Conference turris::womannotes-v2

    i can't whistle. 

    every now and then i eat a hostess twinkie (but it's been a looong
    time). 
    
    i occasionally wear other colors besides purple.

    i love canned peas. 
    

    	I love to read a book on the toilet.
    
    	Scott

    I eat all the Frudgen Glaze!!  Even tho I can't spell it!

    I can't swim and I'm afraid of the water.

    
    
    
    I own every Partridge Family Album.
    
    
    even the Christmas one.
    
    
    Hey, Bonnie (Randall) - is this baring of my soul supposed to make
    me feel better?
    
    Justine

    Re: .3--doesn't EVERYBODY?? ;-)
                                  
    I *love* Sugar Babies, and usually when I buy a package, I say that
    they are a-hem, for the kids (I don't have any).
    
    I LOVE Stephen King novels.  I also love "Saturday Nightmares" on
    TV.  
    
    ..and I still like to paint my toenails neon pink in the summer.
    
    Yuk, yuk,
    
    Jane
    

    I buy Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck and the other Gladstone
    comics for my daughter  - and fight with her for the right to
    read them! (Ditto Mad magazine...at least until they dropped
    Don Martin!)
    
    I still skip downstairs when I wear low heeled shoes
    
    Bonnie
    

    I am petrified of thunderstorms.
    
    Big bugs give me the willies.

    When I buy Jujyfruits at the movies, I sort out the black ones and
    throw them away (I can't stand licorice).
    
    I am primarily attracted by 2 parts of a man's anatomy (other than
    his mind, of course, which is always first and foremost):  His eyes,
    and his back.
    
    I love to take photographs with black and white film.
    
    I miss Frusen Gladje pineapple sorbet - it was my fave, and apparently
    they've discontinued it.
    
    I can weld.
    
    -Jody
    

    re: .6
    
    I don't know if it's making you feel better, but it's making me
    feel much better.  Things were getting too heavy over here, what
    with worrying about the election and all, y'know?
    
    --bonnie

- I sleep with a stuffed moose named Freeport.

- I own a Michael Jackson album (cringe)

- I like to crank my stereo REAL loud, drink beer and watch the Celtics
  simultaneously (or the Red Sops depending on time of year)

- I'm in lust with Harrison Ford and Sam Elliot

Jenna

    
    I went to the local Radio Shack on the weekend to buy a new telephone
    and some sundry connectors and bits of wire.  Well, I got those,
    and I also came back with a purple plastic slinky, a package of
    plastic dinosaurs and little cavemen, and a little bibbed overall
    outfit for my stuffed bunny rabbit, whose name is Nubby.  He came
    with pajamas originally, but I buy him new clothes every year for
    Christmas and other holidays (And one year I made him the BIGGEST
    stuffed carrot in the world ;-) He sleeps with me and goes with
    me when I have to stay in hotels. (Gawd, this is *really* a true
    confession ;-)
    
    My husband has a whole collection of little robot toys, like
    transformers and stuff.  I make fun of them, but when he's out of
    the house I play with them! (Don't tell, ok?)
    
    Rita
    

    	Our secretary (a summer hire) has a mutant, teenage, ninja,
    	turtle sitting on his terminal. It has a belt full of weapons,
    	and the required mask. Interesting, to say the least.
    
    	Scott

    Um, lessee now. After years of rampant tomboy-hood (which I have
    not forsworn), I must admit I'm developing a liking for pink (dusty)
    and roses (blood red), and a few other femininisms. (But I still
    climb trees now and then.)
    
    When I'm eating alone at home I tend to make one dish - a casserole,
    a big pot of pasta, whatever - and then... and then...
    
    I EAT THE WHOLE THING IN ONE SITTING. IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION.
    USUALLY WATCHING 'ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT'.
    
    And then there's the _really_ heavy stuff. (Are you *sure* this will
    make me feel better?) 
    
    During the NBA finals, I actually grew rather fond of Bill Laimbeer...
    (Not when he's playing the Celtics, though. Jenna, want to do hoops-
    and-beer some time?)
    
    -b

    
    
    I never played a note on my clarinet during marching band season.
    I faked every song!
    
    I failed (a big FAT F) Romantic Poetry in college because I was
    in love.  (My parents STILL don't know!)
    
    I have approximately 20 pairs of athletic shoes  -- one for each
    sport I no longer play!
    
    
    SLL
    
    

    I hate raisins, so I pick them out of things.  If there's no trash
    can nearby, I've been known to feed them to plants, babies, dogs,
    windowsills....
    
    From where I'm sitting, I can count 18 different cat pictures in
    my office (and that only counts the *one* on the calendar that's
    actually showing)
    
    Last Sunday at the beach, I ate 3 ice cream cones in 4 hours.  (I
    won't name the other womannoter who was with me who did the same
    thing!!).

    Bats give me the creeps.
    
    I love old Perry Mason re-runs.
    
    I've been known to watch "Love Boat". yecccch.
    
    [RE: .13 - aren't "mutant" and "teenager" redundant?
    
    :-)
    
    Sorry - the ex-junior high teacher in me surfaces ocassionally]
    
    --DE
    

    Don't tell anyone but when no one is looking I borrow my 
    grandmother-in-laws Gothic Romance books and read them and like
    them.
    
    			Alfred

    I cry at the end of "It's a Wonderful Life" every time.
                                                   
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    I hate gardening.
    
    I love to read case histories -- of anything.
    
    I love old Peter Lorre movies, especially the Mr. Moto ones.
    
    No lunch, dinner, or supper, however fantastic, is really complete
    without dessert.  Fruit has no calories.  So, if I have fruit,
    I can have another dessert.
    
    							Ann B.

    
    when feeling particularly self-indulgent, i listen to Michel Legrand
    (Umbrellas of Cherbourg) at high volume through headphones while
    under the influence of various central nervous system depressants
    in the dark...

    

    I throw out the black Jujyfruits too.  Also black jellybeans.  Someday
    I will marry a man who owns an orange jellybean factory.
    
    I'd like to spend a month on a desert island with John Hillerman
    ("Higgins"), but I wouldn't cross the street to meet Tom Selleck.
    

	I love bologna and cheese sandwiches with alot a mustard.

	Boy, do I feel better now that I have that out!

	/Robin

	When someone really annoys me in a meeting I start daydreaming and
	imagining that person naked having sex with someone else I don't
	like with (what I feel are) their bad habits incorporated into the
	sex act - then I can just sit there and smile at them. It's especially
	fun if you can work in annoying words and phrases that they use.
		liesl

    in re .24
    
    oh my Leisel...do you mean that other people get through
    boring business mtgs. with weird fantasies...
    
    oh my
    
    Bonnie

    
    -i like peanut butter and banana sandwiches with mayonnaise on whole
     wheat bread.

    I like liverwurst.
    
    I loathe Bruce Springsteen.
    
    I used to watch THE LOVE BOAT (I had a thing for Julie, the Cruise
    Director).
    
    I cry whenever Lancelot rescues Guenevere from the stake in CAMELOT.
    
    I talk to myself occasionally.
    
    --- jerry

    I cry when Charlie Chaplin dies at the end of Limelight.
    
    And I've been in love with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel ever since The
    Avengers were first on.  But its hopeless, because I'll never be
    like John Steed.
    
    	-Neil

    
    I have look-alike postcards of Sam Elliot in the buff...
    
    ~~~and I love when my husband does his imitations, especially of
    Roger Rabbit, PurrrrrrrrLeazzzz!!!
    
    I pretend to be rough&tough when I help Dad out on the farm bailing
    hay, cleaning the gutters and driving equipment twice my height...
    while at the same time I repair Vax's for a living....but deep down
    inside me I've hidden the femininity for too long....I'm now taking
    courses in cosmetology, I'll be working as a manicurist in Aug.!
    
    ~~Wow~~! e-gadssss...I DO feel better!!

    re:  .24
    
    I do a similar thing when I have a meeting with some hotshot - I
    just imagine him/her sitting on the toilet, in need of some air
    freshner.
    
    Other true confessions:
    
    .  I love poptarts - frosted cinnamon!
    
    .  I love showing off the muscles in my arms, shoulders and back
       with little t-tops during the summer
    
    .  I love just dancing, anywhere when the mood hits, to a good song
       - I've been known to dance around my car when I've got the radio
       blasting while I' cleaning it or around my bike with my walkman!
    
    .  I still think I'M my own best company - I love nothing more than
       being by myself, entertaining myself, making me laugh by acting
       like a nut!
    
    Martha

I no longer enjoy 'Murder She Wrote', but I watch it occasionally 'cause
Joe hates it and bitches the entire time.

Thank goodness he doesn't read this conference.
	Mez

    I enjoy good, oily, black, fresh-brewed coffee
    
    *but* ...
    
    I have been known to drink my roomate's General Foods International
    Blend Instant Coffees with their 1. sugar 2. partially hydrogenated
    coconut oil 3. other foul and awful ingredients...
    and enjoy them!
    
    DougO

    
    * I cry over McDonalds commercials (especially the one with the big
      brother and little sister)
    
    * I sing extremly loud in my car with the windows open and truely
      believe that someday talent scout will pull up beside me at a
      stop light and sign me up on the spot with a multi-million dollar 
      recording contract.
      

    After *2* more replies  . . . . . . . . 
        
        
    I'll have a better idea in the morning, then . . . . 
       
             
    Probably by this time next week, if . . . . . . . . 
             
                             
                     
                        
           
                  
    (On ?occasion? I tend to PROCRASTINATE more than the average . .)
    
    
    

    *  I have an old record of "Dumbo", and I ALWAYS
       cry when the song "Baby Mine" comes on...
    
    *  I love to eat sweetened condensed milk straight from
       the can  (only about once a year tho....the CALORIES!!!)
    
    *  I'll always be true to "Perry Mason"..
    
    

    re: .17 re: .13
    
    Okay, I admit it:  I'm the summer hire with the Teenage Mutant Ninja
    Turtle on my terminal (everyone should have one...)
    
    mutant and teenager CAN'T be redundant, I'm not a teenager...:-)
    
     /\
    /--\ndy

    But so many of these things are perfectly normal! (Doesn't everybody
    talk to themselves?)
    
    o When I was in college I used to read all the latest "True Romance"
    comic books. (Gak!)
    
    o I *love* raw chocolate-chip-cookie dough. I have been known to
    buy the Pillsbury stuff and just snack off of the raw roll for days...
    
    o I read forensic pathology books for fun. 

    -b

i bought a melissa manchester record a few years ago because it had a song
that i liked from college days. it's a really horrible song, but it's one of
those that you can learn the words from in about 20 seconds, and then you
can sing it straight through as soon as you hear the first note.

the really horrible part is that that song reminded me of my roommate at the
time (the one who came back from spring break with hoof-and-mouth disease
[not kidding!]). Anyway, when i bought it, i made sure to get lots of other
records so that i could hide the MM one in the middle without anyone seeing
it. and i'm the one who always says that people should do what they want
without worrying about what other people think...

					-- hs

    The first thing I notice about a man is his bum.
    
    It's got to be small, tight, and very pinchable!!
    
    Nessa
    

    re:.42
    
    Isn't that kind of a contradiction? One would think that the
    "small, tight" kind would be less pinchable than the "large,
    loose" kind.
    
    --- jerry

    Re .42, speaking of that subject, I think Bruce Springsteen is the
    sexist man on the face of the earth.  I would crawl on my hands
    and knees across hot coals if it meant I could get my hands on his
    cute little body!  (Of course, I find the lyrics of his songs to
    be extremely meaningful, too.)  :-)
    
    Also, I always cry at the end of "An Officer and a Gentleman" when
    Richard Gere comes into the factory, sweeps Debra Winger off her
    feet, into his arms and carries her away from her dull menial job
    to live happily ever after!!  (I'm still waiting but so far he hasn't
    shown up at my dreary little cubicle here at the mill.)
    

    
    I'm a closet Ronnie Milsap (the C & W equivalent of Barry Manilow)
    fan.
    
    am
    [people still gonna talk to me?]
    

    Re: .45
    
    I will....I'm a Ronnie fan, too.  I'm also a Willie Nelson fan and
    think Merle Haggard is really sexy.
    
    I guess you'll all think I'm weird now.
    
    j

    
    Willie??  Thanks but no thanks.  I do like Emmylou Harris, Nancy
    Griffith and Linda Rondstadt (altho' there's a lot of crossover
    here.)
    
    am

    
    I read the ending of novels before I buy them, to make sure they
    have happy endings.  I hate reading through a whole book, and then
    getting let down because the ending was sad.
    
    I won't go to an movies unless it's a G or PG rating.  I hate blood
    and guts!
    
    I am a Disney freak!  Bambi is premiring in Atlanta tomorrow!  Guess
    who's gonna be there with a box of tissues?
    
    I like to read children's books.
    
    When I'm sick I sleep with my little stuffed bunny rabbit.  
    
    I name all of my stuffed animals.  (The little bunny is Priscilla
    Bunny).
    
    I like to read comic books.
    
    And lots of other stuff.......!
    
    Bye!
    
    Corinne
    

    RE .43 Jerry, IOU a beer :-)
    
    Dana

    
    another =wn=er (whose anonymity will be preserved) drove a gang of us
    to kimball's (from marlboro) for fresh raspberry sundaes today. a few
    people actually ate something nutritious on the way, but i didn't want
    to spoil my appetite. 
    
    e

    re: .42
    
    I'd rather caress than pinch . . . not that I've ever had the
    nerve. But it does keep me awake through those previously
    mentioned dull meetings . . . 
    
    --bonnie

    A fellow co-worker finds it entertaining to write down 
    odd comments from me,  I just asked him to read them back
    to me so I could add a few confessions of my own...
    
    * I used to hate my feet but now I like them, except for 
      my big toe on the left foot. 
    
    * I love to wear mens cologne.
    
    * I absolutely *hate* the sound of someone clipping their nails!
    
    
    Not on his list...
    
    * I love to eat salted licorice and dried squid.
    
    * I will never leave DEC because I couldn't bear to 
      part with Notes.
    
    Jodi-

	All that talking about pinching and caressing has forced me
	to another confession. 

	I LOVE to watch guys in tight jeans. Oh how the mind does wonder.

liesl

	p.s.
	I wonder if the guys will start feeling self-conscious knowing 
	we look at them as much as they look at us? 

    
    
    I am finally getting to enter a reply.  
    
    There have been times (in the past of course) when I have sometimes
    put off doing something because it seemed to require more time than
    I thought I had at the time, and yet I would, at the same time,
    spend hours thinking about why I didn't have the time to do whatever
    it was that I really did not want to do but thought that I should
    probably do for no other reason than I could not come up with a
    good reason not to do it.
    
    I didn't know that you were supposed to cook chocolate cookies!!!!
    
    
    _peggy
    
    		(-)
    		 |
    			Nice buns were made for ....
    
    

    I am entering the following for a member of our community who wishes
    to remain anonymous.  -- liz
    
    ---------------------------------
    When the weather is hot, I like to wiggle out of all my underclothes 
    when I am driving home in the car (bra, slip, pantyhose, panties) and 
    drive with nothing on but my dress. I do have to keep an eye on the 
    rear view mirror to make sure I'm not overtaken when, er, exposed. 

    I should be catching up on work that I missed last week right now.
    
    My office looks more like a dumpster than an office.
    
    I have been known to eat 6 candy bars in one day within a two hour
    period.
    
    I sometimes check out books with erotic passages from the library
    and read nothing but those passages.
    
    ASP

    I have a friend who insists that the only correct way to place toilet
    paper on the roll is to have it unwind from the front.  I put it
    on backwards once, so that the free end was on the backside, and
    she noticed it immediately and vocally.
    
    Nancy 

    
    I like "Pee-Wee's Playhouse".
    
                                                   
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    When the day has been particularly trying, I like to soak in the
    tub at the end of the day with a glass of wine to re-read "Charlotte's
    Web"
    
      Ann

    In hot weather I mow my lawn stripped to the waist.  Much better
    to have the sweat dry on my bod than sog up a T-shirt.  And I love
    the feeling of sun on my bare chest.
    
    DON'T TELL MY NEIGHBORS!!
    
                _
    Pat        ( )
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    I've seen The Omega Man three times. On purpose.

    My brows are low, thanks.

    I chew on my fingernails and scrape my teeth across them, but
    I don't bite through them.

    When I want to concentrate on something (writing, reading,
    programming, etc) I turn off my hearingaids--even if I'm
    alone in an empty house with no noise.

    I sing to myself, especially when I'm walking.  Quietly.  :)

    I can't *stand* watermelon or home-made ice cream.

    -- Linda

    I actually watch Morton Downey Jr. and agree with alot of his opinions.
    
    I don't wear any underwear. (too confining)
    
    I love to sit out in the middle of thunderstorms to really get a
    sense of awe from mother nature.
    
    I hate small cute cuddly things.
    
    I drive with the roof off of my jeep during the winter.
    
    My girlfriend's nick-name for me is dipstick.
    
    
    
    I feel much better now.;-/

no one's going to believe this one, but I don't like chocolate, and don't
particularly care for ice cream, either.

			-- hs

    I have the canned pea lover beat; my favorite (well, second favorite)
    vegetable is canned lima beans. Mm-mm.
    
    I love old sitcoms.  Mary Tyler Moore is the best, but I'll watch
    Love Boat, Leave it to Beaver, Gilligan's Island, whatever.
    
    I like old Doris Day/Rock Hudson movies.  I can't count how many
    times I've seen Pillow Talk.
    
    When I was a candy striper (some 17 years ago), I HATED it and
    falsified my time card so I could finish up my promised hours and
    quit.  (I still have nightmares that I'm going to get caught.)
    
    I actually _enjoy_ all those standardized tests you used to have to
    take (eg., SATs).
    
    I went to see the second Muppet movie twice (without any children).
    
    I'm part owner of a used bookstore.  When someone turned in a copy
    of The Five Little Peppers last week, I read the whole thing.  Of
    course, when a customer came in, I put it down and picked up my
    copy of Red Storm Rising.
    
    -Tracy
    

    When there is a person near me or in a meeting that is cracking
    their gum, I have this incredilbe urge to rip it out of their mouth!
    
    I also peek at the answers in the back of the crossword puzzle book
    when I'm stumped.                                      
    
    I love red licorice.
    
    P.
    

< Note 53.65 by SKETCH::SHUBIN "I'm not changing *my* name, either." >
                              -< Yes, it's true. >-

<no one's going to believe this one, but I don't like chocolate, and don't
<particularly care for ice cream, either.

AAAAAGHHHHHHHHHH! NOT LOVE CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

    I like bagels and lox (Nova, if you please!).  What's so unusual
    about that? ...
    
    
    I eat them without cream cheese.
    
    In fact, I detest cream cheese, and can't stand cheesecake!  (A
    lot of people have thought me wierd for this...)
    
    But I try never to miss an issue of MAD (even without Don Martin).
    [$1.50 Cheap?  Whatever happened to 25 cents?]
    
    And I subscribe to GAMES but never do the puzzles. 
    
    If Kathleen Turner (the voice of Jessica Rabbit) showed up on my
    doorstep, I certainly wouldn't send her away...
    
    				Steve

    re:.66
    
    I like Doris Day movies, too, with or without Rock Hudson (though
    they are better with).
    
    --- jerry

When I am folding laundry and come upon a pair of my fiance's
brightly colored bikinis, I'll put them on my head and wear them
as a cap.  It makes folding laundry so much more fun!

    
    
    	o  I get real turned on when I watch men chopping wood.  Just
    		thinking about it now makes me shiver......
    
    	o  I love watching "Lady and the Tramp".  I bought it for my
    		son, (even though he's only 7 months) and I watch it
   		at least twice a month!!
    
    	o  I love to shut my bedroom door, take the phone off the hook
    		and clean out my underwear drawer.  Its so relaxing!
    
    Anna
    
     
   

    I always cry when Santa says "Rudolph, with your nose so bright,
    won't you guide my sleigh tonight." And Rudolph replies, "It would
    be an honor, Sir." 
    
    I own the Chipmunks Christmas Album. Volumes I *and* II. 
    
    I know all the words to Sugar Sugar by the Archies. 
    
    I eat popcorn for supper about once every week or two. 
    
    I also hate wearing underwear.

    	I am rroolllliinngg!!
    
    	Scott

    There are more than 18 words. I just counted. 
    
    Fat lot *you* know!
    
    ;) ;) ;)

    
    Stress management -
    	1.  Re-reading Georgette Heyer novels
    	2.  Turning the stereo up and dancing in the kitchen 'til I drop.
    
    I'll watch anything with Patrick McGoohan in it.  (I once made a
    three day detour to Wales to visit the Village; I've also been to
    Dymchurch.)

    I recently purchased a Barry Manilow CD.
    
    I still have my complete set of "Man from U.N.C.L.E" bubblegum cards
    and 3 LPs of music from the series.
    
    I love peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast.
    
    
    
    

    If I have to go down to the laundry room in my basement at night,
    I bring one of my cats (to protect me?) - and I run all the way.
    
    I love hot muggy weather.  The air is so thick and sentuous you
    almost can feel it part in front of you as you walk along.
    
    I had so much fun at my wedding last March that I have suggested
    to Gerry that we get divorced just so we could do it all over again.
    
    Marion

when I was in 6th grade, I was the understudy for one of the leads in "The
Mikado". Needless to say, I memorized all of the characters' lines but my
own. To this day, I get shivers thinking what would have happened if Kevin
was sick one day.

					-- hs

(I have a chipmunks album, too. But I didn't buy it. It was a gift. Really.)

    
    My pickup truck has bat wings on it.                  
    
    I still have badges from old places I've worked.
    
    I keep soy sauce and wasabe in my desk drawer for
     imprompu sashimi feeds.
                                                              
    My favorite snack are Streit's Salted Whole Wheat dipped in
     Salsa Ranchera, with some raw broccoli on the side...
    
    If I need change for a paper or the phone, I can usually
     find it under the truck seat, among the beef jerky wrappers.
    
    I sometimes write bombastic notes just for the helluvit...
    
    

    I hate underwear....
    
    I love CARTOONS..... (esp Bugsy en freinds)
    
    GEt turned on when Melissa wears babydolls en garters
    
    Love to walk around the house with nothing on....(when kids are
    not home)
    
    Love reading heated topics in notes
    
    Like queche (sp)
    
    HATE candy....
    
    LOVE CARTOONS..... (oh already said that one)
    
    smoke (there goes all 2 of my noter friends)
    
    wreck classical music (ie personal versions)
    
    like doing dishes (mels personal fav)
    
    I also wear Mels undies on my head (when she is there) while folding..
    
    did the shaving cream trick to mel while she was sleeping.. Hehehee
    
    Thas enough.......

    I stayed home on a Friday night and watched, "Conan the
    Barbarian"...
    
    and enjoyed it!!!

    I enjoy Friday nights alone in the barn brushing my horse.
    
    I to own some of the Partridge Family albums, but I don't listen
    any more.
    
    My family wears party hats at birthdays still (the youngest is 24
    years)
    
    My sister and I talk in funny monty python voices on the phone (and
    we're good at it!)
    
    My fiance will walk around with my panties on his head too.
    
    sg
    

    I never eat vegatables (except broccli)
    
    Everytime I see Christie Brinkly on TV I turn the channels because
    she's married to the only man I ever loved.   
                                                                  
    
    

    I was upset for weeks when Garrison Keillor got married. How dare
    he!

    I watch People's Court religiously.
    
    I hate Bruce Springsteen...and, worse, I like Prince.
    
    I name my cars...and computers...and plants...  and I talk to them.
    
    I used to work for McDonalds.
    
    I like Snicker's Bars (don't tell anyone in CHOCOLATE!)
    
    The Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie_ scared me more than anything I've
    ever seen (I still have nightmares about the girl with no mouth!)
    
    I like school. (Yes!  I'm even full-time!)
    
    I sleep with a teddy bear named Truffle and a stuffed Snow Leopard
    (don't you dare call him a cat) named Nacho.
    
    I get shivers all up and down my spine when a guy touches my feet.
    
    Diana!

    This is soooo stupid....
    
    
    I absolutely LOVE Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
    
    
    The only parts of Eric Van Lustbader's books I read are the 
    raunchy parts.
    
    
    I hide in the bathroom during thunder and lightning storms
    
    
    
    I love men who wear long coats (excluding trenchcoats of course).
    
    
    
    I sleep with alot of pillows (my SO nearly chokes to death, there
    are so many).

    
    
    I like to slow dance with either of my two cats....and dip 'em!  my
    fiance always watches me with a look that says "i'm gonna MARRY
    this person?"!!!!!!
    
    i love frosted brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts
    
    i hate typing upper case letters
    
    i'm a soap opera addict (all my children) 
    
    sometimes i bring yogurt to work for lunch, but leave it in the
    'frige and go out for an ice cream...........
    
    cherie
    

    I didn't put this in the base note, and it's been preying on my
    mind ever since . . . I've just got to get it off my mind . . .
    
    My favorite authors are Mary Stewart the romance writer and Frank
    Yerby the dirty romance writer . . . 
    
    But if you ask me in front of witnesses I'll say Hemingway or
    Lillian Hellman.... 
    
    --bonnie 

    Bonnie,
    
    I love Mary Stewart also, and Victoria Holt as well...
    
    Bonnie
    
    p.s. do you want to lend me a Frank Yerby :-)?????

    re: .91
    
    Sorry, I don't have any of Frank Yerby's with me.  They're all in
    a musty box in my mother's basement -- and if she knew I spent
    most of a couple of summers reading them, she'd probably send me
    to my room without my supper....
    
    --bonnie 

    
    When my Husky/Collie starts to shed her undercoat, I love to pull
    out the pieces of fur, until she tries to bite me.  Its very relaxing.
    
    My mother took me to see Led Zeppelin in 1973.  (I couldn't drive
    yet. Really.)
    
    My car's name is Tinker Bell.  The truck's name is Peter Pan.
    
    I think it would be very interesting to be a heavy equipment operator
    or a quarterback.
    
    I like bagels with smoked whitefish, chunky peanut butter, and
    scrambled eggs with cheese.  All on the bagel.  Make that a garlic
    or onion bagel for a real taste treat.
                  
                
    Anna

    re:.92
    
    Ah! Not just "dirty romances", but *illicit* dirty romances...
    
    More True Confessions:
    
    I *hated* E.T.
    
    My favorite animated film of all time is SLEEPING BEAUTY (I can
    be a sucker for romance, too...)
    
    --- jerry

    I will never confess to my SO that my legs are so sore I can barely
    walk after a hike.  Never!
    
    I love ice climbing because it scares me silly (among other things)
    
    And I think Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn are absolutely great!!
    
    			Dondi

    
    	The second line from the song that starts "I know from just
    bein' around" is "It's easy to go downhill"
    
    	Joe Jas
    

    re .97
    
    You're definitely not the only one who hates Annie Hall. I can't
    remember a Diane Keaton movie that I've liked... but I can't stand
    Woody Allen either.
    
    Now if you REALLY want to get crazy...
    
    As young teenagers, we used to read Teen Beat and Sweet 16. We'd hang
    the huge posters on the wall and then (HORRORS) practice kissing
    on them. Michael Jackson, David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman were the
    biggies. (I know, who are THEY?)
    
    This is sooooooo embarrassing!

    Re .99, when *I* was a kid I had pictures of Fabian, Bobby Rydell
    and Troy Donahue on my bedroom wall!!!!
    
    Now, who in the heck are *they* :-)!
    
    Lorna
    

Confession #1: This is the first time I reply'd in Wommannotes
(other than intro).

Confession #2: I used to figure skate. I often imagine myself 
gliding along with the greatest of ease - especialy to Stauss
Waltzes! Besteminova should be so graceful :)

Nancy 

    
    	RE: .100
    
    	 Lorna, in RE to Bobby Rydell, I know him, we went through
    	basic training together in Fort Dix, {gulp} back in '65...
    
    	G_B

    I still LOVE paper dolls (used to collect them as a kid)!
    
    I LOVE checking my husband out when he's in the buff.  I just wanna
    get my hands all over him...Sigh!
    
    I don't know how to play anymore, and I wish I did, but I think
    I'd feel too insecure to act like a kid.
    
    I cry easily.  AT&T commercials, KODAK commercials, sad parts of
    cartoons, you name it, I can relate sooo well and the tears flow
    and the nose runs...
    
    Barb

    When dinner at home is spaghetti or linguini, either with sauce or
    pesto, and it's just Jon and me, I usually take my top off so I
    don't get anything on it as the noddles flap around under my chin.
    
    I frequently go out on the porch to get the paper in the morning
    with no clothes on (but I do check and see if anyone else is around).
    
    I never could watch Lassie,even as a kid, 'cause I'd always cry.
    
    When I'm sick, I reread kids books.
    
    I don't have any kids, but there are freeze pops in my refrigerator.
    
    I love pirate movies.

    Tamzen

    I've never told anyone in the whole world...
    
    I founded a branch of the Richard Beymer Fan Club in my home town when
    I was in junior high school.  Who is Richard Beymer, you might well
    ask?  Well, he played Tony in the movie West Side Story, opposite
    Natalie Wood as Maria (who incidentally DIDN'T sing all those beautiful
    songs).  At one Fan Club meeting, we called Richard's home
    long-distance in L.A. by getting his number from information (yeah, he
    was a REALLY WELL-KNOWN star, sure...).  We talked to him, giggling and
    squealing, for about 15 minutes. 
    
    I *hated* the movie Mary Poppins, and in fact, saw it with a date
    and fell asleep about 3/4 of the way through.  That guy never asked
    me out again, can't figure out why not.  (^:
    
    If I don't have anybody to eat lunch with, I go to Wendy's and get
    a Frosty (don't tell my husband, who thinks I should eat healthy).
    
    							Pat

    
    
    I simply adore Greer Garson and E. Flynn (I can't seem to spell
    Errilllll?) movies....sigh
                              
    Once, on a nudist beach, I pulled the top down of my one-piece bathing
    suit.
    
    I love to chew the fat on a perfectly roasted prime rib!
    
    I love to conduct *any* orchestra that plays the 1812 overture.
    
    
    (will my soul RIP now???)

    re: .82
    
    A-HEM.....
    
    "When I kissed you girl, I knew how sweet a kiss could be...
                               (knew how sweet a kiss could beeeeee....)
     Like the summer sunshine, pour your sweetness over me...
                               (pour your sweetness over me....)"
    
    (i cannot believe i just typed this.) 
    

In my second childhood I've tried ballet, figure skating and gymnastics.
I love them all, and can't wait for some free time to pop up so that I can
continue them.

JMB

    
    Re .100 and wall-posters
    
    In high school I had posters of Phil Esposito, Johnny Bucyk (sp),
    Johnnie MacKenzie, and Bobby Orr on my bedroom walls (I kept David
    McCallum in the closet).
    
    My all-time favorite movie is "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir".  I went to 
    see "The Three Musketeers" four times in one day when it opened
    (and three more times the next day).
    

    Re .110: Ooh! Ooh! You had a David McCallum poster! <Sigh...>
    All I had was a little photo of him that I cut out of the cover
    of TV Guide... 
    
    -b

    Oh wow, I never had a poster but I was crazy over him...Amazing how
    some of these confessions bring back memories.

    I may as well admit, I'm one of the ones that talks to myself too,
    I even talk to my computers. RESOLV and IMAGIN are almost living
    entities to me. I can't wait to have a computer that really talks to
    me just like FESS in the "Warlock in Spite of Himself". liesl
    

    I talk in my sleep, clear as if I was awake, BUT, it is nasty most
    of the time. I have even gone as far as to kiss the hell out my
    pillow... OH god......

    Hell, *I* had a poster of David McCallum, but likely not for the
    same reasons. I just always thought he was cool.
    
    In fact, I'm 99-44/100% sure that I still have it, folded up, and
    stuck in a box down in the cellar.
    
    --- jerry

    I've named my cars, too.  The previous one was Roy, the current
    one is Alexander.
    
    I don't think I've really cooked anything for a couple of months
    now, I've just heated up frozen stuff.
    
    Last Christmas I asked for _The Black Arrow_ by Robert Louis Stevenson.
    Oddly enough, my little sister had requested the same book, so I
    read her copy.  One Christmas when I was in high school, I asked
    for and received a teddy bear.  His name is Theodore and yes, he's
    still with me.
    
    I've been known to peek at the answers for help with puzzle magazines.
    

    re:.115
    
    I've had names for my cars, as well. My Mercury Cougar was named
    Chee-Lan (a felinoid character from some sf stories), the one
    after that, a Pontiac, was named Emily, and my current car, a
    Toyota, is named Hitomi. I was also part owner of a van named
    Cretin (an obscure reference concerning St. Paul, Minnesota).
    
    Interesting that your car names are male and mine are female.
    I wonder if this is a general tendency that arises out of the
    animus/anima concept.
    
    --- jerry

    <--(.116  Lest it be thought that "cretin" is a disparaging reference
    to the inhabitants of St. Paul, it should be noted that "Cretin" is
    also the name of a military-academy high school for boys, run by some
    RC order whose name I can't remember.) 
    
    (of course, when I think of some of the really witless things that have
    been done by the inhabitants of St.Paul, the notion of "cretin" being a
    disp. ref. begins to seem a less unlikely possibility)
    
    						=maggie 

    Male/female car names:
    
    Dunno what this signifies, but I named my first car (a ten-year-old
    '63 Impala - beat-up, but as sound as they come).
    
    I called it "Lady"...
    
    -b

    I love watching Elvis Presley movies on rainy Sunday afternoons.
    
    I hate the Beatles music. 
    
    I got Paul Hogans autograph about 14 years ago!!
    
    Don't you look back at what you wore in the 70's and just shudder!!
    
    

    re:.117
    
    Actually, it was not a disparaging comment about St. Paul (there
    are enough of those already, mostly made by Minneapolitans :-)).
    
    On I-94 in St. Paul, there is a exit sign for Cretin Ave. and
    Vandalia St. that says "Cretin-Van. 1/4 mile".
    
    --- jerry

    
    re .117
    
    I was a miracle... my Dad was born in St Paul and my
    Mom in Mpls...

	o   I bought a pair of handcuffs in Petetown (only $5!)

	o   I *love* to eat Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia Ice Cream
	    while taking a bubble bath, listening to Classical music
 	    on my portable CD, & reading a SF novel (I use Mr. Bubble)

	o   I can't wait for my best friend to start at Digital
	    (Aug. 1st !!!) so I can write her mail messages.

	o   I love to be nude, and to see others nude.

	o   I sing loud in the car, too, and am waiting for that
	    same talent scout.

	o   I didn't read everyone else's confession before entering
	    my own (come on!  There are 121 of them!)

	Kerry :-,

Sometimes when I'm leaving, I'll say "Peace, Love, and Bobby Sherman!"

Othertimes, when someone else is leaving and they say, "Ciao!", then I'll
say, "Pekinese!"

I hate to sweat, so I don't exercise, but I will do stuff that makes me sweat
as long as I'm having fun.

I love baby's toes.

I always hated taking "handwriting" in elementary school, and never tried to 
improve mine.

I sometimes watch "Bloopers and Practical Jokes" on television.

I used to watch Hill Street Blues just for Veronica Hamel.

    I often say that I like cats more than I like people, and whoever
    I say it to laughs and acts like they think I'm joking and don't
    really mean it.  But, the fact is, I really *do* like cats more
    than I like people! :-)
    
    Lorna
    

    I used to devour Harlequin romances a loooong time ago.
    I have never told anyone that.  It is a relief now that
    everyone knows...
    I just ate one of the chocolate chip cookie squares
    that I am supposed to be bringing to a party tonight
    after work :-)
    
    Annette
     

    
    Never wear Underwear with Jeans.
    
    Iron all my wifes clothes.
    
    Cry at sad movies, and others.
    
    Looked lustfully at Jessica (Who framed Roger Rabbit)
    
    Read Womannotes, deleted memnotes.
    
    Cal.
    

    	This is no confession for anyone that knows me:
    
    	I absolutely love babies. Both my daughters are in
    	their teens and I miss playing with a little fat baby.
    
    	Luckily, I have plenty of friends and co-workers with
    	babies.
    
    	Scott

    re:.124
    
    I often feel that I like cats more than people, too.
    
    Back when ALIEN first came out, so many people would be incredulous
    that Ripley, in the middle of a dire emergency requiring the ship
    to be abandoned, would "bother" hunting down the ship's cat to take
    with her. I would often look askance at these people and say that
    there are any number of people I would leave behind before I'd
    leave behind "my" cats (they aren't really *my* cats, but either
    my mother's or my housemate's; still...)
    
    --- jerry

    I still like to watch Creature Features and cartoons on Saturdays.
    
    I always cry at sad movies.
    
    I like watching American Bandstand and Soul Train.
    
    Denise
    

    I am another black jujube thrower-outer, yuk !!!  I like red ones
    
    I like to take a black marker and circle things in Spiegal catalogues
    that I would like to have someday.
    
    I like to watch football with my dad and brother during the holidays,
    they think I actually like the sport.  I just like all those behinds
    in tight pants.  (I have learned a few key phrases to fake them
    out.  ha ha
    
    
    This is great........
    
    
    Tammyg

.119>    Don't you look back at what you wore in the 70's and just shudder!!

oops. I still wear what I wore in the 70s. I knew I'd forgotten to do
something.

					-- hs

    
    re -.1
    
    You mean wide lapels, polyester knits and "loser suits"..? 
    
    Really..? (Heh heh heh...)
    
    Old Barney Miller reruns are funny just to see what Ron Glass
    will be wearing next..!

    
    Which one has the wider lapels?
    
    If there was something Harris was about, it was clothes..

    I just bought my first pair of jeans and I'm going to wear them
    to work tomorrow, instead of a normal business suit :-)
    
    But probably ONLY tomorrow....
    
    Gale

    
    Hey, what song did you borrow that name from, I wonder...?

    Re: 137
    
    The personal name is the title of a song from the new movie
    Cocktails...  The movie was wonderful... Tom Cruise lived up to
    his every expectation.... He is quite an actor...
    
    Gale
    
    Now back to your regularly scheduled topic....

    Cruise? Cruise? Oh! You mean that kid who's co-starring with Bryan
    Brown...
    
    -b

    Yeah.. sigh... that kid, err, I mean man....
    
    Sigh....

    I LOVE that song!  It always makes me smile...
    
    Barb

I don't like chocolate fudge _or_ chocolate ice cream, but I make fudge
once a year (at Christmas) for my husband.  As for Hershey's kisses, the 
only thing they're good for is to give them away.  

I don't care for the Beatles, either.

I sleep in pajamas (bet I'm not the only one).

    
    
    - I love to eat popcorn dipped in speghetti sauce.
    
    - I love to watch Sesame Street with my son.
    
    
     That's all I can think of right now....I'm sure I have more
    confessions.
    

    
    re -.1
    
    I like matzos dipped in Prego... but not as much as dipping
    in salsa...
    
    Dipping popcorn sounds a little messy...-;

    Well I haven't seen this confession so I couldn't resist...
    
    I have a subscription to the Enquirer (I was a gift but I renewed
    it)   Now that's embarrassing! 
    
    Gail

    I used to read my grandfather's "Police Digest" when I could sneak
    them into the back room. 

    --bonnie

I forgot a biggie:  I taped all of the Fraggle Rock episodes when they were
aired on HBO - you guessed it ... they weren't for my 8 year old daughter,
they were for ME!

    Re .132, .133, I thought Sgt. Harris (Ron Glass) of "Barney Miller"
    was one of the sexiest, most appealing men on any TV show ever!!!
    (It was a combination of the personality of the character and his
    looks.)
    
    Lorna
    

    
    	I sleep with a stuffed Santa Bear named Gandalf, a regular bear
    	named Zach, and a puppet stuffed animal that I always thought
    	was a penguin but which my friends informed me, my sophomore
    	year in college, was really a panda bear, named Jenifer.
    
    	I love Disney especially all of the animated movies and very
    	especially Winnie-the-Pooh.  
    
    	For my graduation from college this May, one of my best friends
    	gave me three books:  Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner,
    	and The Velveteen Rabbit.  I've read them all at least twice
    	since May.
    
    	I love dancing around my room and my house with my sisters or
    	even when there's no one around.
    
    	I crank the stereo in my car and sing very loudly but I don't
    	want to be discovered.
    
    	I love eating Ice Cream for breakfast.
    
    	Rachel

    	RE: 53.150 and 53.151
    
    	Heartburn for both is probably correct.
    
    	Anyway, I'm rolling 8-)>
    
    	Scott

    I love cold, leftover soup or vegetables (particularly corn--yum!).
    I also like to eat uncooked frozen corn.
    
    Like some other noters, I, too, like to turn on music in my room
    and dance around, often without many clothes on.  I was embarrassed
    one day when my roommate came home unexpectedly and caught me at
    it.
    

    When I'm on a SLIMFAST diet, I'll make a frappe
    consisting of: SLIMFAST, lo-fat milk, and Deering
    Calorie counter (chocolate) icecream. I talk myself
    into saying "this is ok, it's using lo-cal things",
    but in REALITY, if I added up those calories....YIKES!
    Where would I be without rationalizations???!!!

    	RE:  .154
    
    	Right now, a whole bunch of non-New England readers are
    	probably scratching their heads saying, "What is a frappe???"  :-)
    
    	As far as I know, it is something similar to a milkshake,
    	right?  (Only it has some other ingredient that differentiates
    	it from a shake, I think.)  Like malt, maybe?
    
    	New Englanders?  What am a frappe?

    A frappe is a cabinet.
    
    What?  You're not from Rhode Island, and you don't know what a
    cabinet is?
    
    It's a milkshake; i.e., ice cream and milk and flavorings churned
    into a slurry.
    
    In New England a milkshake is milk mixed (firmly) with flavoring,
    but without ice cream.  (This is not as true as it used to be.)
    
    						Ann B.

    A "frappe" is a milkshake but with icecream added.
    Just adding malt doesn't make it a frappe, cuz I've 
    ordered a "chocolate malted frappe" and got a mixture
    of milk, chocolate flavoring, icecream and malt powder.
    
    GOD, I'm starting to DROOL!!!!!
    
    an aside: A CABINET? Rhode Islanders call a milkshake
    a CABINET? If that's the case, what do they call
    a wooden enclosure over the countertop that has shelves and
    a door? (just curious)

    Yeah, I got caught with the frappe-milkshake difference when I moved
    from Florida to Maine.  Was wondering why my milkshakes were so
    thin....
    
    Now what is an "egg cream"?
    
    				Steve

    
    What bizzarre concoctions you Easterners come up with...!

    And don't forget, when you visit the wicked sinful big cities of
    the east, that when you order coffee for breakfast, and the
    waitress reaches under the counter for your cup and asks,
    "Regular?"  she doesn't mean black, she means heavily creamed.
    
    This is also the reasons a lot of places only fill your cup about
    3/4 full -- they expect you'll fill up the rest with cream. 
    
    --bonnie

    When I came to Boston to college, ALL THE WAY from Springfield,
    MA (A *whole* 90 mi. away), I was surprised to find that a perfectly
    respectable Italian sandwich (hoagie?, hero?), which I had called
    a "grinder" all my life was, in fact, a "submarine".
    
    --DE
    

    Bonnie:
    
    	I hope the cup is 3/4's full because that is just how full it
    is suppose to be - black or with cream.  Filling a cup above this
    level is to exhibit poor manners.  ;^)
    
    Douglas

    
    Not far from Springfield, Mass., just over the border in Connecticut,
    subs, heroes and hoagies are GRINDERS and frappes (ice cream, milk
    and flavoring) are MILKSHAKES.
    
    am (a born and raised nutmegger)

    Back in the dark ages when I was working my way through college
    behind a soda fountain, an egg cream was a flavored soda with milk.
     It is made by putting a little milk in the glass, adding flavoring,
    then soda water.  This was in New Jersey.  I have not heard the
    term since I moved to New England
    
    I occasionally add milk to sodas in my own home.  It doesn't taste
    as good with 1% fat as it did with the rich Guernsey or Jersey milk
    of my childhood.
    
    Pat
    

    Re: a few ago.  The only place I've ever heard a "regular" coffee
    mean with cream is up here in New England.  Elsewhere on the East
    Coast (<- isn't that a great generalization?) regular is non-decaff.
    It through me the first few times I ordered coffee up here.

    
    nit:  Around here (Boston area) a "regular" coffee is coffee
    with cream and one (teaspoon) sugar.
    
    Justine

    True confession : I HATE SUMMER - the heat, the bugs, non-stop
    sweating, the heat, fans making noise, air conditioners giving
    me chills, the heat, lawnmowers, prickly heat rash (aauugghh!),
    swimming pool like a tepid bath, the heat....

    re: .167
    
    I'm with you there! 
    
    -Amy.
    

	True confession: I HATE WINTER - the cold, the snow, the ice,
	the cold, the skiers, driving home in the dark, snowblowers,
	snowplows blocking in the driveway, the cold,...
	
	Truth is, though, by this point I'm almost looking forward to
	December:-).
	
	Mike

    I love jelly beans (I even eat the black ones occassionaly)
    
    I like to watch re-runs of "I Love Lucy"
    
    I LOVE country music!!
    
    One of my very favorite movies was "Urban Cowboy"
    
    I talk to myself.
    
    I talk in my sleep.
    
    I have temper tantrums and throw things.
    
    I love all cute and cuddly things.
    
    I like the smell of puppy's breath.
    
    

    Remember Dark Shadows?  I had every "buble gum card" of Barnabus
    Collins!
    I love gothic romance novels.
    I saw E.T. 5 times.
    I read EVERY confession before answering. (honest!!)

    re:.169
    
    I have a t-shirt that was given to me by a Minnesota friend
    that says:
    
    	"I hate... moon boots, cabin fever, snow, slush, ice
    	sleet, travel advisories, blizzards, limited visibility,
    	heet, dead batteries, tank heaters, tow trucks, jumper
    	cables, gas line freeze, shoveling, hockey rinks, sand,
    	salt, carmex, blistex, winter carnivals, even street
    	parking, snow emergency routes, duck boots, thinsulate,
    	down vests, potholes, snow plows, sore throats, colds,
    	kleenex, cough drops, time release tablets, windchill
    	factors, minus fifty, frozen pipes, dead snow blowers,
    	parkas, snow tires, bitter cold, January, February, and
    	March.
    
    				Member of I Hate Winter Club!"
    					     ^
    					     |
					A heart with the
    					circle-&-slash icon
    
    --- jerry

    I'm in the "I hate summer" club . . . I don't handle heat well
    (poor body thermostat, or something) and I suffer through quite
    ordinary summers.  This one has me on the verge of meltdown.
    
    --bonnie

    When I eat bananas I first take a small bite off the top and then
    (Oh, this is so silly) stick my tongue into the banana to separate
    it into the three sections. Then I eat one section down to the skin
    and then eat the next, etc.
    
    Tamzen

        I'm smiling a little bit and thinking "Thank God that I don't
    live back east" as I read the complaints about the heat, humidity,
    and insects.
    
    I will never voluntarily leave the west coast, specifically the
    San Francisco bay area, for anything other than vacations and
    buisness trips.
    
    ASP

    re .175
    
    > -< Some of you will dispise me for this >-
         
    We might even despise you for it :-) [oh yes, I promised not to
    do that anymore. smack smack smack]
    
    > I will never voluntarily leave the west coast, specifically the
    > San Francisco bay area, for anything other than vacations and
    > buisness trips.
      
    How about after "THE BIG ONE" hits, which is practically a certainty
    within the next 50 years? I should probably put this under the "Fears"
    topic, but I would not feel very comfortable living on a major fault
    line. And I suppose you _never_ have heat waves in San Fransisco?
                                                   
                  /
                 (  ___
                  ) ///
                 /
    

    But Bonnie you didn't tell us how you did on the quiz?
    
    I guess that means I have been also....blush

    *double blush* last one I went to I got the best score on the
    "sensuality" test.  And what did I win?  A pair of "dirty sayings"
    underwear (which I promptly gave away - they weren't sensuous in
    the least!)
    
    -Jody
    
    p.s.  I love the way they advertise their sizes ... 
    "And this nightgown comes in sizes petite to majesty"  heh heh heh
    

    in re .178 and 179....well I scored 165...and that was the mid
    range on the test! the winner was a 50ish grandmother that
    scored a 255.
    
    b

    re: Granny
    
    Hot damn!  She may be a dirty old lady, but *what* a dirty old
    lady!  Is this the same lady who's "the terror of Colorado 
    boulevard"?
    
    Go Granny, go!
    
    Steve

    My grandma would have aced it.
    
    I hope you're going to invite me for your party, Bonnie!
    
    --bonnie

    I've LOVED this hot weather and I'll be sorry to see it go.  Seems
    like I'm always cold from November to May.

    Lorna
    

    I went an Undercoverware Party for "Gentlemen" and bought my wife
    a:
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Longsleeve, floor length,
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Flannel nightgown.
    
    (our bedroom was usually 46-52 degrees)
    
    Ken

I have a crush on Dana Hersey (sp?).
I also love the Statler Brothers, and Roger Miller records 
make me laugh out loud.

My favorite Valentine's Day was the one where my ex brought me 5 
pounds of black licorice jelly beans.

I wake up on weekends around 6 am. just because I like mornings.

I didn't own a car until I was 29.

-- Jane

    When we were teenagers, my girlfriend and I made a deck of cards
    and instead of putting numbers on them, we put the names of guys
    we lusted after. (e.g. John Doe of clubs)  Then, we'd play "fish"
    and I always cheated so I'd be sure to end up with one particular
    guy that I was madly in love with.  We played other games with
    these cards as well.
    
    Also...  I tape soap operas once or twice a week so I'll never
    lose touch with what's going on
    
    and...  I still own (and wear occaisionally!) a shirt I wore in
    the 6th grade.  I'm almost thirty!
    
    I love going to nude beaches
    
    - Kathryn
    

    There is a Gilligan's Island marathon on tonight on channel 25.Begining
    at 8:00pm.
    
    But you didn't here it from me.  8^)
    
    Gail

    psssst.....hey thanks....
    
       -     	things to do today      -
    
               1. pick up blank VHS tape
    
    (hey little buddy...)

    Shhhh!!!
    
    I sing into my hairbrush in front of a mirror!

    I start my Christmas shopping for the next year on the day after
    Christmas.  I'm already more than half done for this year.

    	You're doing what I (and probably many) wished we
    	had done. More so, as we get closer to the "season."
    
    	Scott (what did you get me?) 8-)>

    I too start Christmas shopping the day after Christmas, and I am
    almost done.  The gifts are all in the attic in boxes (not wrapped
    yet) and labled with the recepients names.  I have this thing about
    having things in order in case I have to leave this earth suddenly.

	I was in the supermarket yesterday and couldn't stop
       myself from reading all the headlines about Freggie. After much
       waiting in line I nearly bought a magazine to find out the real
       story about her friendship with Di! liesl

    I have been catching up on 1800+ unread notes and note 111 "Birth
    Control Survey" reminded me of something hilarious that happened
    to me around 12 years ago. I had just broken up with my husband-
    to-be (no it's not a typo, we patched it up afterwards), and left
    for a 3-week vacation in Palma de Mallorca to recover from the shock.
    I met a nice chap over there, and we had a lot of fun, but when
    it came to having sex, I just wasn't ready to pick up the threads
    and made it very clear to him - repeatedly. I even had to repel
    him pretty forcefully one evening.
    
    Well, a week after I got back home, I received this loooong letter
    from him, saying he hoped he had not impregnated me, but if he had
    he would willingly fly over and marry me, and if I didn't want to
    marry he would recognize the child and help financially!!!! I wrote
    back straight off telling him how kind he was, but as we hadn't
    had intercourse I just could not possibly carry his child, and that
    he should stop worrying. Believe it or not, he wrote again several
    times "why do you pretend nothing has happened between us, my darling
    love?" and also "are you trying to keep my child from me, who love
    you and care for you?" and a few more pearls in this vein. I humoured
    him for a while, but finally got fed up and wrote him a pretty curt
    letter. He only wrote once more, including a photograph of a curvaceous
    blonde, who was to be the mother of his children "but he would always
    keep me and our child in a special corner of his bleeding heart"...
    
    When I got his first letter, I was just howling with laughter, and
    showed the letter to my mother... and it took me an hour to convince
    her that no-no-no I had not slept with the guy, nor had I done anything
    more that could even remotely be interpreted as a sex act (don't
    ask me what else exist - I had thought a sex act VERY DIFFERENT
    from anything else, but since then I have always doubted...). He
    must have been between 20-25 years old and if he still thought you can 
    makea woman pregnant with wet kisses....
    
    I always remember Mallorca fondly...
    
    Joana

    True confession #197:  It really hurts to see the continued use
    of the term 'illigitmate' children.  Think of what this term means
    to an adoptee or to a woman who has been forced to relinquish a
    child.
    

    re .197, .198     Hey, this is supposed to be one of the lighter
    topics in this file. Let's keep it that way. I'm sure that this
    topic is covered else where.
    
    Gail
    
    ps. when I grow up I want to be a moderator

    .199
    
    Well I recall .197 stating that the word ILLIGITIMATE really bothered/hurt
    her, in another note.  All she did was remind .198 that the word
    still hurt her and could we refrain from using.  A simple request
    if you ask me.  Thats all.

    re: .192 -- hey, I love the crowds, too!  I never start my
    Christmas shopping sooner than Dec. 15 -- unless I go for the
    real thrills and try to get to a mall on the day after
    Thanksgiving . . .
    
    --bonnie

    I confess!
    
    I've always fantasized about playing all the great male
    roles in Shakespeare, particularly Henry V in the Henry IV-
    Henry V series and Hamlet (fondly known as Omlet, Prince of
    Danish).
    
    ...and on that note i better go introduce myself.
    
    Nanci

    This weekend I read a local newspaper article on the top, really
    bad songs of the last 25 years.
    
    I have a true confession to make...

    I used to sing "You light up my life" at weddings.  sorry.
    
    
    Jodi-

    
    
    	I'm mostly a reader but I thought I'd add to this one...
    
    	I also *can't STAND* Bruce Springsteen
    
    	I honestly only buy PLAYGIRL for the articles (ok erotica too)
    	but the nudie pictures embarass me.
    
    	I'll eat ice cream in the winter time with a sweat suit on
    	and wrapped up in a blanket!
    
    	I love to watch my SO sleep and when he wakes up I tell him
    	how cute he is....(he HATES that!)  :)
    
    	I checked out the book Scruples from the library when I was
    	in the eighth grade (yes, I'm a young'un) and read only
    	the steamy parts....until mom found the book....
    
    	I have watched every Little House on the Prairie episode
    	and cried during most of them.
    
    	I talk in my sleep
    
    	And I've seen the movie Dirty Dancing at least 10 times
    	(I stopped counting)
    
    	Oh yeah,  and I have the UGLIEST feet ever put on a person!
    
    	Judy
    	
    

    re .204, it would be wonderful if *none* of the other women in the
    world could stand Bruce Springsteen - then I could have him for
    myself!  He could be *MINE* - ALL MINE!!  :-)  
    (He's probably old enough to be your father anyway.  His birthday
    is this Friday and he'll be 39.  He's just 10 days older than me.)
    
    Re .204, excuse me, but you buy Playgirl just to read the articles
    - what articles?  Sorry.  I could think of a way they could perk
    up the pictures a bit, too.  
    
    Re .203, I have thought for a long time that the worst song of my
    lifetime, so far, has been "The Ballad of the Green Berets" by Sgt.
    Barry Sadler (sung in his shakey, sincere, yet misguided voice).
     This is followed closely by "Billy & Sue" (a horrible song about
    a guy who dies in Vietnam because he stands up and gets hit when
    he reads in a letter that his girlfriend is cheating on him-like,
    I'm sure he was faithful, yah know?), and also, "Teen Angel" (about
    a girl who gets run over by a train when she runs back to get her
    boyfriend's class ring out of the car which has stalled on the train
    tracks - what a dummy!!)
    
    Lorna
    

    Notes .205 - .210 have been moved to the new note on "worst songs
    of all times", #199.
    
    liz augustine
    womannotes comoderator

    
    i couln't stand the pressure anymore!!!
    
    - i hate all foods that end in phonics "am" -- spam, lamb, ham jam
    	clam..
    - i was the one who poked the holes in the back of mom's nice chair
     	with a pencil (okay so i was only 6!!)
    - i also sing very loud in my car knowing that some record company
     	will sign me up (ha, ha, my husband told me that i think i sing
    	better than i actually do)
    - i like classical music but when with friends only listen to rock.
    - i like liverwurst, poptarts and....... boxed macroni and cheese!!
    
    whew!!  what a relief.. big sigh..
    
    toni

    


            Oh my goodness....when I was 11 years old I locked myself
            into my Parents Bedroom, and went into my Mothers underwear
            drawer and tried her Bra on when nobody else was home, and
            looked in the mirror and wished I could be a GIRL!
    
            AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggHHHHHHHhhhh !! ! !
             
            I can't believe I just admitted that!
    
            ;-)  -Arthur
                                                              
    
    

    ok, since everyone else has put in their deep dark secrets, i'll
    put in one of mine:
    
    when my cats bring a "guest" home, say, a live mouse, and it starts
    running around, i'm so afraid that the little rodent will run over
    my toes that i ...
    
    
    stand on a chair and scream
    
    <blush>

Don't worry, Liz.

A couple of years ago, I wandered into the office with a wind-up mouse.
One of the office mates and I crawled under my desk and (carefully
supressing our giggles) sent it scurrying into Karen's cubicle next door.

Karen sat still, but the guy in her office jumped on his chair and screamed.

Martin.

(Background: the office area was in the basement of the Mill, in an
area that used to house the board shop's chemical storage area.  The
offices are separated by old-style Dec cubicles (made from doors or
something) with a 4 inch gap between the bottom and the floor itself.
A week prior to the above incident, I had stretched my feet out under
my desk, and Karen saw this thing moving out of the corner of her eye,
and you can guess the rest.)

    209
    
    When my cat brings in quests...mice, rabbits, birds, etc...I am
    so afraid it will run over my toes, or that I will step on it that
    I will
    
    Jump on the chair, the sofa, the table, the bed whatever.  seems
    my cat kind of chases it towards me!
                                                 
    When my cat brings in a dead one, I have to go next door and ask
    the neighbor to come take it out of the house....
    
    Thats all for now...
    

    I like to see horror movies, and I love see people eating body
    parts like the heart,lungs,intestine and all those things, and I
    like to see the blood.  
                       
    I do always have dreams about making love with two men at the
    same time.                   
    
    well thanks God that my husband can't read this notes.
    

    I always cry when I see Hallmark and "I won't drift away" telephone
    commercials.
    
    My favorite TV show is "Beauty and the Beast".  I know it's sappy,
    romantic drivel, but I love it!  (It also makes me cry.)
    
    Colleen

    I watch "Beauty and the Beast" too.  I guess that the more surprising
    part of this is that I watch it with my boyfriend and he's as eager
    as I am to watch it.  (Surprised me, anyway.)
    
    I love that they emphasize the concept that someone can be appreciated,
    even cherished, for who they are on the *inside*.
    (Compassion counts at last).
    
    Is that what makes it 'romantic'?
    
    Ruth

    I am also a "Beauty and the Beast" fan.  When is it on again?
    My aunt and I were looking in the TV guide and we couldn't
    find it anywhere!!  (We both cry when watching it!)
    
    Paula
    

    Not being a television watcher, I could say anything about Beauty
    and the Beast, but I *LOVED* the original story as a child and read
    it often.
    
    Barb

    re:.215
    
    It ran out of re-runs the other week. Because of the writers'
    strike, the new season is late for *every* show. Expect new
    episodes in maybe a month or so.
    
    --- jerry
    
    (Another male B&B fan. Isn't it "sexist" to assume that men don't
    enjoy a good romance, too?)

    Jerry,
    
    I don't know if is 'sexist' but I will admit that I was surprised
    the first time I talked to a man who enjoyed a good romance. Tho
    once I thought about it I found it quite natural. I know two men
    with whom I've talked about romance stories and how they enjoy them,
    and I am sure there are more.
    
    Bonnie

    
    OK, I confess.  Not only do my husband and I like Beauty and the Beast,
    but we tape it if we're not going to be home so we don't miss it.   And
    I think Ron Perlman is sexy *because* of all the make-up...oooh, that
    voice!
    
    Conni

    re: .217
    
    Jerry, I'm sorry if what I said sounded sexist in .214.
    
    AAARRRKKK. Did I sound sexist? I didn't mean to. I had been steadily
    dating my boyfriend for over six months when we first watched B&B
    together. His enthusiasm surprised me. I saw a lot less of his
    sensitive side in the beginning, he had built up a lot of defenses
    over the years (as had I). As our relationship grows, so does the
    trust that allows us to relax with each other. He still surprises
    me about other things too!
    
    Ruth

    I don't watch the show, I didn't read the book, but I see the Jean
    Cocteau movie (1946?) of "La Belle et La Bete" (beauty and the beast)
    whenever I can.
    
    *sigh*
    
    -Jody
    

    There's more than one version of "the book".  I recommend _Beauty_
    by Robin McKinley.
    
    						Ann B.

    I didn't really intend to "accuse" anyone of sexism, but I
    thought I'd make a point that it's too often easy to jump to
    conclusions about someone based on their sex.
    
    --- jerry

    RE: B&B
    
    That (%^&( show drives me *NUTS*!!!! I can't figure out why I,
    a self-respecting feminist, maybe even a <gasp> radical, *strident*,
    feminist would LIKE that show! I can't find anything to *like*
    in it, and yet....
    
    This is a real crisis.
    
    --DE
    

    
    	I've only seen B&B a couple of times, but I'll admit to 
    	REALLY enjoying that new Merlin Olsen show (I can't remember
    	the name . . .).  It was nice on some of those cold winter
    	nights, with tea and green cookies.
    
    	Oh yea, it's called "Aaron's Way".
    
    	Sharon (an incurable romantic)

    re: .224
    
    I'm with you, Dawn...ick, wretch, what a ghastly story...
    
    Laura
    

    RE: .226
    
    Right. RIGHT! So why the (*#@^%&* do I like the show???
    
    Talk about cognitive dissonance...
    
    

    re: .227
    
    You mean to say that you LIKE the show after what you said about
    it in your previous note?!!  Good grief, except that not only do
    I still feel ick, wretch, I hate that story...
    
    Not congnitively dissonant,
    
    Laura
    

    re: .227
    
    I know what you mean, Dawn.  _Pollyanna_ is more emotionally
    sophisticated.  But there's something so -- so -- I don't know.
    Honest?  Innocent?  Pure?  about the way they do the TV show of
    Beauty and the Beast that it's hard not to like it.  It's as
    though they're saying, "Yes, the world is a mess, an ugly hateful
    mess full of cruelty and pain, but there is love and there is
    honesty and there is truth and when it happens, it still really is
    as simple as we always believed it should be." 

    --bonnie

    Today's confession:
    
    		I do NOT like the smell of new cars. Harumph.
    
    -b

    RE: .229
    
    Yeah, Bonnie! I mean, here's a love story between a woman and...
    and...a *mutant*, fer godsakes! God forbid they show a *real*
    relationship between a woman, say, and a man in a wheelchair; 
    or between 2 women or 2 men! All of that's TABOO, right?
    But a love story between a woman and a *mutant* (who, to give the
    devil his due, is a cute pussy-cat - but a *mutant*-nonetheless)
    
    Well, heck, folks, that's middle America....or something....
    
    *sigh*
    
    --DE
    

Re:  .229

>   But there's something so -- so -- I don't know.  Honest?  Innocent?
>   Pure?  about the way they do the TV show of Beauty and the Beast
>   that it's hard not to like it.

There is an interview with the actor who plays Vincent (sorry, I forget his
name) in this Sunday's Boston Globe TV section.  He comments that he thinks
that Vincent's appeal lies in the fact that he is a totally devoted, loving,
and even magical protector who seeks absolutely *nothing* in return for all
of his devotion.  That seems to me to be consistent with the episodes of the
show that I've seen.

Good grief.  Seeks absolutely nothing in return?  That isn't innocent or
honest; that's dehumanizing!  We have many comments elsewhere in this file from
people who have complained of others who have tended to objectify other people.
What kind of real man would want absolutely nothing in return?  And for that
matter, why is K(C?)atherine always made out to be the helpless wimp who has
to be rescued by her fearless protector?  Why don't we ever see her rescue
Vincent, for a (pleasant) change?  Doesn't this sort of "relationship" tend
to perpetuate the bad old roles for men and women that so many people else-
where in this file have tried to burst beyond?

The more I think of this show, the more I find it depressing.

					--Q (Dick Wagman)

(Yes, I know perfectly well that this isn't a confession...)

    re:.232
    
    It's not true that Catherine has never had to rescue Vincent.
    Right off the bat, I can think of two episodes in which he was
    in trouble and she came to help him. Granted, it's not a 50/50
    situation, but it's not 100/0, either.
    
    --- jerry

    CONFESSION #234.........
    
    My husband always told me you could actually shift gears in the
    car without using the clutch.....we would get in huge arguements
    about this.....I told him that when he junked his automatic & bought
    his OWN stick shift car - he could shift any way he damn well pleases,
    but as long as he drives MY  car, he better use the clutch because
    I don't want MY car ruined! (humph!)
    
    Several days later - I just had to see if he was right & I tried
    it................................and it worked!   But I'll never
    tell him as long as I live  (PPHHHHLLLLLTTTTT !!!)
    

    re: .232
    
    FWIW, Ron Perlman is the actor who plays Vincent on Beauty and the
    Beast.
   				-----
       
    True confession #2 -- I love Barry Manilow!  I even belong
    to his fan club!  My boyfriend likes him, too.  He has even taken
    me to several concerts.  (The last pair of tickets were in the front
    row -- I could have died!  Definitely a moment to remember.)

    I have just acquired a taste for coffee and I am a grandmother!

    re:.234
    
    You can pull a car out of gear into neutral without using the
    clutch -- I do that all of the time. But it's been my experience
    that if you try to put a car *in* gear without using the clutch,
    it either doesn't go in gear, or it makes an awful grinding
    noise.
    
    --- jerry

    RE .237 RE .234 The technique works best at low rpm's, such as
    in a large truck with 10 speeds; the differences between gear 
    speeds isn't great, allowing easy meshing. Trying the same thing 
    in a 4-cylinder, high-revving engine is asking for trouble.

    Now back to our regularly scheduled confessions.
    
    =================================================================
    
    I like 'Beauty And The Beast' too. Couldn't figure out where
    Linda Hamilton went after making 'The Terminator', glad she
    got the role of Catherine. (I was smitten with her after she
    'terminated' the cyborg. And that's another true confession :-))
    
    Dana

    re: .232
    
>Good grief.  Seeks absolutely nothing in return?  That isn't innocent or
>honest; that's dehumanizing!  We have many comments elsewhere in this file from
>people who have complained of others who have tended to objectify other people.
>What kind of real man would want absolutely nothing in return?  

    Maybe one who values something other than sex in his
    relationships.  
    
    Maybe one who isn't always asking "What's in it for me?"
    
    I think now I know what I like about the show . . . 
    
    --bonnie

    You know, I've heard my brother's mother-in-law describe her
    gay son who lives in Portland in just about those terms.  I
    know she thinks the neighborhood he lives in is a sewer!
    
    --bonnie

    Re:  .234, .237, .238 (shifting without the clutch)
    
    Shifting a synchronized transmission (like a car) without the clutch
    is definitely not a good idea.  It is very easy to ruin the
    synchronizers, which don't like to have engine torque on them while
    you are engaging or disengaging a gear.  This is especially true
    of pulling back through them coming out of gear.
    
    As Dana points out, it is relatively easy to shift a truck transmission
    without the clutch, and many drivers do it all the time.  However,
    essentially all heavy truck transmissions are unsynchronized, so
    the part that could be damaged isn't there.  If you double clutch
    the shift, you get a little more leeway in adjusting the engine RPMs
    to go into the next gear than you do if you don't use the clutch.
    You also take less chance of chipping a tooth if you miss.

    re: .240
    
    Oh ya?  What's so wrong with that?  I mean, it works o.k. for
    me. . .
    
    Steve
    

    Shifting without a clutch should be reserved for those times
    when 1) the clutch has gone west, but you *have* to get the car
    to the repair shop to fix the clutch, or 2) you have broken
    your leg, but you *have* to get to the hospital to get IT fixed.
    
    						Ann B.

    Re: 234 and subsequent responses
    
    Sheesh!!  She's going to be sorry she "confessed!"

    But think how much fun these people who got to confess how
    much they know about cars are having!
    
    --bonnie

Re:  .239

>>What kind of real man would want absolutely nothing in return?  

>    Maybe one who values something other than sex in his
>    relationships.  

Well, I think that relationships with women are valuable for lots more than
sex.  How about companionship, for example?  Or goal sharing?  Or even a
trip to the symphony together?  Or a quiet party with mutual friends?

						--Q

    Another confession:
    
    I used to think "CarBuffs" was a brand of chamois cloth for
    keeping one's paint job shiny.
    
    --bonnie

    
    I have a five month old kitten, Tabitha, and I call myself Mummy
    when I'm talking to her.
    
    On my way to and from work I turn up my radio in my car as loud
    as it can get, roll up my windows, and sing at the top of my lungs.
    When I'm at home I do it in front of the mirror and pretend I'm
    with the band.
    
    I have to cry at least once a week or I am in a state of complete
    depression.  I write poetry and pretend to myself that its good
    and means something.  I have this tacky silver cuff bracelet that
    I wear all the time whether it's appropriate or not because I love
    it.  I won't buy a new pair of sneakers until the old ones are
    completely unwearable.
    
    I could go on forever.
    
    I'm still a tomboy when I can get away with it.  A lady when I can't.
    Sometimes being a lady hurts though.
    

    > On my way to and from work I turn up my radio in my car as loud
    > as it can get, roll up my windows, and sing at the top of my lungs.
    
    Me too, but I leave the windows down!
                 
    DougO

    re .252 and .253
    
    Me too but I leave the windows down and sing harmony.
    One of the first phrases my daughter ever said to me
    was, "No singin', Mommy".  She was jealous of the
    attention I gave the music in the car.  Now, at age 4,
    she sings right along with me!  She sings melody and I
    sing harmony.
    
    Nanci

    
    
    	At the ND Miami game I had an Egg McMuffin for breakfast at
    10:30am and washed it down with beer.  (More breakfasts of Domers)
    
    My friend and I smuggled 2 wineskins of Jack Daniels into the game
    and got plowed.
    
    She spilled coke on the shirt of the woman in front of us; the woman
    didn't notice and we didn't tell her (it eventually dried)
    
    When I took 5 of my friends to dinner that night they spent 30 min
    after the meal hanging spoons on their faces....2 older couples,
    in their late 40s, were staring as they began doing this...I looked
    over a few minutes later and one of the older men had a spoon hanging
    off of his chin.  Not only are my friends weird, their weirdness
    is contagious.  Oh well, as our family motto says:  "Better weird
    than boring."
    
    GO IRISH!
    
    Rachel

    True Confessions:
    
    I love to have my feet massaged. I usually end up asleep.
    
    I have a miniature wish-nik with white wild hair on my terminal.
    
    Met the Cowsills back stage when I was 13 and got all their autographs.
    
    Watch and Collect anything that has to do with 'super-marionation'.
    Marionettes, ie. Stingray, Thunderbirds.
    
    Love the smell of my dog after shes been all curled up and sleeping
    a while.
    
    Sleep attire consists of a concert T-shirt and underpants.
    
    

    re: .256
    
        I love to massage feet.  I used to introduce people to massage
    that way because it was the least threatening contact.
    
    ASP
    
    P.S.  I also love getting my feet massaged too.

    I loovvveeeee to have my feet massaged! :-)
    
    Bonnie

    I too, love to get my feet massaged!  my fiance calls me a foot
    slut!

    Every time George Michael croons, "You must have been kissing a
    fool" into the headphones of my Toshiba portable CD player,
    I melt all over my chair . . .
    
    --bonnie

    Okay, here it is:
    
    After over thirty years of really, *really*, REALLY trying...
    
    I *still* can't understand Donald Duck!
    
    Rodney M.

    
    1) If Humphrey Bogart were alive today I'd marry him (assuming Lauren
    Bacall was dead, which I'd take care of in a sec)
    
    2) I have NO FEAR of dentists. I also have no cavities (is this
    a separate confession?)
    
    3) When I traded in my '77 Celica tis summer for a new car, I tore
    off and saved the 'Celica' nameplate on the side, just for sentimental 
    reasons.
    I'm considering pasting it to my new Corolla. Maybe I could fool
    the engine into thinking it was a Celica!
    
    4) I own the Monkeys Greatest Hits! (this from a jazz musician)
     (it was a gift when I was eleven)
     
    5) Like .39, I put on makeup while driving to, except that
    I don't put on makeup in the car on the way to work because I don't
    wear makeup to work because
    
    I DON'T CARE WHAT I LOOK LIKE AT WORK!!!
    
    (how's that for a confession!)
                           
    Roberta
    

I want an ear cuff. I think they look tuff. And I don't have to put holes in my
head!
	Mez

  1)  I'm addicted to M&Ms sans peanuts.
  2)  I'm a saver (like Mom).  I saved one of everything from the original
      clothing issue at bootcamp including a pair of skivies that are
      so worn I think the grapes are falling off the Fruit-of-the_Loom
      label.
  3)  I'm lonely.   

    re .-1
    
    m&m's, plain chocolate, mmmmmmmmm
    I have been watching my diet rather closely, but ALWAYS make
    arrangements for my daily fix of m&m's.  Since I have quit smoking,
    I have substituted the m&m's for my after lunch cigerette. If I
    don't get them, I can't type, talk to customers, spell, make sense
    etc......
    vivian
    

    re .266>
              In the navy we used to call them fat pills.  Among my
              division the joke was that I was to see my substance
              abuse counselor about this addiction!

    Everyone fess up...
    
    Who watch the Brady Bunch Christmas last night? And liked it.
    And don't say someone else *made* you watch it.  8^)
    
    A bit more modern plot but a very lame ending. I still liked it.
    
    Gail

Re: < Note 53.268 by IAMOK::KOSKI "If I ever get out of here..." >
Okay. I admit it. I watched it. I dodn't like it, yet somehow,
I just couldn't stop watching...

I have an excuse, though. I was trying to figure out if the
actress playing Cindy was the "real" Cindy. Anyone know? Didn't
look authentic to me.

    She wasn't the "real" Cindy.

	 RE: .271

	 Oh!  *FINE* excuse for missing a get-to-gether with the
	 family!!!!!

	 8^)

	 PS:  I didn't watch it..I can't STAND the brady bunch...
	 go ahead...call me un-american...
	 

    .268
    
    I watched it too.  I didn't really enjoy it, though.  I thought
    the acting was poor and the story very predictable.  I was interested
    in seeing what everyone looked like though, and I did watch the
    whole thing.  
    
    .269
    
    The person that played Cindy used to be on Another World portraying
    Sally (when she was a kleopto (sp??)).  She was also Gwendolyn in
    "Charles in Charge".  I forget what her real name is.
    
    Anna
    

    Yes, I watched it.  Yes, I enjoyed it.  But I felt that they could
    have taken out the whole "collapsing building" bit and it would
    have been better.  (A beam falls on his leg, and he walks out without
    a limp?)
    
    In SPITE of that, I still enjoyed the rest of it.
    
    K.C.
    
    (In first grade, I took pleasure in saying that the 6 kids (now
    7) in my family were REAL brothers & sisters, and we didn't NEED
    a housekeeper!)

    The Brady Bunch ranks right up there with bubblegum music for me.
    
    grins,
    Marge

< Note 53.268 by IAMOK::KOSKI "If I ever get out of here..." >
>>                  -< it's a (sexist) story of a lovely lady >-
>>    Everyone fess up...
>>    Who watch the Brady Bunch Christmas last night? And liked it.
>>    And don't say someone else *made* you watch it.  8^)
>>    A bit more modern plot but a very lame ending. I still liked it.
>>    Gail

	Umm, my boyfriend and I watched it.  We both realized how
	corny it was when the "men" brady's were setting up the
	christmas tree in the living room, and the "women" brady's
	were getting food in the kitchen, and the all came 
	togethor singing Oh christmas tree or something equally
	as corny.  My boyfriend and I both looked at each other
	and died laughing.

	Gawd, it was even worse than when the brady children 
	got married.  (I confess, I watched that too)

	/Robin

    	Well, I for one didn't watch it. I decided to do something
    	more useful (go to bed).
    
    	Scott

    Re: .273
    
    The actress is Susan Olsen.
    
    I didn't watch it.  True confession:  I don't have a TV.

    I have a TV and none of us watched it...kinda reminds me tho of
    the "Weird Al' song (courtesy of my 16 year old son) 'You can
    watch if you want to' that has a chorus of 'not the Bradey bunch'.
    
    Bonnie

    But what is the name of the girl who played Cindy in THIS?
    
    K.C.

    I love to watch tv.  I have it turned on when I sew, clean, knit,
    read, cook etc.  I enjoy the smut shows like "current affairs", I
    hate Geraldo, I like Murder she wrote.  I love Star Trek: Next
    Generation,I dislike hearing lofty responses regarding only 
    watching pbs.  I watch it too sometimes, but give me the series 
    instead.  I presently really enjoy Murphy Brown.  
    A lot of non-reality shows really make me enjoy my life
    and appreciate the people in it.  
      
    vivian

    Come to think of it, I wonder if Alice has anything else to wear
    besides that blue maid uniform? No wonder the butcher left her...
    
    Gail

    I liked the dark blue satiny dress that she wore to the airport.
    
    I guess she just likes blue!
    
    K.C.

    I really did hate the Brady Bunch and didn't watch their Christmas
    special.  I especially hate Florence Henderson in those little mini
    dresses from the old shows. Ugh!  I also especially hate the fact
    that the females were all blondes and the males all had dark hair,
    as tho that's the way it's supposed to be (like in Dick, Jane, Sally
    & Spot's family).
    
    My favorite TV is MTV.  I don't have cable so every once in awhile
    either my daughter or one of my friends makes me a tape of recent
    videos to watch so I can keep up :-).  I'm a closet groupie.  (I
    think rock'n'roll is what white boys do best :-).)
    
    
    Lorna
    

    
    If the Brady Bunch was the best thing onTV the other night, I'm
    glad I don't own a TV. A funny coicidence, though. For some reason
    I was just thinking about the Brady Bunch the other day. I wonder
    if I subliminally heard someone talking about it! I was thinking
    about how different the kids looked in the older episodes when they
    were all very young, compared to the last episodes where Greg was
    about to go off to college. Would have been interesting, I must
    admit, to see how different they must look now.
    
    More confessions:
                                                   
    I almost  bought Glamour magazine the other night (but got the New
    Yorker instead!!)
    
    I get lonely too. (Everyone does).
    
    
    Roberta
                                                                              

    
    
    Ten years ago I went out to Los Angeles and visited some friends.
    One of my friends went to school and was good friends with Susan Olsen 
    (who played Cindy Brady).  All three of us went out for pizza and
    a movie.  She is not the same person as she was on TV.  Told us
    lots of (at the time) juicy gossip about backstage on the
    Brady set.

    Kathi
    
    

    
    reply -1> Does that mean she was better or worse than her stage
              character.  It must be great to meet a real celeb
              (I once shook Rex Trailer's hand!!)
    
              I confess:  I caught myself wondering what I'm going to
                          get for Christmas!  At my age!!
    
    Luis

    
    Speaking of juicy gossip about the Brady Bunch set, I heard the
    other day that Greg and Marsha (not the characters, the actors who
    played them) were romantically involved while the show was on. Is
    this what you heard from Susan Olsen? My immediate response was: 
    
    "But that's incest!!"
    
    :^)
    
    Roberta
    

    Yes, I watched the Brady Christmas show. In fact, I watched
    the original show every Friday night and when my parents let
    me stay up late enought I even watched the Partridge Family
    afterwards. I still watch the reruns. Infact, I know every story
    line and about half the dialog by heart. 
    
    But I must admit, I couldn't figure out why on earth someone would
    call the archetect (sp?) to get people out of a collapsed building.
    Personally, I'd like someone that knew how to operate heavy 
    equipment. 
    
    Dee Ryan

    
    
    re .288
    
    The gossip you heard about Marsha and Greg was what Susan had told
    me.  Also there was some other things, I can't think of it now
    (its been to long) but I remember I was shocked when I first
    heard it.
    
    Kathi
    

    Re .290
    
    Confirmed by an article about "Greg" in People magazine.
    
    K.C.

    re .288
    
    It's not incest, the girls and boys are related through marriage
    only, don't you remember the words to the theme song? 

    Gail  8^)

    re .292, who could *forget* the words to the theme song?
    
    Lorna
    

    
    re .292:
    
    Thanks! You've set my mind at ease.
    
    Roberta

    
    
    Since there wasn't anything on TV yesterday but football, I was
    flipping throught the stations and found the Brady Brunch and
    yes I did watch the whole program.
    
    Kathi
    

    Re .295, it's true, almost anything is better than football.  But,
    you could have read a book or rented a movie, so there's still no
    excuse to watch the Brady Bunch.
    
    Lorna
    

    I have to confess that love old wooden carrousel animals.....
    they are absolutely beautiful!
    
                                           Lynne

    I ALSO confess: I love to eat Lemons and Limes,
    I eat Capt'n Crunch with Crunchberries for breakfast.
    I still watch the "Brady Bunch"
    I am a MTV "Remote Control" fan
    AND I think Rob Lowe is AWESOME looking....................

    If you like carousel animals, have you ever been to the Brandywine
    Museum in Pennsylvania (it's somewhere near Philadelphia) - they
    have carousel animals, Wyeth paintings, and some Maxfield Parrish
    art, too...
    
    as for true confessions?
    
    I sometimes sleep with stuffed animals.
    
    -Jody
    

    I also sleep with stuffed animals...they've usually just finished
    their "pre-midnight" snack  ;-)
    
    						=maggie

    I saw  a wonderful collection of carousel animals on loan from the
    Museum  of American Crafts or some such. The museum is in New York
    City. A couple of the animals had their original paint. There were
    good  explanations  of  the  different styles, and some absolutely
    beautiful woodwork. The next time I'm in New York I'm going to the
    museum if I can find it.

--David

    Re:301
    I am so happy to see that my first "confession" about liking carrousel
    animals is not an unusual and, glad to see there are other people
    who admire a rare art form. I always loved them, and did a lot of
    study on the art. 
    
    I also confess that the carrousel is the first ride I go on when
    I visit an amusement park....I am 25 years old!
    
                                     Lynne
    
    

    Uggghhhh...another confession!  I am an "ED HEAD" which is a fan
    of "The Mr. Ed" show!
    
                                             Lynne!

    re: .301
    
    It's now called "The American Craft Museum", 40 W 53rd Street,
    right across the street from The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
    
    Definately don't miss it the next time you're in New York.
    
    								-mr. bill

    Here are some of my confessions...but...please keep in mind...I
    AM a nice person...REALLY!!!
    
    	O I watch Sesame Street and other assorted cartoons when I'm
    	  home alone...
    
    	O Once as an assistant Girl Scout leader (on a campout) taught
    	  the girls in my tent how to play poker...
    
    	O I own a pair of handcuffs which reside on the rearview mirror
    	  of my car...Where they remain...
    
    	O Once (alright twice) at a church camp I played a singing
    	  prostitute...(They liked my singing...:-))
    
    	O Spending the day in Boston once, I took photos of strangers
    	  posing as a New Yorker wanting Pictures of "natives" for my
    	  ailing Aunt Sophie who doesn't get to travel much...
    
    Thank you...I feel a bit cleaner getting that off my chest...
    
    			- Donna

    When I am sick and tired of being a grown up, I crumble lots
    of saltines into a large bowl of cold milk and sit on the floor,
    (with a newspaper under the bowl just like I used to when I was
    little) and read "Wind in the Willows".  That is my favorite
    book of all time.
    
    And when I am feeling terribly homesick, I play John Denver's
    "Country Roads" over and over and over.  
    
    Marilyn

    Finally I can get the real me out (ha!).  I have always had the
    biggest fantasy about great "butted" men like Rod Steward, Mick
    Jagger, Bill F (my platonic friend in New York).  
    
    Also to be the leader of a great nation of hard core women who are
    leaders in their own turf.
    
    Marti

    Well, here goes. 
    
    - I love strawberry poptarts, and I also love ice cream (even if
      I'm shivering while I eat it)
    
    - I love cartoons:  all the Disney's, Bugs Bunny, Pink Panther and
      The Smurfs.  (I also like the muppets and saw both movies)
    
    - My first 45 record was Donny Osmand - Puppy Love
    
    - When I was 14, I fell in love with Paul Michael Glazer.  He played
      Starsky on Starsky and Hutch.  I cut out every picture and poster
      I could find and covered my walls with them.
    
    - I can't whisle.
    
    - Sometimes, when the mood hits me, I have to put a certain song
      on the stereo and listen to it 10 - 15 times in a row before I feel
      satisfied.
    
    - I read every single one of these before entering my own.
    

    Greetings fellow noters,
    
    1. I've read every single one of these replys and I have an opinion
    about all of them.
    2. I love teasing my wife when she's in a really bad mood. (Boy
    does she get steamed!)
    3. My kids do so much better in school than I did its not funny
    but I make sure they never know that!
    4. I love being with my family more than anything else in the world.
    5Professionally I enjoy nothing more than going to a site where
    the system is as dead as a stump and then fixing it very quickly.
    The customers think I'm a genius.
    6. I love to call women girls and men boys.
    7. I love talk radio and my wife calls NOTES talk terminal.
    8. I love to see the Baltimore, oops, Indianapois Colts lose.
    9. I love it when my former employer has a bad quarter.
    10. I drink right out of the container and I love to squirt whipped
    cream right in my mouth.
    
    Hey! this is fun!!!
    
    YOUR FRIEND IN FIELD SERVICE
    
    FRED MUDGETT
      

    I also confess that I have a "beer drinking" smurf and an "electric
    guitar playing smurf" on my desk.....not to mention Garfield and
    Odie, who reside at my desk too.....I like being a professional!!
    
    
                                        the one and only,
    
                                        Lynne!

    This file is great.  I've read all 310 replies (I can't believe
    I did that).  
    
    - I watch Dennis the Menice every weekday morning on NIK while getting
      ready for work, and the Love Boat on Sunday mornings (sometimes
      twice)
    
    - I love chewing bubble gum (at work), like BUBBLE YUM or BUBBLICIOUS
     (sp) and seeing how big of a bubble I can blow. (very professional)
    
    - I'm another car singer.  My favorite tape to sing to is the Eagles
      Greatest Hits.  I know every word to every song.  If I mess up
      on a word or phrase, I rewind and keep doing it till I get it
      right.  In my mind, I think I harmonize with them great and believe
      that I would be great for them (being realistic - wake up, right?)
    
    - When I'm talking on the phone to someone that bores me or is rambling
      on about the same subject for ever, I take the phone away from
      my ear and every once in awhile throw in a "yea" "ahuh" ect...
      (what a b_tch, huh?!)
    
    - I am presently reading a Harlequin Romance (A family Affair).
      I think its a really stupid book, I don't know why I continue
      to read it, I just found it one day, started reading (actually
      making fun of it) and now I'm half way through it.  
    
    I probably have a lot more but I think I've been doing them for
    so long that either I don't realize that their not "normal" or I've
    convinced myself that they are.
    
    Sandie
    
      

    re: .311
    
    "This file is great.  I've read all 310 replies (I can't believe
     I did that)."  
    
    Sandie,
    
    Have you considered counselling?  Your reply has that classic,
    "I'll-just-read-one-more-note" sound of the person who's about
    to become a =wn= junkie.
    
    On second thought, forget the counselling - you might get "cured"
    and miss all the fun. . .
    
    Welcome,
    
    Steve 
    
    (I am *not* a =wn= (or HR) junkie. . .)
    
    I'm a *pusher*!

    I confess too RE 312
    
    I am an addicted noter, junkie, what ever....
    and I have to confess this...I am also a *pusher*, I have addicted
    many other innocent peoples to notes....I better go to the Noter
    Rehabilitation Center........
    
                                            Lynne

    	RE:  .313
    
    	> I better go to the Noter Rehabilitation Center........
    
    	Actually, there is a notesfile support group for those of us
    	who have become hopelessly addicted to notes.
    
    	They have set aside enough disk space to receive 10,000 new
    	replies per day for the rest of our natural lives.  (Hopefully,
    	that should be sufficient.)
    
    	It's the last stop for those of us who have taken notes addiction
    	to a Zen level.  :-)
    

    RE .314
    
    Gotta love it!!!  Tell me more!!!
    
                              Lynne

    Fellow noters,
    
    Tragically I'm a notes junkie also...In the office I swear everyones
    eyes roll when I recommend "well lets look up the notesfile on that
    topic and see what the rest of DEC has to say about that." At home
    I've fallen asleep at the terminal and the kids will log me off.
    So fortunetely its only home and work are tired of me using notes!
    
    Fred Mudgett 

    RE53.316
    
    When you are at the point when the kids have to log you off,
    than it is definately time for The Noter Rehabilitation Center!!!!
    .......just watch out for the withdrawel symthoms....I heard they
    can get pretty bad......
    
                                    Lynne

okay okay...I admit it ..I LIKE the Herman's Hermits....

Jenna

    
    Withdrawal symptoms for host node for a conference being down:
    
       Nervously pacing the floor and then entering "open womannotes-vw"
       every 5 minutes!
    
    Todays true confession:
    
       Jody,  There's a very sticky blob on your Hollies cassette.
              I swear I didn't put it there!
    
    Luis       Gosh, I needed that womannotes' fix!!

    RE:319
    
    Boy...do I know that feeling!!!  It is called Noterphobia!
    
                                       Lynne

    Let's see, true confessions time...
    
    I like cold pizza in the morning
    
    The only programming course I ever took was Intro to Fortran, and
    	I learned it on punchcards, at that (now I'm in a Software Writing
    	(documentation) Group)
    
    I have known for a long time that notes is a two-edged sword (yields
    	helpful information on work-related subjects, is pretty addictive
    	in non-work-related subjects) - but haven't wanted to admit
    	it - even to myself ;)
    
    I don't know how that blob got on the Hollies tape but considering
    	it has been in my possession for maybe 5 months out of the year
    	I've owned it (people keep borrowing it) - I wouldn't be at
    	all surprised.  Maybe someone was "jamming" with it.
    
    I make awful puns.  
    
    -Jody
    

    I used to work at SPAG'S when I was in college!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    
    p.s.....I don't know HOW I survived!!!!!!!!
    
                                  Lynne

    re .318, I once went to a Herman's Hermits concert!  I think it
    was in 1965.  It was at the Paris Cinema in Worcester, which is
    now an X-rated movie theater.  Ah, what a night, what a night!
    
    I am not addicted to notes.  I do enjoy noting, but I could stop
    any time I wanted to.
    
    Lorna
    

    r-322
    
    Hey you think you've worked at a New Englanderish place... We'll
    how about this from an old Nutmeger. I worked at the Big Bunny
    Supermarket as a bag-boy (it was okay to call us guys that then).
    This company had three stores in one Stafford Springs Conn., and two
    other stores somewhere in eastern Mass. What a horriable job! Bagging
    groceries was several hours of standing in the same spot bending
    over stuffing bags full of food and no matter what I put in where
    there was something that I did wrong!
    
    Fred Mudgett

    RE:325
    
    Fred,
        Oh!  I know where Big Bunny Supermarket is!  There is one in
    Southbridge.  When I was going to college, I had some friends that
    came from Southbridge that wanted to steal the "Big Bunny" statue
    that was mounted  on the top of the market on halloween...but...
    never had the guts.
    
    Yeah...it is definately a "New Englanderish" place!!!!
    
                                          Lynne

    I eat Kellogg's Frosted Flakes for breakfast.
    
    I talk to my cats and dogs a lot.
    
    I watch A-Team reruns (and enjoy them).
    
    tee hee,
    Karen.

    RE:328
    
    Dont feel bad about eating Frosted Flakes for breakfast.....its
    a more "grown up" cereal that what I eat..........
    
    Capt'n'Crunch...with Crunch berries..ha ha ha!

    re:327
    
    Its me again with a Big Bunny true confession. 
    
    I worked at this supermarket after school. I never missed work ever!
    Well one friday I had something fun to do and I tried everything to get
    someone to change schedules with me (that was probably a mistake
    because I showed my hand!) no good noone would change for love or
    money. So when the time came for me to get to work I handled it
    like any red-blooded man...I had my mother call and say I was sick.
    I was scum I know and my mother is a saint. I went to work the next
    day and some big-shot told me if I ever did that again it was hang
    up the grey apron forever and say goodbye to that $1.35 per hour.
    Well that taught me a lesson...terriable employers are to be avoided
    at like all costs.
    
    Fred Mudgett
    
    

    RE:330
    
    Fred,
    
    I went into Big Bunny a couple of months ago with my friend who
    lives in Holland Ma.  I could not believe what a dump it was!
    I still had the urge to swipe the bunny statue from the roof (It
    was dressed as Santa for Christmas)
    
    Love those Nutmeger stories....he he
    
    Lynne S.

    Okay, this may be a biggie.....
    
    	I am 21, just got married 6 mos ago today, and my vows went
    	like this:
    
    		To Love, Honor, and Obey, until death do us part ! !
    
    	And, I'm the one who suggested it !!!!!!!
    
    
    
    -Michelle-

    I love to flirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    I love men in uniform
    
    I eat Lucky Charms for breakfast (Sometimes I pick all the charms
    out of the box and just eat those with milK)
    
    I love Tom Cruise, and Rob Lowe
    
    
    

    I *like* lima beans
    
    -Jody
    

    Jody, don't feel so all alone... I do too (at least the baby
    limas that are still firm, I don't like the soggy big ones)
    
    Bonnie

    
    Re: last two
    
    I like canned spinach!
    
    CQ

    	Well, I hate lima beans. When I was a kid, Mom used to
    	fix succotash, which is lima beans and corn together.
    	Loved the corn; hated the beans.
    
    	I also hate them 8-)> little cabbages. Yea, I know, they're
    	called brussels sprouts. For me, however, they will remain
    	"those little cabbages I hate to eat."
    
    	Scott

    	I LOVE those little cabbages.  I even LOVE them when their
    	called brussel sprouts ! ! ! ! !
    
    
    		Can you believe it !
    
    
    	-Michelle-Who_is_going_to_have_some_for_dinner_tonight_! MMMMMMMMMM!

	I don't like cheese, but I like:

	1)  Pizza
	2)  Cheese curls
	3)  Grilled cheese

	I pick the mushrooms off/out of:

	1)  Pizza
	2)  Chinese food
	3)  Pasta sauce

	I love Air Supply!!  8^)

                                                       Shawn L.

	No matter how bad, crass, or just out-and-out in poor taste my jokes
are, I always think they are funny.

		kbear

    NANCY RE: YOUR FRIEND'S "QUIRK"..I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THERE ARE
    OTHERS WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE "TOILET PAPER" DILEMMA..IF IT
    MATTERS I'M ONE OF THE FRONT PEOPLE..**AM I SICK OR WHAT!!!!
    
    
    WHATEVER....
      

What a fun topic!

OK.  Here's my true confession of my past : 

While in high school in Orlando, FL, I was part of the Disney "cast"
of characters.  I was one of the seven dwarfs (hint - one of the ones
whose name does not end in -ey) until I had a late growth spurt and
was too tall to be a dwarf.  So I moved up to being the bunny rabbit and
Tweedle-dee. 

It was a lot of fun - 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off and in
the tunnels changing wet clothes into dry ones (it gets very hot and humid
inside the costumes), employee's nights at EPCOT to give the park a test run,
etc...  I put on my resume that I was "promoted" to tweedle dee, not that I
grew...shhh...don't tell my manager ;-).

True confession of my present :

When there's nothing better to do at 3am,  I go outside and shoot hoops
or practice dunking (with the help of a trampoline :-) ) Once the town cops
drove by, stopped for a while, and drove on...  Next time I'll ask them if
they want to join me.

							nancy b.

    
    A couple more true confessions.
    
    I've discovered that by having a roommate my fetishes about household
    things has increased.  I abhore coming into a bathroom and trying
    to look into a mirror that is wicked spotty or has toothpaste on
    it.  Like wise the faucet.  If (and I do say if) I ever get betrothed
    and he is the type of person that leaves a huge wad of toothpaste
    in the bottom of the sink or his whiskers all over the vanity, I'm
    leaving.  I let them know up front though.
    
    Another one:
    I am sexist.  I giggle when I see a men that I know noting in this
    conference.
    
    Hi Shawn!!!  Air Supply, huh?  Wow, that's too bad man.  Isn't there
    like some organization you can join to help you kick the habit or
    something?  8^)
    
    Cheers,
    
    Freena

    *I Love the beach at night,
    *I love to go on walks in the woods
    *I hate peole who repeat themselves
    *I love a cozy fire with a big blanket and my pajamas
    *
    

    
    
    -I hate bugs 
    -I hide a Snickers bar stashed in the cupboard behind the cups for
     emergencies
    -I never wear P.J.'s...I wear nuthin' to bed.
    -I hate RAP music
    -If I could I'd be a beach bum
    
    
    
    	

    I repeat myself..

    re .346

    I guess you could say BOTH!!
    
    

	A friendly piece of advice:

		If you hate bugs, do not, I repeat do not hide Snickers
		bars behind the cups.


	/Eric

    RE: -1
    
    Eric,
    
    Believe me, the Snickers bars do not stay there for long, I EAT THEM.
    tee hee.
    And I very rarely see bugs in my condo....but it's those big, black flying
    things that I hate.  YUCKY
    
    -Dotti.

    
    
    I love, let me repeat love MEL GIBSON..............
    
    My favorite line in a movie is "I love slow wet kisses that last
    three weeks!!"  Any guess????
    
    I hate people who don't pick up their toenails when they clip them
    and slow sunday drivers................
    
    
    lar

    re. > three weeks
    
    Bull Durham

    Sigh, I tried again yesterday, thinking that maybe it wouldn't have the
    same effect as it always did when I was a little kid. I mean, you would
    think that after almost 25 years I would have learned to control it. I
    more mature now, it shouldn't be able to get to me, right?
    
    
    
    At age 33, I still cannot watch an episode of "Lassie" without crying.
    It wasn't even a sad episode and I still burst into tears. I would have
    to leave the room when I was a kid or sit behind the chair and sniffle.
    I always cried. And I still do. Did they use subliminals in the
    soundtrack or something?
    
    Tamzen

    I love eating frozen peas in a bowl with a spoon in front of TV.
    
    I'm not so good with heights, the one time I tried absailing, I
    got into harness, and tried to get over the edge, kept changing
    hands, but to no avail.  Probably why I've never tried to ski.
    
    I'm a cupboard Loveswept romance reader.  In 90 minutes I get all
    the hot erotic sexy thrills, happy endings, and "hunks" I need at
    the end of a below 5 day.  I also have a real hard time walking
    past a brand new hardback of Wilbur Smith or Robert Ludlum.
    
    And, once a year I eat Golden Arches, and remember why its only
    once a year.
    
    ..dale
    

    re: -1
    
    Dale, are the peas still frozen when you eat them? I've never heard of
    this as a TV treat...... low-cal, anyway!
    
    --Lynn
    

    Yup!  Out of the bag, into a bowl.  Sometimes I just pass hot water
    over them but they are still frozen.  Stick them in my mouth, roll
    them on the roof of my mouth with my tongue and swallow.  (^; (^;
    
    About once a week when I really don't feel like fixing dinner after
    getting home.  I have my main meal at lunchtime anyway.  
    
    I've only met one other person who was addicted to frozen peas.
    Its not a gimmick, ya just buy them from the freezer department
    (^;
    
    ...dale
    

    Frozen grapes are great also!  Just pop a bunch in the freezer and
    eat them when they're frozen.  They thaw rather quickly so take
    only a handful out at a time.  They really don't have the same appeal
    once they've thawed.
    
    Jodi-
    

    .....and
    
    sucking icecubes......
    
    
    ..dale
    

    
    
    ...just don't chew those ice cubes, dale.
    
    [maybe this belongs in the "ole wives tale" notestring(-;]

    
    rep: frozen grapes
    
    Wow, this is really weird...
    
    I was just introduced to frozen grapes not more than two weeks ago.
    
    They are great!
    
    Lisa

    and I hear frozen raisins taste a lot like caramel....
    
    -Jody
    

    frozen honey is good too...
    
    Barb

.363>	frozen honey is good too...

	Must be difficult to extract from a plastic bear, however!

							   Carla

    
    
       I love women to seduce me completely by surprise!! Espescially
    when its a stranger or a woman I've never met before.
    
       If thats not a "true confession", I don't know what is!!!
    
    
                          Tim

    Altho it seems to set people aghast when I mention it, here goes:
    
    I don't like where I live (California).  ::GASP::
    
    I want to move (double gasp)  ;)
    
    (here's the biggie...)
    
    ...to the Northeast (Massachusettes would be fine!)  ;D
    
    kim

	After .365 it seems kinda disrespectful to go back to grapes...

	Which work better, red or green?  I assume they should be seedless!

	Frozen oranges are good, too.  Cut'em into quarters first.

	Beverly

    RE: .367 frozen grapes...

    We prefer the long (Ladyfinger?) green grapes but have also 
    enjoyed red grapes as long as they are sweet.  And of course
    seedless is the only kind we use.
    
    
    Jodi-

    I'm terrified of spiders and of flying.  Last weekend I had to kill
    a spider in the bathtub.  I went in armed with 10 different shoes
    and lobbed them all at the thing until it died.
    
    I love blueberry pop tarts (unfrosted) and little egg rolls.
    
    I hate it when my fiance shaves and leaves little black nubs hanging
    around the bathroom sink.
    
    I vote for toilet paper to hang from the front.
    
                                                   
    Nance

    I love making Sunday lunch for my family...Its always the same grilled
    cheese sandwitches. Besides the fact that I really like eathing
    them I get a kick out of listening to all three kids and my wife
    whine about how much they don't like them, of course they eat the
    ones that I cook because they are too lazy to get anything for
    themselves. 
    
    It must be something in the genes us Mudgetts just can't turn down
    a free meal!
    
    Fred Mudgett

    OK, even though I haven't signed in this one just seemed like too
    much fun.
    
    I used to read Barbara Cartland historical romances, until I figured
    out most of the women were petite, blonde-haired and blue-eyed,
    the  men tall, dark and handsome and they always ended up happy
    and rich.
    
    When I was young I LOVED the Monkees, especially Davy Jones.
    
    I HATE peas.  I even went so far that when a friend told me she'd
    make a stew with beef, rice and peas, I told her I'd pick them 
    out.  And I did!
    
    I talk to my terminal all the time.
    
    Whew!  Well that feels better.

    OK, OK, OK...  I'll confess.
    
    I also read Barbara Cartland romances, when I was 15.
    
    I guess ... what clued me ... in ... to the fact that my mind was ...
    rotting away ... was all the breathless talking in ... dots ... by the
    breathtakingly sweet and lovely ... girl ... who marries the prince ...
    with the hawklike nose and ... cleft chin ...
    
    There's no way to make that kind of speech sound normal when you're
    "hearing" the dialogue in your head.  (!)  
    
    Pam
    
    P.S.  A good antidote is the satirical "Love's Reckless Rash," by
    Barbara Cartwheel.  "Her lustrous jet-black hair rippled over her
    shoulders like warm golden honey, fanned by the wind into bright jets
    of fiery flame."  :-)

    Re: .372
    
    Yes!  I also have "Love's Reckless Rash."
    
    I also read Barbara Cartland when I was a teenage babysitter.  This was
    something I carefully hid, since it was not the sort of thing that a
    "brain" would read.  (I don't think I read any popular adult fiction
    until I went to college, since it all appeared to be large novels by
    Danielle Steel, Phyllis Whitney and company and "brains" wouldn't read
    that stuff.)  Her earlier stuff was much more interesting -- crammed
    with plot and even some interesting interactions.  She has, of course,
    deteriorated considerably.  I checked out one of her books about three
    years ago.  The woman starts a new paragraph for *every* sentence!  It
    was so distracting.
    
    I now read reams of Silhouette and Harlequin romances, but not the
    British-style ones.  (The British style is basically Barbara Cartland
    in a modern period with token acknowledgement of women as functional
    human beings....)  The American-style romances have a less traditional
    view of women, which makes them much more interesting and infinitely
    less irritating.
    
    I'm keeping my eye peeled for the Georgette Heyer of contemporary
    romances, but she's not shown herself yet.

 I wish I didn't sell my guitar. I wish I had spent more time learning how to 
play.

 I am disconcerted with the amount of development going on in southern NH.

 I hate screwing up.

 No matter how fast your car goes, it is never fast enough.

 I sometimes drink right from the bottle 'cuz I'm too lazy to put the glass in
the dishwasher.

 There's no such thing as "one more beer."

 I get very embarassed when women tell me they think I'm cute.
 
 There are too many "I've never done..."s in my life.

 There are too many things I'd do over again in my life.

 I wish my youngest brother copied more of my good qualities, and fewer of my
bad.

 The Doctah

    "... and I want to be the monkey's aunt."
    
    I sing along with the Annette Funicello / Beach Boy collaboration, "The
    Monkey's Uncle".
    
    Ray

    I'm afraid of snakes.  I hear it's mutual, but that doesn't help.
    
    I named by first car Fenry - Fenry Honda.
    
    I'd rather be reading.
    
    aq
    

    	RE: 53.376
    
    	Ann,
    
    	I'm afraid of snakes and I hate them.
    
    	The other day, some fella on TV is talking about how pretty
    	animal babies are compared to human babies. Well, I love
    	human babies, and for someone to say animal babies are
    	much better looking that human babies... I mean, I was
    	beside myself. Give me a human baby anytime.
    
    	Scott

    re .377
    
    I agree with the man on TV.  Gimme a kitten anytime.  
    
    ---kim  

    Re .378, Kim, you beat me to it!  I think kittens are much prettier
    than human babies (with the single exception of my own daughter
    when she was a baby of course!)  But, except for my own human child,
    I'd prefer a kitten to a human baby anyday! :-)
    
    I do agree that snakes are icky, though.  
    
    I think that cats are the most beautiful living creatures and that
    snakes are the *ugliest*.  (I wish I could get people who enjoy
    killing things for sport to narrow it down to snakes!  Kill them
    and leave Bambi, etc, alone!)
    
    Lorna
    

    Yeah, snakes are awful.  But baby snakes aren't nearly as awful.
    
    						Ann B.

    I think snakes, if theyre under a couple of feet long and fairly
    slender, are neat.  
    
    I think chinchillas are the cutest things I've ever seen, can't imagine
    how anyone can wear a coat made of 'em!
    
    -Jody
    

    
    I used to tape Love Connection every day.  I would still be taping 
    the Love Connection (properly pronounced "Loooooove Connection") but
    some station executive didn't realise how much I looooved it and took
    it off the air.
    
    CQ

    I was barely able to restrain myself from buying this month's COSMO.
    I know it's trash, I know it's stupid but I can't help it. I want to
    believe they can tell me how to be beautiful, have a perfect man, a
    perfect job, a perfect life. If only I read their articles. Maybe I
    should go to the hair dresser's and I could read it there while I
    wait for my appointment. :*} liesl

    I watch and enjoy Professional Wrestling.  :)
    
    
    Especially Brutus Beefcake.  (well he IS cute)
    
    
    Or did I say this before?  :)
    
    ---kim
    
    P.S.  Snakes are not generally ugly, tho some are less aesthetic
    than others.  Baby snakes look just like adult snakes.  :)  Now,
    if only human babies looked the same, I might like them better.
    
    "oooooh, he's a cute one!  can't wait till he gets taller!"  ;D
    

Hey!  Lorna, you keeps your violent hands off my snakes and I won't kill your
cats!  Geez, talk about nerve, people talking about killing my best friends...

:-)

Snakes are wonderful.  Beautiful, smooth, sexy...and reliable.  You always
know that a snake will always have his own self interest in mind (although
a very small mind.)

As one personal name says "Snakes are your friends."  Don't forget, snakes
eat horrible creatures like RATS!

Ball pythons are especially sweet (but I am biased cause my best friend just
bought one and I can't get enough of him.)

D!

    Hey!  Whatsis about "horrible" rats?  I'll have you know I met
    a very cute, shy, demure, and well trained rat about a week
    ago.  Her name is "Ritty".  Yes, that's right "Ritty Rat".
    Michelle, (her owner) says that's entirely appropriate since
    she already owns another pet named "Kitty Kat".
    
    Steve
    
    Hmm. . .I wonder if she's ever thought of adopting a bat. . .

    The only thing wrong with human babies (and snakes, too) is that
    they don't have fur.  
    
    

    
    .388 >  The only thing wrong with human babies . . . is that
    .388 >  they don't have fur.  
    
    
    Interesting view, but that doesn't sound like a voice of experience
    to me.  Lots of other drawbacks (especially compared to snakes). And
    besides, they're hard enough to keep clean as it is.
    
    And if _snakes_ had fur, they'ld just drag all the dust out from behind
    the furniture and need lots of baths.  And think of the mess when they
    shed!
    
    			- Bruce

    re Lorna:
    
    I hope you were just kidding, but in case you wern't, did you know
    that killing snakes is actually an ecological problem today?  The
    rattler is rapidly declining in areas out west because people have
    successfully organized and systematically destroyed them.
    
    I'm not talking about a hiker or hunter who happens to encounter
    one and then shoots it.  It's a "search and destroy" sort of thing
    to rid an entire area of rattlers.
    
    The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.
    

    in re .387
    
    Well we had two white rats for pets for several years and they
    are the best of all the caged rodents for pets...(i.e. gerbils,
    hamsters, etc). However wild rats are a whole different ball game -
    they are nasty things.
    
    My kitten brought one into the house a while back and I had to help
    her kill it! ick
    
    Bonnie

    I've kept this one quiet for a couple of days, only because I felt such
    a fool.
    
    I walk each morning.  Because Sydney has had sooooooo much rain the
    past few weeks, and we are talking torrential downpour here, the
    spiders have been out in force.
    
    When I say spiders, I mean same as your tarantulas, only ours are brown
    and called huntsmen.  They do nip, although not poisonous.  I am
    terrified of them, you know the level, hysterically screaming.  Well,
    as I said, all the rain brings them out building webs in inappropriate
    places.  
    
    So while walking I have a patch about 1/2mile where there are
    overhanging trees and vines leaving very little space to manoeuvre
    myself.  I passed this enormous spider in his web, and screamed (6am)
    and kept walking.  But I really had to make myself go back again.
    The whole walk was pulling imaginery gossomer off me, and checking over
    my shoulder for nightmares on my back.  
    
    The next day I crossed over the highway.  Smarta** that I was didn't
    realise there were more bushes on that side though.  I'm at the moment
    up the creek without that paddle I so desperately need.  So, I've
    compromised, I walk the same side till I get to the patch of (for me)
    hell, then cross over for 1/2 mile, then back again.  At least my heart
    rate doesn't reach dangerous levels any more.
    
    At least I respect snakes now.  I don't like them, just respect them. 
    Thats quite a step forward for me.
    
    ...dale
    

    After my car runs a while (particularly on days where the temp. is
    above 40), if I'm anywhere around the hood of the car I smell something
    akin to maple syrup.
    
    
    No, really.
    
    
    
    Okay, you can stop laughing now.  I knew nobody would believe me.
    
    -Jody
    

    Jody, you don't happen to park under a Maple tree that could be
    dripping sap on those warm days?
    
    Gail

    re .393 You're not crazy, Jody. Have your cooling system
    checked for a small leak. Anti-freeze smells sweet.
    My radiator hose spits a small amount of anti-freeze onto 
    the engine, which causes it to smell 'sweet'. 
    
    dana    
    

    Thanks!  I'll do just that....
    
    -Jody
    

    Jody... wanna buy a chinchilla?  I've got two babies and a young adult
    for sale... a heck of a lot cheaper than you could find them at the pet
    store!!
    
    We've got seven and we'd like to reduce our family to four
    chinchillas...
    
    -- Kristy

    I'd love to, but I'm allergic to anything with fur or feathers....
    
    *snif*
    

    I guess thats ONE good reason why humans don't have fur!  :-)
    
    Jim
    

        I confess ... I like to enter notes where the topic or
        reply number is a multiple of 100.  :-)
        
        Dan

    .440
    
    And, most of us try to block that...(^' (^'
    
    ...dale
    

    Sorry Dan, that should read 400...
    
    ...dale
    

    On the (,< :) side:
    
      - After all these years I still get defensive when I'm unexpectedly
        abstracted from (e.g., "That's funny, all white males say that").
    
    On the (: >,) side:
    
      - I think lizards are beautiful and liked them running around the
        house.
    
      - Mice scare me just as much as rats.
    
      - I think Converse All Star canvas sneakers are sexy.
    
      - My favorite time for conversation is betwen midnight and three in
        the morning.
    
    Ray

    I have a thing for 'even' numbers.  Just ask my Obstetrician.
    
    Because of a medical emergency my OB induced labor on the 27th
    of August, with my last child.  At 11:15 that night, the baby 
    was ready to arrive.  I announced to the doctor that I *did not*
    want a baby born on an 'odd' day and that I would wait 'til mid-
    night to go into to the delivery room.  She looked at me like 
    I was crazy.  She could see the baby's head but there was no
    signs of stress on the baby so she waited the 45 minutes to midnight.
    At midnight, straight up, I was wheeled into delivery. Fifteen
    minutes later I was told to push.  Three minutes later Michael
    was born (on the 28th of August).  I would have preferred the
    20th (a *really* even number in my mind) but the 28th was, by far,
    better than the 27th.
    
    Jodi-
    
     

    	RE: .404  Jodi
    
    	Wow, I thought I was the only one with an affinity for even numbers
    	- I also like numbers divisible by 5.
    
    	My birthday *is* on the 20th, by the way, and I was very pleased
    	when my son was born on December 15, 1970 (two even numbers, and
    	one divisible by 5.)  :-)  It was his due date all through the
    	pregnancy, and I loved it all those months.  When I showed up
    	dilated at the hospital on the 15th, the doctor told me that he
    	*knew* I was determined to give birth that day.
    
    	My college graduation was in 1976 (which I thought was great, too.)
    
    	This is the first time I can recall ever mentioning this to
    	anyone.  (Glad I'm not alone!!!)  :-)

    I saw a reference to Gilligan's Island in the turning 30 note...I
    may be under 30 but I sure would like to know the channel/time that
    it's on in the area! 

    Gail

    All this talk about even numbers is SO TRUE!!!
    
    I love even numbers, especially 8 (it's divisible by 2 and it's a
    cube).  Somehow 16 doesn't do it for me (getting into double digits
    takes away the beauty of simplicity).
    
    and...
    
    ...I never thought I'd write this in a public notesfile, but:
    
    	I'm so into this "equality" thing that I make sure I chew my food
        on both sides of my mouth.  Not every mouthful, mind you, but I 
        try to make sure the left and right sides get equal time when it 
        comes to chewing food.  Shared responsibilities and rewards.
    
    Crazy, huh?  I used to be really obsessive about it, but I mellowed in
    high school.  (But I still do it!)   :-)
    
    Pam

    I'm also into equality when it comes to M&M's.  I divide them up into
    colors and eat them down (one at a time) into equal sized piles, trying
    never to eat two of the same color one after another.   I wouldn't want
    any one color to feel it's being discriminated against!
    
    Nanci   

    
    lauren and i always give each other an even number of kisses.
    

    A "round number" is (I think) commonly thought of as a
    multiple of 10, or maybe a multiple of 5.

    Is it just me, or do all programmers feel like 16 is a round
    number?  A lot (not all) of the powers of two feel like round
    numbers to me:  32 doesn't, but 64 is good, and 128 isn't
    bad.  But for a wonderfully round number, nothing beats 4096. 

    -- Linda, whose birthday is/was month 2, day 16--no wonder
       I'm a computer nerd!--and hopes to someday celebrate her
       birthday on 2/16/2048.  :)

    I have been reading wn for about a week....and I swore I would never
    log in again...
    
    Sort of like how I feel about Catholicism...a love/hate relationship!
    
    It is good to be back!
    
    J

    I confess - I'm completely normal.  At least by comparison!
    I'll be watching for the alternate chewing, Pam!  :-)
    
    Actually, I guess its extremely comforting to know that people are
    indeed quite strange, and that being strange, in and of itself,
    shouldn't be a cause for concern.
    
    Well, since I'm here shooting off my mouth, I should confess something,
    huh?
    
    Hmmmm....  well, sometimes I sneak and read the last page of a book.  I
    know thats fairly common, but I don't do it for the "normal" reason. 
    Its not cause I want to know how it ends, but just cause YOU'RE NOT
    SUPPOSED TO.  its a secret rebellion against the "powers that be".
    
    Consider it a start.  Confessions are TOUGH!  I think the human mind is
    good at disguising sensitive things so you can't accidentally reveal
    yourself.  Watch this spot for future installments!
    
    BTW, Gale, "Gilligan's Island" is on at 8:30am in Clinton, and I have
    cable, so it may be a cable channel.  I don't remember the channel,
    cause its programmed in my VCR (which is the only way I can watch it by
    taping it), and so I never see the actual channel.  Its followed by
    "Bewitched".  At least you know where to look in the TV Guide, now.
    
    Jim (I confess - I don't like confessions)
    

	What a relief!  I'm not the only weirdo who likes things which can
	be divided by 2, or better yet; 5!  Originally, multiples of 2 were
	satisfying, now I prefer multiples of 5.

	I became very concerned with this preoccupation when I saw a news clip
	about a woman who took it to an extreme.  When she took something 
	out of the fridge she opened and closed the fridge door 5 times.
	On the 5th time she removed whatever it was she wanted (milk in
	this case).  She poured the milk into a glass, and tapped her teeth 
	against the glass 5 times before drinking.  Then she put the milk back
 	and opened and closed the door 5 more times.

	Later she drove to the gas station.  Before getting out of the car,
	she threw the door open hard enough so it would bounce back.  She
	did this 5 times ...

	This obsession/compulsion basically ruined her life.  She's now in
	councelling trying to give up some of these habits.  

	It really got me to thinking about how she may have started out...
	And at what point does it get to be a problem?

	Sue

I picked up a habit from an ex-SO that I am only now breaking...

When paying for a meal with my credit card, I calculate (aprx.) 15% of the
total bill.  Then based on whether I thought the service was better or worse
than average, I add or subtract from the calculated tip enough so that when
I added it to the total bill, the amount would come out even.  (At an
expensive restaurant/multiple people, even==multiple of five.  At moderate,
even==multiple of two.  Cheap, even==even dollar.)

I wonder what those waitresses/waiters thought of 19.2% tips that came out
to $5.61, or some such.  :-)

D!

    The thing about doing things n number of times.  I heard on the
    radio that this is a mild form of obsessive/compulsive behavior,
    that in its extreme forms (like the lady with the refrigerator door)
    can now be treated with drugs.  I was really obsessed with doing
    things an even number of times or dividing things into quadrants,
    and then subdividing these into 3s.  I guess I always liked 2s *and*
    3s.  I only notice myself doing this on rare occasions now.  :-)
    	Linda

    This is tangential, but I've always hated the number 3 and it's
    multiples, and liked even numbers..
    
    I used to avoid things with 3's in them...tho not for a long time
    now.
    
    Bonnie

    r.399
    Hey finally someone who has less chest hairs than I do!!!
    Also we are having our 4th child and they all have been born on
    even years. 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1990. If that doesn't impress 
    you we like all the even years the most and one of my son's cried
    when 1984 was over.

    I must be very lucky. Half the people I know were born on even years.

    And you said that with a straight face, too.

re: 53.414 (D!)

>                          -< Even tipping compulsion >-

	That's not so uncommon...I picked up that habit from my dad,
    and I've been out with other people who do the same thing.  Yeah, 
    I've had some people tell me it's a pretty strange thing to do, but
    then again, when paying cash, I've seen many people leave an "even"
    amount (like just bills and no change).  So...what's the big
    difference?? :^)

    	amy

 I confess, in high school I memorized PI to fifty decimal places. Not for
any particular reason; I just found it amusing that people would become
annoyed with me for doing things like that. 


Big kid at school: "Ha! I'm bigger than you!"

Me: "Oh yeah? I bet you don't know PI to forty places!"

		[blank stare]

Big kid: "Why would I want to?"


 I must confess that I now only know it to 26 decimals (just checked). I 
feel somewhat guilty about it.
							- Jim -

PS: I hate odd numbers too, almost as much as I hate even ones. 

    Apropos .422, I confess going to a school where nobody thought it odd
    that I memorized pi to some 60 places in eighth grade.  After all, what
    better use could you make of "study hall?"  Right now, I can't get past
    32 places.  Does that suggest an octal brain organization?

    I *like* the number 13.  31 is nice too.
    
    I used to memorize things to blow people away.  I still remember them.
    Things like
    
    *  words 28 letter and longer (have a list of 5 or 6) (pronunciation
    	and spelling)
    *  longest place name still in use in the world (pronunciation and
    	spelling)
    *  An alphabetized list of the 58 most common prepositions
    
    -you get the idea
    
    -Jody
    

    I'm partial to prime numbers. Then again, what can you 
    expect from somebody born on 11-19-'53 ?

    re .414.  
    
    i've been doing that for years!  (tips to round off the bill..)
    
    i also add the digits on license plates when i'm driving.
    
    
    and i like odd numbers.  3 and 5 i'm kinda partial to.
    
    karl

    Golly, and I thought I was wierd.  I mean I regularly determine
    whether the pairs of triplet numbers on license plates are
    relatively prime or what their common factors are.  Boy did I
    hate it when Mass went to alphameric plates.
    
    I do remember (and so does the teacher) when I put pi to 100 digits
    on the blackboard in calc class.
    
    My favorite number is 1048576, I remember the day someone asked
    me what 2**20 was and I rattled it off and then looked it up to
    see if it was right.
    
    ed

    I watched the new brady bunch Friday night. And I liked it. And I'm
    going to watch it this Friday to. Infact, I want to be a Brady when
    I grow up. I want parents that don't cuss. I want brothers that
    are perect and handsome and sisters that like me. I want to be thin
    and blonde. Most of all, I want a great high paying job that I only
    have to go to when it's important to the story line.
    
    (sigh. Reality bites)
    
    Dee

         re: .426	
         > I'm partial to prime numbers. Then again, what can you 	
         > expect from somebody born on 11-19-'53 ?
    
         I owe you a huge thank you!! You see, I have always heard that
         women  reach thier "prime" at age 35. I just turned 36 a few
         months ago, but I'll _always_ be in my prime, as my birthday is
         11-7-53!!! Thanks for pointing that out to me!
         
         I know, MEZ, the cat is out of the bag, but I did get by you once
         anyawy!! 
         
         
         re: 
         >    I *like* the number 13.  31 is nice too.
         
         My other half would agree with you. He was borm on a Friday the
         13th. He also has a niece that was born on his birthday, yes it
         was a Friday the 13th also. His parents were married on Friday the
         13th, too!
         
         Frank works as a contractor and I have seen him get 2 or 3
         new contracts on the 13th and one on the 31st!
         
         Humph! I wonder if anything good will happen tomorrow?

    
    	re: license plates
    
    	I take the first three numbers and figure out what numbers are
    	needed that when added to that equals the last three.
    	example:  license number is  487.928
    
    	I would figure out what added to 487 would equal 928.
    
    	So I too didn't like it when license plates began with letters!
    
    	JJ
    

    When license plates are 6 numbers I calculate the Cribbage hand.
    487.928 is 15 2, 15 4 and 6 for two runs is 10 and 2 for a match
    which is 12.  Oops there is another 15 2 so it is 14  the 4 2 and 9.
    
    

 When driving down the road, I tense my quadriceps at every break in the
sidewalk or road (ie sideroad or driveway). Sometimes I do this with the yellow
line. No, I don't know WHY. ;-0

 The Doctah

    RE .-1
    
    Another cribbage nut...I treat the alphabetic portion of the plate
    as Jack=a->h, Queen=i->q, Z=r->z.
    
    If it's a six number plate, I calculate two hands, the first five
    and the last five.
    
                                cathy (i thought i was the only one...)
                                

    I'm an odd-number person -- 13 and 3 and multiples thereof -- I love 9,
    and 39 is my idea of a perfect number. . .
    
    --bonnie

    Bonnie,
      9 has always been my favorite number too, and multiples of nine because
    the digits add up to 9.  I am partial to 36 and 45 myself.
    	Linda

    Funny stuff! I never knew other people shared crazy tendencies. I have
    the strangest habit. Ever since I learned to type when I was about 15,
    I will envision a word, and mentally type it (sometimes actually moving
    my fingers) according to multiples of three (for the word MENTAL, for
    example, I will "mentally" type the MEN, then pause, then the TAL). So
    when I see or think of a word, I will quickly calculate if it's a
    multiple of 3, then go through my "pretend-typing" routine. Strange.
    The funniest thing is that when I originally started doing this, it was
    in multiples of 2. As you can imagine, I was doing this all day long
    since 1/2 of all words are of an even number of letters. It was driving
    me mad, so I strove to break myself of the habit by switching over to
    "3" words! I finally gave up trying to quit...
    
    ellen

	WOW! Another pretend-typist!!  Gee, I thought I was the only one!  I
	don't do it as much now as I used to, but I occasionally still do.
	I remember when my fiance asked me why I was always moving my fingers
	when we held hands.  I'm sure he thought I was pretty weird when I
	tried to explain.  Sometimes I type the words, sometimes I just 
	count them out on my fingers to see if they're divisible by 5. (There's
	that number thing again...)
	
	Sue

Perhaps there is a pattern here. I think that obsessive/complusive types
make good techies. We get into the nits.

As for myself. I have to be color co-ordinated and I like things equal. The
two lamps on my headboard have to be equi-distant from each other and the
ends of the headboard. I can't wear socks and underwear that don't match
my outfit. It bothers me. liesl
	

    re .439
    
    I also count words on my fingers to see if they're divisible by 5.  I
    use to think I was really weird for doing this.  I'm glad I'm not the
    only one!!!!  Big sigh of relief!!!  :-)
    
    Virginia

hmmm...I've recently developed the habit of reading words backwords...I have
no idea why but I suspect I'll be ready for the loony bin soon... :-)

anneJ

    RE: .442
    
    I can *write* (in script) words backwards just as 
    quickly and accurately as I can forward.  I once 
    considered becoming a weather-person. Back in the 
    earlier days of weather reporting they used to 
    stand behind a glass wall with a map imprinted on 
    it and write the forecast on it backwards.
    
    Jodi-
    
    
    
    

    re .442 Find any satanic messages ?

    What I do with license plates on long drives to and from the Mid-West
    is to keep track of how many different states I note and keep them
    "jotted down" in my head. So as to make it not quite so easy, I
    don't count commercial truck plates and I don't count plates seen
    in a neighboring state (i.e. New York plates don't count if seen
    in New York or in any state directly bordering New York). The highest
    I've gotten so far is 27.
    
    --- jerry

There is nothing in this universe, which I have experienced, that
entrances and captivates me more than watching an artist paint or
draw or sculpt.  

It totally engulfs my mind and soul to witness artistic creation.
Unless it's my own.  And then frustration usually enters in, too!

Carla

    
    	A girlfriend of mine (who also works for DEC) and I have
    	this bizarre habit.  If we meet for lunch or go out on the
    	weekends or whatever, when we leave we'll say something
    	like "I'll mail you on Monday"  while 'typing' in the air!
    	If someone else is with us, they think we've really lost it!
    
    	JJ
    

    Because I drive the Mass Pike everyday, I do things that keep me
    from being bored, like count license plates, or motorcycles, or
    yellow trucks or what ever hits me for the day.

    
    When I'm walking anywhere on my own - I count my steps, just like my
    sister and I used to do as kids.....
    
    
    
    ..... and I've even been caught doing it!!!  People look at me with
    really amazed expressions, and I suddenly realize I've done it again!!
    
    

    I still can't step on a crack or a line in the sidewalk.
    
    "Step on a crack, break your mother's back. 
     Step on a line, break her spine."
    
    The curious thing is that my mother has been
    dead for 12 years yet I still watch out for
    her by stepping very carefully. 
    
    Jodi-
    
    ...and I count steps also.  
       It's amazing I ever get anywhere.
    

    After reading all these replies about license plate games, I must admit
    that when I change lanes on the highway I try to drive between the
    reflectors.  With just the right speed and angle I can miss them
    altogether.  It's an even bigger challenge when crossing two lanes at
    once!
    
    Nancy
    

    G'Day,
    
    	I've been waiting for someone to come up with some odd-ball thing
    that I do too and Nancy has done it.  I too try to change lanes without
    going over any of the cats-eyes.  Try it sometime - it's not as easy as
    it sounds!
    
    David.
    

    David
    
    what are 'cats-eyes'?
    
    Bonnie

    thanks mike
    
    guess I've lived out in the woods too long
    
    Bonnie

    
    Nah, Bonnie, you haven't lived in the woods too long -- our roads up
    north don't have 'em as much as roads downs south or out west (and
    "down under" too, evidently) because it snows here and the plows just
    scrape 'em off or damage them.
    
    CQ

    
    Re: .453
    
    G'Day Bonnie,
    
    	As the notes after mine have pointed out, 'cats-eyes' are small
    reflecting objects that are use to denote the lane markings.  They are
    either yellow or white.  They even retract into a little rubber housing
    when you run over them.  This is done to automatically keep them clean
    by rubbing on the rubber.  They are especially good in wet weather as
    the normal painted lines can become hard to see when wet and at night
    these things shine quite bright (that's how they get their name).  Most
    of our major freeways and highways have them and that is why is it is
    quite difficult to try to dodge them.  Travelling at somewhere between
    110-140 you pass by them pretty quickly!
    
    David.
                                            

    >Travelling at somewhere between 110-140 you pass by them pretty quickly!
    
David, you *speed-demon*, you!  

Oh oh! You meant 110-140 *kilometers*!!

Well, that's different...

D!

    **Blush**
    
    I used to do the same thing when I lived in California and Oregon.  I
    had a great time seeing how fast I could go and still miss the little
    bumps in the road.  :-)
    
    I don't play addition games with license plates, though.  I memorize
    'em!  I still haven't figured out why.  It's just sort of automatic.  I
    tend to do the same thing with phone numbers - whether I need to or
    not.  Luckily I have a very short term memory with these things so my
    mind isn't completely cluttered with useless combinations of numbers. 
    :-)
    
    Nanci 

    When my brother and I were growing up in Montana, one of our
    summertime activities was to see if we could "collect" a license
    plate from every state in the US and every Canadian province by
    the end of the summer.
    
    We never did get Newfoundland, though we did get all fifty states
    one year.
    
    --bonnie

    
    	Oh jeez!  I forgot about the counting steps thing.
    	I guess it's such old hat that I don't even realize
    	I'm doing it! 
    
    	JJ
    

    Oh yeah--just remembered another thing--memorizing company logos on 
    trucks.  Guess I'm just abuout brain-dead by the time I get outta
    here, 'cause I never realized how much of an obsession this has become. 
    I mean, I'll cruise up next to a truck's cab door just to see the name
    of the company.
    
    :)Nancy

    
    G'Day,
    
    Re: .458
    
    Whoops.  Forgot you US types haven't found the world of metric yet.  It
    was of course 110-140 Kilometres/hour, although I have been known to
                                 ^^
    nudge the 100mph (160kph) too.
    
    David
    
    

    re: cats eyes
    
         I've always refered to them as drunk bumps out here because I was
    once told they were to aid people in realizing that they'd drifted out
    of their traffic lane.
    
         The ones on the freeways in CA reflect white to cars travelling in
    the proper direction on the freeway and red to cars travelling in the
    wrong direction.  You can see the red reflection in your rear view
    mirror if the you're driving into the sun.
    
    Tony

<         I've always refered to them as drunk bumps out here because I was
<    once told they were to aid people in realizing that they'd drifted out
<    of their traffic lane.
 
Works great when you're falling asleep at the wheel, too (my downfall).
   
<         The ones on the freeways in CA reflect white to cars travelling in
<    the proper direction on the freeway and red to cars travelling in the
<    wrong direction.  

This can be a real freak-out.  I was on the wrong side of the road as part
of an official detour one night and those red reflections made me *very*
uneasy.  I kept having to remind myself that what I was doing was legal 
(and safe).

We don't have those here in Colorado, and I sure do miss them, especially
when it rains.  Shellie told me (like what a previous noter said) that
it was because of the snow plows.

             Carol

    I always buy the real small cans of catfood so that I can frustrate
    Spud (the cat).  He can't quite get his whole face into the can
    to get the very last bits.
    
    				-Dimsdale Piranha
    
    

Boy, do I wish we had those in New Hampshire!

But that's asking a lot of a state that's too cheap to even use reflective
paint for the center lines. . . 

--bonnie

    re: .466 ("Dimsdale")
    
    At least you've stopped nailing people's heads to the furniture.
    
    Doug Piranha

    true confession #470:
    
    I have no idea how to pronounce misogyny (and can hardly spell it).
    
    Gail

			Mi-SAH-ji-nee

I've used short "i"s instead of schwas...

					andrew

    Or, for hard-gee fans...mih-SOG-inny  :-)

    Yeah, there is, Christine...but we don't have it either :-)

    
    
    	I don't want =wn= V2 to go away (be write-locked).
    
    						nancy b.
    

    I don't either nancy, and I hated write-locking v1 a|so...but
    the file grows again quite nicely.
    
    hugs
    
    Bonnie