Because it’s Friday and I can. I might have something more profound later. Or tomorrow.
Have a little ELO:
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Out From Under the Umbrella 
October 24, 2014 at 3:54 pm
TELL me that men don’t like naughty women, Ruth. … 😉
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October 24, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Heh! *grin*
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October 24, 2014 at 4:08 pm
I have the greatest hits album. This is a smashing song.
I used to have the Out of the blue album as well. The track The Whale is my favorite ELO song of all time.
Was there a tiny bit of tongue in cheek in this choice, Ruth? 😉
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October 24, 2014 at 4:15 pm
😈
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October 24, 2014 at 4:43 pm
I love Fridays! Kick back and enjoy some (evil) fun! 🙂
I always wondered what the lyrics were to the chorus of this song – I had always heard “eeeo woman”. Now I know.
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October 24, 2014 at 4:52 pm
Howie, . . funny. . . reminds me of something my mother used to sing when I was a kid (she was in the church choir) “When the roll is called up yonder”. I remember thinking, “What’s a pyonder?”” 🙂
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October 24, 2014 at 4:55 pm
Too funny! I know someone – who should have been old enough to understand, but didn’t – the lyrics to the US Army commercial songs.
They were, “Be all that you can be.”
She wondered aloud, “What’s a chucanbee?”
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October 24, 2014 at 5:02 pm
Love it – thanks for starting my weekend off with some laughs you two evil women.
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October 24, 2014 at 5:03 pm
You’re welcome, Howie. And now ya got that Army song playing in your head, don’t ya?
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October 24, 2014 at 5:08 pm
Now that you mention it, yes – and if I only knew what an “inthearmy” was then I’d be relieved.
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October 24, 2014 at 11:39 pm
I love ELO. Great choice Ruth. 😀
Have a lovely weekend hon. ♥
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October 28, 2014 at 1:02 am
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October 25, 2014 at 10:00 am
Speaking of evil women, I can’t help but share this link with you: http://rebeccaluellamiller.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/watch-where-youre-bathing/
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October 25, 2014 at 10:10 am
I couldn’t even read through the entire thing! Where do you find these people?!?
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October 25, 2014 at 10:12 am
What a shame! You will have missed the even more painful comment at the bottom then. I’m hoping to do a post on it later on but may lose the will to live in the meantime…
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October 25, 2014 at 10:17 am
I’ll go back and try again. I have a resource for you on David and Bathsheba if you want it. I don’t know what you’re planning to write.
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October 25, 2014 at 10:26 am
I went back and finished it. Then I read the comment at the bottom. Ugh!
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October 25, 2014 at 10:25 am
I read it over. GAG -worthy, for sure! Oh, my. She’s a pearl-clutcher, I can tell.
I’m around young people who show off their figures every single day – I think, “Do it while you can, girls! – good ON ya!”
The reply I’d love to write to her would probably not make it past moderation. 😦
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October 25, 2014 at 10:30 am
I lived almost my entire life with the mindset that she has. It’s taken me a while to get to the place where I understand that we are only culpable for our own actions. I always dressed
modestlylike a grandma. Even when I was young and attractive. It’s only been recently that I became comfortable enough in my own skin to show any of it.LikeLike
October 25, 2014 at 10:36 am
Ugh, Ruth – so sad. What gets me is that this kind of thinking is so insulting and demeaning to women AND men. . . just mind-boggling. I hope you strut your stuff now! You SHOULD!!!
I shall climb back aboard my broom now. . . cackle, cackle. .
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October 25, 2014 at 10:39 am
Of course when a woman dresses to attract attention she’s going to attract attention. What’s wrong with that? Can men really not control themselves?!?
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October 25, 2014 at 12:34 pm
Yes, most of them can … but I also think most of them would rather not have to..
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October 25, 2014 at 12:41 pm
I really don’t care if a woman is stark naked. Unless she says yes the answer is no. Being aroused is not permission to take what you want.
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October 25, 2014 at 12:46 pm
Oh, I totally agree! But nature is what nature is and unfortunately, some men think their “needs” are more important than a woman’s rights and/or feelings. I’m NOT defending men in any way. Just being realistic since we hear about this kind of stuff all the time. In fact, I just read in today’s paper about a guy in his 30’s broke into an 82-year-old woman’s home and tried to rape her! Talk about sick.
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October 25, 2014 at 12:49 pm
Yes, well, that is the part of this that many people seem to be missing. Rape is not about attraction or sex. It’s about power. This is why I don’t buy the bs that the way a woman dresses has anything to do with rape.
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October 25, 2014 at 1:21 pm
At last. Someone who posts something other than Jimi Hendrix. Love ELO. Although I see the most tasteless stone god in the world also likes it. Hmmm. Maybe I should reassess.
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October 25, 2014 at 7:06 pm
There she is! You been hiding out, Kate?
Even a blockhead can show good taste every now and again. 😉
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October 25, 2014 at 9:53 pm
Yup. Couple of weeks in Spain. Meant to be one but morphed into two. On roaming, ok for emails but really eats into my saldo if I touch blogs. Tried lurking but even that was unhealthy 😦 (financially that is).
Been away too long to catch up everywhere. Have I missed much?
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October 25, 2014 at 9:55 pm
No, I don’t think so. It’s been a bit quiet of late. Violet has come out of her early pregnancy fog and posted a few.
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October 26, 2014 at 11:59 am
Ruth: ….I really don’t care if a woman is stark naked. Unless she says yes the answer is no. Being aroused is not permission to take what you want….
I cannot but agree, and it reminds me of the definition of sensuous I read somewhere: “A girl with her clothes on who looks at you like a girl with her clothes off”.
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October 27, 2014 at 10:52 am
Exactly! No matter if a woman is dressed modestly in a turtle neck with a skirt that goes to her ankles it is possible for her to be sensuous.
The fact remains that rapists rape to exert power and control, not because a woman is particularly scantily clad. Not only that, but men find different features to be sexy. What if a woman is dressed fairly modestly but likes wearing sandals and flip-flops? Perhaps a man’s “thing” is toes or feet. And for the woman who has all her skin covered, wrists or ears or noses might be arousing to a man.
What should we do? Hide? Or like in the Muslim tradition, wear a burqa? Not just wear a burqa but also have a male family member escort everywhere we go?
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