DU women: what do you look for when dating, besides iphones?

[struggle4progress]

Poll question: DU women: what do you look for when dating, besides iphones?

[Richardo]

1. ....

:spray:

Well played! :thumbsup:


:rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

2. Better: I can haz manual typewriters!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx5dKMlFgsQ

(Yes, that display is right behind me!)

[struggle4progress]

8. Did you know you could wake up everyone in the house by using a manual typewriter at 2 AM?

I learned this as a teenager

[Call Me Wesley]

16. Yes, but it's a good thing.

All we would have right now if this wasn't allowed ever would be Twitter-literature. Hemingway would have been shot by others than himself. ;)

[struggle4progress]

17. Perhaps today there's wider recognition of the importance of literature than when I was a teenager

As I recall, my household was rather less willing to pay lip service to the creative Muses after midnight than in broad daylight

[LeftyMom]

3. The willingness to humor my obsession with antique sewing machines. Humor. An absolutely enormous

sense of compassion.

What, you thought I was going to say something else? :D

[struggle4progress]

4. Just my luck. I had an antique sewing machine once, when I was about twelve:

I manufactured some vials of indelible bright purple ink and talked my friend's little brother into swapping his old sewing machine for them. Within a day or two, his Mom took away the vials because he'd managed to get irremovable bright purple spots all over his clothes, and I was advised by my friend to stay away for a week or two until the domestic tranquility returned. In the meantime, I completely reduced the antique to a nice collection of nuts and bolts and rocker arms. Live and learn

[LeftyMom]

5. That vegan fella got me one just like this for Christmas.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1913-Singer-Treadle-Red-Eye-Model-66-Sewing-Machine-/170394228307 Except that mine is in much nicer condition, all the decals are perfect, the wood is bright, nobody ever converted it to electric. It must look just like when it was first made (except for the belt- it was broken and I replaced it with a rubber one that will last for ages.)

After that he's stuck with me forever. I'll never be able to stay mad at him for anything.

[struggle4progress]

6. Nice! There was something like that in my grandma's parlor when I was much younger,

but she eventually moved and most of her old stuff didn't go along, so I have no idea what happened to it. I still have my other grandma's old machine, but it's an electric, probably from the late 30s or early 40s

[LeftyMom]

7. Most of them got converted to electric.

All you had to do was add a motor for the belt and put it in a different cabinet, the parts were readily available. Singer actually continued to produce that model as an electric version until 1970 or so.

[struggle4progress]

11. Well, I am completely out of my depth here: the detailed history of sewing machines

is one of many branches of learning which I am reluctantly forced to defer until some later incarnation. I'll put it on my list of things to do in whatever lifetime I devote to understanding nuclear physics and the complicated relationships between the many varieties of potato

[LeftyMom]

12. It's just a weird obsession that I have.

:shrug:

[struggle4progress]

14. Nothing wrong with that: it's cool stuff

[NewJeffCT]

15. My grandmother had a nice antique sewing machine

in her basement. I wonder what happened to it? I remember it was very heavy (it was mounted on the table), but not much else. However, knowing my grandmother, it was probably kept nice & clean until she passed away.

[NewJeffCT]

9. How about the semiphore version of "Wuthering Heights"

Monty Python...

[LeftyMom]

10. Julius Caesar on an aldis lamp?

[struggle4progress]

13. Perhaps there would be a market for a CD of "Remembrance of Things Past" clicked

in Morse Code

[Lil Missy]

18. A nice smile, a pretty face, and boobies.

:D

[struggle4progress]

19. My boobies shrank when I lost all that weight

x(

Just can't win for losin

[old mark]

20. Well, hell. 2 out of 3 ain't bad....

:smoke: :fistbump:

I love a woman who loves a good cheeseburger...



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