MtnHigh Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 Dating: You go to the magazine stand and pick up a copy of Rock & Ice. You really enjoy it and the articles are interesting. Man, this is the best ever. A week later you go back to the magazine stand and see Rock & Ice again, but wait, there is Field & Stream, now that looks even more interesting. You buy the Field & Stream, take it home and enjoy it. You forget about Rock & Ice. Another week goes by and you are back at the magazine stand. Rock & Ice and Field & Stream are there again, but you look beyond them. Been there, done that. Something else catches your eye, Car & Driver. You buy it. I love Car & Driver. What a great mag. In a week you have read everything interesting in Car & Driver and are bored of it. It is time for something new. Marriage: You want another magazine, but you do not feel like returning to the magazine stand for yet another new magazine. Instead, you mail in a 9-month subscription to your all time favorite magazine, Rock & Ice. It will be so nice to have the magazine come directly to my house. It will be there everyday when I get home. No more hassles of going to the magazine stand all the time and I no longer have to pay full single issue prices. This is great. Six months go by and you are tired and bored with Rock & Ice. The articles are no longer interesting, the content and photos are always the same. It has been weeks since you last looked at an issue. You see the latest issue on the coffee table, but ignore it and find something else occupy your time. Rock & Ice has sent you a bill for another 9-month subscription. What! I am not paying for more of this. See ya later, I'm going climbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordop Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 (edited) . Edited June 15, 2021 by jordop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lummox Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 guns&ammo fucking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketchfest Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 Funny shit Petey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 Maybe I'm missing something, but is all this purusing of "magazines" some sort of hyperbole for dating and marriage? Magazine stand = Meat market dance club or somesuch location for meeting chikas No subscription = Free to date anyone you please Subscription = Marriage "contract" with intimate moments "delivered to your home", magazine (wife) is there every day, etc. Advance payment = no end of the subscription (marriage) in sight Is it really about the magazines...? Or a cry for help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisT Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 the metaphor was lost on me too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 Just go to the book store and read an article or two out of more than one mag, without paying for it... ha ha now that is dateing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtnHigh Posted May 22, 2003 Author Share Posted May 22, 2003 ChrisT said: the metaphor was lost on me too Is this simple metaphor too complicated??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbw1966 Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 Made sense to me as well. Not sure its the most successful analogy I've read but humorous nonetheless. God I wish it was tomorrow already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 So then we are using the magazine analogy to describe your current state of dating and/or marital bliss, which is what I thought all along. It seems you may be contemplating "cancelling your subscription" then...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formaldehead Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 Why not read the magazine backwards , or with your hands tied together, or, better yet, with a tube up your ass that's connected to the gasmask on your head, so all you can smell is your own turd? Now THAT'S some good Rock & Ice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbw1966 Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 A new Trask avatar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegetablebelay Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 I think it's FDA... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 FDA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 No, F=Fuckin' D=Dumb A=Asshole .... or any combination of said letters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisT Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 MtnHigh said: ChrisT said: the metaphor was lost on me too Is this simple metaphor too complicated??? What about the folks who subscribe to Penthouse, Hustler and Playboy for years and years and years...displaying them in their bathrooms...most men never seem to get tired of those... they keep opening them up again and again. Also the lifelong subscribers to TV Guide. Every week, true and faithful, it's there on the coffee table. Have even heard of couples who've been National Geo subscribers for over 50 years! Honestly Pete, I think you're just choosing the wrong magazines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 MtnHigh, you should give credit where credit is due. Your inspiration came from Tom Lykis' discussion on the radio last night. Good job at thematic development, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 Please Chris, a GQ gent like myself would never prominently display such smut. We prefer the anonymity of the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtnHigh Posted May 23, 2003 Author Share Posted May 23, 2003 catbirdseat said: MtnHigh, you should give credit where credit is due. Your inspiration came from Tom Lykis' discussion on the radio last night. Good job at thematic development, though. My plagiaristic ways been exposed. I laughed my head off when I heard Lykis say it, so I had to share it with a new audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr._Natural Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 for some reason CBS seems like a very unlikely lykis 101 student. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 Wasn't that Tom Leykis getting smooched by the Monopoly Game dude at the opening bell of the Dow this morning (5/22)? Yep, that was him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 How about a different end to the metaphor... Instead of looking for a discount/laziness and getting a subscription, why not step up to the plate, spend a few more bucks and get a guidebook? More interactive, and like any relationship, you only get out of it what you put into it. Besides, that way you get out climbing, and stop sitting around looking at the superficial stuff you can't do anyways. So, would borrowing friend's magazines be a metaphor for 'swapping' then? Glen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 ABSO-FAHQ'N-LUTELY!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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