I met my husband at freshman orientation of college. Didn’t think much about him at the time. He was in my dorm and my intensive Spanish class. At a certain point, we became friends, and then best friends, and within about a year we started dating in a very serious way.
Still kind of knocks me on my ass that I met the love of my life at age 18. I had very high standards and had expected I’d be waiting for a long time. And when he did appear, I wasn’t ready yet, but he was happening all the same.
He’s a really great guy. The kind of guy where people are always telling you how great he is. And I’m like buddy, you don’t know the half of it.
My sister met her future husband on the first day of college orientation. They were immediately smitten, started dating, and were married within months of graduation four years later.
I met my future wife early in my junior year, when we were both on an Oberlin College semester abroad in London. She led a walking tour of Sir Christopher Wren’s tiny churches, and I remember thinking, “She’s smart, she’s cute, she loves history… I’ve got to get to know her better.” We started dating the following spring, and were married four years later on a scorching hot summer day in her Vermont hometown. Later this year we’ll celebrate our 33 1/3 anniversary.
I went with The Saint, because as the text of the poll pointed out, no matter the “official” criteria -
Given that understanding, there’s no pointing in adding more fuel to the fire under the monster. Anyone with that degree of activity has already has had enough information about them in public that giving them even the cursory review that Time manages is pointless. You’d need books, not magazines to summarize it, and for little point.
Instead, the less known Saint could certainly use recognition for the people they’re helping, and is likely to do some actual good for the world at large.
ON THE OTHER HAND, if I was to answer from the POV of “the editor-in-chief of Time Magazine” rather than myself (a minor but needed distinction), putting the monster on the front page is a whole lot more likely to buy me outrage-clicks and people buying it to excoriate me. So almost certainly better sales…
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who met my SO before I was old enough to get into a bar! I met him in a coffeeshop, and he was a friend of a couple of friends (one of whom still swears we were dating, but I never agreed to that). My mom was less than thrilled that I was getting married at 20, but she came around by the time we had her first grandchild eight years later.
I had to vote “American, other.” The New Jersey accent isn’t what people think. South Jersey has a Delco/ Philly accent. A small section of North Jersey sounds like Tony Soprano. Most of the state sounds like James Gandolfini. Gandolfini came from Bergen County and had to get a dialect coach to learn how to speak as a character from Bergen County. Some of my vowel sounds are closer to New York pronunciation but it’s not strong. The attitude is distinct not the accent.
I’ve been on a gala apple kick for a while. As a kid it was always red delicious.
I put rarely for White Castle but it’s probably a bit more frequent. I know way too much about the locations of White Castles and what the movie got wrong.
I’ve been told by Canadians that I have a Toronto accent. I am not from Canada, but my accent is a hybrid of various places that apparently averages out there.
Me neither. I don’t remember encountering it before and have no idea what it means, so I looked it up, and apparently it’s an eastern Pennsylvania thing.
I checked the ones I think I’ve used, and not the ones I think I haven’t, but I’m not sure in some cases, so I also checked “other”.
Parse I’m sure of, as we used to have to parse sentences, back in what I suppose would have been junior high or so except at that school it was in one lump with high school. So I’m sure I’ve used the word; but not sure I’ve used it in about the last 55 years.
I did recognize all of them except “jawn”, which I’ve just looked up; but “yeet” I ran into for the first time sometime in the last couple of years. ETA: And “cromulent” I think I’ve seen only online, and mostly here. – it occurs to me that I may have used “grok”, which I’ve known since sometime in the late 60’s; but I didn’t check it. Though I liked the book when I first read it, I think I felt a bit weird about using its terminology, and didn’t usually.
“Parse” is a term of art in computer science, so I’m sure I’ve used it in that sense. I’ve probably used it in the grammatical sense as well at some point.
I first learned about Cox’s Orange Pippin from BBC, as it is one of the apples commonly named in their recipes. It’s also available commercially in Switzerland.
My favorite is the Stayman Winesap, but I’ll take Winesap as well. Unforunately neither of them are cultivated in Switzerland.
I picked PNW for an accent, but it’s wandered a bit over the years.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a chance at either Stayman Winesap or Winesap. But if some think they’re better than Cox’s Orange Pippin, I’ll definitely get some if I do get a chance!