Well, if it is just a little moisture problem as the article suggests I believe there are products to help with that. Some even add flavor. Mmmm. Flavored popcorn. Choo choo!
I'll stay away from natural stuff, thanks. I wear high heels and makeup. And my hair is no longer a color found in nature except for on certain flowers. And even that might be pushing it a bit.
From now on, when third parties (yes, inc. me) interrupt the PG/Ogged flirt, we should all begin with something like Enter, stage left. Except for FL, who I still think is the hero of this piece (but increasingly the doomed hero of it).
You know, I think the apostropher said he might be out my way this summer. I'm not sure I can interact with women anymore without him around to bail me out.
Ummm. Well, your comment about Labs is not exactly the most romantic thing you've ever said. But then what is? (perhaps this is a challenge for all of those eager archive searchers)
Anyway, some things are beyond Google's power to find. I've probably said something romantic sometime in my life. I'll ask my exes. How's that for romantic?
b-wo, I don't think colored sparkly would look so good in the middle of my face. All about the subtle here ... although I would consider a very tiny pink stone.
Since one of the reasons diamonds were so highly prized is their high refractive index (or something. Important part: sparkly!), well, all the more reason to go for something else.
Subtle pink stones can be found in beryl, topaz, tourmaline, rose quartz, kunzite, scapolite and more, my dear, many more.
b-wo, I wasn't clear enough before -- I like sparkly, but subtle sparkly. The colored sparkly is bad because the color is dark and it stands out a lot. Diamond sparkly is good if the stone is very small. And what I had previously is a bit larger than I would ideally like.
Rose quartz for a nose ... I can't imagine it small enough.
ogged, for what reason ought I not have an opinion on gemstones, or, for that matter, jewelry (on which I'm also opinionated)? Honestly, have you no aesthetic sense whatsoever? Gemstones are pretty.
But now it is morning, and I want to talk about kernals and the popping of old maids.
"Old maids" is very much in use around these parts, but I also am suprised it hasn't been expunged.
The interesting thing to me about the article is that I knew that moisture content was important for proper popping, but now they are saying the kernal shell is important as well.
The shell must keep that moisture inside until the bursting point is reached. If the shell allows the moisture to escape too soon then there will never be a proper popping no matter how hot the kernal becomes.
It all makes sense. If one does not want to become an old maid one must keep one's juices safely inside, until the kernal becomes so hot he must burst.
If one releases one's juices too easily the kernal may simmer but never pop and one is doomed to become an old maid, cracked but never popped.
not dry and barren--
it's that they've never been popped.
Posted by TomFreeland | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 6:47 PM
Well, if it is just a little moisture problem as the article suggests I believe there are products to help with that. Some even add flavor. Mmmm. Flavored popcorn. Choo choo!
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:06 PM
Hemp?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:28 PM
Well, you like nature girls, right ogged? Hemp is all natural and shit, right?
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:33 PM
Oh, you were thinking of me. Thanks! But many things, pg, many things are natural and most of them are dirty and smell bad.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:35 PM
I'll stay away from natural stuff, thanks. I wear high heels and makeup. And my hair is no longer a color found in nature except for on certain flowers. And even that might be pushing it a bit.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:40 PM
Yes, I'm looking at your picture now. What does this mean? Do I have to go for a matching blue?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:43 PM
I have to say, I say the pic, PG. Wildly cute haircut.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:44 PM
You like?
Hmmm. You mean blue for boy? Or do you think blue is your color?
Scrivener went green.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:44 PM
(Er, for those following at home, I was just commenting out of the blue, and PG was responding to ogged. Who am I to derail lurve?)
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:46 PM
I like that we'll make quite the pair, wherever we go. I was thinking blue to match the pink. A nice, light blue.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:49 PM
Tim, as long as b-dub isn't around, you can be the lurve-derailer.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:50 PM
Cool. You totally should do the blue.
And thanks for the compliment, SCMT
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:51 PM
Maybe I'll do it for my cousin's wedding. The family will *love* that.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:52 PM
Today, today, people. Watching this flirt is my entertainment for the evening.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:55 PM
Seems pg has left us, Tim. What are you wearing?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 7:57 PM
Now that was funny. But how you gonna let her do you like that, dawg?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:00 PM
Man, pg went crazy with the calamine lotion.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:02 PM
Aw, pg can do whatever she wants. She might be my only date for the rest of my life; I'm trying not to blow it weeks before I even meet her.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:02 PM
I'm not sure I want to know what that means, Ben.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:04 PM
when is this wedding? can i be your date?
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:04 PM
May 7, in Chicago. Sure, you can be my date.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:05 PM
OK. You go blue, I'll be your date.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:08 PM
Haha! Nice try.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:09 PM
Your new hair color, while nice, may be too pink: it seems to be overshadowing your facial features, rather than accentuating them.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:10 PM
eb, I don't think you're allowed to knock my date's new hair.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:12 PM
Thanks for standing up for my honor, ogged. Or my hair's honor.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:14 PM
Hey, just one of the many perks of dating a guy from a tribalist culture.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:17 PM
From now on, when third parties (yes, inc. me) interrupt the PG/Ogged flirt, we should all begin with something like Enter, stage left. Except for FL, who I still think is the hero of this piece (but increasingly the doomed hero of it).
Exit, pursued by a bear
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:17 PM
Ogged, is FL coming on our date?
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:18 PM
Probably before the car door is even closed.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:21 PM
(Sorry Labs)
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:22 PM
ha!
Tim, the calamine lotion comment is in reference to the big pinkish blotch obscuring pg's facial features.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:22 PM
*snicker snicker*
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:22 PM
You know, I think the apostropher said he might be out my way this summer. I'm not sure I can interact with women anymore without him around to bail me out.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:27 PM
Enter Ogged, PG, SCMT, Ben Wolfson, eb and others; lurkers attending
If blogging be the food of love, type on;
Give me excess of it, that, commenting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Exit, stage right.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:29 PM
Ummm. Well, your comment about Labs is not exactly the most romantic thing you've ever said. But then what is? (perhaps this is a challenge for all of those eager archive searchers)
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:35 PM
So, who thinks Bill Murray was really drinking straight Campari in The Life Aquatic?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:36 PM
Then there's Ben.
Anyway, some things are beyond Google's power to find. I've probably said something romantic sometime in my life. I'll ask my exes. How's that for romantic?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:39 PM
Even more romantic is to ask them to confer on the topic.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:40 PM
Mmmm...confer.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:41 PM
You know, you might have a better time if you just go out with my exes.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:41 PM
And there goes the Calomine.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:42 PM
Oh lord, I'm embarrassed I even posted that. Sorry.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:43 PM
Are you saying I can't be romantic, ogged? I am a stone-cold seducer.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:43 PM
Well, at least you've demonstrated that you're funny.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:44 PM
(Reading Twelfth Night.)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:45 PM
(Distracted by the lines: How does he love me?... /With groans that thunder love)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:48 PM
SCMT sure knows how to kill a mood.
Ogged, if I liked chicks I suspect your exes would not be my type.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:51 PM
That thought is too complicated.
Hey, maybe we'll have a swim date.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:52 PM
ac, maybe you want to take that book somewhere private?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:53 PM
I want to experience groans that thunder love.
A swim date? I thought we were having a pantyblogging date.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:57 PM
Can't it be both?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 8:59 PM
Yeah, whatever, as long as you take off your pants.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:00 PM
Only if you have blue hair.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:02 PM
What are you, easy?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:04 PM
No no, of course you're not, because blue hair, well, not gonna happen.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:04 PM
Exactly.
Hey, what would your family say if you showed up to the wedding with a pink-haired chick with a nose ring?
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:05 PM
It does seem a rather radical demand. Will you settle for a shirt with some color in it?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:05 PM
You have a nose ring?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:06 PM
Profgrrrl, I live in Chicago and I welcome pink-haired chicks with nose rings.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:07 PM
Wolfson!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:09 PM
b-wo, maybe we jointly should be ogged's date.
ogged, where have you been? I've blogged it.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:14 PM
Grr. Fix that link, ogged.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:15 PM
I hope that's not a real diamond, pg.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:17 PM
Christ, already she's bossing me around.
I do remember that post now. It made me think: snot.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:19 PM
The snot factor is not an issue at all.
And thanks for fixing the link.
b-wo, I want to get a diamond for it but can't find one in G'ville. Why? What's wrong with a diamond?
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:22 PM
Maybe he's worried about theft?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:26 PM
Oh, and b-dub has already been my date. I'm sure he doesn't want to go through that again.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:26 PM
Nose ring? PG, you are plain killing me.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:28 PM
Have you ever tried to sell a diamond? (Copied from a 1982 Atlantic article.)
Plus, diamonds are so ... uncreative. Colored diamonds are nice, I admit, but there's a whole world of gemstones out there.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:29 PM
What's wrong with a piercing, SCMT?
b-wo, I don't think colored sparkly would look so good in the middle of my face. All about the subtle here ... although I would consider a very tiny pink stone.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:35 PM
I don't think Tim is complaining.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:36 PM
Since one of the reasons diamonds were so highly prized is their high refractive index (or something. Important part: sparkly!), well, all the more reason to go for something else.
Subtle pink stones can be found in beryl, topaz, tourmaline, rose quartz, kunzite, scapolite and more, my dear, many more.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:40 PM
Oh. Well should we tell him about the belly ring too, then?
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:40 PM
b-wo, I wasn't clear enough before -- I like sparkly, but subtle sparkly. The colored sparkly is bad because the color is dark and it stands out a lot. Diamond sparkly is good if the stone is very small. And what I had previously is a bit larger than I would ideally like.
Rose quartz for a nose ... I can't imagine it small enough.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:43 PM
Tim is probably in convulsions now, and I don't have his address.
Ben, for what possible reason do you even have an opinion about gem stones.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:44 PM
Sorry. Away. Complaining about the nose ring, love, love, love belly rings.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:50 PM
ogged, for what reason ought I not have an opinion on gemstones, or, for that matter, jewelry (on which I'm also opinionated)? Honestly, have you no aesthetic sense whatsoever? Gemstones are pretty.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:53 PM
What's wrong with the nose ring? Actually not a ring ... a little stud.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:54 PM
I got your stud right here, pg, only it ain't so little.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:56 PM
I knew if I just stayed quiet a while, he'd screw it up.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:58 PM
I'm trying to achieve a study in incongruity.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 9:58 PM
Re: 57
"Yes, I do have blue hair, but I'll have to take off my pants to show you."
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 10:01 PM
See, I knew I needed the apostropher.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-21-05 10:02 PM
Whew, I bet that was fun!
But now it is morning, and I want to talk about kernals and the popping of old maids.
"Old maids" is very much in use around these parts, but I also am suprised it hasn't been expunged.
The interesting thing to me about the article is that I knew that moisture content was important for proper popping, but now they are saying the kernal shell is important as well.
The shell must keep that moisture inside until the bursting point is reached. If the shell allows the moisture to escape too soon then there will never be a proper popping no matter how hot the kernal becomes.
It all makes sense. If one does not want to become an old maid one must keep one's juices safely inside, until the kernal becomes so hot he must burst.
If one releases one's juices too easily the kernal may simmer but never pop and one is doomed to become an old maid, cracked but never popped.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 04-22-05 7:15 AM