Cole Parker
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Lots of truth there. Often you can't control circumstances, but almost always you can control your attitude, and that can make such a huge difference.
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Recently, I've seen 'past' and 'passed' substituted freely for each other, a blunder of the first water. I won't explain them. Aren't they self-evident, as much so as many of the words above?
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A plastic peanut butter jar stuck on his head? How terribly delicious! I'd have loved to have seen that.
I don't think too many things embarrass our raccoon, but getting hauled out of a tree and having to have a peanut butter jar surgically removed, well, that might have been enough to do the trick.
So, Wibby, was it good for you?
Hah hah hah hah!
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Damn good question!<g>
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Thanks, Trab. YOu made my point. I meant that neither has a clue -- to what the other person means. Not that he doesn't have a clue what he means. But, I didn't write it that way, thinking the message was clear without that further redundancy. You showed me it wasn't.
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To me, losing your virginity means having sexual intercourse. Of course, I learned the word and the meaning in the Victorian age. I suppose it could mean something entirely different to others.
This discussion highlights one thing: words mean different things to different people. It's no wonder communication is so difficult. We think we know what the other person is saying, and we think they understand the point we're making, and often neither of us has a clue.
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To me, the moment bodily fluids and orgasms are involved, it's a sexual experience
Well, certainly. But so is hand holding when you're 12. It's a sexual experience. You have sexual feelings. It's arousing. Perhaps not when you're 22, but certainly when you're 12.
Many sexual experiences are mental as much as physical.
Ones that involve fluid exchanges and orgasms are pretty highly charged, richly developeed sexual experiences. But when you're young, the earlier, nascent experiences are heady as hell and just terribly, terribly exciting.
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ls being sensitive and pensive the same as being self-pitying? Is bottling feelings up over time and figuring out the best way to deal with them being self-pitying? Is using what popularity a person has to make other people think about themselves and possibly change their ways, possibly see things is a different light, the wrong way to approach things?
And isn't it delightful that so much disparate thought, so many ways to look at things, so many interpretations, can come from such a brief snippet of life? This is what good writing is all about.
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TR makes excellent points. What this sort of questionaire does, more that anything else, is make us think. These words don't have hard and fast definitions, and give us fits trying to define them for ourselves. It's like the labels people use. They only fit a little bit. Or not at all. Humans are as varied as the colors in the spectrum. I think every questionaire that I've ever seen, I've simply scratched my head and honestly said, "I simply can't answer this," or, "I don't know what this means."
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I expect raccoons have rapacious, immoral and ultimately wasteful sex lives.
Tell me I'm wrong.
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I'm sometimes slow on the uptake. Where's Trab when I need him? I think, but I'm not sure, that Lugnutz just wrote he was fantacizing about the Raccoon's end. Did I misinterpret something? I doubt either end of this particular--or is it peculiar--Raccoon is anything to get dreamy-eyed about.
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Ahem! I notice a picutre of a pleasant looking boy. He's smiling. He COULDN'T be Alex, could he? Alex woudln't smile, would he? What's going on here?
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Isn't the anticipation fun?
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Trab, I've learned how to end them. After I've made my final thrust and spitted the beast and, in fact, totally annihilated him, he usually manages a weak-assed reengagement of the issue, trying no doubt to save face after it's been lost. The trick, I've discovered, is to gracefully retreat from the field at that point , allowing him to think he's won, while you know the facts of the matter and can smugly smile while leaving him to lick his wounds.
This has the added advantage of enabling you to take your future battles to more beatable foes. This one doesn't know when he's lost, a very unsatisfying result.
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Note to all those out there contemplating beginning an argument with Colinian: DON'T!
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9.5/10. How can that be, you ask? It can be because I don't agree with one answer. Yes, I understand the subjunctive, and in fact have argued for its use while a certain young whippersnapper among us has railed against it, but I don't agree that using the present tense in the quiz is definitively wrong. I have seen time and time again that in modern usage, the subjunctive is being used less and less. A case can be made for the alternative answer. So, 9.5.
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Colin's 10/10 doesn't count. He's in college, and we aren't. He's learned tricks to take and pass tests even when he doesn't know the material, while we have to rely on native cunning. He's in an academic environment and I'm in a home for the mentally feeble.
Should I go on?
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Okay, I didn't do very well, only 8 of 10.
Damn.
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I didn't see any quiz. I'll go back. I like quizzes.
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Yes, I too found no new news there, but enjoyed the way she bored me.
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Why start now?
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The Emu can't be playing golf. He's busy writing me a story. Fie on you, Raccoon!
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I rest my case.<g>
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Des:
Easy to forgive and forget you deleting any pablum I insert here. However, it's impossible to forgive you for writing: I still remember the exhilaration I felt on reading the opening sequence of "The Last Of the Wine." and then not copying down that very sequence so we can all enjoy it! Bad, bad Des!
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