----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Llew" <lleweth@hotmail.com> To: <sinister@missprint.org>; <ahab0125@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:37 PM Subject: Sinister: I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals
Thinking of Dorothy Parker - and really when aren't you - I recall Archel quoting her in the news flash of: Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses Here! Here! My recently bespectaled face can surely attest to that one. I must say that I'm getting tired of the cop out compliment of, "they make you look more intelligent." Since when did the presence of glasses make anyone look stupid? With the exception of a picture I have of my friend wearing lensless crooked glasses while licking a road in Acadia National Park in Maine, I can't really say that I've known anyone to look as a moron while wearing them. So why do people say it? Will you realize that was a rhetorical question? (Depends on if you're wearing glasses or not, I bet)
in short: there is a woman i work with. hopeless case. a bit older, married, the whole thing. (why this is a pattern i don't know, but i wish it would stop). i try not to stare at her. she's just started wearing glasses every day. it is now nearly impossible not to stare. jay, who would make passes if for once they would just be single!!! (and i have never uttered that "intelligent" compliment, though it would probably just be a polite mask for "oooooh ahhhhhh" (deep, calming breath) "i never thought that i would end up here, maybe i should just change my style" +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+