From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

I would like to see some toilet paper ads. I would like to start buying toilet paper in bulk because I hate wasting cart space at Wal-Mart with those huge 12-packs of Soft & Gentle. Need more room for beer and Nacho Doritos and microwave soft pretzels and candles and cheap undies and monkey pajamas and celebrity crap magazines and black seedless grapes and Chef Boyardee pizza. Tin lunchbox and smart ass 8-balls and rubber duckies with devil horns would also make for good ads. And I love BeneFit, M.A.C. and Sephora cosmetics. This is just a test to see if any of those ads come up. Bye.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

<a href="http://www.t-shirtking.com/catalog/102-01079/7fdfc6145eb6e945e2ac64517f64c0f2">http://www.t-shirtking.com/catalog/102-01079/7fdfc6145eb6e945e2ac64517f64c0f2</a><BR>
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I like this t-shirt. Almost as much as the Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue t-shirt I bought at the grocery store a couple of weeks ago.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

<a href="http://www.mcphee.com/bigindex/current/10363.html">http://www.mcphee.com/bigindex/current/10363.html</a><BR>
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I just had an idea. I thought it would be fun if we all posted a link to our idea of a romantic gift that we would love to receive. The above link is my idea of a romantic gift that my husband already knows I would love to receive. I don't like expensive jewelry or roses or lingerie (because I sell it for a living)...I like tin lunchboxes! I also think it would be cool to post a link to a gift you would buy for your baby darlin' if money were no object!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

<a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesbw/southwest/sw.shtml">http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesbw/southwest/sw.shtml</a><BR>
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...and if money were no object, I would buy the Southwest for my husband so that he could save it from Dubya and all future swaggerin' staggeringly stupid Religious Right Republicans who would like to turn wilderness into DisneyWorld/malls/subdivisions that boast names like Paradise Canyon and such shite. What would my husband do with the Southwest if he had it? Why, he'd leave it the fuck alone. And he would not allow sprinkler systems. If you want green grass, live in the Midwest or Florida. And don't feed the alligators. And now I'm off to put red stripes in my hair. Hasta luego, chicos y chicas.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

Yeah, some good ads there, Kirk. (I clicked on every one, too!) I still like the idea of punitive ad placement, though... If I were Webmaster I wouldn't have such Zen detachment - admirable though that is - about bandwidth abusers. Ah well. ;)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

Lydia ~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.28.19.05.26821">cracked</a> was excellent in it's imagery and voice. Reading it was a moment in my day that stopped time and sat still. Thank you,.<BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

MM (and all your alter-ego friends): We get it. You like the White Stripes. You've met them. You've partied with them. You're cool beyond words. You're semi-famous and multi-talented. OK. Enough. (Etc.)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=614">Lydia</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

TJ,<BR>
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thank you for giving it a read. I hope the absolute jolt of the eyes comes thru. I am not even one to notice blue eyes, but WOW, these are some peepers!<BR>
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Lydia
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1257">Semolina Pilchard</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

Ads are one thing Kirk...but PLEASE don't include advertisements for f*cking SCIENTOLOGY (aka "Dianetics")!  The Blender is cult-y enough without promoting THAT shit.<BR>
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Thank you.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1135">Trout Almondine</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

Dedicated with love to a girl named jimmyallgrownup...<BR>
            <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.29.14.55.25390">JIMMY THE EXPLODER</a> 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

Mark~ do warn your friends who may now google you up, from what you've revealed on Blender, that they may click-on something at Google that is nothing but a spammer using your name. I googled my Rennie-pen and got this bunch about fourth on the list just 12 hours after these ads were activated here. A shame for the unwary wanting to read more of us other that what they may find here ... a fact of life we must accept if we write. There are opportunists everywhere, but the speed and the placement in the search que was interesting, and bothered me about a websearch site I've always previously liked. Live and learn, I don't like this, but it's done and done. Kirk is honest and thoughtful about us, Mark. He won't get a say in what they toss out, only preferences. Search sites tend to lump love and romance in with trash and porn quickly. Get used to it, or buy stock in alka seltzer for the heartburn it can cause ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

Hmm. Is that poem supposed to bother me or something? If so, it really didn't. Please play again...<BR>
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Good advice, Rennie. I've found some highly interesting stuff there myself. It's odd, though, that Mr. McNabb would "out" himself in so dramatic (read: self-promoting) a fashion and yet still spam the Board with alter-identities. He has more issues than LIFE Magazine, but we've known that for a long time, haven't we?<BR>
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As for ad content, that's entirely up to Kirk. This is his site, and he can post ads for whatever he likes. I realize, coming from certain parts of this country, Scientology WOULD seem terribly depraved and cultish to some. That's for THEM to get over, though - besides, it's just their reactive minds speaking. Dianetics has changed MY life, and that's all I know. (Go Ron!) (Wherever you are...)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

Google and Scientology historically have not gotten along too well. I'd be surprised if any ads from them show up through GoogleAds.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

Kirk~ scifi author = L. Ron Hubbard = dianetics = Scientology has appeared on Blender's front page only as www.dianetics.org as a relationship site (cross-ref keywords would be writing and love or relationship, I'd venture to guess on search string)... I believe that was the ref made in mark and jimmy's comments ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

and jimmy~ I cross-reference "Armistead Maupin" on my googling and get you all over the place ... ;-) tell me I'm wrong, sweety? ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

Kirk is right. Don't go starting trouble, Mister Markie...<BR>
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Moi? Armistead? I WISH, girlfriend! His writing is simply resplendent and he has SUCH style (to die for!), but alas the similarities 'tween he and I end there...<BR>
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;)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 29 June 2003<P>

jimmy~ not Maupin? Another html mental imagine now gone ... (go Ron?) ... :) why am I now picturing you as Travolta in a new character? Time's flown, how about another verse from ya. Give me something original to bump just short of A'Leisha Brevard playing Sweety Charity, jims ..... Rennie
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