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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 2811698" data-attributes="member: 259"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Okay, I'm torn between giggling at this, wanting to ask Kahuna what the line is, and feeling that my mod duties require me to put a kibosh on this.  Kahuna, could I persuade you to give us a chapter-and-verse, and then we can leave it at that?My best gift-giving this year was to my wife.  Every time we walk down to the video store, we pass a tienda that has started selling clothes.  They have party dresses in the window, sexy Latin dresses with diagonal frills and bright colors, and my wife always remarks on how pretty they are.So I went in there and with my amazingly broken Spanish ("Quiero, uh, uh, eso?  Uh, toma usted uh, este?" holding out a credit card; and so forth) bought a dress the approximate color and pattern of rainbow sherbet.  And then I spent the next several weeks worrying about it:  was she just admiring it in the abstract, and would think it atrociously gaudy when she unwrapped it on Christmas?  Would it fit her?  Would the rainbow sherbet effect clash with her complexion?I didn't need to worry:  she was astonished and delighted with it, and told me that she'd noticed that dress being absent from the window and had been a little disappointed that someone else had bought it and prevented her from ever getting it.Soon we go dancing!Daniel</blockquote>

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