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Sorry, in the states if we said "thong" they would think we were talking about our underwear.

I just tend to differentiate between an acquaintance and a friend. An aquaintance is someone I have just met or been introduced to. It could be a friend of a friend who had joined us for a dinner out. If I never see that person again, he will remain an acquaintance. Being friendly is different than being a friend. To me friendship denotes a certain amount of responsibility, one to the other. I would of course be friendly during dinner but unless our interaction over dinner led to further developement, a bonding as you put it, between the two of us (I'm not talking relationships here) then I don't think I would discribe our meeting as friendship. Actually, dumping me into the shower came after bailing me out. Hehehe.

I never suspected. Is this coincidental or intentional? Either way it is scary.

I'll go along with everything you have said except for the part I highlighted. If everthing else you said is true, how can they be complete strangers? How can anyone be "friends" with a complete stranger? This is by way of being a pet peeve of mine. My next to last partner was in the habit of bringing home someone he had just met and introducing them as "my best friend ______ ". It didn't help that he was a real estate salesman and was meeting new people daily. It kinda cheapened the term "friend" for me.

I am soooo dumb! I didn't even see it. But that is such a cool idea. There are so many restaurants we never ate at because they were too expensive for our budget. We have something similar here called First Thursday. On the first Thursday of each month all the museums, art galleries stay open late and the restaurants offer special deals on meals and drinks. If the weather cooperates, the street becomes one big cocktail party.

A true freind is someone who at 3 AM will bail you out of jail.

Sorry. I don't speak Dutch. But the pictures are nice. What point were you trying to make?

Die, gesis! Take that! I think I'll name my next new kitten Gesis. AND when anyone asks, I'll tell them it's a Canadian thing! Hehehehe.

Your cat thanks you! You have a dishwasher? Lucky guy. I only clean like you do when someone is coming to dinner and I try not to have to many dinner parties! Baseboards? Go to your local big box home improvement store and wander through the moldings isle. All baseboards are is a flat piece with moulding trim. Let your imagination soar. Ripping out all the old stuff and replacing it though will be e-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e. Maybe just one room.

That about sums it up!

Well of course! We are talking fashion here. And they do it with black socks! White is bad enough! Maybe if you used the Japanese socks with the toe notch which are made to be worn with flip-flops . . . The worst is leather shoes, black socks and shorts. Not even the English can pull it off.

Ieeeyeee! Another one. I will just add this one to "paradigm" as a word that gives me brain freeze. Everytime I heard that word, my mind would (well, it still does) just shut down. I don't know why but I just can't get my mind around it. Diegesis isn't in my Webster's either. It's a fancy way of saying storytelling? I don't think I will be adding it to my vocabulary. Might be good for scrabble if nothing else.

This is a new one for me. Could I get a definition? I'm thinking that its a boomer generation thing reacting to the less than over protectiveness of their parents. Every generation seems to re-invent "parenting".

Dejavu. If I were dead I would be thinking that I had been reincarnated. What you see here is what I am. And this is my only on-line persona. I haven't messed with any other site. The only difference is that here I have time to think before I insert my foot although I have still managed to do that here too! My response time in real life is slow, so having time to think is a bonus.

Ditto! I don't recognize most of them either. But if I were a teenager and facing the obvious, it would sure be nice to see this list of other people from all walks of life that shared my situation. Bravo.

Molly! Don't open that door! Eiiya! I actually listened to those but I preferred Burns and Allen. On this question I am schizophrenic. On the one hand I am organized which is a lot different than neat. On the other hand my organization can appear deceptive. To look at my desk, PC station or the basement workroom anyone would wonder 'how does he find anything'? Its cluttered but I know what's there. Everything in the 'public' rooms appear to be neat and tidy but I know that the spiders have been busy and the dust bunnies will bite your ankles. Of course there is the exception to the rule: I have been looking for a portfolio for the last six months. I know it is here somewhere, I just don't know where.

OK. Does anyone remember Winky Dinks? This may have been local to the D.C. area, I certainly can't remember. Its big deal was this plastic cover (kinda like saran wrap) you ordered so you could put it over your TV screen and then you could draw on the TV with the characters in the show. Sounds simple I know but kids in the '50s were; simple I mean.

Mainly, there is always something to do or somewhere to be at any hour of the day or night. So if you are a go go go type of person the city would be the place to be. Back in the day, I remember going 24hrs. in Baltimore non stop - there was always something open and someplace to eat - we closed the bars and were there when they opened - in the same clothes! Jeeze, was I a young idiot! And New York? OMG. That place never closes. Now, for the stop stop stop types like me, I would prefer a forest or woods. Getting lost in Muir Woods on the California coast in 1970 is one of my fondest memories! It helped that I was stoned out of my mind! Something about good weed and those tall green trees with the dappled light and the breeze rustleing through the leaves . . .

Ah, now that would be the difference between 1958 and 2008!

Thanks Scotty for getting us back on topic. I guess we had stepped out to lunch! Generally speaking, the smut is good in moderation. When it drags on body part by body part with every tongue and finger stroke for paragraph after paragraph I fast forward (thank god for page down) to when the door bangs open. (The door always bangs open, go figure.) It also helps if it pertains to the story, you know, there is an actual reason for them to be doing it. Frankly, I don't believe there are that many 14 year olds getting it on, even in fiction. And not that many on them could be that attractive, even in fiction. And not to get off track, (maybe this should be in one of the writers forums) but how many adoptions generally take place in a given year in the U.S.? I think in the stories posted in GA alone we have exceeded the limit.

Read the books. Read the books. You won't be sorry you did. I re-read the books starting with #1 before each movie. (someone else will have to do the math on how many times that makes for book number one) I had to, inorder to remember the whole back story for each new movie. What can I say, I'm a Harry Potter fanatic with a terrible memory!

I don't read anything online that I can get in hardback or paperback . Since I cannot get most of what is posted on GA, Nifty, CRVBoy, Awesomedude, etc., from the local book store or amazon.com I read that online. I don't like to read it online because of the errors, size of the print, the errors, the backgrounds, the errors, the screen switching, the errors, but that's where it is so I read it there. Anytime you authors want to learn how to spell, use grammer and construct a complete sentence, I'll be waiting and reading. Oh yeah, it would be nice if you used the same character names throughout the piece.

I'd like to go ethnic on you, but I'll have to stick with stereotype. Tonight boys and girls it's going to be spinach quiche, rice, steamed broccoli and carrots with french bread and a glass of wine. Hey! Gay boys really do eat quiche!

When Fred dies we should declare it a national gay holiday!

What they said! Happy Birthday!!