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You Shall Sort Of Know Me By the Following 20 Things
by Lobstergirl | Apr 19 '03
I have revealed much, and feel naked.

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Works for me (Reply to this comment)
by orioles35
Fantasizes about hockey players and thinks Shannon Doherty should be in a reality TV show.

Cool.
Dec 04 '03
2:39 pm PST

Re: Forget All These Other Stupid Comments, Just Read This One: (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
I have spent the majority of my nearly 4 years on this site relentlessly attempting to kiss the right asses to get myself a coveted CL, to no avail. Well, I'm done with the butt munching. The SAHMs will have to find some other flunkie to lovingly caress their privates. I AM DONE.
May 21 '03
10:03 pm PDT

Forget All These Other Stupid Comments, Just Read This One: (Reply to this comment)
by 29th_Candidate


I'm worried about you L.G.; I was expecting something a bit more in line with your warm and fluffy persona. I sense that in some parts of this entry, you may even have been being ironical. How do you ever expect to become a CL, or even an advisor, in the "20 Facts" Category with an entry like this?

--29th (A CL in the Virtual Community Social Darwinism Category)
May 18 '03
4:29 pm PDT

Re: you cray-zay shellfish (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
If I weren't allergic to your wife, I'd eat her.
I find all the Epinions spouses so yummy.
May 08 '03
6:29 pm PDT

you cray-zay shellfish (Reply to this comment)
by sumo_rhino

What an entertaining way to create a list.

Well listed.

If my wife weren't allergic to shellfish, we'd invite you to dinner.

-- sumo_rhino
May 07 '03
7:03 am PDT

Doherty convergence! (Reply to this comment)
by sundogg99
No kidding, I thought about Shannon Doherty yesterday morning. Here's how it worked:

1) It being Monday, I had a weekend's worth of stubble to hack off my face.
2) It being morning, I was bored, sleepy, and was kind of dicking around while shaving, imagining trimming my beard to have a negative goatee sort of thing.
3) Which equates to big old sidburns.
4) Which, at one time, were sort of de rigeur among those 90210 guys.
5) Who, despite being congenital eedjits, managed to hang with trollops like Tori Spelling.
6) And Shannon Doherty.

fin
Apr 29 '03
2:19 pm PDT

Oh Yeah (Reply to this comment)
by Granniemose
I thought I knew you before and now I know I know you. You're OK.

Virginia
Apr 27 '03
10:03 pm PDT

Interesting read (Reply to this comment)
by SurgRN911
WOW this was great, thanks for such wonderful information.

Di
Apr 24 '03
12:18 pm PDT

Re: Re: Re: Re: 2x2x2x2... etc. (Reply to this comment)
by jazzbocrow
I don't know if they think a young, goodlooking guy sitting in first class is kept and therefore available to be hit on. And I am a very masculine looking and acting guy....

I am choking on my chicken nuggets (that's what they were serving us ugly, cheap shoe wearing people back in coach).
Apr 23 '03
6:33 pm PDT

Loved the 20 Things (Reply to this comment)
by treeseed
and from one spork to another, how could we have eaten so many Cadbury Creme Eggs before we realized they are sickening? Another of Life's little mysteries...
Apr 23 '03
6:30 am PDT

great (Reply to this comment)
by mptang
pile o'cash.

try these on for size:
http://www.spashoppe.com/giltrewafwea4.html

and I guess you get a book and bath towel here, so knock yourself out:
http://www.marathonbooks.com/cgi-bin/database/book.cgi?b=202w

vaguely yours,
Tang, the towel pusher
Apr 21 '03
8:52 pm PDT

Babawawa... (Reply to this comment)
by tombarnes
I loved John Simon's diatribe Verbal Barbarisms in Paradigms Lost years ago. It was merciless and absolutely perfect. Tom
Apr 21 '03
7:17 pm PDT

Point #16... (Reply to this comment)
by elvisdo
Dammit, why don’t we see more of Shannen Doherty? All of these crappy reality shows, and not a single one based on her life?

You would think someone would cash in on this cow. Wait, that didn't come out right. She's a cash cow. Nah, I liked it the first way better.
Apr 21 '03
2:14 pm PDT

Oh, LG (Reply to this comment)
by counsel
I know you now. It's the you I thought you were all along, especially the gun part.

Thanks for the essay.

Apr 21 '03
8:00 am PDT

Re: Re: 2x2x2x2... etc. (Reply to this comment)
by mfunk75
OK, but are you gay?

It was my understanding, when I joined the Epinions Army, that you weren't allowed to ask me that. "Don't ask, don't tell", and all.

-mike
Apr 21 '03
7:44 am PDT

eh... (Reply to this comment)
by emptywishes
I never ate regular old sugar with a spoon, but I did partake of spoonfuls of the much-superior brown sugar. yum.

Kim
Apr 21 '03
1:49 am PDT

Re: somehow (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
You mean dead presidents (money), or live presidents? Hmmmm.....maybe a pile of prime ministers, if you took out Major, Thatcher, and most of the others.....

The second photo is rather hard to see, but yes, both of those look like relatively lint-free waffle weave. $55, ouch!

Thanks, Ecology Tang.
Apr 20 '03
9:41 pm PDT

somehow (Reply to this comment)
by mptang
I can see you nesting on a great pile 'o presidents.

these close?
http://www.fblinen.com/IBS/SimpleCat/Product/asp/product-id/373165.html

http://www.ecologique.com/ecologique/t633.html

Tang, The Wastrel
Apr 20 '03
8:56 pm PDT

Re: Biscuits (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Jeez, Aggiebrett, you're kind of scaring me. Did I hang out with you in Lubbock and I'm just not remembering any of it? Don't do that; I feel dirty enough having participated in a giant writeoff.

Yeah, I killed a lot of pixels, but at least no trees had to die.
Apr 20 '03
5:22 pm PDT

Re: Arugula and waffle-weave Italian towels! (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
You know what you can't do though, is roll around all sweaty and surrounded by Good & Plentys on these white waffle weave towels. You'll never be able to get those pink stains out.
Apr 20 '03
5:19 pm PDT

Re: 2x2x2x2... etc. (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
OK, but are you gay?
Apr 20 '03
5:17 pm PDT

Biscuits (Reply to this comment)
by AggieBrett
(I panicked)

I'm not sure what it says about us (well, about everyone else but me) that there have been so many of these "20 Things About Me" essays. You mentioned "narcissism" which is one of my favorite words, but beyond that I wonder if it might not also explain a lot of these essays. Perhaps a lot of people have the nagging (and, in many cases, justified) suspicion that in truth they are boring pathetic walking talking lawn bags full of protoplasm, and this "20 Things" process gives them a chance to shake their fist at the Universe and say "Dammit, I *AM* interesting! After all, I collect electric doorknobs! See? I'm cool like dat!"

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

But let's be honest-- most of the folks we see on the street and online are not really all that interesting. I think that's why I simply refuse to give in to that narcissistic urge to go bandwagonista and throw my thousand-and-a-half-words-worth onto the pile same as everyone else. Certainly my refusal to follow your lead here is not due to any lack of narcissism or ego on my part. Lord knows, when I die I'll likely need TWO sets of pallbearers-- one for my flabby carcass and another for my swollen ego-- but as a good friend of mine once said, "somebody's got to not do it."

And I think I'm just the man for not doing a job.

Your essay was right dandy, though. Yours was worth the effort. Worth the death of a few million pixels. Worth the time it took to sit here and blather on like this in a pointless and entirely self-indulgent comment (See also: my previous comments w/r/t "ego").

I would beg you to come to the Casbah with me, but I think we both know we're well past that. Instead, I'll tip my longneck your way with a half nod and a demi-smirk, and we'll leave it at what is probably best for having never been in the first place.

And we'll always have Lubbock.
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ego rex B
Apr 20 '03
4:56 pm PDT

Arugula and waffle-weave Italian towels! (Reply to this comment)
by Penguinlady

Good & Plenty, too!

A woman after my own heart.

It took a while to get used to those bed-sheet-sized towels, but I learned to love 'em - they absorb beautifully and dry in minutes. So, yeah - I'd love to know where to get them

Margaret
Apr 20 '03
3:53 pm PDT

2x2x2x2... etc. (Reply to this comment)
by mfunk75
LG-

It’s obviously a little ridiculous to set a binary constraint like this, but it makes for some interesting debates.

One solution: if the individual answers enough of these binary organizing principles questions, then they're well on their way towards a neat little solipsistic definition of their own bad selves.

-mike (a living beyond a subsistence level, laidback, frugal, grateful, believing in the markets kinda a guy)
Apr 20 '03
3:46 pm PDT

Re: Re: ... (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Thinking about licking Babs' earlobe has me all worked up.

Please! That is disgusting. Not in my comments section, I beg of you.
Apr 20 '03
2:46 pm PDT

Re: ... (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
On that note, if it's narcissistic for a gay person to say that sexual orientation is the most important organizing principle, would it be narcissistic for a black person to say that race is the most important?

Perhaps. It's such a subjective issue, that maybe it's inevitable that anything you pick has an element of narcissism in it. But this very militant gay man in particular was always narcissistic in this way. He was incapable of having a conversation or an idea that didn't revolve around, or eventually come around to the identity politics of gayness. Most people aren't that extreme.
Apr 20 '03
2:44 pm PDT

Re: Ah HA (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
You are Leona Helmsley! She has fantastic breasts (well, after some work), she eats squirrel, she's gone on record saying that if she were a piece of flatware she's be a spife, she's extremely picky about towels in guest rooms...

You forgot, she also loves the elderly. It seems to me, I could also be Anna Nicole Smith.
Apr 20 '03
2:38 pm PDT

Re: As you know you're one of my favorites (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Hope a position with a gargantuan salary is forthcoming.

Well, I am employed now, so I'm definitely not complaining. About that, at least. But yes, a gargantuan salary would be nice.
Apr 20 '03
2:36 pm PDT

Re: donations (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
And to what address should we send you firearms if we like your taste in accidents?

Oh yeah, I'm not falling for that one again.
Apr 20 '03
2:34 pm PDT

Re: mysteries, etc. (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
I worry that certain people will be in for a big shock when they enter the real world and it's no longer ok to write, "I ate out your mom" on the sidewalk in chalk.

The people who write that are queers? I had no idea. When I see that in my neighborhood I assume it's just the everyday gang warfare.
Apr 20 '03
2:31 pm PDT
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