Charlie

"No sex and no anal penetration"? Doesn't he know the literal meaning of "stud"?

I ran an AIDS information hotline in the 1980s. The callers' ignorance, not only about medical matters but about sex in general, was often mind-blowing. Younger people nowadays think they are much more sophisticated, but most of them probably still believe the self-consoling myths that people have always adopted to justify whatever it is that they do.

An alternative form is "to the manor born," which is slightly more appropriate to the situation you mention.

Before Hooboy started the review site twenty years ago, there was nothing comparable online (although there were a few escort reviews available in a little pamphlet that was published every so often, the name of which I can no longer remember). Without the reviews, this message board wouldn't have existed; it started as an addendum to the review site, because Hooboy was interested in discussion as well as reviews. The review section was what brought in the money to support the whole site. I wrote reviews before I discovered the message section, and there have always been reviewers and readers who were unaware of or uninterested in the message board. Because of the recent changes in the laws, it became prudent to separate the functions into two separate sites, which happen to be operated by the same person. I stopped hiring years ago, so I hardly read the review site unless there is discussion here about a reviewed escort. I don't know whether fewer reviews are submitted these days because of the limitations that FOSTA regulation has put on what they can contain, or because clients are no longer interested in writing about their hires, or because they put all their trust in the rent.men reviews (good grief!). I do know that if the review site can't be self-supporting financially, this site will probably disappear, too, without substantial financial input from those of us who value it for its own virtues, apart from its heritage as part of a site about hiring escorts.

The first is Romeo and Juliet, the last is The Merchant of Venice. I am drawing a blank on the middle one, except that the song from Hair! that starts with that line keeps running through my brain.

I meant correct according to my high school English teacher (she was from Vermont).

I was surprised when I first learned that the hw sound was correct, because I had always used only the w sound in all the wh words, and to my ear, that was how everyone I knew (no k sound) pronounced the wh words. I have to be very self-conscious (sc pronounced sh) to remember to aspirate before the w. (Native of northern New Jersey)

Great thread!!!

I never heard of this person before the posts here about his death.

Is there any significance to the fact that every man except the one on the right has his arms crossed, but he seems to be using his hands to shield his genitals?

Testosterone is not illegal, but it is a controlled drug that has to be prescribed by a doctor. It is not unusual for a doctor to prescribe it for someone whose regular clinical tests indicate his testosterone level is low, because that does have health implications. I am using it now, in gel form, at my doctor's advice.

Yes.

After my spouse and his brothers took their mother's car away because she was no longer fit to drive, she would frequently call the police to report that her car had been stolen from her driveway. The police quickly learned to just say, "OK, Mrs. K, we will look for it," knowing that she would soon forget about it.

Old people also tend to want much less food than one gets from a service.

There is a difference between not wanting to cook for oneself and not being able to do so. If the advertising is any indication, those meal and grocery delivery services are aimed mostly at busy younger people, not people who are unable to shop and make their own meals. If you can't make toast or scramble an egg for breakfast, or pour the milk into your oatmeal before you microwave it, GrubHub is not going to be of much use to you. As Unicorn mentioned, those who no can longer cook for themselves probably can't do a lot of other things for themselves, which is why they opt for assisted living.

It depends on a lot of things. Because I retired at 60 in good health, I wanted a house with a yard and a pool, in a beautiful warm location, so I moved to Palm Springs. A colleague who also retired at 60 in good health wanted a cottage in a small town on a spectacular Northwestern coast, and he got that. I loved to visit his place, but I wouldn't have wanted to live there, because I would have been bored (and cold and wet). Also, as he aged, problems of transportation and lack of amenities--like a supermarket or any medical facilities, not even a pharmacy--became more important. As he became infirm, just getting in and out of the cottage, which was small but had stairs leading up to the front door, much less strolling on the beach, was problematic. Eventually, that Midcentury Modern home with the pool and the yard with its beautiful trees began to need too much maintenance, and we moved to a new house (still all on one floor) in a gated retirement community on a small plot that required little maintenance, with pools as part of the community amenities. The next move will probably be to assisted living, more than likely in an apartment, which is not what appeals to me, but what makes sense. I already own the little grassy plot that will be my final retirement spot.

The first of several times I saw her she was in her 20s, singing Elisabeth in Tannhauser at Covent Garden. The sound was glorious, but she just stood there like a statue most of the time. A friend of mine had interviewed her in Paris a short time before, and she admitted to him that she was frightened of staged opera performance, and it showed. She got better over the long career, but she was always better to listen to than to watch.

Were there Macedonian subtitles? The last time I was in Skopje, they didn't have CNN available.

Shake...and shake...and shake...and shake........

A recent analysis has shown that the most important reason why residents leave CA for other states is the cost of housing. The median home price in San Diego is $592,300; the median home price in Erie is $78,600. Just sayin'.

Many years ago, I had sex with an escort who claimed to have fucked King Baudouin in a three-way when he was still a prince. I didn't know whether to believe him, but it was an odd enough claim, out of the blue, that I thought it could have been true.

That is exactly the same way I do it!

Why, yes, which is why I am so fond of his financial advisor.

Wait a minute! Airbnb made me that offer! Am I going to be rubbing elbows with the general public?

I get these invitations regularly, even though I have been retired for seventeen years, so it's a little too late to start "planning" now. My spouse has had the same investment manager for thirty-five years, and the retirement account has more money in it now than it did when my spouse retired back in the last century; we are praying that he doesn't die before we do.