Questions Game

I don't know spendius. I once saw a bumper sticker on
a fancy pick-up which read: "Not all men are stupid. Some are bachelors".

What's nitty-gritty to you?

It certainly isn't eating a hot dog however charmingly it is done.

One couldn't possibly discuss nitty-gritty on this public forum.It deals in the concrete and not the abstract as is the general way.You might attempt to tease it out of me but it is unlikely you will get anywhere.Imagine an unshockable nerdy scientist looking at humans under a bright light.

You could try The Philosophy of the Boudoir but it is only an introduction.

Can you do teeth sucking irony?

Probably not as good in English as in German, but if needed
I can. Plus I did get your subtle explanation.
Whereas the hot dog was taken out of context again.
You read to much in other topics

You think it's wise to look at humans in bright light?

What other way is there?One needs light to look at anything.The scientific problem is whether the light affects the object.If a creature which lives in the dark,like those things which live in the ocean depths where no light reaches,is looked at under lights it changes.Big retailers video customers you know and study the effects of display arrangements or music on them.Eye blink rates go up in big shops for example and fast blinking is associated with impulse buying.That's old hat.

You did it yourself observing the effect of hot dog eating.Hey Cal-maybe you are a budding scientist.
What you lacked was instrumentation but perhaps you don't need it.There is an instrument for measuring the first twitch.A bit like a lie detector.

How did I take the hot dog out of context?

Because you took the remark I've made in another topic
and mentioned it here. It doesn't make sense here,
as it was an answer to that .....aehm, love potion whatever.


Do you twitch while shopping?

I don't do much shopping but if you count the pub as shopping,which I suppose it is,then yes.I sometimes twitch in such an extravagant fashion that had I a twitchometer fitted I might fuse it.Twitchometers are very sensitive devices and are designed to register twitches that are not consciously felt.The difficulty is that they might not detect traits but only conditioned reflexes although that might be just as important as I explained the other night.When I whizz through the Forum Index I can spot your name easily.That's a twitch I think and if I was wired up it would probably register.

What do you think it ought to register on a scale of 0-100 considering the pub twitch gets up to about 50-60 after 4 units of alcohol on a good night?

Now here is a scientific revelation the world has been
looking for: the twitchometer! Fascinating, really quite
fascinating.

Of course, never having had a pub twitch (I can't even
pronounce that properly), and most pubs I've been to in
my youth were dark, I have to say: your guess is as good
as mine.

But one would think with increasing alcohol intake, the
twitch would get slower and slower, no?

Not the twitching no.A bit later it often slows down faster than it really ought to but that has often to be balanced against that he needed 8 units of alcohol to get to the point of finding out.

The twitchometer was invented in the '30's.It just isn't widely used.Suppose all the men had to wear a twitchometer read out dial on their foreheads so you could see at a glance the effect you're having on them.A scale of 1-3 to make it easy.I have written at some length about the twitchometer in the distant past.For my own amusement mainly and to practice my irony which is the same thing really.There you go-you just learned what irony is and there's books about that.The twitchometer,like most scientific inventions,is capable of being taken in hand by capitalists and exploited,by public demand,in the amusement business.Look what they did with the wheel.

I don't like to blow my own trumpet much but have you seen those acronyms.

Were you a little gleeful before?

Yes, one can get carried away with these fascinating subjects, such as a twitchometer.

Me gleeful? Never!! My intentions are always honorable and
honest. I haven't seen much of a2k today - got too busy
in the office.

So you did well on the acronyms then?

Well I thought so.It wasn't just me.ff was involved.
But the NORMAN one I'm over the moon about.It would kill Mailer.From whom I might add I have learned so much.When I read The Naked and the Dead it was like my brain got long pants.Catch 22 put nice creases in them.But those books are not for ladies.

Have you read Tom Jones?

Tom Jones the singer? Actually you have cheated on the
Acrynom game just to make your mark, and that's quite unacceptable. They should suspend you for a couple
of rounds.

Do you cheat on other things too?

I would never be so bold as to claim that I am entirely unconversant with a little skullduggery now and again.

No.Tom Jones the novel by Henry Fielding.Tom Jones,the singer chappie, is a bit like your local yahoos.You may not be able to follow it in English but there might be a good translation.There's a possibility.

Is that all I get-A two round suspension.I can live with that.Is a page a round.I actually fancied editing YUSES to YOUSES but I didn't want to put ff to the trouble of chewing her pencil end off.



But I was thinking in the pub about how difficult you are to please.I get a real classy acronym and you're so cool about it.

Are you an ice maiden like they have in Wagner?

Haha, yes, I am an ice maiden, and very difficult to please.
Nothing wrong with that, as long as someone can light
the fire.

FF was nice enough to let you get away with, I would have
taken the previous acrynom instead. I know, I know you
wanted a pad on the shoulder for your excellent acrynom,
you still cheated though.

How was the pub today?

Same as usual.But there was a lady who looked exactly like Lola.

It was the NORMAN acronym I was so chuffed about.That "elegantly" would crack Mailer up.I loved ff's "dames" one as well.

You do know don't you that English Roses are not ice-maidens.An English Rose would have been all over me with admiration if she understood the joke which,I must admit is unlikely.

Actually I didn't really cheat.I was being naughty on purpose.You don't seriously think I couldn't have solved that "Y" do you?I was providing you all with an excuse to talk strict and schoolmarmy because I love it when you do.

How wide is the Atlantic Ocean?

Well, isn't it good that I'm no English Rose.

How wide is the Atlantic Ocean? Hm, I get rouhly 9000 miles
credited to my mileage account, so 4500 miles one way,
and 3000 miles from SD to NY, which would leave around
1500 miles for the Atlantic.

So, did you speak to "Lola" in the pub?

No.I just did a bit of eye-balling.It's groundwork.I started lighting fags everytime she did.

If the ocean is that wide I reckon you can all get as strict and headmistressie as you fancy.I really do appreciate indignation in women who are '000s of miles away.

Do you like being indignant?

Yes, actually I do. But it's in all good fun, as I'm not into
moral sermons at all. I'm just being temperamental.

Funny, the mating calls men succumb to, when they're
in need to attract attention. Let's hope for your sake,
she wasn't a chain smoker.

So "Lola" was closer to your age?

I didn't like mentioning that.I'm very gentlemanly regarding a lady's age.

I don't think it is the need to attract attention.It's more in the way of amusement.I could tell she was a bit bored so I just thought I would throw a little shaft of light her way for want of anything better to do and I can keep in the conversation where I am at the same time so there's nothing lost.I had to laugh though at her pretending she wasn't noticing.
Passing ships.

I was thinking about the twitchometer.We could do some science.You put a new avvie up and ask for reactions.If you put that other one up we'll need a flaccometer.

You won't ever do that again will you?

(and it is bo-bo time for a mildly exhausted spendi)

What? Having an old lady as avatar? Who knows, I might
surprise you one day again. Then you won't talk to me
again until I change, haha.

Men are very child like , aren't they?

Sometimes.

Are you ever childlike?