One reason I love lit: freedom to make an ass of yourself

[KillerMuffin]

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You gotta love a place that touts a philosophy and actually practices it.

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

And doesn't it make your heart beat proud and free to see so many people take advantage of that right every day?

The inalienable right of ass.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

And don't forget that Lit also gives you the right to show your ass!

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

Yes! Or a freak-baby's.

 

[TheEarl]

And now you're all going on ignore for misspelling 'arse' .

The Earl

 

[Pookie]

And don't forget that Lit also gives you the right to show your ass!

*raises hand*

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

Damn! I thought I was obeying the unwritten constitutional amendment of affected Americans not copping anglo-colloquialisms because it makes you sound "daft" and "barmy."

I had a girl friend from Dallas who insisted that she lived in a "flat." Unless it was a flat of turnips, I think she was being slightly obsequious.

 

[Guest]

Mlle: I lurv yu.

Purrd

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

Love you too, natch

Don't worry Trova- you're exempt. When you marry an Englishman, you can say "arse" and "bounding up in pairs" and call other women "slags". I've only fucked them. I think that gets you a free pass to the London Dungeons, but not much more.

mlle

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Mlle, on behalf of all Literoticans who have English as their second language, I'd like to say: Huh???

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

Sorry. I forget, because your English is so good

Um, basically Americans who deliberately use "britishisms" like "loo" and "crombie" and "bird" to sound spiffy. This doesn't include european people who learned "British English" like my mum.

Yes, I call her mum, because that's what she introduced herself to me as, post natally. Because of her I had to weed out all the extra U's in words to survive the rampaging red pen marks of first grade. But I still can't bring myself to spell "grey" with an "a". That's just barbaric.

 

[Quasimodem]

. . . I still can't bring myself to spell "grey" with an "a". That's just barbaric.

Beside, it would probably turn you 'gey!'

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

LOL

You mean like a fag? No, thanks, I don't smoke, guv.

 

[MathGirl]

[You gotta love a place that touts a philosophy and actually practices it.

Dear Muffie,
Been there, done that on occasion.
MG
PS. What happened to our friend Kostly. Seeing his lawyer? Counting the family money?

 

[Weird Harold]

I had a girl friend from Dallas who insisted that she lived in a "flat." Unless it was a flat of turnips, I think she was being slightly obsequious.

A flat of turnips doesn't sound very appealing, but my dirty little mind could dosomething with a girl who lived in a flat of strawberries or peaches. (or just lived near a flat of strawberries or peaches.)

 

[KillerMuffin]

obsequious.

You know, that word just feels so naughty in the mouth. You think it'd be talking about something all hubba-hubba and stuff.

 

[MathGirl]

You know, that word just feels so naughty in the mouth. You think it'd be talking about something all hubba-hubba and stuff.

Another word that has a similar feel: nepotism.
Sounds kinky; like you would want to wear rubber gloves.
MG
Ps. When I was twelve, I was a victim of nepotism. I swept up my Mom's research lab after school. Scarred for life.

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

There was this pie-eyed goth guy at my high school who used to talk about raping cheerleaders and the inherent nobility of Germans, and Bauhaus and whatnot- with this ludicrous accent of indeterminate intent; it sounded like he had a hot potato in his mouth.

Anyway, he used to always talk about how "savage" things were, and the way he said that word- augh! To this day I get shivers thinking about it. He would roll it around in his mouth as if he just couldn't quite bear to get rid of it....

"The German culture is so noble! So savage!"

pulchritudinous.

That sounds kind of obscene.

 

[Guest]

A flat of turnips doesn't sound very appealing, but my dirty little mind could dosomething with a girl who lived in a flat of strawberries or peaches.

Harold, you recently celebrated birthday boy, you - I'm so glad to read you've got some vigor back.

BTW, Mlle: I live in what is called, here on the Barbary Coast a "railroad flat." If we were still part of Mexico then I might be living among those more prosaic tortilla flats.

Muff: yeah, obsequious me I say.

Perdita

John Steinbeck

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

Ah, yes. John Steinbeck, author of the most uplifting novel "The Pearl."

That book made me want to kill myself in the sixth grade. That and that Janis Ian song "At 17 I learned the truth." Well, and "Cats in the Cradle."

 

[Quasimodem]

Originally perdita mentioned in passing
. . . "railroad flat.". . .

I know about railway flats.

They are long, thin, one-room wide apartments, where you have to pass through every room in the apartment to get from the front door to the back window.

Bloody inconvenient!

 

[jfinn]

You gotta love a place that touts a philosophy and actually practices it.

Yup, everybody should have the right to be an idiot somewhere.

Damn! I thought I was obeying the unwritten constitutional amendment of affected Americans not copping anglo-colloquialisms because it makes you sound "daft" and "barmy."

I had a girl friend from Dallas who insisted that she lived in a "flat." Unless it was a flat of turnips, I think she was being slightly obsequious.

You know, I lived in San Francisco for a while and if I remember correctly (Perd can you verify?) we used to call it a flat if it took up a whole floor of the house, usually a Victorian. If it shared space with another abode then it was called an apartment. But this was the only place I ever lived that I heard that distinction.

Jayne

 

[MathGirl]

Originally posted by Quasimodem I know about railway flats. They are long, thin, one-room wide apartments, where you have to pass through every room in the apartment to get from the front door to the back window.

In parts of the South, they once built cheap houses like that. I think they call them "shotgun houses." James Lee Burke has one in each of his novels.
MG

 

[Guest]

RR flats

Jayne is right about the distinction between a flat and an apartment. I live in an old single-family house that was turned into 3 flats, one per floor. Apartment buildings can have any number of dwellings on one floor. Duplexes are simple but perplex me. However, on the waterfront people prefer the term beach chalet!

A railroad flat has one long hallway from end to end from which one enters all the rooms (bed, bath, kitchen, etc.), as in a railroad car wherein one goes down the corridor of doors to all compartments. My flat has 2 bedrooms, a large kitchen, dining room, lliving room, bathroom and hall closet, each of which is entered off the long 'railroad car' corridor we call a hallway.

Perdita

Elia Kazan

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

You can also count on James Lee Burke to provide at least three solid Hemingway-esque passages of florid description, and at least one mention of beignets and coffee at the Cafe du Monde...