Pib, my guayabera feelings were confirmed

That is the stupidest story that I have heard in a long time! Not to mention Illogical!

BTW Prostitution is leagal all over the world. It is only illegal when you exchange legal currency!

I'm still not awake today, but what do you want La Piba to do, open a district in the DR or marry a costarican?

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golo said:

Can it be prostitution without currence exchange? If I am not mistaken police can only arrest you for prostitution when you pay for it.

TW

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Golo, it appears you don't take to puns and sarcasm very well. Perhaps they don't translate well.

Only in a free country like America do the authorities invest energy and money in arresting strippers for not having their nipples covered with pasties or coming too close to the customers, where the only people that ever would have known are the very customers themselves and who are in DISAGREEMENT with the regulations, in seeking out various posession violations, setting up radar speed traps and prostitution stings, enforcing seat belt laws and pornograhy violations, turn signal use and stop sign compliance, etc. while identity and credit card theft, vandalism and bogus product advertising, business fraud and such... go relatively unpunished.

In the DR a guayabera is a sure sign of one being a chopo. But for us Cuban types it is a traditional dress handed down from the Spanish upper class in Cuba.
A guayabera should only be worn during the day at occaisions that are outside or partialy outside. Parties, BBQs....ect. Wearing a guaybera indoors at night is the equivalent of wearing a Tuxedo during the day outside!

Tony C.

LOL...Guayabera...The Cuban tuxedo...now that's funny!

Can I get a "HELL YAH" from the congregation?

Jim Hinsch said:

Only in a free country like America do the authorities invest energy and money in arresting ........ turn signal use and stop sign compliance, etc. while identity and credit card theft, vandalism and bogus product advertising, business fraud and such... go relatively unpunished.

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Right on JH

I don't know anything about strippers, but I agree with the rest.

I hope Jim meant NORTH American......

and not just the US of A. Happens all the time in Canada too (as she writes out a cheque to pay for all the parking tickets her husband has gotten in the past two months!!)

Parking tickets? Are those not obtained by disregardingthe laws of your municipality?

KM

Have you ever read the stoires of old laws like being illegal to have a horse in your living room, or walking a pig on the sidewalk on Sunday. some are quite funny

KM

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golo said:

I can understand your feelings since you are a certified Guayabera model.

Can it be prostitution without currence exchange? If I am not mistaken police can only arrest you for prostitution when you pay for it.

TW

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One would think the exchange of sexual favors for any renumeration, be it money, food, jewelry etc be termed prostitution. This would of course be an agreement of sexual favor for a specified gift, not a gift given for sex.

KM

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No....it means having meters that only give you an hour time limit and a doctors appointment where you wait for 3/4 hr. or more after your appointment time before getting into an exam room then waiting another 15 minutes before you actually see him/her, then being examined/talking to the Dr. and then departing to find the meter expired 10 minutes ago and you've got a ticket on your windshield!!
In other words the "system" is designed so more money can be taken out of your pocket to pay the piper for services that someone else benefits from!!

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Mannheim said:

One would think the exchange of sexual favors for any renumeration, be it money, food, jewelry etc be termed prostitution. This would of course be an agreement of sexual favor for a specified gift, not a gift given for sex.

KM

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Hmmm... reminds me of my marraige. Only problem is that she didn't keep up her part of the bargain! LOL

Golo! So true! I had a latino boyfriend several years back, and we used to laugh at those guayabera-wearing Chopos - especially the tourist thatbought them and seriouslywear them like a fashion statement, lucky if they could button the damned thing over their gut. Even a central american chopo like him wouldn't deign to wear one of them.

Uh oh.....guess having an -ex-chopo-boyfriend might make me one too........

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MommC said:

No....it means having meters that only give you an hour time limit and a doctors appointment where you wait for 3/4 hr. or more after your appointment time before getting into an exam room then waiting another 15 minutes before you actually see him/her, then being examined/talking to the Dr. and then departing to find the meter expired 10 minutes ago and you've got a ticket on your windshield!!
In other words the "system" is designed so more money can be taken out of your pocket to pay the piper for services that someone else benefits from!!

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I like your rationale of it beingthe fault of the Doctor and his inability to promptly service you as a reason for a violation of law.

Given this, the next time I receive a speeding ticket I should try to explain to the Officer that had I left for my destination on time, or had my plane been at a more convienient departure, I would not be speeding thus it is no fault of my own to accept reponsibility for societies rules

By the way, I still maintain and agree with you that it was an "Atomic" and not a Nuclear Bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It may indeed have resulted in a Nuclear "reaction," but the bombs were aptly named Atomic. A fission reaction need take place for a fusion reaction to ocurr, thus the bombs dropped on Japan were merely "triggers" for a Thermo Nuclear or Hydrogen bomb. Someone has been watching "Wargames" too much.

Regarding Nuclear (Or Atomic) bombs, there is one cold statement made by either Senator E Kennedy or Congressman Hatfield that rings true "Man has never developed a weapon that he has not ultimately used," so it would seem prescedent dictates that a Hydrogen bomb will be used.

As for the thousands killed by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, far more were killed by conventional bombs in the firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden

KM

Well...telling the Dr to wait 10 minutes while you go feed the meter

would mean another hour or two wait to be able to "see" or talk to him again!I personally spent two years going every two weeks to see a specialist and waiting up to 5 hours past my appointment time before actually getting to "see" him. Now who's "fault" was that. When I finally started sending bills for my "lost appointment time" (yes I saw clients by appointment also and my office had to explain to them why I wasn't there to keep their appointment when I would be delayed) his office started calling me on the day of my appointment and letting me know when I only had a fifteen minute wait before I would have the dubvious pleasure of his presence (even if it was five hours past my appointment time!!) so I could leave my office and make it to his when he was ready to see me.

I used to have to take my son for therapy to an office located in our city hall building. Fifth floor with a child in a wheelchair and no handicapped parking just the dumb one hour meters. The therapy session lasted an hour plus there was the time to make it into the building and up to the fifth floor and back down and out of the building then to the car. Needless to say every week I got a ticket until I finally (after writing several letters to the mayor and city council) typed up a petition, got about 2000 signatures on it then presented it at a televised council meeting.
They finally designated a handicapped parking spot in the city hall lot with no time limit on it!! First time I went to use it what was parked in it???? A TV station van that was covering a city hall event!! You don't want to know my reaction or what I said. Suffice it to say the national TV channel heard about their local affiliate as well as the mayor, every individual member of council and all the local media including a letter to the editor or the local newspaper with copies to all the nations newspapers.