The Electronic Magazine of www.Chathouse.com.

Issue #65 ~•~ July 20th, 2001

Q & A game | Chat Dominatrix | My2Cents | Horoscopes | Poetry Corner

The Chathouse ~Chat Dominatrix~ Email This email was forwarded to me from My2Cents ² What's up, Just trying to kick it in my spare time. I'm a rooky give me some pointers and tell me how to get in on the fun of utilizing the chat room. I'm a music fan, debater, pretty much well rounded. So get at me !!! Peace  My suggestion, click the New Chatter's Link at the bottom of my article. And you may also want to place a post such as your email into a few room forums letting the chatters know your new and need some help. Click the Forums link and pick a few rooms you think might interest you( Forums ). And since you like debating, you may also enjoy visiting the War Room Forum  ² hi my name is Garth what is yours  Chat Dominatrix ~S~  ² Is there anyone of interest around?   This is a trick question, isn't it? ² would a kind female dom punish me  If I run across a Dominatrix that is kind but yet punishing, I'll be sure to ask for you! ~S~ Chathouse Lets Talk  It seems the new Lets Talk forum is staying busy. If you want to meet a few chatters from outside your normal room/forum, stop by and say hello! Worth A Whipping Handle My favorite handle for this week is  ² #1: ImNoFredFlinstoneButICanMakeYourBedrock (#1608036) Added  Quotes Two quotes were picked this week to be added to the Random Quotes. The first was sent in by HuntressJade ² "Repeat after me. We are not CATTLE!!!" The second one was sent in by qweetalquacks ² "There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry."  Deleted Quote  The quote that was removed due to being found offensive was "Support your local police force...steal" To submit your favorite quote, joke, bumper sticker or motto for a chance to win and be added to the Random Quotes, email it in, along with your handle to, quotes@chathouse.com New Chatters RantMaster's Theater   The News Page chatdominatrix@chathouse.com TOP

Q & A MichiganStorm™ The Game: The game Honesty is based on Truth or Dare, but without the dare. When actually playing the game one player asks a question and all have to answer honestly, including the player who asked the pending question. For the new Ezine version of the game I will ask a new question each week and all ChatHouse® chatters are welcome [and invited] to send in a response. The following week not only will a new question be asked, but the answers to [any] previous questions that we recieve will also be posted, including my own. Please send all answers to ch_zine@hotmail.com and be sure to include the handle under which your input should be posted [if a handle is not submitted, there will be no handle posted with the response]. If you have any questions you'd like asked in our Q & A section, please send them to the same address! Thank you. The Question: If you had the chance to ask one historical figure only one question, who would it be and what would you ask? The Answers:Last Weeks Question: If you were informed that you'd won a million dollars, however there was one snag to this fortune- In order to get 900 thousand of it you were asked to donate 100 thousand dollars to ONE cause where would you ask the money be sent and why? • I would love to give to many causes.... Mainly either cancer research or AIDS.... or something to do with kids... Maybe both cancer and AIDS?? Any worthy cause though is enough.... Could I pool the money towards many different things? me(f)™ • The Money would go to Greenpeace so they can get a new ship hopefully one that will be safe fom the French Government who have a habit of blowing up their vessels with no regard to the lives of those onboard. freya • Why a charity? Whatever happened to that one saying, "Think Globally, Act Locally". I'd divvy up that 100,000 between my five best friends. Zack, Louie, Matt, Mickey, and Tanya. The other charities can live without it, and I will have taken care of the only people who's happiness means anything to me. *WAS* -Master Dingo • Well, after thinking about this most of the week I've come to the conclusion I should ask questions I can answer *S*. I have a hard time answering this for the same reason that me(f) did, I can't choose just one, so I guess what I'd do is take the 100 grand I have to give away and give it to the Cancer Research, then I'd take another 100 grand and split it between other agencies that focus on children of broken and abusive homes. Why? My grandmother died of Cancer when my mom was only 13 and I never met her, it'd be in her memory and the donation made in my moms name. As for the later of the two, I think it's obvious. I don't believe in child abuse, sexual or emotional, verbal or physical and it should be stopped and those who've already suffered should be given any [psychological and or other] help they need as well as anything else that might help. MichiganStorm™ • I have always said that if I won the lottery....a precentage would be used to build a theraputic riding school for handicapped children. This has always been a dream of mine to do for many years. I had the chance to help on such a place years ago and the smiles and the joy that those children showed just sitting on top of a horse was better than any christmas I have ever experienced*S* AmericanGirl@Heart • I would donate the money to Big Brother/Sister. I think more people need to step forward and help those around them, especially the children! Just a little time and a few kind words can make such a difference in someones life. These kids of the world may not be yours, but they are your future! Texas Storm® • One 'cause', huh? I suppose that is different than a charity, right? *L* I would donate my $100,000 to ending world hunger, because my stomach is growling and I have the munchies right now! *LOL* Or did you want a serious answer? Serious answer: Mentoring! Getting good role models from the community and business world involved with kids, because I believe that kids need more good, realistic role models to look up to. Not every kid can grow up to be an NFL or NBA star or tv/movie/music star. They need to see that fireman and police are professions to be proud of. They need to see the importance of education and how it can help them become successful in the business world. Scientists and researchers, teachers and preachers, these are the people that our kids need to see more of and look up to. - RiderOfTxStorm™ Previous Questions: If you had the chance to meet ONE chatter tomorrow, who would it be and why? • Penny / oicu812 (old Handle). Her and I had an online relationship that lasted two years, but we never met each other. I was on the verge of moving to Michigan, where she lives, when she relapsed into cancer. It may seem like I have at times, through actions, but I've never truly given up hope. I still love her, and will never fall out of love with her. -Master Dingo ch_zine@hotmail.com TOP

Horoscopes By Texas Storm   Borrowed from   Taurus April 20 - May 20 Take everything you hear this week with a grain of salt. Including this. Which probably means you really need to take everything with a grain of something other than salt, like a grain of sand, which is considerably less tasty than salt and shouldn't be licked. That last bit you can take at face value, unless you've been made paranoid by our previous assertion that this should be taken with a grain of salt and now feel compelled to go and lick sand.   Leo July 23 - August 22 The world is your oyster. Cracker. Oyster cracker. So don't get too excited, unless you have an unfeasibly large bowl of clam chowder. Virgo August 23 - September 22 It will soon be your day in the sun, just be patient. If you live in England you may take this news with the appropriate degree of shock. Time to dust off those old plans for directing your legions.   Gemini May 21 - June 20 You really wish you'd spent more time meditating on the 'tree falling in the woods with no one around to hear it' koan when a tree falls in the forest and lands on your foot. Judging by the response to your cries of "Ow! My foot!" no one hears the tree or you, thus solving the puzzle for you.   Capricorn December 22 - January 19 A bunch of fake bohemians (identifiable by their annoying conversations that usually involve the words 'capitalism', 'void', 'existentialism', and 'Starbucks') will sit down next to you and proceed to destroy your concentration on anything but how you wished you'd not forgotten to bring your croquet mallet down with you just in case a situation like this arose. Cancer June 21 - July 22 You will feel the universal need to ring the unrequited Love of your Life and leave a passionate and poetic declaration of your Love (after the requisite fumbling and excuses for ringing that normally precede any proper declaration of anything substantial and the, in hindsight, stupid comment about a trick you'd seen a dog in the park perform which, come to think of it, might not have been a trick at all, as nicking a dozing picnicker's bagged lunch probably is more of an instinct thing for dogs as opposed to an acquired trick, which is a story without a point, you realize, and you comment upon that very thing, the irrelevance, not dogs learning how to steal food, as you say, and the ultimately unnatural segue into the main reason for your call, the declaration and such) on Thursday, which, on Friday, makes you wish the week were over already so you could get a new, not so horrifying horoscope. Pisces February 19 - March 20 You wish jelly beans counted as vegetables this week. Or any week, really, all of them. Because then you'd find being a vegetarian much easier. Vegetarianism gets even more complicated when someone tells you that jelly beans aren't on the banned list for vegetarians. It's a bittersweet revelation, as you'd just finished burning all of your jelly beans.   Aries March 21 - April 19 Your life will resemble a film this week. In that you'll be starring alongside Hugh Grant and Gwynneth Paltrow, and not that everything flips by at 32 or 24 or whatever frames per second and your floor is sticky with spilled Coke. Say Hi to Gwynnie for me.   Libra September 23 - October 22 An astonishingly attractive member of the opposite sex will completely and utterly fail to notice you this week. This is an improvement on last week, when the same kicked you while you were down, literally, when you bent down to pick up a two p coin you saw on the pavement. Scorpio October 23 - November 21 Prairie dogs also do not have horoscopes. This is a little known fact, except by the citizen of Montana, in the United States, who knows this fact all too well, as he's the one who has to listen to the prairie dogs complaining about their lack of a horoscope all the time.   Sagittarius November 22 - December 21 You used to consider yourself above going to Starbucks until they bought out your local Post Office. This has very little to do with the knowledge that you have seven days to live. We'll explain next week. It's something to do with you pissing off Uranus with that incredibly lame joke you told last week.   Aquarius January 20 - February 18 You find cause to curse both Robert Boyle and housework when you get your arm stuck in your vacuum cleaner this week. Kids that pass you in the street laugh and call you 'Vacuum Cleaner Person.' Kids can be so cruel. I would like to again Thank the editor of sanemagazine and the writer of their horoscopes for allowing me to "borrow" them!! Thank You!!  Weekly Regular Horoscopes TOP

Poetry Corner Your Call Posted in the Poetry Corner forum by Dark Whispers *F* I have traveled a thousand miles just to have you knock me down. When all in life seems simple, you seem to come around. A thought, a gesture, a feeling, anything at all, seems to bring back the memory of your call. The thoughtless torment, the crying eyes, never seem to leave my mind. You're all I remember, You're all I fear, You're all I can think of while lying here. A thought, a gesture, a feeling, anything at all, seems to bring back the memory of your call. Who am I to run to when you laugh at my tears? Who am I to cry to when you remember my fears? I try to be strong, I've tried far too long, The hurt and the pain come back again. A thought, a gesture, a feeling, anything at all, seem to bring the memory of your call. TOP

My Two Cents Click to see my homepage in a new window by My2CentsDealW/it! Dear2c@HoTMaiL.com My Two Cents on Political Correctness Political Correctness (also known as being anal retentive) is a plague upon our society! The recent whining in response to something said on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien Show is a prime example. If you are not aware of this one, here is a short article that gives the quick run-down on the incident: PC Police Bust Conan O'Brien Show. Now this is just a further illustration of the 'squeaky wheel' principle in action. Thanks to our newfound sensitivity as a society, we have made ourselves vulnerable to such misuses of power. For those who are not familiar with the 'squeaky wheel' principle, it is quite simple. It comes from an old saying, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" and in this case the media watchdog group representing Asian-Americans saw an opportunity to make some noise and get some free publicity. This technique has been used extensively by many in the black community, gay community and others in order to advance their agenda. An agenda that seeks to benefit a small fraction of the population (or in most cases benefit only the leadership of that group), by guilt-mongering, extortion and intimidation of the majority. In the case of the Conan O'Brien Show, NBC Admits Mistake Over Slur, but even that was not good enough for the Asian-American watchdog group, they want MORE publicity out of this. They claim that such a slur against any other race or ethnic group, such as nigger, would not have been aired. On that last point, they are correct, but only to a point. Actually, nigger is one of those words that is only offensive if said by a white person. Listen to just about any black comedian and you'll hear it at least a couple of dozen times, or just watch BET (black entertainment television) and you'll hear it repeatedly. So, I ask what is a "racial slur"? Just a word, right? If used by a person of the same race it is nothing more than a nickname or generic term for the race. The SLUR is only inferred or implied when it is said by a person of a different race. Only then is it "offensive". WHY? By the way, I have studied the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and American History. Throughout all of my studies I have yet to find written,  implied or even hinted at any "Right to NOT be offended"! The use and success of the 'squeaky wheel' principle would seem to make you think that we DO have some Constitutional right to NOT be offended, but that is clearly NOT the case. Quite the contrary actually, Freedom of speech extends even to speech that some may find offensive. Comedy, in general, is, always has been and always will be an equal opportunity offender. From Pollock Jokes to 'You might be a redneck, if...", comedy gets much of it's humor from generalizations and stereotypes. Ethnicity, race, etc. will always provide that type of material. In order to help people deal with this inevitability, I would like to suggest another old saying that apparently isn't used nearly as much as it used to be. That saying is, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me". I was raised on that saying and perhaps that is why I don't whine like a spoiled child when I am called Whitey, Cracker, Paleface, Honky, Bigot, Redneck, RoundEye, etc... Or perhaps I am just NOT anal retentive. Just for the record, there are a few things that do offend me! Hyphenated Americans offend me. I am as proud of my heritage as anyone, but I don't go around calling myself a French-Dutch-Irish-American. I can be proud without detracting from the fact that I am an American first and foremost. The fact that we even have a BET (black entertainment television) channel offends me. Where is WET (white entertainment television) or Asian, or Hispanic, or Native Indian entertainment television? Walking into a fast food restaurant or convenience store and the person working not being able to speak English offends me. As far as I know, America IS an English speaking country, correct? Having the beliefs, values and opinions of others shoved down my throat via the media and public education system offends me. Sensitivity, tolerance, etc. are simply catch-phrases to hide the intent to deny me my right to my own freedoms of thought and expression. I am offended by the fact that the 'squeaky wheel' technique works and even more so by the fact that the "silent majority" is so silent in response to such tactics. Where is MY 'grease'? Or do I, as a white male hard working American, not have the right to be offended?  I don't expect anyone else to conform to my way of thinking or make special concession on my behalf. I work for and EARN what I have, I think for myself, I speak up for myself and I do not allow the words of others to hurt me. I don't need 'grease' to justify myself or my existence. You are just as free to offend me as I am to offend you, however I am not offended by such juvenile things as name-calling. The things that offend me I can work to change through proper channels via my elected officials rather than whine for some meaningless apology. That's My Two Cents, Deal With It! Citizens for Constitutional Government & Help Abolish the IRS! So, what have you got to say? Let me know and I'll tell you if it's worth 2 cents! Dear2c@HoTMaiL.com *note: all names and handles will be changed or removed to protect the pathetic* TOP