Let's make this story the hallmark of the 2008 Democratic campaign. Kind of the inverse of the welfare queen; "here's why incomes over a million bucks a year should be taxed at 75%."
Oh sure, just go and alienate the vital subterranean harem and narcotics demographic.
That wouldn't work. Every red-blooded American man believes that a secret sex-grotto is his due. And if he could make manager at Wal-Mart, he'd be one step closer.
this reminds me a LOT of what my best friend said in jr high when we had a sleep over and started talking about what our sex fantasies were.
Of course, if I had a secret grotto, I'd fill it with evil plans and their accoutrements. Once your evil plan succeeds, the prostitutes come to you.
It's late, and I'm probably taking a joke too seriously, but I hope that no Democratic candidate makes any argument which resembles that. Can't make the tax-loving stereotype true: while of course Democrats will be tarred as tax-loving no matter what they do, it's also the case that arguments like that are substantively wrong, taxes are, ceteris paribus, evils.* Instead, the argument is, "government needs to provide all these good things in order for each of us to treat our fellow citizens with human dignity they deserve, and do so responsibly must pay for them. This unfortunately means taxes, and given that we have to tax, here's the most efficient and fair way to structure our tax system."
*There's an exception for taxes passed with the primary goal of disincentivizing a particular activity, rather than revenue raising, but that's not what's being discussed here.
Who wants their secret sex grotto under a Wal-Mart?
6 so you wouldn't oppose a 50% tax on sex-grottos?
7:
You think they work for shit wages and zero benefits because there's nothing better? Well, you're right: there's nothing better than sex grottoes!
If you outlaw sex grottos, only outlaws will have sex in grottos.
6: What are you trying to do, undermine my role as lead DNC campaign strategist?
I'll bet John Edwards is building a grotto under that gigantic-ass house.
I think I'd be for it, if it were structured to target copying Hugh Hefner's lifestyle instead of pursuing more creative perversions.
Mr. President, we cannot allow a sex-grotto gap!
"At least one of you had thought about an underground sex grotto too."
Not the underground part.
10 made me laugh, which is rare enough.
12: Under every gigantic-ass house there is a gigantic ass-house.
17: Nice and subtle. In a good way.
Totally geeky, but that's what I get paid to be; it's weird to think of hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment that I've purchased, much of which supported a sex-grotto. (a little bit from nearly everything I've authorized for purchase over the last few years)
The next Portland is meetup at Roamsedge's place.
I've fantasized about owning a leather club, does that count?
Crap man, I don't even have a front porch right now.
Only if it's in a grotto. We could fudge on the underground part but there have to be some standards or else this entire exercise becomes a farce.
There's a perfectly good grotto not far from here. The Church only uses it on weekends.
We could fudge on the underground part
ATM.
Bat cave < sex grotto. This dude was lame.
That was supposed to be a >, I take it?
33: Depends on your kink.
Bats are cool, but do they ever stink. Best bat experience was sleeping under the stars in Southern Oregon (Abert Lake) and having bats fly 6 inches from my face. It was twilight and they were heading out to feed; I had picked a spot in their normal flight path.
They all have them. C'mon... Why do you think Al Gore's power bill is so high?
Hell, don't they all out yonder Appalachia?
45: Tidal power; with all the sliding up and down.
Tidal powered sex grotto? Puh-leeze. That's so 90s.
Now an underwater sex grotto would show imagination.
You know, I never invested that much energy into imagining the *setting* for my "what if I were filthy rich" exploits. Above ground or below ground? Grotto or pleasure dome? I mean, sure, I generally imagine a water feature and a few nice throw pillows, but after that my focus is elsewhere.
Frankly, I'm amazed that I'm the first to suggest a geothermal sex grotto. Hello, hot springs? It's hardly a sex grotto with no hot tubs in the first place, neh?
Fuck this hidden underground crap - I want an above-ground sex mansion in the middle of, say, 300 acres. No neighbours. And NBarmes can be dungeon master for being better than Lou Reed.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
Where Alf my next-door neighbour ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
Yeah, I don't think I'd like to be underground - I'd rather have windows (without curtains, to walk around naked in front of, of course). Actually I'd like to be high up I think - can I have a grotto on top of a tower?
I'd also like to complain about the fucking weather whilst I'm here, it's bloody pissing it down again. Just dropped my 10 year old off at sailing, where they were debating which way the lightning was going to decide whether they could actually go out on the water. It's fucking JULY!
re: 54
Yes, it's all a bit diluvial here. I drove into work this morning and some of the puddles on the road were deep enough they worried me.
This guy sounds like he should have been a Republican senator from the Deep South. He missed his calling in life.
I've had sex in a grotty basement, that should count for something, right?
Also: nitrous oxide? Rock star sex orgies feature expensive, out-of-town prostitutes with giant balloons hanging out with their mouths? I knew it.
You have to wonder why he named it Broadcom.
this whole thing just sounds really grotty.
57: out of. Giant balloons and prostitutes seldom have the kind of relationship that involves hanging out, at least not outside of "The Prisoner" slash fiction.
55 - worse here now, although the rain is stopping. Lots of floodwater on roads, some closed. Hope it's dried out for your journey home.
Wasn't windy earlier, then suddenly a strong wind came up - ended up with four boats capsized and abandoned on the sailing lake! Quite exciting. But still - JULY???
If the underground sex grotto is anything like the London Underground (which I imagine it is), it would be flooded now.
re: 60
Yeah, seems to have stopped here too and the wind's picked up.
Because it's close to "grotty" and conveys how sleazy this thing probably was.
I wondering what kind of ventilation this grotto had.
Now I am singing "In the grottooooo" to myself.
On a balmy Orange County night
Another little speedball rolls outta sight
In the grottooo
54/55: You anti-diluvians - would you rather live in drought-ridden southern California and watch the hills burn and burn and burn? [Did I mention "burn"? Massive conflagration? Air black with soot? Burn?]
I'm expecting to see the old Save Water - Shower With A Friend bumper stickers anytime now.
Grotto, schmotto.
Why don't we go
To my sex gazebo?
Rather:
Who wants to sex gazebo?
sex gazebo
The B-52's much-anticipated follow-up to "Love Shack," right?
70: With bonus B-sides "Resentment Hut" and "Divorce Pagoda".
Depends on what the frequency is, doesn't it?
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in water.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to choose a motter,
I'd totally pick:
"Come sex my grotter!"
64: Because it's close to "grotty" and conveys how sleazy this thing probably was.
Kind of close to "frottage", too, no?
Telecoms: we're slow and steady types, but when we get going....
72: A pagoda? That's all that's left is a stinking pagoda? Where's Will -- someone's gotta renegotiate this deal!
Hey all, If Sifu shows up, will somebody ask him to e-mail either SP or me. I can forward an e-mail from Sifu to SP easily enough. Thanks.
Mind you, Broadcom doesn't seem to be doing any the worse for it.
Um, is the site loading unbearably slowly for anyone else?
I'm getting a couple seconds' delay on comment windows, but nothing too egregious.
Gods, the delay is brutal over here.
Very bad here too. And wouldn't let me comment just now either.
67 - No, burning is not good. And everyone needs drinking water. But both wreck homes and kill people, so neither are nice.
Don't think today's are going to have serious results though, but there's a lot of water around for July.
With bonus B-sides "Resentment Hut" and "Divorce Pagoda".
*snorgles apostropher*
Can you imagine what kind of horrible mushroom trip you'd have in this sex grotto? What a terrible idea.
This post's title quotes the lyrics incorrectly.
The sex grotto itself is a positively capital idea. It's the Rod Stewart that really indicts him.
It would be cool if you had a potto in your grotto.
"Come on. Admit it. At least one of you had thought about an underground sex grotto too."
Hell, no.
Underground sex grottos are so new money.
A rooftop brothel would be significantly more refined.
Would a multi-million-dollar sex grotto containing pottos and other lemur-like creatures rather than human prostitutes be more or less creepy than the one in the story?
I guess it depends on whether Rod Stewart was still involved.
It would be cool if you had a potto in your grotto.
And you fed it natto.
If I won the lotto I could get blotto on sake and natto in my grotto with Otto the potto and Henry Cotto. It would be decorated with a Watteau.
Someone could recite the motto, sotto voce.
In my grotto, we'd listen to fado.
Savvis and Level 3 are apparently having "issues" between the West Coast and Dallas/Fort Worth area, which happens to be where your hosts are located..
fortunately tracert works just as well from the grotto!
97: I think I'd prefer something a little more staccato.
In JM's sex grotto, everybody wears one of these. In mine, however...
Though there's something to be said for a legato ostinato about winning the lotto.
I clicked on "this guy loves the cock" just as I was answering the phone. Apo, you bastard.
Clicking on an Apo link while answering the phone is just asking for trouble.
104: I am so totally wearing that shirt to the next meet-up I attend.
These places tend to be poorly ventilated. You need to watch out for grottoerotic asphyxiation.
Steady your sexcam with a Manfrotto.
This may be one of the worst threads in the history of the intertubes. Completely without redeeming value.
Also, DominEditrix, I'm not worthy to shine the boots of St. Reed.