I agree with ATX1973, appropriate numbers and all.
I must confess that I have an alternative email address with a 69 in it and I put it there on a whim. Since I've had to use that address from time to time with less than intimate friends, I've sometimes regretted creating it in the first place.
I didn't do it to impress anyone with my "prowess". The only way I could do that would be in person, wouldn't one think? I won't dispute the point that such an address is less than
more...I agree with ATX1973, appropriate numbers and all.
I must confess that I have an alternative email address with a 69 in it and I put it there on a whim. Since I've had to use that address from time to time with less than intimate friends, I've sometimes regretted creating it in the first place.
I didn't do it to impress anyone with my "prowess". The only way I could do that would be in person, wouldn't one think? I won't dispute the point that such an address is less than mannerly, but I would be prepared to argue at length with the comment that it "lacks good taste". ;-) It was more of an expression of something I like, such as "sailing69" or "icecream69"; "Iscream69!". Apparently there are some who do not share my enthusiasm, but that makes life more interesting. Perhaps they prefer to knit ("knitting69" anyone?). I wasn't thinking about offending anyone. I was just being playful. I find it a little surprising that it would bother another adult to the point of some of the reactions in this blog, but I tend to view the world from my own perspective (like everyone else).
I graduated from high school in 1965 and more than a few senior's yearbook captions (not including mine) reported that they wanted to get their BA in 69 (an admirable intention, I should think). So I suppose that you could call it a childish whim, but I didn't mean as much by it as some might think.
When I was in college there was a radical who legally changed his name to Jefferson F--- Poland. There was plenty written about him at the time, but I find it strange now, that I never thought to wonder about his motivation. Did he dislike Poland or did he just change his middle name to make some kind of a political statement? I'll probably never know, but he wasn't completely out of tune with the times---I'm thinking of the prosecutions of Lenny Bruce and of Lenore Kandell. Somehow this blog reminded me of that.
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