Generational Ripperologists

[Tom_Wescott]

I love Dr. Pepper and root beer and I also love Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My favorite character is Xander (Alexander Lavelle Harris), although I'm certainly not hot for him. I was hot for Jenny Calender, Amy (pre-rat), the blond slut vampire wannabe from season two who returned as a blond slut street girl at the start of season 3. Also kinda hot for Darla (who sired Angel).

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Errata,
Wow! Now I understand better why there are so many churches in Chicago Hyde Park and why people got offended when I was asking around where I could buy a bottle of wine. In Hyde Park there's one supermarket (Treasure Island) where they carry wine (a selection among 3 bottles), and a liquor store on 53 Street with really nice and cheap wine, when one gets carded and they ask you to carry the bottle in a brown paper bag, like it's a sin. The other grocery shops don't carry alcohol, not even beer, and when I asked about it, they looked at me like I was asking for heroin.
I don't think that I regret not having “adult establishments“ in my neighborhood, although I have to admit that the very first apartment where I lived in Berlin (for 2 months as an au pair with a family, before enrolling in the University here) they lived in a normal, middle class neighborhood not too far from Bahnhof Zoo, and the apartment underneath the one we lived spotted the sign Mme Nina – Les chambres. It took me a couple of weeks to figure out the nature of the establishment! Initially I thought it was a hairdresser! (As it spotted a logo with a female head seen from the side in a fancy haircut.) But there was nothing at all to notice about the business going on in there, such as noise or clientele.
(I hope it wasn't a self-fulfilled prophecy, because if the economy stays like this and I keep working 18 hours/day with no pay, I might end up considering the possibility of (hum) dancing to finance my “academic career“...
By the way, 2 years ago I was very much hoping to visit Nashville for a conference, but at the end I didn't get invited.

[Errata]

Errata, are you talking about Kentucky or Tennesee?
The Midwest it much too prude and lame a place for my taste! In Chicago Hyde Park I'm shocked and bothered that almost every second house around campus is a church or a religious institution, despite of the fact that we frequently have shootings occurring. I mean, around campus! Chicago Evanston (home of Northwestern University) is called “Heavenston“ by the locals, due to the too many churches. (And no shootings in Evanston.)
The only people who carry around booze in Chicago Hyde Park are the homeless and the faculty. But they have different tastes. For the former it's small bottles of Jack Daniels, for the latter cases of “imported wine“. I'm probably in the middle, sitting on the fence and not having cleared out yet if I'm heading towards becoming faculty or a homeless person...

I'm in Tennessee. I live in a metropolitan area of Nashville, and within literally one block of me there are seven churches. One methodist, one unitarian, and the rest are Southern Baptist. Its like there's a white steepled fort around my house. No one sells liquor on sundays, you cant sell liquor within 100 ft of a church or a school, you can't have an adult establishment within 100 feet of a church or a school. Our schools are crap, our churches are pristine, and at the rate they are continuing to build churches soon the only strip joints and liquor stores are going to be in farmer's fields and highway medians. It's why they call us the Baptist Vatican.

[mariab]

Errata, are you talking about Kentucky or Tennesee?
The Midwest it much too prude and lame a place for my taste! In Chicago Hyde Park I'm shocked and bothered that almost every second house around campus is a church or a religious institution, despite of the fact that we frequently have shootings occurring. I mean, around campus! Chicago Evanston (home of Northwestern University) is called “Heavenston“ by the locals, due to the too many churches. (And no shootings in Evanston.)
The only people who carry around booze in Chicago Hyde Park are the homeless and the faculty. But they have different tastes. For the former it's small bottles of Jack Daniels, for the latter cases of “imported wine“. I'm probably in the middle, sitting on the fence and not having cleared out yet if I'm heading towards becoming faculty or a homeless person...

[Errata]

I don't think one can claim that 35 is the new 15, but 35 is certainly the new 25.
And I'm in my early 20s. For real! I swear that the train ticket counters in Berlin Bahnhof Zoo keep asking me if I'm still in school. (Probably due to my incredibly mature and intelligent appearance...)
And in Chicago I get carded whenever I buy bottles of wine. In fact, not only do I get carded, but the vendors even look at me disapprovingly. (But this has probably to do with Chicago Hyde Park, where prohibition still rules, and there's one sole bar in the neighborhood where they serve alcohol. The UofC? Definitely not a party school.)

Oh you'd love this state, with all the "dry counties" that don't sell at all. Including the county that consists of about 100 homes and the Jack Daniels Distillery. Cause thats how we do irony down here.

[mariab]

I don't think one can claim that 35 is the new 15, but 35 is certainly the new 25.
And I'm in my early 20s. For real! I swear that the train ticket counters in Berlin Bahnhof Zoo keep asking me if I'm still in school. (Probably due to my incredibly mature and intelligent appearance...)
And in Chicago I get carded whenever I buy bottles of wine. In fact, not only do I get carded, but the vendors even look at me disapprovingly. (But this has probably to do with Chicago Hyde Park, where prohibition still rules, and there's one sole bar in the neighborhood where they serve alcohol. The UofC? Definitely not a party school.)

[caz]

I'm in a pretty good spot. I'm 36 now, so in 20 years will be 56, which will then be heralded as the 'new 35', so technically in 20 years time I'll be a year younger than I am now.

I got news for you, Tom. 56 is already the 'new 35', so technically that makes you 15.

And I'm sure your voice will break soon.

Love,

Caz
X

[mariab]

Hot for a librarian, eh? Such a clichee! ;-) I like Giles and Spike very much, but no “hot“ in the equation. But I might be hot for Faith, and I'm definitely not gay. (Overidentify, much?)

[Errata]

[B]
To Errata:
You're probably not familiar with the TV series Buffy, the vampire slayer, but a librarian character in there says he detests computers because they don't smell like old books. (Although I find that new computers feature a very characteristic, pleasent smell. Which goes away with time, like many good things.)

Wow. I was so hot for Giles when that first came out. I totally forgot about that. Is that weird?

[corey123]

Just like to add that the topic has shifted a bit, from generational ripperologists, to well... soft drinks. Well it is pub talk isn't it?

[corey123]

Indeed Maurice.

If only others shared my love.... of Dr.Pepper, I mean pepsi is OK and all, but even Coke beats that.

[The Grave Maurice]

Dr Pepper, so misunderstood.

[corey123]

Agh Man!

OK I am going to revise my question of the thread;

Am I the only ripperologist who likes Dr.Pepper?!?!

[mariab]

I might have tried Dr. Pepper when I was on Mount Hood 2 springs ago, and I think it was kind of sugary (which isn't my thing at all).

[Garza]

Yeah Dr. Pepper doesn't sell well here. I don't like it, tastes weird