Conference back40::soapbox

    
    	My parents didn't date each other in high school, so I guess I
    	have nothing to add here.
    

 My parents did date in highschool (each other in fact) however, I was not
 around at the time so they couldn't say anything to me.




Jim

    "Use your head".

    You get arrested boy, don't call us!:)
    

    
    most of the time, my father said "no, you can't go out with him"...
    
    

My parents did not really discuss dating with me, come to think of it we never
discussed anything in the sexaul arena. All the advice tips, hints etc, came
from magazines, and sisters etc.

Steven
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]

    
    	raq, that's when you ask "OK, then can he sleep over?".
    

    
    and that's when i would have been locked in my room, alone, all the
    doors would have been re-hinged so that they opened outward, and my
    father would have taken up gun collecting...
    
    

    "April!  It's time for the boys to leave now!!"

    April - you dated more than one at a time? 8*)

    
    .9
    
    No wonder your parents were concerned with you.

    I remember during "THE TALK" with my dad, he ended it with the
    following memorable quote:
    
    "Just make sure you take a bath afterwards"
    
    So my dad agrees with some of you guys. Sex IS dirty!!   :)

    "What's your excuse???"
    "I don't want any excuses!!!"

    I didn't really "date" (in the traditional sense) in highschool. 
    
    Most of the guys I was attracted to were loser punks that didn't have
    cars...so it was usually a party at my house every weekend.  Besides, I
    had a steady boyfriend from the middle of 9th grade til I graduated
    anyway.  There, aren't you glad I shared?

    I had to bring [almost every one] every girl home I wanted to date. 
    They had to meet her, even if it was after a date.  I remember not
    bringing home a few i didn't want mom or dad to know about.

    
    
    	"Where the hell have you been for the past three days?"
    
    	"Are you coming home tonight?"
    
    	"Theresa's parents called here at 2am wondering where she was."
    
    	"Could you please remove the bumper stickers on the back of your
    car that say 'DON'T LAUGH - YOUR DAUGHTER MAY BE IN THIS CAR' and
    'THERE'S NOTHING LIKE LIPSTICK AROUND YOUR DIPSTICK'?"
    
    	"You've been dating her for 6months and we haven't met her yet?"
    
    

    "If you're not in bed by 11:00, come home".

    .16 agagagagagaga

      I remember my dad telling me:
    
      "You need to use protection."
    
      To which I replied:
    
      "Yeah, you wouldn't want to get anyone pregnant."
    
      To which he replied (looking incredulous at me):
    
      "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???  You don't
      want to catch anything!!!"
    
      Actually, this was in college come to think of it.
    
    					Tony

    
    
    	re: .18
    
    	I had interesting teenage years.....;*)

my parents really never said word oneto me...

    Jim, you were a loser punk too?  Nice to know ya. 8)

    
    
    	re: .22
    
    	yes 'pril...I guess I could've fallen into that category. :) faded,
    ripped jeans, leather jacket (with a denim jacket for a backup),
    workboots untied, long hair, perpetually bloodshot eyes, etc...:*)
    
    
    	oh yes, and crappy cars never less than 10yrs old. :)
    
    jim

    Yeah, but how did you look back then?

    
    
    	oh, the cars are the only thing that hasn't changed. :)

    Yes, but do you still have long hair?  This is the most important
    thing.  8)

    
    
    	sigh....... alas 'pril, 'tis cut short.  (but he's still
    	cute)  =)
    
    	Didn't date much in high school.  Up till junior year I had
    	glasses and braces so no guy even looked at me, nevermind
    	ask me on a date.
    
    	The ones I did date, I did have to bring home to meet dad
    	first.  Most got approval..... with the exception of Jorge
    	and Willie.  Jorge was a wild one and Willie..... well he
    	was pretty quiet with the folks and had such long hair in
    	the front that they could barely see his eyes.  My dad 
    	would always regard him as "the guy with the sheep on his
    	head".
    

    
    	re: .27
    
    	I think I'll be smiling for the rest of the day now. thanks jj..:)
    
    

    
    
    	re:   jim
    
    	Well I'm glad someone's smilin'...........  =)
    

    
    .27
    
    >> "the guy with the sheep on his head
    
    ewe mean  ewe dated Gene Haag?

    Sigh, twenty years ago already....
    
    Your share of the phone bill is....
    You have gas and food money?
    I guess we don't have to tell you not to drive too fast....
    Call us when you get there, and see you in three days....
    Maybe she can visit here after your AP exams....
    
    								-mr. bill

    You get a girl pregnant... there will be hell to pay! This was my dads
    best to date yet!:)
    

    .... problem was, what do you pay Hell?:)
    

    Jim's cute!!  Jim's cute!  
    
    8)

    Ahem.....

    
    	
    re: .26
    
    	chite, I'm never gonna be able to get this damn smile off my face.
    :*)
    
    
    

    Ross, I mean Jack's cute!!  Jack's cute!

    
    .39
    
    I am sure his parents never said that.

    
    then there was the one time when he said "with a name like that, 
    he can't be all that bad".  he and my father had the same first
    name.  then again, now that i think about it, it wasn't even a date. 
    my friend's boyfriend had a friend who wanted to go dancing.  i wanted
    to go dancing, so the 4 of us went, but it wasn't really a date.
    
    probably why my father liked him.
    
    oh yeah, then there was another time when he said "i was 21 once, i
    know what he's after"...and from that point was not allowed to see him. 
    of course, that didn't stop me, either.  
    
    mom never had much too say...too busy with her other family.
    
    

    My kids might be able to reply to this topic someday.  I guess they'll
    have to get a job at DEC first.

    
    "Son, you're going to drive me to drinking if you don't stop driving
    that hot rod Lincoln"

    
    	Y'all had dates in high school ? 
    
    

    
    Yes. they were soft too.

Were they pitted or pitied?

    .43
    My daddy said,"Son your going to drive me to drinking. If-n you don't
    stop drive that hot-rod Lincoln!" Camador Cody and his Lost Planet
    Airmen.:)
    
    

    
    	I thought that was Jim Varney from "The Beverly Hillbillies".
    

You're both wrong.  It was originally said by Mark Battis in Soapbox on
May 7, 1996.

 and it was originally performed and recorded by Johnny Bond..



 Jim

 "Jimmy..don't overdo it with the aftershave"..


 "Jimmy..what's wrong with the brakes on my car?" (after I drove from
 San Gregorio beach to San Carlos, Calif (about 30 miles) with the
 emergency brake on..when I was supposed to have been taking my date
 to a movie.



 Jim

    A friend said to his son: 
    
    "Listen, you have never been 42 before, but I have been 17...!"
    
    
    I liked it and used it on my kids
    Steve

    My Father caught one of my older sisters kissing
    her high school sweetie on the front porch. 
    Horrified he said, "Mary, think of the germs!"

re: .52
        
    > "Listen, you have never been 42 before, but I have been 17...!"
    
    Ooooo, I like that.  I think I'll use it someday, but I'll have to
    adjust the "adult" age upward by several years!  :-S
    
    
re: .53
    
    > ...one of my older sisters kissing
    > her high school sweetie on the front porch. 
    
    Indeed.  She should have been kissing her high school sweetie
    on the lips instead.
    
    
    My father was far more concerned with his precious car than with any
    deviant thoughts or deeds that I may have been contemplating or doing:
    
    Dad:  "If you crack up that car, I don't work!  And if I don't work,
           we don't eat!"
    
    Me:   "Yeah, yeah."
    
    Dad:  "Wise guy, huh?  You don't know what it's like to have to go
           out there and work every day for a living.  Wait until you
           do, you'll be singing a different song."
    
    Me:   "Yeah, yeah."
    
    
    Chris

    This worked (works) if started when they are young:
    
    The ex and I told our 2 sons from as soon as they could understand that
    some day that they would think that we were the 2 stupidest people on
    this earth and were being mean to them etc. and that their friends were
    all so much smarter etc. You know the scenario.
    
    The trick is showing them you are smart enough to 'predict' the future.
    
    They are now 17 and 19 and it has apparently worked thus far. YMMV
    
    Steve

    
    >> ...one of my older sisters kissing
    >> her high school sweetie on the front porch. 
    >
    >Indeed.  She should have been kissing her high school sweetie
    >on the lips instead.
    
    
    	Lucky for him he wasn't caught kissing her near her back
    	door, eh?
    

    "Drive carefully"
    
    "If everyone else jumped off of a cliff, would you go with them?"
    
    "I don't care what Denise does, I'm not Denise's mother."
    
    "Who are his parents?"  followed closely by 
    "Is he Catholic?"
    and after dating an atheist for a while 
    "at least this one believes there is a God." 
    followed by a pathetic sigh :-)
    
    "Where do you find these boys, Mary?"
    
    "What the H*ll are they teaching you at that college anyway? How to 
    talk back to your parents?"
    
    "Where are you going?  How long will you be there?  What time will
    you be home?  Who else will be there with you?"
    
    "When you move out, you can do whatever you want."

    "Don't take any chances".  
    
    Dad used this line on all 3 of his children.  Luckily, we listened but
    did not obey.

    Mary-Michael and I had the same parents!

    I don't remember much, but I remember my daddy yelling
    
    "JESUS CHRIST!" a whole lot.  
    
    I didn't have girly problems back then I reckon.  My Z was a 
    babe-magnet, but I was 1 year outta high school when I got that.
    Prior to that I had a simple Camaro.  Chicks dug that too, but there's
    something about a car that rumbles.
    
    All my troubles revolved around cars, not dating.
    
    MadMike
    PS.  I'm glad I got all boys, I couldn't picture myself with a 16
    year old daughter.

    
    >I couldn't picture myself with a 16 year old daughter.
    
    
    	I could, as long as she wasn't mine.
    

    re: I had to bring [almost every one] every girl home I wanted to date.
    
    Hell, I brought 3 home at once.  Walked right past mom and dad in
    the kitchen.  "Hi Mom, Hi Dad, this is Laura, and, ah... Crystal and
    er, ummm, ah Lynette."  (Laura became my wife)
    
    You _know_ what dad said:
    
    
    "THUMBS UP BUDDY!"

    shawn, the swinehundt.

    RE: 62 (THUMBS UP, BUDDY!)
    
    (Many years ago, while we were still in college...)
    
    My identical twin and I were looking for a third room-
    mate.  We found a nice guy, named Frank.  My Father
    was shaken.  Frank's Father was quite proud and 
    jealous of him.  He told all his buddies at work
    how proud he was of his son.

    
    
    <-----
    
    great!!! Another twin!!!
    
     Welcome!!!
    

    If you get arrested, you might be able to avoid the draft.:) I never
    was able to get arrested for anything.:)

    I (unsuspecting) was going out with 2 female twins once (1 at a time).  
    Could never tell them apart and was totally freaked when they both
    came over once.  We all had a chuckle over this... They eventually moved 
    to NY - I miss them Both ;->
    
    Anyway twins are fun!

	wear clean underwear.... (it was the accident thing)

	I'm on a date, what else would I wear? Fudgies?

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    well, this one wasn't date-related, but it was said to me all the
    time...
    
    "get your fingers out of your mouth", usually followed by a slap on my
    hands.  i still bit my nails...tho not as bad as i used to...
    
    

    like your new blonde pn raq!

    
    what does it have to do with being (partly to mostly) blonde??????
    
    

	Because that is something a blonde might say.... or more accurately
put, something someone might say about a blonde. Yeah, that's the one!

    "He's not our sort. Is he?" 
    
    And about the one they really, really liked a lot who was [apparently]
    'our sort' down to the ground: "He's a bit old for you now, but in two
    or three years ..."
    
    
    Although they like my husband immensely [a good deal more than they
    _like_ me, in fact], they still miss few opportunities to point out
    that a software engineer, even a very successful one, is not 'our
    sort.'  After 5 years, they gave up on the idea that I'd come to my
    senses. After 21 years, they are resigned.
    
      Annie

    raq:
    
    i'm blonde also!

    
    	me, too!
    
    	(at least temporarily ;-) )
    

    Moi, je suis blond en tabarouette!

  .77  qu'est-ce que ca veut dire?

    I'm blond like the dickens.

 .79  thanks.  'tain't in my dictionary.  is that a canadian colloq.?

    jes.
    
    It's a pc way of say tabernacle. Like gosh, golly and heck etc.

  i'm blonde in the tabernacle.  okay, i see. ;>

    >It's a pc way of say tabernacle. 
    
     <smirk> I've heard my canadian relatives using that in the middle of a
    blue streak. Never fails to strike me as funny. :-)

    I was visiting Mom and Dad this week, and Dad and I got to
    talking while we were waiting for Mom to come out of 
    surgery (she's fine).  I remembered some more:
    
    "Will there be any boys there?"
    
    "One of these times you might try asking permission, Mary,
    before you tell us where you're going."
    
    "Exactly how many people live in that car with you?"
    (My father always said this to me when he cleaned out my car. :-)
    
    "Behave."
    
    "Don't be a smart mouth."
    
    "Doesn't anyone you date own their own car?" (I did. I drove a lot. :-)