Litiquette VI

[hotwords229_A]

Ahhhh. What year? Having run away from home the summer between sophomore and junior year, I sorta missed those last two years of English.

To be fair, the above statement is total Grease.

You seriously never read The Outsiders? Next time you get sick check it out.

 

[Endless_Night]

To be fair, the above statement is total Grease.

You seriously never read The Outsiders? Next time you get sick check it out.

LOL! No. I have seriously not read The Outsiders.


Buuuuut I'll put it on my EE reading list.

 

[French75]

Holy shit! I can only imagine the responses if I would have been egging you on.

Even in this Universe.

 

[Lord Pmann]

Haha! I only watch old black and white movies and bad science fiction.

*doomed to pop culture illiteracy*

What happened to you as a child?

 

[Lord Pmann]

Ok, all this Outsiders and nobodies talk; it’s sarcasm, right. I mean you’re all being clever about it; or have I just entered some sort of alternative universe?

No. This is where all the nerdy people from high school came to bloom. They were all super ugly. Like, wore glasses ugly. But they turned 30 and took those glasses off and they turned hot. Once they removed their glasses their boobs got big and dicks got longer.

 

[blade_rocknut]

I was awkward as fuckall in high school. Young for my grade, socially awkward, not wealthy, and nothing special physically.

I had nerd cred due to advanced class placement and gifted program involvement in elementary school.i

I had redneck cred because those were my friends and the group who best understood my family life, financial situation, and deference to work ethic over privilege.

I really didn't quite belong anywhere; I was just the "smart redneck", and that was a common denominator for resent from more cliques than not.

I've been wracking my brain for an applicable pop culture congruency, and have come up short.

I became more open minded as I matured from my very conservative roots, and nowadays cringe at some of the views I expounded as a teen. I won't go into all that here, but my signature line is a start.

 

[French75]

No. This is where all the nerdy people from high school came to bloom. They were all super ugly. Like, wore glasses ugly. But they turned 30 and took those glasses off and they turned hot. Once they removed their glasses their boobs got big and dicks got longer.

Wow! This place is miraculous!

 

[Endless_Night]

What happened to you as a child?

*cracks knuckles*

Four relatives off the top of my head and in no particular order: Ex-Yippie, pseudo science new-ager, promiscuous Methodist minister, Seventh-day Adventist misandrist.

You do not have enough time for me to seriously answer that question.

 

[Endless_Night]

Wow! This place is miraculous!

*psst*

Take a look at Pmann's AV. All a result of the post-glasses turning-thirty stage!

 

[Lord Pmann]

Unanswered prayers...

So today we shall talk about those things for which we long, but never come to fruition. Garth Brooks has a song about this that's really quite clever. But the premise is, he saw his old girlfriend from high school, years later. And he wanted her so badly when he was in high school. But seeing her years later, he was happy that it didn't work out that way.

What stories do you have of hopes and dreams that you were glad didn't get answered? I particularly care about stories from your high school years and such. Those are always the most heart warming. And my heart is big and soft, as ye all know.

I'm not a big fan of much country music, but this is a well done song. I do like Garth Brooks though.

https://youtu.be/_JasfB0w1PQ

 

[Lonelywife1205]

Unanswered prayers...

So today we shall talk about those things for which we long, but never come to fruition. Garth Brooks has a song about this that's really quite clever. But the premise is, he saw his old girlfriend from high school, years later. And he wanted her so badly when he was in high school. But seeing her years later, he was happy that it didn't work out that way.

What stories do you have of hopes and dreams that you were glad didn't get answered? I particularly care about stories from your high school years and such. Those are always the most heart warming. And my heart is big and soft, as ye all know.

I'm not a big fan of much country music, but this is a well done song. I do like Garth Brooks though.

https://youtu.be/_JasfB0w1PQ

I had a boyfriend in high school that I was crazy about and just knew I was going to marry. When we broke up, I remember having a temper tantrum in the middle of my living room floor. Life as I knew it was over. Fast forward 30 years and we have reconnected on Facebook...he looks terrible, has had several wives and is a recovering addict...I dodged a bullet.

 

[French75]

In high school, more than anything, I wanted to play college football. Mid-season of my senior year, a separated shoulder killed that dream. I was heartbroken, lost and became a party animal in college. A different opportunity came knocking as I ended my college days and set me on a successful path. Shortly after college, I realized what life as a collegiate athlete would have been like. I’m extraordinarily thankful my dream didn’t come to fruition. And, I did have a helluva good time playing flag football in community leagues for several years after college.

Oh, and yes, there was a girl....

 

[blade_rocknut]

Unanswered prayers...

So today we shall talk about those things for which we long, but never come to fruition. Garth Brooks has a song about this that's really quite clever. But the premise is, he saw his old girlfriend from high school, years later. And he wanted her so badly when he was in high school. But seeing her years later, he was happy that it didn't work out that way.

What stories do you have of hopes and dreams that you were glad didn't get answered? I particularly care about stories from your high school years and such. Those are always the most heart warming. And my heart is big and soft, as ye all know.

I'm not a big fan of much country music, but this is a well done song. I do like Garth Brooks though.

https://youtu.be/_JasfB0w1PQ

I thought a lot more of you before you admitted to Garth Brooks fandom. He did have a few amazingly well written songs, but I can't stand him as an artist. He should've just called himself Chris Gaines and been a pop artist from the get-go...maybe then country radio would've never had to endure Rascal Flatts, FloridaGeorgia line, and myriad other watered down, mass marketed pop acts masquerading as country.
But...epic song, indeed. Songwriting is an art which impresses me endlessly, because it can affect so many people in various ways.

So, I had a steady girlfriend in high school, we were certain to get hitched and do the happily ever after. And then we didn't.

I married someone else a few short years later, and if you'd asked me this a decade ago, mine would be the story of the song, verbatim.

Except that didn't work out, either. She and I split in November of '14 for what we'll over simplify to irreconcilable differences; aka not everything bad in her life is my Fucking fault.

February '15 I reconnected with said high school girlfriend, aka the unanswered prayer from the beginning. (Fwiw, I don't believe in prayer, but never mind that). She had lkewise been married to a narcissistic control freak; living a surprisingly parallel existence to my own, 60 miles away. We'd not spoken since we split over 20 years before.

We've been married; helping one another overcome the scars of the interim since May of '16.

Not sure how that meshes with the tune, but there ya go.

 

[Trekka]

I had redneck cred because those were my friends and the group who best understood my family life, financial situation, and deference to work ethic over privilege.

*sploosh*
Gimme a fan I’m dying from heat here.

No joke!

Aw I missed all the HS talk. I was a smarty pants art nerd who got good grades and behaved in class. So no one kept an eye on me. Which gave me latitude to sneak about and do all my naughty fuckoffery with minimal consequences. I was a secret bad girl.

Kinda like now.

*and* I missed all the outsiders jokes?! Fuggin A.



Unanswered prayers? It’s all part of the plan. Whatever is meant to be will be, whether it’s what I want or not. I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, blah blah, except that’s what I truly believe.

Anyhoo. In HS I had a thing with a much older man and he would dance with me, and play me songs on his guitar, and sweet talk me with this light southern drawl, he made me see moons n stars and at one point I remember thinking “I’d so have his baby.”

*is so glad I do not currently have his baby*

 

[Lord Pmann]

I thought a lot more of you before you admitted to Garth Brooks fandom. He did have a few amazingly well written songs, but I can't stand him as an artist. He should've just called himself Chris Gaines and been a pop artist from the get-go...maybe then country radio would've never had to endure Rascal Flatts, FloridaGeorgia line, and myriad other watered down, mass marketed pop acts masquerading as country.
But...epic song, indeed. Songwriting is an art which impresses me endlessly, because it can affect so many people in various ways.

So, we don't disagree on the fact that Garth Brooks is responsible for the, as Bo Burnham puts it, "metrosexual brand of country music" that is brought to us by those you mentioned. However, I don't believe it's because he wrote or performed shitty songs. I believe it's the opposite- his songs were so good that he opened country up to people with all of their teeth and toes. And after him, came the FL/GA Line and Sam Hunts of the world.

So, it's not exactly his fault. It's like, sometimes my appeal is so great it brings annoying people into threads. It's not that I'm annoying, but that sometimes annoying people follow by default.

Here is modern day country done to perfection.

https://youtu.be/QJOVjh7wJkk

 

[Lord Pmann]

^^^
As a vegan he would have been moved off the friend list.

For me, there was a girl Kim I really liked. She was older than me, because that's how I rolled back then. She was musical and just beautiful. I took her to her senior prom. I thought she and I would be great together. But she was very callous, cold (her nickname was the ice princess) and just kind of a jerk sometimes. And there's only room for one of those per pmann relationship.

She was actually a great girl and we are still friendly to this day. But she was not someone that I should've wanted as bad as I did. But big boobs and a pretty voice make for a weak kneed pmann.

I also dated her younger sister Katy, because that's how I rolled back then.

 

[hotwords229_A]

Does Middle School count?

7th grade: my unbelievably sexy English teacher had a tendency to make several cameos in my dreams that left presents in my pantaloons.

In real life, she had a tendency to walk up behind my desk, put her hand on my shoulder and whisper in my ear, “Are you doing okay over here?” You could almost hear the twang of my boner slapping up against the bottom of my desk.

Now, in reality! I had no shot with her. She was an adult and I don’t think I smelled that good back then. But DAMN I wanted it!!!

Obviously it’s for the best that we never completed that sentence, but she never left my participle dangling.

The bad part of us not hooking up, as anyone reading my posts can clearly see, I never did learn proper punctuation. How the hell was I supposed to pay attention%

 

[Lord Pmann]

Does Middle School count?

7th grade: my unbelievably sexy English teacher had a tendency to make several cameos in my dreams that left presents in my pantaloons.

In real life, she had a tendency to walk up behind my desk, put her hand on my shoulder and whisper in my ear, “Are you doing okay over here?” You could almost hear the twang of my boner slapping up against the bottom of my desk.

Now, in reality! I had no shot with her. She was an adult and I don’t think I smelled that good back then. But DAMN I wanted it!!!

Obviously it’s for the best that we never completed that sentence, but she never left my participle dangling.

The bad part of us not hooking up, as anyone reading my posts can clearly see, I never did learn proper punctuation. How the hell was I supposed to pay attention%

Man, this post had me cracking up. There is nothing like the things you do as a teen boy. Pteen did some weird stuff.

I only had one hot teacher in high school. I had fun flirting with her. It was always my goal to make her laugh. Sometimes she would get mad at me for being an ass, but then I could make her laugh and I wasn't in trouble. I'm not dumb enough to think she liked me. But I did my best to flirt with her.

 

[Endless_Night]

I - for once - have no story.

Not wanting anyone to be disappointed, however, I do have a few comments.

< The one that appeared on Jerry Springer.

< We've been married; helping one another overcome the scars of the interim since May of '16. >

I this story.

Does Middle School count?

7th grade: my unbelievably sexy English teacher had a tendency to make several cameos in my dreams that left presents in my pantaloons.

< clipped for brevity >

Explain to me again how you didn't win Funniest Male Litster?

SERIOUSLY

 

[Lord Pmann]

Explain to me again how you didn't win Funniest Male Litster?

SERIOUSLY

I'm right here, BITCH!!!

 

[Endless_Night]

I'm right here, BITCH!!!

I KNOW.

 

[Lord Pmann]

I KNOW.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSA_OQswEaKI38vqmhN8riSF-wyjfj75-5tOXqfAlgAPQUIwGgP

The story was absolutely amazing, though.

 

[Endless_Night]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSA_OQswEaKI38vqmhN8riSF-wyjfj75-5tOXqfAlgAPQUIwGgP

The story was absolutely amazing, though.

*fist bump on the story*

In response to the…err, bag.

Pmann.

(Borrowed without permission from a PLP thread.)

 

[blade_rocknut]

So, we don't disagree on the fact that Garth Brooks is responsible for the, as Bo Burnham puts it, "metrosexual brand of country music" that is brought to us by those you mentioned. However, I don't believe it's because he wrote or performed shitty songs. I believe it's the opposite- his songs were so good that he opened country up to people with all of their teeth and toes. And after him, came the FL/GA Line and Sam Hunts of the world.

So, it's not exactly his fault. It's like, sometimes my appeal is so great it brings annoying people into threads. It's not that I'm annoying, but that sometimes annoying people follow by default.

Here is modern day country done to perfection.

https://youtu.be/QJOVjh7wJkk

I'm just giving you a little shit...and yeah. My friends and I often joke about the "cold beer, dirt road, tailgate, bonfire, tight jeans, et al recipe for commercial country music.
And you're correct; Brooks broadened the audience considerably. Others had done similar in the past, but no so successfully from a revenue generating angle, hence the immediate shift toward pop country.

Hence, when folks ask what I play and listen to...i can't answer without qualifiers. Americana\ red dirt is a genre of its own these days, but is really just shades of country, blues, rock, and folk minus the pop and tractor rap.

 

[hotwords229_A]

Man, this post had me cracking up. There is nothing like the things you do as a teen boy. Pteen did some weird stuff.

I only had one hot teacher in high school. I had fun flirting with her. It was always my goal to make her laugh. Sometimes she would get mad at me for being an ass, but then I could make her laugh and I wasn't in trouble. I'm not dumb enough to think she liked me. But I did my best to flirt with her.

There should be a law that restricts teachers that are too hot from being around horny students!

Explain to me again how you didn't win Funniest Male Litster?

SERIOUSLY

It’s the same problem I had in English class. I had my eye on the “A” but all I got was a big “D”.