First off, I’d like to mention that now I have Bono’s voice in my head. 
For the man I almost married, I had his initals tattooed on the small of my back, and had them removed after we broke up. He had my name, in my handwriting, over his heart.
Recently, I changed my hours at work so I could talk to my sweetie both before I started work, when he was home, and when I got home, when he was at work. He lives far away and works nights 
Thank you all so much for making this thread so successful. I have silently sat back and watched how everything unfolded from a comparatively dull story about some guy in his high school days.
My first response came almost instantaneously by Daowajan who pulled out his shoulder testing his paddling limits.
Then everything else came together as follows:
Quasimodem attempted a 4 hour trip on a lawnmower.
SHAKES unknowingly made all hell break loose with the start of a subthread about the credentials of exotic dancers.
whatmove describes how a vegetarian ate a burger.
FisherQueen keeps pace only to lose her stomach on a hike.
Eonwe points his “batsignal” (a profile of his naked and alert self) at the moon for me.
bouv put his loving words for his girlfriend where everyone could see and made her cry.
DPWhite admits that everything that he does for love is weird.
Badtz Maru showed off by sticking a box-cutter in his chest.
Bill H. married the woman he impressed by not being able to throw a softball over a fence (our first success story!-i think)
scredle starts the subthread with a blow to strippers as a whole. (you always get burned with an implied all inclusive stereotype)
Tixenfleaz got a full back tattoo of Catwoman.
Rachelle blew her boyfriend a kiss… i mean an egg.
booklover realizes that putting a coconut on his head to start with would have saved him a lot of trouble.
lee rips on scredle. (We all knew that it was coming eventually.)
KellyM rewords lee’s anger.
Author’s note: something tells me scredle is kicking himself pretty hard right now.
KKBattousai talks of a friend’s ex putting a penny in his mouth that he found on the ground. (Let us hope that it was head’s up)
JuanDeCuba dated a girl once… and he felt that just saying that did it justice. Fair enough.
SirSykoSexxy decided that love is not what we may make it out to be at the time.
OxyMoron puts QuasiModem in his place, wherever that is.
PosterChild takes a shot at scredle.
JosephFinn becomes much more interested in the Catwoman tattoo on a man’s back than in any of the other replies. Oh no! Not another subthread…phew.
jackelope gets a little hard on his self about a woman in L.A. (Anyone catch it?)
mikehardware eats sardines and sour cream on crackers…ewww.
arana123 hits up the subthread with another story about how great strippers can be. (Personalities)
TelcontarStorm pops the pimples on her ex’s back. (He didn’t happen to have a tattoo of Catwoman on his back, if so, please tell JosephFinn for me.)
scredle tries for redemption. I thought that it was a well written plead too.
Nymaz jumps off a four-story parking garage into some trees. Honestly Nymaz, you are my idol. Who cares if you didn’t get the girl, you jumped off a parking garage into some trees. Oh yeah, and finally someone dares to take sides with scredle.
scredle seem relieved to be backed.
Back to MY thread, tramp drives 19 hours to find her boyfriend in bed with some “sushi twat.” (Star word choice)
rjung spends five hours in Robinson’s waiting for his wife to pick out ONE dress. Sadly enough, I think that many of us decided not to bother writing that one. So aggrevating isn’t it?
ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness went to a Celine Dion concert! He wins hands down, game over…
Dale The Bold somehow manages to carry his backpack, his girlfriend,and a set of crutches on two shoulders.
cmkeller found out that it was actually he that needed the support while going into the ocean.
Purd Werfect I will quote, because I didn’t know where he was going with this one. “Broke up my marriage. That was pretty weird.”
Dave Stewart moved to Japan for a woman he had never kissed, and she moved to Australia. Maybe you should have kissed her…
jinwicked won the length contest… until I posted this of course. My favorite is the redrawing of an erotic looking four-legged woman to look more like her. Cute.
ExTank bought a kilt. But that isn’t the kicker. He wore it too.
hardygrrl had her handwriting tattooed over the heart of a past love. Did she also say that she had Catwoman tattooed on his back… and did she say WHICH Catwoman exactly it was. (If so contact JosephFinn.)
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Which Cat Woman, just out of curiousity? TV, comic, movie?
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Comic book Catwoman. Had to stay true to my geeky roots.
Damn thing’s not even finished yet. Had to buy a new car and pay for school, and I’m currently waaaay broke. I’m just hoping that my tattooist hasn’t OD’ed or anything. He seemed the sort of person prone to misadventure.
I guess he preffered “sushi twat” over racist pig.
I can’t blame him.
::married my ex-husband. 'Nuff said
Weird, I thought she meant that that girl’s twat smelled bad…
I actually helped a girl I was going out with run away from home. Well, run to another home, actually.
Her parents were divorced. Her father lived in California, and she and her two younger siblings lived in New York with their mother, grandparents and a slightly dotty maiden aunt.
Her mother was making her life hell, and she wasn’t real happy. She had actually moved out of her grandparents’ house to live with another person here in town.
Her older brother was married and also living in California, and he and his wife had come to visit. They spoke with her, and recognized that she wasn’t in the best place. They all decided she should up and move to California to be with her dad. I don’t think they consulted the mother about this, but if the did, she was against it, even though this girl wasn’t living with her anymore.
Early one morning (real early – the sun was just coming up) I met the brother and his wife at the house where she was staying, helped them toss the couple of suitcases she had into the back of their rental car, and said goodbye.
It was almost a surreal experience. I’m not sure what happened to any of them after that.
Cute summary, Swainpup.
Just FYI, Daowajan and I are both female!
(Yeah, she had me fooled at first, too)
But me, you should have known about. I think the rule of thumb when determining gender tends to be
GIRL= Opinion of strippers? Icky, foreign, perhaps a bit threatening, demeaning…
BOY= Opinion of strippers: Hot, naughty, rhythmic, and-oh yeah- NAKED for ME!!! YEAHHH!!!
(OK, people, I’m KIDDING!!!)
Garsh, swainpup, I’ve never been an idol. Aw crap, now the Inquirer’s gonna print those naked pics… damn… I shouldn’t
have bought that “my studio is in an alley because it’s convenient” line… 
And scredle, I should have been more specific. My friend liked most of her co-workers, and the ones she intro’d me seemed nice.
It’s just a couple that she pointed out as having skankitude. And the main reason for her judgement was they were the ones who
would do more than just dance for money, if ya’s catching my drift.
Sorry scredle, my bad. I guess i screwed up. I hope there are no hard feeling about that one. It won’t happen again.
Swainpup-
Oh no, nohard feeligns at all! Figuring out the gender of other posters is one of my favorite SDMB games!