Thoughts on serendipity?

[buckweaver]

My favorite Ebert review -- http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20011005/REVIEWS/110050304/1023

*******, that is awesome.

 

[dargan]

My favorite Ebert review -- http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20011005/REVIEWS/110050304/1023

That was epic.

 

[Magic In The Night]

In October, a fellow poster on a Springsteen message board PM'd me and asked me to buy T-shirts at the Springsteen/Obama rally in Ypsilanti. I'm like, I'll look for them. I bought the shirts and bottom line is, the SO moved in two weeks ago from Boston to my place in Detroit. Serendipity rules! If you want more on this, do a search for Love on the Internets. It was a hot thread here for a while.

 

[dooley_womack1]

What he/she said.

 

[Diabeetus]

My favorite Ebert review -- http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20011005/REVIEWS/110050304/1023

That was epic.

Good, but if you want really epic Ebert, check out the thread (I think on the politics board) where he takes Bill O'Reilly to task. Some of his greatest hits posted there.

 

[dargan]

My favorite Ebert review -- http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20011005/REVIEWS/110050304/1023

That was epic.

Good, but if you want really epic Ebert, check out the thread (I think on the politics board) where he takes Bill O'Reilly to task. Some of his greatest hits posted there.

Yeah, I saw that one, too, 'beetus. Great, great stuff.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Ebert is one of those people who was easy to make fun of -- he's the fat guy with the thumbs, har har -- but he's a serious film scholar.

Even rarer, he's a thoroughly reasonable person. In a line of work where people try to make a name for themselves by ****ting on everything, he earned a reputation as too soft because he recognizes that even fairly ordinary films have a lot of good work in them. Yet he's not afraid to call crap what it is. I've never read a critic whose opinions more frequently align with mine.

 

[GBNF]

When it comes to finding a partner, do you believe in serendipity?
It's a big thing for me, and seeing as this new girl and I have pretty much the randomest story ever, I'm slightly freaked out/excited by the whole thing.

What say you?

Yes to serendipity (I liked the movie as well).

But what's the story for you and the girl? Maybe it has been posted and I missed it.

Haven't posted it: Here goes.

My friend Martine suggests I go on PlentyOfFish.com, and I scoff at online dating. She finally convinces me to go on, basically by point out that of all my random hookups and dates from bars, not one has left an impression.
Next day, I sign up, day after, I get a message from a beautiful girl who passes the preliminary looks test - good smile, good style, good hair.
We chat/text for a week, take her out on a date, it lasts eight hours, five of which are basically spent cuddling/etc. Great date.
Next night we're talking, and she mentions a visit to Switzerland as a babysitter for her temple's cantor, who was working there.
Me: "Oh, why was your cantor in Switzerland?"
Her: "He's also a world-renowned opera singer."
Me, trembling: "Um, what's his name?"
Her: "Ron Li Paz"
And then my phone dies, as I'm shaking, and frantically trying to get it back on.
It turns on.
Me: "Hey. Umm, did you say Ron Li Paz?"
Her: "Uh....yeah?"
Me: "Did you go to Valley Outreach Synagogue?"
Her: "Uh...yeah?"
Me: "I've gone there for 18 years. My dad is a member. I've missed maybe three high holiday services since I was 5."
Her: "We've gone since I was 10."
And that was that. We went to the same temple growing up for 13 years. Never met. Until now. Online.

Our second date was tonight, and went great.

 

[HejiraHenry]

As for the thread question, I dunno.

I do know that it's possible to try too hard to Make Love Stay. (Can you tell I have been re-reading "Still Life With Woodpecker"?)

Like in sports, you have to let the game come to you.

 

[Magic In The Night]

When it comes to finding a partner, do you believe in serendipity?
It's a big thing for me, and seeing as this new girl and I have pretty much the randomest story ever, I'm slightly freaked out/excited by the whole thing.

What say you?

Yes to serendipity (I liked the movie as well).

But what's the story for you and the girl? Maybe it has been posted and I missed it.

Haven't posted it: Here goes.

My friend Martine suggests I go on PlentyOfFish.com, and I scoff at online dating. She finally convinces me to go on, basically by point out that of all my random hookups and dates from bars, not one has left an impression.
Next day, I sign up, day after, I get a message from a beautiful girl who passes the preliminary looks test - good smile, good style, good hair.
We chat/text for a week, take her out on a date, it lasts eight hours, five of which are basically spent cuddling/etc. Great date.
Next night we're talking, and she mentions a visit to Switzerland as a babysitter for her temple's cantor, who was working there.
Me: "Oh, why was your cantor in Switzerland?"
Her: "He's also a world-renowned opera singer."
Me, trembling: "Um, what's his name?"
Her: "Ron Li Paz"
And then my phone dies, as I'm shaking, and frantically trying to get it back on.
It turns on.
Me: "Hey. Umm, did you say Ron Li Paz?"
Her: "Uh....yeah?"
Me: "Did you go to Valley Outreach Synagogue?"
Her: "Uh...yeah?"
Me: "I've gone there for 18 years. My dad is a member. I've missed maybe three high holiday services since I was 5."
Her: "We've gone since I was 10."
And that was that. We went to the same temple growing up for 13 years. Never met. Until now. Online.

Our second date was tonight, and went great.

Book it. Soulmates. The SO and I went to our first Springsteen shows three days apart the same year. That was good enough for me. (Kidding, of course). But it's amazing how fate works.

 

[GBNF]

When it comes to finding a partner, do you believe in serendipity?
It's a big thing for me, and seeing as this new girl and I have pretty much the randomest story ever, I'm slightly freaked out/excited by the whole thing.

What say you?

Yes to serendipity (I liked the movie as well).

But what's the story for you and the girl? Maybe it has been posted and I missed it.

Haven't posted it: Here goes.

My friend Martine suggests I go on PlentyOfFish.com, and I scoff at online dating. She finally convinces me to go on, basically by point out that of all my random hookups and dates from bars, not one has left an impression.
Next day, I sign up, day after, I get a message from a beautiful girl who passes the preliminary looks test - good smile, good style, good hair.
We chat/text for a week, take her out on a date, it lasts eight hours, five of which are basically spent cuddling/etc. Great date.
Next night we're talking, and she mentions a visit to Switzerland as a babysitter for her temple's cantor, who was working there.
Me: "Oh, why was your cantor in Switzerland?"
Her: "He's also a world-renowned opera singer."
Me, trembling: "Um, what's his name?"
Her: "Ron Li Paz"
And then my phone dies, as I'm shaking, and frantically trying to get it back on.
It turns on.
Me: "Hey. Umm, did you say Ron Li Paz?"
Her: "Uh....yeah?"
Me: "Did you go to Valley Outreach Synagogue?"
Her: "Uh...yeah?"
Me: "I've gone there for 18 years. My dad is a member. I've missed maybe three high holiday services since I was 5."
Her: "We've gone since I was 10."
And that was that. We went to the same temple growing up for 13 years. Never met. Until now. Online.

Our second date was tonight, and went great.

Book it. Soulmates. The SO and I went to our first Springsteen shows three days apart the same year. That was good enough for me. (Kidding, of course). But it's amazing how fate works.

It certainly is. And I know it's kind of ridiculous to care, but I do.