{"id":3795,"date":"2012-11-18T19:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T18:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2012-11-18T19:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T18:55:44","slug":"american-slang-ii-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/american-slang-ii-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"American Slang II – Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"

So there she was, my supposed hook-up<\/em>. Although she was not totally airbrushed,<\/em> you could tell that she had spent hours painting herself up like an Indian on the warpath<\/em>. Although I had put on my best duds<\/em>, you could tell that she thought of me as a geek<\/em>, which I am. Well, after getting our bearings<\/em> we kind of dug<\/em> each other, and started making out <\/em>and had a go at the good old tonsil hockey <\/em>right in the movie theater. But when I wanted to get to 2nd base<\/em>, she pulled the old limp act<\/em>, letting me know that the show was over. Well, after akward exchanges of fake promises, we split with no hard feelings.\u00a0 I my opinion she was thinking of herself as some drop-dead-gorgous maneater <\/em>that was to good for me. Well, I my opinion she was not girlfriend material <\/em>either.<\/p>\n

hook-up<\/em> = date, often arranged by a third party<\/p>\n

airbrushed<\/em> = perfectly styled<\/p>\n

painted up like an Indian<\/em> = excessive use of cosmetics<\/p>\n

duds<\/em> = clothes<\/p>\n

geek <\/em>= socially challenged person<\/p>\n

to get one\u00b4s bearings<\/em> = to check something out<\/p>\n

to dig something <\/em>= like<\/p>\n

to make out, play tonsil hockey<\/em> = kissing including tongue<\/p>\n

2nd base<\/em> = male exploration of female body including breasts<\/p>\n

limp act <\/em>= passive aggressive reation of a woman in the face of male sexual overeagerness<\/p>\n

drop-dead-gorgeous <\/em>= very attractive<\/p>\n

maneater<\/em> = woman with many lovers<\/p>\n

girl friend material <\/em>= potential long-term partner for a relationship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there she was, my supposed hook-up. Although she was not totally airbrushed, you could tell that she had spent hours painting herself up like an Indian on the warpath. Although I had put on my best duds, you could tell that she thought of me as a geek, which I am. Well, after getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witziges-und-nicht-ganz-ernst-gemeintes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}