"when you spend enough time cordoned off with a small group of people, training morning, noon and night, well ... after a while, you're bound to find one of them attractive"
This does not seem intuitively true to me, nor very flattering to his wife.
I wonder how common is the thought "Of the various holes I could stick it in, this one is both nearby and not totally repulsive"? Or if it is perhaps extremely common in a non-Mineshaftish population?
More the rule than the exception in the big historical picture.
2: Huh. It sounds self-evident to me. Certainly proved true (for both sexes) in college.
Erm, I think you've described the impulse that causes the human race not to have died out over the millennia during which most people lived in communities of a couple of dozen other individuals.
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with?
The Mineshaft seems to have a surprisingly anti-convenience erotic preference trend.
There's a rose in a fisted glove.
I think 10 belongs in the other thread.
[1657 S. PURCHAS Theatre Flying-insects II. 354 When weaker vessells beare saile only in a calme, a true vessell of Christ should saile best to his wished port in a storme.] 1714 R. COCKS Sermon 6 Charity..is a safe Port in a Storm, an Asylum to the Fugitive, [etc.]. 1749 J. CLELAND Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 133, Pooh, says he my dear, any port in a storm. 1787 J. COBB First Floor II. ii. 51 Here is a door open, i' faith--any port in a storm, they say. 1821 SCOTT Pirate I. iv. 60 As this Scotsman's howf lies right under your lee, why, take any port in a storm. 1897 R. L. STEVENSON St. Ives xxv. 188 'Any port in a storm' was the principle on which I was prepared to act. 1936 B. ADAMS Ships & Women x. 229 'How do you like Maggie Cuddeford?' she asked. I replied, 'Any port in a storm. I like you heaps better.' 1977 A. MORICE Murder in Mimicry I. viii. 67 Henry and I moved on to our next port in the storm, which was a bar round the corner. 1991 T. HEALY It might have been Jerusalem (BNC) 22, I don't like that woman. And I never really asked for her. It was just, ye know, any port in a storm.
The line from Cleland is about anal sex, not in a random girl.
God forbid that any manly man should find strong women sexy for their very strength.
*sigh*
I really don't belong on this planet.
I understand that Mars Needs Women.
The line from Cleland is about anal sex
Is there contextual evidence for this, or is it just based on use of the word "pooh"?
God forbid that any manly man should find strong women sexy for their very strength.
But we're talking about women hormonally modified to approach manhood as closely as possible. Surely there's no shame in a het male finding near-male females less than optimal?
Pooh doesn't mean poop, ever, does it? Poo might, but the "h" differentiates.
Pooh doesn't mean poop, ever, does it?
Just in Winnie the Pooh, but usually not otherwise.
I thought about playing with brackets for the "h", but for Christ's sake, I'm making a 400 year old anal sex joke based on the defecation terminology of toddlers.
Besides, they us'd al kindes of wacky spelings in the dayes of yore.
I thought British people spelled poo with an h. I remember seeing a weird quote from one of the Spice Girls that indicated as much.
Now that we're on the topic of Dryden, can someone give me a two-sentence explanation of what "Absalom and Achitophel" is, and why it was written?
It's always been a secret shame that one of my yearbook quotes was straight out of a quote book, from a work of literature that I had never actually seen, let alone read.
This is just another failed translation. If you read what he said in the German, you would realize that he repeated the offensive saying "Big girls need love too."
18: But we're talking about women hormonally modified to approach manhood as closely as possible.
God forbid that any manly man should find strong women sexy for their very strength.
Dude, what JRoth said. I rather like a lot of muscle on chicks, but when they literally look like a man, that's a bit much.
Clearly Hamilton would win gay chicken, you buncha pussies.
Hovercraft, I thought that link would go to something about Buck Angel.
28: I'm bisexual, silly. I have to play in an entirely different league of Whatever Chicken games.
30: What percentage of straight guys would fuck Buck Angel if they were certain no one would ever find out?
It depends on how bad the storm, and which ports are available.
And how many hours a day they spent training with him.
31: I think we established that gay chicken is a boy game regardless of orientation.
36 is way off. Bisexuals can only compete on a level playing field with the rest of us if the game is Chicken Chicken (or other animal).
37: What, you're gonna start screaming about reverse discrimination in gay chicken?
Pussy, pussy, pussy.
if the game is Chicken Chicken (or other animal)
See 32.
Having had an infant actually inside our vaginas, LB, Alameida and I are gonna win this one.
28, 36: Among my engineering team, an all-talk version of gay chicken, the details of which I won't go into, had me in fourth place, after one straight and two openly gay males.
If it was the same infant, he'd be in good position to break all kinds of records in _________ Chicken.
43: See? Bi-superiority, my bisected bottom.
B, infant chicken is for guys. Girls play dog chicken.
44: Dorothy Parker reviewed a book whose heroine was born in a caribou, which would have to be good for some points along those lines.
42: Can you say for sure? I mean, have you guys compared notes?
48: If it was the same infant, than A and LB are so not living up to their custodial responsibilities.
28, 45: Just like a woman to argue both sides at once.
Dryden's Absalom and Achitaphel is overtly about a rebellion against the biblical King David led by his son Absalom, and is an obvious metaphor for the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 (the background to Tom Jones, among other things). The wikipedia article on the poem pretty much corresponds to what I remember about it from college.
I'm all woman, baby. Except for the manly parts.
51: Only in a very distant way is TJ about the Monmouth. The plot is directly bound up with the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
53: Duh, sorry, you're right of course. But A&A is about Monmouth.
Where've you been all my life?
his machine, which was one of those sizes that slip in and out without being minded,
Harsh.
I want to hear about the giant testosterone-inflated clitorises (clitori?). That's got to have some benefits.
"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with?"
Dammit dammit, around puberty time I heard that on the radio several times a day.