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"No one was asking men to parade around in their bathing suits so that a bunch of judges could rate their bodies on a scale from 1 to 10." Actually, that did happen, judging men by a reductio ad absurdum of masculinity. That's where Arnold Schwarzenegger came from. (The essential difference of course is that this is not one of the few options for males.)https://cdn-men.aznude.com/...

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I too love Puccini. That is all..

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IIRC, more generic name is surimi

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Not sure what you are referring to, but I was at The Breakers in Palm Beach in the 2000s and it was still fabulous. The ceiling in the main dining room is awesome.Current websitehttps://www.thebreakers.com...Ooops sorry you were talking about Atlantic City.

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Posing in body building is crucial and takes a great deal of training and practice. I saw Arnold do an exhibition at a contest in Tampa in 1976. It was amazing.

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Yes, Atlantic City got wrecked by bad development. The Breakers in Palm Beach is amazing.

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Jethro Bodine, right?

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Republicans bought that whole network and use it to make people stupid and gullible.

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And those brought us the horror of Honey Boo Boo, and ultimately ''Mama June: From Not to Hot'' - that last word being one of the biggest lies on TV ever. Yuck!

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And a bang-up job as a fake human!

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Well, they DID, and may still have, a Mr. America 'pageant', but it's a bodybuilding contest.

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But after the early books, what about the New Testesmint? Too soon?

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When I was young, I would watch it because it was so lame, but also I noticed that particularly the southern women had giant hair, and often were less attractive than the others. One year, I remember I was watching in the downstairs rec room, and my mother was watching it upstairs. Well, they did pick a fairly unattractive southern woman, and just after it happened my mother called down to me and said ''well, they picked another dog!''. I still remember that like it was yesterday.

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I posted about her above, but that was later than you.

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