The other day while emerging from the cabin of my sailboat that's moored in the midst of the floating city I inadvertently glanced over to a nearby sailboat and espied another head popping out of a cabin.
This head sported rectangular mirrored sunglasses and had short almost buzz-cut white hair.
Now, I slightly know this person from another dimension, and my initial judgement was that he was a suburbanite who occasionally visited the nautical universe via his sailboat, and initially he seemed sort of friendly.
Back to the dimension of the other day, the inadvertent glance dimension etc., the millisecond inadvertent glance dimension. In this dimension, dude shoots over a sharp razor look with help from his very white teeth perfectly reflecting the direct sunlight. You know, the "super-fast head turn bright white toothy razor grimace instantly followed by a view of the back of the head" thing.
At that time I thought, "that guy just shot me a cutting look, heh." Then I thought, "looks like he learned that nasty glance from some lower echelon board room. The nasty glance didn't look like a "foreman ordering the peons" look, but one never knows.
I have to admit that I felt a bit of a barb from that shooting glance, but otherwise I'd say it was mildly laughable. On the stinkeye rating scale I'd maybe give it a 3.
This idea of rating the stinkeye's came some years ago while meandering through the floating city with a friend. During this meandering my friend got shot with a particularly brutal stinkeye that caused him to get thrown back an inch or two. Fortunately I wasn't in the direct trajectory but was standing just enough aside to get a near perfect spectators view of the unprovoked attack.
"That guy just gave you a brutal look" I said shortly after.
My friend was unable to respond for about a minute or two and yet somehow he managed to continue piloting the boat.
"Hey man you alright?" I said a little later trying to shake him out of the stupor.
"Sorry" he finally responded, "it's taking me a while to shake off that stinkeye."
"Yeah, what the hells up with that guy?"
Looking back at that ugly moment, I'd say that look was an 8 on the stinkeye rating scale. That is, it nearly froze the victim but thankfully he was still able to function.
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On the light end of the stinkeye rating scale, a 1, is a barely visible bit of flying ire that at the worst is mildly laughable.
On the heavy end of the stinkeye scale, a 10, is complete paralysis. You know, that "I'm gonna empty your bank account, steal your wife, make everyone hate you... etc..., (most of us have personal versions of this horror story)" look.
Fair Winds
Captain Bill
This head sported rectangular mirrored sunglasses and had short almost buzz-cut white hair.
Now, I slightly know this person from another dimension, and my initial judgement was that he was a suburbanite who occasionally visited the nautical universe via his sailboat, and initially he seemed sort of friendly.
Back to the dimension of the other day, the inadvertent glance dimension etc., the millisecond inadvertent glance dimension. In this dimension, dude shoots over a sharp razor look with help from his very white teeth perfectly reflecting the direct sunlight. You know, the "super-fast head turn bright white toothy razor grimace instantly followed by a view of the back of the head" thing.
At that time I thought, "that guy just shot me a cutting look, heh." Then I thought, "looks like he learned that nasty glance from some lower echelon board room. The nasty glance didn't look like a "foreman ordering the peons" look, but one never knows.
I have to admit that I felt a bit of a barb from that shooting glance, but otherwise I'd say it was mildly laughable. On the stinkeye rating scale I'd maybe give it a 3.
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| Bald Eagle in a tree. I would not call that look a stinkeye. |
This idea of rating the stinkeye's came some years ago while meandering through the floating city with a friend. During this meandering my friend got shot with a particularly brutal stinkeye that caused him to get thrown back an inch or two. Fortunately I wasn't in the direct trajectory but was standing just enough aside to get a near perfect spectators view of the unprovoked attack.
"That guy just gave you a brutal look" I said shortly after.
My friend was unable to respond for about a minute or two and yet somehow he managed to continue piloting the boat.
"Hey man you alright?" I said a little later trying to shake him out of the stupor.
"Sorry" he finally responded, "it's taking me a while to shake off that stinkeye."
"Yeah, what the hells up with that guy?"
Looking back at that ugly moment, I'd say that look was an 8 on the stinkeye rating scale. That is, it nearly froze the victim but thankfully he was still able to function.
_____
On the light end of the stinkeye rating scale, a 1, is a barely visible bit of flying ire that at the worst is mildly laughable.
On the heavy end of the stinkeye scale, a 10, is complete paralysis. You know, that "I'm gonna empty your bank account, steal your wife, make everyone hate you... etc..., (most of us have personal versions of this horror story)" look.
Fair Winds
Captain Bill
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