Back to Yer Ugly Mug: Was "WHAT???????"

Well, I'd better change the header for this one, since the thread has
evolved into a friendly discussion of gender and attraction, et reliqua, et
reliqua, a confusion, I'm sure, to the two newbies on the list this week.
Welcome newbies!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug,"
etc.


> En réponse à Christophe:
Moi:
> >   Got my ugly mug up there, finally (what an ordeal with my
> >computer!), though it's a picture of me taken when I was 41.  It's my
> >favorite picture, and the way I want to be remembered (hence the corny
> >"feathering" all around it).
Lui:
> Strange, when I was at the Rempts once, they showed me a picture of you
> quite different from this one :) . Maybe it's the hairdo difference which
> gives me that impression :) .
I wonder which picture that was.  I'm very shorn, lately.  Very short,
streaky, red hair.  I've gone through a weight gain and then a rapid weight
loss.  Believe you me, that picture does NOT look like the average me.  It's
very idealized, very much my picture of myself in my dreams.  I smile a lot
more, show more teeth, am more antic, more round-faced, and I don't have
that dramatic white streak in my hair.  In fact, I don't have that much hair
anymore!

> >   What different walks of life y'all are from!!
> >I noticed a strong interest expressed in science fiction; I guess that's
not
> >surprising.  As for expectations, I must say that Christophe Grandsire
looks
> >as I imagined him to;
>
> How come? Do I look "maggelitous"? Or maybe it's because I've often
> described myself to the list (maybe a little too much actually ;)))) ).
Okay, before the thread turned into attraction and gender, we had a few
interesting comments about "imagining" someone on the list.  It's only
natural to give vague shape to the personality we see, and I imagined you
looking like a French version of my next door neighbor, Mike, who is also
intense, silly, very intellectual, mathematical, linguistic, and gay.  It's
not that he's the only gay friend I have... far from it; but it surprised me
that you looked like him, as I imagined you to do.

> >Someone else remarked several days ago that the women were mostly
> >dark-haired.  I made a list of the number of men who were bearded (at
least
> >in the pictures that were available).  The clean-shaven men slightly
> >outnumber the bearded men.  This has about as much meaning as the
> >dark-haired women, but there it is.  David Paul Himes looks like Gandalf
> >with glasses.  Great picture!
>
> Indeed! :)
>
> >Yes, this is focussing on your faces... but remember I've got quite a
number
> >of your surveys.  So I'm interested in what you all look like.
>
> Hehe, as for me, the biggest surprise was John Cowan. I would never have
> imagined him like that!!! :))
Heh heh, I have a separate remark about the stunt he pulled there. :)

Welcome back from your obviously invigorating week, Christophe.  I hope Jan
will be better.  Chris is calling me to dinner.  As for attraction and
gender, who could get a better husband?  He cooks for me!!  (When I cook,
I'm too messy, so he prefers to do it, since whoever cooks, the other must
clean up).

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

Reply