her mother just shook her head and clucked, “Will you just listen to her talk! Baby girl, your accent is plum rurnt.“

]]> by: JackGoff http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209177 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:35:16 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209177 I have the Midwestern accent, and a lot of people here in New Jersey are shocked, like open mouth stare-type shock, that I sound the way I do, being from Arkansas. Then, they see that I'm wearing shoes, and they begin to think something fishy is going on here. Gah! I have the Midwestern accent, and a lot of people here in New Jersey are shocked, like open mouth stare-type shock, that I sound the way I do, being from Arkansas. Then, they see that I’m wearing shoes, and they begin to think something fishy is going on here. Gah!

]]> by: turbodillo http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209150 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:41:22 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209150 Every time I go down to visit my relatives in Tegsus (Beaumont), I come back with a super-thick twang. After two days in New Jersey, a wonderful thing happens: Southeast-Texas mixes with Jersey and births one of the wierdest accents around. Not that I have a Jersey accent, but I'm an accent chameleon, too. Oh, and this is why the internet sites like goodvibes make good business--because of laws like this. Every time I go down to visit my relatives in Tegsus (Beaumont), I come back with a super-thick twang. After two days in New Jersey, a wonderful thing happens: Southeast-Texas mixes with Jersey and births one of the wierdest accents around.
Not that I have a Jersey accent, but I’m an accent chameleon, too.

Oh, and this is why the internet sites like goodvibes make good business–because of laws like this.

]]> by: Morfydd http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209111 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:34:00 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209111 "Anyone else have a geographically-conditional accent, in that it changes based on where you are and/or who is around?" I can't "do" an accent to save my life, but I pick them up quickly - and not by choice - from people I'm talking to. My mother's worse - she had a college roommate from the deep south and had to keep explaining that she wasn't mocking her by talking like her... “Anyone else have a geographically-conditional accent, in that it changes based on where you are and/or who is around?”

I can’t “do” an accent to save my life, but I pick them up quickly - and not by choice - from people I’m talking to. My mother’s worse - she had a college roommate from the deep south and had to keep explaining that she wasn’t mocking her by talking like her…

]]> by: Triffid Farmer http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209087 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:55:25 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/its-illegal-for-a-prick-to-touch-an-asshole-in-this-state/#comment-209087 I'm from Virginia, and when I'm around my home area my accent is a thick Virginny-Tarheel blend*, but everywhere else I go my diction is so clear people think I'm from Europe. Anyone else have a geographically-conditional accent, in that it changes based on where you are and/or who is around? * sounds like a coffee, doesn't it? I’m from Virginia, and when I’m around my home area my accent is a thick Virginny-Tarheel blend*, but everywhere else I go my diction is so clear people think I’m from Europe. Anyone else have a geographically-conditional accent, in that it changes based on where you are and/or who is around?

* sounds like a coffee, doesn’t it?

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