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Response to: Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating
"Too much plot, too much character development, and not enough sex. Story of my freaking life!" Aw, gringo, I'm sorry. LOL.— September 25, 2009 12:24 a.m.
Response to: Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating
Fish eyed something that I myself have noticed: "You telling me you got a check for writing a story about kissing lesbians. A couple of months ago, some chick got a check for writing a story about her extramarital affair." Uh-huh. I was just making the same observation to refried in another thread. Not only does it sell. It wins. And it doesn't seem to matter if it's written well (as is always the case with our gringo), or... ...not.— September 25, 2009 12:11 a.m.
Response to: Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating
Reeefred quoted meeee: "But yeah, the disparity between the attractiveness levels of females vs. males is so extreme, it's totally unfair." And then offered: "But then again, it's apples and oranges, isn't it? An apple can't taste so sweet as an orange, and the dimpled peel of the Valencia can never be so smooth and shiny as that of a Red Delicious." More like apples and whatever these things are. http://abigailblake.com/sugarapple/wp-content/upl… :) "A man, surely, can whisper into your ear a scandalous confession of his feelings for you, a longing to hold you that makes your hair seem to rise, the shivers in the spine are uncontrollable. No man can do that to me, but the right one can do that to you." Unicorns can shoot moonbeams out of their eyes, too. :) "But a woman, the subtle movements of hand and legs and head - hands, slender and sensitive, barely touching mine; lips move gracefully, eyes dancing, trapping me inside of her soul. No woman can do that to you, but the right one can do that to me." I think you have a secret career as a writer of romance novels that none of us knows about, gringomantic. "Apples and oranges, ma'am. There's a good reason that Eve told Adam to shut up and take a bite ;)" LOL. And that was a "good" idea, was it? ;)— September 25, 2009 12:01 a.m.
Response to: Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating
Daniels opined: "I don't see an attractiveness disparity." Oh come ON, Daniels. I don't see how you can type that with a straight face. It's perfectly possible -- especially in San Diego -- to spot dozens of pretty women in a day. And most of them are with a guy that looks like he should be under a bridge somewhere, scaring the bejeezus out of billy goats. "Men and women have different beauty--though when we first met AG made fun of some of my choices for male attractiveness on some thread--do you even remember who I chose, AG?" Wasn't Woody Allen one of them? LOL. Elvis Costello, PeeWee Herman, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Steve Buscemi, Steven Hawking, Screech from Saved by the Bell, Erkle... I forget the rest of the list. :) "I don't, but 'pretty' ain't first on the list--or even a big vodka bottle :)" But neither one hurts. (And if it does, there are products for that.)— September 24, 2009 11:49 p.m.
Response to: Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating
Single wrote: "But back to AntiG for a moment....I forgot to say I disagreed with your Freudian interpretation of attraction to those who raised us..." Well, that's why I said families OR people we grew up around. Were you exclusively around brown folks? Because I was raised by a couple of hermits. Hardly ever saw anybody who wasn't white with blue eyes for at least the first few years of my life -- which are the important ones, for bonding. "I believe everyone is capable of learning and growing beyond their upbringing. I would be a very different woman if I had been unable to do this." It's not really a matter of "learning," Single. It's a matter of visceral response. I can try to BS myself into being attracted to some little round brown guy, but I know better. No hobbit-with-a-heart-of-gold is going to make my pupils dilate and my IQ drop about 50 points. Even "tall, dark, and handsome," really doesn't do it for me. It's pretty much like trying to intellectualize oneself out of liking vanilla ice cream better than chocolate. "De gustibus non est disputandum."— September 24, 2009 11:37 p.m.
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Chef refried advised: "Here, we cook those in a very tasty guajillo sauce. Tacos, for breakfast, even ;)" Heehee. I'll bet ya do. Got a recipe for this? http://www.neurotranscendence.com/wp-content/uplo…— September 24, 2009 11:17 p.m.
Independence Day
Love it. Fish is right. It 'should' win. I have a theory, however, about what the Reader likes to pick as winners. I haven't checked this out thoroughly, yet, but I noted that several seem to have one little factor in common. Apparently, it not only sells. It wins. Frequently. ;)— September 24, 2009 11:13 p.m.
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Fish bubbled: "I'm gonna pinch that, AG! Grassahoppasans is inspired!" I like to make up new words. :) "Yesterday's neologisms, like yesterday's jargon, are often today's essential vocabulary." – Academic Instincts, 2001 "In psychiatry, the term neologism is used to describe the use of words that only have meaning to the person who uses them, independent of their common meaning. This is considered normal in children, but a symptom of thought disorder (indicative of a psychotic mental illness, such as schizophrenia) in adults.[1] People with autism also may create neologisms.[2] Use of neologisms may also be related to aphasia acquired after brain damage resulting from a stroke or head injury.[3]" -- Wikipeedia.— September 24, 2009 10:49 p.m.
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refried noted: "Oh noes. AG, you're in rare form tonight ;)" Nah. It's the same one as usual. Still a chubby blonde. I was going to be one of these tonight: http://media.photobucket.com/image/mythical%20cre… But then I decided, "Meh, why bother?"— September 24, 2009 10:43 p.m.
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Lola Falana mis-sed: "Is this place like the mystical elephant graveyard where all the misfits come to die?" I think you mean "mythical" elephant graveyard. Although there are mystical elephants. Here's one now: http://thaierawan.com.au/images/a01_erawan_elepha…— September 24, 2009 10:35 p.m.