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i'm glad i'm not alone on that one!

In high school Stranger Than Paradise worked well because the girl was so bored and there was so much dead air (I mean, it's one of my favorite movies) that I think she felt like she had to make something happen because nothing much was going on onscreen.

I have a knack for choosing the most inappropriate movies for dates, though: Your Friends & Neighbors, Lost Highway, The Proposition.

lol @ all those movies as date movies!

Worst date movie I ever went to see: Leaving Las Vegas. Except I did not pick it, so I was off the hook. Still, no action for me that night!

I haven't seen ANY of those movies!

As for inappropriate movies though, a friend of mine when she recently started dating this woman who lost her hamster said, "why don't you come over, we'll watch a movie & have a chill night and you won't have to think about anything serious, etc." Well, they ended up watching garden state since that is what she had from netflix which happens to be the only movie we could think of with a dead hamster scene in it!

Wet Hot American Summer is great date movie. :>

leaving las vegas is a really bad date movie. worst one for me was mysterious skin, i think.

kelsey: yes.

omg this is a compendium of the worst date movies ever

leaving las vegas? that's like fun repellent.

I know, right!?! That must've been the reason she picked it :(

Let's agree the N. Cage is date movie death?

schindler's list was probably the worst date movie i've been to. especially considering the fact that a couple scenes made me giggle-- not because of what was happening onscreen, but because a friend had this whole very funny routine using some of the lines out of context. i suspect my date wasn't impressed.

and he was a K college swimmer! so cute.

did you go to K?!

what year did your date graduate. . . .maybe jaymc & i knew him.

Please say it was J0hn L@th@m.

I was thinking the SAME THING!

http://www.kzoo.edu/sports/msd/ncaachampionship99.html

I have to stop reading the "meeting men" thread, it is really grating and I'm not quite sure why.

I guess because it's the sad kind of ILE flirting.

(which probably says more about me than anything, etc.)

I went to Hotel Rwanda on a date. We both agreed that it was remarkably awkward.

nah, jordan. i'm in your boat, dude. i was reading it but then it started grating on me too.

Tickets for August: Osage County are sold out for tonight, and there's nothing on Hottix right now. Maybe I'll try going down to the box office this weekend.

I'm leaving early from work today to go to a wedding. Isn't that wild? A Thursday wedding! I think Thursday is the new Saturday.

xp They were fawning all over that on 848 this morning.

There's no such thing as a Thursday wedding.

I got married on a Monday.

Nope.

Yep.

you did?! i didn't know that!

I did. We did. Monday Dec. 29 at 1pm.

awesome!

Tickets for August: Osage County are sold out for tonight, and there's nothing on Hottix right now. Maybe I'll try going down to the box office this weekend.

I told ya, I told ya, once they announced it was going to Broadway it would sell out.

Did you guys see it, N&S?

i didn't go to K, but when to high school there, so he was an 'older boy'. i think his name was greg(g) and this was in 95, and he was one of two seriously blonde guys i ever dated.

i never really thought getting married on a monday was that weird/abnormal. is it? i mean surely other people choose off days?

i think getting married any day but saturday is still considered 'alternative', but is increasingly popular. i think it's silly that all weddings are supposed to be on the same day of the week, but then had my wedding on a saturday. oh well.

i think his name was greg(g) and this was in 95

1. Schindler's List was still playing in theaters in 1995?
2. Greg R@czni@k?

i never really thought getting married on a monday was that weird/abnormal. is it?

i think it's silly that all weddings are supposed to be on the same day of the week

Surely you understand, though, that people have weddings on Saturday because people are more likely to be able to make it? Most people don't have to take time off work, people from out of town can drive up that day. Also, you can get drunk that night. There are lots of wedding conventions that are arbitrary, but I don't think this is one of them.

Oh, I know. We just had -- let's see -- 7 people attend our wedding, so it wasn't as much of a concern.

(We had a big party 6 mo. later when it was most convenient for us -- I was in school and working full time -- and our friends/fam. But most people outside of nuclear family didn't see the wedding part of the wedding.)

This guy just sent me his resume with a snapshot of himself attached. ??

is he a real estate agent?

Call him and say, "Now is this current?"

he also stated that he is "28 y.o."

A/S/L?

nope E/S/L

I have other funnies but I won't post them because that's too mean. But this guy with the photo? He deserved it.

I was going to make a ESL/"A/S/L" joke, but I couldn't make it work.

Am I being unreasonable to not want my mom to crash at my place after she comes to a gig this weekend? I was trying to explain that it would be cramping my style and that I'd rather get her a hotel, and she's just like "Why, I don't understand??"

I don't think you're being unreasonable, but I never win this one with my mom.