I need a big ol’ shot of confidence and self esteem right now. One of my students in my humanities class today asked me about my “grandchild” ( my 11 year old son).
I was crestfallen and later stood inside the faculty bathroom and checked out all the wrinkles. It was depressing.
It was then I knew it was time to turn to my virtual best friends on the straightdope and ask you all a question. And here it is.
Wouldn’t you say that I am hands down the youngest looking, most devilishly handsome guy on this board?
Just because those CHILDREN are used to their own reproducing at 15, doesn’t mean you should feel bad about not being 25 when your child is 11.
And actually, I DO think you’re kind cute!!!
I’m not going to say you’re cute (that’d be a little too queer), but you’re not bad to look at (read: I didn’t run screaming from the room when I saw your picture :D)
And is it really that hard to do a direct link to yours so we don’t have to do any work?
[hijack] What the hell is Adam Yax doing with the Stanley Cup? He looks a bit small for a pro hockey player…[/hijack]
Aha, I gotta say, you’re pretty damned good looking in a rugged, Clint Eastwood/Sam Elliott sort of way. And that’s not just sucking up to the resident rock star.
Aha, I think you are just terribly good looking.
I agree with the Sam Elliot comparison, not so much that you look like him but that you have this sort of manly got-it-together aura like he does.
How old are your students anyway?
And if it makes you feel better (misery loves company) today I overheard my 10 year old step-daughter explaining that she wanted to dress as a car-hop for Halloween “Like back in the old days - you know, the 80’s?”. :eek:
True story: a waitress in a restaurant I used to frequent once told me I looked like “Grandpaw Snowman”–meaning the snowman based on Burl Ives in Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer.
She was 18. I was 21.
A few years later: I was taking to this guy who asked me where I’d gone to high school. It turned out that we’d gone to the same school, which confused him–he couldn’t remember me at all, but he was sure I was the same age as he.
He was 45. I was 25.
So don’t sweat it, aha–you’re not the only one who looks much older than you really are.
You suck up to every moderator on this goddamn board, send chocolate to Tuba Diva, threaten to shoot a dog to get a welcome from Cecil, and yet you expect us to console you, tell you of your youth, vibrance, virility and overall studliness (flirting with you if female) for FREE??
“An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity!’”
–King Henry VIII, Act 4, Scene ii
But at least I don’t check my wrinkles!
(And I’m not asking WHERE said wrinkles were, either–I got too much information from you in that shower thread)
wooohooo you know I think you are by far the most attractive man in Okie country!!! What do those students of yours know anyway? They don’t appreciate any man that isn’t showing 4 inches of his boxers.
Simple solution to yer problem. FAIL THIS STUDENT!!! At least, read him the riot act so he knows the error of his ways. (It’s for his own good. really)
