18 February 2004
Submitted by eve on Wed, 02/18/2004 - 12:09am. Beautiful
"So I got an email from The Guy, and I thought --"
"Hold on, hold on, hold on. The Guy? I'm going to need a lot more context here. Knowing you."
"Shut up."
"Could say worse."
"Shut up."
--Two women talking at Andronico's.
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Early song
Posted by Saint on Thu, 02/26/2004 - 12:15pm.
Maybe by Friday I'll know all the lyrics.

You wake up late for work with a morning bone
You ask your wife please but she still says "GO!"
You miss two meetings and no real work
But your boss writes you up cuz he's some kind of jerk!

You gotta fight!
For your right!
To geeeeeeet laid!

Your boss caught you slacking and he said "No raise!"
That hypocrit just jacks off all day!
Man going to work is such a drag
And the guys in receiving call you a fag

You gotta fight!
For your right!
To staaaaay home!

You gotta fight!

And...I'm missing a verse. *shrug*
Another friday song
Posted by peegee on Fri, 02/20/2004 - 3:36pm.
Stuck on my mind ever since my office mate bought, brought and played the record.

Kashmir - Surfing The Warm Industry

I wanna run from the apathy
from the questioning tounges
and eyes that just won't come off
and get a job in a industry
where a smile's not required
and complaints are always the same

cause baby you must be so fed up
with a boy that keeps telling you
how much good he's gonna do
when all that is happening 'round here
is happening in here
and nothing gets out there
except for the truth

it's up to you
cause I'm absolutely numb
it's up to you
cause I'm absolutely numb

I've been adrift on the silver surf
and I've paddled ahead of the fear
that I'd fall behind
I took drinks from the glitter smurfs
and their company dads who never
stood by in the crying

cause no one does and nobody ever will
there is only space for one
and surely he gets killed
when the engine seizes up
you might call it existential crisis
I simply call it the bravery
of emptiness

it's up to you
cause I'm absolutely numb
it's up to you
cause I'm absolutely numb
Posted by Matt on Fri, 02/20/2004 - 12:46pm.
Oh, and happy birthday, Kurt.

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel's hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice (x3)
She calls me Daddy
Posted by Social Neanderthal on Fri, 02/20/2004 - 10:43am.
My wife started calling me 'Daddy' when the kids were born. Not all the time, but a lot, and mostly around the kids. Maybe she's trying to make sure they know who I am, but since they are now teenagers I'm hoping the doubt is gone. It is usually said with affection, but sometimes it seems a little odd.

I just call her sugar butt.
The Sophist is: OUT
Posted by Joe Napalm on Fri, 02/20/2004 - 9:33am.
*Wanders in, kicking some tumbleweeds back out the door, gesturing to the bartender for a drink*

Well, my fellow IPers, the time has come.

After what seemed like and unending series of obstacles, I now have approximately 0.25 seconds to report for my MiB brainwa...er...training.

So, for the next four months (at least) I'll be unhooked. Off the grid. Aconnected. Neither wired nor wireless. Working without a Net. Sans modem. Losing my bloody mind. And other euphamisms for lacking unlimited internet access.

Anyway - until such a time as I'm once again able to jack into the wider world...play nice, don't take any wooden nickels, and watch out for itinerant grues.

Vaya con Dios, mi amigos.

*raises his glass, drains it, and smacks it down on the bar...

...then turns the sign over his table to read "The Sophist is: OUT", vanishing in a poof of logic*

-Joe Excalibur Napalm, Esq-
Efreeti Sophist
City of Brass Expatriate
Everyone's Favorite Vile Fiend

O there's sober men in plenty, and drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl.
But give me a ramblin' rover,and from Orkney down to Dover
We will roam the country over and together will face the world!

There's many that feign enjoyment for merciless employment
Their ambition was this deployment since the minute they left the school
They save and scrape and ponder while the rest go out and squander
See the world, and rove and wander, and they're happier as a rule.

O there's sober men in plenty, and drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl.
But give me a ramblin' rover,and from Orkney down to Dover
We will roam the country over and together will face the world!

I've roamed through all the nations, ta'en delight in all creation
And I've tried a wee sensation where the company did prove kind
And when parting was no pleasure, I've drunk another measure
To the good friends that we treasure for they always are in our minds.

O there's sober men in plenty, and drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl.
But give me a ramblin' rover,and from Orkney down to Dover
We will roam the country over and together will face the world!

For the lassies young and sprightly, them I courted nightly
Where stayin' wasn't likely, for I ramble up and down;
'Cause life it would be hearty, I'd dance at every party,
Meet ramblin' Dan McCarthy and we'll all go on the town.

O there's sober men in plenty, and drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl.
But give me a ramblin' rover,and from Orkney down to Dover
We will roam the country over and together will face the world!

So when troubles do befall me, to the high road I do haul me
Ramblin' Johnny's what you call me, 'tis me blessing and me bane.
Though my comrades have been many, I'll take a drink with any
'Til I've spent me last wee penny, and life I'll not see again.

O there's sober men in plenty, and drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl.
But give me a ramblin' rover,and from Orkney down to Dover
We will roam the country over and together will face the world!

If you've bent with arth-er-itis, your bowels have got colitis
You have gallopin' bollockitis and your thinkin' it's time you died
You've been a man of action tho you're lying there in traction
You may gain some satisfaction sayin' "Jaysus, at least I tried!"

O there's sober men in plenty, and drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl.
But give me a ramblin' rover,and from Orkney down to Dover
We will roam the country over and together will face the world!`
-- Rambling Rover, by Silly Wizard
 
Posted by Matt on Fri, 02/20/2004 - 12:34pm.
Be good to yourself, Joe. And hurry back. It's not the same here without you.
 
We'll miss ya...
Posted by ParU on Fri, 02/20/2004 - 11:30am.
Joe - do watch out for those Aliens.
It's Amino world without Chemists
 
Who was
Posted by tim on Fri, 02/20/2004 - 9:55am.
that masked apparition?
Slán go fóill Joe
--" The torture never stops"--
 
I dunno,
Posted by Mike on Mon, 02/23/2004 - 1:14pm.
But he totally stiffed us on that last drink!

...Meh, we'll let it slide this time...
But
Posted by hypoxic on Fri, 02/20/2004 - 7:57am.
is the 10 bucks going to include a video? or is it just a one time viewing?
Monetary gluttony
Posted by Intelligirly on Fri, 02/20/2004 - 5:44am.
Heck, I'm almost constantly broke and I'd kick in ten or twenty.

Especially if you included top hat and cane. hee.


I love Mike!
I regret to inform you
Posted by Mike on Thu, 02/19/2004 - 7:39am.
That I get email from The Guy every single day. It gets worse: He seems unusually focused on the size of my... uh... well let's just say you shouldn't be making any wedding plans.

And tell him his lousy pills didn't work.
Posted by marinerd on Wed, 02/18/2004 - 1:10pm.
For years I referred to my son as "the boy". It always infuriated my parents (probably why I kept doing it). He's so sweet natured it never did bother him. I think it started because he was the only male in my household. Now he's grown, but I confess I'd have a hard time thinking of him as "the man"!
There's a guy I sort of know
Posted by Obsidiana on Wed, 02/18/2004 - 7:40am.
There's a guy I sort of know on campus here who's nickname is "That Guy," everytime people see him they say "Hey! It's That Guy!"

In this case, though, I'm going to have to say to these women hey! Stop talking about my boyfriend!
 
Mr Man
Posted by Apple on Thu, 02/19/2004 - 8:33am.
Ask AppleMan what he thinks of my abbreviated version of his moniker.

*grin*
Heh
Posted by Intelligirly on Wed, 02/18/2004 - 7:16am.
And I repeat, heh.

He was, though, wasn't he? Cute, sweet, crazy. such a waste.

I love Mike!
The The
Posted by Jon on Wed, 02/18/2004 - 6:25am.
A friend of mine calls her boyfriend simply The Boy - sort of a catchword that her friends know about. It's a funny choice, as he is several years older than her. :)
 
I admit it
Posted by Alice on Wed, 02/18/2004 - 9:22pm.
Okay, so few years ago I dated this guy who I always referred to simply as "boy," but it was cute in a dumb way because he called me "girl," and it was even. Then, after a few months, he quit calling me girl and got very miffed at me for "belittling" him in public by referring to him as my "boy."
Sigh.
 
Boy belittled
Posted by chica on Mon, 02/23/2004 - 7:11am.
And that was your first clue that it was time to move on, yes? Loss of the sense of humor is always a bad sign
 
I can understand that.
Posted by paul on Thu, 02/19/2004 - 3:01am.
My ex-wife used to refer to me (and address me) as "Husband" throughout our marriage. For the first month it was semi-cute, but it got very old very fast. I began to ask her not to address me that way, but she continued to up until the last two years or so of the marriage. It bugged the hell out of me. It was like being called "Snooky-wookums" or something equally vile. It set my teeth on edge every time I heard it.

Sorry, but men do like to have some dignity.
 
Well, if you asked her to sto
Posted by Alice on Thu, 02/19/2004 - 10:11am.
Well, if you asked her to stop and she didn't, that would be horribly vile, yes.
Though I don't know if it's as bad as "snookywookums."
 
Project
Posted by Saint on Thu, 02/19/2004 - 10:58am.
My wife calls me--ugh--"sexybuns." I hardly have the words for how much I hate it. I've asked her to stop, and she will for a while, but then she slips, because she thinks it's so damned cute. But recently I discovered that she has an extreme dislike of the songs the frog used to sing on Looney Tunes, and so now I burst into song when she uses the hated nickname. I'm hoping I can thus retrain her to have as much an aversion to the nickname as I have.
 
I'd pay
Posted by tim on Thu, 02/19/2004 - 11:55am.
like 20 bucks to have that on film.
I mean totally unaware she calls you that and you break into " Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal"
: D
The thought of it has had me in stitches for damn near 20 minutes already
--" The torture never stops"--
 
I think I'd kick...
Posted by ParU on Thu, 02/19/2004 - 12:01pm.
in about 10 bucks myself. *g*
It's Amino world without Chemists
 
Kickin'
Posted by Apple on Thu, 02/19/2004 - 5:42pm.
I've been demanded to kick in $10 more by the Man.
 
Huh. That's how my cousin ref
Posted by Cebu on Wed, 02/18/2004 - 6:32am.
Huh. That's how my cousin referred to the last guy I had a thing for. Probably because he was 5 years younger than me.

regrets, I've had a few

(if that's wrong, let it pass)
Posted by Matt on Wed, 02/18/2004 - 1:26am.
Okay, for a second there I thought I had a handle on what Woman #2 meant, but now I'm just imagining the myriad of possibilities. Knowing this group, there will be a bunch I'd never imagined.

Maybe Woman #1 isn't much of one for committed relationships?
Maybe she's married but finds herself developing relationships with men that are a little too intimate?
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