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Sorry, I'm still unpacking the new condo and am several days behind here.
I'm shocked there's no security contingent, and that you were able to be that close to him - or is the security contingent just not in frame?
I've met Bill Clinton twice. Once in 2008 when he campaigned in Roanoke for Barack Obama and again in 2009 when he made another swing through my town on behalf of VA gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. He's an even more impressive speaker in person than he is on television. And yes...he looks exactly like you'd expect Bill Clinton to look.Big head. White kinky hair. Big red nose. And the guy has the perfect hands for playing a piano...long, slender fingers. He doesn't have the firmest handshake in the world, but he looks you dead in the eye, smiles and puts you at ease when you talk with him.
You'd probably shake hands gently too if you were shaking hands with thousands of people at one of those rallies. (When I'm at a convention and meeting an actor, I'm always careful to shake hands gently, both for that same reason and because they've been signing their name a few hundred times - I'm sure their hands are tired by the end of the day.)
That Dalek didn't want to exterminate. It wanted to inseminate.
Okay, that was bad. My most humble apologies.
Oh, man. You're gonna regret that. Once, the mods are done with me, you'll be next.
What makes you think I can't take you both out at once?
cooleddie - that was bad....
That Dalek didn't want to exterminate. It wanted to inseminate.
Okay, that was bad. My most humble apologies.
Oh, man. You're gonna regret that. Once, the mods are done with me, you'll be next.
What makes you think I can't take you both out at once?
cooleddie - that was bad....
Yeah, I know. My bad. My humblest apologies.
While we're on the subject of pretty women and DR. WHO I must admit that outside of these boards and just three or four women I've personally known face-to-face I don't know any girls or women who claim to like or love DR. WHO. It's odd. The franchise has been around for close to fifty years, yet in my circle of family, friends and associates I could count the number of females who like the Doctor and his adventures on one hand. Does anyone else have this experience or is it just me? I know men are socially conditioned to like geeky sci-fi to a greater degree than women, but when I was younger I would mention Tom Baker, K-9 the robot and Sarah Jane to my female classmates and female members of the family and they would all look at me like I had just spoken Swahili or Klingon to them. It wasn't until I joined the BBS in 2001 that I encountered a lot of women who like the show.
I know MANY women from teens to 40's IRL who love the new Dr. Who. It's a bit of a shock after years of no one being into anything sci-fi. Some like it because it is english. I keep hoping this sudden swell in geekiness will splash over into other shows.
cooleddie, I really didn't enjoy that, but since that has already been pointed out and you apologized, nothing more to add here.
Anyway, thanks for all the compliments.
Although I was looking for distraction yesterday and you guys delivered too late! I had to go and read a book to compensate.
As for women enjoying scifi, I actually know more women than men who are really into it. The guys I know usually enjoy occasionally watching a scifi flick, but geeks? Definitely more women.
Anyway, thanks for all the compliments.
Although I was looking for distraction yesterday and you guys delivered too late! I had to go and read a book to compensate.
As for women enjoying scifi, I actually know more women than men who are really into it. The guys I know usually enjoy occasionally watching a scifi flick, but geeks? Definitely more women.
I guess it's the people I know and hang around, then. Thanks for your input, ladies. I was always a little mystified why Dr. Who didn't seem to have a lot of popularity or even name recognition with girls and women in my circle but I suppose it's just THOSE girls and women and not indicative of the gender per se. Growing up you(or at least I)tended to get the impression that science fiction was more of a male genre that appealed to little boys, teenagers and grown men. My late mom adored STAR TREK and even liked Dr. Who(a little, though she could never get too much into the Time Lord lore for various reasons)but she was one of the more open-minded women in my early life when it came to science fiction.
Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.
Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.
^ That. Is. Awesome!
He looks like Bart and Milhouse after their super squishee.
I don't think you're necessarily wrong. Like I said, there are more guys around who occasionally watch scifi. But since I am very particular about who I hang out with and tend to look long and closely for people, I just happened to find those who are geeks. And they, in turn, led to geeks. There, then, were nearly more women than men, but it didn't initially seem so.
He looks like Bart and Milhouse after their super squishee.
I don't think you're necessarily wrong. Like I said, there are more guys around who occasionally watch scifi. But since I am very particular about who I hang out with and tend to look long and closely for people, I just happened to find those who are geeks. And they, in turn, led to geeks. There, then, were nearly more women than men, but it didn't initially seem so.
Godson fuckin' loves his blue ice cream.
I'm pretty damn sure there are drugs in that ice cream.
That must be the best damned ice cream on the face of the planet. Whatever your godson was eating...I want triple helpings. Stuff looks like it could make you hallucinate dead rock stars.
Perhaps there really are more women geeks than men. It's just the men are more likely to needlessly whine about it on the interwebz.^ That. Is. Awesome!
He looks like Bart and Milhouse after their super squishee.
I don't think you're necessarily wrong. Like I said, there are more guys around who occasionally watch scifi. But since I am very particular about who I hang out with and tend to look long and closely for people, I just happened to find those who are geeks. And they, in turn, led to geeks. There, then, were nearly more women than men, but it didn't initially seem so.
I've only started to look for places online to chat with fellow geeks, when I joined this forum. Until then I was on my own.
I think you're right, there are lots of us... just not as many on the boards.
I guess the ladies are just a lot more skilled at hiding their nerdiness and geekiness than we gentlemen. At least half the attendees at my local sci-fi and comic book conventions are girls and women so I guess the fairer sex just projects a more convincing cloaking device to hide their 'shipping and mania over this-and-that. Women are masters at concealing their true feelings about certain subjects until the right moment comes to reveal them.
And then they go to a con or post on a message board. And the gloves come off and they manage to outgeek even the guys and put them to shame.
And then they go to a con or post on a message board. And the gloves come off and they manage to outgeek even the guys and put them to shame.
I wonder how a con is for a dating pool.
I shower once a day and make an effort to keep myself well groomed, so I have a leg up on most of the other attendees.
I shower once a day and make an effort to keep myself well groomed, so I have a leg up on most of the other attendees.
I think it would be a good place to meet people. Some even have speed dating, don't they?
And yeah, I think maybe women just keep the geek stuff under wraps sometimes. I know I do. When people find out I'm into Trek or LOTR or WoW or whatever it is, they're generally surprised.
I met a girl in a jewelry display booth line at the local "SheVaCon" a number of years back and even though we never dated or had a romantic relationship she became a pretty good friend. She was(and remains) a pretty hardcore STAR WARS, STAR TREK and LotR fan and has even written some of her own short stories about those universes...and the two she e-mailed to me aren't all that bad considering a complete amateur with little or no writing experience penned them. She keeps herself well-groomed and clean, too.
So...you can meet cool and interesting people of the opposite sex at a con. But I agree that a lot of people of both genders are socially awkward, poorly-groomed and weird. You just have to trust your instincts with some of them and try to root out the ones worth talking to.
So...you can meet cool and interesting people of the opposite sex at a con. But I agree that a lot of people of both genders are socially awkward, poorly-groomed and weird. You just have to trust your instincts with some of them and try to root out the ones worth talking to.
I see plenty of attractive women at cons. I cannot say the same about the men.
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