She asked me: So what is this 10 date rule?

My response:

The rule is so that I can justify myself to not be such a slut :D haha, but I don't follow any rules, yeah I'm a badboy. It means I'm not going to sleep with every nice piece of ass that comes along. It means I want to be there to cook breakfast, it means you somehow having a pair of my boxer briefs to sleep in, it means I know your favorite flower, your most liked meal, ..I know just how you like it, and I like to eat cookies, and I happen to know how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie roll pop. (I read about it once in a book)

hold on, I feel poetic:

Funny too that knees so strong and sturdy now collapse repeatedly
Fears, doubts, anguish, pain all wash away with one look
Let the arms of passion encircle the desirous creatures
Thrusting the waves of pleasure to the shores of each others souls
Releasing the yearnings
Fertilizing the fantasies
Changes not one moment of desire or pursuit thereof
Anonymous to all except themselves,
Hidden yet so sated

eww, romantic stuff, haha, whatever, but yeah that's what I mean, none of that "thrusting the waves of pleasure" until I've Gotten To Know You sweetie, and could feel for you with my Heart. So whether its ten dates, three dates or heck even sixty dates, its my choice, I have feelings too.

It’s official: Guys get stupid over lovely ladies!

"Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: A woman having large breasts makes men stupid."-- Rita Rudner

My sporadic tendency to not be thinking strait can now be traced to all the women in my life.
Researchers in the Netherlands recently published a report titled: “Interacting with women can impair men’s cognitive functioning.” Translation: Guys get stupid around women.

This is real science. This happens.

This is serious research published in the May Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and it all started because the lead researcher, Johan Karremans, couldn’t remember his address while talking to a “stunningly attractive” woman.

So do guys have an excuse?

Hey, it happens. And it turns out, according to this breakthrough research, it happens a lot.

Most guys, married and single, lose their ability to think around women. Heck, these women don’t even have to be hot. Just female. With a pulse.

The research shows men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive So if they find the woman to be attractive, the impairment gets worse. And guys have no chance. Their intelligence disappears, and they start to think with, well, as the old saying goes, their cognitively diminished brains.

Some think this is bad news, acknowledging that women hold special powers over men. But I think it’s great news.

This, my guy friends, is a get-out-of-jail free card, if you play it right. Its Science.

The flip side

Unfortunately, there is a flip side to this research. Researchers found that attractive guys have no effect on the cognitive ability of women. Which brings to mind that old playground saying: “Girls go to college to get more knowledge; guys go to Jupiter to get more stupider!”

Quick question: Which planet is Jupiter?

Guy response: “Who cares? Look at that girl on the monkey bars!”

But I digress. Researchers went on to raise some interesting questions based on the findings, such as this: Should teenage boys go to coed schools? “Part of boys’ valuable cognitive resources may be spent on impressing their female class members,” the researchers wrote.

And to that I say, well — duh! That’s why high school is so hard for guys. We are forced to spend all our time trying to figure out how to get that girl on the monkey bars over to first base, cognitively speaking, of course.
Finally, I’d like to credit the person who showed me this study.

A co-worker sent it to me, and, ah, right at this moment, I can’t remember her name. I do know she’s a blonde. ...

*parts from above were taken from an article in the paper by: Jeff Seidel

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Of course marketers have known that “sex sells” ever since marketing was first invented which is why it’s so common to see ads for men’s products that are completely devoid of any men in it. This study just confirms what the marketers have known all along: when a pretty woman is nearby men act like total idiots.

So I guess talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind!

Today I mourn the death of a legend.

Les Paul.

"whose innovations with the electric guitar and studio technology made him one of the most important figures in recorded music" (CNN)

"Les Paul was truly a 'one of a kind.' We owe many of his inventions that made the rock 'n roll sound of today to him, and he was the founding father of modern music," B.B. King

"Les Paul set a standard for musicianship and innovation that remains unsurpassed. He was the original guitar hero and the kindest of souls", Joe Satriani

"Les Paul was a shining example of how full one's life can be; he was so vibrant and full of positive energy.", Slash

ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, said he couldn't imagine what rock music would sound like without his mentor's inventions and spirit. "Les Paul brought six strings to electricity and electricity to six strings," Gibbons said in a statement. "Les Paul was an innovator, a groundbreaker, a risk taker, a mentor and a friend."

Joan Jett wrote. "He was a genius inventor, musical innovator and a wonderful person. Without the advances he pioneered, the recording sciences and the electric guitar would have been left years behind. I will miss him so much."

Les Paul is enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Inventors Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

"I had to build it, make it and perfect it," - Les Paul

Take a listen to what I say
I got the truth and I'll help you find your way
It's time to take what you know is already yours
It's your life it's your right
You wake up every moment feeling numb until you die
Take a chance and walk right through that unopened door
The affliction that's the curse for the modern man
If you believe then you can't be wrong
Reject all the opposing opinions - and carry on
The affliction that's the curse for the modern man
With blind faith you're never wrong
Reject all opposing opinions you can't go wrong
So make your pledges and place the blame
They got opinions and you hear them everyday
We got facts to back them up you just can't ignore
You gotta fight for what's right
No matter if the truth just can't be seen in black and white
But don't think that's gonna stop 'em marching to war