<p>This has to be one of the funniest and most interesting threads in a long time…plus, it has practical application, I got my stuff :)</p>
<p>LTS:</p>
<p>Good for you!</p>
<p>NJres: The spoof was funny. The original article was sad.</p>
<p>Cheers, I can pass for an ordinary middle-aged businessman. In fact, I have to. The difference between me and Darrin is that I do have a graying beard. No ponytails, piercings, or tatoos. Very ordinary dress, if skewed to SoCal business casual. Once in NYC I was momentarily mistaken for Stephen Sondheim. Preposterous, because everyone knows I resemble Johnny Depp. At least in Platonic essence.</p>
<p>didn’t they switch Darrins after the first year, very confusing for me…</p>
<p>Folks, I can certainly understand that there may some trouble with the linked article to the OP’s OP. . Since I never read the articles that fs links to her posts, I wasn’t burdened by any knowledge of the unfortunate soul. ;)</p>
<p>Both Darrins had more hair and less gray than I have.</p>
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<p>Yep, that’s me. Pony tail and small tasteful diamond earring on the right.</p>
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<p>In the interest of accuracy in online media, I would like to make clear that I did find the original post funny. Maybe not completely in good taste, given the sad story on which it was based, but good taste like that has never been high on the list of qualities I value.</p>
<p>My cavil was more along the lines that I thought it was ungenerous of Ms. ParkerX to mock people like me for paying attention to people like her. I tend to think she’s worth paying attention to, but she seems to feel some ambivalence about that. </p>
<p>Anyway, if what I wrote was interpreted as more of an attack on Ms. ParkerX than that, it shouldn’t have been. And my experience as the parent of a former teenage girl should have taught me that it’s not really appropriate to tease them about their ambivalence about themselves. Even if they start it by teasing me about my ambivalence about myself. If I had been more thoughtful, I wouldn’t have said anything at all. (I’ll bet all of us think that once in awhile.)</p>
<p>I normally post on other threads, but this is too funny! Yes, this fits me to a “T.”</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification, JHS.
You’re a stand-up guy.</p>
<p>Let me add how delightful it has been to see that even those of a liberal disposition are not so “all-earnest-all-the-time” to keep them from having some fun while having to play well with others…well
–at least most of them.</p>
<p>Especial kudos to CGM for having the 2nd best post in this thread. I kick my heels off in your honor!</p>
<p>Another for Kluge for keeping a chin up with a stiff upper lip.</p>
<p>This has been a nice ride but I am by no means the driver.
Still, credit should go where credit is due…but not just yet!</p>
<p>I find the whole 50’, 60’, 70’s tv character thing strangely intriguing. Please do share curmudgeon! I need help with the visuals. (Ya gotta feel sorry for someone who has been around since 2004 and hasn’t managed to rack up more than 800 posts. Pitiful.)</p>
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<p>Who is this “fs” that you speak of?? Is it the user who has not posted on this forum since January 18, 2007? Seems you should have forgotten her by now. And on a totally different subject, I am impressed that Dorothy is so familiar with all the different members of this forum (including members whose last post predates her first post) since she has only been a member herself since January 19, 2007, and she has assured us that she has never posted under any other name on this forum.</p>
<p>Hang on, audio, I’ve lived outside of Manhattan for 17 years now. Left is right and right is light?</p>
<p><em>wanting to chime in as a frequent poster and long-time time waster but really finding no banter at hand</em></p>
<p>Ummm, I used to have a ponytail?</p>
<p>pithy?? ;)</p>
<p>I’m gonna change my name from ldmom to incoherentmom. (I called it first!)</p>
<p>Re NJer’s post #73:</p>
<p>Dorothy is an amazing woman NJers. Do not underestimate her. After much helpful participation on many of the various forums of CC she managed to get admitted to Oxford. Then somehow she magically erased all her posts. ;)</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be fascinating to be privy to the IP# info on this forum? Ha.</p>
<p>I think she is just plain Dottie.</p>
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A stud with a stud? ;)</p>
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You need to watch more O’Reilly! ;)</p>