Is there a strange place that you find romantic? Is there some type of couple that you used to find sexy that now you find trashy or vice versa?

-- Anonymous, May 18, 1999

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Hi everybody! It's me, Big Joe. I find naked couples quite sexy. Always have, always will. Well, naked and not too seriously overweight. And not too old. Wrinkly couples kinda turn me off, truth be told. And not too many tattoos, either. Just a little tattoo isn't so bad, but those people who are tattooed all over, that's definitely trashy, don't you think? I think so.

-- Anonymous, May 18, 1999

Naked couple of what?

Wait. Don't answer that. I don't know. I don't wanna know.

-- Anonymous, May 18, 1999

Mike: I realize not knowing is something you do very well and are quite proud of, given that you are always telling us about it. Nevertheless I am going to attempt to educate you. Here is an excerpt from Webster's dictionary:

couple:
1 a : a man and woman married, engaged, or otherwise paired b : two persons paired together

I hope that helps you understand Pamie's question.

-- Anonymous, May 18, 1999

Okay, really, guys. I don't know what the big deal is. I had let this go on for a while, but once someone tried to pose as me on the boards I figured it was time to step in and say something, since it wasn't getting worked out on its own.

I rarely see Mike direct a message at one of you mocking, but you guys seem to pick apart everything he says (joe and stung, I'm talking to you here).

I don't think anyone misunderstands the questions, I think that some of you just don't like each other's answers, and for those situations where it's going to come down to basic teasing and name calling, I wish you guys would take it to a private e-mail discussion.

thanks.

-- Anonymous, May 18, 1999

Okay, I'll be good. I'm sorry.

I'll save the Cool Hand Luke, hard-boiled eggs, and George Kennedy comment for another forum.

-- Anonymous, May 18, 1999

I remember one television interview with Oliver Sacks. The discussion had focused on a mental patient: she had gotten in a car accident years ago, waiting at a busy New York street corner. The damage she had suffered altered her perception of time. So for years she has existed as a bag lady on that street corner, waiting for her lover to arrive just around the bend.

Sacks could only comment on her good fortune: her existence is eternal longing, with no disappointment.

-- Anonymous, May 18, 1999

Y'know, I *still* find sitting in the bleachers at a football game in the crisp air of autumn romantic. Not that I like football at all - despise the game, actually. But something about autumn...when all your friends in high school were pairing off, and an easy date was the football game (show your school spirit!). I was never paired off, of course, which is probably why I still find this intriguing. In fact, I dated a rather boring soccer coach in college, just so I could go to his games. He never sat with me, because he was the coach. I don't think I'll ever get this right.

-- Anonymous, May 18, 1999

I'm a big sucker for 'necking' at the cinema. Cliched, I know, but there it is. I also find myself turned wild with desire when at my parents' house. I'm just a naughty bad girl at heart.

I never thought I'd find old wrinkly people romantic, but I've obviously read too many romance novels somewhere along the line, because the sight of an old wrinkly couple holding hands will have me oohing and aahing like nobody's business. Married couples with hordes of kids who obviously still fancy each other as sexy human beings and don't just view each other as breadwinners/dishwashers are very romantic as well.

I find anyone in a happy relationship romantic. But what can I say? I'm married to a man so soppy that he gives my teddy bears distinct personalities and their own funny voices to make me laugh.

-- Anonymous, May 19, 1999

Call me corny but ever since I was a little girl I always thought affectionate couples in the mall were just so romantic. You know, the ones who walk through the mall all confident, one arm around their partner, the other interlocking fingers or sucking on a slurpie or something. They way they smiled and giggled and walked around with such a confident stride, sort of showing off to everyone "Look at us, we're in love and we're SHOPPING!" Now, I hate shopping and I despise the mall even more but for some reason if my boyfriend asks me to go I find it so hard to say no. I just love how he walks with his arm around my waist and kisses the top of my head as we gaze into store windows or play with all the neat knick knacks. It makes me feel like a Princess *L* (I know, I SAID it was corny!!!) I think it may stem from being a mall rat as a middle schooler!!! WAY too much mall observation going on there!

-- Anonymous, May 20, 1999

Like someone else said, I find those older couples who still hold hands, and stuff cute. There's a pair that comes to my restaurant allot, and they are both at least a million years old. They are just adorable, because they are both very smart, and the man calls his wife "Babe" and "Doll", and she calls him "Handsom". I just feel like squealing "Oh my gosh, they're so cuuuuuute!" every time I see them.

I always used to want to be the girl with torn jeans and a tank top that showed of her bra straps. Y'know, the kind that always has her hair falling out of its pony-tail, but it looks sexy on her, where as it just looks messy on me. Girls like that always had a guy's tatooed arm around thier waste, and knew just the right way to move so that they showed off all the right curves and everything, but made it look totaly unintentional. Now, though, I'd preffer to be the goody-two-shoes that I am, since all the torn-jeans-and-messy-hair-girls that I know now are pregnant, and trying to find a job that is better than waitressing, but doesn't require a highschool diploma.

-- Anonymous, May 24, 1999

i've always thought fighting was romantic. (err, we won't go into my family history and the guys i've dated in the past) i've never gone out with anyone i could fight with and still be confident in the relationship. it was always - fight, break up. break up. break up. okay, so maybe i'm TOTALLY inexperienced and really needed a gun to the head.
anyway.
yesterday i had a fight with my boyfriend.
bad, smoke five cigarettes in 20 minutes, turn the music up and ignore him anger, and then the sort of tenseness that only comes when you're so angry you want to kiss him. (no. i swear. i'm not as sick as you're thinking i am)
but anyway. he came downstairs and just sat there, and then we both started crying and talking and working stuff out... it ended with a 30 dollar order of Swiss Chalet, two candles, and his floor as the table.

i *always* knew fighting was romantic.


-- Anonymous, June 14, 1999

I had a crush on a young girl where I worked once, she had a wonderful smile. You know just the slightest overbite so when she smiled her short upper lip naturally just slid up over her teeth. Freckles on her nose like angel kissses. Eyes an ice blue that were in contrast with the curly black hair that framed her face so well.

I went to a Wendy's on day to grab a burger and I saw her there with her boyfriend but I wasn't heartbroken by it. I watched her looking at him. Those beautiful eyes, so deep and loving could clearly see nothing but him. The room could have burned to the ground around them and she would not have noticed.

He in turn held her hand and at one point raised it to his lips and kissed it so gently as if they were a butterflies wings.When they left I could see him raise the hands they were holding slightly as they stepped off the curb, the way a protectant father does with his child to make certain they do not trip and fall.

I have never wanted anything more than a woman to look at me like she looked at him. Or to be so in love with the woman I am with that the world could end around me and I would not notice for being lost in her eyes.

As for places I find romantic, nothing beats a tree house for me.

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

Daniel, I loved that story.

I wouldn't say I find it romantic exactly, but whenever I'm in the car with my husband for an extended period of time, road trips or just gridlock traffic, I always find myself getting amorous. I think it's the close proximity, and the fact that I can easily reach over an touch his forearm. His forearms rule.

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000