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Natter 40: The Nice One  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Scrappy - Nov 17, 2005 8:11:44 am PST #4882 of 10006
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I have gotten quite a few love letters from several guys and saved many of them. I also save particualrly good letters from friends or family. I like taking them out of the box every few years and revisiting old times.


askye - Nov 17, 2005 8:12:51 am PST #4883 of 10006
Thrive to spite them

I like hairless cats. They aren't cute but very endearing. I'd like to have a hairless kitty and a really fluffy kitty.


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2005 8:14:32 am PST #4884 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have gotten quite a few love letters from several guys

No surprise there.

I don't think I have any saved letters, but I recieve precious few letters. I have postcards and cards saved.

I do have e-mails that go back to the dawn of time, though. No love there either, but some strange behaviour nonetheless.


Sue - Nov 17, 2005 8:15:19 am PST #4885 of 10006
hip deep in pie

I used to save every letter and every card I had ever received. I still have all the letters, but I got rid of most of the cards, except for special or handmade ones in a fit of efficiency about a year ago.

I did destroy all the letters I received from a boy once. It felt theraputic at the time, but sometimes I wish I still had them.


shrift - Nov 17, 2005 8:16:56 am PST #4886 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Want mine? It was truly creepy.

Ick. That's just disturbing.

The creepiest one I received didn't contain any lyrics, but it might as well have been Every Breath You Take in terms of content.


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2005 8:18:48 am PST #4887 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Speaking of the written word and obsessiveness, check out this Scarface poster.


Calli - Nov 17, 2005 8:19:27 am PST #4888 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I got an anonymous one in my locker in 7th grade that was all, "I worship the ground you tread upon" and the like. Which was great, until the next day, when a letter with the same handwriting had the followup. "Your greasy hair and fat body are so hot. Meet me in the boys room in a loose shirt so we can fool around."

Not a big fan of anonymous "love" letters.


Aims - Nov 17, 2005 8:21:28 am PST #4889 of 10006
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I wrote a love letter once. 7th grade. My friend (?) told me that if I wrote it out and didn't sign it and put it in his locker, then I would feel better.

So, I did.

And he got it at the end of the day, when everyone was standing around and he read it out loud and then my friend (?) told them all I wrote.

Anonymous love letters suck.


sarameg - Nov 17, 2005 8:21:50 am PST #4890 of 10006

I got an .... email once that, well, I read it with one eye and a squinty one at that, trying really hard not to run screaming from the computer center. Then I scratched my head, made a face, thought thank GOD I'm leaving the country in 3 weeks and decided I didn't care if they purged my inbox while I was gone. Which they did.


Amy - Nov 17, 2005 8:22:08 am PST #4891 of 10006
Because books.

In eighth grade, one of the geekiest boys I have ever met wrote down the lyrics from "Hotel California" (from memory) for me while we were suffering through math class. A day or two later he made me a map of a made-up country where we, apparently, were the rulers. Very strange. He had an Adan's apple the size of a grapefruit.