Posted by Els on 09/10/05 10:45

Neredbojias wrote:

> With neither quill nor qualm, Els quothed:
>
>> Neredbojias wrote:
>>> Not true, even from an earth-level point of view. "We" could be
>>> RNA- based life forms. More fancifully, "we" could even be
>>> silicon-derived beings suggested by The Sandman of legend or use
>>> markup instead of coding and thrive as "Hyper Text Markup
>>> Life"/"htmllings".
>>
>> Well, I suppose you could be a silicon-derived hyper-marked up
>> htmllinger, but I'm sure I'm just plain human.
>
> Somehow I don't think you're just a "plain" human.

Ow?

> As for us htmlings,
> we may have strange molecules but we have nice elements.

Agreed.

>>>> Let me rephrase: Some men actually think we like it when they make
>>>> a showcase (whether public or private) out of it.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I guess I can buy that. At first it seemed you were voicing
>>> a minority opinion, but then I thought that if you turned a woman
>>> inside out and stuck her goodie up in the air, I wouldn't want to
>>> view the result for very long, either.
>>
>> Not quite what I meant, but probably true nonetheless.
>
> Oh, I think I got it. For example, because of this quality, women don't
> like to watch skin flicks nearly as much as men. Isn't that the gist?

As I haven't seen much of such flicks, I can't really tell :-)
I'm guessing it's not though. How to explain this to the male
species...
It's not the showing, but the showing off, making absolutely sure we
pay attention to it, even if we've just seen it enough already.
Basically like a little boy that's proud of a new accomplishment.
Only little boys are cute when they do that.

>>>>>> [different chat-up lines for different girls]
>>>>> A smart girl knows that men are typically on the make so when she
>>>>> wants to be typically made, she doesn't wear panties.
>>>>
>>>> That would indeed be the smart thing to do if she wanted to be
>>>> /typically/ made. Which of course means she'd best come across as
>>>> not too bright, except for her hair colour.
>>>
>>> (He he, yellow-haired woman would go on warpath but don't know
>>> which direction it's in.)
>>
>> We tell that joke about the Belgians.
>
> Hey, my gramma was Belgian (-although we called her Bulgarian just to
> burn her waffles.)

Her Belgian or Bulgarian waffles?

>>> So, you're saying a woman must be a dummy in order to have a normal
>>> sex life? No wonder smart women are so bitchy.
>>
>> Being picked up by a different guy every night is not what I call a
>> normal sex life. IMO, a normal sex life usually doesn't start in a bar
>> at all. And about smart women being bitchy... could well be 'cause
>> they see through 'typical' men's attempts at getting laid.
>
> Well, I agree with all that. However, you have to remember that men
> were once cavemen and cavemen had to take what they could get whenever
> they could get it. Old habits are hard to break.

Someone told me the Fins still do it that way. Hit the woman over the
head with a big bat, and drag her home.

>>> After a long enough time, the same old aural convocations lose some
>>> of their appeal.
>>
>> Some, not all of them. It helps to not hear them every single day
>> though.
>
> Yes, and that's the advantage of having a mute spouse/significant
> other/exotic dancer you can afford.

I think you make matters worse than they are. All you need is a decent
switch so you can turn 'em off when it gets too much.

>>>>> Of course, some maturer people still like Frank Sinatra, Elvis,
>>>>> and The Police, so...
>>>>
>>>> You can call me semi-mature then.
>>>
>>> I'm just the opposite: semi-immature.
>>
>> That's cause you're a man.
>
> No, I'm simply setting stricter standards for the heretofore
> transitional levels of maturity.

That's okay then - I'm all for stricter standards. None of that
transitional stuff.

>>>> [poems]
>>>>>> And you never thought of typing them out, publish them maybe?
>>>>>
>>>>> A few were published, although <sigh> never in popular
>>>>> periodicals of general interest. Perhaps I'll post one of the
>>>>> shorter items so you can laud me appropriately.
>>>>
>>>> /taps foot.
>>>
>>> Uh, is that like clapping your hands, but in Dutch?
>>
>> No, the Dutch clap their hands too. Not instead of tapping their foot
>> impatiently though.
>
> Oh, I was impatience you were expressing... Now how in the world could
> I have missed that?

Erm.. you didn't?

>>>>>>>>> And to wit, some rather notably famous personage from a bygone
>>>>>>>>> era
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sounds like you're really really old. 94?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A geezer never tells his age.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 94 it is then.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nah. You're at least a radian off.
>>>>
>>>> 109?
>>>
>>> If I told you my age, you'd think I was lying.
>>
>> No I wouldn't. Unless you'd lie about it :-)
>> You could be a 20 year old male (although you probably wouldn't have
>> known Black by Pearl Jam), or a 100 year old woman. (I'd suspect
>> you're somewhere in between though)
>
> I'm as old as good, aged cognac

That's still anywhere between 20 and 50 years.

> but bite like the incomparable Jack Daniels.

Jack Daniels doesn't bite.
Well, never bit me - tastes great with Coke.

>>>>>>> Oh, yeah, there's an optimistic quartet...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They most likely are in real life - they're Aussies :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, I suppose that to the average Nederlander, any non-national
>>>>> would seem euphoric.
>>>>
>>>> What's a non-national?
>>>
>>> A foreigner, in this case anyone not Dutch.
>>
>> Hm.. no, us Dutch don't regard most foreigners euphoric. Aussies have
>> a reputation though, and I've noticed it to be true for at least 90%
>> of the ones I met in real life.
>
> The only Australians I've met personally were in a zoo between the
> Gooney Birds and the sewer rats.

I've seen those too - not nearly as friendly as the human Aussies.

>>> Let's save some time here. What would you believe?
>>
>> <g>
>> Hm.. I'd believe happily married, as well as single and frustrated.
>> Just don't believe plastic artificial sex-partner. You're don't seem
>> sad enough for that.
>
> Well, okay; plastic is for prosthetics. "Happily married" is a state
> achieved only by the delusional.

As long as they're happy, who cares about delusional.

> "Single" and "frustrated" are not
> particularly congruent states

That's why I mentioned them both and used the word 'and' in between
the two.

> although I suppose some bachelors could
> put up quite a stink if they ran out of Jergens lotion.

Plain soap may help in such unfortunate cases.

>>>>> and elves are considered to be acceptably deviant forms of
>>>>> mischief.
>>>>
>>>> elves are considered to be acceptably deviant figments of
>>>> mischievous imagination.
>>>
>>> Perhaps, but some people's acceptably deviant figments are more
>>> mischievous than others.
>>
>> I'd say those were probably yours.
>
> Perhaps, but only in a fertile arena.

Obviously.

>>> http://www.neredbojias.com/_uimages/bll2c.m3u
>>
>> It sounds very familiar, but as I can't find the lyrics online, it's
>> probably not a well-known band? Sounds like 80's gothic style though.
>
> Dunno when it was recorded but I got the song appx. 1997 when www-dot-
> mp3-dot-com was still good. My record-keeping is rather non-existent
> but the song *is* called "Black Lace" and *I think* the band's name is
> "Unknowne".

That helped me find it, thanks. It's indeed Unknowne, and I found two
more mp3s by them.

> And yes, there is a gothic flavor to it, but it still somehow reminds me
> of Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life". (Um, I guess this could be
> due to the oblique reference to strippers.)

That must be it. No way that song could make me sleep.

>>>>> Yep. I'm Australian at heart.
>>>>
>>>> Glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that.
>>>
>>> I was when I wrote it. Subliminal masochism?
>>
>> Maybe - did you have to laugh when you wrote it?
>
> I laugh at almost everything I write (-and some people laugh even
> harder.) But not the poetry!

Of course not.

> Odes are my life, and I'm the most odious guy I know.

Except for the odd odious ode maybe, I don't think you really have
much odium in you.

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