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    It's just become a cliche that if you dig a girl, you talk about her eyes. It comes across as corny and not being able to think of something original. Also, women like to be complimented on things they actually do. Girls take a lot of pride in hair care, but they're just born with their eyes. You can talk about her eyes later, just not when you're first getting to know her.

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    Since I'm an amateur at this kind of stuff, I was wondering if you guys can tell me what kinds of compliments I can give her without going over the top.

     

    I mean, should I just straight up tell her, "I'm interested in you...are you interested in me?" OR "I think you're really hot and I want to bone you as soon as possible" OR I dunno...

     

    If something can tell me exactly what to say, word for word, it would be appreciated.

    Well, you can talk about anything you like about her except her eyes.

     

    "I like your hair."

     

    "That's a nice top you have on."

     

    "Did you just get your nails done? They look nice."

     

    Don't force compliments though. The best thing to do is look at her and see if you notice anything new or see what you like about her and comment on that. Then as you get to know her move away from physical compliments to more mental/emotional ones.

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    For the sake of Mike's argument here's what a "white Sapp" might've said:

     

     

    "He snitched and pimp come down. That's all that is. ... Stop a man from doing something that he's been doing for nine years?"

     

    "And so now there's a rule against me. Thanks. I knew (the league) was gonna do what they did because they've been notoriously against me. Like I said before, it's a ho system. Make no mistake about it, pimp say you can't do it, don't do it. They'll make an example out of you."

     

    ""Do we not have anybody that understands that there's way more scrubs in this game that are Negros than there are white ones that are being pumped up?"

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    The best advice I can give you is to remember this line that I ganked from Lowbrow.com one day:

     

    "No matter how beautiful you think she is, someone, somewhere, is sick of her shit."

    Oh, that is beautiful.

    Profound, no doubt.

     

    But it shouldn't matter. That's absolutely true of the girl I care about, and I couldn't give two shits.

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    Two good articles:

     

    Rush was right about Donovan McNabb.

     

    And this one, written Sept 18:

     

    Overrated list: McNabb led way even before Pats flop Sept. 18, 2003

    By Pete Prisco

    SportsLine.com Senior Writer

     

    Ripping on Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb now is like being that last kid to take a shot during a fight after one of your friends has already put the other guy on the ground.

     

    "There, take that."

     

    That's piling on, too easy and not entirely fair. So as an explanation to this column on the most overrated players in the league, here's a preface: McNabb was the choice as the most overrated player before his Stink at the Linc on Sunday. McNabb was awful in the Eagles' 31-10 loss to the Patriots, which dropped the Eagles to a surprising 0-2 heading into their bye week.

     

    McNabb is still a good player, despite his pedestrian numbers from the first two games. He's just not a great one.

     

    And that's why he earns the Most Overrated Player Award.

     

    On most player ranking lists heading into the season, McNabb was ranked in the top 15-20 players. One had him as the third-best overall, and he is often considered one of the top three or four quarterbacks.

     

    That's wrong and wrong.

     

    McNabb has never been an accurate passer, doesn't seem comfortable in the pocket and has a tendency to make bad decisions. That is not how you earn high grades as a quarterback.

     

    He does have the ability to run, but he now seems to be trying to stay in the pocket -- actually not a bad thing, since it's safer there -- and that seems to have taken away some of his confidence. He looks too heavy, too sluggish.

     

    In fairness to McNabb, he is hamstrung by bad play-calling, has receivers who can't run or beat man coverage and a running-back-by-committee approach that led to just 11 running plays against the Patriots.

     

    But McNabb isn't doing his part, either.

     

    When he had receivers open Sunday, he missed them high and wide. He looks unsettled as a passer, often short-arming balls and not using proper mechanics. It's hard to believe anyone would put him in their top 100 players, let alone top 10. His passer rating is an awful 41.1 for an 0-2 team that some had pegged for the Super Bowl.

     

    Is this current phase a slump? McNabb says it is, and his coaches are sticking by him.

     

    "It's a team effort," said Eagles coach Andy Reid. "It's not about Donovan. It's about the team. We all need to do better. It's not just Donovan. Please don't point the finger at him. It goes around to everybody."

     

    Try and as he might to defuse the situation, Reid knows better. He knows McNabb is the guy who has to click for the Eagles to win. He still has the ability to be a quality starter, but he isn't -- or will he be -- the superstar that many have him pegged to become.

     

    McNabb -- classy as he always is, which makes him one of the more likeable players in the league -- stood and took his poison after Sunday's game. He never flinched when asked the questions, never fired back at the questioner.

     

    "I point the finger at myself," he said in the no-kidding quote of the year. "You know being the quarterback of this team, if the offense is out there, I'm the one who has to get everything going. I'm the one who has to be accurate with the ball; I have to be the one making the right checks, and make the right reads. I'll never lose confidence in myself. It's just the reality of the whole deal that I'm not playing well. I've been in this thing five years now, and these last two weeks obviously is nowhere near the way I've been playing the last couple years. I have to do is refocus myself, watch some film, maybe watch some team from last year."

     

    McNabb will regroup from his tough start. He's resilient, having bounced back from a broken leg last season to play in the playoffs. He's also a hard worker who probably won't let this get him down.

     

    But something is wrong. When you see fans in Eagles jersey No. 5 -- McNabb's number -- yelling for backup A.J. Feely during a game, there are issues.

     

    To some scouts, McNabb has always been overrated. One recalled giving him a third-round grade coming out of Syracuse. When McNabb was getting all the plaudits, that scout was the one his peers were laughing at.

     

    Now who's doing the laughing?

     

    Donovan McNabb: Good quarterback, but don't even think about using the word great.

     

    And that's why he's the most-overrated player, something he was getting even if he hadn't smelled up the place Sunday.

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    A great LA Times op-ed from one of my University's most commy law prof's:

     

    COMMENTARY

    A Deplorable October Surprise

    By Susan Estrich

     

    October 3, 2003

     

    So this is the October surprise? The Los Angeles Times headline that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped and humiliated women?

     

    None of the six women interviewed by The Times filed legal charges. Four of the six were quoted anonymously. Of the two who were named, one, a British television hostess, had told her story to Premiere magazine years ago, and it has been widely known and largely ignored. The other recounts an alleged incident of fondling at Gold's Gym nearly 30 years ago.

     

    The anonymous incidents occurred on movie sets and consist of touching a woman's breast in the elevator, whispering vulgarities and pulling a woman onto his lap. Though emphasizing that not everything in the stories was accurate, the candidate responded Thursday with an apology: "Yes, it is true that I was on rowdy movie sets and I have done things that were not right which I thought then was playful, but now I recognize that I offended people." And he pledged to treat women with respect if elected.

     

    As a professor of sex discrimination law for two decades and an expert on sexual harassment, I certainly don't condone the unwanted touching of women that was apparently involved here. But these acts do not appear to constitute any crime, such as rape or sodomy or even assault or battery. As for civil law, sexual harassment requires more than a single case of unwelcome touching; there must be either a threat or promise of sex in exchange for a job benefit or demotion, or the hostile environment must be severe and pervasive.

     

    But none of these women, as The Times emphasizes, ever came forward to complain. The newspaper went looking for them, and then waited until five days before the election to tell the fragments of the story.

     

    What this story accomplishes is less an attack on Schwarzenegger than a smear on the press. It reaffirms everything that's wrong with the political process. Anonymous charges from years ago made in the closing days of a campaign undermine fair politics.

     

    Facing these charges, a candidate has two choices. If he denies them, the story keeps building and overshadows everything else he does. Schwarzenegger's bold apology is a gamble to make the story go away. It may or may not work.

     

    But here's my prediction, as a Californian: It's too late for the Los Angeles Times' charges to have much impact. People have made up their minds. This attack, coming as late as it does, from a newspaper that has been acting more like a cheerleader for Gray Davis than an objective source of information, will be dismissed by most people as more Davis-like dirty politics. Is this the worst they could come up with? Ho-hum. After what we've been through?

     

    To his credit, Schwarzenegger apologized for "behaving badly." So should the Los Angeles Times.

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    Susan Estrich, a professor of law and political science at USC, is the author of "Sex and Power" (Riverside Press, 2001). She was national campaign manager for Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis in 1987-88.

     

    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commen...omment-opinions

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    ABC News article:

     

    Arnold’s New Battle

    Schwarzenegger: ‘I Cannot Remember’ Expressing Admiration for Hitler

     

    S A N D I E G O, Calif., Oct. 3— Arnold Schwarzenegger was ready to put his California gubernatorial campaign into high gear with five days left before the election, but after facing allegations of sexual harassment he is now trying to explain claims that he praised Adolf Hitler.

     

    ABCNEWS obtained a copy of an unpublished book proposal with quotes from what was called a "verbatim transcript" of an interview Schwarzenegger gave in 1975 while making the film Pumping Iron.

     

    Asked who his heroes are, he is quoted as saying, "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it."

     

    He is also quoted as saying he wished he could have an experience, "like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium. And have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say."

     

    The story broke just as Schwarzenegger was kicking off his bus tour of California — an event that was supposed to be the crescendo of his campaign.

     

    The author of the book proposal, Pumping Iron's director, George Butler, told ABCNEWS that the quotes needed to be seen in the context of Schwarzenegger's admiration of powerful men, and that he never said anything anti-Semitic.

     

    In an interview with ABCNEWS, Schwarzenegger said he didn't recall making the remarks, but said he has no admiration for Hitler or the Nazis.

     

    "I cannot remember any of this, all I can tell you is that I despise anything that Hitler stood for," he said. "I despise anything what the Nazis stood for … anything that the Third Reich stood for. Anything that they've done, the atrocities that they've created … and this is why for many many years I've been fighting against prejudice.

     

    He said he has given "millions of dollars" to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and called Wiesenthal "one of my heroes … because he always preaches justice."

     

    Later Thursday evening, at a news conference with wife Maria Shriver at his side, he repeated the denial.

     

    "I don't remember any of those comments because I always despise everything that Hitler stood for," Schwarzenegger said, calling the Nazi leader a "disgusting villain."

     

    This is not the first time Schwarzenegger has had apparently pro-Nazi remarks come back to haunt him. Last week he was reminded of a toast he gave to Austrian President Kurt Waldheim at his wedding. At the time Schwarzenegger gave the toast, it had just been exposed that Waldheim had committed Nazi war crimes.

     

    "That was a mistake, and I know but we can grow and it's always easy to be smart in hindsight," the actor-turned-candidate said.

     

    Sexual Indiscretions

     

    There have also been a growing number of allegations about Schwarzenegger mistreating women.

     

    A front-page story in Thursday's Los Angeles Times, California's largest newspaper, quoted six women who claim Schwarzenegger groped or made sexually offensive remarks to them. One woman told ABCNEWS she encountered Schwarzenegger in the 1970s when he was a bodybuilder.

     

    "The gym was quite full and Arnold was there and I remember him passing by me and groping my breast," Elaine Stockon told ABCNEWS. "And I was just in sheer shock."

     

    Of the six women who spoke to the newspaper, four would not give their names. One claimed that 20 years ago, Schwarzenegger "grabbed and squeezed" her left breast. She told the Los Angeles Times she "just started crying and crying." She said he did not rape her, but he humiliated her.

     

    The Los Angeles Times also quoted a woman, who asked not to be named, and worked on the movie Terminator 2, who claimed Schwarzenegger "would pin me against the corner of the elevator" and try to pull off the straps of her bathing suit.

     

    He confronted the allegations directly Thursday. "I have done things that at the time I thought then was playful but now I recognize that I have offended people. And those people that I have offended, I want to say to them I am deeply sorry about that and I apologize."

     

    Gov. Gray Davis, the man Schwarzenegger is hoping to replace as governor, told ABCNEWS he did not feel comfortable commenting on the allegations against Schwarzenegger of sexual misconduct that have appeared in the media because they have not been substantiated, but he said that the former bodybuilder's remarks about Hitler shocked him.

     

    "I don't see how anyone can admire Adolf Hitler. Any decent American has to be offended by that phrase," Davis said. "I am prepared to say that anyone who says they admire Hitler shocks the public conscience, because there's nothing about Hitler that warrants admiration, nothing at all."

     

     

    ABCNEWS' Linda Douglass and Brian Rooney contributed to this report.

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    This was a really good letter to the Daily Trojan in regards to the "troops wanna go home" argument:

     

    I am an active duty officer in the United States Navy, as well as a graduate student in USC's Professional Writing program. The following editorial response represents my opinion as an individual and an American. It does not in any way speak for the opinions of the U.S. military or its civilian leadership.

     

    I appreciate that Mr. Stern takes a great enough interest in the welfare of our troops abroad to editorialize so passionately about them ("Troop morale is Achilles heel for Bush," Sept. 25).

     

    However, in his broad brush descriptions and insinuating quoting, he has run the risk of creating a self-prophesying and dangerous rhetoric. As an active duty military member who spent seven unending months onboard an aircraft carrier in the middle of the Arabian Sea during the Afghan conflict, I assert a fundamental truth about being deployed: Any reason to come home sounds like a good reason to come home when you're homesick.

     

    Containing the inevitable decay in morale that results from a deployment is a leadership challenge that, in this country, dates back to Valley Forge (You think those conscripted farmers were touting the values of liberal freedom when their toes were falling off?).

     

    It is something dealt with within the context of a military unit. That the modern faculties of the Information Age allow the discontented rank and file to voice their opinions globally is a potentially dangerous thing — as we see when an enthusiastic editorialist cuts and pastes disgruntled and biased news service commentary from the lowest ranks to induce pejorative conclusions about the reigning administration of the federal government.

     

    This kind of indiscretion is at its best irresponsible journalism; at its worst, it is a contagion that denigrates good order and discipline to the ultimate detriment of the soldiers and sailors out on the front lines serving their country.

     

    I submit that while the military mother quoted in the article must certainly miss her child (as my mother very much missed me when I was deployed), she is in no greater position to pass judgment on strategic policy than a hot dog vendor on Pennsylvania Avenue; to imply some mandate on her part to enunciate the "lie of the Bush administration" is extremely poor editorial practice.

     

    In the interest of criticizing government policy, it would be of greater value to interview policymakers than pedestrians. (We won't get into the murky sourcing from the British newspaper— wasn't Andrew Gilligan reporting by any chance, was it?)

     

    The ultimate thrust of the article — that low troop morale might reflect poorly in the Republican ballot box come next November — is one that could have had more value under the weight of a more considered argument. Yes, it's true: Some troops may want to come home and they might vote in the interest of that feeling.

     

    There are, of course, two sides to every story. Last weekend, the freshman class in our Naval ROTC Unit participated in a camping trip down at Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base.

     

    While sitting around the camp fire they were approached by three young enlisted Marines who asked to join them. The young Marines had just returned from Iraq. They told our "Mids" about the boredom; they told them of the intense desire to come home. They also told them of the camaraderie and of the pride they felt in mission accomplishment.

     

    Peacekeeping is, perhaps, the most onerous mission assignment for those in the military service. It is monotonous, thankless, and often fraught with danger (certainly the case in Iraq), circumstances which can sink the morale of even the most patriotic soldier.

     

    Would the allied soldiers under fire in Europe during the post-D-Day occupation have had better things to say than the soldier in Stern's article interviewed from the 101<+>st? How about the Marines participating in the Chosin Reservoir withdrawal during the Korean War?

     

    Lest we dismiss the lessons of both history and legend, forget not that even the fictive Odysseus' most fervent wish was one shared by every soldier who has since campaigned: the desire to go home.

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    The whole CD is good, Ripper.  Invest...or download.  Your choice.

     

    As for what I'm digging lately, I've found myself humming "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne on more than one occasion.  And I'm digging "You Thought Wrong" off of Kelly Clarkson's CD.

    I have the whole CD. Every track is great, but those two just have a hold on me for some reason.

    I've only heard 2 singles... does she ever break from the whiney tone? Because if so, I'll definitely pick the album up.

     

     

    I got Seal's new one for my b-day and I really like:

     

    My Vision

    Let Me Roll

    Touch

    Heavenly

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