I remember some guy I saw fairly often, must have been on one of the L line stops between Union Square and Bedford, who had an amplified pan-flute set up. When he got to the end of playing each verse, he would whisper breathily into his microphone, "Sileeeennccee". It was kind of trippy.
I don't recall whether or not he had a nice ass.
Comment #2 leads me to believe that M/tch is just making up #1.
Well, I really only put in comment #2 because I always feel bad when LB's threads don't get any comments. I figured introducing the subject of ASSessment might bring in some of the hoi polloi.
And it worked!
Yeah, LB, send it in to the Times! It will surely establish you with more than enough writing credentials to then be offered a Modern Love column!!
I always feel bad when LB's threads don't get any comments.
So you're the one stymieing my fiendish plot to shut the comments section down. Damn you, M%tch M)lls!!
7: Wait a second, you don't want comments? How could I have been so misguided?
Or is this one of those "'no' means 'yes'" things you female persons are always trying to pull?
You'll never know. We're inscrutable.
"Orientals" is the preferred usage.
Damn. Not women? On the other hand, I suppose that means I don't have to keep trying to eat with chopsticks.
that is excellent.
this also cracked me up.
I think the attribute you're looking for is "mysterious, fascinating", LB.
it'll be too soon
If only he'd put a little more teeth into his conditional.
17: Actually, he didn't say 'it'll be too soon.' He just trailed off. But it didn't make sense written down that way.
(I, by the way, am not the quoted woman. I was walking a few feet in front of them.)
LB- I was going to post this back in the other thread, but since your posts are in obvious need of comments I'll just say here -- Chicago you emailed me to let me know that she was indeed fucking with me, that she saw the comments on here and was afraid that someone was going to freak out, and that she couldn't believe I fell for it even in part as she thought it was an obviously transparent ruse.
(I'll defend myself and say that I didn't really fall for it, I just thought it made for a story worth sharing.)
Of course, this could all be you trying to fool me somehow, and maybe you really are from Chicago? My mind warps at the possibility.
Now the only mystery is whether Chicago you is a lurker or a commenter. She claims lurker. But she's a proven liar...
I didn't really fall for it, I just thought it made for a story worth sharing.
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that...
Why was my other comment deleted? I don't think it contained an indiscretion error...
I've lived in Chicago. For two years, even. But I'm not from there.
I think you should spill all of Chicago-me's inside dope about my private life or whatever else she told you. Anything juicy?
24 -- I find that sort of bizarrely amusing. I like panflutes, dig listening to them even when they are used to perform instrumental Simon and Garfunkel covers -- but that flowchart just makes me laugh.
22: Dunno. What was it? And who deleted it?
A lot of comments seem to be getting deleted recently. What's going on, Becks?
Like eg there was a 25 posted by LB about the collagen lips, that has gone by the wayside. Or it might even have been a 26, and there was another comment before it by JM that is not there any longer.
And your wrong-thread posting in re: lips has now been moved! Are we going to start burning books next?
Oh wait I am mixing up threads. But I still maintain there were some posts on this thread that are not visible any longer.
Clowny, I think we should stop talking about this. If we keep pointing out these sorts of injustices some unfogged mercenaries are likely to track us down and eliminate us.
28, 29: That was me -- I got it in the wrong thread and moved it. But I haven't deleted anyone else's comments, honest!
Reckon the Chicago LB has got the keys to the database.
35: I hope you're talking about some kind of wide-gauge bass panpipes or something.
A bunch of pan-flute wielding South Americans managed to single-handedly force the city hall to ban amplified street music in Helsinki. The shopkeepers were going mental by the constant onslaught.
LB, there's a typo in this post.
I think it's fairly obvious that the only song street musicians should be allowed to play is "Born In The USA."
(This comment doubles as my "break out of lurking" comment. Hi everyone.)
Also:
We are the crew of The Proofread, the University of Minnesota's premier podcast.
Is there a lot of competition in that category?
That's right -- we spell '42nd' with an 'n', commie.
Lawyer. And that's not the typo I spotted -- that one I meant that way.
Lawyer.
I was trying to be nice. (And I did spot the other one.)
39: All right--pretty soon we're going to have a TC crew worthy of a meetup!
41: There is even less competition for that honor than for the "Best Class Attendence Among Gopher Running Backs" title, a designation that has remained vacant for the last 6 years.
48 was the one I caught. Who cares about Garfunkell?
Hey, Garfunkel is the no. 1 celebrity resemblance I actually get IRL. (Which is a sure sign I need a haircut.)
I think that kitten has work to do in the other thread, Art.
I think the idea is to lead people out of the wilderness, not to cuten up the wilderness.
And a little kitten shall lead them.
Hey, did you hear about the thread that was more or less devoid of acrimony?
A return to the kitten theme. (The kitten showed me the error of my ways on 58, and I am studiously ignoring 61.)
Three kittens. (Historical note.)
I am studiously ignoring 61
What, you never heard of a cute herring?
Mila and Peshky are cute. Pandora, though, is a classic beauty.
Pandora, though, is a classic beauty
Well, she was till she got fat.
I'm quite partial to the ones in 63.
What are they looking at? A spider? An escaped budgie, roosting on the curtain rod? A bat?
Well, she was till she got fat.
But admit it, you wouldn't kick her out of bed.
The caption on the ridiculously aggrandizing original page is "Where did that fly go?"
My new kitten-linking technique is unstoppable!
Weiner, you still have issues. Try this.
all kittens are beautiful in their own special ways.
For me 73 works and 74 don't. (Cut-and-paste of 74 does.)
Stupid cute kitten site, so full of its own kitteny cuteness it won't allow deep-linking.
This should work for everyone. (text!)
I can't believe there's a "rank my kitten's cuteness!" site. It would have to be a mangy, sickly, pustulerific kitten not to be "cute!"
Hey, speaking of kittens, I'm thinking of changing my nickname again, and I thought an anagram might be fun. Which do you all prefer:
A Myth? Whatever.
OR
Why Have Matter?
I'm voting for whatever retains as close a similarity to your current handle as possible.
Well, damn, that's a strong endorsement. Becks wins!
Funny story guys: the other day I saw a kitten, and I kicked it. Woot!
This kind of thing makes me feel bad for cats. Are they not cute, too?
But then cuteness is not really a fair standard at all.
I am very fond of fully grown cats as well. Some cats.
The man-bats are going to need some better art if they're going to claim bat-heritage.
In the Laudians' zeal to make worship and church interiors more holy they offended against long-standing silent understandings of religious behavior. They even tried to stop people bringing their dogs to church. The English were already a nation of dog enthusiasts if not dog lovers, and they tolerated dogs in church on the same basis as children, as long as both groups behaved themselves. There was much fury among churchgoers at the cat-loving archbishop's intolerance.
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I was going to suggest a slight mispronunciation of "Twats," but my conscience got the better of me.
Ohhhh, Babar! You'll always be king of my elephants.
So we bat on, bats agats the current, borne bat ceaselessly into the pats.
I love Maine Coon Cats*. Of course, I love cats in general. And dogs. And rabbits and spiders and baby hippos. Okay, pretty much the whole animal kingdom is great in my book.
Of course, the plant kingdom is not to be slighted, and where would we be without fungi? Without beer and wine and cheese and bread and all those other things that make life so pleasurable, that's where. No thanks.
I guess I'm slightly less enthusiastic about the eubacteria, archaebacteria, and protista kingdoms, but that's more due to lack of familiarity than anything, and I certainly feel guilty about not giving them their fair due. I'm confident they have their importance and beauty, I just haven't gotten around to discovering it much yet.
And did I mention how much I like Beck's style?
*Not in the same way that I love raccoons, of course. That would just be gross.
Oh right, boys. We're valiantly battling sexism, and y'all just go into the other room so you can talk about pussy some more.
By coincidence, I had just been reading this.
Song that translates well to a guitar and a flute: The Girl from Ipanema
Song that translates passably: Take 5
Song that translates poorly: Mack the Knife
Thank you, and goodnight.
