The AH person I would most like to meet IRL is…

[NoTalentHack]

I can't get past "the kind of subtle whoring that costs too much to be free". What do they think whoring is - actually, no, I don't want to know.

It's clumsy phrasing by someone who thinks they're clever, but from the context it seems to mean "I spent my life pursuing pleasure that cost me nothing at the time with men that could provide luxury, not realizing it was never actually free." Hence the "subtle whoring;" she didn't realize that she was, in her opinion late in life, prostituting herself for ephemeral pleasures.

Still a trash song. Written at the height of the ERA amendment fight by two men to mansplain why, no, you silly ladies don't need to experience anything other than domesticity. What a fucking shocker.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I had this drivel on my mind. Yes, I’m obsessive, so sue me. So they either mean:

1. She’s actually an escort - in which case, blame the supply for the demand, that makes sense!
2. She sleeps with men she is not married to, so: “Hi, I’m Emily, you can call me whore” - WTF the lyricists would make of a woman sleeping with a woman she is not married to is anyone’s guess.

It slut-shaming either way.

It’s just totally fucked up. I mean, I’m getting married and I want to have children, but that’s my choice, not because of some fucked up morality story masquerading as a song.

Is the “unborn children” an anti-contraceptive / anti-abortion stance, or am I reading too much into it.

I'm not sure whether it's that, or more just "wish I'd settled down and found a husband while I was still young enough to make the babbies". Or maybe that's not a meaningful distinction for the guys who wrote it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm not sure whether it's that, or more just "wish I'd settled down and found a husband while I was still young enough to make the babbies". Or maybe that's not a meaningful distinction for the guys who wrote it.

Again. The first verse makes it clear it’s a cautionary tale to married women about what being a “whore” leads to.

Em

 

[Rustyoznail]

Hey, they got wombats and their bony butt-plates!

Should I ever make it to Australia, meeting any of @Bramblethorn, @Rustyoznail or @electricblue66 should be an interesting evening. @TxRad or @Duleigh in America for a real-life coffee lounge experience. @TheRedChamber nearer home. @Handley_Page presumably lives nearby, given Ogg was in the next county.

You want to go to America for coffee??? Well, as long as you stay away from Starchucks.

We do know how to properly brew a pot of tea.

 

[Duleigh]

I'll come with you, Simon, and we can all go drop bear hunting together.....

Take a gargoyle, they hate drop bears but they're the only creature on the disc that moves at the same speed. Hours of entertainment! Reference

 

[Duleigh]

I would love to meet @JuanaSalsa but I'm also extremely terrified of meeting new people. Hell, I have a friend I've known since I was 14/15 who I still haven't met in person.

Social anxiety is a bitch sometimes.

My stepdaughter had a male friend she had been pals with for years, they emailed, texted, called, they even wrote words on a piece of paper put a stamp on the envelope and put it in a mailbox (wow - retro!) This went on for about 7 years, and both claiming they were "Just friends" they finally met on her 21st birthday and they were married by her 22nd.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

What he said!

Em

I understood that reference.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Holy fuck.

I just listen to all 3 minutes, 54 seconds of this vile piece of musical excrement.

I was a DJ for over 20 years.

I've had to listen to some of the shittiest songs ever recorded.

But this thing is simply...disturbing. On so many levels.

The message seems to be "Women, why be free to travel the world and explore multiple loves and relationships when you can be happy and content barefoot and pregnant and living in a trailer with a husband who beats you while the babies scream at you from the other room?"

Seriously, fuck this song.

Well, you’ve listened to something pretty different to what you usually listen to and clearly it did NOT take you to paradise.

Now try COMBINE HARVESTER by The Wurzels.

Does for sexual equality what ARE YOU BEING SERVED did for subtle comedy.

 

[Djmac1031]

Now try COMBINE HARVESTER by The Wurzels.

I'll check it out after work.

 

[Duleigh]

Well, you’ve listened to something pretty different to what you usually listen to and clearly it did NOT take you to paradise.

Now try COMBINE HARVESTER by The Wurzels.

Does for sexual equality what ARE YOU BEING SERVED did for subtle comedy.

Not exactly BARNACLE BILL by John Valby but I could hoist a few beers to it.

 

[AchtungNight]

Aurora Black was a big fan of my work back in the days when I posted stories regularly on Lit. If I had to pick a Litizen to meet, it’d be her or someone like her. I hope such people are still around here.

 

[Djmac1031]

Now try COMBINE HARVESTER by The Wurzels.

What...and I cannot stress this enough...the actual FUCK?

Sounds like a bunch of drunk old Irishmen took the Melanie song, mashed it with the Muppets Theme, threw in some bad innuendo with a dash of misogyny, and recorded it after a three day bender.

You can almost smell the beer sweat and stale cigarette smoke.

 

[Duleigh]

Now listen to John Valby "Skeeter on my Peter"

 

[NoTalentHack]

Now listen to John Valby "Skeeter on my Peter"

 

[Duleigh]

That's locker room music is what it is. It was a rite of passage, from high school drunks to um... post high school drunks

 

[Duleigh]

Let's steer this back to the original purpose of the thread. Here's a few Lit folks who are not around anymore that I wish I could spend some time with

Ogg - what a fascinating person! I knew his story was almost over when we first met on line here, I only wished I could have spent more time at the feet of the master.

DarkRaven13 - She was a young writer that hung out in AH for a while after I uncovered and returned from a 16 year nap, she wasn't with us long, I guess RL got busy for her

DragonMaker - the only Lit writer that I ever met in real life, we met at a time where we both were free-ish but lived far apart. We both had broken hearts at the time and we enjoyed our time together but we both went off in different directions. I hope her story has a happier chapter in store for her.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I think I'd enjoy meeting EmilyMiller

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't want to meet anyone that sells anything, buys anything, or processes anything as a career. I don't want to meet anyone that writes about anyone sells anything or bought or processed, or writes about anyone that buys anything sold or processed, or processes anything sold, bought, or processed, or repaired anything sold, bought, or processed. I don’t think I even want to meet anyone that writes anything about someone who writes anything.

Umm, what were we talking about?

 

[Duleigh]

I have a couple that's a Duke and Duchess of a county in Lancre yet at the same time the Emperor and Empress of the Agatean Empire a thousand miles away, does that count?

We were talking Coffee... no that was a different thread.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I have a couple that's a Duke and Duchess of a county in Lancre yet at the same time the Emperor and Empress of the Agatean Empire a thousand miles away, does that count?

We were talking Coffee... no that was a different thread.

I might want to meet Deleigh, as long as he doesn't talk about selling anything, or...

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I don't want to meet anyone that sells anything, buys anything, or processes anything as a career. I don't want to meet anyone that writes about anyone sells anything or bought or processed, or writes about anyone that buys anything sold or processed, or processes anything sold, bought, or processed, or repaired anything sold, bought, or processed. I don’t think I even want to meet anyone that writes anything about someone who writes anything.

Umm, what were we talking about?

Someone's been watching Say Anything, right?

 

[MelissaBaby]

I think I'd enjoy meeting EmilyMiller

I'm afraid that if I met her, we would get in a lot of trouble.

 

[Duleigh]

I don't do sales. I had one job that involved sales and I walked off of in after 3 days of selling nothing. I'm a techy

 

[MillieDynamite]

Someone's been watching Say Anything, right?

I plead the fifth.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I'm afraid that if I met her, we would get in a lot of trouble.

I love trouble. No, wait, I love a mystery. But I don't mind trouble.