Charlie

In the early years of this website (at the beginning of the century) I became good friends with a man who had recently started posting here. He was in his early 60s, happily married, with grown children and grandchildren, and had never had sex with another man, but he knew there was something about that possibility which intrigued him. He met an escort who posted on this site, who was kind and sensitive as well as young and attractive, with whom he had his first male-with-male sexual experience. Unfortunately, he was still trying to figure out what to make of this experience, when his wife found out about it and forced the issue, to the point that he and his wife separated, and his family knew why. He left the town in which he had been a pillar of the community, and began a new life; some of the changes were desired, and others were not. I don't know what your situation is, but wherever your journey takes you, you should be prepared for the likelihood that your life will probably change, positively and negatively, in ways that you may not anticipate. Be ready to ride the wave.

I think I have told the story here before, of the night I ran into him in the "Meatrack" on Fire Island. He was sucking someone off against a tree, when the inimitable voice of Alice Ghostley called out from the boardwalk, "Paulie? It's time to come back to the house. You have to work tomorrow." Then Paul's anguished reply, "Oh, Alice! Not NOW!!"

Many years ago, a friend of mine from London retired to Portugal because he expected to be able to live there more comfortably on his limited retirement income. A couple of years later he phoned me from there, practically sobbing because he was so miserable. His lifestyle was comfortable, but even though he was a well-traveled, educated and sophisticated gay man, he felt completed isolated and alone in a culture that didn't really interest him. Things got even worse when he developed AIDS symptoms, because he had difficulty getting medical help there, and the locals treated him like a pariah.

I am confused: you two make it sound like he is no longer around. He posted in another thread only a few hours ago.

Since it sounds like you are setting up a fund for a specific purpose, rather than donating to an existing program, it will create extra expenses for the university to administer it, so it is not unreasonable for them to let you know how much of your donation they will set aside for that purpose. They will have to advertise in some way that such scholarships are available and recruit recipients, and vetting the applicants sounds a lot more complicated than something as simple as verifying the financial resources of more typical scholarship applicants. Moreover, unless you want the whole sum to be disbursed at once, the administrative expenses will be ongoing, because the money will have to be invested to keep the fund solvent for future years. I have no way of knowing whether the 6.5% is an appropriate charge or not, especially since I don't know how substantial the sum is or how many scholarships you hope to offer.

He was known to hire male escorts, and was murdered by two young brothers who tried to get him to hire them.

If you do a search, you will find that he (or someone else using that clever name) has been discussed on this site.

He has been around under other names (e.g, "Nate") for a very long time. Most of the photos are the same ones he was using when I hired him fourteen years ago. That being said, at the time he was one of the best hires I ever made in SoCal.

No. Who are you going to call for help if you break down somewhere in space? AAA?

Actually, I have never made a bet on anything; I am too ignorant about how the process works, because I grew up in a conservative Republican family that didn't approve of gambling. I have never even bought a lottery ticket.

The only spoken language he lists is English, but given his written text, I rather doubt that it is his native tongue.

Sometimes seasoned players will respond that way, but many don't feel secure enough to do so. They fear antagonizing the press with that kind of response.

Now can we do something about the "verbose" icon? I know there was a discussion about it here about a year ago. "Verbose" means that the post was unnecessarily wordy, which is rarely true about any post, but the icon itself looks like a reaction of "Wow!" which is needed much more often than "verbose."

Damn! I should have put some money down a week ago when I predicted that the final would be Djokovic over Berrettini.

My spouse has been having a small glass of scotch (with one ice cube) every evening for as long as I have known him (more than a half century). Lately he has been buying Shieldaig, which he says is as good as the more expensive brands. I wouldn't know, since I rarely drink any alcohol other than wine or the occasional gin and tonic. Many years ago, a friend and I did a driving tour in Scotland, during which we stayed in Grantown-on-Spey, and visited a distillery--I don't remember which one, but there are several in the area which welcome visitors.

Love the name choice😄

The first car looks fairly new, so it probably is a photo from the 30s. The second car is a 40's model, and look a bit beat up already.

If it is possible to do so, I would start by reading some of the reviews Okliehomo submitted to Daddy's site over the years. He has not posted here for three months, so I don't know if he would respond to a conversation.

I don't think Keiyan knows the difference between a noun and a pronoun🙃.

No, I was out of high school by then.

Did I not tell you last Sunday that my dark horse pick for the final was Matteo Berrettini?!

I don't know whether your pic is of Reggie Bush, though it could be. However, the other (headless) photos in the ad show a somewhat leaner build, and the advertiser describes himself as a "basketball" type 6'4" tall (Bush is only 6'0"). It is also possible that none of the photos are of the advertiser.

I had an affair with someone I met at the Day Sauna in 1974. It was the only time my marriage was ever seriously threatened.

"It" can refer to animate objects, like a dog, if you don't know the dog's gender.

The only one of these semi-finalists I would have predicted before the tournament started is Djokovic. It would be a hoot if Hurkacz managed to defeat both Federer and Djokovic in the same Wimbledon.