The Original Gay Porn Community - Free Gay Movies and Photos, Gay Porn Site Reviews and Adult Gay Forums

  • Welcome To Just Us Boys - The World's Largest Gay Message Board Community

    In order to comply with recent US Supreme Court rulings regarding adult content, we will be making changes in the future to require that you log into your account to view adult content on the site.
    If you do not have an account, please register.
    REGISTER HERE - 100% FREE / We Will Never Sell Your Info

    To register, turn off your VPN; you can re-enable the VPN after registration. You must maintain an active email address on your account: disposable email addresses cannot be used to register.

  • Hi Guest - Did you know?
    Hot Topics is a Safe for Work (SFW) forum.

It is I, the English major

heir-to-the-wind

heir-to-the-wind

JUB Addict
Joined
Sep 21, 2011
Posts
1,020
Reaction score
25
Points
0
Location
Las Vegas
My undergraduate major was English with emphasis on composition and journalism. I chose this major not only because I wanted to become a cultural entity like Alistair Cooke who hosted ‘’Masterpiece Theater,’’ but also because I believed guys who majored in English were ‘’’queer’’ like me and I would find an articulate, urbane soul-mate. Neither of these anticipated miracles resulted from this academic endeavor.

God watches over drunkards and fools; and English turned out to be the perfect background preparation for more mundane law school. I spent my spare time reading the prurient details in sodomy cases, jacking off as I learned how to defend potential clients charged with that ‘’unspeakable crime against nature,’’ and collecting ideas for short stories which from time to time I wrote and published in gay magazines that existed before the onslaught of internet porn. I never received a Pulitzer prize, and I never got into criminal law because criminals, for the most part, are neither very articulate nor urbane.

My soul-mate of 30 years is a techie, amused by my story of majoring in English and the sometimes ignoble use I made of it. He started a private joke between us. Whenever we see a guy who manifests the stereotypical hallmarks of being ‘’one of the boys,’’ he jests, ‘’Do you think he was an English major?’’

Out of curiosity, how many of you Jubbers were English majors or found English to be your favorite subject in high school – and why?
 
It was one of my favourites...100% through high school....but only peripheral in my university years.

I now am increasingly more relaxed but beautifully written English still gives me a boner.

And great oratorical presentations can bring tears to my eyes.
 
rareboy said:
It was one of my favourites...100% through high school....but only peripheral in my university years.

I now am increasingly more relaxed but beautifully written English still gives me a boner.

And great oratorical presentations can bring tears to my eyes.
Click to expand...

In high school, I thought I would major in Latin in college, but the texts beyond Cicero became too tedious. I had Latin and German as secondary language in college. I now dabble with the homosexual passages in Petronius and Apulieus.
 
Not me. My favourite and best school subject was Biology and I followed that route at university.
 
While I really like English language (as equally as the other six learned) and learning new languages in general, the idea of studying linguistics never crossed my mind. My favorite subjects at school were natural sciences. I have a BSc in physical geography, studied advanced courses in GIS and nowadays pursue a degree in Environmental engineering. :)
 
heir-to-the-wind said:
In high school, I thought I would major in Latin in college, but the texts beyond Cicero became too tedious. I had Latin and German as secondary language in college. I now dabble with the homosexual passages in Petronius and Apulieus.
Click to expand...

They killed Latin in high school the year I would have started it and my studies allowed me no room for it in core....I really should have done it as an elective in the first three years. I looooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvve Latin.

Maybe I will do it in retirement as part of reading all the classical histories.

That would keep me occupied.
 
I speak English as a second language as I'm an American, I do the best I can.
My best subjects where science and math.
 
Love to meet English majors. Not only are they always the friendliest guys at the pub but they all seem to have interesting stories to tell about their lives after graduation.
 
I'm the techie. Short sentences. Although I do have a pretty good collection of classic literature.
 
Sorry, but I found English to be tedious at school. I loved mathematics and science and that's where my university degrees are. Whilst commuting on the train everyday, a fellow commuter helped inspired me to read english literature and other classics, and in doing so, I'm grateful as it expanded my lexicon and appreciation of the many diverse things I've come to read.
 
star-warrior said:
Sorry, but I found English to be tedious at school. I loved mathematics and science and that's where my university degrees are. Whilst commuting on the train everyday, a fellow commuter helped inspired me to read english literature and other classics, and in doing so, I'm grateful as it expanded my lexicon and appreciation of the many diverse things I've come to read.
Click to expand...

It is interesting how random situations like what you had, how fellow commuter got to inspire you,
from something that you found tedious before, into something that you are now grateful of.
Great story right there!
 
English as it was taught to me in school was awful, so i dropped it after GCSEs (16 years old) and dont really regret it. I took some literature modules at university, but the subject was never going to be for me. I was a much happier and engaged anthropologist, and writing style I have was move favoured towards that.
 
peeonme said:
I speak English as a second language as I'm an American, I do the best I can.
My best subjects where science and math.
Click to expand...

We'll just write slowly and loudly so you'll understand us. And we'll keep using the letter 'u' in most of our words....like 'humour'
 
rareboy said:
We'll just write slowly and loudly so you'll understand us. And we'll keep using the letter 'u' in most of our words....like 'humour'
Click to expand...
Whilst being somewhat enamored by your command of the Queen's English and some use of colourful metaphors, I don't straggle from the pack, please don't break stride on my account.
 
peeonme said:
Whilst being somewhat enamored by your command of the Queen's English and some use of colourful metaphors, I don't straggle from the pack, please don't break stride on my account.
Click to expand...

We see what you did there.
 
rareboy said:
They killed Latin in high school the year I would have started it and my studies allowed me no room for it in core....I really should have done it as an elective in the first three years. I looooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvve Latin.

Maybe I will do it in retirement as part of reading all the classical histories.

That would keep me occupied.
Click to expand...

You might enjoy this site-

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/

It keeps me occupied in retirement, among other things.
 
During middle and high school I hated English. Not because it was hard, it was an easy class to me, but because it bored me to tears.
I was much more into Earth sciences and Astronomy.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top