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Hollywood Disease in action
Oct. 6th, 2004 11:16 amSo I was looking at some porn last night (that's the net is for, right?). Written porn, that is. I found this story. An unremarkable story for the most part, save for one line. Guy runs into a woman, they get together for a little shagging action and he observes, "I thought she'd have skin like dry parchment, but...."
Okay, first, if he thought that why the hell was he interested in her in the first place?
Second, how old was this woman he expected to have parchment-like skin? Thirty-one.
Well, that explains it, I guess. She was thirty-one years old. Jeebus! I remember once, as a child of ten or so, having just watched a tv show about the fabulous world we'd enjoy in the then-distant year of 2000 A.D. As I lay in bed, I calculated for a moment and was stunned (and a little alarmed) to realize that in the far-disant year of 2000 A.D. I'd be 41 years old! Oh my God! I'd be OLD! Older than my parents! It was unimaginable.
Of course, I had an excuse. I was TEN. Today, I'd have to live to be 180 years old to anticipate reaching four times my current age. So, I dunno, maybe the author of this piece of crap was 10 years old too.
Oh, and how old was the male POV character? Forty.
Okay, first, if he thought that why the hell was he interested in her in the first place?
Second, how old was this woman he expected to have parchment-like skin? Thirty-one.
Well, that explains it, I guess. She was thirty-one years old. Jeebus! I remember once, as a child of ten or so, having just watched a tv show about the fabulous world we'd enjoy in the then-distant year of 2000 A.D. As I lay in bed, I calculated for a moment and was stunned (and a little alarmed) to realize that in the far-disant year of 2000 A.D. I'd be 41 years old! Oh my God! I'd be OLD! Older than my parents! It was unimaginable.
Of course, I had an excuse. I was TEN. Today, I'd have to live to be 180 years old to anticipate reaching four times my current age. So, I dunno, maybe the author of this piece of crap was 10 years old too.
Oh, and how old was the male POV character? Forty.
