Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You forgot Origin of Quotation Timmy.

And Reading Comprehension involves some between the lines stuff. Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but you seem irritated by their "meaningless" and "habitual" expressions of love to one another. Otherwise, why would you even notice it, schmoopie woopie?

Right. It was Shakespeare. Faulkner wrote "the Sound and Fury". At least I'm trying sans google.

Not annoyed. I just disagree with its overusage. They can say what they want to each other.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
saying I love you

I refrain from saying "I love you" because it is confusing between erotic love, agape love, and whatever that other kind is.

So, for example, I tell Mr. Kiss that I "like him that way" or "like him, like him" probably every day. I tell my mom I "think she's neato" whenever I talk to her, which is maybe once a month. I tell my nephew "you are cute as hell but a real pain in the ass" whenever I feel like it. Things like that.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
When I worked at Taco Bell during for a few weeks between HS graduation and a pre-college trip, some jokester came in with his friends and asked for 100 sporks. He wouldn't tell me what the prank was for, and my head-to-toe uniform of maroon polyester (including a jaunty visor cap!) did not convey enough authority or sex appeal for me to force it out of him. But the incident did inspire everyone on that night's shift to wonder just which item(s) on the menu at Taco Bell would call for a spork. We couldn't identify one where a fork or spoon would not suffice or where the question of which utensil was needed could not be answered before a customer had to make a utensil choice.

Then in college I took some philosophy classes and this question just got pushed aside, never to be resolved.

Good god, I sound like Hank.

RP (Harvard (BA) '92, Oxford (MA) '93, Yale (JD) '96, Chicago (PhD-Econ) '01)

You fell from a cushy Friendly's job all the way down to taking orders at a Taco Bell? I pity you. At least it inspired you to better yourself.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
And it may signify nothing to you, but I doubt it signifies nothing to them. It's okay for you to find it annoying, but you don't have to justify your feeling annoyed with some pronouncement about how your method of saying it less frequently actually conveys more meaning.

Let's just settle on a rule and be done with it. Just say, "Namaste" when you're not actually in bed.

TM

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
How old is the son?

I don't have a son, but if I had a two year old boy, I don't think it would be nasty to kiss him on the lips. I agree that there's an age where I would no longer be comfortable with that. But I don't think it would be any different from how I feel about doing so with my daughter.

TM

I've seen it mostly with young kids, but I have also seen it - once - with an older person (son was in late teens).

Kiss the boys on the cheek. Thats ok.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I've seen it mostly with young kids, but I have also seen it - once - with an older person (son was in late teens).

Kiss the boys on the cheek. Thats ok.

Cultural thing. I see it all the time, mostly kids, but sometimes adults, and it's no big deal whatsoever. I'd think it was weird if fathers didn't kiss their sons.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
It means, in my lexicon, that you missed the joke.

I thought you were only using it ironically now.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I refrain from saying "I love you" because it is confusing between erotic love, agape love, and whatever that other kind is.

So, for example, I tell Mr. Kiss that I "like him that way" or "like him, like him" probably every day. I tell my mom I "think she's neato" whenever I talk to her, which is maybe once a month. I tell my nephew "you are cute as hell but a real pain in the ass" whenever I feel like it. Things like that.

I listen to my wife say it to her mom even though she hates her mother. Then my wife tells me she loves me and asks why I never say it to her. When I say "How the hell do I know you mean it, she says 'Oh, how can you not tell when I'm faking it?'"

This opens sooo many cans of worms. So I just sit quietly and fiddle with the TiVo.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
So I was right. You don't have sex much.

Love and sex are completely unrelated.

And yes, sex loses its value the more you get. For guys, when we're single, we'll do just about anything for sex. You go on a six month dry spell and them BAM! you have three opportunities. During juggling, you get a late night call from one of them (not your favorite). At any other point in time, you would be BEGGING her to come over. Not now though. You're tired and need some sleep. Simple economics. The resource isn't as scarce as it used to be, so its worth has decreased.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Cultural thing. I see it all the time, mostly kids, but sometimes adults, and it's no big deal whatsoever. I'd think it was weird if fathers didn't kiss their sons.

I'm a lapsed Catholic. We don't have the badwith to explain my hangup on that issue.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
So I was right. You don't have sex much.

I suspect his returns diminish.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Love and sex are completely unrelated.

And yes, sex loses its value the more you get. For guys, when we're single, we'll do just about anything for sex. You go on a six month dry spell and them BAM! you have three opportunities. During juggling, you get a late night call from one of them (not your favorite). At any other point in time, you would be BEGGING her to come over. Not now though. You're tired and need some sleep. Simple economics. The resource isn't as scarce as it used to be, so its worth has decreased.

Even the guy fucking Gisele thinks "Damn, same ass again" from time to time.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Love and sex are completely unrelated.

And yes, sex loses its value the more you get. For guys, when we're single, we'll do just about anything for sex. You go on a six month dry spell and them BAM! you have three opportunities. During juggling, you get a late night call from one of them (not your favorite). At any other point in time, you would be BEGGING her to come over. Not now though. You're tired and need some sleep. Simple economics. The resource isn't as scarce as it used to be, so its worth has decreased.

I once wanted to sleep with Coltrane, now I do not.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
I once wanted to sleep with Coltrane, now I do not.

No, you offered a blow job.

And I'm clearly intentionally pushing buttons by comparing women to resources.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Better yet, you have a job, Sunny. Buy your own fucking car.

Why do people always say "Well, I'll get (this or that) out of my spouse" when both spouses work?

You have the cash to buy a car, so buy it. What does your husband have to do with it?

My wife wants a really nice ride. I always say "waste of money", but if she brings one home, what am I going to do? Tell her to take it back? My vote doesn't override hers.

Perhaps we should give the cats a vote - they can act as tie breakers. But what if they split down the middle.

I need to get a dog.

God, I find myself agreeing with Sebastian more and more. Scary. But this is in fact what we do. Unfortunately, Briscoe usually votes for sleeping in the sun-patch by the window, and Sesame casts his vote for dunking Q-tips in his water dish to watch them expand.* So we find ourselves no closer to a resolution. But it makes us feel all inclusive and shit.

*yes, he actually does this. It's very strange.