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PLEASE, NO GHOST JOKES Swayze
Is Patrick Swayze dying of pancreatic cancer? That's what the National Enquirer is reporting:
For the past month, Patrick, 55, has been traveling to Stanford University's prestigious cancer center in Palo Alto for radical chemotherapy, but his doctors are no longer optimistic that the treatments will be successful.
The paper (which, of course, has been wrong in the past) claims that the Dirty Dancing star has five weeks to live. Whether or not this turns out to be the case, the man apparently has a much larger fan base than previously imagined, if anecdotal evidence is to be believed:

FRIEND: if something happens to that man
FRIEND: people are going to be really really sad
FRIEND: specifically women under 40
RADAR: i don't see it
FRIEND: dirty dancing is our generational reference point
RADAR: i think you're once again generalizing wildly based on your own experience
FRIEND: okay, then how come every woman I've sent it to has responded with "NOOOOOO! Johnny!!"

Is this true? Are there really legions of women roaming the earth whose first sexual stirrings took place to "She's Like the Wind"? Are you one of them? Either way, get well soon, Patrick. If, you know, you're sick at all.

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it's true. I'm sorry about it, but yeah. I've been listening to "these arms of mine" all day, wailing something about walking out of this room and being scared of everything and oddly there's a watermelon that I keep carrying everywhere.

Posted by: jolie on March 5, 2008 1:09 PM

Not so much sexual stirrings, but an important first lesson that if at first the guy exhibits outright hostility towards you, best to follow him around like a puppy dog and offer up everything you have until you wear him down by attrition.

I'm more of a Point Break girl, it would appear.

Posted by: karion on March 5, 2008 2:37 PM

karion! um, you've managed to sum up my entire approach to dating in one pithy comment. it's working out well for me the following and puppying and whatnot, thanks for asking!

balk, I have a question - was this "FRIEND: i think you're once again generalizing wildly based on your own experience" asked by RADAR or FRIEND. jolie = confused. (often - yes I know.) (also, does HTML work in this joint?)

Posted by: jolie on March 5, 2008 3:42 PM

i don't know, some of us experienced our first sexual stirrings to flashdance, which taught us that you can have everything you want, if you're a stripper who welds.

Posted by: slinkimalinki on March 5, 2008 3:49 PM

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@jolie: Sorry, transcription error. Fixed, thanks.

Posted by: Balk on March 5, 2008 4:02 PM

@balk: thanks - sorry I didn't email it (I dislike being correct-y in comments) but I'm still adjusting to this (really lovely!) new home and forgot my manners!

I clearly did not, however, forget how to shift/1!!!!!!!!

Posted by: jolie on March 5, 2008 4:53 PM

@Jolie: sorry Dirty Dancing nor Ghost did a thing for me, Roadhouse however did. Damn I'm a hick. Also, BALK!!

Posted by: Kewgr on March 5, 2008 10:13 PM


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