[h3] Don Knotts dead at 81 [/h3][img]vny!://craphound.com/images/donknottsrip.jpg" align="left" height="256" width="207"]
Don Knotts -- AKA The Incredible Mr Limpet, Deputy Barney Fife, and Ralph Furley -- has died at 81 from pumonary and repsitory complications. Good night, Barn, and sleep well.
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I think a young Don Knotts is kinda hot. I have a thing for funny-lookin' guys. Flaws melt me. Lazy eye, crooked teeth, stuff like that.
Oddly enough, my husband is catalogue-underwear-ad handsome, not usually my type, so when I met him my first thought was, "He must be a jerk or something, he's so pretty." But he turned out to be smart and funny and aw-shucks sensitive and shy, so I just decided wott-the-hell, go for it.
I guess you should never assume about people.
I'm sure he's lecturing Saint Peter right now: "You hafta nip it in the bud, nip it, nip it, NIP IT!"
"He must be a jerk or something, he's so pretty."[/DIV] [/DIV]How come when a human man or woman think that? If its a guy looking at a hot girl its oh she's got a boyfriend or oh she's probly high matience or a slut. And if its a woman looking at a guy they think were jerks or something?
Sportsdude wrote:
[span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]How come when a human man or woman think that? ...if its a woman looking at a guy they think were jerks or something?[/span]
Because our preoccupation with physical beauty is culturally reinforced, and often the fact that the beautiful are given special deference makes them feel entitled and arrogant. I realize that the whole notion of selecting for beauty has an evolutionary advantage and all that, but we should make a point, especially as parents, to praise people's decency, their honesty, their intelligence, their compassion.
Listen to people talking to young children. It's very natural to say, "Oh, you're such a doll! Such a pretty little girl!" But we have to be thinking about it to deliver praise like, "I'm so impressed with how you figured that out." or "I love the way you helped her to pick up the marbles she dropped."
But I think that also, to a large degree, our reaction to beautiful people who have shown NO signs of being jerks is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves. In school when I was a kid, the most attractive children were popular and mean. Our treatment of the beautiful sets up a vicious cycle where we fear them and exacerbate self-defeating behaviors.
I used to like his groovy clothes on Threes Company[/DIV]Here is a young pic,
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I get the whole popular cheerleader stuff in high school stigma. Funny thing is about my generation all those girls in my high school who were that will either be dead from a drug overdose, die from smoking (only girls smoke these days, quiet sad you see a nice girl on the street and just when your about to approach her its shake,shake,shake and pulling out a cigarette out of purse time) or will get some sexual disease.[/DIV]oh, my bad was I just stereo typing. Ooops!
You are very right what happens in our childhood is how we respond and act as adults.