Re: They Don't Make Teenagers Like They Used To

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If he were my friend, I would have called him "Blackie".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:07 PM
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And that boy? His name was ogged.

Only the boys told him he sucked.

And the swimming? That's all of these strange new things going on with his body

And the boys were his mother.

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Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:08 PM
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And you would have never, ever forgiven yourself, Ben.

Chopper, I can't help you.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:10 PM
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I don't know what you're talking about, ogged. It was your post.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:16 PM
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No, I get it, Ogged.

Kids these days have fogotten how beneficient Spandax-related program teasing relatived activities can be for the oppressed.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:30 PM
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Post title in honor of Times Week in Review recycling the "What's the matter with kids these days?" trope?


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:30 PM
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I'm trying to write a paper here, so the more you folks could comment and help me procrastinate, that'd be great.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:36 PM
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Chopper,

Please provide an explanation for why it is that, when you ride your bike in the evening, your hands get cold—colder than they would if you walked. Your explanation must begin with the phrase "Back on the veldt".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:44 PM
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Is that because you want an evolutionary biology story, or because you're hoping to make some kind of pun on velodrome?


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:49 PM
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I want an evolutionary biology story.

I've already come up with one, but I want Chopper's unique take.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:53 PM
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Back on the veldt, my hands never got cold--duelling Cape Buffalo all day to practice for the World Freestyle Bullfighting championship keeps the blood up, what?

However, now that I am back in the States, and perambulate around town upon my motor-bicycle on a regular basis, I find myself faced with constant cold-handedness. Some might attribute such a state to my warm heart, others to my gloveless state and the cold air.

I, however, attribute it to the need to use my hands whilst pottering about on my metal steed. For certainly, while I walk my hands are free and toasty warm, kept firmly in the warm, slightly moist confines of w-lfs-n's mom's muff--the dear soul being kind enough to lend it to me, since Wolfon's pater wasn't using it.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 10:54 PM
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I should have been clearer—why one's hands get cold.

There's an ineptitude, or perhaps infelicity, in your joke, you know; a woman's non-euphemistic muff is used by her herself, not by a man of her acquaintance, yet the reason you proffer for my mom's having given you the use of hers is that my father wasn't using it. It's a needless lack of grace.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 11:08 PM
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I disagree. The lack of grace was quite needful. For, in order to follow the form of what the youth of today call "playing at twelves" or somesuch, one must offer the most ungentlemany opinions about one's fellow gentlemen's matriarchs. Can't be helped, old chum.

While I was travelling in Africa (on the veldt, don't you know), I met a marvellous tribe--the Ownzoori--and they taught me the art of this much-beloved cross-cultural means of communication. It pains me to inform you, old bean, that the first to complain of a wound suffered on the field of verbal battle suffers immediate defeat. And I repeat to you their ulullating cry of victory, purely for the sake of form and not from any harbored ill feeling:

Pwn!


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 11:31 PM
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You quite mistake my meaning, old chap. I meant nothing more than that the dozens, while executed as well as could be expected, was at odds with itself in conception, for its exoteric subject matter, a muff for a woman's own use, in which to warm her hands, and its esoteric, a woman's own muff, in which sexual congress is accomplished, are typically employed by different individuals; in the former case, the owner, in the latter, the leaser or (in your mother's case) the renter.

This inherent disharmony prevents the insult from being maximally artful.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-27-05 11:46 PM
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Your lease/rental distinction strongly suggests that you view your parent's relationship as a longer-term, more formalized version of prostitution.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:00 AM
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What with artificial insemination and in vitro fertalization, this post title is true.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:00 AM
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It was late and I was tired.

I know how to spell.

I am not Michael.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:01 AM
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Your lease/rental distinction strongly suggests that you view your parent's relationship as a longer-term, more formalized version of prostitution.

Yeah, I paused over that. Then I decided I was adopting a persona.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:11 AM
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Aha! I see the cause of our misunderstanding. As w-lfs-n's father knows, his mother really does prefer to remain frigid. If she's not using it, why not make it available for the use of others?

Her willingness to lend her muff to me and let it out to the odd Chinee proprieter of opium dens should hardly come as a surpise, given her propensity for polishing the brass of all the fellows in town. Why, I don't believe I've ever met a more accomplished entreprenuer in the field of brass polishing. Knobs in doorways, knobs in cars--the shine she can put on a fellow's knob is truly extraordinary.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:38 AM
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You see, that second paragraph was much better done.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:43 AM
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Paper's done. Thanks for the procrastination assist!


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:49 AM
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Damn, that was fast.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:50 AM
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Won't the pudgy swimming kid grow up feeling good about himself, thus losing the edge of bitterness and ressentiment that leads people to accomplish great things? American competitiveness was threatened enough already, without people going all feely-touchy with the nerds and geeks.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 5:31 AM
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Won't the pudgy swimming kid grow up feeling good about himself, thus losing the edge of bitterness and ressentiment that leads people to accomplish great things?

You're missing the obvious explanation for why the cool kids were being nice: the fat kid is dying of something.


Posted by: tom | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 6:35 AM
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I can rest easy now.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 6:37 AM
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I don't know, Emerson. He still might consume a lot of healthcare on his way out...


Posted by: tom | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 6:45 AM
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w-lfs-n: a muff for a woman's own use

Allowing the little darlings free run now, are we?

ash

['Next it will be equipment for mechanical stimulation.']


Posted by: ash | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 8:04 AM
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Totally OT, but...I believe today is Apostroher's birthday, no?


Posted by: annie | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 8:44 AM
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If we could convince the swimming kid to opt for natural healing, the cost could be minimized.

Oddly enough, Medicare doesn't cover megadoses of garlic and grape juice.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 8:49 AM
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I am not Michael.

So you say.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:24 PM
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today is Apostroher's birthday, no?

And mine, too.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:27 PM
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Happy birthday; any plans to celebrate?


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:28 PM
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Happy birthday, Apo!


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:30 PM
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I believe Ben wishes you a happy birthday, as well.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:30 PM
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Well, I'm getting to the age where they don't mean much any longer. The missus is cooking a special dinner and we'll open one of the bottles from deep in the back of the cellar.

Beyond that, just Monday Night Football.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:31 PM
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What, no Marilyn Monroe?


Posted by: Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 12:43 PM
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For your birthday, some weird news. (I couldn't find a bacon-wrapped wine bottle.)


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 11-28-05 1:49 PM
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Never got around to wishing you happy bday, apo. Hope it was a good day.


Posted by: annie | Link to this comment | 11-29-05 6:13 AM
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Thanks, everybody. It was indeed a good day.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-29-05 6:23 AM
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Hey, happy b-day, Apostropher!


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 11-29-05 7:54 AM
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