This is wonderful, since I have always wanted to travel to Australia.
I’ll let you know when I can arrange to take you up on your kind offer!
In the meantime, nice to meet you. If you are actually practising the OP, you will probably be snatched up by some lucky woman long before I get to Australia!
Scotti:)
OOPS-
I meant “practicing”, I think, although that doesn’t look right either.
Scotti:confused:
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*Originally posted by Oicu812 *
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I live in the Pacific NW, just 30 miles south of the Canadian border. The top left corner of the beautiful state of Washington, where trees are green because rain is plentiful. (Did I say plentiful? Well, maybe that is a little bit on the charitable side. If the weatherpeople here predicted rain every day, they would be correct 50% more than they are now.)
Where do you reside? We need to decide where is the best place to call home!
Scotti
PS-if we are going to know each other THAT well, perhaps you should fill me in on what your sig means? I am latin impaired.
I reside in Tampa, the (almost) farthest southeastern part of the country… Especially considering where you live.
And my sig is a “pun”, if you will.
veni vidi vici = “I came, I saw, I conquered” - Traditional lating phrase. I just rearranged the words a little… hehe.
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vidi vici veni!
Oops… make that “LATIN”.
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The perfect woman would:
1- Not be self-conscious about her body, and give me no reason to be self-conscious about mine.
2- Appreciate it when I try to be romantic, even if I screw it up.
3- Never let me get away with disrespecting her.
4- Never hassle me on NFL Sundays.
5- Not have a problem with me wanting to be alone sometimes.
6- Have a life besides me.
7- Be at least as smart as I am, if not smarter. But in an esoteric field like nuclear physics or virology.
8- Not ask me to do things for her that she can do for herself.
9- Be able to change a flat tire on her car if she needed to.
10- Be content with snuggling if I’m too tired for sex.
11- Have self-esteem.
12- Have a 40DD chest. (okay, I couldn’t resist slipping that one in there. :D)
13- Never let me give up on myself.
14- Never give up on me.
15- If she was mean to me during the day, make up for it that night.
16- Know that “sometimes a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.”
17- Demand that I do what a mans gotta do when I don’t want to.
18- Know how to cook at least passably well.
19- Be able to articulate what she needs from me.
20- Never lie to me, even if the truth hurts.
21- Forgive me if I lied to her, to spare her the pain of knowing the truth.
22- Have at least three older brothers, so she grew up around men and is comfortable around them.
23- Not NEED me for anything, but WANTS me around.
24- Not be at all nervous if I kept a gun (or six) in the house.
25- Not get upset if I used said gun to blow away a rodent in the backyard.
When I re-read this list, I realized that about half of it applied to my mother. How creepy is that?
sigh Me too.
Consider this an open invitation.
Scotti: the guarantee will still be here. I’m a man of my word.
(Reading list intently and checking them off. Comes to end and pauses, then frowns.)
O.K., so what if you do all 25 and the last two wonderful women still cheat on you, forcing you to dump them?
(Wanders over to the Perfect Woman Post to determine if he’s been over looking something vital.)
What do you do FarTreker?
a) accept that all women are evil and just try to find the least evil
b) embark on a wild hedonistic journey of self-indulgence that won’t solve anything but will provide short-term relief
c) keep looking for Miss Right but being prepared to settle for Miss Right Now
d) maintain the belief that somewhere out there is a special girl who’s going to give meaning to your existence simply by smiling.
I vote for D myself. There ARE wonderful girls out there man. Meeting them is often difficult but we wouldn’t want it to be too easy would we?
May your snarks never be boojums.
FarTreker, no offense meant here at ALL. If you need to rely on a list to tell you if a lady is special or not, you’re already lost. Don’t bother thinking about that stuff. Just enjoy being in the presence of a lady and hope she enjoys being in the presence of (I hope) a man. If she’s someone you want to pursue things with, you won’t even realize everything she is. You’ll realize you are happy. And you probably won’t much care about anything else.
Well, um, as long as you wake me up before you go poking me.
What the heck I may as well bump this one too…
My list of 25 for the perfect guy:
Can take me on mentally and match me in a battle of wits with enough grace to admit defeat .
Can take me on physically and pin me in a wrestling match with enough gentleness to keep me from hurting myself.
Can take me on emotionally with enough stability in himself that he doesn’t mind when I delight in the rain.
Can take me on sexually with enough creativity and openess to keep everything fun.
Is taller than me and will kiss me on my forehead because he knows it makes me bright inside.
Knows when to not take my shit and when I need to be coddled.
Recognises the “touch at your own peril” look and pets me anyway because he knows in a choice between hurting him and getting out of a bad mood the mood will lose every time.
Strong, beautiful hands.
Strong, beautiful smiles and/or laughter.
Will do more than smile and nod when I get delighted about my random something of the day. (ex. chirality, spiked collars, barefoot sandals, pottery…)
Sings. Preferably baritone with enough of a range that we can do the great sappy wonderful duets I’ve wanted to sing all my life. (“All I Ask of You” from Phantom, “Sun and Moon” from Miss Saigon, “Without You” from RENT) For bonus points, plays the guitar and or/piano (see 7)
Can “be a man” without being an idiot. (Or at least being an adorable idiot while he is one.)
Hugs. Lots and lots of hugs, touches, pets, strokes, anything. Touch me, I love it.
Can’t keep his hands off my hair.
Lets me talk him out of bad moods.
Swaps massages as a matter of course.
Knows what I mean when I stop using English.
Loves animals.
Loves kids and wants to be a great dad.
Read this far and is still smiling.
Learns and remembers the names of my stuffed animals and doll, and treats the knowledge with the same air of silly seriousness I do.
Has a life of his very own that he is willing to share, but not give up/give over.
Long hair.
Bisexual.
Loves me for and with my faults.
Again, this is for perfect, here. Most are debatable/loose. (23, 24, 11) Several are permanent and nessesary. (1, 13, 19)
Ahh, the joys of MPSIMS.
gee, I’m 0 for 25…
hey Lizard. I can do all the things on the list, but my brothers are younger. Is that Ok?
Lurker, you might not make someone else’s 25 list, but you make mine and then some. And you know I have facts to prove my case. 
(only we know what that means)
Me too - and I have a feeling I left my soulmate in the same country you did DPR : ( They make such wonderful people in Denmark!
Hmmmm… looking at Medea’s Child list I scored 21.5 (can’t play the piano or guitar (yet) - but CAN sing and love those you mentioned).
I figured as much.
I plan on quietly stalking you for a few more weeks before I flirt with you outrageously dpr.
Sometime after Thanksgiving good for you?
Hmmm… 22/25 maybe I’ll save this post as a checklist!