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Lawsuit of the Day: The Right to Wear a Male Speedo

speedos.jpgBob Hezzelwood is serious about his beach time -- and serious about his right to spend that beach time in a speedo.

Last year, a sheriff's deputy gave Hezzelwood a ticket for his speedo-wearing ways:

[A] Lee County Sheriff’s deputy stopped by and wrote him a warning for trespassing.

The reason?

“Exposed scrotum,” the notice read. “Never return to Bonita Beach Main Access.”

But it turns out that, belied by his self-proclaimed “super-lazy” lifestyle, Beach Bob (more properly known as Robert Hezzelwood, 61, retired court reporter and Bonita Springs resident of 16 years) is a heckuva fighter.

The Naples Daily News has an extensive report on Hezzelwood's $4,000 legal fight to have the warning dismissed. Now Hezzelwood plans to file a lawsuit against the Lee County Sheriff's Office for violating his civil rights. "I’m a civilian out here who’s been picked on by a little bully deputy and that’s wrong. It’s just wrong," said Hezzelwood.

If you're wearing a speedo and don't have a super-hot bod, that's wrong. It's just wrong.

Beach Bob’s brouhaha: Swimsuit behind lawsuit [Naples Daily News]

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 2:42 PM

There is no good Speedo!

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 2:46 PM

That Speedo on the left looks pretty good to me..... ;-p

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 2:50 PM

No man should ever wear a speedo. Period. Gay or straight, black or white, European or American, in shape or Ted Kennedy-esque. None. Nuh-uh. Grape smugglers.

Take what Blossom (yes, Blossom) once said to heart: "Undressed boys are like undecorated Christmas trees."

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 2:55 PM

Ok, Kash, you've redeemed yourself for the Reed letter by finding that Bad Speedo pic. Priceless!

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:07 PM

Good speedo = oxymoron

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:18 PM

I want those balls (from the speedo on the left) on my face!

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:19 PM

Kash - close but still not quite there - the bikini pics are supposed to be of you, not Borat's long lost cousin

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:25 PM

eeew, just eeew

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:26 PM

3:18=Kash

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:32 PM

3:18=Lat

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:35 PM

I don't really see the problem with a speedo. They reduce tanlines, they reduce drag if you're actually swimming, and if you're a man who is packing, they are certainly a good advertisement of the fact. Board shorts=idiocy.

I say that everyone bashing speedos is either not confident with their bodies and are put off by the fact that other people might actually have self confidence, have a little dick, or both.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:39 PM

3:35=European grape smuggler.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:41 PM

Caring about tan lines more than the gag reflexes of people on the beach=idiocy.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:42 PM

According to her myspace page, this woman is an intern for Beach Bob's lawyer:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=352372914&Mytoken=D0FF4D68-7688-4039-8DB2AEC04838B2E610600959

Yet another one of the lifestyle benefits of Smallaw

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:42 PM

http://www.myspace.com/shannacorinne

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 3:43 PM

Doesn't Roger Lou or HofstraMagna have an opinion on this hoTTT topic?

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 4:01 PM

Might I just say, this has been the worst day in ATL history. Seriously, all of these posts suck today. Hard.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 4:04 PM

Weird how Lat won't talk about layoffs at a number of NYC firms.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 4:08 PM

Wow, that intern is 4'9. That must get interesting.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 4:10 PM

Please take the picture on the left of my father on vacation down ... I would really appreciate it.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 4:14 PM

Beach Bob seems pretty hot - in an old, saggy, white guy kinda way.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 4:52 PM

I can't believe how provincial most of the posters are...speedos are not only acceptable throughout the rest of the world (beyond the reach of U.S. Victorian mores), they are the m.o.

when i was 14, i went camping in france w/ my family and when i tried to use the pool at the rec center, they wouldn't let me in b/c i had on swim trunks. they considered them unsanitary. i had to borrow a pair of speedos from my uncle, which was unsettling, to say the least (mostly b/c they hadn't been run through a washer since he last used them).

ever since then, i carry a pair of speedos whenever i travel. in fact, they're usually a sign of who's confident versus who's self-conscious. a good speedo on an athletic guy is pretty nice eye-candy. on the other hand, nobody wants to see an old, saggy, fat dude, whether he's wearing speedos or a full-body wetsuit.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:01 PM

4:52 - Not showering for weeks is also acceptable and m.o. throughout the rest of the world. Same thing can be said for locking your daughter in a dungeon you constructed beneath your house and fathering 4 kids with her.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:12 PM

4:52:

Sigh, you're another of those Americans who blames America for being backward and not hip with European sexual/social mores.

Yes, yes, everything in Europe is better than America. Everything more sexually open and more naked with humans is better. We get it, we're all backwards provincials terrified of nude bodies.

Now kindly move to non-provincial France and leave those of us who want to not be assaulted by nude male crotch areas and to choose to have social mores that don't involve treating the human body as merely a playground for your eyes and bodies. You know, where women don't get sexually assaulted on the street---like in France.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:13 PM

"ever since then, i carry a pair of speedos whenever i travel."

Words cannot describe the jokes coming to mind. what a tool.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:13 PM

"when i was 14, i went camping in france w/ my family "

---when did John Kerry become a poster here?

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:16 PM

France--don't they also harbor child rapists because it's not a crime to them? I'm thinking of 2 cases in particular, one being Roman Polanski. I can't remember the other guy's name, some bearded sociopath wanted in Pennsylvania.

But you're right, they're sooooo right-thinking on sexuality. Dick.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:17 PM

"in fact, they're usually a sign of who's confident versus who's self-conscious"
---don't you just love when contract attorney's try to pretend their psychologists?

back to coding with you, son.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:17 PM

"in fact, they're usually a sign of who's confident versus who's self-conscious"
---don't you just love when contract attorney's try to pretend they're psychologists?

back to coding with you, son.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:19 PM

"they considered them unsanitary."

but lack of showering=sanitary.

Honestly, find a better argument.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:25 PM

4:52= Sufficiently owned. Move on, people, move on.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:30 PM

yes, let's get back to browbeating Kash into posting pics of herself in a bikini

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:34 PM

---don't you just love when contract attorney's try to pretend their psychologists?

(or attempt to string together multiple words to resemble a thought, despite an apparent contempt for spelling and punctuation?)


this chromosome-enhanced poster will be the proxy for the rest of you toothless whores and burgeoning alcoholics who presume to question my critique of a certain provincial viewpoint (that is to say, not a critique of U.S. culture as a whole).

how sad is it that when confronted with a position with which you disagree, you resort to questioning someone's patriotism. i see george w. bush has stripped you not only of dignity but also of common sense and logic.

why do i even bother? - you're all clearly engrossed in hannity & colmes right now.

your witty little barbs (e.g., "dick," and "tool") are appreciated, as they highlight not only the feebleness of your argument, but your fascination w/ the subject of this thread, i.e., penises. I applaud your efforts to come out of the closet, but next time, take a bigger step than posting as "guest." limp-wristed queers.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:40 PM

5:25 = 4:52

You are a guy who has worn his uncles unwashed speedo, and you think guys in speedos are "eye-candy?" Those two things explain a lot.

You are right, however - no one wants to see a fat old pasty dude in a wetsuit or in a speedo. But I think we can all agree that the fat pasty horror increases by orders of magnitude with the speedo, and that the wetsuit, or at least a normal swim suit, is preferable.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:41 PM

5:34= No one questioned patriotism. They just made fun of your holding France/Europe/"The World" as clearly more with it than the U.S.

Maybe you can't grasp the distinction. But hey, no one accused you of being smart.

----Toothless Whores/Burgeoning Alcoholic, III.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:42 PM

"4:52 - Not showering for weeks is also acceptable and m.o. throughout the rest of the world. Same thing can be said for locking your daughter in a dungeon you constructed beneath your house and fathering 4 kids with her."

Really? That's acceptable throughout the rest of the world?? Cuz I'm pretty sure Austrian police weren't exactly thrilled to discover that particular situation.

"4:52= Sufficiently owned. Move on, people, move on."

5:25 = knows what he's talking about when he speaks of people's asses being owned. how's the old sphincter holding up today? last night at the Cock a little rough on you, 5:25?

- the one, the only, "4:52 pm" (until tomorrow).

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:45 PM

5:34:

"but your fascination w/ the subject of this thread, i.e., penises. I applaud your efforts to come out of the closet, but next time, take a bigger step than posting as "guest." limp-wristed queers."

----again with the amateurish, unprofessional psychological evaluation. Actually, my fascination with this thread is solely concerned with you and your undying love of all things European. So, yes, if you mean obeying European culture and making fun of stupid posters=penises, then yes, I am obsessed with penises. :)

I can play psychological projection, too. i think your fascination with penises and closeted homosexuality speaks volumes about your personal life.

And "limp-wristed queers." Wow, gay-bash much?
lol tool.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:47 PM

5:40 - I am by no means advocating that old men should even appear on a beach, let alone don a speedo while doing so. The point is that the speedo is not the culprit; rather it's the saggy fat-ass wearing it who offends.

just as beaches are divided into "family" and "clothing optional," so too should they be divided into "old and/or ugly" and "young and attractive." In the latter section, there really should be no room for criticism. I think the problem of the majority of posters here is that much like their in law firm existence, their trollish looks would cause them to be lumped in with category A.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:48 PM

wow, 5:42 is sure one insecure mofo. Can't even take some harmless internet posting without getting his silky underwear in a tizzy.

nighty night, closet-case.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:49 PM

5:47=WRONG.
The culprit is that the male body does not look good in a speedo. Period.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:52 PM

5:45,

grow a pair.

and who said i was closeted? the banana hammock is just fine w/ me. pasty, atrophied associates who only speak emphatically in cyberspace and in all other respects have replaced their gonads with prongs to grip their assigning partner's dick are the "limp-wristed queers" to which I was referring. I, on the other hand, am a queer of an entirely different order.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:52 PM

"who presume to question my critique of a certain provincial viewpoint"
---apparently, Closet-Case is also the Unquestionable truth-Teller. Do Not Question Closet Case, or Else!

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:57 PM

5:52:
Awww, I thought it was beddy-bye time. Am I disturbing your nap time?

"grow a pair." "replaced their gonads with prongs to grip their assigning partner's dick are the "limp-wristed queers" to which I was referring."
---Again, with the obsession with the male genitalia. Stop projecting, little man.

"I, on the other hand, am a queer of an entirely different order."
----Special ed. isn't an order, Closet Case.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:58 PM

"wow, 5:42 is sure one insecure mofo. Can't even take some harmless internet posting without getting his silky underwear in a tizzy.

nighty night, closet-case."

clearly, my exit from this thread is long overdue. when people can't be bothered to scan half a dozen comments before they leap into name-calling and childish assumptions, you know you're conversing with a universe of Loyola 2Ls.

5:48, you drooling imbecile, i wish for your sake that your mother had seen fit to get off the crackpipe long enough to give you half a shot at half a brain.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 5:58 PM

I love how 5:52 complains about people posting as "guest" and then does it himself.

I might stay late at work just to watch his blather. Like a Maury Povich guest, only dumber.

Closet Case is definitely a good name for him.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:01 PM

i said "presume" b/c i have yet to read a cogent statement you've authored. kudos for getting noticed, though. next time, try shitting in your hand and wiping it on your face. it's more sophisticated.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:01 PM

5:58: "clearly, my exit from this thread is long overdue."


ROFLMAO
Truer words were never spoken.

and closet case sums this jerk up nicely.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:02 PM

6:01= taking overreaction to a WHOLE new level.

wow, I think he's spitting kittens mad. I'd love to see his face get all sweaty and scrunched up . It'd be great.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:03 PM

"I might stay late at work just to watch his blather. Like a Maury Povich guest, only dumber."

staying late at work? good idea. how much are they paying clerical temps, nowadays? i'm sorry, i meant "assistant clerical monkey temps."

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:04 PM

6:01: "try shitting in your hand and wiping it on your face."

Well, he's moved on from penis obsession to anal. I think Freud called that a positive step. Soon enough, he should evolve into vomiting. And then admitting the bad man touched him there.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:04 PM

6:03: "staying late at work? good idea. how much are they paying clerical temps, nowadays? i'm sorry, i meant "assistant clerical monkey temps."

Back to penis envy again. Sadly, he's devolved.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:06 PM

6:03=
Like a car wreck, I can't turn away. I love the people pwning this retard. making my dinner hour enjoyable.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:07 PM

"and closet case sums this jerk up nicely."

how wise of you not to spare a single moment of thought into crafting your response. you clearly are the monkey scribe of the day.

people like you should be locked in basements and screwed repeatedly by geriatric versions of ron jeremy while your children look on. just saying.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:09 PM

"Back to penis envy again. Sadly, he's devolved."

no, my friend, can't sympathize w/ you there. my schlong looks great in a man-kini. could be why i'm such a strong advocate. i know, i'm getting you wet. i should stop.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:10 PM

6:07: "screwed repeatedly by geriatric versions of ron jeremy while your children look on."

But where would OUR love go, Closet Case?

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:11 PM

"Like a car wreck, I can't turn away. I love the people pwning this retard. making my dinner hour enjoyable."

here's hoping you choke on your cheese sandwich. kisses.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:11 PM

6:09: "my schlong looks great in a man-kini. could be why i'm such a strong advocate."

or you just like thinking about your Uncle's schlong in the man-kini back when you were 14.

just saying. you are a closet case. it's science.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:13 PM

6:07: "you clearly are the monkey scribe of the day."

----Damnit, I thought I was going to win.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:13 PM

"But where would OUR love go, Closet Case?"

down your pie-hole, where you sublimate all your rage at being a pasty, fat, impotent, worthless gnome? just guessing.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:14 PM

"here's hoping you choke on your cheese sandwich."

Nah, I prefer sushi.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:14 PM

"here's hoping you choke on your cheese sandwich. "


---It's American cheese, so it's clearly inferior to your cheese.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:15 PM

"or you just like thinking about your Uncle's schlong in the man-kini back when you were 14."

shouldn't you be in an austrian prison?

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:15 PM

6:13: "down your pie-hole, where you sublimate all your rage at being a pasty, fat, impotent, worthless gnome? just guessing."

Sublimate? I resent that! I take out my rage on euro-hugging close-cased man-kini wearing rageaholics like yourself! You know that, CC.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:16 PM

6:14:

i think closet case prefers sausages.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:16 PM

wait, don't the french MAKE cheese?

i think closet-case just complimented somebody!!!!!

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:17 PM

"It's American cheese, so it's clearly inferior to your cheese."

you would know, from being such a conosseur of dick cheese, among others.

i'm praying you die in a car crash. in your case, one generation of imbeciles is enough.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:17 PM

Do you think Closet's uncle cut the cheese in the speedo before putting it on him? I'm just saying....

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:19 PM

"wait, don't the french MAKE cheese?

i think closet-case just complimented somebody!!!!!"

this is true...too bad you don't have any freedom fries to go with it. seriously, dude, get off the president's dick.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:19 PM

6:15: i would but you've reserved all the vacancies. Something about European prisons being better at everything.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:20 PM

6:17:

But how would I become geriatric and have sex with Ron jeremy after dying?

man, cc, you make it hard to live up to your greatness!

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:21 PM

----"dick cheese"----

closet case just defined a term for himself, everyone.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:22 PM

6:19 logic
making fun of him==humping the president.

yes, I remember that logic from philosophy. No wonder Obama's losing in the polls.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:23 PM

"get off the president's dick."
---But cheney's lap is so comfortable.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:25 PM

6:23: lol

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:27 PM

Comments like these illustrate plainly why I hate America. Speedos are awesome - if you don't like what you see, just don't look. If you can't help but look (you know who you are), then it's because you like what you see. Grow up America.

-SUBLIME BUTTOCKS

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:29 PM

"Comments like these illustrate plainly why I hate America. [Public Sex in front of schools are] awesome - if you don't like what you see, just don't look. If you can't help but look (you know who you are), then it's because you like what you see. Grow up America."
---fixed that for you, CC

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:30 PM

6:27==in favor of pushing porn in front of victims of sex abuse. Nice logic, man.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:31 PM

6:27==I think CC is looking for a roommate in the house that Austrian guy just left.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:33 PM

and....LAST.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:35 PM

---fixed that for you, CC

Not me (4:52), illiterate monkey-scribe degenerate (sorry, i don't have clever little pet-name for you yet). Someone w/ a different viewpoint than you actually posted - oh, the horror!!!

I was off doing work - you know, that thing that lawyers do, and people like you (back-office clerical staff) pretend to do when partners are looking.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:36 PM

Lat, please start posting more pictures of guy's crotches. there just isn't enough of that on the internet. no, i'm serious.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:37 PM

6:35: i call b.s.
you're as transparent as cellophane. Stop trying to pretend to be someone else.

And you can call me Master.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:39 PM

You can call me Smarter-than-CC.

That doesn't mean much, however, I'm just sayin'.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:41 PM

You can call me Miss Baldy, because I'm outta here.

bye, all, and have fun bashing CC.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 6:44 PM

yeah, I think we've all wasted our time enough on this TTT. peace out

----Master

P.S. I LOOOOVE you CC!

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 8:28 PM

I went to France when I was 14. These two guys that smelled like garlic kept buying me drinks. I woke up the next day with a trojan hanging halfway out of my ass. Good times.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 8:42 PM

So its unanimous - Kash should post some bikini pics

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 10:22 PM

8:28 is a liar:
Everyone knows continentals ride bareback. You were fooled. they were Americans!

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Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 11:28 PM

This post totally sucks. Where are the photos of the scantily clad pretty young women?

You're slipping, Kash. SEN would have at least made a reference to blow, blondes, or bikinis.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:25 AM

Bring on the Beach-Taliban! All American men should be forced to wear burqas/ankle lengthed board shorts on the beach. That's why American men fought against the Europeans during World War II.

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