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July 25, 2005

Whipped Magazine

101 Ways of Dealing With The Loss Of Your Balls.

I'd get JeffB. a subscription, but I don't know if you can be pussywhipped by your collection of vintage Swedish nudist magazines. I think you need an actual girl or something.


posted by Ace at 10:44 PM
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Ace...you weren't specific enough in this post. I have it on good authority that the collection of Swedish nudist magazines that has Jeff B. by the short and curlies is in fact: Playgirl Scandinavia.

Posted by: Jack M. on July 25, 2005 11:17 PM

So now there's a magazine for the Ace of Spade's lifestyle. Congratulations!

Posted by: Iblis on July 25, 2005 11:40 PM

You were all thinking it. I just posted it first!

Posted by: Iblis on July 25, 2005 11:41 PM

I think this maga...

Oh, shit...she's back...I gotta go...

Posted by: harrison on July 26, 2005 09:11 AM

tell me about it...

Posted by: bender on July 26, 2005 10:48 AM

the Ace of Spade's lifestyle.

I thought the Ace of Spade's lifestyle was collecting welfare and sitting on the couch in your underwear all day shooting eightballs and Wild Turkey enemas.

Or was it clonopin and Val-U-Rite vodka?

Posted by: 72 VIRGINS on July 26, 2005 11:02 AM

Why do you hurt me so? What ever have I done to deserve such shabby treatment? You wound me, Mr. O'Spades.

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 26, 2005 11:07 AM

I think I'm just going to sit here in my nice fluffy bed, bury my head in these giant pink throw pillows, and snuggle up with my oversized stuffed animal collection. After I've had a good cry, maybe I'll feel a little better.

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 26, 2005 11:09 AM

Look..Jeff B. is bleeding again. Somebody get him a tampon!

Posted by: Jack M. on July 26, 2005 11:09 AM

And maybe a tub of Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream, as well.

Though you know I shouldn't be eating the stuff - it goes straight to my hips.

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 26, 2005 11:10 AM

Oh Jeff, just do what Ace does whenever he feels low.

Shoot off some bottle rockets, and when the cops come, blame it on some puerto rican kids.

Posted by: lauraw on July 26, 2005 11:22 AM

hard to get away with when the neighbors caught you singing The Star Spangled Banner in your underwear

Posted by: Dave in Texas on July 26, 2005 11:41 AM

Those damned Puerto Rican kids! Is there no end to the trouble they cause?

Jeff, I can send you my wife's slightly ruffled copy of the latest issue of Lucky, if it will make you feel any better.

Posted by: Phinn on July 26, 2005 11:42 AM

(I kid. I kid because I love.)

(Not in that way, of course.)

Posted by: Phinn on July 26, 2005 11:43 AM

Sure. You're "just kidding". Uh-huh. I suppose Hitler was "just kidding" too, right? And Tojo's antics were "all in good fun," no doubt.

You people disgust me. Every last one of you.

We need to bring an end to the politics of personal destruction which have torn apart this blog.

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 26, 2005 12:11 PM

Look, there are people who shoot off bottle rockets and blame it on puerto rican kids, and people who don't.

I don't think its divisive to merely report this easily observable fact.

Posted by: lauraw on July 26, 2005 12:18 PM

I thought that the "politics of personal destruction" was what this blog was founded on!

(They disgust me, too. God love 'em.)

Posted by: Phinn on July 26, 2005 12:19 PM

Now I know why, when I approach my husband, he's always tapping, 'wos' to his friends on IM.

wife over shoulder

Posted by: lauraw on July 26, 2005 12:25 PM

chuckleheads.

I gave you a flamewar thread, you all fucked it up, and now you're being funny in a different thread?

I don't know why I bother. I really don't.

Posted by: ace on July 26, 2005 12:29 PM

C'mon Ace, you know as well as anyone: you can't force the funny. It just flows naturally from events. I can't turn the Funny on 'on demand' - I need to coax it out of its hiding place with gentle foreplay and maybe a heart-shaped box of chocolates.

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 26, 2005 12:52 PM

Wow, Jeff B. You sure know an awful lot about "flow[ing] naturally". It's almost enough to make me wonder if you do, in fact, have a menstrual cycle.

Aww..screw that. Of course you do. You Mydol popping, ta,pax wearing, toxic shock addled powder puff.

Posted by: Jack M. on July 26, 2005 12:57 PM

Wow, Jeff B. You sure know an awful lot about "flow[ing] naturally". It's almost enough to make me wonder if you do, in fact, have a menstrual cycle.

Aww..screw that. Of course you do. You Mydol popping, tampax wearing, toxic shock addled powder puff.

Posted by: Jack M. on July 26, 2005 12:57 PM

LOL. Double post! One for each day this week Jeff B. has been on the rag I guess.

Posted by: Jack M. on July 26, 2005 12:58 PM

Tojo never handed out copies of Lucky, I know that much.

Posted by: Phinn on July 26, 2005 01:11 PM

His colleagues testified during the Japanese war crimes tribunal that he was more of a Juggs man, really. We have a transcript of a table-talk session where he dismisses Lucky as having "no class. Plus not enough anal penetration shots." That Tojo - a savvy porn connossieur

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 26, 2005 01:34 PM

I gave you a flamewar thread, you all fucked it up, and now you're being funny in a different thread?

Hey, you'e the won hoo rites a stupidmoronblog. Wat do yo ecspect?

If you put ot bate for stupidmorans, don bee surprise if theyrs drool all over your front steps and the dog is preggant.

Posted by: lauraw on July 26, 2005 01:44 PM

I can't turn the Funny on 'on demand' - -- JeffB.

Truer words never spoken.

Posted by: ace on July 26, 2005 02:15 PM

Finally! A magazine just for me! I'm gonna get a subscription to that magazine! Of course, I'll have to ask my wife first, and I will, believe me. Just as soon as she takes her foot out of my ass, I'll be getting the green light to subscribe away! Because I get to do what I want, when I want, as long as I ask first, and am prepared for ridicule. Someone please please kill me now I long for death.

Posted by: Shawn on July 27, 2005 01:31 AM

Pssst
Shawn

Look in the box in the cellar where she keeps all the old wedding memorabilia.
She told me that's where she keeps your shriveled testicles, in a champagne glass.

Do it while she's out for lunch with the girls.

Posted by: lauraw on July 27, 2005 10:59 AM
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