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The goyim approach:
“I papered one (teeny room) & learned a lot”
The Jewish approach:
“But the most important thing I learned was to hire a pro for any more wallpaper jobs.”
If I ever tried putting up wallpaper myself, it would no doubt end up like the episode of I Love Lucy where Ethel helps Lucy wallpaper the bedroom.
The scary part of syphillis was that I didn’t even know I had it the one time I got it.
My mom liked to wallpaper a lot.
To this day, I have vivid memories of scantily clad classical Greek figures dancing across the bathrooom wall in a black and white in a winsome fashion suggesting a decadent ancient bath ritual.
The bedroom my sisters and I shared was characterized by super bright day glow orange and yellow repetitions of the word LOVE on a white background. The effect of which was to have the feeling of being inside a giant blotter paper gift box without any of the benefits of actually taking LSD.
“my sherries in bloom”
DIBS, You’re slurring. : P
All my daffodills are up as are the Muscari. Rose bush is also blooming. Magnolia bloomed and dropped last week in Philly. I hate that tree. Cherries done in Philly but surprisingly should be in bloom this weekend in Bucks. I’m hoping I can catch my sherries in bloom in P-Town at the end of May….3 ginormous trees.
DIBS, as I mentioned to you recently, you are wrong. The probability of transmission of any given STD per episode of sexual contact is less than 1. (in fact, substantially less in almost all cases)
Syphilis: http://journals.lww.com/stdjournal/Fulltext/1996/01000/Mathematical_Modeling_of_Epidemic_Syphilis.8.aspx
“The transmission rate for primary infection in episodic pairings was assumed to be 0.30, based on data from the literature. The transmission rate for secondary syphilis was based on the observation that most clinicallyâ€apparent lesions in this stage are “dry†(e.g., rashes, alopecia, and lymphadenopathy), with less than 30% of patients having highly infectious “moist†lesions.2 Assuming inherent transmissibility similar to primary lesions, secondary stage transmission rates would be at most 0.09. We chose a net transmission rate of 0.075 for secondary infection.”
Gonorrhea:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/108/2/136.abstract
“The calculated risk of transmission per exposure with an Infected partner was.19 for whites and.53 for blacks.”
“Cobble- NO!!!! How could you?”
LOL! Sorry, it had to be done. I’ll go sit in the corner now. ; )
Oh, & lech, when I bought my paper HD wasn’t around but I’ve looked at their stuff & think it’s the same as any other store’s unless you’re buying Osborne & Little (friends of mine from London – Pete & Flea Osborne are Geo. Osborne’s parents. Sharing my past…)
Cobble- NO!!!! How could you?