jmcquown wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ups.com...
> > Thanks for all that - very entertaining stuff! The gist does seem to
> > be to do something that I'm used to doing (and yes I am a dab hand in
> > the kitchen), rather than to try something complicated and make a pig's
> > ear of it. I have one or two thoughts that I'll run by the lady
> > concerned, and then I'll take it from there. But thanks for all your
> > contributions so far folks - and do keep them coming. I can try the
> > more complicated examples later in the relationship - if that's how it
> > pans out. Alan S - you've definitely given me some "food for thought"
> > there!! Cheers all.
> >
> Absolutely go with what you know and are comfortable with. Don't worry
> about if it's "just pasta" - you can do some pretty fantastic things simply
> with pasta and not spend all the time fussing over a stove or a grill or
> whatever. If she likes seafood, you might think of a shrimp and crab
> linguini dish with a cream sauce topped with grated Parmesan. Serve it with
> some hot crusty bread, warmed olive oil with some dried herbs (oregano or
> marjoram, basil) in it and cracked black pepper for dipping the bread in and
> a crisp chilled white wine.
>
> Atmosphere is everything and it sounds like you would like to impress this
> lady. Have a vase of flowers on the table and candles. Music in the
> background... something subtle; we aren't talking Metallica here! Good
> luck!

All's really necessary is a big ole slab o' colby, a box of Ritz,
Champagne... and a bath. Good idea to put on fresh undies and fresh
linens on the bed too... those raunchy shit-stained rags you've been
sleeping in for three weeks will negate even the fanciest schmanciest
dinner. Decent gals are impressed with cleanliness... dust, vacuum,
polish your furniture, windex all glass. Disinfect yer terlit and
scrub the tar stains off your bath tub, have clean fluffy towels, fresh
soap, a new in-the-box toothbrush, last thing you want displayed is an
extra used toothbrush (even if it's yours, she'll never believe you use
two)... which reminds me, make sure you've been to the dentist within
the last four months... decent wimmen aren't impressed that you rely on
sanitizing your mouth daily with dago red.

Get rid of all the pictures of your exes... shoulda been burned a long
time ago... 'specially those you snuck of them sleeping nekid... and
about that 8 x 10 on top of the TV you took through the glass shower
door of your sister... you'd be far better off with serving a fistful
of slim jims and a six pack... but she is cute all pressed up against
the glass. hehe

Sheldon