TAM6 - what do you look like?

Drewbot said:
Superior only as a function of P, at least according to your calculations.

and if the value of P is greater than 1.

Because if W=1, and you square 1, you still get 1, so you would be equal.
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Yeah, but I'd be a pure 1, while he'd be the square root of 1! Which makes all the difference, I assure you!
 
seismic_cowgirl said:
{sigh} Okay okay, why don't I start with a description and come up with a decent photo later?

As a friend once put it when his 12 year old son asked how he was going to recognize me at the airport when they were going to pick me up.

"Son, I hate having to put it to you this way but... look for a short cute woman with big boobs" :rolleyes:
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Ok, honestly now, how many people looked at this and only saw

seismic_cowgirl said:
look for...big boobs
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Piggy said:
Thanks for the pointers.

The one thing I can't do, tho, is be myself. That doesn't work. No one wants to be anywhere near that person, and that person doesn't want to be anywhere near anyone else.

Instead, I'll do what I do on other such occasions -- like accompanying my mother on a tour of Spain and turning out to be the only one who speaks Spanish -- imagine a character in my mind who is comfortable in that situation and play that character every second I'm not alone.

It's amazing how well that works. It's the only way I was able to teach for so many years.
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Piggy, I'm glad you said it...so that I don't have to. I use that strategy all the time. I spent 6 years teaching using it.

The most fun I had at a job was when I worked for a restaurant called Al E. Gator's. They had an alligator mascot, a guy in a suit just like baseball team mascot suits. Well, I was the mascot a few nights a week, and when I was in the suit, I could be anybody I wanted to be. I could be outgoing, hang with customers, joke around. I could *flirt*, something I've always had trouble with and wished I was good at. In fact, since the person in the suit doesn't speak, and no one knows if it's a guy or a girl, now and then I would flirt with the guys too, just to throw people off.

The worst part of the job was when little kids would try to drag you by your tail.
 
NobbyNobbs said:
Piggy, I'm glad you said it...so that I don't have to. I use that strategy all the time. I spent 6 years teaching using it.
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That's about how long I made it. The downside is that it's exhausting!

It worked great when I tended bar (I went into bartending in part to force myself to deal with my shyness, and did that for 3 years), but it got harder teaching b/c if you're the bartender, you can go right into character when your regulars see you out somewhere. But when your students see you, depending on where you are, and what you're doing, and who you're with, it can be pretty jarring to suddenly have to become "Mr. Piggy". And you start looking over your shoulder all the time.

So I had to get out. Now I work at a desk behind a partition at the end of a corridor where no one can see me unless they come looking.

ETA: All this may seem bizarre to people who are sociable, but consider that Steve Winwood is a near recluse who's described by his closest friends as "painfully shy" and he's spent his life on stage.
 
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Wowbagger said:
I really don't care if anyone comments on my photos. I am not at all vain, and I prefer everyone to judge me by my personality, anyway.
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I on the other hand, am vain, and, as I have no personality whatsoever, excepting only a fondness for commas, I prefer to judge and be judged using the most superficial of standards.

Admittedly this puts me at a disadvantage when dealing with people of discernment and taste.
 
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Wowbagger said:
I really don't care if anyone comments on my photos. I am not at all vain, and I prefer everyone to judge me by my personality, anyway.
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Well, I'm straight and I think you are as well, so I don't reckon it counts, but I thought you were cute as the proverbial button. ;)

If I had a daughter and she brought you home, I'd tell her "Nice catch".

Now don't anyone tell my poker buddies I said that. :eek:
 
Metullus said:
I on the other hand, am vain, and, as I have no personality whatsoever, excepting only a fondness for commas, I prefer to judge and be judged using the most superficial of standards.
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In that case, you've got a veneer like the finest of woodwork, and all the brains to match.

(Nah, I'm just kidding! You know we love ya!)



Piggy said:
Well, I'm straight and I think you are as well, so I don't reckon it counts, but I thought you were cute as the proverbial button. ;)
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I consider that an insult to my personality.

(Nah, just kidding, again!)



hcmom said:
It's not easy being green, huh?
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Are you saying there is something inherently wrong with people of my skin color?!

(Man, I can do a whole comedic routine with these chain-pulling comments!)



seismic_cowgirl said:
Wowbagger... why the small text?
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I was just following the lead of Wolfman, UnrepentantSinner, and others. I suspect it represents something like "quiet thoughts". But, I could be wrong.
 
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