I think that would be rather rude and presumptuous, especially with someone I don't really know. It's up to each individual when to "out" him or herself. Someone "outted" me the other day as merely wearing a wig rather than having a natural full head of hair, which I didn't appreciate in the slightest.
All fine and good, Scott, but what happened to your patented recumbent sensitve intellectual look? Will you lead another generation of young writers back to the Devil's Weed?
My one question is whether UnMatch will have the stamina and time to make over what may become a good portion of this list??!
Thanks for one of the best threads I've been in, S. I don't think I've laughed so hard in months, if not years (and I tend to laugh a lot see?) Good luck to you my friend in handling what may become a monumental work load. The scary part...I have this dystopian vision of your legions of creations someday turning against you, Island of Doctor Moreau-like...eeeeccchhh
*Very* well-said, you little devil. It's pretty fascinating to meet people you've talked with at length on line. You're pretty much guaranteed to be surprised in one way or the other. I remember this one lady (from a philosophy list, not a singles list) who seemed exactly like her emails...except for her laugh. It was loud and braying, like some kind of comedic parody, and she would trumpet it at the most unexpected moments. Not exactly off-putting, but it surprised me.
But I would suspect the surprise factor diminishes in proportion to the time spent conversing with someone online -- especiallly if you combine serious discussion with play, as if we've been doing so much around here lately. Humor for me is the mirror into the soul...ah, make that the window. As Aristotle once said "Man is the animal who laughs." Or maybe it was Socrates?
But Scott, now we all know all those wonderful things about you! And one the favorite things people do here is play -- haven't you noticed that? Good line about learning more from playing than conversation. That was Plato, by the way, but Aristotle was a close guess
Damned if my new self didn't have the same effect on me, ted...I mean grannithands. I must've laughed for two minutes straight without stopping...gave me a bad case of hiccups.
I think my favorite lines were: "...a languid creature spinning time into a carousel of moments full of flow and ebb, a tidal pool of passions flaring and subsiding..." Carousel of moments...yes!
Hundreds of hours? You could get to know some pretty well in that time. And if you wanted to spend that much time with someone, it's not surprising that you "fell" for her (falling sounds too precipitous).
RE: "WHATS YOUR FAVORITE THREAD"
It made me the...ah...man that I am today...?