Okay, I am so in the mood for some chit-chat. Let me propose a topic. Baseball caps: remove them when you go inside/in the presence of a lady, or no? Any small-town-in-the-country folks with experience to weigh in on this etiquette question?
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'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Emily - Feb 29, 2008 4:28:46 am PST #8133 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Ginger - Feb 29, 2008 4:31:31 am PST #8134 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My impression is that once a guy puts on a baseball cap, it is considered part of his head. One reason for this may be that so many guys use them in lieu of toupees.
Emily - Feb 29, 2008 4:38:12 am PST #8135 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Probably not high school students, though.
I hear what you're saying. I suppose that's true -- I haven't noticed older men removing their caps when they come inside, so I can't claim common courtesy to my students. The rule is, you can't wear a cap in school (though very few of us seem to enforce it). I was hoping I could back it up by saying it's a manners thing (my young men tend to be very sweet, so I like to play to that).
sj - Feb 29, 2008 4:43:42 am PST #8136 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Baseball caps weren't allowed in my high school, and it was strictly enforced. In the rest of the world, it really depends on where you are, I think.
Burrell - Feb 29, 2008 4:44:53 am PST #8137 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Whoa, Sparky, good for you.
Europe has so much more history behind it's institutions.
hippocampus - Feb 29, 2008 4:52:46 am PST #8138 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Jesse - insent
Lee - Feb 29, 2008 4:54:47 am PST #8139 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'll be teaching here in October: [link]
Very cool! How long is the course?
d - Feb 29, 2008 4:57:39 am PST #8140 of 10001
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Indeed, Sparky! Congratulations. Seems very exciting!
Sparky1 - Feb 29, 2008 5:08:02 am PST #8141 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
How long is the course?
It's a week long course, 4 hours a day to the LLM students.
It's a perquisite that comes with my job, and one of the reasons I took it. Theoretically, I can teach there every year and I get a free ticket to Europe, apartment for the week, and a stipend to do so. My DH and I have to decide when he might come over, and where we might go from there. Unfortunately, since it is in the middle of my semester here, I can't be gone traveling as long as I'd like.
Fay - Feb 29, 2008 5:35:47 am PST #8142 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
For years, my mother though LOL stood for "Lots of love" because it seemed to be used as a sign-off.
Oh, my Mum believes it still. Despite gentle attempts to explain that it is not so. This does not annoy me in the manner of LOLspeak, since it's (a) my Mum, and (b) she thinks it's an acronym, not a giggle or a flinch.
I've definitely read people writing "I less than three such-and-such" before - probably over at LJ. And I confess, I really like that. Which is perhaps hypocricy - but I've a weakness for geekly shibboleths, or at least the ones that I get, and it's wordplay. I enjoy the occasional use of "I heart such-and-such" and I like the way that someone turned this up to eleven. Bless.