Hatrack River Forum: I'm getting red

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Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

[ August 22, 2003, 01:38 AM: Message edited by: T_Smith ]

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I'll turn you red, sugar.

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

[Evil]

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

... Like a book, T, like a book...

[Wink]

Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

I can't believe that the thread that dobies me got more posts. [Grumble]

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

When you get to the dirty stuff when reading me, Ryuko, I'll be sure to point out the overwhelming good stuff.

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

I'll flag the good parts, T, so I can remind you later on.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

Nate: the Other Little Red Book

(get your copy today!)

[ August 22, 2003, 02:07 AM: Message edited by: Annie ]

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Troub, simple enough... I've passed you in coolness. Its hard to imagine, but now that I am cooler than you, you will just have to bow down to my awesomeness.

[Evil Laugh]

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Combine what I said to Ryuko with the look on those guys faces, Annie, and I have to agree that that book does look like its worth getting.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I don't think I'd want to read a book that elicited that look on a couple burly Chinese soldiers. Maybe that's just me...

Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :

[Big Grin]

Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

*buries head in hands*

Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :

*pat pat* It'll be okay, Troubs... [Big Grin]

Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :

quote:
When you get to the dirty stuff when reading me, Ryuko, I'll be sure to point out the overwhelming good stuff.

Dirty stuff? How'd that work its way in there? Wouldn't you have to avert your eyes or something?

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Why would I have to advert my eyes when reading about repairing a roof?

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

Speaking of red. . .

I have a tan!!! I've never had a tan in my life! Being a redhead, I go through varying states of red/nearly tan/peeling. This year though, if anyone remembers, I had that horrible reaction to any amount of direct sunlight. So, I've been using sunscreen and sitting on the front porch after the sun goes behind the house. And you wouldn't believe the tan I have! Apparently, all those years I wasted my time trying to get a tan in the sun. I should have been using sunblock and staying in the shade!!

(You know, I realize this not on topic. I felt like sharing, so leave me alone!)

[Big Grin]

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

This thread has a topic?

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

Seriously.

But I can sympathize, Kayla, being a nearly ghostly-white Nordic lass. I rarely tan, and understand the wonder when you do get one. (Except that all of my tans are from the bottle. I very rarely get out into the sun, for fear of sunburn)

Congrats on your burnishing! [Big Grin]

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

Ryuko, use sunscreen and sit in the shade! It really works. [Big Grin]

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Gah...suntans, how I miss thee.
I was badly sunburned when I was four and now I can't get in the sun at all for fear of cancer. Doesn't matter anyway. I tanned beautifully until that incident. Now nothing happens. At all. Nothing happens for the first three hours and 59 minutes, but at exactly four hours, I'm burnt to a crisp. [Mad]

Oh well, Vive la Mary Kay Sunless Tan Lotion!

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

Nah, Kayla. Super-white means already at risk for cancer. I don't really mind being whitey-McWhitewhite, because I just remember that in the olden-days, fair meant white AND pretty!

I win! [Big Grin]

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I've been subjecting my legs to UV light for over 3 months straight now, and I've achieved nothing more than 7 new freckles on my knees. My face and arms will at least turn a nice shade of peach, but I'm albino from the waist down. Figure that out.

Posted by dannyXcore (Member # 5332) on :

I happen to thinkthat the look of pallor is highly attractive, especially with a head of short, dark (black) hair, either male or female, doesn't matter... but that just goes to show how weird I am...

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

Despite the fact that I have long brown hair, that's really awesome. Word, Danny.

Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :

Quoted from the song "Amphetamine" by Everclear/Art Alexakis:

quote:
She has that super-pale skin and those soft green eyes...she looks like she could have been happy in another life...

Ultra-paleness is cool. Seriously. (Although, admittedly, that might be the computer geek in me, who likes the idea of females who spend as little time in the sun as myself... [Big Grin]

)

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

I love both Art Alexakis and you Zot!

Woot to the love for the pale girls!!

Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :

*turns red*

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

Now we're back on topic!!!

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

Hey!!

I get the first tan of my life (WHILE WEARING SUNSCREEN AND SITTING IN THE SHADE) and all y'all can do it say that it will cause cancer and pale is sexy?!?!?!?

[Razz]

I don't like any of y'all anymore. So there.

I know what the cancer risk is. It's not like I was trying to get a tan. I sit on the front porch in the shade, with sunscreen on and enjoy the afternoon breeze. (Okay, I sit out there to smoke, wanna make something of it? Like skin cancer is going to kill me. [Roll Eyes]

Actually, all four of my grandparents lived to their nineties (all four smoked) and one died of dementia, one died of heart failure (gotta love the cancer ward who managed to make that a surgical death because he died while on the way to the operating room to get a pace maker because the chemo had weakened him so much. He had leukemia, but it was technically heart failure that killed him.) Another died of. . . old age. She had really bad osteoarthritis and broke bones all the time. I, personally, think she just wanted to died before her daughter did. (She did. Barely.) And the last one I'm still aren't sure what he died of. I was told that it was some really rare form of cancer (only 200 people had been diagnosed with it.) But I'm not really sure. He did have skin cancer, but that wasn't they type that killed him. He also had some type of bone cancer (had half his jaw removed, but again, not what killed him.)

So, I think from my history, I am more likely to die of low-cholesterol (I've read and heard that they think low-cholesterol might be linked to dementia and adult onset leukemia, but that might have changed. I just know that the first time I had mine checked and it was 99, they thought something was wrong with the test and redid it. It was then suggested, that while I shouldn't start eating at McDonald's every day (little did they know, I already did that!) that I should try adding some red meat and cheese to my diet! And since dementia and adult onset leukemia both run in the family, I think I'm far more likely to get one of those diseases than lung cancer or fatal melanoma. So there.)

Just be happy for me. Or make fun of my farmer's tan. Remember, I've been inside my house for six years. A bit of a tan is a small price to pay for the progress of making it out the door to sit on the porch, don't you think?

Like I said. I don't like all y'all anymore.

::sticks nose in air and pouts::

(Yeah, it takes talent to pull that off. [Wink]

)

[ August 23, 2003, 06:32 AM: Message edited by: Kayla ]

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

I wonder how many people entered this thread without clicking on the link the smilies give.