Charlie

I did something similar once, when I made a dish from memory rather than looking at the recipe. It called for a teaspoon of salt, but I added a a tablespoon; it was almost inedible. It won't be mentioned at my funeral, because the dinner guests are all dead now (not from that meal).

Abu Dhabi? Qatar? Somewhere in the Emirates area?

More likely that uncle from Grandpa's adventures in the Wild West in his 20s, before he returned to the east to settle down and get married. In the 1890s he was living in the red light district in Salt Lake City.

Whenever the turkey meatloaf is finished cooking.

One of the reasons I haven't taken the test is because I already know, through regular genealogical sleuthing, my ancestry going back several generations, so I am unlikely to learn anything of real interest to me.

If you enjoy participating in sports. there is also the Gay and Lesbian Tennis Association (GLTA), which is a great place to meet people while getting exercise. If you don't know how to play, you can take lessons or clinics, which are fun, too. It's healthier than hanging around in bars. (I thought I was too old to start playing at 62--tennis, that is--but it changed my life for the better.)

One of the advantages of being a gay man is that one can be top or bottom, depending on your general inclination, your mood at the moment, or the situation. It's not like being unable to fit square pegs in round holes, so to speak. All you can do is make some connection, see if there is a spark of sexual attraction, and do whatever makes both of you comfortable. BTW, not everyone finds oral sex as the default position.

I had a friend whose most effective pick-up line was, "I've got a big cock. You wanna fuck?"

I must be old enough to be your father, then, because I loved her voice and played her recordings on my stereo.

Bringing an uninvited guest is always wrong--unless of course, the uninvited guest is an attractive young hustler that the invited guest picked up on the street on his way to the party (didn't you people ever see "The Boys in the Band"?!).

As I understand it, DNA analysis can only tell you how your DNA matches up with the majority of people who live in a certain geographical region of the world today. That may be helpful if you are trying to find out where your ancestors may have lived at one time, but it is not much to go on.

So many problems arise in this discussion from the failure to distinguish among three different categories: ethnicity, nationality and geography. Then it gets more confused by the overlapping names. China, for example, is a nation, but not all Chinese (nationality) are Chinese (ethnicity), and not all Chinese (ethnicity) are Chinese (nationality). East Asia and South Asia are places (geography) that contain people of numerous nationalities and ethnicities. "America" is a place (geography), but many people think of it solely as a nationality (United States of America). "Indian" can be thought of as a description of a person from India (nationality) or a representative of a particular religious group (Hindu), but in America it is frequently used to describe the natives who were living in North and South America when Europeans arrived (ethnicity and geography). Trying to make valid generalizations about individuals on the basis of membership in such confusing groupings is pretty difficult.

I thought at first it referred to the number of deviled eggs you have brought to the PS Weekends.

And may you have many more!

Short answer: They were created by the original owner of this site, the late and much lamented Hooboy, in 1999.

Experiences.

Gar1eth, what you are feeling is normal, not pathological. Memento mori. You are grieving for a loss which also reminds you of your own mortality. It is something we all must learn to live with, without stifling our own enjoyment of life.

I just received an email on my yahoo email saying it was from "YAHOO SECURITY," saying possible illegal activity had been seen on my email account, referencing "Eastern Russia." It gave a phone number to call, so I did, and got a woman with an eastern European accent telling me to perform certain movements, which I did. When I realized it was moving toward the possibility of a remote takeover of my computer to "investigate," I immediately stopped the process and ended the phone call. The email has disappeared from my inbox. Is this some new scam?

IKEA is labyrinthine in the sense that the design leads you through every department to get to checkout, unless you watch carefully for the "shortcuts." Of course, it makes for clever marketing--I don't know how often I have stopped to look at some product I had never thought about shopping for.

I am sorry to have to report that Lurkerspeaks, who was a poster here for about ten years, has died unexpectedly. I have few details at this time.

IKEA is more labyrinthine than any bathhouse I have ever patronized.

I work in Chrome, but do most other things in Firefox.

The Vegas photo was an insult to my level of geographical sophistication:cool:

Sploshing? Canning? Good grief!

Mine came back in a different spot in the upper right of the page, but the different icon confused me at first.