Math Song Friendly But Firm
It's called the three-second rule, like the kind of rules you had in school.
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Save the Date: November 2023
Ah: an article about men and women and marriage and jobs and money and children and charts.
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How to Get a Man's Telephone Number
About five years ago, I was in a dry spell. And by "dry spell," I mean I hadn't gotten any in the better part of a year. My thoughts turned to the nearest pizza delivery man.
His name was Kent. He was well over 6'. He had tattoos on his arms and a ring in his lip. And I stand by the fact that his face was conventionally very attractive. He used to deliver pizzas to my office on a semi-weekly basis, and over the course of a few weeks, he and I got on a first name basis. It was a "Hi, Kent. Hi, Taylor. That will be [...]
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Friday Bargain Bin: Gifts for Dudes
Mix Tape 1GB USB Memory Stick, $23.64 (was $29.95) Ask Riiiiiiich if this is not the best gift ever? It can hold like 900 minutes of music — which is waaay too much if you are giving this to a romantic interest. Keep it under 120 and you're in.
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Guided by Menstrual Voices
"The men seemed to determine menstrual voices by picking the most unattractive voice." —Men can sort of hear periods. They say it sounds like the clatter of pony hooves on a cobblestone road, just a few miles south of Downton Abbey. And that the ponies are pulling a carriage, and that inside the carriage sits a beautiful young woman with a gorgeous dress and a terrible secret. The secret is that [whispers], and the dress is made of a dark green velvet that she inherited from her grandmother, the evil queen. The queen died because someone pushed her off the castle roof, although why she was up there [...]
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The Explained Breakup
She was my big college crush. My only college crush, really—a woman for whom I undertook a sustained four-year campaign of pained pining via reams of AOL IM conversations, hours of long-distance phone calls, and a barrage of mix CDs so leaden with lovelorn balladry that I wouldn’t be surprised if the track lists spelled-out “H-E-A-R-T M-E, P-L-E-A-S-E” in acrostic.
It worked.
A few months after my college graduation, she came back to D.C. for the weekend. I took a day trip up to Baltimore with her to see a concert and, on the way home, she scooted her hand into mine and we twined our fingers next to the gearbox of [...]
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Depends What You Mean By "Flirt"
8. Don't fall for the slick, dandified cake eater—the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a lounge lizard.
9. Don't let elderly men with an eye to a flirtation pat you on the shoulder and take a fatherly interest in you. Those are usually the kind who want to forget they are fathers.
10. Don't ignore the man you are sure of while you flirt with another. When you return to the first one you may find him gone.
The last three rules of Washington DC's Antiflirt Club of the 1920's are the best, but really they're all pretty good. [Thanks, [...]
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Oh Thom, You Silly, Silly Man
Thom Browne did it again last night: he managed to transform some of the world's most beautiful people into — I don't even know what? The weird thing is, when he just calms down, he can make the opposite happen. Thom, you are a sorcerer! Which outfit is your favorite? I'm leaning toward business-savvy football-ready Lurch over here. But seriously, more like this please.
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A Handy Checklist for Online Dating
"Oh, Nice Guys. You are such an internet stereotype, and yet you don’t stop proclaiming your Nice Guyness. A dater’s comment about how he is Such a Nice Guy is inevitably followed up by a lament about how women only like jerks—i.e., any guy who is not the Nice Guy. How does he know that women like jerks? Because he sometimes does nice things for women, and they do not have sex with him in return. So he brings up his Niceness as a way to guilt women into sex. See how nice he is?" —Jill Filipovic shows us eight red flags to look for in online dating [...]
