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...horrible dancer,” McGinn says. “I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea.” So how does former City Step extraordinaire Jobson feel about her aborted evening at the Chez Vous roller rink? “I’m really not much on roller skates...the whole idea of the roller dance off is a little dangerous,” Jobson says. “But I had a really good time, and I broke my arm.” As for the resurgence...
...translate to three-hour conversations every night about your emotions (that would be bad!), but it does mean that you need to check in on a regular basis. Also, when you do get the chance to see one another, it should be special. Plan specific dates for a rendez-vous, and make an effort to meet each other’s friends as well...
...extra potential, head on up to the sixth floor to the LRC (Language Resource Center). If the ability to speak a foreign language isn’t enough, try wearing the super-cool ’80s style headphones. Potential pickup lines include “voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” and “Tu es muy caliente ay ay ay,” but we might need a little help with that pronunciation. Surely a freshman would know where to inflect the “ay?...
...Vous avez des armes à feu, du tabac où de l’alcool?” she asks me, intoning her vowels like a true Quebecoise. She eyes the contents of my Volvo station wagon suspiciously, thinking perhaps that I have stashed several kilos of hard drugs or maybe some explosives between my clothes...
...cigarettes. In the 80s, while at the Cannes Film Festival, I discovered a brand with a droll name: Time. Turned out they were the French version of the American brand, More. (More, in French, sounds like the word for death. "Donnez-moi un packet de Mort, s'il-vous plait." In Italy, they're pronounced Mor-ay: nearly the Italian word for love.) Since the mid-90s I've bought Capri Menthol 120s, a cigarette so svelte and mild that, I joke, smoking them makes you live longer...