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Rants & raves.


"The other day I got a turkey baster baste 1  
tr.v. bast·ed, bast·ing, bastes
To sew loosely with large running stitches so as to hold together temporarily.
 from a lady in Charlotte. I still don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 why I got the turkey baster."

--American Idol 2003 runner-up Clay Aiken, on the odd things fans have thrown onstage during the Idol tour, as quoted on CNN.com, August 22

"The notion that gay men have a fashion sense is not true, and it's damaging. It's a way to marginalize mar·gin·al·ize  
tr.v. mar·gin·al·ized, mar·gin·al·iz·ing, mar·gin·al·iz·es
To relegate or confine to a lower or outer limit or edge, as of social standing.
 people--you can treat them as pets."

--U.S. representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.), on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, as quoted by The New York Observer, August 18

"I'm a mad shredder. I get these Bibles sent to me saying 'Repent now, and I shred them."

--Elton John, as quoted by Cindy Adams in the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 , August 20

"I had a bitch, but we never had sex. I don't really like sex anymore. I have jewelry now."

--Former madam Heidi Fleiss, on same-sex relationships while she was in prison, as quoted by E! Online's Ted Casablanca, August 21
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Sep 30, 2003
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