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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"Wow," said Wendy after reading that. "He really &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a jackass."

  "Told you," I replied.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Wow,&#8221; said Wendy after reading that. &#8220;He really <em>is</em> a jackass.&#8221;</p>
<p>  &#8220;Told you,&#8221; I replied.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 04:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes Jose Martin DV, this is another sweet sentiment from your neighbourhood Steve-Dallas-wannabe.  While I agree that all lawyers are scum (with apologies to my lovely barrister-spouse) I firmly believe that poseurs are worse.  Why?  Because lawyers will tell you to your face that they're satanists and will take your momma's pension $$.  There is no artifice in this evil.  On the other hand, poseurs pretend to be something they're not.  And there is no honour in any pretension.  I steadfastly repeat my mantra - Death to Poseurs.  Death to Sassafraz.  Bring back Cafe Marika.

  And remember, in order to show the goodness in society, you need to have evil to compare it against.  And here is the rub:   Without our black hearts to compare against, society would be a singular shade of boring grey.  Tell me that any other identifiable group provides this comprehensive level of contribution to modern society?

  Are lawyers horrible?  Probably.  But tell me this:  If you're buying a business, a house, lending your retirement money to a borrower, entering a business deal with a company, or are charged with a criminal act which you didn't do, are you going to do it all by yourself or would you hire an errors &#038; ommissions-insured lawyer (who you could sue if he fucked up) to protect your ass &#038; make sure you don't get screwed?  If you choose the former, good luck to you.  I hope you like prison or bankruptcy.

  Now tell me, do you still want to kill all the lawyers?  And if so, would you kill Matlock first or last?

  Your jackass friend.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes Jose Martin DV, this is another sweet sentiment from your neighbourhood Steve-Dallas-wannabe.  While I agree that all lawyers are scum (with apologies to my lovely barrister-spouse) I firmly believe that poseurs are worse.  Why?  Because lawyers will tell you to your face that they&#8217;re satanists and will take your momma&#8217;s pension $$.  There is no artifice in this evil.  On the other hand, poseurs pretend to be something they&#8217;re not.  And there is no honour in any pretension.  I steadfastly repeat my mantra - Death to Poseurs.  Death to Sassafraz.  Bring back Cafe Marika.</p>
<p>  And remember, in order to show the goodness in society, you need to have evil to compare it against.  And here is the rub:   Without our black hearts to compare against, society would be a singular shade of boring grey.  Tell me that any other identifiable group provides this comprehensive level of contribution to modern society?</p>
<p>  Are lawyers horrible?  Probably.  But tell me this:  If you&#8217;re buying a business, a house, lending your retirement money to a borrower, entering a business deal with a company, or are charged with a criminal act which you didn&#8217;t do, are you going to do it all by yourself or would you hire an errors &#038; ommissions-insured lawyer (who you could sue if he fucked up) to protect your ass &#038; make sure you don&#8217;t get screwed?  If you choose the former, good luck to you.  I hope you like prison or bankruptcy.</p>
<p>  Now tell me, do you still want to kill all the lawyers?  And if so, would you kill Matlock first or last?</p>
<p>  Your jackass friend.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Such a comment of high jackassery from someone who works in the Yorkville area could have only come from my high school classmate Nick C.

  Poseurs generally cause less harm to society than those in your profession. As both &lt;a href="http://www.spectacle.org/797/finkel.html"  rel="nofollow"&gt;Shakespeare&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;cite&gt;Bloom County's&lt;/cite&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_characters_in_Bloom_County#L.H._Puttgrass"  rel="nofollow"&gt;L.H. Puttgrass&lt;/a&gt; said, "Death to lawyers!"</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Such a comment of high jackassery from someone who works in the Yorkville area could have only come from my high school classmate Nick C.</p>
<p>  Poseurs generally cause less harm to society than those in your profession. As both <a href="http://www.spectacle.org/797/finkel.html"  rel="nofollow">Shakespeare</a> and <cite>Bloom County&#8217;s</cite> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_characters_in_Bloom_County#L.H._Puttgrass"  rel="nofollow">L.H. Puttgrass</a> said, &#8220;Death to lawyers!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sassafraz was poseur central.  My office is 40 feet down the street &#038; I've entertainedmany clients there in the last decade.  Celebs go there? Yeah right.  I'll bet you more celebs head to the McD's on Ave. Rd &#038; Bloor than Sassafraz when in Yorkville.  But they don't tell you that every wannabe in the 416-905 area is there looking to be looked at.  Even when it was the Belair Cafe, it was poseur ground zero.  Death to Sassafraz.  Death to poseurs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sassafraz was poseur central.  My office is 40 feet down the street &#038; I&#8217;ve entertainedmany clients there in the last decade.  Celebs go there? Yeah right.  I&#8217;ll bet you more celebs head to the McD&#8217;s on Ave. Rd &#038; Bloor than Sassafraz when in Yorkville.  But they don&#8217;t tell you that every wannabe in the 416-905 area is there looking to be looked at.  Even when it was the Belair Cafe, it was poseur ground zero.  Death to Sassafraz.  Death to poseurs.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who's gone through a fire 2 floors below my apartment, had a downstairs neighbour at another place who nearly burnt down the building 3 times and last summer watched a warehouse 5 buildings from me burn to the ground, I'd like to go on record and say that fire is not funny in any context.

  The damage it does, both to structures and to people phyche's is horrifying.

  Anyone who jokes about fire has never experienced one.

  Carson</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who&#8217;s gone through a fire 2 floors below my apartment, had a downstairs neighbour at another place who nearly burnt down the building 3 times and last summer watched a warehouse 5 buildings from me burn to the ground, I&#8217;d like to go on record and say that fire is not funny in any context.</p>
<p>  The damage it does, both to structures and to people phyche&#8217;s is horrifying.</p>
<p>  Anyone who jokes about fire has never experienced one.</p>
<p>  Carson</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Joey for the comment about the schadenfreude, it's something I don't understand about some people in Toronto. The same thing as I commented a few weeks ago about people who do not like Bay Street suit-wearing people. There is nothing wrong with it, if it doesn't belong to one's circle, too bad. It almost seems as if they're bitter/resented that they don't belong to that circle.

  It's too bad for Sassafraz, I really enjoyed the martinis there, and the bar was fun to go after work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Joey for the comment about the schadenfreude, it&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t understand about some people in Toronto. The same thing as I commented a few weeks ago about people who do not like Bay Street suit-wearing people. There is nothing wrong with it, if it doesn&#8217;t belong to one&#8217;s circle, too bad. It almost seems as if they&#8217;re bitter/resented that they don&#8217;t belong to that circle.</p>
<p>  It&#8217;s too bad for Sassafraz, I really enjoyed the martinis there, and the bar was fun to go after work.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From Frank magazine, I understand it was the place to go for 10,000/night hookers. Not to worry, I'm sure they'll be on their backs in no time...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Frank magazine, I understand it was the place to go for 10,000/night hookers. Not to worry, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be on their backs in no time&#8230;</p>
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