I figure you have to be 40 to be a cougar, which I am not.

Hmm. How old are you again? Because I figure if you can have a teenaged son, reasonably, you can be a cougar.

Deena might be a sockpuppet of mieskie

Dude, really? Now I need to go back and find that. Boggledy-boggle.

I know just enough here in class to be dangerous. I ask the questions the developers don't care about and the trainer hasn't thought about. I hate me.

Deena might be a sockpuppet of mieskie

The what now? Oy.

Hmm. How old are you again? Because I figure if you can have a teenaged son, reasonably, you can be a cougar.

I'm 36. I could have a 22-year-old, physically.

And HA HA HA Perkins describing herself as a newbie. Boggling!

I loved that part.

I'm not tired! I just started! I was a day late and a buck short but now I feel it's all fresh and new.

But you can't make me read old Bureau.

Bureau 1

Isn't it fascinating? I lost the better part of 2 days to that. I'm still skimming through bits of it.

Jesse, I think you can be a cougar at your age, it just depends on how much younger the boys you're going for are. If you're like, 50, you can be a cougar and going for a 30 year old. If you're 37, you can be a cougar but you have to be going for someone much younger.

And when I, the 32 year old, hook up with someone who is 20, I just try to tell myself age ain't nothin' but a number. And I'm just...um...helpin' out a youngster. For their future hookups.

OK, whatever, I'll be a cougar. But not dating a 30 year old! That's just younger.

...

That's all I am saying.

God, why do I remember all that Bureaucraxy stuff? I barely participated (I think.)

I have my superfun dentist appointment tomorrow. And find out if I have more major dentistry bills in my future (please no.)

Dude, Jesse, you look crosswise at an 18 year old and you're a cougar. Don't front.

At quick perusal, urbandictionary.com agrees with me.

We coulda sent him a buffista birthday card!

I think I just hurt myself stifling a huge honking BWAH!

eta, from the article:

Richard Walter, the chairman of screenwriting at UCLA, is more skeptical of the site's usefulness. "As soon as you start to generalize, categorize, you're moving out of the heart and into the head," he says. Writing, he says, is a more a spontaneous process of discovering what your characters say and do as you write, rather than thinking it through ahead of time.

Hey, I met that guy and got a tiny scrap of private tutoring from him (Note to erika: He is brimful of awesome, as well as brimful of kindness and encouragement to flailing new screenwriters), and now I'm meanly gleeful at his skepticism. Fast Eddie/Gus/Janitor/whoever else you are today, I know the guy giving you the fishy stinkeye!