{"id":943,"date":"2007-11-25T20:18:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=943"},"modified":"2007-11-25T20:18:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:18:32","slug":"business-and-pleasure-together-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Business and Pleasure: Together Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please consider these lyrics by the inimitable Kellie Pickler (and does anyone else love the word <i>inimitable<\/i> as much as I do?  I just LOVE it.  Fun to say, fun to type.)<\/p>\n<p>Kellie Pickler, <b>Things That Never Cross A Man&#8217;s Mind<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>I need to go shopping<br \/>\nThese shoes are all wrong<br \/>\nJust look in my closet<br \/>\nNot a thing to put on<br \/>\nI wonder how these jeans make me look from behind<br \/>\nThings that never cross a man&#8217;s mind<\/p>\n<p>Lets turn off the tv<br \/>\nNow can&#8217;t we just talk<br \/>\nLets lay here and cuddle<br \/>\nTil we both drift off<br \/>\nIf we don&#8217;t make love<br \/>\nThat&#8217;ll be just fine<br \/>\nThings that never cross a man&#8217;s mind<\/p>\n<p>That joke is too dirty<br \/>\nThis steak is too thick<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t no way in the world I&#8217;ll ever finish it<br \/>\nThat car is too fast<br \/>\nThis beer is too cold<br \/>\nAnd watchin all this football is sure getting old<br \/>\nWish I was workin this weekend<br \/>\nNot on the lake reelin my line<br \/>\nThings that never cross a man&#8217;s mind<\/p>\n<p>Her lips are too red<br \/>\nHer skirt is too tight<br \/>\nHer legs are too long<br \/>\nAnd her heels are too high<br \/>\nBoy, she looks like the marryin kind<br \/>\nThings that never cross a man&#8217;s mind <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I see your thick, fucking steak and I am going to eat the hell out of it.  <\/p>\n<p>No but I really think that you can never emphasize enough how different the sexes are.  You know &#8211; men.  Women.  Never the twain shall meet.  It&#8217;s so <b>good<\/b> that there are blatant expressions of idiotic stereotypes out there, disguised as humourous &#8220;woman power ballads&#8221; floating in the hazardous air for all of us to internalize, agree with and perpetuate.  Hooray!  OK!  No more country music station for me!<\/p>\n<p>I updated my list of blogs over there to the right.  I am a bad citizen of the blogosphere so I will probably not make it to all those newly listed sites to say, <i>hey, I read your stuff and I think you&#8217;re awesome like homemade macaroni and cheese with bacon, in fact I&#8217;ve been lurking here (argh there&#8217;s that WORD again!) for years and just wanted to let everyone else in the world who reads my blog (all 22 of you) know that I think you&#8217;re fabulous.<\/i>  <\/p>\n<p>So if you see this page in your referrals and you come over to see what the hell? Hi!  I think you&#8217;re awesome like homemade macaroni and cheese with bacon and trust me, that&#8217;s a compliment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please consider these lyrics by the inimitable Kellie Pickler (and does anyone else love the word inimitable as much as I do? I just LOVE it. Fun to say, fun to type.) 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