tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431190409861224426.post2335192566728688262..comments2016-12-01T13:52:05.058-08:00Comments on Points for Cross-Examination: 8/12 - Holy Belinda Carlisle, Batman!hrumpolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07222741183212487472noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431190409861224426.post-57866507317135341832010-08-15T17:55:36.975-07:002010-08-15T17:55:36.975-07:00Thank you - I wasn't jumping up and down with ...Thank you - I wasn't jumping up and down with delight, but I thought it would serve.<br /><br />Straight men certainly have it tough. If a woman would go out with a man and he doesn't ask her, he's a pantywaist if he's interested and shallow if he isn't. If she wouldn't go out with him and he asks, he's mortally offended her by assuming she has such poor taste that she might actually consider the question favourably. And now we learn from the Prudecutor that if she wouldn't go out with him and he would go out with her but doesn't ask, he has committed the offense of not giving her the opportunity to reject him. It's rather like the way Emma reacts to the Coles giving a dinner-party. At first, when she is determined that nothing on earth would induce her to accept an invitation, the Coles being so far beneath the Woodhouses socially, she becomes mortally when she is not invited, because she would have liked the power of refusal. By the time the invitation arrives, she's changed her mind because all of her friends will be going.<br /><br />I really wish I could have done this week on *Daria*, though. L3 reminds me so much of the episode when smoke damage forces the Morgendorfers to live in a hotel for a while, and one of the staff gives Quinn all kinds of comps. The police later tell the family that Quinn's admirer had been in the habit of hacking the hotel's billing account and changing the charges, and there is an ominous moment when What This Means sinks in. Quinn is mortified because it means that, "I almost went out with - a computer geek!!!"hrumpolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07222741183212487472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431190409861224426.post-10049966138029207412010-08-13T16:34:15.235-07:002010-08-13T16:34:15.235-07:00"Of course, the obvious reply LW3 might have ..."Of course, the obvious reply LW3 might have made to the original request, which can still be offered on any future occasion, is that she only does sun tan lotion for actual or potential boyfriends." <br /><br />A wonderful suggestion, which not only recuses her from touching Acne Boy's back, but also makes clear the fact that he is solidly in the "friends only" track.CoolOnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12220187158350943016noreply@blogger.com