jon-jon

You have one chance to get it right, and you are in that chance right now. There will be no do over. You die. You get buried or burned. End of story. Make your story memorable and you will live forever.

OK, this ties in with that thread on shirt lifters. O' mighty expert on all things UK, what is Spotted Dick? And is it as disgusting as it sounds? And do you know anything about fried cheese? That came up in a story ounce and sounded like it might be good. See, we have the start for a cook book already. Snickerdoodles anybody?

Old phrase, new context. The first time I read it, I was confused as to its meaning, and thought that its use was stretching things a bit. But I guess it fit the character, which is the whole point I think. Weird though how something everyone has to do [lift their shirt to expose their arse] became something pejorative for homosexuals. H & C - there are better ways to relieve tension! I don't think you should try your way on Santa Monica Blvd. though!

Heh! Heh! I was trying to out psych you after reading your initial post and picked summer! More fool me!

And the relevance to the topic is . . . ?

Condolances from myself, JR, Agatha Christie, Persnickity, Ceriame, Sebalious, Jackson and Wytch Spicer. As dear as I hold my little guys, I know you are missing yours. And thank you Tomas. I am really choked up here.

This also came up in Soapbox. I like the ad and I like the kid. Cute. Come on! It's a McDonald's commercial not a soap opera. But taking your idea a little further, it would be interesting if McDonald's did some more spots extending the story line into what you suggest. Like Taster's Choice did in their coffee ads. Come on Mark. Everyone has their moment. You know, when all the planets aline and the light is just so and they are just downright gorgeous!

Normally I wouldn't even touch this, but I have to give the guy credit for his sportsmanship. If it had been me I would have gone postal. What is absurd about the whole baseball purity thing is that the ump knew at the time his call was wrong. He admits he made the wrong call. Why can't they allow him to change it? NPR did a story awhile ago about umpire training. They are trained to never ever admit they are wrong. Even when they know they are (wrong). It's absurd. Mistakes happen. So make allowances for it when they do. Just to add a little oil to the water, I think baseball is boring. Except for those cute butts in those tight pants!

Your audiance is out there! Write the story already! But before you start - finish your other projects first. As much as I am looking forward to reading what you have described, starting the story and then waiting and waiting and waiting for the next chapters gets old very, very fast. Maybe it is just me, but I have a hard time keeping tract of stories on hold waiting for the new chapter. I just forget about them after too much time passes.

Yeah, but 151 chapters? On-line? Before I start, has it been completed? I don't even want to think about getting to Ch. 151 and finding out I have to wait for Ch. 152 to arrive at some unknown date!

OK. I hulu-ed (is that a word?) episode 12 of glee. The mattress commercial one. I don't get it. Its TV. It hasn't gotten any better. Sorry, I won't waste my time. Back to books.

Sounds like a totally logical, in a mr. spock way, of approaching it. Definately not the most romantic approach. Good luck guy!

Damn! This is a depressing thread. While reading the comments, I was trying to formulate my position, thinking back about things I had done or not done. Yang Bang, you kinda hit it on the head. I seriously doubt that someone at the point of suicide is thinking about courage, how its going to look, what someone will think, that sort of thing. I think they must go beyond a point of reality where their pain is the only thing they are thinking about. Unfortunately, this has been something I have had to think about several times within the last several years because there have been three or four teenage suicides in my town. No matter how well you think you know the family or the kid, you never know the why of it. It really hurts to think about a young life snuffed out because of such unknown internal pain. As to the original question, I have thought about it, the 'how' of it. I think everyone does. For me I think when I was young it was more about the drama of it. The effect it would have on the ones left behind. There was never any reason for actually doing it. Now that I am older, I find I am thinking about it more in terms of dealing with health issues. To what point, if I had the choice, would my health have to deteriorate for me to consider suicide? Would I do it? Ah, that is the question. I guess I will just have to wait to see what happens vis a vis my health versus that reality thing. So far, knock on wood, it is not an issue.

This is weird. Just about the time you started this thread, I bought a new house and since I had never used the tub (for a bath) in the old house in the last twenty years, I had the tub in the new house ripped out and had a shower installed. So, that makes me a shower only guy from here on out. Not to get too far off subject, skinny dipping beats a bath all the time.

I think you may have answered your own question. From a readers point of view, I go with the point that if it moves the story forward, is integral to character and is well written then I have no problem with it and enjoy it. Some authors take Andy Warhol's "always leave them wanting less" too much to heart and include too many "sexual encounters" and I find myself skimming over them to get back to the story. Sometimes "less is more" applies to more than just architecture!

More food for thought. (sorry!) "Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing." Michael Iapoce

Too cool! And thanks for the link. This one had slipped under my radar. Sooo, have you proposed yet?

My favorite is in my signature line but I am not sure who said it. I'm thinking it was P. T. Barnum.

No. It probably puts him in the 5-10 range at the straight end of the spectrum. He likes women but he likes his fantasies too! Did they say anything about their fantasies about two women together? That always seems to come "up" when guys fantasize! Where would that put them on the scale?

I've always pictured it as a continum on a scale from 1 to 100, with one being straight and 100 being gay. People fall all along the scale, some being totally straight, some being totally gay and some being a little of one or the other. Wherever you fall on the scale you are still human and still sexual. It is just a matter of degree. Either way, I don't think it matters at all as long as you are true to your self, have fun and play safe.

Yuuuck! No way. I'm still suffering pts from "Night of the living dead".

Good one. Too bad they had to go for such a negative life line before they got to their punch line. Physical protection is just as important as sexual protection.

I think the idea now is that you take your boyfriend to the prom! I'm sure there was music at my prom but the only thing I can remember from that night is my date's dress which should have clued me in to my being gay but for some reason didn't! Anything else about that night: nada.

I wear two stainless rings in my left ear. I got them when I bailed out of management to remind me to never try it (management) again! It worked.

Duh! Sometimes the obvious is just not seen. This ol' man just can't keep up with all this new stuff!