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Colleges Outsourcing Email To MS Live, Google
Andy Guess tips us to his article at Inside Higher Ed offering a detailed look at the snowballing trend of colleges outsourcing their email infrastructure, mostly to Google and Microsoft Live. Even outsourcing just email would presage big changes in the work that IT departments do on campus; but more such changes are on the horizon as schools grapple with entering freshmens' already entrenched online habits.
I should have known better than to dare my friend Kara at anything. Least of all, something as totally depraved and raunchy as a snowball.... It was early summer, still early enough to not be intolerable, but hot and sticky enough that both our sundresses were clinging to our well-defined bodies, in a fine sweat. Kara had made pink lemonade, and we were in a picnic spot sipping away. Then, out of the blue, she asks me, "have you ever tried a snowball?" I nearly spit out my drink. Kara has never been one to mince words, but nevertheless I hadn't been expecting that.
"Well? Have you?" Kara was waiting expectantly for my answer.
"Well...I...no! Yeeeeeck! That's disgusting!" But my smile belied my curiosity and excitement.
"Why disgusting?" my friend demanded. "Don't tell me you've never had a guy cum in your mouth before!"
I couldn't tell her that....I'd had hundreds--quite a few of them with Kara present and sucking and fucking whomever she'd brought home for the night.
Instead, I said, "No...I mean....kissing another girl after...."
Kara only smiled evilly. I thought back to the time she'd walked into the bedroom and caught me masturbating on my bed. Nothing too embarrassing about that....except for the matter of exactly what I'd been fantasizing about as I frigged my sopping wet cunt. To this day I couldn't be entirely sure if she'd heard me calling out her name, as my fingers drove me to orgasm after beautiful orgasm....but if she had been anywhere in the apartment during the few minutes leading up to her catching me in the act, I couldn't see how she could have missed hearing it even if a jet plane were flying overhead!
Smiling, Kara asked me, "Does that mean you'd never kiss another woman? Even if she had a mouth full of delicious jism?"
"Never," I lied. "And even if I did....I'd never find someone who would do something that obscene."
"Hmmmm," Kara mused, running her finger along her bottom lip. "I might be prone to try something like that...."
"YOU?" I exclaimed, shocked. "You'd never do something like that."
"Dare me," Kara challenged.
"OK....I dare you!" I giggled, playing along.
Then Kara shocked the hell out of me by standing up and heading straight over to two guys who were playing catch with a football.
"Kara!" I hissed. "Hey...what...GET BACK HERE!" She looked back at me as if to say "you should know not to dare me..."
As she stood there, speaking with the two guys and flirting heavily (even from my vantage point, I could now distinctly see bulges in their shorts), I wished I could melt into the nearby trees. Even more so as she turned and began walking back toward me, holding hands with each of the guys. I felt so embarrassed! My face must have been bright red as Kara brought the two guys over.
She introduced me. "This is my friend, Terri." Maybe it was just my imagination, but I could have sworn she had put an odd emphasis on the word "friend". "Terri, this is.....ummmm...these...." Inspiration struck. "These are hard cocks for us to enjoy!" Not surprisingly, neither of the young guys objected to being classified as a walking sex object.
Kara had the guys sit on the picnic bench, and she quickly got both of them out of their shorts as i watched, a bit shocked at my friend's boldness. She guided me in front of the first guy, who was taller of the two and sandy-haired, gently but firmly pushing me to my knees in front of him.
"Terri, here, is gonna take good care of you. But," she warned, "you have to cum in my mouth. I need both of you to cum in my mouth." Then Kara took her own place in front of the other guy and began giving his hard prick a tongue bath. Then, I felt a hand on the back of my head, as my guy gently pulled me toward him. I opened wide and took him in...
We knelt there in our sundresses, our knees getting dirty as we slurped away at these magnificent hard cocks. Kara popped her man's meat out of her mouth for a moment, to murmur to the sandy-haired guy, "let me
Grammar Nazi
GOML - I love it. A new phrase it born, soon to be on the ascendency.
It always interesting to watch internet memes be born, grow in usage, jump the shark and then either dim into ironic retro-use or fade away in oblivion. And then to realize that the entire phenomenon is only being perceived by you from your perspective.
'FTW', for instance. That is relatively new to me - 'For the Win'. It's turned into this year's 'LOL' (circa 2004-5). Of course, that leads you to the whole LOL-Cats thing, which seems to have peaked in the last few months (again, that's how I've perceived it). I recently read, probably linked from somewhere on Slashdot, a comprehensive history of the LOL-Cats meme, with references and historical examples - it must be close to apogee.
Relevant to this post: and on the ascendency in the category of 'forum-shorthand-ackronym' category is "Get Off My Lawn", which I first recall getting some airplay on SNL by Will Forte a year or two ago. And recently being used more and more on Slashdot, usually as shorthand for "the old way was better" or "you have it so easy these days", both of which evoke an aesthetic sense about the virtue of correctness in the face of expediancy.
I like it, and it needs shorthand, just like LOL, YMMV, IANAL, and A/S/L:
As in a retort to a comment about servicing current automobiles, "GOML - it was better when a local mechanic could just adjust the carburetor and clean the points"
'GOML'. (FTW)