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I think for a long time I didn't realize it was so specific to Mexican-Americans. I knew it was different from "Latino" but was never exactly sure how.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost WTF

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Every journey starts with a single step, even if we're talking about a journey from the door to a king-sized mattress with rubber sheets. It's easy to stumble on what to say when you're composing that rousing first email to the OutPersonals member who inspired warm fuzzies in your short-and-curlies, but keep a few tips in mind.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

More importantly, say what inspired you to write in the first place. Even if that's only the image of their majestic and awe-inspiring Groin Serpent[...]

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Keep your first email a little on the short side.... Save the bit about being able to tie your tallywacker into a Winsor Knot for later.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse...

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Rubber sheets....

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

... and now Jerome!

― morris day (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I'll go to work now and move some furniture and maybe buy some office furniture.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I think rubber sheets are probably a dud unless you put something else over them. I really don't want to have to be squeegied out of bed.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess you're not into watersports?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Not as such, no. But even floating in a WHOLE SWIMMING POOL of water, one occasionally sticks to the inner tube and then OW.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

rubber sheets + baby oil = non-stick fun for all. and probably torn ligaments.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember full-motion waterbeds? Where the whole mattress was just this big rubber bubble?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Baby oil is just one of the many, many substances of this world that I don't EVER need to get in my hair.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Anyway, my mom had one of those, and me and my HS girlfriend would strip all the sheets off of it and do dirty things to each other. It was a lesson in rhythm as much as anything.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I know, I know... tmi.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I had had sex in HS. Or rather I wish I had had a BF in HS. The couple of random experiences I had were much-appreciated, but too few and far-between. And not very comfortable (standing).

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Baby oil is bad for condoms.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Vaseline is death to condoms.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't have a BF in HS either, Jesse. OR in college. Late start, what with the whole CHRISTIAN INSANITY thing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, the "being a really unpleasant adolescent".

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Baby oil is just one of the many, many substances of this world that I don't EVER need to get in my hair.

i know someone who's getting a shower cap for christmas...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I sort of had a girlfriend. Kind of like being hungry and being served a photograph of food.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost And a golden shower.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i had way more girls who were friends than girlfriends. it was kind of like being hungry and given a 7 course meal sealed in a lucite box.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I did the whole "friends who are girls" thing, too. Now I know I was just doing that classic thing where you think they'll appreciate your sensitivity and fall madly in love with you if you pretend you are beyond lust. Or something. Really all it boils down to is being a huge pussy.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Most of my friends in high school were girls, too. I had small crushes on a couple of them, but mostly I just enjoyed their company. Although the other night at the reunion, I revealed to like four separate people that my best friend from back then (female) was really a friend with benefits.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, "what's Stacie up to?" was like the question I was asked most often. I had to be like, "I dunno! I called her mom last year to see if I could re-establish contact and she said she'd pass along the message, but girl clearly doesn't want to be friends with me anymore, cuz I never heard from her."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just doing that classic thing where you think they'll appreciate your sensitivity and fall madly in love with you if you pretend you are beyond lust.

uhm, no, not what i was doing. i was upfront about wanting to give them the rail but they totally did not take me seriously. and now that i think about it, between the mohawk and the stick figurishness and the general pain in the assiness i can't blame them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost) I mean, I'm not COMPLETELY surprised, because things ended on sort of a weird note -- basically, we continued to be "involved" with each other long after it made sense to be, and so maybe she suspects that I haven't moved beyond those impulses -- but it's been over 5 years since I last talked to her, and I know I'm a lot more mature than I was back then, so I wish she'd give me the benefit of the doubt.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was in HS I had a COLLEGE GIRLFRIEND.

Really all it boils down to is being a huge pussy.

So horribly OTM.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I am totally leaving early today. No boss, general blah vibe in the office, sleepy, grey, meh. And I have shit to do.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, all of us PWNED by Jordan!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I am totally leaving early today. No boss, general blah vibe in the office, sleepy, grey, meh. And I have shit to do.

I wish I could do this sometimes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't do it too often, but I think this is a special occasion. I'm going apartment hunting. No one will deny me that.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/gems/katherine-harris-holds-possum.jpg

Katherine Harris and I have something in common.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Part of what I mean is that I'm not a salaried employee and so I'm at the mercy of an electronic timesheet system. If I ever leave early, I just have to make up the time before the end of the week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

you have impressive tits? xp

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I had girlfriends in highschool, somehow. But I probably could've had more if I wasn't a BIG PUSSY.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know what she saw in doofy high school me, but after my senior year of HS we both went to college at Madison for a year and then she broke up with me to date Mexican dudes.

xpost

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

John, I am a salaried employee, and I am also at the mercy of an electronic timesheet system.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i had one boyfriend in hs, and otherwise just pined over guys who didn't notice me. it might have helped if i hadn't spent most of the time in hs hiding behind my long hair.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Scrolling to the end to say two things:

1. Nov. 22 is my birthday. Come here then.

2. I want to have Thanksgiving at our house. I want you all to come over, and your mothers, too. But, there is not enough room at our house for everyone to come over - there is barely room for six or seven. SO... I will be happy to help plan/come cook at someone else's house where there is more room. Otherwise, I think we'd be better off going to Simon's all day like we did two years ago.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll go if we can go to simon's. is it open all day?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(xp) I forgot you're a JFK-assassination baby.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Our first T-day in Chicago, Jesse, Jeff, Sayjal and I went to the parade and wandered into Simon's at about 11 AM where we proceeded to get utterly BLOTTO until we made our way to Andee's for dinner at around 7 or 8, with some stranger from the bar that I invited to come along with us who was apparantly a real asshole but I barely remember anything after 3 pm or so and thus hold myself blameless.

Yes. I was born the day they shot JFK. The way you look at me sucks me right down the sidewalk. Somebody please tell this machine I'm not a machine.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

My presence might be required in Jersey for the actual holiday but I could come to Chicago the week after...tho if I can get out of the NJ family thing I totally, totally will.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of high school, I'm halfway though Freaks and Geeks now, and I have to say, as the series continues, it makes me more and more uncomfortable. This is one of the reasons I love it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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