Stripper Pseudocyesis 4 $$$ - I was right :)

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• jablake

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  16 years ago

  BTW, I *easily* could have been wrong and in that case the scam, stripper pseudocyesis, would have taken a few dollars out of my pocket that I would have rather spent on another dancer. Would I have been all bent of shape if learned that it was a scam? No. But, I do feel good that she was telling me the truth. She seems very easy to detect because when she is BSing she won't look me in the eyes for long and her voice is unsteady. If a scammer can pull the same acting, then that is a treat, imo. :) And, yes I LOVE the scammer who can provide the GFE. I wish my gambling stripper buddy would be doing that for me! :)
• zorro

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  16 years ago

  Oculogyric is an adjective, not a noun.
• quimby

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  16 years ago

  Jablake - Yes, I also really like a good, well-executed scam - even when I am the mark.. I have never heard of the false pregnancy dodge, but it would work like a charm on me, because I really like pregnant dancers.. My impression is that many male customers are down on pregnant dancers and tell them so (Shouldn't there be an "Obnoxious Jerk" club next to every "Gentleman's Club" just for this sort of customer ? ) Anyway, it seems to reduce the number of expectant dancers who keep working for a bit.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Hi zorro, Is there a problem using an adjective as a noun? Or, did I just use an incorrect form?
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Hi quimby, Yes, the stripper pseudocyesis (every dancer imo has been telling the truth to *me*; gambling stripper claims they're all lying) would work like a charm assuming she is a wonderful actress because yes, I do want to help out at least a little if a stripper is facing baby bills. Very few customers from what I can see appreciate pregnant dancers. For me it is the dancer's looks that are important. If she looked hot before getting pregnant, then there is a fair chance she'll look hot after getting pregnant. Now, if she is still hot while being pregnant and she has a good attitude, then I'm probably going to be very HAPPY! :) The scam takes advantage of a customer's good nature. Maybe that is why I think I've only experienced it when in fact it isn't a scam. Gambling stripper thinks it would be shocking if it wasn't a scam i.e. the dancer was actually pregnant. It is bodacious to meet another person that appreciates a well executed scam even when they're the mark. :) I find said scam very didactive.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  As long as we are delving a little into adjectives v. nouns the word callipygian (adj.) or callipygous (adj.) has been keeping me awake at night. One definition, btw, is having well-shaped buttocks ----[view link] ---- If I call up the local escort service and request a callipygian, then, imo, it seems like a fine and dandy noun. :) Sorta like how I could order a steatopygia (noun). IOWs, if I don't turn the adjective, callipygian, into a noun then it becomes, to me, less valuable.
• zorro

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  16 years ago

  Jablake, adjectives modify nouns, they are normally not used as a noun.
• zorro

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  16 years ago

  "Callipygian" is an adjective and should not be used as a noun. In this case it's tempting, I suppose, because the word ends in "ian", so it may seem that it refers to a person from the little-known country of Callipygia. And you are free to use words however you like, of course.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Hi zorro, At least one of my ancient grammar textbooks (I wish I still had it, btw) claimed that it was permissible to use nouns as adjectives and vice versa. I'm hardly an expert on the subject, but then again some experts I disagree with volcanically. ;) "In both Spanish and English, it is common to use adjectives as nouns." ----[view link] ---- "An adjective used as a noun is always . . . ." ---- [view link] ---- "5.94: Adjectives as nouns" ---- [view link] ----
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  "Jablake, adjectives modify nouns, they are normally not used as a noun." Keyword is normally. :)
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Besides being tempted by "ian" suffix of callipygian as zorro pointed out, it is also the definition of the word itself that is tempting. "Having beautifully proportioned buttocks . . . From Greek kallipugos : kalli-, beautiful (from kallos, beauty) + pug, buttocks." ---- [view link] ---- IOWs, you have the noun "buttocks" being described and modified by "beautifully proportioned." So, somehow it was decided by learned scholars that the end result equals an adjective??? I wish I understood their reasoning a little better. If anyone would care for the antonym for callipygian, then cacopygian may fill the bill. "Having ugly buttocks." ---- [view link] ---- Or maybe dasypygal - "having hairy buttocks." ----[view link] ----
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  O mighty Pythagoras and yee nooos more than the Chicago Manual of Style? :) Maybe you do. But, I don't be thinking nouns and adjectives are interchangeable. However, one may "properly" use an adjective as a noun or a noun as a verb or a noun as a adjective. As to the second part of your sentence, I disagree there as well. :) OK, now for the important stuff: let's discuss $5 dances. :)
• Dudester

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  16 years ago

  I masticate in public.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Safer than ruminating. :(
• ozymandias

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  16 years ago

  You CAN use an adjective as a noun - it's called a "substantive". In a very technical sense, it isn't a noun but rather an adjective modifying an *implied* but absent noun, but grammatically the adjective acts as a noun in the structure of the sentence. "Out with the old, in with the new" is the classic example of how substantives are used, in this case the adjective forms "old" and "new". Just sayin'! O.
• zorro

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  16 years ago

  Ozymandias, thanks for the clarification. "Help the poor." In that sentence, "poor" is an adjective behaving as a noun, but is in fact modifying an implied "people". So jablake, what implied noun is "oculogyric" modifying in your usage?
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Thank you, ozymandias. :) I might have been taught that decades ago, but I sure as hell forgot it. The ancient textbook encouraged the use of adjectives as nouns as well as other creative constructions. It made English grammar "come alive." :) Its main negative, imo, is that it was too brief sorta like that Strunk whatever book.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Hi zorro, I may have unintentionally misused or at least overly abused oculogyric. The first time I saw oculogyric it defined and used as an adjective to express in a fanciful and humorous manner the act of *eye-rolling*. Later brief research seem to indicate it is more of a medical term. Sorry, but I don't understand your question. It appears that I used oculogyric 3 times in separate sentences and with giving it a tremendous amount of thought it seemed like it was being used as an adverb and wasn't modifying a noun implied or otherwise. I also used non-oculogyric 1 time. (In the first sentence of this post it seems like the implied noun for oculogyric is word or term.) Anyway, have to run cause the barbarians are at the door.
• MisterGuy

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  16 years ago

  OK kids...might I suggest that you all quit while you're ahead and just drop this whole language thing? You're never going to get anywhere with a crazy person like jablake IMO...lol...
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  This one dancer was extremely pregnant and the price was supposed to be $5 per song, but she was so grateful for my business that she adjusted it to 2 songs for $5 i.e. buy one get one free. Very sensual dances and I could feel her baby kicking the hell out of her. The real treat was her eye contact; her irises were practically eclipsed to extinction by extremely enlarged pupils. Had me in an oneiric state of oneness with her. She later explained in her words that it was just "a scam" "a trick" "a fraud" and that most every guy if they liked eye contact would fall for it. Not only did I fall for it, I loved it insanely. :) She could make her pupils almost invisible or enlarge them to the point where her irises were gone or at least very difficult to see. She could do it fast or slow. When I spoke with an optometrist about it he was greatly surprised and amused; he hadn't thought it was possible, but that it was definitely a neat trick. My eleemosynary and in this instance selfish acts was JACKPOT CITY. :) :) :) Made me feel especially good about giving. Notation: think collective nouns.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  "Substantive is the technical term for a word or group of words acting as a noun. Since modern grammar is more concerned with the way words function in a sentence than with part-of-speech designations in a dictionary, it's a little different from the conventional understanding of noun, but it's very close. Virtually all nouns are substantives; so are pronouns like he, she, it, and they. It can also include adjectives if they're used "absolutely" — the homeless, for instance, or the wicked. [Entry added 14 Sept. 2004.]" ---- [view link] --- "The biggest, the greatest or the heaviest dictionaries are no match for public opinion when it comes to language. A language is a very democratic thing -- it goes where its speakers take it. In spite of what many people believe, dictionaries are supposed to follow the language, not the other way round. In fact, that's exactly how dictionaries are made: by observing and recording how people are using words." ---- [view link] ---- Just a couple blurbs & links for those who are interested.
• casualguy

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  16 years ago

  I haven't ever heard of a dancer claiming a false pregnancy. At least I don't know of any dancers claiming they were pregnant when they weren't. I think of pregnancy as a bit of a turn off in a strip club setting. She'll get bigger in the stomach area and will need to stop dancing for a while. I wouldn't give her any money or dances just because of that either. In fact, I'd be ready to run the other way unless I liked her already.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Hi casualguy, Yes, cyesolagnia (also maieusiophilia, btw) hardly seem common and perhaps that is why stripper pseudocyesis isn't prevalent. I'm definitely a sucker for this scam, but as I said before I think the strippers were telling me the truth so it wasn't actually a scam or maybe it was in some cases. Of course, just because a man doesn't have a sexual attraction to pregnant women doesn't mean the old knight in shining armor syndrome wouldn't kick in.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Here are some more "rules" for those who live to obey: "1. You may not start a sentence with because. 2. You may not start a sentence with and or but. 3. Sometimes periods and commas go inside the quotation marks and sometimes they go outside; it depends on the sentence. 4. You may not end a sentence with a preposition. 5. You may not split an infinitive." ---- [view link] --- It's sort of humorous that those who enjoy stripclubs would be so interested in living by other people's rules even when those rules aren't laws. I doubt we'd enjoy either booze or dancers or speeding if some brave criminal souls weren't willing to rip the envelope open or at least in the case of Playboy magazine push push push. Of couse, maybe society would be better off if people blinding obeyed their betters (government officials). :)
• CarolinaWanderer

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  16 years ago

  6. Strippers should always end a sentence with a proposition.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  7. Rule 6 should be violated if the stripper is fugly.
• jablake

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  16 years ago

  Just got in "The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed," by Karen Elizabeth Gordon. --- [view link] --- Young dancers in general seem to LOVE vampires for whatever reason. A cute fun book with plenty of "goth like" drawings.