not dry and barren--
it's that they've never been popped.
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!
Well, you like nature girls, right ogged? Hemp is all natural and shit, right?
Oh, you were thinking of me. Thanks! But many things, pg, many things are natural and most of them are dirty and smell bad.
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.
Yes, I'm looking at your picture now. What does this mean? Do I have to go for a matching blue?
I have to say, I say the pic, PG. Wildly cute haircut.
You like?
Hmmm. You mean blue for boy? Or do you think blue is your color?
Scrivener went green.
(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?)
I like that we'll make quite the pair, wherever we go. I was thinking blue to match the pink. A nice, light blue.
Tim, as long as b-dub isn't around, you can be the lurve-derailer.
Cool. You totally should do the blue.
And thanks for the compliment, SCMT
Maybe I'll do it for my cousin's wedding. The family will *love* that.
Today, today, people. Watching this flirt is my entertainment for the evening.
Seems pg has left us, Tim. What are you wearing?
Now that was funny. But how you gonna let her do you like that, dawg?
Man, pg went crazy with the calamine lotion.
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.
I'm not sure I want to know what that means, Ben.
when is this wedding? can i be your date?
May 7, in Chicago. Sure, you can be my date.
OK. You go blue, I'll be your date.
Your new hair color, while nice, may be too pink: it seems to be overshadowing your facial features, rather than accentuating them.
eb, I don't think you're allowed to knock my date's new hair.
Thanks for standing up for my honor, ogged. Or my hair's honor.
Hey, just one of the many perks of dating a guy from a tribalist culture.
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
Probably before the car door is even closed.
ha!
Tim, the calamine lotion comment is in reference to the big pinkish blotch obscuring pg's facial features.
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.
Enter Ogged, PG, SCMT, Ben w-lfs-n, 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.
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)
So, who thinks Bill Murray was really drinking straight Campari in The Life Aquatic?
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?
Even more romantic is to ask them to confer on the topic.
You know, you might have a better time if you just go out with my exes.
Oh lord, I'm embarrassed I even posted that. Sorry.
Are you saying I can't be romantic, ogged? I am a stone-cold seducer.
Well, at least you've demonstrated that you're funny.
(Distracted by the lines: How does he love me?... /With groans that thunder love)
SCMT sure knows how to kill a mood.
Ogged, if I liked chicks I suspect your exes would not be my type.
That thought is too complicated.
Hey, maybe we'll have a swim date.
ac, maybe you want to take that book somewhere private?
I want to experience groans that thunder love.
A swim date? I thought we were having a pantyblogging date.
Yeah, whatever, as long as you take off your pants.
No no, of course you're not, because blue hair, well, not gonna happen.
Exactly.
Hey, what would your family say if you showed up to the wedding with a pink-haired chick with a nose ring?
It does seem a rather radical demand. Will you settle for a shirt with some color in it?
Profgrrrl, I live in Chicago and I welcome pink-haired chicks with nose rings.
b-wo, maybe we jointly should be ogged's date.
ogged, where have you been? I've blogged it.
I hope that's not a real diamond, pg.
Christ, already she's bossing me around.
I do remember that post now. It made me think: snot.
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?
Oh, and b-dub has already been my date. I'm sure he doesn't want to go through that again.
Nose ring? PG, you are plain killing me.
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.
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.
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.
Oh. Well should we tell him about the belly ring too, then?
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.
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.
Sorry. Away. Complaining about the nose ring, love, love, love belly rings.
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.
What's wrong with the nose ring? Actually not a ring ... a little stud.
I got your stud right here, pg, only it ain't so little.
I knew if I just stayed quiet a while, he'd screw it up.
I'm trying to achieve a study in incongruity.
Re: 57
"Yes, I do have blue hair, but I'll have to take off my pants to show you."
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.