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WCDT: 2641-2645 (Feb 17 - 21 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread

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Schmorgluck:
Well, a French songwriter named Boby Lapointe once said that good puns are unfunny, it's bad puns that elicit laughter.

Method of Madness:
That makes no sense. Good as in...an actual pun? If a pun makes you laugh, it is a good pun. If it doesn't, it is a bad pun.

Is it cold in here?:
The success of a pun is in the oy of the beholder.

Method of Madness:
My god, what have I pun?

cpflux:

--- Quote from: Mlle Germain on 19 Feb 2014, 09:05 ---
--- Quote from: rschill on 19 Feb 2014, 08:31 ---"First Date" seems like a silly framework and set of standards [...].

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I agree with that. I find the idea of having to begin a relationship by formally going on dates (often with expectations attached to what has to happen at the Xth date) a little ridiculous. Looking at QC and other popular culture coming from the US, this seems to be much more a thing there than in Germany - although I will immediately admit that pop culture does of course not necessarily portray reality very accurately. I have never "dated" anyone by that definition. Sure, I sometimes go out to dinner with my boyfriend for celebrations or because we feel like it, but that was always after we were already together. I suppose we also went out to dinner or cinema or something when we were still just friends, but that weren't dates either, just stuff we did together as friends. Same thing with my first boyfriend.
But then, I was friends with both my boyfriends before being in a relationship with them (in one case a seven-year friendship, in the other about 6 months), so I guess it's not the same thing as when you're still getting to know each other while already in romantic pursuit. Maybe in that situation the formalised setting of dates makes it easier?
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I just started dating my first girlfriend about a week and a half ago (Hey, maybe I should start writing advice columns and sharing them on Faye's Book!), and it sort of started out that way. I think she was burned in the couple of relationships she had before me. So she set the line at 3 dates - 3 dates, and I'd be allowed to kiss her. This being my first girlfriend, and after a long spell being single, I decided to acquiesce to her demands out of an abundance of fear and hard-wired genetic imperative - though, mostly, because she's a great person.

So two days later I call her up and talk to her for a bit. Out of the blue, she coyly says that she'd be willing to treat a movie we'd seen together the week before (Frozen, 'coz musicals appeal to the Music Man). And then texts me a day later saying that she'd "surprise" me on our Friday date. We go on our date, she looks pretty in a dress, blah blah blah, it's a first date. And it hasn't gone up in flames at all. She goes to get her coat, and as she does, she says something in a kind of Kermit-the-Frog-y voice, which is apparently enough to turn me into a drooling buffoon. I go up to her, kiss her (Frickin' first kisses, man, how do THEY work?!)... and then she tells me that she was going to say that she was dropping that whole 3 date thing before I planted one on her.

tl;dr I wrote a story and wasted your time, unless you didn't read it, which in that case means that it isn't tl;dr; Also, lol, Facebook joeks.


Warning - while you were typing 4 new replies have been posted. You may wish to get off your soapbox and stop telling everyone that you're dating a pretty girl.

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