Price List

[CharleyH]

I don't think I could be bought for any price. I'd be guilt ridden for the rest of my life.

I still feel guilty about the DVD I walked out with by mistake from Target about 2 years ago. It was in the back of the carrige and I didn't realize I didn't pay for it till I got home and looked at the recipt. To this day, I still feel guilty every time I open the DVD cabinet and see it there.

LOL, I feel the same. I am one of those silly people who can't walk out of a place knowing they gave me the wrong change to my benefit. Hell, I can't even walk by the drunks on the corner without feeling guilty if I don't at least say hello.

HOWEVER, I have always had a fantasy about robbing a bank. I have a pretty good plan, and would offer it for nothing if someone else wanted to carry it out.

 

[TheEarl]

HOWEVER, I have always had a fantasy about robbing a bank. I have a pretty good plan, and would offer it for nothing if someone else wanted to carry it out.

Right there with you. I think it's another example of God's sense of humour that I appear to have the mental capability to be a criminal mastermind, but have the morals to prevent me from carrying out any of my dastardly schemes.

And I would've got away with them too,. if it hadn't've been for those meddling kids.

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Various disconnected thoughts on this topic.

I really think everyone has a price.

At the price varies by situation in life. For example, if you could steal $50,000 with 50-50 chance of getting away with it, most of us wouldn't.

But, if our child needed $50,000 for a life saving operation and we had no other way to get it...

I used to be amazed at people who lost jobs from where I used to work, for stealing a few hundred dollars. If I had a 100% chance of stealing $300, I wouldn't--guilty conscience.

I used to say if I had a 100% chance of stealing $5,000,000 I'd be shopping for real estate in Rio. That was my price. Now, I'm no so sure. Would it be worth losing the respect of my family? Does that just mean my price has gone up?

As a female co-worker said when we say "Indecent Proposal" together, "Sex for $50 is prostitution, sex for $1,000,000 is retirement planning."

Phone just rang, rich friend just asked me to take a suitcase of $20 million down to the bank.

Uh oh.

 

[Honey123]

Right there with you. I think it's another example of God's sense of humour that I appear to have the mental capability to be a criminal mastermind, but have the morals to prevent me from carrying out any of my dastardly schemes.

And I would've got away with them too,. if it hadn't've been for those meddling kids.

The Earl

And Scrappy doo!

 

[Honey123]

Looked at him like he was an idiot and then called him one.

Ofcouse this wasn't a stranger, we were dating at the time.

That's totally gross!!!! I have no prob telling someone they have a booger hanging out....put to take it out!

 

[TheEarl]

And Scrappy doo!

Scrappy Doo's crap. Let's face it, if you got caught by Scrappy Doo, then you'd be really embarrassed and not deserve the name of master-criminal. Or that of evil overlord.

Evil Overlord Rule no 4: Shooting is not too good for my enemies.

Bye bye Scraps. <BANG!>

The Earl

 

[Guest]

I think it's another example of God's sense of humour that I appear to have the mental capability to be a criminal mastermind, but have the morals to prevent me from carrying out any of my dastardly schemes.

Damn our parents for teaching us right and wrong. They condemed us to a life of middle class.

 

[mlady_france]

That's totally gross!!!! I have no prob telling someone they have a booger hanging out....put to take it out!

I thought it was too. *bleck*

 

[mlady_france]

Scrappy Doo's crap. Let's face it, if you got caught by Scrappy Doo, then you'd be really embarrassed and not deserve the name of master-criminal. Or that of evil overlord.

Evil Overlord Rule no 4: Shooting is not too good for my enemies.

Bye bye Scraps. <BANG!>

The Earl

 

[rgraham666]

As a female co-worker said when we say "Indecent Proposal" together, "Sex for $50 is prostitution, sex for $1,000,000 is retirement planning."

Thinking of a joke I heard many years ago.

A philosopher goes up to a woman at a party and asks if she would go to bed with him for $1 million.

"Yes I would," she replies.

"Would you go to bed with me for $100," he then asks.

"What do you think I am?" she declares indignantly, "a whore?"

"We've already determined that. Now we're just haggling over the price."

 

[Honey123]

Scrappy Doo's crap. Let's face it, if you got caught by Scrappy Doo, then you'd be really embarrassed and not deserve the name of master-criminal. Or that of evil overlord.

Evil Overlord Rule no 4: Shooting is not too good for my enemies.

Bye bye Scraps. <BANG!>

The Earl

And how much would it cost for you to take Scrappy out?

 

[Honey123]

Thinking of a joke I heard many years ago.

A philosopher goes up to a woman at a party and asks if she would go to bed with him for $1 million.

"Yes I would," she replies.

"Would you go to bed with me for $100," he then asks.

"What do you think I am?" she declares indignantly, "a whore?"

"We've already determined that. Now we're just haggling over the price."

So if you took a women to dinner, went dancing and then went to bed....are you paying for sex?

 

[TheEarl]

And how much would it cost for you to take Scrappy out?

Scraps I'd have to do as part of my Evil Overlordliness.

Evil Overlord Rule 30 - All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief.

I think he'd come under that heading.



The Earl

 

[rgraham666]

And how much would it cost for you to take Scrappy out?

Hell, I'd pay to do it.

So if you took a women to dinner, went dancing and then went to bed....are you paying for sex?

I've done the dinner and dancing part. It has yet to lead to the going to bed part. If I ever manage to link all these phenomena together, I'll let you know.

 

[Guest]

So if you took a women to dinner, went dancing and then went to bed....are you paying for sex?

No. Not unless the outcome was an agreed upon conclusion to dinner & dancing.

All you are paying for is the setting that you hope provides an opportunity.

 

[Honey123]

No. Not unless the outcome was an agreed upon conclusion to dinner & dancing.

All you are paying for is the setting that you hope provides an opportunity.

So, should the sex detail be figured out prior to the dinner?

*Honey taking notes in case she meets Ted en route to anywhere.....

 

[R. Richard]

And RR, what are you doing bringing ethics into this? Ethics cannot be measured or marketed and therefore has no place in the modern world.

It was the part about adopting the name Jean Valjean wasn't it? Why this is such a sticking point with you people I can't fathom.

Integrity is the key here. Once you learn to effectively fake that, you got it made!

 

[Guest]

So, should the sex detail be figured out prior to the dinner?

*Honey taking notes in case she meets Ted en route to anywhere.....

Hmmm,

No. A girl should always have the option of changing her mind. The guy too for that matter.

I'd never think of asking a woman out, but only on the condition we sleep together. I mean how would that go? "Hi, I'm Ted. We met at Bill's party. I was thinking, would you like to have dinner Saturday, with sex after?"

But if 1% of the stories on Lit about online friends hooking up, it seems people do now make dates for sex.

 

[Guest]

Integrity is the key here. Once you learn to effectively fake that, you got it made!

When asked how he could so such evil things, JR Ewing once said, "Once itegrity goes, the rest is easy."

Not sure that applies here - just free associating.

 

[Honey123]

"Hi, I'm Ted. We met at Bill's party. I was thinking, would you like to have dinner Saturday, with sex after?"

So I guess I have to change my pick up line, huh?

 

[Guest]

So I guess I have to change my pick up line, huh?

That which would get a guy slapped, gets a girl laid.

Stick with what works.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

It was the part about adopting the name Jean Valjean wasn't it? Why this is such a sticking point with you people I can't fathom.

Integrity is the key here. Once you learn to effectively fake that, you got it made!

Its just the whole repitition in the name Jean Valjean, almost like Stupid McIdiot. If I'm ever on the run I'm changing my anme to Max Steele! No wait, cause then people will think I stole stuff. Max Power yeah! That's it, call me Max Power!

* pelvic thrust motion optional *

 

[Belegon]

I couldn't rape anyone. I don't care how out of my mind angry I might be.

I could not torture, that kind of thing. Even someone I had reason to hate.

I could kill. I don't know how I would feel about it later. But I am capable of it. I can conceive of circumstances where it would happen. In 1991 I found out my ex-fiancee (who I still cared for) had been raped that weekend. If you had placed the rapist within my power at that moment? I have, in anger, taken a fist fight far enough beyond where I had won that I know the capacity for worse exists within me. I may not like that about myself, but I must admit it if I am to be truthful here.

In defense of my loved ones I would be just as willing to give a bullet as take one. If you threaten the well-being of my children I will destroy you. I have never been placed in a situation where I had to try and really face down those inner demons. I hope I never am.


edit: original question was about money. Hmmm. I would have to have other reasons for anything that would hurt someone. For the old "Would you drive to school naked?" or "Would you sleep with someone you don't like?" kind of questions, I fear my "morality" might come cheaper than I would proclaim. Hell, the naked thing I would do pretty cheap...

 

[silverwhisper]

belegon: that is the single worst feeling in the universe, hands down. my sympathies.

i know i could kill for money. i would need some kind of sense that the murder was serving some form of justice to go through w/ it. i have no idea how much money it would cost but we're definitely into the 7 figure range for me.

i know i could never rape for any amount of money.

i would like to think i wouldn't steal but it's very hard to say never. there are a number of hypothetical situations in which i might consider it.

ed

 

[mlady_france]

Scraps I'd have to do as part of my Evil Overlordliness.

Evil Overlord Rule 30 - All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief.

I think he'd come under that heading.



The Earl

Is there anything in you Evil Overlors hand book about having a big busted lady by your side?