Re: fire eater

Buddy Pinneo (bpinneo@broco.com)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:28:57 +0000 

Malcolm, with regard to the testosterone levels in the Pac-NW, I have to
agree with you.
Though I'm not on the pseudo-open-minded, condescending trip you seem to
think is pretty hip.
I've just moved to Portland and I have to say, everything I have
witnessed in the guys out here is that they're really a bunch of pussies.  Sorry
to put it that way, but it's unavoidable.
Of particular note is a lingering, overly sibilant "s" in the speech as
well as a tendency to speak softly and in a higher-than-normal register. 
(Lisssten for it.  It'ssss true.)
Call me overly analytical, but there really is something in the
laid-back, hemp-loving aesthetic and value system out here that's just
plain....mousy.
So you're right, Malcy.  The real men ARE in Glasgow.  (Keep fucking the
Jesus out of your terrific girls, Scotland!  Wooowoo!)




Malcolm Lawrence wrote:
>Scottie Bowman wrote:
>
>> As one remarked: `You don't start worrying about anything very much
until
>> they start using live
>> ammunition.'
>
>Have you ever seen the film My Dinner With Andre?
>
>> They all looked back on their time of war as the crucially formative
period
>> of their life.  And they had all, in their time, enjoyed their share
of
>> those other `intense experiences' you mention - fucking women,
listening to
>> the St Matthew Passion....
>
>Uh, I actually didn't mention any specific "intense experiences," but
since
>you did, "fucking women"  is about as sociopathological a
misnomer/perspective
>for an intense experience as you can get. "Making love to another
person"
>could be considered an intense experience, however. (Do you drop these
things
>blithely on the Jane Austen list, too, and then repost the entire post
when
>everyone on the list just ignores it out of lack of
relevance/embarrassment?)
>Of course, you are in Scotland. I remember when I lived in Glasgow and
was at
>a house party, a chap came up to me and said "Och aye, if ye see
something
>(sic) ye fancy, just jump on her." And once when I was walking downtown,
near
>the Tower Records on a Saturday night, two lads on one side of the
street
>hollered over to two females on the other side of the street: "Oi! Ye
fancy a
>fook, then?" And the females actually answered and, uh, kept the
conversation
>going. When I came back to Seattle for the holidays and was at a bar I
noticed
>that if Seattle men were in Glasgow they'd practically be considered
girls.
>Then when I got back to Glasgow I thought about Seattle men being there
and
>realized that if it were a choice I had to make, I'd rather be
considered a
>girl from Seattle than a man from Glasgow.
>
>>         That wasn't Tarzan.  (Note spelling, Malcolm.)
>
>Thanks, Teach'. Sorry but it was first thing in the morning and I
thought I'd
>spelt it wrong. So when are you going to post the mid-semester grades?
>
>Malcy L. (As Klaus, my housemate in Kelvinside used to call me)
>
>
>
>
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