[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it was a JOKE! An exageration. A satire. Jojeful ribbing. Meant in fun. Yes, I got it, my friend! I appreciate it! :-D I am sure (as Judy says) I *do* overuse the *lol*s and the :-)s, so that I may seem insincere, and so you can't tell here when I am specifically laughing at (and with) what you say. But what can I say? In the flesh I do smile and laugh most of the time, and my words just seem so flat and serious here without the accompanying cues! :-) It's a problem. I share your frustration with it being misunderstood sometimes. Many people are so bloody SERIOUS that they just can't get someone who isn't, and who is laughing much of the time. So you try to use emoticons to get the point across, and it has the opposite effect, and they get even more uptight. Go figure. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am sure (as Judy says) I *do* overuse the *lol*s and the :-)s, so that I may seem insincere, and so you can't tell here when I am specifically laughing at (and with) what you say. The overuse just gets old, like somebody who never varies their tone of voice. The real problem is when the lols and smiley faces don't seem to belong to what you're actually saying. I can't speak for Rory, but I *NEVER* use smileys unless I am actually laughing or smiling big-time when I post what I post. If someone feels that this is not true, IMO they might need to lighten up a bit. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it was a JOKE! An exageration. A satire. Jojeful ribbing. Meant in fun. Yes, I got it, my friend! I appreciate it! :-D I am sure (as Judy says) I *do* overuse the *lol*s and the :-)s, so that I may seem insincere, and so you can't tell here when I am specifically laughing at (and with) what you say. But what can I say? In the flesh I do smile and laugh most of the time, and my words just seem so flat and serious here without the accompanying cues! :-) It's a problem. I share your frustration with it being misunderstood sometimes. Many people are so bloody SERIOUS that they just can't get someone who isn't, and who is laughing much of the time. So you try to use emoticons to get the point across, and it has the opposite effect, and they get even more uptight. Go figure. No, Barry, it doesn't make anybody uptight, despite your fondest wishes. What it does is make *you* look phony. It's like a standup comic who laughs at his own jokes. The really funny comics are those who stay deadpan. If you can't get your humor across without smileys, it just wasn't very funny to begin with. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am sure (as Judy says) I *do* overuse the *lol*s and the :-) s, so that I may seem insincere, and so you can't tell here when I am specifically laughing at (and with) what you say. The overuse just gets old, like somebody who never varies their tone of voice. The real problem is when the lols and smiley faces don't seem to belong to what you're actually saying. I can't speak for Rory, but I *NEVER* use smileys unless I am actually laughing or smiling big-time when I post what I post. If someone feels that this is not true, IMO they might need to lighten up a bit. Or they might be better at seeing through your pretentions than you think. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am sure (as Judy says) I *do* overuse the *lol*s and the :-) s, so that I may seem insincere, and so you can't tell here when I am specifically laughing at (and with) what you say. The overuse just gets old, like somebody who never varies their tone of voice. The real problem is when the lols and smiley faces don't seem to belong to what you're actually saying. I can't speak for Rory, but I *NEVER* use smileys unless I am actually laughing or smiling big-time when I post what I post. If someone feels that this is not true, IMO they might need to lighten up a bit. Or they might be better at seeing through your pretentions than you think. I've often found that people who rarely laugh themselves find that those who laugh often are pretending to do so. I'm pretty sure Rory has run into the same thing. It's a burden, but we'll somehow survive, and laugh about *it* as well. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The real problem is when the lols and smiley faces don't seem to belong to what you're actually saying. Yes, I understand how you feel that this often makes me look insincere. That is when (IMO) they would often appear to be *especially* useful, as they are intended to lighten up what otherwise may sound far heavier and more solemn than is my intent. Actually they have exactly the opposite effect. They call attention to the heaviness because they're so discordant with it. There is no heaviness. There is only your perception of lightness as heavy. Not everyone sees things that way. They make it seem as though the heaviness is *so* heavy that you feel you have to disguise it or put protective padding around it, whereas a bit of straightforward, up-front heaviness wouldn't tend to stand out the same way and would just be taken as a matter of course. Your call, of course, but to be honest you are not exactly someone I would count on as an expert in humor or lightness. I have seen so little of it coming from you over the years that I have my doubts about your ability to recognize it in others. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it was a JOKE! An exageration. A satire. Jojeful ribbing. Meant in fun. Yes, I got it, my friend! I appreciate it! :-D I am sure (as Judy says) I *do* overuse the *lol*s and the :-) s, so that I may seem insincere, and so you can't tell here when I am specifically laughing at (and with) what you say. But what can I say? In the flesh I do smile and laugh most of the time, and my words just seem so flat and serious here without the accompanying cues! :-) It's a problem. I share your frustration with it being misunderstood sometimes. Many people are so bloody SERIOUS that they just can't get someone who isn't, and who is laughing much of the time. So you try to use emoticons to get the point across, and it has the opposite effect, and they get even more uptight. Go figure. No, Barry, it doesn't make anybody uptight, despite your fondest wishes. What it does is make *you* look phony. It's like a standup comic who laughs at his own jokes. The really funny comics are those who stay deadpan. If you can't get your humor across without smileys, it just wasn't very funny to begin with. Have you ever considered the possibility that you're just a humorless bitch? :-) You didn't even get that Lama Ole was being funny. You tried to turn it into a slam against Vaj. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I can't speak for Rory, but I *NEVER* use smileys unless I am actually laughing or smiling big-time when I post what I post. If someone feels that this is not true, IMO they might need to lighten up a bit. Or they might be better at seeing through your pretentions than you think. I've often found that people who rarely laugh themselves find that those who laugh often are pretending to do so. Maybe, but you haven't found that *here*, because you have no way of knowing how much folks laugh in other venues. Here you see only a very narrow slice of an individual's personality. Also see my post to Akasha with regard to some of the things that can make smileys suspect. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The real problem is when the lols and smiley faces don't seem to belong to what you're actually saying. Yes, I understand how you feel that this often makes me look insincere. That is when (IMO) they would often appear to be *especially* useful, as they are intended to lighten up what otherwise may sound far heavier and more solemn than is my intent. Actually they have exactly the opposite effect. They call attention to the heaviness because they're so discordant with it. There is no heaviness. There is only your perception of lightness as heavy. Not everyone sees things that way. That *sounds* like it means something, but in fact it does not; it's the same category mistake you make all the time. They make it seem as though the heaviness is *so* heavy that you feel you have to disguise it or put protective padding around it, whereas a bit of straightforward, up-front heaviness wouldn't tend to stand out the same way and would just be taken as a matter of course. Your call, of course, but to be honest you are not exactly someone I would count on as an expert in humor or lightness. I have seen so little of it coming from you over the years that I have my doubts about your ability to recognize it in others. There is no heaviness. There is only your perception of lightness as heavy. Not everyone sees things that way. Barry Wright, Master of Unintended Irony... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It's like a standup comic who laughs at his own jokes. The really funny comics are those who stay deadpan. If you can't get your humor across without smileys, it just wasn't very funny to begin with. Have you ever considered the possibility that you're just a humorless bitch? :-) You didn't even get that Lama Ole was being funny. You tried to turn it into a slam against Vaj. Vaj seems to take the single comment I asked him about pretty seriously. In any case, there's a difference between taking a humorous tone when discussing something one is very serious about, and just being funny. Ole was pretty obviously doing the former, not the latter. You seem to think that couching an insult in humorous terms, or putting a smiley after it, somehow automatically makes it not an insult, but of course that's not the case. Actually I don't believe you *do* think this. I think you use humorous tone and smileys when you're being insulting because you think it gives you plausible deniability. It doesn't. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The real problem is when the lols and smiley faces don't seem to belong to what you're actually saying. Yes, I understand how you feel that this often makes me look insincere. That is when (IMO) they would often appear to be *especially* useful, as they are intended to lighten up what otherwise may sound far heavier and more solemn than is my intent. Actually they have exactly the opposite effect. They call attention to the heaviness because they're so discordant with it. They make it seem as though the heaviness is *so* heavy that you feel you have to disguise it or put protective padding around it, whereas a bit of straightforward, up-front heaviness wouldn't tend to stand out the same way and would just be taken as a matter of course. I appreciate your feedback, Judy; I understand and acknowledge that you may well view me as discordant, stale, and/or phoney, and with all due respect I admit I can happily live with all that, and will continue to punctuate as I feel :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
Rory: I appreciate your feedback, Judy; I understand and acknowledge that you may well view me as discordant, stale, and/or phoney, and with all due respect I admit I can happily live with all that, and will continue to punctuate as I feel :-) Ok Rory. *lol* Thanks for the headsup. :) We look forward to your posts. *LOL* I love them (haha) because they are so, well Smiley :) Its like why I wear a smiley button on my lapel :) :) :). So people well know I am always HAPPY. haha. Else how would they know when I see them? *LOL*. Well Life is Bliss. HAHA. Its really great reading your posts. *LOL* HAHA. :) Well, I gotta go. :) I gotta change my Its a Small World CD. :) Its the BEST! *LOL*. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: I appreciate your feedback, Judy; I understand and acknowledge that you may well view me as discordant, stale, and/or phoney, and with all due respect I admit I can happily live with all that, and will continue to punctuate as I feel :-) Ok Rory. *lol* Thanks for the headsup. :) We look forward to your posts. *LOL* I love them (haha) because they are so, well Smiley :) Its like why I wear a smiley button on my lapel :) :) :). So people well know I am always HAPPY. haha. Else how would they know when I see them? *LOL*. Well Life is Bliss. HAHA. Its really great reading your posts. *LOL* HAHA. :) Well, I gotta go. :) I gotta change my Its a Small World CD. :) Its the BEST! *LOL*. belly laugh really! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: I appreciate your feedback, Judy; I understand and acknowledge that you may well view me as discordant, stale, and/or phoney, and with all due respect I admit I can happily live with all that, and will continue to punctuate as I feel :-) Ok Rory. *lol* Thanks for the headsup. :) We look forward to your posts. *LOL* I love them (haha) because they are so, well Smiley :) Its like why I wear a smiley button on my lapel :) :) :). So people well know I am always HAPPY. haha. Else how would they know when I see them? *LOL*. Well Life is Bliss. HAHA. Its really great reading your posts. *LOL* HAHA. :) Well, I gotta go. :) I gotta change my Its a Small World CD. :) Its the BEST! *LOL*. *ROFL* You are a genuinely funny fellow, Akasha :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory, Perhaps you ought to offer your services where they are really needed. What services were you envisioning, exactly? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory, Perhaps you ought to offer your services where they are really needed. What services were you envisioning, exactly? My flash connections, aka humor, appear quite different from yours these days. Its funny to have to explain ones jokes. Pretentious sounding as it is, though meant on a much more casual and lower plane, its like explaining art. Or music (dylan not explaining his lyrics to reporters.) Ok let me try. 1) I linked an article with the above post, about married woment losing interest in sex. 2) I titled the post Full Monty Hotline -- which tied to earlier jokes. 3) You have been trying be helpful to others on the list, perhaps onerously in the last week, by offering spiritual guidance services. 4) Thus, I connected the dots. Translation: Rory, since you want to be helpful, and since your offers of spiritual guidance are being repeatedly rebuffed here, perhaps you might try both a new specialty and a new target market: you could offer full monte dance shows to married women to respark their interest in sex. yuk yuk. Actually its quite a compliment. Many men on this list doing such I am sure would drive many women to reject sex forever. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What services were you envisioning, exactly? My flash connections, aka humor, appear quite different from yours these days. Yes, they do in some cases, though in others we appear quite in synch. Its funny to have to explain ones jokes. Yes it is :-) Pretentious sounding as it is, though meant on a much more casual and lower plane, its like explaining art. Or music (dylan not explaining his lyrics to reporters.) Right! Fortunately you have more compassion for our densities than Dylan did :-) Ok let me try. 1) I linked an article with the above post, about married woment losing interest in sex. 2) I titled the post Full Monty Hotline -- which tied to earlier jokes. 3) You have been trying be helpful to others on the list, perhaps onerously in the last week, by offering spiritual guidance services. Ah, OK, I was seeing my posts a little differently -- more like acquainting them (or anyone else who may be reading these posts, now or whenever) with some techniques they might try, on their own or if necessary with some guide: probably not here on FFL, and probably not with me, but somewhere and with someone who felt safe. However, it did take me a rather *long* while to see that both I and my immediate correspondent were quite satisfied with her apparent dissatisfaction ... though I suspect that this diagnosis probably fails to meet with her satisfaction also :-) 4) Thus, I connected the dots. Translation: Rory, since you want to be helpful, and since your offers of spiritual guidance are being repeatedly rebuffed here, perhaps you might try both a new specialty and a new target market: you could offer full monte dance shows to married women to respark their interest in sex. yuk yuk. Yuck yuck, more likely :-) Actually its quite a compliment. Many men on this list doing such I am sure would drive many women to reject sex forever. Well, many thanks for the compliment, Akasha, but I am not at all sure that my efforts would not do the same -- that is, even if I could somehow convince myself and my wife that this was indeed my perfect dharma in this moment :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
And it was a JOKE! An exageration. A satire. Jojeful ribbing. Meant in fun. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What services were you envisioning, exactly? My flash connections, aka humor, appear quite different from yours these days. Yes, they do in some cases, though in others we appear quite in synch. Its funny to have to explain ones jokes. Yes it is :-) Pretentious sounding as it is, though meant on a much more casual and lower plane, its like explaining art. Or music (dylan not explaining his lyrics to reporters.) Right! Fortunately you have more compassion for our densities than Dylan did :-) Ok let me try. 1) I linked an article with the above post, about married woment losing interest in sex. 2) I titled the post Full Monty Hotline -- which tied to earlier jokes. 3) You have been trying be helpful to others on the list, perhaps onerously in the last week, by offering spiritual guidance services. Ah, OK, I was seeing my posts a little differently -- more like acquainting them (or anyone else who may be reading these posts, now or whenever) with some techniques they might try, on their own or if necessary with some guide: probably not here on FFL, and probably not with me, but somewhere and with someone who felt safe. However, it did take me a rather *long* while to see that both I and my immediate correspondent were quite satisfied with her apparent dissatisfaction ... though I suspect that this diagnosis probably fails to meet with her satisfaction also :-) 4) Thus, I connected the dots. Translation: Rory, since you want to be helpful, and since your offers of spiritual guidance are being repeatedly rebuffed here, perhaps you might try both a new specialty and a new target market: you could offer full monte dance shows to married women to respark their interest in sex. yuk yuk. Yuck yuck, more likely :-) Actually its quite a compliment. Many men on this list doing such I am sure would drive many women to reject sex forever. Well, many thanks for the compliment, Akasha, but I am not at all sure that my efforts would not do the same -- that is, even if I could somehow convince myself and my wife that this was indeed my perfect dharma in this moment :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it was a JOKE! An exageration. A satire. Jojeful ribbing. Meant in fun. Yes, I got it, my friend! I appreciate it! :-D I am sure (as Judy says) I *do* overuse the *lol*s and the :-)s, so that I may seem insincere, and so you can't tell here when I am specifically laughing at (and with) what you say. But what can I say? In the flesh I do smile and laugh most of the time, and my words just seem so flat and serious here without the accompanying cues! :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip it did take me a rather *long* while to see that both I and my immediate correspondent were quite satisfied with her apparent dissatisfaction ... though I suspect that this diagnosis probably fails to meet with her satisfaction also :-) Dissatisfied with what you were offering, yes, indeed. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip it did take me a rather *long* while to see that both I and my immediate correspondent were quite satisfied with her apparent dissatisfaction ... though I suspect that this diagnosis probably fails to meet with her satisfaction also :-) Dissatisfied with what you were offering, yes, indeed. Excellent, many thanks; I appreciate the clarification :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am sure (as Judy says) I *do* overuse the *lol*s and the :-)s, so that I may seem insincere, and so you can't tell here when I am specifically laughing at (and with) what you say. The overuse just gets old, like somebody who never varies their tone of voice. The real problem is when the lols and smiley faces don't seem to belong to what you're actually saying. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am sure (as Judy says) I *do* overuse the *lol*s and the :-)s, so that I may seem insincere, and so you can't tell here when I am specifically laughing at (and with) what you say. The overuse just gets old, like somebody who never varies their tone of voice. Understandable, and understood. I just don't much feel like attempting to vary in print what is in truth essentially unchanging. Truthfully, to convey my feeling more accurately, I would replace *every* period with a :-). Perhaps you would find my in-the-flesh personality similarly old and unvarying; I don't know ^ ^ :-) The real problem is when the lols and smiley faces don't seem to belong to what you're actually saying. Yes, I understand how you feel that this often makes me look insincere. That is when (IMO) they would often appear to be *especially* useful, as they are intended to lighten up what otherwise may sound far heavier and more solemn than is my intent. I am intensely light-hearted, and even in the midst of deep feeling mean almost nothing as rigidly or solemnly black-and-white as it looks in print, even this statement. (End of message; smiley face coming up a few lines below; continue reading at your own risk) :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Monty Hot Line
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The real problem is when the lols and smiley faces don't seem to belong to what you're actually saying. Yes, I understand how you feel that this often makes me look insincere. That is when (IMO) they would often appear to be *especially* useful, as they are intended to lighten up what otherwise may sound far heavier and more solemn than is my intent. Actually they have exactly the opposite effect. They call attention to the heaviness because they're so discordant with it. They make it seem as though the heaviness is *so* heavy that you feel you have to disguise it or put protective padding around it, whereas a bit of straightforward, up-front heaviness wouldn't tend to stand out the same way and would just be taken as a matter of course. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
