When I saw the headline in the Daily Progress titled “COUGAR!” I immediately thought of the obvious association (from Wikipedia):
Cougar refers to an older woman, usually in her 40s, 50s or 60s who usually sexually pursue men in their 20s and 30s. In many cases, the alternative scenario is true where these women are pursued by younger men who have an affinity for the beauty, maturity & intellect of women in this age range.
Obviously, this definition was not edited by someone with bias. The entire DP article was littered with quotes discussing cougar sitings all over Charlottesville. Put in the right context, read these:
“I know what a cougar looks like. I’m 76 years old. I can see. I’m not making it up. There was no doubt in my mind that it was a cougar.”
“Mysterious and dangerous is sort of a good mix, it makes for a good campfire story.”
“There have been other species in the history of man that we thought were extinct, but were not, we’ve been fooled before.”
Wow. Cougars are everywhere in Charlottesville. Where do you find yours?
If you have cougar stories, pleas share them!
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I’d say the old Atomic Burrito. I was watching a bluegrass band play there a few years ago and a 40 year old woman was hitting on me. She said I was an old soul in young body.
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Fridays after 5 are also a great cougar watching paradise. You oft see the progression from workaday Mary Kay women to night prowling Mary Careys.
You know what color works great on you gals, especially with the platinum blonde? Anything fluorescent. “Ohhhh Joan, I love the way that scoopneck electric blue tanktop shows off your giant in-between-boob sundamaged freckles. Come on over here, I want to give you a frenchkiss.”
Uhhhh… MILLERS????? Duh..
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Hmph. FF on a Mac worked. IE on a PC did not. Anyway, I’m glad my vote has been counted. Democracy in action!
My mom’s house? I did not realize it was a hangout…
7: Dude, your mom’s house is Earth.
Odie’s apartment building definitely needs to be considered a top five cougar hunting spot. I think the average age there is like 67 and there’s always some old lady in the lobby telling you how sweet you are. He says he lives there for the view and proximity to downtown but I say it’s because of the old chicks.
oh man, i’m so glad i made it back for this. nothing is better than downing glass after glass of free scotch while cougars fawn and rub their cougar paws all over your body, purring aggressively, smokily in your ear,
except everything. everything is better than that.
@9 it’s true everyone, my apt building is the SPOT for cougars. and for old people that constantly bitch and complain about awesome things like being loud and setting off fireworks from my window.
Welcome to the party, ThisSideUp! Grab yourself a Stella from the fridge and help yourself to some chips and queso in the living room. Just whatever you do, stay out of the barn. Parlie and Gobbler are out there with the nitrous tank and things are getting ugly.
P.S. well done on the graph, Thor. I love when you get that magic marker tool out, hilarity always ensues.
It’s interesting that, so far as I can tell, “sugar daddy” would be the closest male equivalent to the category “cougar”. But with sugar daddies, there’s an implied financial relationship, whereas with a cougar, the sex itself seems to be the commodity.
Yeah, the sugar daddy would also have to have some kind of Tom Jones-type quality to him, along with the paper.
Y’all don’t know shit about sugar daddies.
Hmm I am 39 and my fiance is 31 that doesnt make me a cougar does it?
LOL!! And what the hell is wrong with cougars anyway? Hehehe - men do it all the time with younger women, the ladies should be able to enjoy themselves as well 
on the ride to the hippie fest this weekend we were talking about cougars. apparently there are two more categories:
*bobcats: older women(33-42) pursuing younger men (20s)= not old enough/difference of age to be a cougar.
*lynxes: older women (of bobcat age) pursued by younger men.
let’s not forget about cougars in training! they’re between 26-30 and either unhappily married, or unhappily unmarried. cougardom dawns on the horizon like tequila sunrise.
you guys know what i’m talking about.
and all those 26-30-year-old dudes buying girls drinks are just sugar daddies in training, dontcha know.
you’re a towel.
AWESOME
I ♥ you, too.
um, both of you.
@21 - Shen always makes me feel better.
i know i’ve touched on this before, but watching some pathetic milhouse try to buy/booze his way into a girls pants is one of the funniest people-watching scenarios around. they get so angry when she goes home alone! or better yet, with somebody else!
now i’ve bought my share of drinks for people, but guys, it’s not like you’re buying a ticket on an amusement park ride. be reasonable and save your money for hookers if that’s how you think it works.
But my mom says I’m cool.
‘Twas parlie.
P.S. If you’re only buying drinks to get in the girl’s pants, you are an A-hole.
What are the odds buying booze for a girl is going to get a guy in her pants anyway? It may get her drunk enough to make a poor decision but it seems like that poor decision would be made with someone she was originally attracted to at least a little bit, not some stranger who decided to buy her a few drinks. I’m sure it works every now and then but the average has to be low right?
Buying drinks for girls is such a bad idea.
What are the odds buying booze for a girl is going to get a guy in her pants anyway?
Precisely none.
if you’re buying a girl’s drinks to get into her pants, you’re a darwinian failure.
let’s walk about cougars again. i wish i could type in a smoky voice with 15 years of tanning bed experience. i’d make a new character and fool you all for 3 seconds until you figured out it was just me in a cougar suit.
Would it have been ethical for Lewis & Clark to buy drinks for Sacagawea? Explain.
Guys buying ME drinks is a good idea.
@31 so you’re saying you are NOT a cougar?! How disappointing!
@33 Shen’s almost a cougar- a cub perhaps- and since she has a boyfriend buying her a drink will only in like.
@31 if buying a woman a drinks doesn’t work occasionally you’re doing it wrong
if buying a woman a drinks doesn’t work occasionally you’re doing it wrong
I think chicks just dig your suave mustache and ascot, ladykiller, not the actual drink you bought them.
@36 Ladykiller? why would anyone do such a thing, they so fun to dress. I shaved of that mustache, as you know, because you said it tickled. You are such a scamp!
@35: It’s your smooth well-moisturized lips
and I buy lots of drinks for GUYS
Yup, I’m crushing ass every night. I hope that’s not a crime, or I’ll be doing 18 to 69.
here’s my point, and it’s blunt so be careful: if a woman sleeps with you because of the drink you bought her, then either 1) she’s rancid or 2) you’re going to jail.
if she sleeps with you because you’re charming and funny, congrats. but wrap it up, you met her in a bar.
@38 as a ‘tendress or in real life? Cause as a pro that would just be good business
How’s that different from a party or escort service?
@40: As a ‘tendress. In real life, I don’t have that type of cash.
@39 Drinks are not the ONLY reasons but the properly ordered bottle of very expensive champagne has been known to do wonders with the local lovelies.
@43: Mmmmm scramps….still not gonna get you in my pants unless I was gonna sleep with you in the first place. Will let me know that you have excellent taste though. Or $$$. Whatevs.
One time in college, I was looking at some university merchandise at a local store while my friend was picking up some odds and ends. I was glancing at some items on a shirt rack and saw what appeared to be a nightshirt with university logos all over it. A woman in, I would say, her mid-50’s came up to me and said, “that would look good on you…”
Thinking that it was a compliment, I was about to say “thank you,” but then she added “…without any underwear.” I was totally blind-sided by that.
@44 as a rule i never buy the bubbly for those in pants- and your pants are clearly zipped tight for the non-beau.
For those in skirts and party dresses -that is another story
So…how’d it go, Ethan? Did ol’ Millie have a C-section scar?
Drinks are not the ONLY reasons
Mustache, ascot, and lip gloss… see thats what I was tryin to say. The Aqua Velva aint hurtin any either.
properly ordered bottle of very expensive champagne has been known to do wonders with the local lovelies
I have only improperly ordered muscatel with foreign uglies, so I see now why I fail. You don’t by chance have a newsletter or ‘how to’ dvd, do you?
I put all my drinks on the tabs of random girls I meet at bars. Because I’m a feminist.
Ethan was it Dean Wormer’s wife?
I was caught so off guard that all I did was say “uh” and walk away. My friend was standing next to me. You should have seen the look on his face. It was probably almost as good as the look on my face. She was not attractive at all.
@ 45 Dear Penthouse, I never thought these letters were real until one day I was in the college bookstore…
@52 - Tip o’ the cap, good sir. Perfect way to end the day. I’m going to work that one into the repertoire.
blew it bigtime once when I was in college - was working in a video store over the summer, and this hawt ‘cougar’ would come in every day after going to the pool - so she was usually wearing sandals and a bikini with a towel wrapped around her waist. She was maybe 35 (which to my dumbass 20 year old brain was “old”).
One day when she came in, I was working alone, and there were no other customers in the store, so she asked me for a movie recommendation and took me to the shelves and showed me a movie she “really, really liked” called - “Choose Me”. Now, I might be retarded, but even *I* can tell there’s a not so subtle message being sent, but how do I get the message across that I understand? Of COURSE! With a movie recommendation!
I showed her “The Graduate”.
Never saw her again….
@54: I gradurated.
Once when I was a plumber’s helper as a junior high school summer job, Charlie’s Angels called me to their house because they were all showering together but they got their toes stuck in the drain. After that, they invited me back every week to clear their drains.
and I caught a fish this big.
It’s not technically a “catch” if you keep your eyes closed.
@58: That’s what she said.
@59: Oh, yeah?
I see Thor’s Mom’s House is surging late. Get out there and vote, people!
done!
Get a new plan, Stan.
Thor’s Mom’s house is surging precisely because so many people have gotten out there.
@28 it totally works. keep buying them. thanks!
, so, if you are all saying the world is the best place for cougars, how is that going to help us locally?
Whatever happened to lilith? I just noticed she hasn’t posted in forever.
Lilith is… no longer with us. http://cvillain.com/2008/03/14/goodbye/
/you calling that lady a cougar!?
Ethan, cVillain fired Lilith in an effort to go green. Everybody knows that.
I think that my delicious meats must be a prime food image for cougars. Older professorettes and grandmama-realtor types have been known to inquire about the quality of my sausages while flattering my youthful appearance.
these are guaranteed cougar-magnets for any young feller under 35:
http://www.handlebarclub.co.uk/
otter, old bean, how does it go? I grew a rather sizable handlebar lipshrub back when I was 23. Waxed and everything. Not only did the cougars not bite, but I was shunned in elevators.
Your milage may vary.
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@73 Brilliant!
what about faux-cougars - those who are seemingly happily married, but want to have a little fun on the side?
a friend of mine discussed his their musings of cougars.
he shared this with us en route to allgood.
he looked at me as Everyperson in the car did when looking to the elder…
woman…
and declred he thought cougars are women in their 40s-50s who go trollling (intending to pick up men in their) early twenties.
so he and his friend decided that women from 35-42 who might go out ot pick up men (which, given my own perspctive- i never do) aged mid-20s to 30… should have a different term. bobcat.
mind you, this might be better fodder for the muse, given the campy festi road trippiness, but there’s more actio0n over here….
so again, eyes are upon me.
a couple miles pass and i realize road weary/savvy were looking to me.
i voice my thoughts…
“what if “hypathetically” some lady in her thirties isn’t looking. but gets hit upon by younger men?
a coupla days later, walking over the hill - out of wherever, the term “lynx” is applied.
so as then and now, i am a purrral “lynx”
so if you freaks call people cougars.. i choose to stay out of it. and as one staying out of it, if i get hit on, by a younger man i wasn’t even looking for-i’m a lynxes(cause it’s plural and happened more the once, thank you). you can be one too, all the ladies in the house…!
(where’s the free for all?)
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This thread is sorely in need of a link to the “half-plus-seven” rule. Also, all the “cougar”/”lynx”/”puma” terminology is stupid. But I don’t have time to go on about it, for I am going to lunch.
Inquiring minds want to know…that Ben Franklin wrote an infamous letter (Advice on Choosing a Mistress) in 1745 advising a younger man to take up with older women…a sort of cougar advocate……
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