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...Give me your dorks, your losers, your thick-chained mooks from Jersey yearning to get lucky. For them I would open the golden door while the beautiful people waited outside. I could do this because Lotus, the hardest club to get into in Manhattan, let me work the velvet rope as doorman last Thursday, giving me complete control over who entered. I called all my friends, told them to dress badly and show up after midnight. To up the dork content even further I sent an e-mail to the entire TIME staff, many of whom promised to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lotus Suckers | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...when I got my first opportunity to strike a blow for the homely. A trio of beautiful women got to the rope; I looked them up and down and said, "I'm sorry, but there's a private party here tonight." When I asked for their names, they asked me my name and kissed me on both cheeks. That's when I realized they were really, really beautiful. Plus, the kissing made them my 13th and 14th most significant sexual relationship in my life, so I really had to give them comp tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lotus Suckers | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...other night, “What are the best hook-up songs?” (translation: “Which CD should I slip in on Friday night after I bring back a pre-frosh from the Grill?) I thought of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope, but that’s kind of kinky. Any thoughts?…So I saw Memento last week and can’t shake it. It’s about a guy with short-term amnesia who’s trying to track down his wife’s killer...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the (K)now: A Pop Culture Compedium | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...Amber was the dull one, you say? Amber had upside. She still looked plenty good, and when Colby and she went one-two in the Reward Challenge rope course, she was definitely threatening to join the living, personality-wise. And when she stared down the horizon and uttered those unforgettable words - "Hope. Hope for a fish. A nice night with no rain." - something stirred. She was the savant, the Chauncey Gardiner of the outback, and by the end of all this we'll all be in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On A Very Stormy 'Survivor,' the Placid One Goes Gently | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

...flunked gym because I couldn't climb that rope thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaquille O'Neal | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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