The real purpose of our upper heads

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View_From_Below: Jonb wrote:

Cyrano de Bergerac, I presume?

Well, I would hope rather better than that. Cyrano dies from being clobbered with a log, as I recall, and Roxane is in a convent. So that's not much of a success story.

Maybe Beauty and the Beast? The Beast actually wins Beauty!

Thanks for all the bio-theory.

 

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H8Monga: Take that biology!

Biology: 0

The Ugly Man:

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

We rule!

 

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joe22xxx: Does this mean that in addition to being handsome and well hung, I also have to have the fastest swimming sperm?

Too much competition!

 

[jonb]

[quote author=joe22xxx link=board=meetgreet;num=1059787575;start=20#22 date=08/06/03 at 01:27:08]Does this mean that in addition to being handsome and well hung, I also have to have the fastest swimming sperm?[/quote]
Only if she sleeps with several men during ovulation.

 

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gigantikok: [quote author=jonb link=board=meetgreet;num=1059787575;start=0#18 date=08/05/03 at 18:21:01]
Cyrano de Bergerac, I presume?[/quote]

Who the hell is that?? Pardon my ignorance.

 

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View_From_Below: Uh, Gigantikok--

Cyrano de Bergerac is the main character in a famous French play of the same name by Edmond Rostand.

Cyrano is a brave royal guardsman, as I recall. He has an enormous nose about which he is extremely self-conscious and he is convinced no woman would ever love him because of it. (It's his nose--he can't hide it till later with spandex pants...)

He loves the beautiful Roxane, his distant cousin. But she is smitten with the handsome Christian--and asks Cyrano to help bring her and Christian together. Cyrano conceals his own love for Roxane and writes beautiful love letters and poetry to her--over Christian's name. And in the most famous scene of the play, he pretends to actually be Christian and woos her in the dark under her balcony.

I could go on. But the upshot is: Christian is killed. Roxane enters a convent. Cyrano for many years visits her, but never reveals that he was the author of the love letters that were so important to her. Eventually he is killed by an enemy (the log on his head). Only as he is dying does Roxane finally figure out that he was the person whose inner character she actually fell in love with through the letters-- not Christian.

So it's not a example of the ugly-but-admirable man winning, but rather of his losing (partly though his own excessive nobility). Not exactly a model for those of us who are decent, charming guys but without movie-star looks or huge sexy packages!

 

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throb919: Giggy (when I typed it Gigi it looked "girly" and like the French movie of the same name--I'm trying more for "jiggy" à la Will Smith)--

The 1987 Steve Martin & Darryl Hannah movie "Roxanne" is the Cyrano story--except it has a happy ending.

(Speakin' of happy: happy belated birthday, big guy!)

 

[B_DoubleMeatWhopper]

[quote author=throb919 link=board=meetgreet;num=1059787575;start=20#26 date=08/07/03 at 13:06:54]Giggy (when I typed it Gigi it looked "girly" and like the French movie of the same name[/quote]

Oh, great. I've never seen one of his photos, so now whenever I see Gigantikok's screen name, I'll picture him a someone with a massive cock and Leslie Caron's face! Thanks for planting that mental image, Tony-dude!