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[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall


While I feel like telling a loved one that you love them is a healthy expression of one's feelings, saying it all the time removes the power of the sentiment and the feeling behind it. Does anyone else feel this way? TM

Yup. Saying it all of the time diminishes its meaning.

And apropos of your secretary, one of our admins (right outside my office) was eating part of a 6 foot long party sub at 8:45 AM yesterday. It wasn't her party. Apparently she asked for the leftovers? The whole end of our building smelled like lunch meat and peppers. This is the same one who eats deep dish pizza before 9 AM.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Funny, I interpret as his passive aggressive way of establishing that he is in fact a classy guy, even though he is also one of the people. and this usually is bait for the I Reject Class rant even though I know which fork to use.

Close, but no cigar. I don't feel at home in any "class," but I can get by in just about all of them.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Saying "I know which spork to use"

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)

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
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.

Mexican Pizza. The spork can break the shell and scoop up the toppings and broken shell pieces!

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Yup. Saying it all of the time diminishes its meaning.

That's stupid. Saying it all the time to people you don't love diminishes its meaning. Saying it frequently to someone you do love (presuming you don't "love" everyone you know) does no such thing. What if your girlfriend thought having sex frequently with you diminished its meaning?

Saying "I love you" all the time when ending a phone call at the office within earshot of others is, however, definitely annoying to the others.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
On the Owl names - Glaukos (owl in greek, root of the oft used descriptive term for Athena); Sophia (wisdom); Blodeuwedd (woman changed into an owl in the Mabinogion); Nyctimene (the name of Minerva's owl per Ovid); Ascalaphus (man turned into an owl for telling on Persephone re: eating the pomegranate).

Thank you. My prediction is that he'll go for Blodeuwedd (because I suspect the pronunciation includes a part that sort of sounds like "blood") or Ascalaphus (because it's a boy.)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Mexican Pizza. The spork can break the shell and scoop up the toppings and broken shell pieces!

You fell into my clever trap, you junk-food consuming self-control lacking American piggie!

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
This is the same one who eats deep dish pizza before 9 AM.

I rarely eat breakfast. But this doesn't sound particularly bad to me (although, it does seem weird that she would bring it in to work to eat for breakfast).

And what the hell are you doing there before 9:00 am? (I had friends who worked in the WTC and the only thing that saved them on 9/11 was that they are lawyers and wouldn't have come in before 9:30 - 10:00 o'clock.)

TM

[dtb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Saying [I love you] frequently to someone you do love [...] does no[t diminish its meaning].

Concur. I tell my kids and my husband all the time -- and they to me. I never get tired of hearing it -- and I'm pretty sure they don't either.

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Saying "I love you" all the time when ending a phone call at the office within earshot of others is, however, definitely annoying to the others.

Again, concur. (RP and I are the Scalia and Thomas of the FB! Except we're much better looking. And smarter.)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
That's stupid. Saying it all the time to people you don't love diminishes its meaning. Saying it frequently to someone you do love (presuming you don't "love" everyone you know) does no such thing. What if your girlfriend thought having sex frequently with you diminished its meaning?

Saying "I love you" all the time when ending a phone call at the office within earshot of others is, however, definitely annoying to the others.

That's why I end them with "I can't wait to apply those new nipple clamps to you when I get home." This tends to make the nosy fucks mind their own business.

I rarely say it. I never say it to my folks. I don't know why. I just don't.

[evenodds]

I agree with you.

I probably tell the OM I love him on a weekly basis, not hourly.

I tell my brother I love him, in our own dorky way, whenever I talk to him. Since that's every few weeks, it's still not a big deal.

I used to not say it much, if at all, until I lost a beloved family member unexpectedly and I vowed to be sure that the people I love know I love them.

Saying it all the time makes me wonder if you are trying to convince the other person or yourself that you do, in fact, love em.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I rarely eat breakfast.

But when you do, it knows you really like it.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

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)

Was it a combination taco bell/KFC or just the pure taco bell versoin?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
That's stupid. Saying it all the time to people you don't love diminishes its meaning. Saying it frequently to someone you do love (presuming you don't "love" everyone you know) does no such thing.

I agree. If you love someone and you tell them that a lot, especially when you are saying goodbye, why is that any less meaningful than if you say it once every 6 mos. I want to tell the people I love whenever I feel like it that I love them.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
While I feel like telling a loved one that you love them is a healthy expression of one's feelings, saying it all the time removes the power of the sentiment and the feeling behind it. Does anyone else feel this way? It's like when the secretary says it now, it's an after thought.

I sort of agree in principle, but having for various reasons spent long periods of time separated from the Mr. when I couldn't contact him easily and so was basically unable to tell him I loved him at all, I pretty much say it whenever I think it and am bloody grateful for the opportunity to do so, which means I tend to say it a lot. The Mr. less so - actually, if he spontaneously tells me he loves me I sometimes wonder if he thinks I'm dying or considering leaving him.

I think there is a gender gap here, where men tend to say something and believe it is understood that it continues to apply until a differing statement is delivered (e.g.: "I said I loved you last year, what's changed?"), whereas women verbally express what they're feeling on a more continual basis (e.g.: "if you don't say you love me THIS SECOND I have no reason to believe you still love me").

In any event, I don't tend to say it as a standard, automatic saluation or goodbye, which seems pretty common and I think is the sort of use you find annoying.