On a serious tip, and Brazil notwithstanding...

[Daniel, Grand Duke of Stony Island]

Thread Of Which Not Even the Insane Would Offer Sincere Comment #7,779,311

[Bill Blake]

Thread Of Which Not Even the Insane Would Offer Sincere Comment #7,779,311

Have you ever tried being sincere in a Kenneth Cole suit?

[BrazenMuse]

Thread Of Which Not Even the Insane Would Offer Sincere Comment #7,779,311

[Daniel, Grand Duke of Stony Island]

Have you ever tried being sincere in a Kenneth Cole suit?

Maaan, you couldn't catch me bring sincere in a LAW suit.

[MarkK]

Brooks Brothers suit = good taste, perhaps consideration.

Kenneth Cole suit = cheese-ball, not worthy of even mild flirtation.

Is that how you pick your boyfriends?

[Martin Red]

I was recently told by a married man who was trying to woo me: "Marriage is no cure for desire." I declined his suit, as it were...but this left me thinking...

Should it be? Is desire something that needs curing or just redirecting?

desire

• noun 1 a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. 2 strong sexual feeling or appetite.

• verb 1 strongly wish for or want. 2 want sexually. 3 archaic request or entreat.

— DERIVATIVES desirous adjective.

— ORIGIN Latin desiderare.

[BHouse]

Brazen tell me you DIDN'T fall for the business card drop trick?

or the "Can I have a courtesy cup of soda..."

[BrazenMuse]

or the "Can I have a courtesy cup of soda..."

you are both just sooooo wrong for that. Actually, it was toward the end of several long conversations that started in a Starbux...where I was drinking tea (I hate their coffee, but like to people watch sometimes...) and grading papers and he's also a teacher...so it was a pretty average conversation ...it was odd to keep seeing same person, and that he started bringing his grading too. It was cute. And he seemed...ummmmm...sincere. After a bit, he started getting a bit...ummm...forward. No ring, mind you. We went for drinks nearby one evening and he hit me w the confession and looked really surprised when I declined.

...mutter, mutter, mutter...biz card...mutter...courtesy soda...mutter...mutter...grumble grumble...

[Bill Blake]

Is that how you pick your boyfriends?

Yes