tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21422930.post-77062474706011023612008-07-03T13:41:00.000-05:002008-07-03T13:42:29.951-05:00Maybe I Told This Tale Already...<div><img src="http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x202/phizzle38/staceysmom.jpg"></div> <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; </div> <div>...but, I was home today for lunch &amp; heard the great Fountains of Wayne hit &quot;Stacey&#39;s Mom,&quot; and that triggered a few memories.&nbsp; The first is the story of a woman in my office (here at Horn Dog Enterprises -- HDE) who walked around the entire place one day many years back asking everyone to vote for her in the WDVE (a local classic rock station) &quot;MILF Contest.&quot;&nbsp; Gentleman that I am, I took her aside and asked if she knew what MILF meant.&nbsp; She didn&#39;t.&nbsp; It was a little awkward for a week or so thereafter (even for HDE).</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Anyway, in the tune, you get the feeling that the speaker is basically a young man, probably&nbsp;of high school age, who&nbsp;finds himself enamoured with&nbsp;&quot;Stacey&#39;s Mom,&quot; right?&nbsp;I would argue that this is the usual / traditional sense of the acronym MILF -- spoken by a young man about someone&#39;s mother. That&#39;s kind of an important&nbsp;distinction because, technically speaking,&nbsp;&quot;MILF&quot; <em>could</em> be uttered by anyone of any age about <em>any</em> attractive woman who has borne a child. And, of course it&#39;s a <em>subjective</em> descriptor; a MILF to me may not be a MILF to you. But, again, I think it&#39;s safe to call it a young man&#39;s term.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>It&#39;s also pretty much solely a guy thing (e.g., there being no equivalent&nbsp;term &quot;DILF&quot;), although MILF&nbsp;could technically be applied in a lesbian context&nbsp;(though I&#39;ve never heard it used that way -- which, btw,&nbsp;would make interesting blog fodder).</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>As defined above, I never found myself in&nbsp;situation in which the term MILF would have been applicable. And, as I&#39;m now&nbsp;clinging desperately to&nbsp;my late 30s, I suppose the window of opportunity has long passed for the proper use of that term. But I do vividly recall one MILF, at least as far as some of my friends were concerned.&nbsp; </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>There&#39;s a guy who reads this blog sometimes called Denn The Hunter (referred to in my book, <a href="http://bsuwg.blogspot.com/2007/09/tales-of-midwest-unleashed-on-world.html"><em>Tales of the Midwest</em></a>&nbsp;as Alec Baldwin). <em>Quite&nbsp;a few</em> young men had a crush on Mrs. Baldwin -- especially a guy&nbsp;called Hero in my book. I was probably the <em>only</em> guy, aside from the Baldwin brothers, who <em>didn&#39;t</em> think of Mrs. Baldwin as a MILF, and that&#39;s probably only because I spent so much time at their house, she was kind of like a mother to me (or, well, maybe an aunt or something). </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>But Hero was so delusional about his MILF crush (and probably other things) that I think he actually believed he had a shot with Mrs. Baldwin.&nbsp; Once when we were 16 or 17, I recall him vocalizing a decision one day: &quot;I&#39;m gonna lay one on her,&quot; he&#39;d said. That was typical Hero stuff, of course.&nbsp;I don&#39;t think he ever did, thankfully.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Happy 4th of July. See you next week!</div> Blowing Shit Up With Gashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17804188398018016592noreply@blogger.com