Comments on: If men were knives

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 04:37:44 +0000

Why do I have the feeling I would be that kitchen knife that was previously used in a jar of peanut butter and is now laying on the counter for a day or two until someone finally puts it in the dishwasher?

By: jilbur

jilbur — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:29:20 +0000

well, no blogging straight man should dare to meet me, because not only am I excruciatingly beautiful, but I eat men raw for brunch.

By: mig

mig — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:27:40 +0000

how should i know what i said to alpha. i probably said, “how should i know what she looks like, i only know her from her blog; maybe she’s three and a half feet tall with hair like Bill Bailey,” and then never corrected the image later on.

By: mig

mig — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:24:28 +0000

carbuncular monstrosity indeed.

By: mig

mig — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:23:15 +0000

i so never said that.

By: anne

anne — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:48:43 +0000

what did you say, “don’t worry, alpha, she’s really not at all attractive”? that doesn’t go down well on the other side.
ahem. says the woman who was told, “you should meet alpha. she wouldn’t be jealous of you.”

which would have stung, except i get that rather a lot. i try to pretend it’s to do with my ability to restrict my flirting to people upon whom it would have an affect, rather than to do with the carbuncular monstrosity that i call “my face”.

By: mig

mig — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:34:59 +0000

My mom used to say that to me all the time too, Adam.

I have to point out here that my wife was *not* jealous of Novala. She was suspicious of the discrepancy between Novala’s appearance and the way I had previously described her, when telling my wife I was meeting a blogger in town for a drink after work.

By: adam

adam — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 08:37:18 +0000

If men were knives, you would be a mezzaluna, mig.

By: Miss K

Miss K — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:57:01 +0000

I liked this piece very much. It’s sharp.

(see what I did there?)

I’ll get my coat.

By: novala

novala — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:59:35 +0000

She scares me.

By: mig

mig — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:50:08 +0000

thanks for that link. that’s wonderful.

By: anne

anne — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:58:51 +0000

oh, and also: http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_barton-wright_0200.htm you could totally hold your own with just a walking stick.

By: anne

anne — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:49:48 +0000

i hate novala. if she’s going to be all cultural and stuff she should at least have the decency to be hideous.

By: mig

mig — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:28:48 +0000

not sure. i think the fancy latin term for the other rhetorical device i use in that same sentence (“while simultaneously…”) is “redundancy.”

By: jilbur

jilbur — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:18:08 +0000

” something totally dull and unrelated to anything he might potentially be interested in and dull”—that made me laugh; I think there’s a fancy latin rhetorical term for it. I’m a one trick pony with my occupatio. Irrespective of your mixed metaphor, this was very well done.