It's time to play Guess What Katie's Talking About In This Analogy!

ktrame32 (6:07:38 PM): its like if you never have ice cream and you just eat frozen yogurt all the time

ktrame32 (6:07:46 PM): and you're like hey i want some real ice cream

ktrame32 (6:07:53 PM): but you can't have any so you just eat the frozen yogurt

ktrame32 (6:07:56 PM): and it's good and all

ktrame32 (6:07:59 PM): but then you get some ice cream

ktrame32 (6:08:15 PM): and the frozen yogurt just does not cut it anymore.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

Answers

I suspect that it's the difference between a relationship online and being with the person, or something like that.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

um, isn't it obvious?

you're talking masturbation vs. sex

not that i would know or anything, never having had that yummy real ice cream...

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

What's your favorite fruit? Pears. Okay, pears. Now... No wait, Apples. Apples. Okay. Now say all you ever knew in your life were apples. Now you might think apples were pretty good. But one day, someone gives you an orange. Now you have a choice. That's democracy. I also like banannas. Okay.

N.O.

-What you're really talking about, even if you don't know it, is drugs...you're using an analogy of democracy for drugs. Talk to your kids now about how drugs aren't cool. Marijuana is a gateway drug. -Pat Morita, from "National Lampoon's Last Resort"

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

I agree with Amanda I think it's masturbation and sex; then again I may just have an extremely perversed mind.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

I have to agree with David. The first thought that came to my mind was: Frozen Yogurt = only talking to someone online. Ice Cream = Finally getting to meet them.

Of course the flip side of that scenario is that after the ice cream, you just might realize just how much you prefer frozen yogurt!

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

either masturbation vs. sex (whereas i don't see that to be entirely true in my case, at least), or the online talking + real life.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

Damn Katie! You have some astute readers... I dont know how they were able to guess that.. I would have totally thought something else, of course I'm a clueless wonder. Good job to Amanda.... damn, how'd you guess that. Maybe it's a girl thing...

I'm really amazed!!!

~Greg @ Commixion

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

Oh my gawd Greg, you have a big mouth. I've had this post up all of three hours, thanks.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

I know what you're talking about *wink wink*

:o)

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

It's all about the poon.

-dan

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2000

We used to have a similar analogy using corn flakes and raisin bran. You can be content with the taste of corn flakes for a mighty long time and one day in the grocery store, there's raisin bran - the flakes are similar, but there is something more complex and exotic with the raisin bran. But be careful! It's more expensive and too much fiber is not good for you. And then one day they'll be Honey Nut Cheerios, because even the best damn raisin bran in the world gets bland after a while. Then it's up to you to spice up the taste or move on down the aisle! This is a relationship thing - if I could go back to the summer before my freshman year of college, I would have done two things different. First, I would thought an awful lot more about sticking with the corn flakes because I didn't realize how good they were until they were gone from my life completely and second, I would have gotten a haircut. Did I really think that looked good?

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

I see it as ur first relationship or first boyfriend (who would be an asshole)... u love him forever because that's all you've had.. until u get a better guy and u're like what frozen yogurt?!? weird sounds too much like my life. gr

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

Thanks Katie... my mouth is one of my best qualities. Dontcha think... :)

Anyhow, I might have to take it back about your readers... cornflakes? raisin bran? what the fuck? I like fruity pebbles myself... shutup Katie.. and I never get tired of them. They are exotic enough for me as far a cereal goes... add a little milk and they become a meal... I could have them for the rest of my life and enjoy them forever. Raisin bran gives me the runs. You can always go down aisle and look at the other packages, maybe hold one, look it over, shake it a little, but in the end the Fruity Pebbles always end up in my basket. I just dont see the need to try something I potentially might like and might not like, when the Fruity Pebbles are what I know I'll be happy with.

What the fuck is up with the cereal analogy?

~Greg @ Commixion

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

yeah, I think it's online relationship vs. meeting in person. aaaah. le sigh. of course, that can be reversed since I met someone who was less than stellar in person than online when he was all interesting. if you read my journal you wouldn't know this since I thought he was cute so it didn't matter that he sucked ass at conversationalist skills.

anyway, yeah...either that or I'm with the masturbation vs sex thing even though I haven't had the latter...blah. it might really suck.

that cereal analogy is hilarious...heh. I don't really eat cereal. at least not often. and if so I eat it out of the box like trail mix. banana nut crunch is good for eating out of the box...yummmy. I wouldn't go back to rice krispies or cheereos...

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

Even if there was a particular context, why should it be something specific you're talking about?

I know it's supposed to be an analogy, but I'd jump to the general level nevertheless. The basic idea was that when you know there's better, you just can't be satisfied with good, right? So you're simply talking about the human nature, which appears in sex, drugs, cereal and hell knows what else.

I think the human nature is so strong that the only way to be satisfied is to choose to never taste the ice cream. Preferably not even the frozen yogurt. Because the best doesn't exist; there's just an endless chain of betters.

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

Okay, so isn't the masturbation v. sex and the on-line relationship v. a "real" one the same thing?

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

I can see how it would be masturbation/sex, but it could be alot of things as well.

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

perhaps i'm just even more perverse than the rest of you, but i thought katie was coming out of the closet or something.....guys being the frozen yogurt and ice cream being girls. though now that i think about it, that would probably make more sense the other way around, huh?

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

Oh my god... I'm not gay unless Eric's really a girl and this is one huge fucked up Boy's Don't Cryish thing. :)

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2000

Wait...is Eric 'He Who Shall Not Be Named'??

And yes, I also think it's masturbation vs. sex (and would do even if Greg hadn't given it away...lol).

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

ice cream = sex? (not too sure about that, but that's what i guess)

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

It was fairly obvious to me that the analogy was about sex and relationships. I think most of the confusion on this board is due to the fact that Katie has not divulged details about the source of the analogy, even though she is ostensibly writing a journal of her life. I totally understand her reluctance to divulge details based on events of the recent past with this journal, but come on -- we (the readers) are missing out on vital, juicy details! Spill it, Katie! I think most of us understand that something has come of this whole Eric Egolf thing, but it's hard to know exactly what that is....

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000