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...pretend to have a foolproof solution for getting over this nervousness, since I suffer from it too. But maybe I have more answers than I realize. For instance, when I think about the night that I first met my girlfriend on the dance floor at the Hong Kong, I know that it was only by getting past my own fear and anxiety that I worked up the courage to ask her to dance. Many times before I had chickened out of striking up conversations with attractive women at parties; that night I resolved to put myself on the line...
When we were young, oh, those days were grand. We certainly do miss those good old days with recess and naptime. And now that we've grown up (okay, well, we can pretend), we have so much more to worry about: i.e., work, work, work. So even a trip to the movies seems to take up more brainpower than one would like. Well we've found something that plays like a movie but requires half the intellectual capacity, and it has all the laughs and drama one would ever want. Imagine stick figures on blind dates, skinny men stealing underwear...
When we were young, oh, those days were grand. We certainly do miss those good old days with recess and naptime. And now that we've grown up (okay, well, we can pretend), we have so much more to worry about: i.e., work, work, work. So even a trip to the movies seems to take up more brainpower than one would like. Well we've found something that plays like a movie but requires half the intellectual capacity, and it has all the laughs and drama one would ever want. Imagine stick figures on blind dates, skinny men stealing underwear...
...course, none of this ever gets televised. The camera shows the tarpaulin or, worse, the faces and cheap suits of the announcers, who either pretend nothing is happening or offer a moralistic diatribe about "these idiots who needlessly extend the game to unmanageable lengths...
...Hmmm. Well, why don't you pretend that you're introducing a video from Neil Diamond," she offers...