Are you brave enough to post a picture ........

RadishRose said:
Trade is right Gary, you could compete for Papa Hemingway!

Gary, I dunno about Trade and Letterman/Malkovich.... kinda, but it's a stretch. Trade is much cuter.
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I concur
Trade is better lookin'

......as far as Hemingway?

I had to search


The only likenesses are;

we both had greying beards

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and liked to squeeze small beings

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and


when quite young and clean shaven, we both had dents in our chins

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I could, however, be his old man in his The Old Man and the Sea epic

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Too bad we never chatted over my fire

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I woulda kept it....while he talked
 
Well Gary, I don’t think trade is better looking. I think you are different looking plus you have a killer sense of humour , which I’d personally take over good looks anyway. :love_heart:
 
Keesha said:
Well Gary, I don’t think trade is better looking. I think you are different looking ....
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Well, heh, I meant Papa H, but I’ll take it

As far as classic good looks, JimW and Trade are the winners here, along with the new kid, Nihil, leading this ancient horde

But, anymore, I don’t care a whit about aesthetic good looks

Now, expression…..ohhh, yeahhh
Big one for me

Couple that with personality, I’m in

Makes for conversation of entertaining content

And if one studies expression, the lines of faces oftentimes uncover character
Some good, some bad

Eyes are a big tell
Not so much how they are, but what they’re looking at

I can go nuts with this subject, but would just as soon write about it, gather it all up, and put it in some book

About the good ones, the unheralded common ones

They’re my heroes
 
[Lord Elpus, what does the script say below the images on your tat? I can't read it.]

Ronni,the script says 'This way up' with an arrow pointing in a vertical direction.
The birds are two swifts,as I was known to my unit as 'Swift-fist'...[when they thought I couldn't hear]
I boxed for 45 Royal Marines Commando,y'see.
At the time,I thought it was funny-but I actually won 44 of my 45 contests [usually inter-services]
but because of ONE incident,it lost it's humourous connotations. I'm not saying I'm superman,don't take me wrong.
I actually have 53 tattoos-including one pertaining to the bout I was disqualified from.
It was against a Royal Artillery sergeant,who really liked himself & kept saying nasty things about Royal Marines in general.
Plus,he constantly kept getting in close and headbutting me. I had open grazes from his insistent 'butting.
Finally,in round six,he did it once too often,I'd had enough and got a tiny bit angry.
I drew him in close,suddenly went down onto one knee...and whacked him right in the plums,full force.
He was lifted a good 18" off the tarp [I was a teensy bit miffed] and came down flat on his side,clutching his jewels and whining loudly.
I was INSTANTLY disqualified and had my boxing status removed,so couldn't represent 45 any longer.
Several 'guards' had to escort me out of the gym,as BOTH sides had bets on....oops....
Ergo,my 44 k/o wins were remembered,but never talked about,as I was 'a disgrace' [oh,I was left in NO doubt about that]

Funny ol' thing,life. Y'win some,y'lose some-but y'very rarely equal a draw...
So my 'tat' regarding that episode is on my upper arm,showing the emblem of 45RMC,standing on a flattened dragon.
[their emblem was a fire-breathing dragon....the cannons,y'see...]
However,even during tours involving active combat,seeing it never went down well with other regiments.
At the time I gave not one shi..er...hoot,as I was busy keeping my unit alive & fit.

But today,I'm a poetry-writing,kale-eating,spinach-growing,allotment-tending,flower-planting mummy's boy,who runs away from loud noises,
aggressive drivers & uppity shopkeepers,plus I spend a lot of time hiding in cupboards and trembling. [honest]
 
Lord Elpus said:
I boxed for 45 Royal Marines Commando,y'see.
At the time,I thought it was funny-but I actually won 44 of my 45 contests [usually inter-services]
but because of ONE incident,it lost it's humourous connotations. I'm not saying I'm superman,don't take me wrong.
I actually have 53 tattoos-including one pertaining to the bout I was disqualified from.
It was against a Royal Artillery sergeant,who really liked himself & kept saying nasty things about Royal Marines in general.
Plus,he constantly kept getting in close and headbutting me. I had open grazes from his insistent 'butting.
Finally,in round six,he did it once too often,I'd had enough and got a tiny bit angry.
I drew him in close,suddenly went down onto one knee...and whacked him right in the plums,full force.
He was lifted a good 18" off the tarp [I was a teensy bit miffed] and came down flat on his side,clutching his jewels and whining loudly.
I was INSTANTLY disqualified and had my boxing status removed,so couldn't represent 45 any longer.
Several 'guards' had to escort me out of the gym,as BOTH sides had bets on....oops....
Ergo,my 44 k/o wins were remembered,but never talked about,as I was 'a disgrace' [oh,I was left in NO doubt about that]
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I don't have any tattoos, but I did have one fight. It was in the parking lot of Largo High School back in 1965. It was with this guy, John Decker, the school bully who had been tormenting me for a long time.

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The fight only lasted about a minute before one of the football coaches broke it up. So we never finished it. But if he shows up at the 55th reunion this October I am going to throw down the gauntlet. I have been waiting for this moment for 55 years. He's going down.
 
Trade said:
I don't have any tattoos, but I did have one fight. It was in the parking lot of Largo High School back in 1965. It was with this guy, John Decker, the school bully who had been tormenting me for a long time.

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The fight only lasted about a minute before one of the football coaches broke it up. So we never finished it. But if he shows up at the 55th reunion this October I am going to throw down the gauntlet. I have been waiting for this moment for 55 years. He's going down.
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Awwwww Trade. That’s it;One little fight and you want revenge? What if he’s gotten over it and is a changed man?
 
It seems a tad childish even to ‘me,’ and I’m ultra childish.
Maybe he’s a priest or male version of mother Teresa. :shrug:
You’ll feel bad. Maybe he could become the great friend you never had.:woohoo1:
Maybe he’s loaded and ready to purchase everyone a round trip ticket to some remote tropical island, everything inclusive.:smug1:
 
Keesha said:
It seems a tad childish even to ‘me,’ and I’m ultra childish.
Maybe he’s a priest or male version of mother Teresa. :shrug:
You’ll feel bad. Maybe he could become the great friend you never had.:woohoo1:
Maybe he’s loaded and ready to purchase everyone a round trip ticket to some remote tropical island, everything inclusive.:smug1:
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This dude was a real jerk. He was two years older than everybody else because he had been held back a couple of grades, so he was bigger and older and used that to establish himself as the class bully. But now, 55 years later being two years older is going to work against him instead of to his advantage.

:yes:
 
I went through a period of time that was ‘hell on earth’ . It lasted for months.
I never once took revenge on any one of them so I can’t even vaguely relate to what you are talking about.
You should be grateful that at your age that’s the worse you went through.
Its nothing.
Let it go.

note: sorry Ronni
 
Keesha said:
I went through a period of time that was ‘hell on earth’ . It lasted for months.
I never once took revenge on any one of them so I can’t even vaguely relate to what you are talking about.
You should be grateful that at your age that’s the worse you went through.
Its nothing.
Let it go.

note: sorry Ronni
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