The first rule of Blue Vein Club is you don't talk about Blue Vein Club.

It doesn't bother me. If a fellow appreciates large breasts, he must accommodate their limitations as well. Very few traits, however desirable, come without drawbacks.

MicheleNC, it would probably be my "signature" jelly bean cake. White cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and Starburst jelly beans scattered on top.

If compatibility is important to you, I'd say that you should use MS Office. Like it or not, it's what the broadest segment of the market uses. Open Office is supposed to be compatible, but it is not at 100%. If you're in a profession setting and you can dictate what the entire company uses, then I'd say that you should be fine with Open Office.

I happen to use Open Office myself because compatibility simple is not an issue. If I need to send a document to somebody, I can save it as an MSOffice file and most of the time, it'll work exactly as I intend. If worse comes to worst, I can convert it into a PDF. I have NEVER had a problem with that.

I don't understand the idea behind meeting women at church. I AM a religious man, too. I feel awkward trying to talk to women at a bar, but I can't even begin to imagine trying to get a date with a woman at church. It feels so far from appropriate that it makes me embarrassed just thinking about it.

Oh for crying out loud, I've had potatoes go bad before. They don't even make the top 5.

1. paper mill
2. swine farm
3. month-old Chinese take out
4. sewage treatment plant
5. braces that have just been removed

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and we were talking about unusual approaches that a guy could use to get a girl's attention.

I mentioned the possibility of baking a cake and then inviting a girl back to the apartment to have some. She double-dog dared me to use it, so I guess I have to.

So sometime in the near future, I'll be walking up to a girl and saying, "Hey, good looking. I just baked a cake. You wanna have some cake?"

Saying, "I love you" does not have to be a trying or stressful experience. As some other posters have mentioned, you'll know when it's true because you'll have DECIDED that it's true. You'll be expressing a commitment of sorts. But even though love is not, itself, an emotion, there is an emotional component to a loving relationship. It is natural to be a little bit nervous about telling somebody that you love them. If the fear is producing this kind of a reaction in you, though, then wait to say it.

I dated a girl for almost a year and never told her that I loved her. She had told me that she wanted to hear it first when her fiance proposed to her. I respected that and ultimately, it didn't matter that it hadn't been said because I expressed my love for her just as clearly through my actions as I could have done through words.

YEAAARGH!

Even in a black and white world, that doesn't make any sense, Mimx. Mean or Bad are the opposites of Nice. There's nothing intrinsically dull about being nice. As I noted in my first post, I dance crazy to techno music, which is kind of wild. That bears absolutely no reflection on whether or not I am nice.

I think you're falling into the same pattern of thinking that continues to sabotage Nice Guys. You equate being nice with being boring and assume that if you want to be exciting, you can't be nice anymore. That's a terrible misconception.

For me it's a toss up between a swine farm and a paper mill. They're bad in such different ways, but they're both nauseatingly awful.

I use Voice Over IP through my internet provider. I can't really say that it provides any benefits besides being on the same bill as my cable TV and internet services. In fact, I'm kind of disgruntled with the company because they told me that the phone would plug into the CABLE BOX and it actually plugs into a special CABLE MODEM that they're now renting to me, even though I OWN a regular cable modem.

Dude, that's just the idea I'm trying to combat here. I assume you're NOT boring. If you're afraid that women think you're uninteresting, take this opportunity to declare a few of the things that make you exciting. You're a photography buff, I gather. On how many continents have you taken photographs?

It is more important to some people than to others so there is no universal answer to this question. My best friend is an atheist and he's marrying a Christian girl. I think that they are a fantastic couple and I predict nothing but happiness for them. Me, on the other hand, I would like to settle down with a girl who shares my faith. I think that it will be an important part of maintaining harmony and for sustaining the relationship in general.

Well, that's just it. People in general are looking for BOTH. We want a nice partner with a bit of a wild side. I think that maybe we nice folks fail to show off that wild side.

In a recent thread, I mentioned that maybe what we Nice Guys have going against us is the perception that we're bland or uninteresting. Nice Guys, here's your chance. You know what makes you EXCITING even if you don't necessarily mention it in your profile. Post it here and maybe you'll even help out some other Nice Guy.

I have a tattoo. I dance WILDLY to techno music. When I'm married, I will try ANYTHING in the bedroom (or the kitchen or the back yard), at least once. I study martial arts (judo.)

If we're going with blue, I think that it would be ironic and amusing to cast Ovinize on his Darksteel Gargoyle in response to the Worldslayer ability on the stack. It loses all abilities, including the ability that makes it indestructible.

Honestly, I don't think it's good for a couple to talk on the phone every day. I knew a couple that did this and it became such a fixture in their day that if he hadn't called her by 9:05, she would go into a full panic attack, calling his parents and his siblings to see if he was all right.

Unfortunately, you may have also hurt his feelings or scared him by the way that you worded your request. You asked him to "make you important enough to him" to call you every day. That's an accusation -- "You don't think I'm important enough." I would certainly be a little bit upset if a girl I was dating said that to me. It could be that he perceives making you more important in his life as an escalation of the relationship faster than he's ready to do. You did say that you'd only been dating a month, so it's possible that he was afraid that you were trying to go to far (emotionally) too fast.

KLC, good call. Different people are comfortable with different levels of commitment and "neediness" at a particular stage in a relationship. My ex was one of those who wanted to call every day or two and just talk about what had happened at work. I'm the sort who would call when I had something different to talk about. We managed okay, but it was definitely a point of conflict between us.

FreshMountainAir, I find a woman in a group of people to be much more intimidating than a girl alone. I'm not very good at approaching women under any circumstances. If she's at a table with other people, even if it's easy to determine that she's the "unattached" one, my first assumption is that going over and chatting her up would be interrupting.

Of course, the last time I went and chatted up a girl who was sitting alone (because her friends were playing a game of pool), one of her friends rushed over and "rescued" her as soon as she saw me talking to her. Bummer.

Damnitscloudy, you might take a look at Swords to Plowshares or Condemn to get rid of Darksteel Gargoyle. You could also consider any number of anti-artifact cards to get rid of Worldslayer.