Useless Personal Trivia

[odeon]

Did you fidget with the white pawn Odeon?

Yes. It made me feel safer.

[DirtDawg]

For years I used to carry a chess piece - a white pawn - in my pocket.

Why a white pawn? 

A white pawn is the most common first move by a factor of (shit, I forgot, but it is a lot, like maybe seven or eight) and maybe that has significance to one who tends to wait for another to make the first move most often.

It's the most common first move, yes, but it's also the most common piece.

And in this case, it just happened to be available.

How is a white pawn more common than a black pawn?

You have lost me.


I was hoping that there was more to this than simple availability.

["couldbecousin"]

A white pawn is the most common first move by a factor of (shit, I forgot, but it is a lot, like maybe seven or eight) and maybe that has significance to one who tends to wait for another to make the first move most often.

I am that type of person, unfortunately. I think I need to change! 

[DirtDawg]

A white pawn is the most common first move by a factor of (shit, I forgot, but it is a lot, like maybe seven or eight) and maybe that has significance to one who tends to wait for another to make the first move most often.

I am that type of person, unfortunately. I think I need to change! 

I have found a woman kind of like you and I offered her my castle.

[DirtDawg]

:hurl:

['andersom']

Did you fidget with the white pawn Odeon?

Yes. It made me feel safer.

I have pebbles for that.  

[DirtDawg]

Did you fidget with the white pawn Odeon?

Yes. It made me feel safer.

I have pebbles for that.  

I use music.

["couldbecousin"]

A white pawn is the most common first move by a factor of (shit, I forgot, but it is a lot, like maybe seven or eight) and maybe that has significance to one who tends to wait for another to make the first move most often.

I am that type of person, unfortunately. I think I need to change! 

I have found a woman kind of like you and I offered her my castle.

Is that Mrs. DirtDawg? 

[odeon]

For years I used to carry a chess piece - a white pawn - in my pocket.

Why a white pawn? 

A white pawn is the most common first move by a factor of (shit, I forgot, but it is a lot, like maybe seven or eight) and maybe that has significance to one who tends to wait for another to make the first move most often.

It's the most common first move, yes, but it's also the most common piece.

And in this case, it just happened to be available.

How is a white pawn more common than a black pawn?

It's not. I was answering a question "why a pawn?" but I wasn't being very clear.

You have lost me.


I was hoping that there was more to this than simple availability.

There is, actually. I liked the idea of a pawn rather than something else because the pawn in all its simplicity has more potential than other pieces.

['andersom']

Did you fidget with the white pawn Odeon?

Yes. It made me feel safer.

I have pebbles for that.  

I use music.

The pebble is in my pocket. Every coat worth being a coat has at least one pebble that just stood out, and had to be found. And no matter where I am, or what I need to be doing, as long as I have one hand free, it can bring me comfort.

Music, it is great, but for me it doesn't work when I have to deal with other people around me. Music brings solitude in the best possible way since real darkness has seized to exist. The pebble grounds me, even when needing to interact with other people.

[DirtDawg]

A white pawn is the most common first move by a factor of (shit, I forgot, but it is a lot, like maybe seven or eight) and maybe that has significance to one who tends to wait for another to make the first move most often.

I am that type of person, unfortunately. I think I need to change! 

I have found a woman kind of like you and I offered her my castle.

Is that Mrs. DirtDawg? 

You are actually asking that question, I mean are you really asking that of me?

I am a man of many volumes of pages, most pages mention women who have not been good for me, but only two wives in all those volumes; one who was my high school sweetheart, now, long dead in my heart and one who saved me from continuing to destroy that wide open place in my mind where women can generally enter, who has replanted a massive garden in my heart.

Yes, the talented gardener is indeed Mrs. DirtDawg, forever.

["couldbecousin"]

A white pawn is the most common first move by a factor of (shit, I forgot, but it is a lot, like maybe seven or eight) and maybe that has significance to one who tends to wait for another to make the first move most often.

I am that type of person, unfortunately. I think I need to change! 

I have found a woman kind of like you and I offered her my castle.

Is that Mrs. DirtDawg? 

You are actually asking that question, I mean are you really asking that of me?

I am a man of many volumes of pages, most pages mention women who have not been good for me, but only two wives in all those volumes; one who was my high school sweetheart, now, long dead in my heart and one who saved me from continuing to destroy that wide open place in my mind where women can generally enter, who has replanted a massive garden in my heart.

Yes, the talented gardener is indeed Mrs. DirtDawg, forever.

She sounds wonderful. 

[Queen Victoria]

A white pawn is the most common first move by a factor of (shit, I forgot, but it is a lot, like maybe seven or eight) and maybe that has significance to one who tends to wait for another to make the first move most often.

I am that type of person, unfortunately. I think I need to change! 

I have found a woman kind of like you and I offered her my castle.

Is that Mrs. DirtDawg? 

You are actually asking that question, I mean are you really asking that of me?

I am a man of many volumes of pages, most pages mention women who have not been good for me, but only two wives in all those volumes; one who was my high school sweetheart, now, long dead in my heart and one who saved me from continuing to destroy that wide open place in my mind where women can generally enter, who has replanted a massive garden in my heart.

Yes, the talented gardener is indeed Mrs. DirtDawg, forever.

You sound quite Victorian, in all the good meanings of the word.

[Parts]

I have sunburn

["couldbecousin"]

I have, according to my back X-rays from a few years ago, "scoliosis and mild spurring."