Well, first, Burl is just guessing. In fact, Jerry’s cousin had wretched taste. But he took her stuff, anyway, because he tired of making up cover stories for his shopping. Lane Bryant kept throwing him out when they caught him sneaking into the dressing room. Jerry only wore the stuff when he was with his little circle of special friends. Well, they weren’t really friends. They were just the other customers at that place across the alley from the car wash. The manager kept it pretty dark inside, so there was no limit to the passabilities. .Verla is silent here. Her pea brain is still trying to work out if Burl was complimentary or cutting. Sometime that evening, she will decide it was a cut. But before she can think of a snappy comeback to defend her excuse for a man, she will forget all about it. .Like the local plastic surgeon who has a deal on the side selling suctioned belly fat to the local rendering plant that produces Crustville’s Finest lard and personal lubricant, the corrupt manager of the Goodwill passes Burl’s socks on to a drug trafficker who uses them to stun police drug dogs. .Ya’ll shouldn’t be so mean to Joy about gifting her old training bra to that girl. Joy just wants another girl to experience the thrill she felt when it was given to her. She was 23, and her parents bought it after the medical tests cleared up the gender issue, and it seemed like a way to give her at least one feminine trait to identify with. Besides, she was feeling bad because Jerry, who grew up on the next block, was the same age and got his trainer at 14 and was already a B cup.
This taken for SocialTimes By Lauren Dugan on Nov. 11, 2011 – 5:00 PM
Once upon a time, long long ago… a group of young programmers whipped up a program that could send SMS to and from a small group of recipients.
This blossomed into Twitter, a web- and mobile- based messaging system that lets users send short messages – known as tweets – to one another.
So why the 140-character limit?
Twitter was (and still is) a service that relied heavily on mobile-messaging. Sure, you can send and receive tweets on your computer, but a huge draw of Twitter in the early days was its ability to be accessed from mobile phones.
And since the worldwide standard length of SMS (or text messages on phones) is 160-characters, the founders of Twitter thought it wise to stay within that bounds so as not to inundate people’s phones with 3 or 4 staggered, delayed, or even partially missing 4-part messages.
140-characters was chosen as a good length, leaving 20 characters for the username of the sender. This way, anyone receiving a tweet via SMS would get the whole tweet in a single text message, with nothing spilling over into a second or third message that pops up minutes later.
noreenklose over 8 years ago
Why would Goodwill take ANYTHING from the Pennys?No one in their right mind would touch used Penny garments with a ten foot pole!
MeGoNow Premium Member over 8 years ago
Well, first, Burl is just guessing. In fact, Jerry’s cousin had wretched taste. But he took her stuff, anyway, because he tired of making up cover stories for his shopping. Lane Bryant kept throwing him out when they caught him sneaking into the dressing room. Jerry only wore the stuff when he was with his little circle of special friends. Well, they weren’t really friends. They were just the other customers at that place across the alley from the car wash. The manager kept it pretty dark inside, so there was no limit to the passabilities. .Verla is silent here. Her pea brain is still trying to work out if Burl was complimentary or cutting. Sometime that evening, she will decide it was a cut. But before she can think of a snappy comeback to defend her excuse for a man, she will forget all about it. .Like the local plastic surgeon who has a deal on the side selling suctioned belly fat to the local rendering plant that produces Crustville’s Finest lard and personal lubricant, the corrupt manager of the Goodwill passes Burl’s socks on to a drug trafficker who uses them to stun police drug dogs. .Ya’ll shouldn’t be so mean to Joy about gifting her old training bra to that girl. Joy just wants another girl to experience the thrill she felt when it was given to her. She was 23, and her parents bought it after the medical tests cleared up the gender issue, and it seemed like a way to give her at least one feminine trait to identify with. Besides, she was feeling bad because Jerry, who grew up on the next block, was the same age and got his trainer at 14 and was already a B cup.
gnash over 8 years ago
I miss the “Find it”!
thorshamber over 8 years ago
no find it again :(
InTraining over 8 years ago
This taken for SocialTimes By Lauren Dugan on Nov. 11, 2011 – 5:00 PM
Once upon a time, long long ago… a group of young programmers whipped up a program that could send SMS to and from a small group of recipients.
This blossomed into Twitter, a web- and mobile- based messaging system that lets users send short messages – known as tweets – to one another.
So why the 140-character limit?
Twitter was (and still is) a service that relied heavily on mobile-messaging. Sure, you can send and receive tweets on your computer, but a huge draw of Twitter in the early days was its ability to be accessed from mobile phones.
And since the worldwide standard length of SMS (or text messages on phones) is 160-characters, the founders of Twitter thought it wise to stay within that bounds so as not to inundate people’s phones with 3 or 4 staggered, delayed, or even partially missing 4-part messages.
140-characters was chosen as a good length, leaving 20 characters for the username of the sender. This way, anyone receiving a tweet via SMS would get the whole tweet in a single text message, with nothing spilling over into a second or third message that pops up minutes later.