― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also recently had an editor ask me to replace the use of "date" as a verb, because it sounded "formal!"
Personally, I've always been slightly impressed by people's serial-dating. Yes, I understand it could be the result of no relationship ever really taking off, but it also creates the impression that they're just sampling pickily around, like they're going to try out every person possible before deciding on one. This is sort of daunting in process, of course, because you realize you're going to have to exhibit a certain level of dating professionalism to avoid getting dropped: afterwards you feel like an ill-fitting shirt or one of those little pink Baskin-Robbins tasting spoons, briefly examined and then passed on. Some people are just so adept at this, like waiter, bring me another!
Sometimes I think I'd like to try this, briefly, if only so I could be one of those people who's dated everyone. You could ask me about anyone in the city, and I'd just make that little face and go "Ahh, yeah, she's ... interesting."
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Oh, but you still need a word for people in your friendship orbit who you are semi getting it on with but are not your proper "girlfriend" or "boyfriend." Personally I like "girlperson" and "boyperson" for all indeterminate situations.)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Would you like to liase with me on this project?
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
this is the first time in my life when girls (plural) have been interested in me, much less a girl (singular), and you all make fun.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
*cue Prince wailing*
― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
"this is what it sounds like..."
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
I see the ILX ph34r of the word "date" has come up again...
― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
(The green thing is an inflatable fish with a mirror in it).
― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:42 (twenty-one years ago) link