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[loremipsum]

Vanity... Definitely my favorite sin.

 

Not lust?

 

For an escort, to speak of one is to speak of the other.

[loremipsum]

I have often stated that my criteria are: Short, Muscular, & Latino... I'm still waiting for the line to form. Now if Armond Rizzo tries to get in line, he'll immediately go to the front of the line.

 

He'll turn 30 next July and will fall just outside my no children rules. I don't do 20 somethings; Too hard to change their diapers, and I'm not willing to show them how to do certain things.

 

You my young stud will have at least 2 of the three in a few years, so pick your spot in the line

 

When I was maybe 16 my mother told me that I had the intellect of a 35-year-old and the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old. Let’s... adjust it for inflation, in a manner of speaking. Intellect: 40. Emotional maturity: 20. The mean of these two values is 30

[+ poolboy48220]

Vanity... Definitely my favorite sin.(Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate)

To cross over into the Memorable Quotes thread, from "Serenity"..."Hell, I'm a fan of all seven. But right now, I'm gonna have to go with Wrath".

[beachboy]

When I was maybe 16 my mother told me that I had the intellect of a 35-year-old and the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old. Let’s... adjust it for inflation, in a manner of speaking. Intellect: 40. Emotional maturity: 20. The mean of these two values is 30

@loremipsum. This is one of the best threads in ages. Random is a kind of freedom of the mind. To let spew out what may & in any order the mind dictates. Awesome!

 

I bet your clients never know quite what to expect but I'll wager it is accompanied by eloquence & style !

[Islesguy]

Ask a math teacher what 2+2 is and they'll say 4.

Ask an economist what 2+2 is and they'll say 5.

Ask an accountant what 2+2 is and they'll say "what do you want it to be?"

[+ Kufrol]

Ask Danny Kaye and he'll belt, "Inchworm".

 

 

Ask a math teacher what 2+2 is and they'll say 4.

Ask an economist what 2+2 is and they'll say 5.

Ask an accountant what 2+2 is and they'll say "what do you want it to be?"

[loremipsum]

To cross over into the Memorable Quotes thread, from "Serenity"..."Hell, I'm a fan of all seven. But right now, I'm gonna have to go with Wrath".

 

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

[+ WilliamM]

Ask Danny Kaye and he'll belt, "Inchworm".

 

 

Danny Kaye and Mary Martin were not close to what they seemed in public.

 

Ethel Merman and Jimmy Stewart were the same in public and private.

Edited October 20, 2019 by WilliamM

[loremipsum]

Jimmy Stewart

 

I liked him in It’s a Wonderful Life, then became enamored of him while viewing The Philadelphia Story. Though Cary Grant, one of the co-stars in the film, is more classically handsome, with a more genteel accent, I was all about Jimmy.

[mike carey]

The new normal. Claiming that actual normality is pathological. Doing so ironically serves only better to illustrate the absurdity of it all!

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[+ E.T.Bass]

you are nothing like Avalon

 

 

And that's...…………………...

a good thing.

 

[loremipsum]

you are nothing like Avalon

 

 

And that's...…………………...

a good thing.

 

I know nothing about this Avalon character of whom you speak ?

[loremipsum]

@mike carey that tableau is

 

[loremipsum]

Actually, said tableau reminds me of a Sex and the City scene that finds Samantha waiting a long time for a date to show: “She hadn’t expected to be caught out in public alone without a book, project, or any of her dining-out-alone-armor.”

[+ poolboy48220]

Actually, said tableau reminds me of a Sex and the City scene that finds Samantha waiting a long time for a date to show: “She hadn’t expected to be caught out in public alone without a book, project, or any of her dining-out-alone-armor.”

I'm very rarely caught without a book. There are usually a couple somewhere in my car. I'm supporting my local library with overdue fines, and I don't mind at all.

[+ poolboy48220]

you are nothing like Avalon

 

And that's...…………………...

a good thing.

 

Election night, 2012 maybe? Diane Sawyer sounded very drunk (maybe she was just very, very, tired). Some comic a few days later pointed it out: "The early polls are in, and the winner is...Chardonnay!"

[+ Keith30309]

Home of the newest Trump resort and casino:

[+ E.T.Bass]

I

I know nothing about this Avalon character of whom you speak ?

Was the others brought him up. Point being not to give him much thought.

[+ E.T.Bass]

Election night, 2012 maybe? Diane Sawyer sounded very drunk (maybe she was just very, very, tired). Some comic a few days later pointed it out: "The early polls are in, and the winner is...Chardonnay!"

Martha Stewart.

[loremipsum]

[loremipsum]

I'm very rarely caught without a book. There are usually a couple somewhere in my car. I'm supporting my local library with overdue fines, and I don't mind at all.

 

Mr. Bookman would have some words for you.

[Ryan Roman]

Client (who is a professor): You could be my boyfriend.

 

Me: Are you tenured?

It's all about the tenure..

[Ryan Roman]

I happen to be aware of the magnitude of the plight of academics. Some of my professors were not at all shy about broaching the subject. One straight up said that life is miserable for them before getting tenure. Another told us that they owe far more in loans than they bring in each year: “...Seriously, it’s not good.” The “publish or perish” aspect of it all was the most daunting to me when I considered it as a profession. They have to keep churning out literature to stay afloat in the estimation of their respective universities and the academic realm in general.

Life is miserable before getting tenure. 6 years of publish or perish articles in the "right type" of journals on an original topic you may come to hate with a passion of 1000 white hot suns, campus service, obtaining external funding (even in the Humanities, preferably from the Federal government), writing a book or 2, getting commissions or placing in competitions in Art, Architecture, and Design, the whims of a P + T committee, a department chair or dean, enrollment trends, workload creep... I remember my first semester of graduate school a classmate talking about getting a divorce as a result of her pursuing a PhD and thinking how awful... And then finding out how true it is when my partner and I split while I was in my PhD... The sacrifices to your soul are real.

[Ryan Roman]

Speaking of fathers and their daughters’ work: I wonder sometimes about The Diary of Anne Frank. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, published it after she died. Some speculate that much of it was fabricated. I myself have trouble finding credible a quote she purportedly composed herself in her diary: “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Perhaps I’m just jaded.

 

I took two classes on the Holocaust. In one of them each member of the class had to do a brief presentation on one Holocaust diary (dozens of them are extant — Anne Frank was not the only Jew who kept one). My particular one was written by a twelve-year-old boy. He lived with his parents and the three swore that when the police came to call, rather than be taken away, they would all immediately ingest cyanide tablets that the father had procured, in the interest of leaving this world on their own terms. The police eventually did come to their home, and the boy took a cyanide tablet immediately as his parents had earlier instructed him to do, as they had all agreed to do. His last words reportedly were: “Daddy, the cyani—“ and then he dropped dead. The police officials were so horrified by this that they just left. The parents survived the Holocaust and had another child. It really annoyed me. I felt great disdain for those parents. What the hell?

 

Side note: He and his parents lived in a “ghetto.” Until those classes I don’t think I was aware of the term originally referring to living quarters for Jews during the Holocaust.

 

And then the word was reappropriated to apply to marginalized neighbourhoods comprised of people of colour (including Italians, who weren't White enough)...

[Ryan Roman]

I have often stated that my criteria are: Short, Muscular, & Latino... I'm still waiting for the line to form. Now if Armond Rizzo tries to get in line, he'll immediately go to the front of the line.

 

He'll turn 30 next July and will fall just outside my no children rules. I don't do 20 somethings; Too hard to change their diapers, and I'm not willing to show them how to do certain things.

 

You my young stud will have at least 2 of the three in a few years, so pick your spot in the line

 

Will Italian suffice for Latino??