I noticed on one thread that people were uploading photos of celebrities that must have been lifted off the web. There is even at least one video taken from YouTube.
I was just about to do that myself when I thought: how could that be allowed here? But I guess it must be allowed.
I've heard the song for decades, but I've never been completely able to interpret it.
The lines near the beginning, about "Stroll around the grounds" and "All you see around you are sympathetic eyes" and so forth: is she in or has been in a mental institution (a high-end one for sure)?
"Put it in your pantry with the cupcakes" and "And most of all you you have to hide it from the kids" and all that: I actually considered once that it's about a abortion she once had, but that doesn't seem likely. Is it a reference to the Ben Braddock plot in the movie itself? Or is it about her own attitudes and feelings which she can't reveal?
There is on-going discussion / debate on another site about these items. I've maintained these two points.
1. The panties should go on top of the straps. I mean, that's what I've seen in most, ah, on-line photos. (There are occasional exceptions I've seen, however.)
Unfortunately, at this late stage of my life, I don't know any women I could ask about it. My ex-wife never wore garters, although now I wish she had. (Not that it would have saved the marriage.)
2. I think there are women who still wear garters and straps just for the fun of it, because it makes them feel sexy, or whatever.
That leads to one more question.
3. Thigh-high stockings without straps are pretty popular now, especially in warmer weather, correct?
All right, I'll admit I've based two of my female characters on her looks. I haven't published these stories on this site or anywhere else; that's a couple of months in the future.
The two characters have different personalities (one is twenty-one and other about twenty-nine). They both are very much New York girls.
When I was in my early teens I did a nerdy thing. Over the course of about a year, I rode almost the entire New York subway system just to see what it looked like. It wasn't until years later that I got to a few segments like the ends of the 3 train to Harlem and Brownsville. I was afraid to go into those areas, but now I don't worry about such things.
Maybe readers wouldn't be surprised because I have stories set in the New York of the 1970s.
Hi Clum, sorry if I seemed a bit rude the other day.
I'll try C. Three very dull things:
1. Most security guard jobs. (I've known people who've done them.)
2. Joe Biden.
3. NASCAR, unless there is a big crash. That's why I used to watch demolition derbies on TV years ago; they were nothing but crashes.
It's that one to ten scale of "sexual marketplace value." It's usually about women, but it can apply to men too.
I never heard it used from the 1970s into the early 21st Century. People would be aware of other people's appearance, but they wouldn't try to quantify it so bluntly. Now "red pill" men are completely obsessed with it. In their minds, everybody is a number. Also, calling it a "marketplace" is kind of strange too.
The first time I heard the number thing was with the Bo Derek movie "10." I had to read a review to figure out want it meant. Even after the movie, no one used numbers for years.
I haven't smoked it in over thirty years, but I remember that under that influence I couldn't do anything well except sit around, eat and have sex. (Sex, including masturbation, could be pretty intense.) I couldn't hold a coherent conversation, much less write anything.
Also, illegal drugs are often cut or mixed with something else; thus the effects could be unpredictable and unpleasant. Paranoia was one such result.
