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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Karen,
Having met and communicated with you, I think that you need no advice. You're a mature lady with a level head. You'll know early on how it's going to go. Caring for the parents is a nice start.
As for the 'fluttering', completely natural. My wish for you is that you still have butterflies AFTER the date! ;) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | That's nice. You both go and have a good time.
I'll just sit here by the 'puter 'till you get back,
cleaning my gun. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by Beal:
That sounds about right
no drummers
no taylors
bring a gun
be in by 11
good luck And now for the non PC advice from your host...
I would also include Beal's tag line of "play it".
In the sense that if he's older than say... 25... kick him to the curb.. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Karen, I know this doesn't apply to you but I relly get a good laugh everytime I read them:
I have these copied and laminated for future use...lol
Ten Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter
Rule One:
If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.
Rule Two:
You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.
Rule Three:
I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose his compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.
Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.
Rule Five:
It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early."
Rule Six:
I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.
Rule Seven:
As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?
Rule Eight:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there are no parents, policemen, or nuns within eyesight. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.
Rule Nine:
Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.
Rule Ten:
Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit your car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | When I was a teenager I always had to bring the guy in to meet the folks before our date. During the course of conversation my Dad would always manage to mention something about a guy he heard about who hit his wife. Then he would look my date in the eye and say "Any so-called man who hits a woman doesn't deserve to live, and if I had been around, that guy wouldn't be alive anymore." Got his message across without accusation, and made his daughter love him even more! |
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Location: NJ | I had one blind date.
"you have so much in common"
"she has such a beautiful face"
I found out these were "code words" for
"she is female and you are male"
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"she is fat" |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | The only thing really useful about "blind dates" is you find out how much whomever arranged it really DOESN'T KNOW about you.
It also helps if one of you on the date are actually blind. |
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Location: Hopkinton, MA | I've only ever been on one blind date.
My wife has also only ever been on one blind date.
We were both so traumatized by the blind date (yes, it was the 2 of us together) that to avoid ever having to go through it again, we got married.
(true story.....well sort of...the trauma was made up) :D
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Location: Cicero, NY | :D |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Karen, my partner Deb and I broke up in November (not my choice) after 8+ years.
The thought of possibly dating again has crossed my mind but certainly not filling me
with feelings of enthusiasm or excitement.
We are talking again and have had a couple of "dates" recently which have gone (I think) well.
Monday 12th is my birthday and Deb has invited me over for dinner so it may well be a significant evening for both of us.
Good luck!!
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Jim, I'm sorry to hear about that. Hope things go well for you tomorrow. I hope it turns out to be a truly happy birthday. Happy birthday anyway. Are you still going to Amelia Island, or is that off the cards now?
Karen, you'll do just fine. Any guy who ends up with you will be a lucky guy. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Richard, thanks for your good wishes.
I'm definitely going to Amelia, no way I am going to miss that.
AJ |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | If you need someone to come around one night and help play some of your guitars, just let me know. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Hmmm. Jim, you said something rather catty about partners at Richard's OzOFC mkII. I didn't follow up on your comment, but I suspected something was amiss.
I hope you sort it out. I thought you made (make) a great couple.
And Kazza... just go and have fun with NO expectations - except to have fun, of course.
And also.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY AJ!
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Happy Birthday AJ !!! Best of wishes for your randevouz.
and
Good luck Karen for you date !! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Happy B'day AJ!!! |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Okay, all my protective big brothers;
Start lining up on the landing at the top of the stairs--the big day is now; I'm leaving as soon as I post this. (I meant to say the "11th" in my explanatory post, but hit "12th" instead.)
Am going guitarless (probably "incognito" is a better term.....)
Will notify you when safely home.
Love to all,
--Karen |
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Location: East Tennessee | We'll leave the porch light ON.
Remember 11:15. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | It's 9:59, and I'm home, so all y'all can stop your pacing and go back to your pickin' and grinnin.'
1. Makeup is fine.
2. Left at 9:30 (starting to pumpkinize.)
3. No need for the pistol.
4. Nice relaxing evening of cutthroat dominoes (I will have to go back just to avenge myself.)
5. I could have used the biscuits for the attack Jack Russell terrior (actually, very sweet but hyper doggie who lives to be patted.)
6. No need for background check; nice, quiet sort of fellow.
The ice is broken, and I didn't drown, so all's well that ends well.
--Karen |
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Location: closely held secret | "nice, quiet sort of fellow"
I really, really wish you hadn't said that... |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
"nice, quiet sort of fellow"
I really, really wish you hadn't said that... Isn't that he way neighbors describe them on the news interviews? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Okay, Karen; we need name, address, and phone number on this guy. We have hackers, detectives, (and experienced stalkers, I'm sure) here to get the full back-story on this guy.
PM the usual suspects with the details....
...and please send me three strands of his hair
(he does have hair, right?)
by snail mail. |
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Location: Texas | MusicMishka: I don't know if you created those "10 rules for dating my daughter" yourself or borrowed them from elsewhere, but they are brilliant! I have seen similar lists, but none as perfect as those. I hope you don't mind my copying them to hang by our front door. I have a teenage daughter*, and my wife says I'm "over-protective." However, I say (with great confidence ;-) that my wife was NEVER a teenage boy, and I WAS (albeit long ago,) so I believe I know more about the inner workings of those beasts than my wife does ;-) The list goes up tomorrow, I think I'll make some copies as "handouts" for them to take along in case they need to refresh their memory during the date.
(*yes, we started a family at a relatively advanced age, and no, I'm not really her grandfather ;-) |
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Location: Utah | Standing, you could try the old routine of cleaning several guns when the boyfriend arrives. Either he'll know to fear you, or you'll get a new shooting buddy. |
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Way, way, way OT: Blind dates...??
