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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=577870202402681 Gman

They stopped them after the Rentboy Debacle. Gman

What other meaning does it have? My dictionary lists 'exactly' and 'precisely' as synonyms. Those imply to me that the meaning of 'actually' is not a new usage. Gman

While that might have been true once, I'm going to bet that it might not be true now. When I looked it up on White Pages dot com, it said it was a Google Voice number. Now while not impossible, just getting to the age of 97 is still pretty remarkable. Being 97 and having a Google Voice number seems to stretch reasonable odds to me. Not to mention that when I've done searches like this in the past, I'm pretty sure I've come across people that I'm pretty sure were dead as the search listed them at extremely unlikely ages like 105. My take on that was that once you entered a database like that, unless you are specifically taken out, it increases your age yearly whether you are dead or not. Gman

So it really should have been the Knights Who Go Nith? Gman

Wasn't that a Twilight Zone episode? Gman

They could be taken advantage of the same way an escort could. Offering too much for too little. Gman

Selfies-old school style http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii612/rexmaker/596DE389-DA93-4C4F-B381-C072635B2209_zpsjcjjvesy.jpg Gman

People, I guess I'm going to have to be a spoilsport here. But if like these last two, nothing immediately comes to me, I'm not going to worry my pretty little head about them. Gman

Does it have to do with the relationship between 'nurse' and 'tend'? Gman

It's called Seeking Arrangements. https://www.seekingarrangement.com/ Gman

Sorry I don't understand what Ms. Martin was trying to say. Speaking of Annie Get Your Gun-at one point I had an album only cast featuring Doris Day. I can't remember who sang Frank Butler. I found the album at a used record store. I'm not sure I ever listened to the entire thing. Gman

@WilliamM thats a good thought. But there actually wasn't that big a crowd. I don't know whether it was due to Cincinnati's well-known conservative streak, bad day/bad time, not being publicized well, or what. As near as I can remember, I was the last audience person still there. I never would have been brave enough to even think about attempting a conversation like that if other Dan Savage fans had still been around. Gman

I talked with Dan Savage at a book signing once at Joseph Beth Books in Cincinnati in 2002. He was pushing his book Skipping to Gomorra: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America. It was his response to Bill Bennett's and several others' moral pronouncements. It was back when I was even more closeted than I am now-it might have been before my cherry had been popped-assuming a total virgin having sex for the first but only as a top can still be said to have his cherry popped. (On the other hand if it takes bottoming for your cherry to be popped-I'm still intact). At the time I never planned on coming out at all. I wanted to talk to him about my fears of being gay. I couldn't get out what I wanted to say. I was too afraid. Gman

In similar circumstances my mother would say, "Not funny, McGee," as Fibber's wife Molly from the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly would tell him "Tain't funny, McGee." Gman

Where do you see his repertoire listed? I use the Rentmen mobile app, and it doesn't list specifics like that anymore. It used to before the Rentboy Debacle. As for being limited, those activities are all I usually look for in an escort. Gman

I was wondering that too. Gman

I'll have to think to see if I know any others. But do soap opera stars count? I met Terri Eoff. She played Suzi Wyatt on Search For Tomorrow, Pilar on All My Kids, and was one of the adult hosts on The New Mickey Mouse Club until its last season. She was also Miss Texas in 1980 (in the more scholarly Miss America Pageant not the Miss USA). And she's done lots of commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI6x71ww7dA Gman

I never realized George Takei and Jason Momoa played the twins from Harry Potter. Sorry I couldn't resist. This is one of those cases where even using the Oxford Comma (which I'm a proponent of) the meaning isn't exactly made clear. Gman PS I also hadn't seen @TruHart1's comment when I wrote this.

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I didn't get this at all. Gman

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It's probably a peculiarity of American English as 'Happy Christmas' or 'queue up' sounds right to those with a more British English bent. Both 'cutting along' and 'cutting across' made sense to me once @Truereview pointed out my mistake. Gman

Oh my!!!!I guess you've found my inadvertent error. :confused:In my mind I was confusing 'cutting across' and 'cutting along'. Thank gosh for non-native speakers!!! So disregard that part of the post. The rest is still true. Gman

Contronyms are a class of words that are also called auto-antonyms. The most famous example I can think of is the word 'cleave' which can mean to sever or to cling to. But phrases can also be similar to 'contronyms'. For example in the UK, the common meaning to 'table a motion' is to put it on the table for consideration. In American English it more commonly means to get rid of the motion-keep it on the table and away from being discussed or voted on. I came across a similar situation today. A phrase that to me would normally mean the opposite of the way it was employed. It occurred in an article in the Washington Post describing the flooding caused by Hurricane Matthew. I quote: In some hard-hit communities, like Lumberton, the flooding also cut along socioeconomic lines: a white area of town was preserved, Now it seems to me that in the past when I've seen the phrase 'cut along socioeconomic lines', it's often been talking about some issue or event that has affected a majority of people irrespective of their socioeconomic class. Has my understanding of this phrase been wrong all these years? Gman