today’s audience participation

If you could get away with one thing what would it be?

48 Comments!

  1. mech
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 2:37 pm |

    Hmmm, I’d go back in time with a list in my pocket of things to do and things to not do.

  2. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 2:39 pm |

    REDRUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. bocopro
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 2:40 pm |

    Michaela Conlin.

  4. El Jefe
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 2:51 pm |

    Two chicks at the same time. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too.

  5. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 2:54 pm |

    ^ It’s not as fun as it sounds :)

  6. bocopro
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:00 pm |

    Not as much fun as it sounds?

    Oh . . . I donno ’bout that. Sometime back in the late 60s on a hot, humid day in Subic City, I bought a buncha b-girls some chow and then took a communal bath/shower with 6 of ‘em . . . ’cause it was HOT, y’know.

    Can’t speak for the girls, but I sure’s hell had a good time.

  7. El Jefe
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:03 pm |

    If the Queen of my domain is not involved, then of course not! :D

  8. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:07 pm |

    yay! I finally LOLed today:)

  9. Jeff
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:19 pm |

    Sex and money the two big motivators. I would rig powerball to pay me those big paydays every couple of years or so. With that kind of loot I am sure I could persuade a lot of hotties to do a lot of things.

  10. Brad
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:29 pm |

    “Get away with” carries the implication that the act one is comitting is wrong.

    So what would I like to do that is wrong?

    Drive off with an armored car full of cash that was foolishly left unguarded for a moment? Nah. Too simple and self centered.

    Steal a ton of gold out of Fort Knox? Complicated and still self centered.

    Smother an old liberal justice during a Republican presidency?
    A bit complicated, way less self centered, but while I despise liberal politics, murder is a liberal political tool.

    Got it… I would like to get away with opening up the file cabinet that holds the college transcripts, admissions paperwork and thesis and walking it straight over to the folks running the Breitbart site. That is something I would like to get away with.

  11. Brad
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:32 pm |

    Oh, did I forget to mention whose college records I would like to expose? Don’t think a clarification is necessary, there is only one person working hard to hide his records.

  12. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:33 pm |

    ^ Ok. That one’s dreamy *swoonz*!

  13. PeggyU
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:35 pm |

    Build a great big mother effing greenhouse, install a cistern, and add onto our house without getting any permits.

  14. Chris in NC
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:35 pm |

    Yep, ditto Mech. Time machine. Go back to 90-91 and tell my dad to get the hell to the doctor yearly so he would catch that cancer before it nailed him in ’96. Also in 90, I’d make sure I didn’t meet the woman who made me miserable for 20 years… That’s about it. :)

  15. MCPO
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:44 pm |

    A banana split every night for dessert.

  16. geezerette
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:50 pm |

    I wish I could have done many things but the buzz words are get a way with— because I never got away with anything no matter what — even got blamed for what others did– ??? I’m stumped– I’m scared to even admit to wanting to get away with something some one would shore as hell find out.

  17. logdogsmith
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 3:54 pm |

    I would fake citizenship in a foreign country I absolutely despise and become their elected leader, using my position and influence to fundamentally transform that nation to my vision of utopia.

  18. Posted August 20, 2012 at 4:07 pm |

    hmmm, at this point it would have to be remove a certain someone from a certain position that he should never have obtained in the first place

    that or punch every liberal i know. :)

  19. bocopro
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 4:13 pm |

    Now that I think it over, I’ve prob’ly done my share of gettin away with stuff. Been lucky a whole buncha times on stuff that others have had their asses rubbed raw for, been jailed for, been demoted for, been sued for. Could be that’s why Geezerette can’t get away with sh–.

    Put a checkmark by and struck a line thru all the wild & crazy stuff while I was bulletproof, impervious, and immortal. So now, at 72, I can think back on it all, let my mind do a little editing here and there, and get that mysterious, knowing smile on my face that makes other people say, “What’s that old bastard got on his mind now?”

    Yes, I will take a lotta skidmarks, bumps, bruises, and scars to the grave with me. Ain’t that the way it’s s’posed t’ be? Dance like nobody’s watchin, sing like you don’t care who’s listenin, love like there’s no tomorrow, and slide thru the Pearly Gates out of gas, out time, and out of breath . . . . right?

  20. The Ugly American
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 4:15 pm |

    Eating cake for breakfast every morning…

  21. Gomer
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 4:33 pm |

    “If you could get away with one thing what would it be?”

    What makes you think I haven’t already gotten away with it?

  22. Posted August 20, 2012 at 4:36 pm |

    Rather than suffering the consequences…… Squirrel!

  23. geezerette
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 4:47 pm |

    When I was about 4-5 years old we were at my Gramma’s cottage. They had an out house. I hated it. I had to P so I snuck in the woods next to it. While I was squatting a snake slithered in front my foot. It was just a garder snake but it looked like a python to me. I couldn’t tell anyone because I wasn’t suppose to be P’ing in the woods. That was the first thing I tried to get away with.

  24. Annoyed White Male
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 4:54 pm |

    Kill George Soros.

  25. bocopro
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 4:54 pm |

    Why, you naughty NAUGHty little girl!

    I’m tellin’.

  26. bocopro
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 4:56 pm |

    AWM — need’ny help?

  27. Melissa In Texas
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 5:13 pm |

    They had an out house. I hated it.
    OMG!
    Out at the farm, I hated the outhouse too!
    I would go behind it rather than go inside after dark!
    We had scorpions, black widows and rattlesnakes!
    I hated that damn outhouse!
    As a matter if fact, I am now the proud owner of my gramma’s chamber pot ;)

  28. blindshooter
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 5:21 pm |

    I can’t get away with anything. God sees my every move.
    IF I could do anything it would be to travel back in time and cheat the reaper out of my first wife. She was only 37 and a preventable childhood disease killed her. I would love to cheat the reaper myself, long enough to see what history does to our current POTUS.

  29. JoeBandMember®
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 5:22 pm |

    Retirement.

  30. DougM (November is coming)
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 6:19 pm |

    You mean, of course, what else would I want to get away with.
    That would be pressing my luck.
    Straight arrow it is, then, from here on out.

  31. Posted August 20, 2012 at 7:06 pm |

    Ummm… I guess I can talk about this now. I once rigged a Bingo game and got away with it in front of about 500 witnesses.

    There was no money involved — just some cheap prizes [which I gave to my henchmen] — but the feeling of pulling it off was a terrific thrill. I just wanted to see if it could be done. It could.

    And no, I’m not telling you how I did it.

  32. Texas Schadenfreude
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 7:09 pm |

    If I could get away with it I would like to serve the humble pie to those deserving to eat crow. And I would execute this flamboyantly.

  33. geezerette
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 7:13 pm |

    Melissa you have the chamber pot my gramma had one in the loft for p’ing at nite– to us it was a piss pot– and we have an out house at our camp — everyone is allowed to P in the woods–so no one has to feel guilty if they do– just not off the porch told the boys if they did I’d cut it off and nail it to the camp wall— we also have 2 snakes that live in under our camp– and mousies in the out house– spiders , big ones– chipmuncks who love pnuts and a Golden Eagle and Bald Eagle who love chipmunks–we hope not too much– I’ve come a long way Baby–

  34. MikeG
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 10:07 pm |

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJXjt5D4zY

    Weed with Willy

  35. Alan outback bacon czar
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 10:55 pm |

    I once wanted to do my girlfriend and her mother at the same time.

  36. PeggyU
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 12:24 am |

    Melissa and Geezerette – My great-grandma had an outhouse too. Hornets frequently nested there. It did keep people from lingering … as if they really needed any motivation in the first place!

  37. Posted August 21, 2012 at 5:10 am |

    A shopping cart full from the British Museum, Tate, Louvre, or Rijksmuseum.

    Is that multiple things? Then Shah Jehan’s hardstone cup. Or that one big Van Ruysdael…

  38. Jess
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 5:14 am |

    Steal that damn bust of Churchill and leave it in a flea market in the Midwest.

    I’d laugh every time I read the news.

  39. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:11 am |

    Easy one! “Have the entire fucking Porch go John Galt in the same beautiful valley that no one but us knows where it is!” (…ohhh, and have a infinite supply of porta-potties….geesh…)

  40. Melissa In Texas
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:24 am |

    Colonel Jerry… Bahahahahahaaaa!
    When I say I inherited the chamber pot…
    I got the throne ;)
    For a while, I was thinking about getting rid of it, but for some reason, I keep it, as you never know when you might ummm…. make use of it again one day.

    After going into the outhouse and seeing a black widow crawl out from the seat… there was NO WAY I was gonna plop my fanny back down on that thing!

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  41. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:58 am |

    Melissa,

    I think I may not want to know, but I gotta ask anyway. “Why is that fish net parked so handy right next to your antique porta-potty?”

  42. Melissa In Texas
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:00 am |

    BWAHAHAHAAAAA!
    Double duty ;)
    It just happened to be in the corner of the garage with what was left of my fishing gear!
    Ohhhh….
    I NEED to go fishing!

  43. DougM (November is coming)
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:17 am |

    ^ Melissa!
    I’ve had this for almost forty years and use it as an occasional table.
    I once considered making a champagne bucket of it
    where the bottle would rise out of the hole as the lid was lifted.

    Wait, I know!
    Bait bucket.

  44. Melissa In Texas
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:18 am |

    BAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!
    I love it!

  45. DougM (November is coming)
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:20 am |

    Now that I think of it,
    might come in handy in an ice-fishing shanty.

  46. Ironic in Denver
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:38 am |

    When not otherwise in use, those wooden seats with oval holes make nice frames for photos of one’s least favorite person.

    You open the lid, and there he/she is.

    Or just leave it open as a public comment.

    The only problem is that in the current political climate, one hole is just not enough.

  47. dick, not quite dead white guy
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 1:25 pm |

    Gracious, y’all have some genuine thrones.

    Doug – I noticed the lid on yours is fumed oak. In one area, anyhow.

  48. DougM (November is coming)
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm |

    ^ Yeah, ammonia fuming it is, I reckon.

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