Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[sunnybunny]

StraightActing.com is a website that features a survey that allows you to determine your gay "quotient"
by answering a short survey. The survey is unscientific, of course, and is only for the purposes of fun;
not for determining how truely gay or straight some is. If u are interested in seeing how u rate, visit the
StraightActing.com website.


THat's their pitch.


www.straightacting.com

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
sophmore year at Wigglesworth . . .

Hank Chinaski
'89 Law '92, '94, '97

Kind of explains why it took you three tries to get a law degree that stuck.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Hmm. I always wondered what the dregs/proles did at lunchtime after we sped off in our imported sports cars to dine.

Pshaw. You Choate and Phillips Exeter boys are SO overrated.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My friendly neighborhood bookstore is urging me to read P.G. Wodehouse. Never done that. Anyone with a view, pro or con?

I find Wodehouse funny, but not as funny as e.g. Gerard Durrell.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
And even after I told you that Mad Dog and mashed potatoes and gravy were a bad combination.
You never listen.

You didn't warn me about the Purple Passion baked beans.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
No B. that's a hoax. These wags down the hall from me sophmore year at Wigglesworth faked this for a Soc 202 project. Turns out the "standing on line" dots only signify locations where Good Old Heath Darbyshire had sex. A bit indiscrete, certainly, but boys will be boys you know.

Hank Chinaski
'89 Law '92, '94, '97

Dear Hank,

The simple Midwesterners of the board like me (and other flyover folk here) appreciate this schtick, but you are just embarrassing yourself in front of the coastal elites that, for the most part, populate this place.

Your special friend,

The Flower

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Dear Hank,

The simple Midwesterners of the board like me (and other flyover folk here) appreciate this schtick, but you are just embarrassing yourself in front of the coastal elites that, for the most part, populate this place.

Your special friend,

The Flower

Once, one of the elitest elite PM'd me to ask if I knew her husband who graduated Harvard the same year I did.

PS: Sophmore year I was an RA.

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I find Wodehouse funny, but not as funny as e.g. Gerard Durrell.

I almost typed a Patwick Swayze joke. Lord forgive me.

Wodehouse is funny in a very arch British manner, IYLTSOT. Perhaps best known for creating Jeeves and broadcasting amusing stories via the wireless from the comfort of a hotel in Berlin circa 1941. He has his defenders, including George Orwell.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My friendly neighborhood bookstore is urging me to read P.G. Wodehouse. Never done that. Anyone with a view, pro or con? I'm a sucker for a whole series of books that come with tasteful jackets, and -- speaking of tasteful jackets -- this Wodehouse line in the piece by Edmund Morris about Ronald Reagan in the latest New Yorker made me laugh:

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. This may mean that I have to find an alternate for the WIWFSU contest! You've never read PG Wodehouse? You Philistine!!!

(I need my smelling salts...)


Jeeves and Wooster -- the only author that can come close to the laughter-inspiring quotient of PGW's Jeeves and Wooster stories is David Sedaris.

Thud. (That was me fainting.)

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ironweed
I almost typed a Patwick Swayze joke. Lord forgive me.

Wodehouse is funny in a very arch British manner, IYLTSOT. Perhaps best known for creating Jeeves and broadcasting amusing stories via the wireless from the comfort of a hotel in Berlin circa 1941. He has his defenders, including George Orwell.

Ty seems like he might be into arch British stuff.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Once, one of the elitest elite PM'd me to ask if I knew her husband who graduated Harvard the same year I did.

Oh Hank. She was just making fun of you. Your response e-mail got forwarded to a whole bunch of folks from the board with some not-so-nice comments annotating it. I don't think I need to tell you that one of the comments started: "Translation: I am a dumbass . . . ." I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this.

[Flinty_McFlint]

NotFromHere quote:
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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Hmm. I always wondered what the dregs/proles did at lunchtime after we sped off in our imported sports cars to dine.
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I thought you boys at the prep school had your lunches catered.

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Pshaw. You Choate and Phillips Exeter boys are SO overrated.

Actually, it was more like reform school, and we generally beat up prep school types and stole their imported sports cars at lunch. Ta.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
A colleague received a bogus email from his own work address. I have no idea how that works.

A typical virus that attacks Outlooks spreads more quickly by using one level of abstraction. It infects your computer, then sends out an e-mail to everyone in your address book. But instead of making it look like it came from you, it spoofs the headers so that it looks like the e-mail comes from somebody else in the mailing list. So the guy got the mail from somebody who has both his work and home e-mail addresses.

I was once threatened by opposing counsel with sanctions for sending his client an e-mail with a virus in it. Turns out my dumb-ass client got infected and had both my e-mail address and his former business partner's in his address book.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by dtb
Jeeves and Wooster -- the only author that can come close to the laughter-inspiring quotient of PGW's Jeeves and Wooster stories is David Sedaris.

Speaking of whom, has anyone read "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" yet?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
StraightActing.com is a website that features a survey that allows you to determine your gay "quotient"
by answering a short survey. The survey is unscientific, of course, and is only for the purposes of fun;
not for determining how truely gay or straight some is. If u are interested in seeing how u rate, visit the
StraightActing.com website.


THat's their pitch.


www.straightacting.com

That is so gay.