first off, from my own [one] personal experience, I would imagine that, if part of you wants to date a stripper, you're probably at least a little blinded by the hotness/"easiness" of her and looking here for people to say "yeah, dude, do it." that's not a diss. that's how I was. having said that, I don't know how likely you'll be to be dissuaded by the negative things people say about dating strippers. but in case you are. . . don't do it. the lie that presents itself is, "yeah, she's a ho. so what? she's hot. you'll get to do it a lot. and then one day, it will be over, and you'll have all those happy, horny memories." but it's not that simple. life just doesn't work that way. I didn't get in too much trouble, but I almost did. I met a girl in a club. she seemed great. she seemed different. much classier than the rest. she said she was studying Philosophy. she even said she was a Christian. ha! we seemed to have amazing chemistry, and I truly fell for her. I wanted to fall for her. anyway, after I'd spent $1500 on her in 2 nights, she gave me her e-mail address, an aol account. the next day, I looked at her profile, and there it was. . . marital status: married. I was pretty down about the whole thing. she'd straight lied to me and told me she wasn't married. she said she had an "unserious" boyfriend of two months. I thought it was going to be great. instead, I almost became an adulterer. actually, depending on your standard of adultery, I may have become an adulterer. anyway, I ended up having a good talk with her later. she gave me some interesting insights. she said that the fantasy aspect of that job extends to the girls who work there as well as the guys who come in, that the girls are fantasizing just as much as the guys are. I also found out she'd been married for 2 years, had an 8-month-old kid and was only stripping to pay for a bigger house, not college. so, basically, she was a big liar. and I still think she had her stuff more together than most of the girls who dance. so, if you have ears to hear, my advice is to stay away from it. I honestly don't believe it will work out as conveniently as you might like it to. they are hot, though. I sympathize with the desire. good luck.
Holy moley!! That $1500 would come in handy for ole Manny right now in getting a credit card paid off!
give me $1500 and i'll give you my email address...i'll email you daily for a month on my take on current events and the rockets...fair deal??
SUCKER!!! Just kidding...... It's true, they get caught up in the fantasy of it all too, maybe to be able to deal with the job better. I have met several strippers that have told me that. They lie and say "yeah, I am paying for college, I am majoring in Nuclear Physics, and I just do this for the money." Blah blah blah........
for the most part (not speaking absolutely) wouldn't most of you agree this is a pretty destructive lifestyle for a girl??? wouldn't you agree that it often leads to things that really negatively color her life???
isn't there a greater proclivity towards drug use than you'd find in the rest of the culture, too??? greater trend towards prostitution??? seems to me those things don't really lead one to a real positive place.
I don't think I can comment with any reasonable accuracy on those items. However, in having known some strippers and having known people who have dated them, it seems to me that drug use is somewhat prevalent. I had a stripper one time ask me at her club for my phone number. A buddy of mine was having a batchelor party. She called later and asked if I liked to "party." I said sure, not really knowing what she meant, even to this day I have no idea what she meant. She proceeded to tell me she got off at 3 am, and we could party, as long as I wasn't a cop. I said I wasn't. I guess she didn't believe me, and never called back. Weird!
actually, it is ironic. there are at least 3 types of irony: verbal irony, situational irony and dramatic irony. verbal irony is when a person or character says the opposite of what they mean. dramatic irony is when readers of a story or viewers of a movie or play know something that the characters in the story do not know. and then there's situational irony. rain on your wedding day would be an example of situational irony. situational irony is whenever the opposite of what you would expect to happen happens. most people expect their wedding day to be happy and bright and pleasant [if you don't agree with that statement, then I wouldn't expect you to agree with the assertion that it's situational irony]. rain would be the opposite of that, according to your standard, average, mainstream interpretation of what a wedding day is supposed to be like. from this perspective, rain on your wedding day would actually be ironic. p.s. mrpaige, if you read this. . . do you know of any screenwriting groups here in dallas?
Wedding <> Good weather It's a bummer, sure (if you don't like rain), but it isn't ironic. Rain on the National Meteorologist Convention's Annual Outdoor Picnic, however, is a different story.
There's the Dallas Screenwriter's Association ( http://www.dallasscreenwriters.com ), and there's the Independent Filmmakers Alliance (IFMA) that has a screenwriting unit to it. Their website is at http://www.dallasfilm.com , but the website doesn't have much information on it yet. If you want, I can email you the email address of the lady who runs the writer's unit so she can give you some information about what they're all about. I don't know of any other groups.
fadeaway, your example would've completely screwed up her meter and her rhyme scheme. anyway, I still disagree. it's ironic. in fact, it's ironic for the exact same reasons as your example.
