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Csven Concord
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Join date: 19 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,015
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08-10-2005 09:20
Yahoo News item taken from USA Today
Their conclusion: experiential gifts trump those with intrinsic value. But most importantly: Ladies, be sure to always remember the hanging fly! |
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Euterpe Roo
The millionth monkey
Join date: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,395
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08-10-2005 09:53
"In the model, a man chooses a worthless, valuable or extravagant gift. Valuable gifts might include . . . appliances"
Rule of Thumb: When choosing a gift for your girl, if it has a power cord; if it vacuums anything; if it makes a food item; or, worse, if it has anything to do with personal hygiene, just take a match to the cash and write her a poem, instead.  _____________________
"Of course, you'd also have to mention . . . furries, Sith Lords, cyberpunks, glowing balls of gaseous neon fumes, and walking foodstuffs" --Cory Edo
“One man developed a romantic attachment to a tractor, even giving it a name and writing poetry in its honor." MSN "  next week: the .5m torus of "I ate a yummy sandwich and I'm sleepy now" " Desmond Shang |
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Mhaijik Guillaume
Chadeaux Vamp
Join date: 18 Jun 2004
Posts: 620
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Nods
08-10-2005 10:31
Give me an appliance and I'll give you the boot
 write me a poem and I melt _____________________
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Nisa Stravinsky
Danger Mouse
Join date: 16 Sep 2004
Posts: 1,238
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08-10-2005 11:19
well it really depends on the appliance.
Give me a jacuzzi or a massager and then join me in using it, and well maybe I'll melt. _____________________
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Will you leave me breathless?"
"I'm beginning to think the human psyche enjoys victimizing itself. " - Sezmra Svarog "Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be -- and that we're ordinary." - Anne Bancroft (2003) |
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Trinity Serpentine
Schwan's Avitar Reject
Join date: 1 Oct 2003
Posts: 2,972
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08-10-2005 11:49
If my honey got me a portable ac unit I'd finally stop melting.
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Yeah, the toaster has great speakers, but all I want is fucking toast. |
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Ishtar Pasteur
Registered User
Join date: 18 May 2004
Posts: 133
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08-10-2005 12:11
I would adore all new appliances...bring them on. Seriously though if you are talking fondue pots or dirt devils then no I am not on board but if it is a commercial stove or one of those super nifty stainless steel dishwashers with the don't even scrape the plates mode I will be a puddle on the floor.
Then again at 30 you realize that poets may make lovely lovers but they can rarely pay the bills. _____________________
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung You can't have everything. Where would you put it? Steven Wright |
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Memory Harker
Girl Anachronism
Join date: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 393
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There's just something unseemly
08-10-2005 12:21
about the juxtaposition of "hanging fly" and "appliance," dontcha think?
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Mhaijik Guillaume
Chadeaux Vamp
Join date: 18 Jun 2004
Posts: 620
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*grins*
08-10-2005 12:29
Ishtar Pasteur "Then again at 30 you realize that poets may make lovely lovers but they can rarely pay the bills." But at 50 and comfortably independant, finding lovely lovers is nice _____________________
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Nisa Stravinsky
Danger Mouse
Join date: 16 Sep 2004
Posts: 1,238
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08-10-2005 13:19
But at 50 and comfortably independant, finding lovely lovers is nice finding lovely lovers at any age is a plus, bonus, and a-ok in my book. _____________________
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Will you leave me breathless?"
"I'm beginning to think the human psyche enjoys victimizing itself. " - Sezmra Svarog "Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be -- and that we're ordinary." - Anne Bancroft (2003) |
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Margaret Mfume
I.C.
Join date: 30 Dec 2004
Posts: 2,492
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08-10-2005 13:46
Considering the divorce rates....
Craftsman power tools are guaranteed for life and could come in handy when your handyman is no more. _____________________
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,989
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08-10-2005 15:15
Yes! I'm one of the good guys out there! News to me! w00t!
That said, what the hell do geeky mathmaticians know about dating?? Haha...nice try nerds. (This coming from a computer geek, I have nerve don't I?) Then again, computer geeks are cooler than math geeks ANY DAY!!!! _____________________
BTW
WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS! |
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Csven Concord
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Join date: 19 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,015
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08-10-2005 18:28
That said, what the hell do geeky mathmaticians know about dating?? I thought the "hanging fly" example they provided answered that. |
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Seifert Surface
Mathematician
Join date: 14 Jun 2005
Posts: 912
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08-10-2005 18:41
Then again, computer geeks are cooler than math geeks ANY DAY!!!! You wish! Actually, in my experience there are mathematicians and computery people of all shades of geekiness, coolness or both. _____________________
-Seifert Surface
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