Sinister: titillating? oh yes, very...

[Rinaldo Thatchez]

Ms. Morrison, that subject line is for you. Obligatory semi-relevant 
content: 'Talking dirty for a hobby that's alright', but some people make a 
pretty good living that way. When I first heard that song I misheard harpy 
for hobby. Works pretty well either way, don't you think?

Jen at the Disc Go Round said:

I have a question I'd like to pose to everyone, and
all responses would be appreciated:  is flirting a
talent one must be born with, or an art form one can
learn?

Perhaps this will seem a clichéd answer but I think comparing it to an art 
is quite apt. I think some people are born with it and some not.  Those who 
are not blessed with the talent can become skilled but will never be as good 
as those who are, while there is a particularly unfortunate subset of the 
human race that will remain forever tone deaf (switching from art to music 
now, mixing metaphors is IN for 2001).

Like artists though, there are some that are overly blessed, so much so that 
they cannot help but create (or be suggestive, are you listening Ms. 
Morrision?) with their every move and word.  This can sometimes be a 
detriment to the rest of their lives, flirting savants who have no control 
over their virtuosity at stirring the libidos of those around them. A most 
enviable tragedy.

By the by now, Jen you are not alone in the ranks of American 
Northwesterners as Miss Kittenmouse resides in Portland and I myself am 
writing from Seattle. So that's 3 already!

And Mr. Neil growing a beard for no apparent reason.  I've grown a few in my 
time and they have all been for a reason.  I've done it  to experiment with 
being less attractive, because I couldn't get at any hot water or, a few 
times, the ever-popular and very telling Just-Broke-Up-With-My-Girlfriend 
Beard. The funny thing was when I once kept a beard for four months after an 
equal length relationship which was twice how long I wore it following a 
two-year relationship.  Behavior is psychology, listen to your beard, it is 
trying to tell you something.

So, that is the extent of my wisdom, but before I go I'll share a story 
about the time that I was working at a hotel in Devon and a large work party 
came and I wound up getting nekkid with them in the sauna and how much it 
impressed me that the British, traditionally thought of as so reserved, were 
so uninhibited and how the work retreat I am going on tomorrow probably has 
no such potential because Americans, let's face it, are prudes.  I'll 
probably be the only one to get properly drunk even.

miss me,

rinaldo

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