Mistaken Identity

[Pacion]

:lol: Sorry, I couldn't resist this. Someone here thought I was a guy :shock: :lol: It is funny because this is not the first time it has happened, different forum, different name even :lol: but still, the other person initially thought I was a guy and when they realised that I am a female, they thought I was a cucumber short of a sandwich :lol: (otherwise known as a sandwich short of a picnic :lol: )

Has this ever happened to you? :D

[pygmalion]

A few times I can remember. LOL.
In DF, it makes sense, because the character whose name I've adopted was a man -- a sculptor. I just couldn't stand the idea of being Galatea -- his block of marble that came to life as a woman. Blech! Too disempowered for me. LOL.

And, in my "real" life, when I first started working, I was one of the few female engineers in my department. The protocol was to use your initials in the author field of technical papers, but no title. I used to get fairly frequent calls from people who assumed that I was the secretary, and that a Mr. So and so was the author, not me. What a laugh!

[pygmalion]

Oh yeah, and then there's the twin thing. There are people who've known me from infancy who still call me Jessica, my twin sister's name. For some unknown reason, they have no idea who I am. Never mind that Jessica is 3.5 inches (8cm) taller than I, looks and acts totally differently than I do, and lives five states away! :shock:

[peachexploration]

Unfortunately, All the time. For reasons unknown. :roll: One person (from another forum) had the nerve to say to me, "I'm gonna do my very best to figure you out". :shock: I think your this way or that because you say this...... :roll: I'm sorry, what does that have to do with Salsa? Often times before I even open my mouth to speak or "write" anything, people mistake me for being a certain way. Gets frustrating sometimes but that's life. :D

[Genesius Redux]

Still, one of the nice things about the Internet is that you can create an identity for yourself that's independent of the prejudices of actual life--people exist in the purity of their minds, or souls, who they are, rather than the corporal facts of age, sex, ethnicity. That makes it possible to make friends with people you might not otherwise make friends with.

I think when people write a lot, after a while you begin to get a pretty good sense of who they are--I wouldn't say I've gotten there with anyone on DF yet, but little by little I'm starting to attune to nuances of personality. When someone tells me they get an impression of me by what I write, I always listen pretty carefully, because it's an opportunity to see directly the way my words have been interpreted by a particular reader.

So for me the anonymity of the Forums allows me the freedom to reveal myself over the long term.

Cheers,

Genesius

[Christina75]

:| I'm constantly being mistaken for Britney Spears. :roll:

Christina
P.S. I got a bridge for sale that I think you might be interested in :wink:

[Genesius Redux]

:| I'm constantly being mistaken for Britney Spears. :roll:

Christina
P.S. I got a bridge for sale that I think you might be interested in :wink:

Not by me! You're much funnier, and therefore--therefore, I repeat, way sexier! :wink:

[Sagitta]

Oh yeah, and then there's the twin thing. There are people who've known me from infancy who still call me Jessica, my twin sister's name. For some unknown reason, they have no idea who I am. Never mind that Jessica is 3.5 inches (8cm) taller than I, looks and acts totally differently than I do, and lives five states away! :shock:


And the picture? Is it ever coming?

[pygmalion]

Umm. No! :kissme: :lol:

[johnnywalker]

I usually get mistaken for a fool.....oh wait, they weren't mistaken.

[Christina75]

Not by me! You're much funnier, and therefore--therefore, I repeat, way sexier! :wink:

:oops: awwww! shucks! :D
:kissme:

[tj]

:lol: Sorry, I couldn't resist this. Someone here thought I was a guy :shock: :lol: It is funny because this is not the first time it has happened, different forum, different name even :lol: but still, the other person initially thought I was a guy and when they realised that I am a female, they thought I was a cucumber short of a sandwich :lol: (otherwise known as a sandwich short of a picnic :lol: )

Has this ever happened to you? :D

Lol! I thought Youngsta was someone else...

(And I think I know who you are - at least under a different pseudonym)

[Pacion]

(And I think I know who you are - at least under a different pseudonym)
:shock: rotfl What took you so loooonnnggg!!! lol Welcome to DF! :banana: :lol: I was starting to think that I would have had to send out a search party for you :lol:

PS. What gave me away :wink: :lol: No wait! Tell me in a PM :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

PS. What gave me away :wink: :lol: No wait! Tell me in a PM :lol:
No, no, no!!!

This sounds interesting/fun! I want to "hear" too! :pout:

[Pacion]

PS. What gave me away :wink: :lol: No wait! Tell me in a PM :lol:
No, no, no!!!

This sounds interesting/fun! I want to "hear" too! :pout:

:roll: :roll: :roll: Why? Would "enquiring minds" like to find out also :twisted: :wink:

[SDsalsaguy]

PS. What gave me away :wink: :lol: No wait! Tell me in a PM :lol:
No, no, no!!!

This sounds interesting/fun! I want to "hear" too! :pout:

:roll: :roll: :roll: Why? Would "enquiring minds" like to find out also :twisted: :wink:
Yesssssssssssssss!

And, FYI, "enquiring minds" always want to know! :wink:

[Pacion]

:lol: :bandit: my lips are sealed. I don't do "kiss & tells" right tj :wink:

[SDsalsaguy]

So there was kissing involved... hmmm, good to know!

[Pacion]

:lol: No there was not and "you know that I know that you know" :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

:kissme: ...so there!


(See? I told you there was kissing involved! :wink:)

[Christina75]

This is better than a soap opera :D

[Pacion]

Better than a soap opera eh? Hmmmm, we shall see about THAT! :lol:


See what you have started SD :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

See what you have started SD :lol:
Me???

I'm not the secretive one with intercontinental intrigues and secret PMs going on! :wink:

[Pacion]

:roll: Says he who isn't exactly a "couch potato" himself and is never far from a camera or a computer :D

What is the saying? You are a fine one to talk :wink: :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

How do any of these things make me secretive? Methinks thou dost protest (or at least try to divert the focus of enquiring minds) too much... :wink:

[Pacion]

Ha! Has anyone told you lately SD that you are cute? :roll: :wink:

As for trying to divert enquiring minds? If you look outside your window in exactly 5mins, you will see a pig in mid-flight :wink:

[pygmalion]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Shoes and ships and sealing wax, and whether pigs can fly.


what is that rhyme from my infancy days? I'll have to ask my mum. (btw, I call her mum, not mom)

[danceguy]

You guys and gals are hilarious! :lol:

I see now that I'm going to have some major competition for most flirtaceous DF member next year! Good, because I don't wish the title. :wink: :roll:

No pictures Pygmalion? I recall the deal was I'd show you mine if you showed us yours! Hmm, there are two pictures of me up, and the ones of you are teasers...you're in a sexy dress doing some serious dancing...but the shots are all from very far away! :cry: :oops: :cry:

No fair! :P

SD - Next DF Reunion make sure to get some pictures of our most elusive and loveable member! :D

SG

[pygmalion]

:tongue:

Just for the record: I'm a knockout! LOL. :lol:

But I'm starting to get paranoid about the role of internet exposure in my life. I've gotten one too many unsolicited IM's and Love at AOL greetings for me to feel comfortable.

SG, I'll send you the url to a couple of my glamour photos on the web. I think you'll like (LOVE!) them. Everybody else has to wait until I get my professional-looking headshots at the mall photo studio.

[SDsalsaguy]

As for trying to divert enquiring minds? If you look outside your window in exactly 5mins, you will see a pig in mid-flight :wink:
Alas, now thine veracity has been impuned by thy very own words... :( :wink:

[pygmalion]

Methinks we've all been reading too much of ye olde English. LOL.

[SDsalsaguy]

Thinkest thou thus indeed?

[pygmalion]

So I fearest, my liege.

[danceguy]

Thou hast my thanks, fair maiden, for thy beauty implores thee of blessed grace! O winds of fate, I await thy message to allude to a tryst of imagery blessed by Aphrodite!

Where is thy noble Saint Genesius...tis decreed that he dost possesses skills with such words of yore! :D

SG

[SDsalsaguy]

Perchance thou art mistaken

[danceguy]

Dost thou mock me, ye fish-faced mendicant? :x :P

[Pacion]

Just thought I would let you flirts :oops: I mean lovely guys and lass know :lol: that I have pulled up my chair and have my giant sized bag of sweet and sour popcorn at hand, whilst I watch this poetry in motion :lol:

[danceguy]

Aye, hither be a fiesty lass! 8)

[Pacion]

Go, ye giddy goose.

Taken from: Henry IV, part I



Thanks Dance Mentor and pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html? :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

Dost thou mock me, ye fish-faced mendicant? :x :P
Nigh thy foolish naive! Mine words were but for the fair eyes of mythical pygmalion.

[Genesius Redux]

Go to! Go to! Y'are saucy wretches all!
Think you a lady's heart is bought and sold,
Crowding like scullions about a stall,
To barter for her love with words of gold?
Imagine you she's of equestrian kind,
Fitted with bridle, bit, and martingale?
Or in a net would you ensnare the wind,
Or chain the waves before you start to sail?
The sculptor, thinking to improve by art
The lumpish shape of unrelenting stone,
Unleashes from the rock a living heart
Which he by rights thinks to be his alone.
But though he labors with his soul t'impress it,
The more he grasps, the less he can possess it.

Genesius :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

Yeah. What he said! :lol:

[Pacion]

Sorry, I didn't hear what Resident Flirt said :lol: I dropped my pail of popcorn so was busy clearing it up :wink:

[Christina75]

:in my best southern drawl:

are y'all speakin' ainglish?
y'all must not be from around here...

Christina :D

[Christina75]

Oh, and I dug out another 2 cents to share. :)

In reading the Shakespeare-inspired speak, I was reminded of this excerpt from the "redneck dictionary" :D

BARD: Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

Christina :D

[Genesius Redux]

Oh, and I dug out another 2 cents to share. :)

In reading the Shakespeare-inspired speak, I was reminded of this excerpt from the "redneck dictionary" :D

BARD: Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

Christina :D

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[pygmalion]

:lol: :lol: Snort!

[NeoDevin]

It would seem I've been too busy to keep next year's title secure... ahh well, such is life. :lol:

[pygmalion]

Which title is that, ND?

[NeoDevin]

Flirt

[salsachinita]

I guess this might be the place to post this story:

A couple of days ago I went to check out this new place. The band was playing a bolero. Some guy I've never met asked me to dance, I didn't really want to turn him down......

He had NO idea what he was doing, all he really wanted was to get close :roll: , so I was busy keeping him at a respectable distance, while he proceeded to teach me how to dance :shock: : "1, 2, 3 stop. 1, 2, 3 stop...."

The song finally ended & I went to dance with my usual friends. His expression was kinda priceless at this point :shock: when he saw us going all out :wink: .......!

I thought it was quite funny......it's been a while since I've receive a 'dance lesson' like this :lol: !

[Sagitta]

can't be really bothered to figure out what this thread is about...but this sort of fits the thread title.

I often get mistaken for this other Asian guy, Moe Arif, who started learning salsa some 2.5 years ago. Now he helps teach some of the advanced lessons and even teaches some lessons himself. I'm no way as good as him - with less time learning salsa and trying several other dances at the same time - so the reverse happens in my case! :oops:

[tj]

can't be really bothered to figure out what this thread is about...but this sort of fits the thread title.


Well, hey... if you wanna take the thread in the IRL direction...

This one time back in college, a buddy of mine, came up from behind me, and put me in a headlock.




...Except it wasn't me! :shock:

Now *THAT* must've been embarrassing! :roll: :wink:

[squirrel]

This thread is hilarious!
Yes, I've been mistaken... first for a guy, probably due to my nick and my passion for speaking outloud about things...
What happened to Salsachinita also happened to me... the guy was trying to teach me Salsa! And he was moving too fast for the music... I tried to keep the beat and he would tell me "No, no, follow me, do like me...". I was glad when the song was over... and I grabbed my partner and danced with him! The guy looked at me as if I were an alien, then, when the dance ended, he came to me and asked: "Why didn't you dance with me like that?" and I was so sick and tired of him, that I said: "That's 'cause you can't lead like that... wait, you can't lead at all... and btw, I teach salsa!" I know I was mean, but... he had been bothering me, offering me drinks and stuff...

[Sabor]

:lol: Sorry, I couldn't resist this. Someone here thought I was a guy :shock: :lol: It is funny because this is not the first time it has happened, different forum, different name even :lol: but still, the other person initially thought I was a guy and when they realised that I am a female, they thought I was a cucumber short of a sandwich :lol: (otherwise known as a sandwich short of a picnic :lol: )

Has this ever happened to you? :D

:doh: OH NOOOO! AND IT HAPPENS YET AGAIN!! ROTFLMAO!! :uplaugh:

it may seem the problem has to be with u afterall .. not the name(s) LOL :tongue: :friend:

[Pacion]

:roll: :roll: Sabor :roll: :roll: You know, I kind of liked it when you were "on holiday" :tongue:



:lol:

[pygmalion]

This thread is hilarious!
Yes, I've been mistaken... first for a guy, probably due to my nick and my passion for speaking outloud about things...
What happened to Salsachinita also happened to me... the guy was trying to teach me Salsa! And he was moving too fast for the music... I tried to keep the beat and he would tell me "No, no, follow me, do like me...". I was glad when the song was over... and I grabbed my partner and danced with him! The guy looked at me as if I were an alien, then, when the dance ended, he came to me and asked: "Why didn't you dance with me like that?" and I was so sick and tired of him, that I said: "That's 'cause you can't lead like that... wait, you can't lead at all... and btw, I teach salsa!" I know I was mean, but... he had been bothering me, offering me drinks and stuff...

OMG! I can't believe you said that! That is totally hilarious. :lol: :lol: He must have really been getting on your nerves.

[peachexploration]

Sort of related to the topic:
:wink:
Funny thought. I was just in the hallway at work. Saw the cutest guy and thought "Wow, he looks excellent in blue". Then thought again, "Why is he wearing a chain around his waist?" Then it clicked. HAHAHAHA Someone from the local jail brought in by a lawyer for a case. :nope: He wasn't so cute after that. 8)

[Pacion]

:shock: :lol: Peach. That is funny!

[pygmalion]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[jon]

I just couldn't stand the idea of being Galatea -- his block of marble that came to life as a woman. Blech! Too disempowered for me. LOL.

If you want empowered statues, check out Thorne Smith's The Night Life of the Gods (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375753060/qid=1083882675/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-6005890-1737660?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) - actually back in print, to my surprise! From the editor's review on Amazon:

Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultrarespectable relatives. He likes to experiment and he particularly likes to experiment with explosives. His garage-cum-laboratory is a veritable minefield, replete with evil-smelling clouds of vapor through which various bits of wreckage and mysteriously bubbling test tubes are occasionally visible.

With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art (if not the timing) of transforming statues into people. And when he practices his new witchery in the stately halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art--
setting Bacchus, Mercury, Neptune, Diana, Hebe, Apollo, and Perseus loose on the unsuspecting citizenry of Prohibition-era New York--the stage is set for Thorne Smith at his most devilish and delightful.

[peachexploration]

:shock: :lol: Peach. That is funny!

Yeah, I kept my geeky computer nerd glasses on after that. Didn't want to mistake anyone else's identity today. :lol: :lol:

[pygmalion]

I just couldn't stand the idea of being Galatea -- his block of marble that came to life as a woman. Blech! Too disempowered for me. LOL.

If you want empowered statues, check out Thorne Smith's The Night Life of the Gods (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375753060/qid=1083882675/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-6005890-1737660?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) - actually back in print, to my surprise! From the editor's review on Amazon:

Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultrarespectable relatives. He likes to experiment and he particularly likes to experiment with explosives. His garage-cum-laboratory is a veritable minefield, replete with evil-smelling clouds of vapor through which various bits of wreckage and mysteriously bubbling test tubes are occasionally visible.

With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art (if not the timing) of transforming statues into people. And when he practices his new witchery in the stately halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art--
setting Bacchus, Mercury, Neptune, Diana, Hebe, Apollo, and Perseus loose on the unsuspecting citizenry of Prohibition-era New York--the stage is set for Thorne Smith at his most devilish and delightful.

Sounds like a great read... Either that, or a terrifying but exciting ride. Gotta check it out! :shock: :lol:

[squirrel]

This thread is hilarious!
Yes, I've been mistaken... first for a guy, probably due to my nick and my passion for speaking outloud about things...
What happened to Salsachinita also happened to me... the guy was trying to teach me Salsa! And he was moving too fast for the music... I tried to keep the beat and he would tell me "No, no, follow me, do like me...". I was glad when the song was over... and I grabbed my partner and danced with him! The guy looked at me as if I were an alien, then, when the dance ended, he came to me and asked: "Why didn't you dance with me like that?" and I was so sick and tired of him, that I said: "That's 'cause you can't lead like that... wait, you can't lead at all... and btw, I teach salsa!" I know I was mean, but... he had been bothering me, offering me drinks and stuff...

OMG! I can't believe you said that! That is totally hilarious. :lol: :lol: He must have really been getting on your nerves.

Trust me, I can't believe I said it either... but he had got on my nerves so much! I'm usually nice and encouraging...but not with 'wisea**es' if you know what I mean...