Tim Cook escreveu:
> And why does true love require partnership?  What about selflessly 
> letting the person you love follow their own path to happiness whether 
> it coincides (or even intersects) with your own or not, and being truly 
> happy for their happiness?

That's called platonic love.  You love someone, who doesn't even know 
you exist, let alone caring wether you're happy or not.  Not worthy it, 
though I used to love like that when younger...

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:12:27 +0000, St. wrote:

> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:49819b4a@news.povray.org...
> 
>> Also, she wants me to name my first-born "Jamie" in her honour. We'll
>> see! ;-)
> 
>      Oh, a lady Jamie! God, you're confusing today! ;)
> 
> 
> 
>>>> OK, great. Now I have that God-awful poem by Mr Kipling in my head...
>>>>  >_<
>>>
>>>       Lol, what poem?
>>
>> There is *no way* I'm going to try to find it on purpose! :-P
> 
>       Oh, go on, you know you want to...  :op

It's entitled "If" as I recall....

Should make it really easy to find with Google. ;-)

Jim

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Invisible escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Invisible escreveu:
>>> with her, but... she's a tad strange.
>>
>> Little secret for you:  *all* women are a tad strange.
> 
> Yeah. But some are weirder than others. ;-)

http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Parties/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Parties_(Text)

And please don't tell me you don't know who Neil Gaiman is.

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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:36:09 -0500, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:12:27 +0000, St. wrote:
> 
>> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>> news:49819b4a@news.povray.org...
>> 
>>> Also, she wants me to name my first-born "Jamie" in her honour. We'll
>>> see! ;-)
>> 
>>      Oh, a lady Jamie! God, you're confusing today! ;)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>>> OK, great. Now I have that God-awful poem by Mr Kipling in my
>>>>> head...
>>>>>  >_<
>>>>
>>>>       Lol, what poem?
>>>
>>> There is *no way* I'm going to try to find it on purpose! :-P
>> 
>>       Oh, go on, you know you want to...  :op
> 
> It's entitled "If" as I recall....
> 
> Should make it really easy to find with Google. ;-)

(In case it's not clear, I'm being facetious with this comment - because 
"if" is such a common word)

Jim

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On 30 Jan 2009 15:15:14 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>> It's entitled "If" as I recall....
>> 
>> Should make it really easy to find with Google. ;-)
>
>(In case it's not clear, I'm being facetious with this comment - because 
>"if" is such a common word)

A good film tho'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If.... 

a 1968 Lindsay Anderson film starring Malcolm McDowell 
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:02:35 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 30 Jan 2009 15:15:14 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
>>> It's entitled "If" as I recall....
>>> 
>>> Should make it really easy to find with Google. ;-)
>>
>>(In case it's not clear, I'm being facetious with this comment - because
>>"if" is such a common word)
> 
> A good film tho'
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If....
> 
> a 1968 Lindsay Anderson film starring Malcolm McDowell

:-)

Jim

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>>> Little secret for you:  *all* women are a tad strange.
>>
>> Yeah. But some are weirder than others. ;-)
> 
>
http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Parties/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Parties_(Text)


Dude, what the HELL...? o_O

> And please don't tell me you don't know who Neil Gaiman is.

OK, I won't. :-)

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Ah, the metaphors of sci-fi.  Good times.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>> Little secret for you:  *all* women are a tad strange.
> >>
> >> Yeah. But some are weirder than others. ;-)
> >
> >
http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Parties/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Partie
s_(Text)
>
> Dude, what the HELL...? o_O

Cool, huh? ;)

> > And please don't tell me you don't know who Neil Gaiman is.
>
> OK, I won't. :-)

He's a renowned English author of many comics, books and movie scripts.  He also
puts many cool texts like that freely online.  He, Alan Moore and Frank Miller
are the best things ever out from american comics and the graphics novels craze
from the 90's.

How about this one:

http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/neil_g.html

Pure finesse, huh? :)

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nemesis wrote:
>
http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Parties/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Parties_(Text)


That was most excellently cool. Thanks for posting that link.

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