Fashion Board 5-7-04 to 6-9-04

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by taxwonk
It's a fucking message board, bitch. I don't really feel heavily invested in it. Perhaps that's because, unlike you, I have a life outside of cyberspace.

That's cheating.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Yeah, but Joey has since reunited with Caitlin I think (or, they are sniffing around each other) and Snake and some chick who is way shorter than he is who was a single mother because in HS she got pregnant by a guy who was later in a car accident and became brain-damaged got married. So now the daughter of the plucky (but short) single mom and the brain-damaged dude has a two-parent family.

I can hardly wait for the series finale to that series!!!!!

I'm sure you love the update.

Aside from the questions raised in your post (what's going to happen will Joey & Caitlin be able to make it work?) I have the following questions.

1) Will Spinner learn to act?
2) Can somebody shoot Liberty, for her own good?
3) What ever happened to Ellie?
4) Can Jimmy and Ashley make a suicide pact and drown themselves in Lake Ontario?
5) Can Manny come over and play?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Aside from the questions raised in your post (what's going to happen will Joey & Caitlin be able to make it work?) I have the following questions.

Speaking of our Northern Neighbor, why is it all of Canada has a reputation as a total fucking tundra for much of the year, when we don't hear the same things about South Africa or the southern tip of South America which superficially look like they have the same polar proximity? Someone in Canadian PR is asleep at the switch, I tell you what. I'd be afraid to go to Manitoba in January, and it can't possibly be closer to its nearest pole than, say, Johannesburg, which is worth avoiding for quite different reasons but always seems, um, tropical by comparison to Victoria, Toronto and Regina.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Speaking of our Northern Neighbor, why is it all of Canada has a reputation as a total fucking tundra for much of the year, when we don't hear the same things about South Africa or the southern tip of South America which superficially look like they have the same polar proximity? Someone in Canadian PR is asleep at the switch, I tell you what. I'd be afraid to go to Manitoba in January, and it can't possibly be closer to its nearest pole than, say, Johannesburg, which is worth avoiding for quite different reasons but always seems, um, tropical by comparison to Victoria, Toronto and Regina.

Jo-burg is much closer to the ocean than Regina is. The wind has many, many kilometers to get nasty as it whips down to Regina.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Jo-burg is much closer to the ocean than Regina is. The wind has many, many kilometers to get nasty as it whips down to Regina.

New York and SF are at about the same latitude yet have very different weather. Talk amongst yourselves.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Jo-burg is much closer to the ocean than Regina is. The wind has many, many kilometers to get nasty as it whips down to Regina.

Johannesburg is only about 35 degrees south latitude (like Santa Barbara, Albuquerque, Memphis, Charlotte) whereas Winnipeg and Regina are about 50 degrees north. Buenos Aires is about 40 degrees (like Philadelphia).

You're right, Ty, that proximity to the ocean can make a big difference--Portland and Minneapolis are both at about 45 degrees north latitude, but the difference in climate is considerable. Ocean currents and the jet stream also have a non-negligible effect--that's partly why Europe is warmer than it should be based on its latitude, and Portland is also considerably warmer than, say, Bangor or Halifax (also at 45 degrees, but coastal).

tm

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I guess Italian women really are more romantic, with their mustaches and all.

you take the one or two examples from your life and extrapolate that all Mediterranean women are hirsute, be they Italian, greek, Jews etc. right?

Why don't you try and expand your sample, say ask whoever is banging Eva Silverstein....



Eva Silverstein with her favorite equations

[Dave]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
picture of Eva Silverstein with her favorite equations posted for about the tenth time

Hank, love ya babe, but you really need to get some new material. Or at least a new picture of your dream girl.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Dave
Hank, love ya babe, but you really need to get some new material. Or at least a new picture of your dream girl.

my goal for the new year= work 50% of Atticus' threads into an Eva tie-in. But note, only 50%- example, while the door was wide open, in deference to Eva's doctorate, I didn't work her into AG's anal probe post on Politics.

ETA: Note- we all have undergraduate degrees. I assume you all have some understanding of Physics and Physicists. Hello! Einstein, Bohr, Silverstein. I do not post Eva info as some nfh clone posting that which anyone who reads should know already.

No! My Eva posts are meant as a rhetorical tool, challenging us all to move beyond the shallow stereotypes put forth by the likes of Atticus, and asking :
Why not a hot physicist?

Why not a non-bearded semite woman?

Whose is this Atticus to force such stereotypes into my pyche?

[Skeks in the city]

Not a bad list, but too many newer movies perhaps.


Link to article

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Not a bad list, but too many newer movies perhaps.

Not to mention the criminal omission of Blake from GGGR.


Get them to sign on the line which is dotted!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Not a bad list, but too many newer movies perhaps.


Link to article

Frank Galvin?
Luke (cool hand)?

[pretermitted_child]

[rant]How can a restaurant* be considered "upscale" if it spreads white butcher paper over its white linen tablecloths?!

I'm surprised that they didn't give us matching white paper napkins.

Perhaps I should bring my crayons next time so that I may make proper use of their fine butcher paper.[/rant]



* This restaurant scores in the upper 20s on the Zagat survey for its locale. If they are going to charge about $75 per person for dinner, I would think that the cost of laundering our tablecloth would be included.

[Mr. Man]

[i]stuff...

Not having reviewed all the posts, do I correctly see that this discussion has trumped the Maxim Hot 100? Shame. A much better read than the American Way Glen Close Bulgaria issue as well.

Hello, Mr. Potato Head, back doors are not secret...

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Where to stay the next time you're in North Korea.