the romantic professions are dying out

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And my novels have become archaic! Map-making involves computers now, not riding around in the wilderness on a horse and begging shelter at people's houses in exchange for stories. Lighthouses are electric or mechanical or whatever. It's really sad. Have you anything to add to my list?

― Maria, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The lost art of book binding?

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being a chainsmoking, alcoholic poet?

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

being a chainsmoking, alcholic poet's muse.

― rainy, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being a professional muse is something that will never die out.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

today's executioners are so ....sterile

― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

so, You've Got Mail didn't do it for you? or are you partial to the written word? are you secretly fishing for that one that might get away, if you don't at least try to see if he's out there?

― tom the tom zermeno, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Super Double Agent.Once the Berlin Wall was knocked down, the spying profession lost all its allure and Embassy-glamour factor. Who wants to be covered in a burka in some dusty desert?

― arantxa, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The life of the assistant crack whore ain't what it used to be.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They don't have train conductors on public transport anymore, either. Now, instead of hearing "the next stop is Wilssfffrrr...crack!" you get that smooth voiced guy. My favorite was the one who had the speech impediment - "stand cweah of the do-ahs! the twain is leaving! get on the twain! get on the twain!"

― Kerry, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On this train that I travelled to Auckland on the conductor kept saying, 'we'll be stopping shortly to upload some passengers' ... he didn't say we were being 'downloaded' when we got off.

― maryann, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Via uses the word "detraining" which I detest.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi What's a proffessional muse?

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is anyone going to answer?

― Gale Deslongchamps, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The countryside is full of people who work in call centres ...

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Robin, Do you mean switchboard operators?

― Gale Deslongchamps, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

I wonder what it would be like to be a whorehouse madame.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, sometimes I think I would have been a good courtesan.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

How do you get to be a whorehouse madame? Were they just the whores that didn't end up getting killed or quitting the biz or getting married or whatever, but just got too old to be whores anymore, so they just became the madames? Or was it like a gang war thing where they killed the previous madame and took over their turf? Or were they like small business owners?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a lot of hair pulling.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

jocelyn,

I think this profession is still available.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

One madame became mayor of the town I lived in as a teen.

http://www.databay.com/eguide/Bay_Area/Marin_County/East_Marin/Sausalito/Sally_Stanford/

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean a 19th century opera dancer/courtesan "Nana" type.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Just don't be as much of a dramatic fuck-up as Nana turned out to be.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I promise not to.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

C'est chouette ça, petite coquette

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a movie that will explain all of this to you.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073091/

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 8 October 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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