Fake Smile

#1

Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 1:42am

And what must one do to pass YOUR smiling test?
To smile genuinely only increased tension, and I for one, have enough tension.
A (forced) polite, agreeable smile makes me want to gag and frankly hides something of your character.
When you force a smile to make someone happy, what is fake, the smile or the person?
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, are they really?

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#2

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 1:49am

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Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to

#3

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 1:51am

Thank you for that. It put a real smile on my face.

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"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

#4

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:48am

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#5

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:51am

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#6

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:52am

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#7

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:53am

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#8

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:55am

Oh, Elphie, I think she looks radiant!

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#9

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:57am

I can probably find at least 1500 to 2000 like that in my HS yearbooks......cracks me up

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#10

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:58am

Borstal are you referring to the Picture he posted or Elphaba's radiantly smiling icon?

#11

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:58am

She looks like she's offering Jesus a blueberry muffin.

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#12

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 11:05am

Joe, the pix...I hadn't changed avatars yet.

Why is it, that in the 60's and 70's they always tried to make the girls pictures look like off in the distance they were seeing a naked man, Jesus, or a giant donut?

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#13

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 11:06am

<------------------ :-P

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#14

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/17/07 at 11:06am

Blame that fascist Olan Mills!

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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#15

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 3:59pm

"She looks like she's offering Jesus a blueberry muffin. "

Borstalboy, I love you...

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#16

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 4:33pm

I've seen a hell of a lot of Irish eyes. And yet, Irish or not, I've never seen eyes smile.

And whether or not it's possible that eyes could smile, Irish ones don't, because Irish people (actual ones) are the biggest bunch of depressive moany gits in the world.

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deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

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#17

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 5:07pm

Ru Paul never smiles... He just shows his teeth.

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#18

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 5:24pm

A fake smile can be your best friend if you have to work with the public. oy.

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#19

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 5:47pm

Haha, wait until I post my prom pictures! I don't have them yet, but my cheeks hurt just remembering how stupidly goofy my smile was...I dread getting them.

#20

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 5:51pm

My favorite awkward smile picture is of me standing between my brother and his wife right after I graduated...they look so proud of me and I'm standing in my cap and gown looking like I'm constipated.

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#21

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 6:00pm

The only thing more unsettling to me than a fake smile, is people who laugh at everything they say. LOL!

It's really annoying. lol

Because you can't really tell why they're laughing or what they're laughing about.

LOL!

I want to kill them.

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#22

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 6:07pm

LOL!

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#23

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 8:08pm

I think it's in Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary", a moviestar talks about how you smile in Hollywood and how you should never let your smile reach your eyes because that leads to wrinkles.

That's how RuPaul smiles.

The first time I ever really noticed such a smile was in a posed publicity still for the Robert Goulet tour of "The Fantastics" in the late '80s.

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"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music "Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70 "Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba

#24

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 9:35pm

#25

re: Fake Smile

Posted: 5/20/07 at 10:51pm

"She looks like she's offering Jesus a blueberry muffin."

LMAO that comment just made my night...