# The kind of thing you wait your whole life for.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 24, 2011, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-thing-you-wait-your-whole-life-for/586682 "2011-06-24T08:27:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-thing-you-wait-your-whole-life-for/586682/21 "2011-06-24T17:48:55Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Long ago, when I was a teenager, I was out with a fairly new boyfriend, and we were drinking as much alcohol as we were able to, plus maybe a bit more. Out of nowhere, he looked at me blearily and said, “Will you love me forever?”
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> And I knew it was mean, but I had to reply, “Well lemme sleep on it, baby baby, lemme sleep on it!”

What else could you do, really?

> [@WordMan](#):
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> Ouch.
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> I was at my dentist - a 7am drilling. As the aroma of a drilled tooth filled the air, the dentist paused, so I took the time to say: I love the smell of burnt enamel in the morning - it smells like…cavity\*
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> My dentist just sighed, motioned with his tools, and said “open”
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> I don’t get any respect.
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> \*please tell me someone gets the reference…

Heh heh - you’d think he would have appreciated a line that he (probably) hadn’t heard before.

Mine from earlier this year - I was discussing books with a co-worker who wasn’t a big reader, and she was talking about a book she was reading - “The Girl Who Whatevered.” She was proud of how large the book was, and my response was, “I love big books, and I cannot lie.” She didn’t get it. ☹

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**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-thing-you-wait-your-whole-life-for/586682/22 "2011-06-24T17:58:57Z")

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The sci-fi model group was taking a break and we’d gone to the local fish-and-chips place for dinner. My friend looks at me, grins, and says, “I like to come here just for the halibut.”

My brain whirs like a finely-tuned machine, working at Mach 7. Faster than I’ve ever come up with anything in my whole life, I say, “Is that your sole reason for coming?”

…yes, yes, lame, I know, but I was so fast!

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-thing-you-wait-your-whole-life-for/586682/23 "2011-06-24T19:19:48Z")

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> [@TreacherousCretin](#):
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> Me. (raises hand)

Bless you. 😛

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-thing-you-wait-your-whole-life-for/586682/24 "2011-06-24T19:33:51Z")

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> [@phreesh](#):
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> I’ll never forget this story:
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> [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300374.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300374.html)
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> It must have been the greatest moment of a headline creator’s life.

Oh my god that is just…perfect.

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