Comments on: Family ties (and spiritual transference, drug use, quasi-incest…): “The Secret”

By: Ten Feet

Ten Feet — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:04:58 +0000

I kind of associate “strange” with acts of sex. “Trim” to me means hot chick(s), which I suppose can be used to refer to sex via metonymy.

By: GunMonkey

GunMonkey — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:12:58 +0000

Haven’t heard “trim” in a while. I associate it with the ’80s for some reason or other. I think because Eddie Murphy uses it in “48 Hours.”

By: Quiconque

Quiconque — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:36:49 +0000

Ichi likes the words “strange” and “trim.” Apparently Deadwood brought strange back into the lexicon. It’s an old term.

By: GunMonkey

GunMonkey — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:58:33 +0000

No, it’s just slang for sex. Doesn’t get much use anymore so it’s kinda fun to trot out every now and again. I have no idea its origins.

By: Quiconque

Quiconque — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:52:12 +0000

The original starred Jodie Foster and the adorable Barbara Harris.

By: Quiconque

Quiconque — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:41:21 +0000

You wrote “strange.” Is that because women’s parts are scary and alienating to you?

By: Ten Feet of Steel

Ten Feet of Steel — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:50:45 +0000

By “giving your blog a shout-out”, I presume you meant “pointing out that normal features of your body are gross”? If it weren’t so utterly conventional, I might take the time to feel insulted, but mostly I’m surprised you haven’t given it any thought. We all have our grooming preferences for ourselves and for the people we’d like to date, and most women, myself included, will practice socially acceptable body hair management, whether we’ve internalized the reigning idea of our own body hair as “ooky” or we just want to save ourselves the hassle of stares and harassment. All the same, you might want to remember that men who call women “gross” when we don’t care to fall in line with convention won’t exactly be perceived as princes by women who have a tendency to question those conventions.

By: GunMonkey

GunMonkey — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:23:33 +0000

Wasn’t Lindsay Lohan in one version?

By: Quiconque

Quiconque — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:59:23 +0000

They already made Freaky Friday, TWICE. No need for this.

By: GunMonkey

GunMonkey — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:57:55 +0000

Yeah, he’s an optometrist or an opthamologist. They’re not real clear on that point, but he does look at people’s eyes all day (which, apparently, doesn’t begin until he looks into Lili Taylor’s).

And I was just trying to give your blog a shout-out. You were the one who decided to be mean to my home state.