# I may not die a lonely and bitter old maid, after all! (long) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542 "2003-10-04T13:48:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/41 "2003-10-06T16:42:23Z")
You guys are being silly. After all – it’s not the font, it’s the point size. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/42 "2003-10-06T16:47:20Z")
Yes, but this is the Internet, where the users can change things! \ Absent competent implementations of CSS, what’s a poor layout person going to do? ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/43 "2003-10-06T16:54:50Z")
Okay, you two… sheesh! Well then how about this: for vacation **Twicks** and **Sunspace** can come out here and I’ll treat them to a tour of illiteracy on convenience store marquees. I swear there is a line on the application that says “are you illiterate?” Those are the ones doing the signs. Then after that you’all can look at my instruction book for my weight bench and determine how long a lease I need to be"taking a rest day at **lease** once a week". And then there are the “Lag curls” WTF? where’s **gobear** when you need him?😃 BTW **Sunspace** me darlin… I am the mutual friend \*\*twicks \*\* is talking about. Better brush up on your paleontology buddy she’s one sharp cookie! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/44 "2003-10-06T17:26:27Z")
And people think that writing has no mojo[sup]TM[/sup]. 🙂 Dunno whether we can come out there anytime soon, but how about doing some spy shots with a minicam and starting a Page of Sign Shame? 😃 I’m sure [sunspace.org](http://sunspace.org) can be persuaded to offer hosting facilities. And if we hook up with the Avenging Librarians, so much the better! 🙂 [sub]Thought it was you, **Krisfer**. Even I eventually get these things. Sometimes.[/sub] Palaeontology, hmm? **twickster** , there’re some real nice dinosaurs at the Royal Ontario Museum… 😃 \ ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/45 "2003-10-06T19:18:58Z")
SHHH!!! Don’t tell the little blond who (whom?) occasionally tries to push me outta bed about Dinos at the Toronto Museum! He will drag me there!! He has already decided I MUST take him to Drumheller, Alberta. DRUMHELLER! Thats right in the freakin middle of NOWHERE! Damned good dinosaur museum there as I understand it… I know return you to your regularly scheduled flirt;) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/46 "2003-10-06T19:25:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Dinosaurs > > Dinosaurs roam the ROM in the Dinosaur Gallery, located on the Life Sciences floor. Set in vivid diorama surroundings, complete skeletons bring to life some of the large animals of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. > > In the Upper Jurassic display, a _Stegosaurus_ is threatened by two flesh-eating _Allosaurus_, while the swift plant-eater _Camptosaurus_ hastily retreats. > > In the Upper Cretaceous display, _Albertosaurus_ – closely related to _Tyrannosaurus_ – towers menacingly. One large duckbill stands in upright alert posture, while another ambles past on an actual dinosaur trackway. A horned dinosaur, _Chasmosaurus_, pauses nearby. > > Also from the Upper Cretaceous, a plesiosaur and a mosasaur stand out as powerful swimmers in an underwater setting – a shallow sea that covered much of North America some 70 million years ago. > > These walk-through dioramas are complemented by video stations commenting on dinosaur types, skeletal structures, habitats, and ways of life. A small theatre tells the story of fossil-hunting in the Badlands of Alberta – one of the richest dinosaur collecting areas in the world. > > Most of the specimens seen in the gallery come from **Utah** , USA (Jurassic) or Alberta (Cretaceous). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/47 "2003-10-06T20:30:06Z")
Excuse me, people, whose thread is this? (Sheesh, leave for an hour or two to do what they pay me for and this is what happens.) **Sunspace** – **Krisfer** ’s kitten is the dinosaur fan – my interest is in early hominid stuff, origin of language, etc. Not that I wouldn’t enjoy gawking at dinosaurs with you, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/48 "2003-10-06T20:49:52Z")
I know–that quote was for her. 🙂 I’m transparently manoeuvring to get you all to Toronto, so we can have a DopeFest that outshines the ones in Montréal… Early hominid stuff. Interesting. Language origins. _Kewl_. You know there’s no truth at all that _Australopithecus afarensis_ had red hair and a funny accent, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/49 "2003-10-06T21:14:21Z")
Since you seem to have missed the question, **twickster** , have you and your unmarried college friend thought about the possibility that you are a custom fit for each other? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/50 "2003-10-06T21:30:56Z")
Oh, me and unnamed college friend? I misunderstood the question, I thought you were talking about me and **sunspace**. ( **blushes, digs toe in floor** ) No, I never thought about that. I shall do so now. Ew – no – he’s an Orange County Republican. ( **shudders melodramatically** ) Basically we’re still friends just because we’ve known each other so effin’ long – it’s pretty much a one-phone-call-a-year type friendship where we keep each other apprised of the headlines. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/51 "2003-10-07T00:52:57Z")
The Royal Ontario Museum is excellent, excellent, excellent. And I want to point out that I’ve _met_ Sunspace. [bounces up and down gleefully] ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/52 "2003-10-07T01:32:37Z")
:eek: 😃 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/53 "2003-10-07T01:39:34Z")
Ok, **twickster** , **Sunspace** has the seal of approval from both **Cranky** and me. Throw in **Hello Again** or **Persephone** and you will have the Michgan Hat Trick. What more do you want? Meet him already. 🙂 Rick and I got a great deal on a Toronto hotel and we can point you to some cool restaurants. Trust me, **Sunspace** has the tour guide thing covered. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/54 "2003-10-07T01:55:37Z")
\ There are other TronnaDopers who can add their expertise to the Tour Experiece as well… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/55 "2003-10-07T03:31:39Z")
Sure, enthusiastic votes from a veritable fan club of impressionable Doper wimmin – a good step, **Sunspace** , but your email was a trifle on the short side. Unlike, say, the hourlong conversation I just had with suitor #1 – or the substantial emails from #3 and #4. (#2 is a flake, but we knew that in the OP.) Gotta tell ya, sweetie – I’d prefer to stay within the faith of doperdom – but I’m sensing a certain lack of _seriousness_ in your courtship. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/56 "2003-10-07T04:06:51Z")
**twickster** , I’m not sure what to say… this social stuff really is kinda difficult to me. I have little experience and no intuition to guide me. I’m sorry if I insulted you. ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/57 "2003-10-07T04:20:11Z")
askheroutaskheroutaskheroutaskheroutaskheroutaskherout! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/58 "2003-10-07T12:11:06Z")
**Sunspace** – it’s okay. With the caliber of people you’ve got vouching for you, I’d be a fool to blow you off. Check your email. ---
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/59 "2003-10-07T12:23:06Z")
Aren’t yall just the cutest things ever? 😉 This is fun and it’s not even me being flirted with! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542/60 "2003-10-07T12:26:31Z")
Why do I feel like I’m talking to him on the front porch with a large, nosy family inside the house shushing each other to try to eavesdrop? :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-not-die-a-lonely-and-bitter-old-maid-after-all-long/205542.md?page=4)