Is there a fashion you wish
was in?
Apparently we've got some romantics
out there. "Impractical but gorgeous - gloves (not the kind you
wear to keep your hands warm)." And hats. Women want to
wear them, ("Cool hats--like the 30's & 40's") and men want to wear
them. One gentleman ruefully blamed JFK for the hatless state
of modern man. Some folks spoke not of clothing, but of the human
form: "I wish that Mommy-arms were in fashion. Thick, soft
arms." They may not be fashionable, but thank god they're not
going away any time soon. One reader wistfully wished she "could
find a cool 'peasant blouse' like the one's I wore in junior high."
We end this one with a comment from a male reader: "Knee Socks.
Definitely Knee Socks."
What movie did you hate that
everyone else loved?
There's Something About Mary,
Midnight
Cowboy, Terms of Endearment, The English Patient, were
some examples, but the best comments come to you unedited: "I hated
that movie with the Italian guy who won the academy award. The one
about the concentration camps and the dad making it all a game for his
son. That whole movie bugged me." "Um, besides EVERY movie
other people love? Hmm. How about The Negotiator. Could've
been clever, but not." "Dirty Dancing, and it caused
me much grief in grade school. I hated Patrick Swayze, I hated Jennifer
Grey's snide smirk and I especially hated the soundtrack." "That absolutely
retarded, infidelity-and adultery-condoning movie Bridges of Madison
County. Thought the book was equally, if not more, mongoloid.
I can't believe Meryl Streep actually agreed to be a part of that shit."
"I hate many, almost every movie that everybody else loves. For instance,
Jerry
McGuire. I hate admitting that I even saw it. Even though
I only saw the last 15 minutes of Shakespeare in Love, I feel I
have enough ammo to sufficiently hate that movie. The second Austin
Powers movie sucked. I hated it ... hate ... hate ... hate ... soooo
many more hateful movies. Pretty much any movie with Julia Roberts
I hate ... hate ... hate ... hate ..." Yes, ahem. Well then. |
When do you get nervous?
And how does it manifest itself?
You'll be happy to know we all get
nervous about the same stuff in the same way. We don't like confrontation;
it gives us a stomach ache. A few other nerve-rattling instances
stood out as well. One fellow doesn't like to be "in crowds of people
that I don't know. I shrink down to about an inch in height, which
makes getting hors d'oeuvres from the buffet table really tough."
One woman said when she meets "someone I really admire. I usually get all
clammy, sweaty and completely tongue twisted." Another said her "gums
vibrated" when she had to raise her hand in large college lectures.
Might wanna get that looked at.
Have you ever seen a ghost?
"In College in Providence, RI.
[I saw] a woman in old-fashioned clothes standing forlornly looking out
the window of an old house I was visiting. I was sleeping on the couch
and saw her in the middle of the night. Just her back. Her
hair was in a bun. " "Felt [ghosts], but not seen. My twin sister
had a dream-esque conversation with one named Purina." "I saw lots
of things as a child, and I wonder now if I was hallucinating. I
used to see this weird rag-man, who looked a little like Art Garfunkle,
walk into my room and sit on my bed. He was blinking on and off visually,
but where he sat on the end of my bed, I'd see a little depression in the
comforter. " "Never seen one. Would freak out if I did."
Same here.
When was the last time you climbed
a tree?
Gee, we hit a chord here.
Y'all have strong feelings about tree climbing. You want to have
climbed one recently; it seems as though you feel it would make you a better
person. Some of you have climbed trees recently, usually with a child.
Some hoped sawed limbs and scaffolding counted (they do). One dear
soul hasn't been up a tree since 1955. Summing it up for many of
us, one reader wrote, "I can't remember the last time I climbed a tree.
I'll have to do something about that." |
