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jaklumen
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Ingenue vs. Gamin
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Dec 19 07:22 UTC 2002 |
Ingenues may be hyped and all that, but gamins have more fun.
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jaklumen
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response 1 of 10:
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Dec 19 07:26 UTC 2002 |
Ingenues love playing innocent and hard to get, but a gamin ain't
afraid to tell you she wants sex.
Ingenues expect you to read their minds or detect ever-so-slight
hints. Gamins just come right out and say what they want.
Gamins got spunk.
Froo-froo ingenues are too girlie-girl. Tomboy gamins make great
buddies.
If you couldn't tell, I'm biased. I married a gamin.
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remmers
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response 2 of 10:
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Dec 19 14:14 UTC 2002 |
Hm. My dictionary says that a gamin is a neglected and untrained city
boy.
I've met your wife. If she's a boy, she's done an awfully good job
of disguising it.
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jaklumen
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response 3 of 10:
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Dec 20 08:13 UTC 2002 |
Alternate definition, dude. Gamin refers to the tomboyish girl.. I
believe my source was "Color Me Beautiful" or something like that.
She's not a boy, but she is a tomboy; no disguising that.
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remmers
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response 4 of 10:
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Dec 24 14:33 UTC 2002 |
Is it true that within every ingenue a gamin lurks?
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jaklumen
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response 5 of 10:
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Dec 24 23:11 UTC 2002 |
Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, 2nd ed: gamin, n. [Fr.] a
street urchin or street Arab; a homeless or neglected child left to
roam the streets. Hmm, the alternate definition must be very recent.
resp:4 Not bloody likely. We're talking yin and yang here; cut-and-
dried definitions. There are girlie-girls and there are tomboys.
Of course, there's always the middle of the road..
The Powerpuff Girls
Bubbles- ingenue (well, even the name is a dead give away)
Blossom- neither, sort of in between
Buttercup- tomboy
How they are dressed has nothing to do with it.
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jaklumen
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response 6 of 10:
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Dec 24 23:18 UTC 2002 |
Gamins must be getting the upper hand despite efforts to the contrary.
But deliberate gender segregation in the toy business is still
obnoxious.
When I worked at Toys R Us, I can't count the number of times I helped
customers who were shopping for girls in the boys' section. Now, it
wasn't the deliberately boy toys like cars and robots and such-- it was
Toy Story characters that happened to be male (like Woody), Star Wars
characters that were more comic relief (a C3P0 figure for a toddler
girl), Cartoon Network characters, etc (except the confusing part was
all Nickelodeon Rugrats characters were in the girl's aisle, no matter
*what* the toy was).
I also remember telling my boss that the colors a "skater" remote
control girl toy was in, well, no skater chick would be caught dead in
that. He said yeah, well, we have to set an example.
XD~~
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xi
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response 7 of 10:
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Jan 11 04:42 UTC 2003 |
Is this like the place where all geek losers hang out?
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jaklumen
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response 8 of 10:
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Jan 13 05:59 UTC 2003 |
Tha's funked-up, pimpin' losers to you, boy.
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xi
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response 9 of 10:
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Jan 13 22:44 UTC 2003 |
Ya think? I don't think so :)
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jaklumen
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response 10 of 10:
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Feb 3 09:31 UTC 2003 |
If I want yer opinion, I'll beat it outta ya.
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