Imponderable Water Cooler: Colder than Minnesota
POSTED BY: Mavourneen
UPDATED: Thursday, June 28, 2007 23:36
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Mavs - in my defense, you never wrote back and asked me about it. 
~jimi
Dew. Be. Dew. Be. Dew.
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Well I'm off for now.
I'm going on a quest for food.
TTFN
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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
Mavs - in my defense, you never wrote back and asked me about it.
It's a good thing you are so darn sweet, or I'd kick your Southern behind from here to Birmingham.
EDIT: Bye Hobbleit! Have some chocolate!
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Originally posted by deepgirl187:
I do see your point JQ, but dating someone you've been friends with for a while (or in my case, since childhood) would be uncomfortable for me. My best friends are like family, and well, dating family? Ick.
Ahhh. You one of the few that means it when she says, "Can't we just be friends?" And you hold them in such thrall that they can't help but say yes. Poor fools.
All kidding aside. I do understand the ick factor. You just can't "think of them that way". It seems positively unnatural and ought to be illegal. Aren't there any that weren't part of the upbringing who could be counted among a wider circle of friends where an attraction might have occured?
Also there is a bit of truth to the statements about not being "friends" from the start but the friendship part grows out of the romance. I think it is essential for folks to be best friends to be happily married. If the friendship doesn't come maybe marriage is not the road to travel together.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman
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Originally posted by Mavourneen:
It's a good thing you are so darn sweet, or I'd kick your Southern behind from here to Birmingham.
Then I'd get to meet you at least.
~jimi
Dew. Be. Dew. Be. Dew.
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:Quote:
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Originally posted by RugBug:
At one point, I took off my shirt...because it just feels better when driving with the top off.
Zeek approves of this post.
Zeek, have you been taking editing lessons from JQ?
Damn, son, are you yet another of my illegitimate offspring peppered about the country? I was going to *snip* "not edit" /*snip* that very quote!! Well done, squirt!
I'm so proud. I feel like I should thank the academy or something.
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Originally posted by RugBug:
Let's see...I've bored msg and chased away others with the horse talk...(see why I'm single...most people can't stand my favorite topic of conversation)...What can we talk about?
You're so very wrong. You may have bored the women but trust me the men loved the "I took off my shirt" post. The only reason you'd be single after that is that they guys are all in a big brawl over who gets to ask you out first. Don't worry I'm sure someone will win eventually.
On another note hooray for intellectual property (and firefox for spell checking "intellectual" for me). *Zeek rolls in his future ip check*
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
All kidding aside. I do understand the ick factor. You just can't "think of them that way". It seems positively unnatural and ought to be illegal. Aren't there any that weren't part of the upbringing who could be counted among a wider circle of friends where an attraction might have occurred?
Not with my friends. Most of them are girls (and I'm still on the fence about the whole attracted to women thing), and even with the guy friends I did have, there wasn't an attraction there.
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:Also there is a bit of truth to the statements about not being "friends" from the start but the friendship part grows out of the romance. I think it is essential for folks to be best friends to be happily married. If the friendship doesn't come maybe marriage is not the road to travel together.
Definitely agree there. Love's great and all, but if you don't actually like the person you're with, the relationship's not in for smooth sailing.
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Quote:Rugbug: Do I need to take you shopping? You, MSG, Mav, and me. And Visa.
Originally posted by Zeek:Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
Let's see...I've bored msg and chased away others with the horse talk...(see why I'm single...most people can't stand my favorite topic of conversation
You're so very wrong. You may have bored the women but trust me the men loved the "I took off my shirt" post.
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Thanks for all the well-wishes everyone! I slept a bunch yesterday and I'm feeling a bit better today. Not completely well, but better than yesterday.
Quote:I can see what you mean, DeepGirl, and I don't disagree. There wasn't ever a point when hubby and I were "just friends". The two months that we knew each other before we started dating we were actively pursuing and flirting with each other. And within a year of meeting each other we were engaged, heh.
Originally posted by deepgirl187:
I can't say I'd ever consider dating a best friend.
I did have one friend from college whom I could have dated (but never did), but he and I had "the talk", when we sat down and talked about how we could date, but we wouldn't ever want to break up, so what would that mean in the long run. We decided that we were on two very separate paths (this was 6 years ago, and he's still in med school now), but that if it was meant to happen it would happen later down the road. But even there, it wasn't like we were friends with no attraction and then one day just suddenly thought about dating, it had always sort of been an undercurrent in our friendship.
OTOH, I know a girl who just got engaged to her roommate, a guy she'd said for years she didn't want to date because she didn't want to ruin their friendship. So who knows, maybe the friends-first thing can work for some people. (Or maybe she accepted his proposal after crying on his shoulder during a recent bad break up. Seems more likely from my perspective.
)Quote:So what's going on with Roxy and D*C? I'm not going, but I do so enjoy following all the talk about it.
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Originally posted by Mavourneen:
Poor Roxy. I feel bad she can't go now.
WHAT?
*recovers, but just barely*
Gotta catch up on some threading I guess. Wow. That’s so sad.
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Originally posted by Zeek:
On another note hooray for intellectual property (and firefox for spell checking "intellectual" for me). *Zeek rolls in his future ip check*
~CK
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Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:
this was 6 years ago, and he's still in med school now
There could have been a benefit there...
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So what's going on with Roxy and D*C? I'm not going, but I do so enjoy following all the talk about it.
I for one am sad not to see you there either. Roxy's blog has the details.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman
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