curious to know if benjamin (un)button(ed) lolita?

the story is brilliant and the movie is perhaps a very smart way to sneak in 'lolita' back into america but from the front door this time. as you know, the story of lolita is the story of an old man falling in love with a little girl. it was judged too immoral to be allowed to be seen in america. the brilliant trick with the benjamin button movie was that they convinced people that an old man could develop a connection with a young girl because he was a little boy inside. if old-looking is not same as old yet all old men are old-looking and if all old-looking old men develop into little kids anyway as they age, then what's to stop old men now from openly pursuing hidden lolita dreams and sexual desires? did benjamin unbutton lolita? i think so.

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McPerfume

Perfume smells different from person to person. It be nice to have a perfume that smells the same no matter who wears it.

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Unique scents

Wouldn't it be nice to make our own unique scent to wear? Instead of buying standard commercial brands we buy individual scents to mix and thus come up with our own unique scent to wear. I would like to start a business that teaches people at the shop how to mix scents and create their own unique aroma to wear depending on the occasion.

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Antique shop with modern furniture

Antique and modern? Sounds like a total contradiction but if one knows how to combine antiques with modern furniture in an interior space the result can actually be very nice, depending on your taste of course. I've never seen it anywhere yet, but an antique shop that showcases antiques and modern furniture and shows people how to combine the two would be a very interesting new concept I think.

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Press conferences going Japanese

Following the shoe incident with Bush in Iraq, press conference organizers are thinking of instituting new rules and manners. All participants will be asked to take their shoes off and wear paper-thin slippers. The measure is expected to improve the hygiene and ambience of the press room and make everyone relax and feel more comfortable.

Initially the idea was to ask participants to tie their shoes and hang them on power lines and phone wires outside the venue to give it western-style semantics but the fear this could be interpreted as a gangs-in-town sign or a drug dealer's marking made everyone revise and adopt symbolism-neutral Japanese manners on room hygiene.

I guess the most symbolic and heard-out-loud kind of peaceful protest to a future Bush-style US president, might be to hang shoes from power lines and telephone poles everywhere in town so that the message is visible from everywhere no matter what route the presidential motorcade will take to get in and out of town. It will be a spectacle to remember and the number of shoes hanging in protest a new Guinness world record countries will compete in!

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How to cut down a pirate's pi/e/

The best way for companies and governments to recover the huge amounts of ransom money paid to Somali pirates is to use inter-pirate rivalry to get the money back piece by piece. Here's the real story first:

"Pirates seized the Sirius on November 15. A $3.5 million ransom payment, down from the initial demand of $25 million, was dropped by parachute onto the ship Friday, but the pirates delayed the vessel's release after the drownings. Other pirates on the shore wanted a tip from the pirates on the Sirius Star, so they started to fire in the air as our people approached the land"

Going from $25 million down to $3.5 million is great savings but $3.5 million is still Sirious money. Wanna have a pirate's pi and eat it too? Here's what you can do. This is a Sirius proposition after all.

You negotiate with a rival team of pirates to give them the $3 million and you keep the $500,000. You actually hire them and sign a contract with them. It's all about enticing them to really go after their own ilk. You give them immunity from any prosecution if they fetch you back the $500,000 they get to keep the $3 million which in effect has been money-laundered and can be used tax-free anywhere in the world! Or so you say to them anyway :P

But before they get to use the money and as soon as that first contract is signed, you immediately start negotiating with rival teams of pirates to steal the money from the pirates who held it last. As the process of signing successive contracts and watering down the initial amount goes on, at some point you will have recovered the full original amount paid in ransom and in the process you will also have gotten rid off of most pirates.

I see no problem signing second-time and third-time watered-down contracts even with the same team of pirates if you run out of rivalries. I also see no problem agreeing to cover funeral expenses for any pirate losses incurred and sibling re-trainings in non-pirate activities. Somali funerals are cheap and sibling re-training in non-pirate activities means that spouses and kids will be taken off piracy!

Take it from a pirate. Deceit is the language they can understand. You better use it if you want to speak the same language and get your work done successfully and not put your men in harm's way :)

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head-spanking chairs for shorter meetings

if time is money, then it's time to put an end to people who talk talk talk and talk talk taaaaalk...i don't care if there are people who love their voice too much or if they think they have important things to say. talking time gets fixed, stays same for everyone and is kept short. only the chairperson of the meeting can extend time. if time's up and someone is still taaaaalking he gets spanked by the head-spanking chair, flaaaap!! ok, what's next, what about no one is allowed to cover their neck with cushion. bare necks will make for great spanking sounds. those who become rednecks are out of the meeting :)

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