People Named Gus and Other Toothless Friends
I'm not going to tell you my name, age, or sex (which you could probably guess somewhere along the line regardless of my attempts) because that would breach perhaps the most important part of the internet, this so-called anonymity. Of course, I don't agree much with this because when I was a sprouting teenage boy (ahh shoot, I told you...) hitting on the cyber chicks and thinking I was really really suave, they probably weren't 16 year old "hot pockets of fresh lovin' " as they claimed, but probably my next door neighber, a 57 year old fat man with a passion for greasy foods. Quite strangely, the very anonymity of the internet, a manifest created to connect millions of people across the globe, finds itself destroying what it attempts to find: personal connections. Perhaps if I were to get up and make a telephone call, I'd have a date on Saturday nights. But, alas, my true friends are those who discuss cartoon shows and the Teletubbies in Australia. Yes, the Internet must be our most human of all nonhuman inventions. Even more so than the microwave (which also keeps my nights a little less lonely.)Conversations
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