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cosmolinguistTo my delight, Andrew put on SImon & Garfunkel’s live album from Central Park earlier today. The last week or so has been full of things that irritate me; finding music -- or anything else -- I might not complain about must have seemed a herculean task for him.
I was happily singing along under my breath and knitting when, apropos of nothing, Andrew said, “And this was when Paul Simon was married to Carrie Fisher.”
“Yeah I don’t care about that,” I said. Not harshly or anything, just because I’ve gotten used to talking with Andrew this way. He, unlike most people, benefits from efficient communication that isn’t laden down with things like tact or other social niceties.
“Oh,” he said, taking my statement with the cheerfulness with which I had intended it. But he went n anyway: “He was like twenty years older than her! I think that makes him a disgusting pervert!” His fervor was clearly an affectation; you won’t find many people less interested in other people’s romantic lives than Andrew is.
I knit a few more stitches and then said, mildly, in a sort of point-of-information kind of way, “Stuart’s almost twenty years than me.”
“Exactly!” he said.
I was happily singing along under my breath and knitting when, apropos of nothing, Andrew said, “And this was when Paul Simon was married to Carrie Fisher.”
“Yeah I don’t care about that,” I said. Not harshly or anything, just because I’ve gotten used to talking with Andrew this way. He, unlike most people, benefits from efficient communication that isn’t laden down with things like tact or other social niceties.
“Oh,” he said, taking my statement with the cheerfulness with which I had intended it. But he went n anyway: “He was like twenty years older than her! I think that makes him a disgusting pervert!” His fervor was clearly an affectation; you won’t find many people less interested in other people’s romantic lives than Andrew is.
I knit a few more stitches and then said, mildly, in a sort of point-of-information kind of way, “Stuart’s almost twenty years than me.”
“Exactly!” he said.
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Date: 2010-02-19 09:26 pm (UTC)- who are you?
- Carrie and Paul
- hey everyone, this is Betty and Al!
You get stories and songs like that the age difference kind of pales into insignificance. :-)
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Date: 2010-02-20 07:48 am (UTC)What I like about age differences is that Dan, who's seven years older than me, I can tease about being old because it works really well, and remind him of the age gap and stuff. Stuart, who's another decade older than that, likes it that I'm younger than him so he can call himself a cradle-robber. It's all about perspective!
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Date: 2010-02-19 10:05 pm (UTC)Although, the latter two will now be added to my trivia factoid store. Hurrah!
(My Ex, R‽, was also almost 20 years younger than me. But I'm a pervert for other reasons as well.)
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Date: 2010-02-20 07:42 am (UTC)I like the Betty and Al thing too, which I think I did know but forgot.
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Date: 2010-02-19 11:22 pm (UTC)*quite shocked*
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Date: 2010-02-20 07:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 08:42 am (UTC)i should also put in a plug for one of my favorite songs of his:
http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=3311040&song=Peace+Like+a+River
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Date: 2010-02-20 01:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-21 04:01 pm (UTC)Well, no more than the next melon shagger, anyway.
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Date: 2010-02-22 07:29 am (UTC)Dan claims he gets his reputation largely from the same things you do: sick jokes and a dirty mind, and the compulsion to say things that aren't necessarily a good idea :)
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Date: 2010-02-21 07:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-22 07:26 am (UTC)