Re: Attraction

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this is what clothes are for. mouths are for kissing.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:22 PM
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?


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:22 PM
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Somebody's cranky!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:25 PM
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Yeah Ned, what's your problem today?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:27 PM
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"Let us cavort like the Greeks of old. (sexfully) You know the ones I mean."


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:31 PM
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Actually, "Let's not get carried away," instinctively strikes me as a psychologically promising approach. If a guy said it to me, my first thought would probably be a perfectly sensible "Why would I get carried away?" But then.... Second guessing would kick in. Am I getting carried away? Maybe I am. I really shouldn't get carried away here. And BAM. There I am suddenly carried away.


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:32 PM
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Let's not get carried away, DK.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:33 PM
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Emerson, you must be proud of your boy.


Posted by: asilon | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:33 PM
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I think only Pee-wee Herman could get away with #7.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:34 PM
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I think Ogged has a broken heart and is desperately trying to fool himself.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:36 PM
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#6 would get the speaker a knee in the balls.

#5 - "C'mon kids, meet Uncle Ogged!"


Posted by: asilon | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:38 PM
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Clearly a she-devil, but that's not what I'm on about at the moment. I was struck by how little I, you know, wanted her.
at least I'll have my pride.

Let's begin the countdown until Ogged's transition into St/v/n D/n/B/s/t/e.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:41 PM
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12 scares me because it's true: "Where all the anglo women at?"


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:43 PM
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There are women lifeguards, and then there are female persons standing watch over the pool.


Posted by: DaveB | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:43 PM
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I wouldn't say 12 to my worst enemy, _even if_ my worst enemy turned out to be St/v/n D/n/B/s/t/.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:45 PM
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Confessing that you find Mickey Kaus amusing -- now there's a panty-dropper.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:45 PM
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6: DK has just incited PTSD flashback seizures in my spine.

Evolution took my gills and all I got were these lousy thumbs

Google seems to indicate that, amazingly, you just made this up. If so, I suggest a t-shirt. I would buy it. Y'all need to pay for the servers somehow, right?


Posted by: Ile | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:50 PM
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You thought I didn't write my own material, Ile? Honestly.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:56 PM
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17 Er, sorry about that.


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 2:59 PM
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Evolution took my fur, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:01 PM
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Evolution took my kidney, but I gots a teddy bear!


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:02 PM
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My heart is breaking over the mullocracy in my homeland. Wanna cuddle?


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:06 PM
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You thought I didn't write my own material, Ile?

You should hear ogged's "Arabs drive like this, but Persians drive like that" routine.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:06 PM
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Ogged, meet the Palmer Sisters; Sisters, meet Ogged.


Posted by: Anderson | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:06 PM
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I'm almost as fast as Michael Phelps. Um, in the pool, I mean.


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:09 PM
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Evolution took my asexual reproduction and all I got was this lousy penis.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:10 PM
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Have you ever heard of Unfogged.com?


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:13 PM
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Evolution took my fur, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

"Evolution left me most of my fur and this north face top to cover it."


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:14 PM
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Evolution took Lucy and all we got was Labs.


Posted by: sam k | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:34 PM
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"Evolution robbed me of the ability to photosynthesize, but in exchange I got these big blue eyes and, baby, looking at you, it was worth it."

Alternatively, the Robert Mitchum:

"Stick with me, kid, and you'll be farting through silk."


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:36 PM
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Evolution took my ancestor on the Pleistocene Savannah, and all I got was here.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:36 PM
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"Fill in the blank. Analogies are ---- ?"

Actually, if I knew Ogged was wearing any of these on a t-shirt, it would be much more tempting to waste my incipient free time going Ogged-hunting; sifting through random 30-something Persian guys in the City could be satisfying with the payoff of walking up to him and shouting, "Banned! They are banned!".


Posted by: Ile | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:41 PM
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Stick with "no more than 10% of my time, and at my convenience."


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:42 PM
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Evolution took my tail. Heh heh.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:47 PM
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one or two sentence ways to attract like-minded people

like minded people = silence and isolation that feeds my soul


Posted by: cw | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 3:51 PM
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5. Tick-tock, bitch.

Is a thing of beauty. Unlikely to work, though.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 4:40 PM
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Historically speaking, one- or two-sentence ways to attract the like-minded:

1. Go ahead and eat crap if you want, but what I'm making will be good because I made it!

2. Your music sounds like um, um, Coldplay; oh, wait.

3. I haven't read the Utne Reader in years.

4.

actually, nemind.

This is exhausting.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 7:02 PM
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1. Some people think they can attract the like-minded with only one or two sentences. I never get along with them.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 7:06 PM
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IF i can threadjack, cna i pose a question: are romantic comedies, where the scoundral turns all soft and mushy at the end and then gets the girl, enjoyed by women because its a way for them to fantasize about themself, in particular, that they could like someone who treats them as an equal, instead of the sexyman-script of the dominant guy?


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 7:11 PM
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Your music sounds like um, um, Coldplay

Everything sounds like Coldplay now.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 7:17 PM
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the last sorority girl i chatted up said she liked travis


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 7:22 PM
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the last sorority girl i chatted up said she liked travis

Travis is that hot guy in her English class. You're hosed, dude.

Ogged, try "Do you like throwing things off roofs?"


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 7:52 PM
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Ogged, just study this and be prepared to recreate it at any time.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 8:01 PM
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39: It's the need women have for men who aren't afraid to stomp on puppies when there's a need for warm food AND who can cry about it afterwards.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 8:39 PM
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39: Maybe it's just me, but the jerk who turns to a prince with the love of a good woman theme in romantic comedies (or otherwise) does nothing whatsoever for me as a woman.

I liked Mostly Martha (described on the box as a romantic comedy, I swear!), which appeals to a whole separate mindset -- the sensitive, competent guy who patiently persists in his effort to get through to the hard as nails, complicated woman.

44: You're single, right?


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 9:20 PM
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45: single s/b cynical = realist


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 9:42 PM
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45 is why the hard-as-nails, complicated (insane) man and the hard-as-nails, complicated (insane) woman never can quite make it work, despite the mutual attraction.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 9:53 PM
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Or maybe it's that jerky males and jerky females each pray on patient, non-jerky types, and each are drawn to the romantic comedies depicting such in a favorable light.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 9:57 PM
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Jerky has a flavor.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:05 PM
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In my desuetude I shall quote lolcats.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:05 PM
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SB's desuetude has been greatly francophonated.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:10 PM
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In one's desuetude it is more difficult to make puddings.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:14 PM
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At first I read slogan #5 as a list of things to do, kind of like "cry, cry, masturbate, cry".

Anyway, ogged, you should sell t-shirts with these on them. With any luck, it will ultimately enable you to star in a youtube video lip-synching to some catchy-ass tune with all your unbearably attractive hipster co-workers!


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:15 PM
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It is less difficult to be puddings.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:15 PM
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Le pudding, c'est moi.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:19 PM
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Pudding is the new lobster.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:21 PM
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Lobsters, to their credit, contain less suet. But more cholesterol, I fear. And I put it to you: have you ever hypnotized a pudding? you have not. So much the worse for lobsters.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:23 PM
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I had a boyfriend in college who hypnotized puddings.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:24 PM
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Tchah.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:26 PM
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I hypnotized your mom's pudding.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:27 PM
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When I was a young boy, I'd follow the path down past the dunes to the sea; and there on the warm sandy beaches we'd lie, the furry old puddings and me.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:28 PM
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The Magic Pudding is one of the most bizarre books I've ever read, all about a sentient pudding who desires more than life to be consumed at every minute of the day.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:29 PM
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I was in a discussion in a seminar during which it was determined that the author's use of a pudding metaphor made no sense if one thinks of pudding as an American sweet but works just fine when considered as a British dish. The author is Canadian.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:30 PM
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Sing hey hidey ho, where'd the old puddings go? I guess we know.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:31 PM
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Puddington bears are a yummy sweet; much yummier than bears that are gummier.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:33 PM
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Canadians are, of course, best understood as exceptionally chilly Britons. Except the Inuit. And the French. And all the others.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:34 PM
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to be consumed at every minute of the day

I'm having great difficulty not thinking of this as some manner of plural entendre.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:35 PM
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President Rutherford B. Hayes discovered the electron. At parties, he likened his discovery to that of tiny puddings roosting in the nooks of the Oval Office, surviving on the occasional raisin shook loose from his beard.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:35 PM
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Experimental evidence of the Hayes Raison has yet to appear, but indirect evidence indicates its existence.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:37 PM
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It's amazing how much supervision this blog requires.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:37 PM
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Hayes only won that electron because operatives from his party switched the charges in a few important districts.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:38 PM
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Ma, ma, where's my non-raisin-beard-man?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:39 PM
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It's amazing how much supervision this blog requires.

Go put the smack down on those fuckers and their endless analogies in the Econ thread.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:39 PM
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It is an impossibility simultaneously to observe the quantity and partisan preference of electrons in a district.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:40 PM
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gone to the white house. um. raisin, pudding, gold foil experiment.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:42 PM
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It might be advisable to spell "loathsome" correctly. Just a hypothesis.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:42 PM
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I knew sprinters who wore "You don't need stamina to score" shirts, but they were after a different sort, I think.


Posted by: Trevor | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:45 PM
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Way to contribute, ben.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:45 PM
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Analysts were unable to determine precisely which constituencies voted which way in the recent electron; they blamed their problems on certain quarks in the voting machines.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:48 PM
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I posted 76 without having read the thread.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05-31-07 10:51 PM
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Blind posting, electron rigging, pudding entendres-raisons! Francophone desuetude! Blog-supervision required!

See, I can do it too!


Posted by: Ergono Mick | Link to this comment | 06- 1-07 12:18 AM
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"Why is it that all the good SF is written by Brits?"
...
{awkward silence}
The hypothetical dreamgirl either:
a)commiserates on the sad state of American sci-fi compared to Harrison or Mieville
or
b)vociferously defends American SF, citing Delaney and Wolfe
or
c)mildly mentions heinlein or asimov and doesn't walk away.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 06- 1-07 12:31 AM
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Experimental evidence of the Hayes Raison has yet to appear, but indirect evidence indicates its existence.

Teams of physicists have devoted their entire careers to its discovery. It's a raison d'etre, as you might say.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 06- 1-07 3:41 AM
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many explorers of old devoted their existence to the discovery of the sun-dried fruit of being, said to bestow upon the muncher of said fruit eternal life, commonly known in those old, francophillic days as the raisins d'etre.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 06- 1-07 8:46 AM
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