That's It! I'm Doing the "lame54 Buttscratch" (TM) for Good Mojo 'til Election Day!

[CorpGovActivist]

Who's with me?

Wasn't that http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2656529&mesg_id=2656529">video brilliant?!?

I'm the superstitious type. This is a move that can unite even Yankees fans and Red Sox fans.

- Dave

P.S. Edited to add link. I do not have the permission of the NFL, lame54, or his beautiful wife, unapatriciated (who has already warned me to "back off" about his butt). So sue me.

P.P.S. And I mean this. Listen up. Study the video. There will be NO SCHISMS!!! NONE. We must all do The Buttscratch in an orthodox fashion. This is not going to devolve into http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Life_of_Brian">Holy Gourds and offcast shoes, or right hand, left hand splits. There is video, people. Jesus!

[canadianbeaver]

1. loved it.......who will film the sequel???

Heres to Butt scratchin'

[CorpGovActivist]

3. Oh, the Pressure!

It reminds me of when Joey had to be a butt model on Friends.

WHO?!?

Who can POSSIBLY capture the essence of that butt in the sequel?

:rofl:

- Dave

[Angela Shelley]

2. I´m with you Dave, the video is brilliant!

[CorpGovActivist]

7. I Can Drink to It!

:toast:

- Dave

[Angela Shelley]

8. I´m with you ...

but if I´m enjoying this or not depends on what are we drinking.

[CorpGovActivist]

12. As My Grandfather Used to Say about Scotch and Colds...

... "If it doesn't kill the germs, at least it makes 'em dizzy!"

:toast:

- Dave

[Angela Shelley]

15. You are AMAZING, Dave.

Thanks for the advice about battling a cold, I´ll go have a scotch right now!

[CorpGovActivist]

16. Mountain Medicine

Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

:rofl:

- Dave

[midnight]

4. CGA I usually follow your thinking, but not quite sure what your

refering to. Do you mind breaking it down. What is the lame54 Butt scratch? At first, I thought you wrote butterscotch. Any way I'm still not following you. Thanks.

[CorpGovActivist]

5. You Haven't Seen the Movie?!?

Go to the Greatest threads, and check out lame54's brilliant production!

: )

- Dave

[midnight]

22. Ok. Let me go looking for it. I will be back.

[canadianbeaver]

6. DEMOCRATICUNDERGOUND THE MOVIE

[CorpGovActivist]

9. "I usually follow your thinking"

:rofl:

Can I hire you to help me keep it straight?

:rofl:

I added the link in the OP.

- Dave

[helderheid]

10. I'm with you, Dave and that video was beyond brilliant!!

[CorpGovActivist]

11. Did You See Their Wedding Video, Downthread? n/t

[helderheid]

20. absolutely LOVELY. Brought tears to my eyes!

[CorpGovActivist]

21. The Last Picture in the Video...

... had tears streaming down my eyes.

That simple photo cannot be for Patrick and me.

- Dave

[helderheid]

23. I hate that about the US. It's so much better in the Netherlands (where my husband is from)

[CorpGovActivist]

24. CUTE!

You guys make a GREAT couple! You're tiny! (And kick ass*, right?)

:rofl:

- Dave

* Stepladder not included.

[helderheid]

26. :P

:D Thanks much! I'm 5' and my husband is 6'4". Figured I had to find someone I could give my children a fighting chance on being a decent height with! :D

[CorpGovActivist]

27. *snicker*

I'd make him dress up like the Little Dutch Boy for Halloween.

But that's just me.

- Dave

[helderheid]

34. LOL!

I LOVE IT! He did get these for Christmas:

[CorpGovActivist]

35. Much "Prettier" Than My Hut Boots ...

... from LL Bean (the ones I got this Christmas). Hmph!

You just started an argument!

:rofl:

- Dave

[helderheid]

36. Oh shit! :P Sorry!

:rofl:

[CorpGovActivist]

37. I Kid, I Kid...

... but where could I pick up a pair of those for my "manly man"?

- Dave

[helderheid]

38. :P

www.thedutchstore.com - we buy all our coffee through them and each Christmas I send a basket from them to my various family across the States.

[CorpGovActivist]

39. We May Have a Chance to Live Abroad for Two Years...

... due to his job. There is some flexibility as to where we could go.

The Netherlands is very high on our list. Thanks for the heads-up on the coffee and the link. That's just one more reason to add to the pro-Dutch pile. As I tell him, "I could be a very good law-abiding Dutch citizen/guest."

; )

- Dave

[helderheid]

41. I've only had the pleasure of living in the Netherlands and no other part of Europe

but I would HIGHLY recommend it! The downfalls would be the dark dreary Winters. But hey, you want wedding bells, there's your place! ;)

[CorpGovActivist]

43. Have Eurail Pass, Will Travel!

"The downfalls would be the dark dreary Winters."

I've watched enough AbFab to know to head off to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=patsy+edina+morocco+honey">Morocco.

"But hey, you want wedding bells, there's your place!"

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a big friggin' bill for no actual rights?

Nah.

- Dave

[helderheid]

44. Well, you don't even need to get married in the Netherlands to receive "partnership rights". :)

Good idea on the travel. I have some terrific pictures from our road trip through France.

[CorpGovActivist]

45. Good to Know

I'd love to see them; I'm sure Patrick would, too.

You have my e-mail; send if/when convenient.

:hug:

- Dave

[helderheid]

46. I'll send them soon! :)

:hug:

[unapatriciated]

47. Dave did I mention my oldest is an ordained minister?

I mentioned before my youngest was unable to marry his love of seven years, because he would lose most of his disability. Sooo his brother became an ordained minster and we had a beautiful wedding with family and friends. Lame and I were together for nine years but that simple ceremony made us feel even more connected. What I'm saying is don't let someone else's bigotry and unjust laws stand in the way of pledging your life and love to each other. Just remember to put us on the guest list.:hug:

[CorpGovActivist]

48. "don't let someone else's bigotry and unjust laws stand in the way of pledging your life and love"

Much of his family lives in MA and RI. They've been after us ever since the MA SJC ruled in favor of marriage.

As you may or may not know, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=virginia+gay+marriage">Virginia passed a measure that purports to prohibit the recognition of *any* rights - including private companies' DP benefits.

This is on its way to the US Supreme Court, no doubt about it.

I know what you're saying about the importance of the ceremony, and including family and friends in that special day. It's great that your younger son did a ceremony.

"Just remember to put us on the guest list."

Count on it!!! We'll do it, but we're in no rush, as we await the outcome of the Virginia case.

:hug:

- Dave

[unapatriciated]

49. did I understand it right?

VA can prohibit same sex benefits offered by private companies? We have stores in VA and our company has offered same sex benefits for a while now. Can they get around this by being based in California (we have a lot of L&G's in upper management and corporate level)? We are in Georgia now but our company pays overtime based on California law not Georgia because they choose to. Damn we need federal laws like yesterday.

[CorpGovActivist]

50. To the Extent That an Employer's Benefits Are Protected by ERISA...

... it automatically gets yanked out of the states' hands, and belongs in Federal court.

Ironically, employers have used http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=erisa+preemption">preemption in the past to try to bar state law claims brought by workers. GOP admins fought tooth, nail, and claw to help develop and craft the law and the caselaw on this.

Now, LGBT equality advocates in Virginia can use that principle to force this into the Federal courts. It'll wend its way up through the http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/">Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, then to the US Supreme Court - where the last several major rights cases have come out in our favor. Even allowing for the two additions under 43, things look cautiously optimistic.

Most employers here have ignored the provisions that purport to strip already-granted DP benefits, on the legal advice of counsel.

http://www.equalityvirginia.org">EqualityVirginia.org has some great info on the status of things. Patrick and I have talked about doing an "in lieu of a wedding, donate to EV.org" mailout to family and friends, but are holding out hope.

- Dave

[blondeatlast]

13. I too pledge to scratch my butt until November 5th!

That movie rocked, btw. :applause:

[CorpGovActivist]

17. But We All Must Study It, and Do It in an Orthodox Fashion!

No schisms!!!

- Dave

[Viva_La_Revolution]

14. whoohoo!

teamwork



Can't reach!

[CorpGovActivist]

19. Hilarious!

:rofl:

Buttscratch Down Under!

:spray:

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

18. Updated with IMPORTANT P.P.S. n/t

[progressoid]

25. That desk was TOOOO clean

I can barely see my desk. I think it's black under all the clutter.

[lame54]

28. If i die tomorrow at least I'll have my legacy

[CorpGovActivist]

29. My Partner Would *So* Laugh

Check your PM.

- Dave

[lame54]

30. What does my Potty Mouth have to do with this?

[CorpGovActivist]

31. Elefino...

... what you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino.

- Dave

[lame54]

32. Or is that Perty Mouth

[CorpGovActivist]

33. I Became an Accidental Expert on Deliverance in College...

... to prove to "certain persons who shall remain unnamed" that it was NOT set in WV.

- Dave

[Richard Steele]

40. That video was GREAT, but you call that a buttscratch? PUH-LEEZE!

As an aging guy who scratches his ass a lot, I say
that was a PATHETIC EXCUSE for a buttscratch!

It ended five yards short of the scrimmage line;
it neither lifted nor separated!

You got me excited enough to watch that video with this post.
But the buttscratch scene was the LOW POINT of the film, IMHO.

I gave it rec #202 anyway- Lame uses the same coffee grinder as me,
so that really brought his message home and made it personal, y'know?

[CorpGovActivist]

42. *snicker*

Out-friggin-standing!

"As an aging guy who scratches his ass a lot, I say
that was a PATHETIC EXCUSE for a buttscratch!"

Practice makes perfect. Give the guy a break.

"It ended five yards short of the scrimmage line;
it neither lifted nor separated!"

:spray:

"You got me excited enough to watch that video with this post."

Good! Art imitated life for damn sure, huh?

"But the buttscratch scene was the LOW POINT of the film, IMHO."

Everyone's a critic. I thought it was a subtler, even poignant homage to the scratch, tastefully done for the more sensitive in our midst. Could he have added the head-to-the-ceiling yawn, stretch, scratch head and ass at same time? Probably. But by employing a sense of minimalism, he invited his viewers to retouch his "canvass" with their own strokes.

:P

"I gave it rec #202 anyway- Lame uses the same coffee grinder as me,
so that really brought his message home and made it personal, y'know?"

Much like the set of Friends, it felt cozy and familiar. I agree that there was clearly some forethought given to staging.

We could take this on the road!

; )

- Dave