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Downstate Illinoisian ... Downstate is what Chicago calls all that are outside of Chicago. Including people that are North and West of them.
Now me I'm so far downstate that I call St Louis home and it's in the state West of me in Missiouri. Also the Missssippi River flows East to West where I live.
After 115 Years Together, Tortoises Go Their Separate Ways
By Mike Krumboltz | Love + Sex – 7 hours ago
Sometimes, 115 years of togetherness is enough. Bibi and Poldi, two giant tortoises at the Austrian Zoo, are (slowly) going their separate ways after more than a century of companionship.
The straw that broke the turtle's back came when Bibi (the female) began biting Poldi's shell. Whether turtle or human, gnawing on your partner's back is a sign that the relationship has hit a bumpy phase. Staff members of the Austrian zoo tried a variety of methods to re-light the flame of love, including aphrodisiacs, games, and couple's counseling. Alas, nothing worked.
Zoo director Helga Happ told the Austrian Times, "We get the feeling they can't stand the sight of each other anymore." Poldi has been moved to another enclosure, a rather big move. Poldi and Bibi had shared space for 36 years. Before that, they lived together in Switzerland.
We don't recommend biting your partner as a way to get back on the singles scene, but you have to hand it to Bibi for making a big change after 115 years. It's like she's coming out of her shell.
You Really!!!!!! Can't Make This Stuff Up ...
From Odd News
By Eric Pfeiffer
The 2005 film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," grossed nearly $200 million worldwide based on the premise of a man who went without sex into midlife. But one real-life woman has managed to stay a virgin up to her 70th birthday.
That could be about to change. "Now's the time. I'm ready to take the plunge for the right bloke," she tells the Sun."My standards are still very high, though. I'm hoping to bag a tall, dark and handsome millionaire."
Shaw says she doesn't believe in sex before marriage and has been too busy with her career as a cabaret dance to settle down. "I feel I am ready to give marriage a go and maybe go to bed with a man," she said. "You are never too old for anything. Just look at Joan Collins."
According to worldwide statistics, the average person retains his or her virginity until 17.3 years of age. A 2010 ! reader survey found similar numbers, with readers giving an average age of 17.5 before having sex for the first time.
The paper notes that despite her voluntary lifelong abstinence, Shaw goes by the stage name "The Sexational Pam," and once fraternized with male sex symbols like "It's Not Unusual" singer Tom Jones and James Bond actor Roger Moore.
"Tom Jones was very good looking and we used to chat occasionally before I went on stage as the opening act," she said. "In the late 60s we performed together. There was only a curtain separating our dressing areas."
Shaw says she lived with her mother until she passed away at the age of 97 in 1995. Ironically, Shaw says men have often made incorrect assumptions about her sex life, or lack thereof, because of her career in the entertainment industry.
"I've never really been intimate with a man, just a bit of kissing. I had a sexy stage name and dressed sexy but that was all for my career," she said.
Sense of Taste: I would be lost without taste because I am a coniseur of well made foods as being a cook.
claustrophobic ... I just hate small tight spaces
I for one love body art. It's like the "right of passage" for a young adult to do something that is not 'parent approved' when you turn "17" you can put art on you body legally. You have to be "18" to vote and in the United States you have to be "21" before you can drink legally.
Some art is a sex symbol.
like this cigarette 
