Re: But It's Not Torture!

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You wouldn't want to be summed up as "soul patch"? Whyever not? Supposing you had one, that is.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01-21-05 3:48 PM
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Does it make things better or worse if I confess that I checked off two matches for the evening: spilled drink on me guy and food guy?


Posted by: Scheherazade | Link to this comment | 01-21-05 4:20 PM
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Better! Drink guy must have been a great apologizer.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-21-05 4:24 PM
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Those are better than the time I tried speed dating. I had "works at the jail" and "looks like neanderthal"

I did not check off any matches.


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 01-21-05 7:43 PM
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Aren't the first 4 seconds of an interview the most crucial ..... or somethin like that .......


Posted by: Andrew Cholakian | Link to this comment | 01-21-05 8:25 PM
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"Aren't the first 4 seconds of an interview the most crucial...."

It's Malcolm Gladwell's Blink you want to argue with or agree with.


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 01-22-05 8:53 AM
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Spilled drink guy and food guy sound by far the most appealing. Though I don't know what "kegogi" means, or "traffic guy" for that matter.

Ben--I suppose if you had one you might not mind being summed up that way, but that would be a problem in and of itself, wouldn't it? (You don't have one, do you?)


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-23-05 1:52 PM
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I don't know--if a soul patch means just having facial hair in the dedicated soul patch zone, then the answer is no. I do have a goatee-like growth around my chin and mouth which includes hair in that area.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01-23-05 2:09 PM
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It's Malcolm Gladwell's Blink you want to argue with or agree with.

I only read the first page, and I didn't agree with it.


Posted by: cw | Link to this comment | 01-23-05 2:11 PM
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No, that's not a soul patch. I once told a fellow-philosopher, who has a full beard, that he had a piece of icing on his soul patch and he threatened to clock me. Even though what I had said was the most economical way of communicating where the icing was, the implication that he had a soul patch was considered too vile to warrant the use of that term. So you're clear. Or, rather, I'm clear, since I was the one who insulted people with soul patches.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-23-05 3:18 PM
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