LLLs check-in here!

[elshiva]

LLL, here reporting for...

[TayTay]

1. LLL, Middle-weight division

checking in. BTW, love the pic Elishiva!

[elshiva]

5. Middle-weight division what does that mean?

Thank you!

[TayTay]

7. An oblique age reference

I was being coy and setting myself aside. (I do that sometimes. Seems harmless enough.)

[elshiva]

12. LOL! Thank you!

[JI7]

2. hello

checking in, just watched the social security forum with the Senators. Kerry and everyone else were great.

[TayTay]

3. Nice and loose too!

And positive. It's so, so, so great to see Dems stand up whooping and cheering for FOR something. The recent excessive negativity in these forums and in Dems as a whole has brought my spirits down somewhat. A few more wonderfully positive things like this and I will start to perk up a bit. (Ah, yes, this is me depressed. What do yo mean you didn't notice? Sigh! Gotta work on that.)

[holiday]

4. I'm here

going thru Kerry withdrawl. That was one thing I was so excited about during election was constantly seeing and hearing about president Kerry *sigh*

[Firespirit]

6. Present.

Reporting for duty sir!

[rox63]

8. Dumb question

What's an "LLL"?

[TayTay]

9. Ahm, well, see a while back in Dec

when it wasn't really the busy political season, we had time to speculate about all sort of things. And we discovered that there are all kind of fans of Senator Kerry. (And other pols, but this is the JK forum.)

During one of those harmless but fun threads I invented the term LLL to describe some of the posters who were writing rather ardent posts of admiration that I hadn't quite heard before:

Libidinous Liberal Lasses Love Looking Longingly at Lanky Leaders.

(But LLLLLLLL is too, too much. So, it became LLL for short. Libidinous because I figured it was a word that freepers wouldn't understand.) And, we needed alliteration that day. No reason, it just occurred to me that we needed alliteration that day. So I did alliteration.

All wonk and no play make LLL very boring women indeed. We had a tremendous spike in traffic in those days. Then Skinner clamped down on explicit postings, so we have been behaving ourselves, more or less, give or take, since then. But it has also become something of a signature expression for this group. (Well, we are Dems. And it can be ignored.)

When I first posted here, I wouldn't even put up floaty hearts. Well, that changed, because it was just too much fun.

EDIT: And it's an organic part of the conversation: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=273x17173#17192

[rox63]

10. Thanks

I guess there are times I can count myself among the LLL crowd. I definitely see his appeal in that area. Although JK has been my Senator for most of my adult life, and I've been voting for him all that time, I never noticed him that much before the presidential campaign. But the more I found out about the man, the more I admired him, and the more I supported his campaign.

[TayTay]

11. In this, we are alike

I would never, ever had said some things I have said without this group. It was not a part of the conversation I had with people in MA about Kerry. (Except for those conversations about his time before he got married, but I digress.)

We have been desperately trying to come up with an LLL thread for the guys who check in here, but I'm not sure we succeeded. And we probably never will. After all this is the JK forum. But we try to accommodate all points of view, so we will keep trying. At any rate, I think some of the guys who check in here are amused by the LLL threads. They are kind of funny.

EDIT: Oh and I forgot this, LLL threads tend to have our favorite little devil's grin embedded in them :evilgrin: That is also a signature comment in the group that marks the time when the thoughts have just deviated from politics to something else.

[elshiva]

13. Post an LLL photo please!

[JohnKleeb]

14. I cant see that and I havent seen Mrs. Kerry since I got back

I got her email though, COME BACK WEL, I NEED THAT SUBZERO SONG AND SOMEONE TO BE RAUNCHY WITH.

[elshiva]

15. I'm having trouble posting that picture. Here it is

This please God post:


Sorry Kleeb. I miss Mrs. Kerry. I don't know the Subzero song.

[JohnKleeb]

16. Picture works

oh the subzero song is awesome :D. Yeah I miss her as well, she's sorta like an older sister to me in someway, funny thing is that she's a few months older than my current crush, funny how things are like that :).

[elshiva]

17. Where is Mrs. Kleeb? She is THE LLL.

Mrs. Kerry is going to give JK the LLL medal of honor this summer.

[JohnKleeb]

19. Oh definely

[elshiva]

18. How did you get away with this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=273x3190

[Firespirit]

20. Holy s--t.

I should have been in this group earlier, before the fun had to be taken off-site. That thread is amazing.

[elshiva]

21. I know! How did they do it?

[Firespirit]

23. I have not a clue, but it's really something.

Like I said... I should have been here. That thread would have been twice as long and my post count would have topped 1000 by now.

And I thought I was being original with the term "WMD." Humph. :cry: No original ideas anymore.

[elshiva]

24. WMDs they were found! Oh, well!

[JohnKleeb]

25. I have a WMD too!

[elshiva]

26. Now, now Kleeb. We all know that you are a boy.

You don't have to remind us. I'm sure your WMD is fine, too.:evilgrin:

[JohnKleeb]

27. Sorry I had to say that

Of course, I am sure it is too, I got the qualities down.

[elshiva]

28. Yeah, don't get down on yourself!

I'm sure you are wonderful. Natalie tells me so. :toast:

[JohnKleeb]

29. ha

ILBK :).

[elshiva]

30. ILBK?

[JohnKleeb]

31. shhhhhhhh

:) thats my secret.

[elshiva]

32. Your secret code?

Your secret is safe with me.;-)

[JohnKleeb]

33. Not a code

but a sorta secret. Damnit I miss BK :(, girl has no idea how I feel about her.

[elshiva]

34. BK should be so lucky as to be loved by you.

[JohnKleeb]

35. I wouldnt say love

but really really like. Yeah shes so damn pretty and smart. The kinda girl you'd want to bring home to mom and dad.

[elshiva]

36. Oh well. I'll pray you can take her home someday.

[JohnKleeb]

37. Well I gotta ask her out first, thats the first step shrug aint it

[elshiva]

38. haha, it's been awhile...

[JohnKleeb]

39. Well yeah

I think I said too much. ILBK tho lol.

[elshiva]

40. "I like BK"= ILBK?

By it's been awhile, I mean it's been a long time for me being married for months now.

[JohnKleeb]

41. ya ya

I wont say the full name of course out of respect. Ha congrads on being married.

[elshiva]

42. Thanks! It's wonderful being married!

Truly understand about not giving the full name. Of course very few people know hubby and I are married.

[JohnKleeb]

43. Yep

Got a beautiful name, all Irish and stuff, mmmmmmm how I like an Irish lass, though ideally I'd want what I am, a East European-Irish mutt, well I am German too, but hey no one's perfect.

[elshiva]

44. Irish are some beautiful peeps.

[JohnKleeb]

45. Yes indeed

:) and Ive never been much of a red head fan myself but you know real Irish arent redheads, they're dark haired, and thats what my lovely is.

[elshiva]

46. Brunettes are lovely like Natalie Portman.

Irish got redhair from the vikings raping Irish women (well in part).

[JohnKleeb]

47. Yes

I was thinking of her when I said that. Allison Hannigan who was that band geek in American Pie is a good looking Redhead to me, shes more hot in well this picture I remember seeing of her.

[elshiva]

48. Didn't see American Pie. Oh well.

Natalie Portman was so hot in Garden State. I know you will see that in one of your classes. The skinny dipping scene is the best.

[JohnKleeb]

49. oooooh that sounds great

Yeah she is hot, but I prefer pretty for girls like her, because pretty and beautiful is all emcompassing.

[elshiva]

50. That is a great scene in the movie

because she looks like she's naked from the waist down.:evilgrin:

[JohnKleeb]

51. that sounds lovely

You know the interesting thing is that she's slightly more short than I normally like my girls, 5'4, I like 5'6-5'9 range best but hey I wont complain because shes a goddess.

[elshiva]

52. Goddesses come in all shapes and sizes.

[JohnKleeb]

53. They do, you got that right

[elshiva]

54. In all genders too...

[JohnKleeb]

55. a guy cant be a goddess, only a god shrug

[elshiva]

57. I meant

femme or butch, not sex but gender.

[Firespirit]

22. Hahahaha TayTay

I love how you're being so coy about all this. But somehow that seems to be much, much more entertaining in conveying the facts than coming out and explicitly stating what LLL do.

[TayTay]

56. It's a gift.

Seriously, when I first started posting here I had no idea what to make of the ardent admirers. (Precursors to the LLL.) As we all now know, I have had conversations with women who dated JK in his single years and those types of stories were well known here (and discussed publicly in the MA newspapers.) Those stories bothered me 0% because the guy was single (and I just assumed that single people occasionally date. LOL!)

However, I never engaged in those discussions using sentences that had the 'I' pronoun in them. It just never occurred to wonky old me. I can, ad nauseum, discuss policy and issues and political stands, as everyone here knows. I had, and to some extent still have, trouble talking about personal non-political stuff. (Maybe that's my own New England Reserve poking through, I don't know.) So, I think the LLL threads are good for me. There is nothing wrong with seeing the human being beneath the wonk. (Hmmm, who am I talking about here, someone else or me. I don't know.) And seeing the human being can mean seeing all of them. (Mmmmmm, yummy.) So, I think this has been a good thing.

And it is good for this group. Very good for this group. All wonk and no play means nobody shows up for discussions. I love the spiciness factor here and the fact that you never know where it is going to show up. This makes talking to people here a fun thing. And it keeps this group loose, fun, amicable and able to debate difficult stuff without people getting their feelings hurt or huffing off vowing never to return. (Yup, LLL is a factor in keeping the group loose. I love that.)