I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.

Simon ,'Jaynestown'


Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


billytea - Jun 24, 2005 5:43:26 pm PDT #6795 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

here's what the newly eloped people are thinking: "wheeeeeee! I'm married and happy and in love! Wheeee!! Someone sent a card, and it is celebrating our love! Wheeee!!!!!"

I so hope they put that in their wedding vows.

Um, sorry, beg to differ.

But it's a salt lake! It should be lake salt!

Well, it's more of an idea than a plan. I intend to move out there, but I don't have an actual target date yet. I'm a turtle.

Well then, you pretty much have over a century to choose your moment.

Oh, my.. ::tries to stuff a fiver into the fax machine::

No, wait, this could be interesting to watch. And film. And have commented on by Jeff Corwin.

Even by Bjork standards, this is an astonishing outfit.

Oh dear lord, that was funny. Not the outfit, but just the expression she's pulling as she reaches for that guy's crotch.

Meanwhile, I have a problem that of course should have been entirely foreseeable. Having put up my profile on the dating site, I am now receiving the occasional response. Now, I've been lurking on these sites for a while now, and frankly the vast majority of the women using the sites seem to be people to whom I would feel greatly unsuited. When someone with whom I figure I have little in common asks if I want to get in touch, how do I say no politely?


tommyrot - Jun 24, 2005 5:49:08 pm PDT #6796 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

When someone with whom I figure I have little in common asks if I want to get in touch, how do I say no politely?

Can't you just ignore them? I don't respond at all to people I'm not interested in, and in the dozens of cases where I've replied to someone's ad, I don't think I've ever gotten a "sorry, not interested" email - either the woman was interested, or she never wrote back.


billytea - Jun 24, 2005 5:54:34 pm PDT #6797 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Can't you just ignore them? I don't respond at all to people I'm not interested in, and in the dozens of cases where I've replied to someone's ad, I don't think I've ever gotten a "sorry, not interested" email - either the woman was interested, or she never wrote back.

Well, yeah, but that feels rude to me. They've gone to the trouble to get in touch, the least I can do is write back.


WindSparrow - Jun 24, 2005 6:07:39 pm PDT #6798 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{all the Bitches}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

My mom does not, this is one point in her favor, nag or hint at major milestones she expects me to hit ASAP. She is generally too busy talking about pleasant or unpleasant details of her life. I can, and have, put the phone down and go to the bathroom then return without her stopping or noticing that I wasn't there.

Deena! What a simply yucky day you've been having! PMS deserves a hot fudge sundae from Malleys. And a ride on the merry-go-round. There is pretty much nothing that will make the aftermath of the scare that your kids' lives are in danger ease up... hmm, well, not that they serve at Malley's anyway.... whiskey, maybe...


Deena - Jun 24, 2005 6:12:27 pm PDT #6799 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Thanks, Cindy. That one was a freak-out. I didn't cry until Greg came home.

Oh, in really cool news, yesterday Kara brought me a sheaf of papers on which she'd drawn obviously amazing actions and said, "I need some yarn. I have to do some yarn stuff to my comic book." She had drawn her own comic book starring her new favorite character, Krypto the super dog. Today she drew a picture of me. Round face, hair just like mine, glasses. The child is a prodigy. On the other hand, Aidan has discovered the phrase, "Up, up and away!" and uses it frequently.

Hmm, you know, Andi. I think you're right. Tomorrow, hot fudge! It's a little late to go looking for it now.


Jen - Jun 24, 2005 6:13:24 pm PDT #6800 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

Well, yeah, but that feels rude to me. They've gone to the trouble to get in touch, the least I can do is write back.

I'm with you on this. Being on the receiving end of a resounding silence rather than a quick "thanks but no thanks" message makes one feel both invisible and unworthy of a few keystrokes.

Hypothetically, I mean. I've got this friend...


Deena - Jun 24, 2005 6:17:21 pm PDT #6801 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

How about something like: Thanks for writing. I've looked at your profile and I don't think we have many interests in common, but I'm really flattered by your e-mail. Maybe this online dating thing has something to it after all.

That way you're saying they've boosted your ego but you don't ask them for a date, and it's all light? I could be crazy.


WindSparrow - Jun 24, 2005 6:17:42 pm PDT #6802 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Tomorrow, hot fudge! It's a little late to go looking for it now.

Malley's doesn't stay open later on the weekends? Oh wait, there's the whole parenting thing. I spose dragging the kids out for ice cream at 11pm wouldn't really be the thing to do.


Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2005 6:18:10 pm PDT #6803 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Jen, I would just like to say again that you're very cool for sending me the Lorrie Moore Ploughshares. I haven't read any of the stories in it yet, but I finally read her intro the other day, and then saw the Post-It in the front and was reminded that people are awesome.


SailAweigh - Jun 24, 2005 6:24:01 pm PDT #6804 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

{{Deena}} That sounds like it was just horribly scary. I'm glad you were strong in the clinch, but still....ugh. Not a fun thing to go through.

And more {{}} for thems as needs them because it sounds like today was a bit of the yuck for everyone. If I didn't know better, I'd think you were all having the craxy 95 degree weather that we are. It's only June! for cry-y-y. This is Wisconsin, we're not supposed to get this crap until the end of July or August. It's enough to make me want to move to Alaska.