New Fashion Board 10-3-2003 - 11-7-2003 - Page 160

pony_trekker · 10-17-2003, 01:23 AM

THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO LIVES ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!COWGIRL UP!

pony_trekker · 10-17-2003, 01:24 AM

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THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO LIVES ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!COWGIRL UP!

IS THERE ANY QUESTION AS TO THE COJONES OF RIVERA?

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-17-2003, 01:33 AM

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IS THERE ANY QUESTION AS TO THE COJONES OF RIVERA?

Why don't we call it the Curse of Grady Little?

pony_trekker · 10-17-2003, 01:40 AM

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Why don't we call it the Curse of Grady Little?

How about the curse of the asshole?

Nothing makes me happier than seeing fuckfaces like this lose:

Shape Shifter · 10-17-2003, 01:55 AM

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Nothing makes me happier than seeing fuckfaces like this lose:

Is that G3 and Ann?

notcasesensitive · 10-17-2003, 02:11 AM

SO what is the story with this whole (apparently short-lived) Cowboy Up saying? Why is it being said? IS it because of a certain Red Sox player or some general Boston-wild west connection that I am missing?

I'd ask Red Sox fans but they may be too bitter to answer me right now, so instead I throw the question open to the entire fb community. Even bilmore.

evenodds · 10-17-2003, 02:17 AM

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SO what is the story with this whole (apparently short-lived) Cowboy Up saying? Why is it being said? IS it because of a certain Red Sox player or some general Boston-wild west connection that I am missing?

I'd ask Red Sox fans but they may be too bitter to answer me right now, so instead I throw the question open to the entire fb community. Even bilmore.

Tony Kornheiser talked about this earlier in the week. The specific application to the Sox is from some country song, which takes it from a rodeo saying.

Even(from must-see to won't watch in one pitch)Odds

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-17-2003, 02:17 AM

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SO what is the story with this whole (apparently short-lived) Cowboy Up saying? Why is it being said? IS it because of a certain Red Sox player or some general Boston-wild west connection that I am missing?

I'd ask Red Sox fans but they may be too bitter to answer me right now, so instead I throw the question open to the entire fb community. Even bilmore.

Kevin Millar, the Sox 1B, coined the term. Lord only knows why it got so popular, but then you could say that about the rally monkey.

T. (too bitter) S.

notcasesensitive · 10-17-2003, 02:19 AM

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Kevin Millar, the Sox 1B, coined the term. Lord only knows why it got so popular, but then you could say that about the rally monkey.

T. (too bitter) S.

and what is the rally monkey?

Shape Shifter · 10-17-2003, 02:28 AM

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and what is the rally monkey?

And what is it with those Coors Lite commericials and the tasteless, watered down kid Rock doing . . . oooooooh, I get it!

notcasesensitive · 10-17-2003, 02:29 AM

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And what is it with those Coors Lite commericials and the tasteless, watered down kid Rock doing . . . oooooooh, I get it!

so the rally monkey is a sex thing?

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-17-2003, 02:43 AM

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so the rally monkey is a sex thing?

You had to be watching last year. It was Disney's little gift to professional baseball.

notcasesensitive · 10-17-2003, 02:49 AM

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You had to be watching last year. It was Disney's little gift to professional baseball.

now that I've had a little time to investigate (and frankly the existing fb explanations left a little to be desired), I understand the rally monkey is something from 2000 in Anaheim and has now been completely commercialized for profit by such sites as rallymonkey.com. I also learned a little thing or two about the Cowboy Up phrase, best summarized by an excerpt of a boston.com article:

"Millar, a key offseason acquisition by a franchise historically lacking in true grit, hails from Beaumont, Texas. Timlin was born in Midland. Texas is rodeo country. In rodeo, to "cowboy up" means to suck it up in times of adversity. No boo-hooing. No namby-pamby fatalism. As one T-shirt slogan puts it, "Are You Gonna Cowboy Up or Just Lay There and Bleed?" John Wayne never said it better. (Although Bruce Willis snarled something similar in the war epic "Tears of the Sun.")

Millar trotted out the phrase last month when cynics (i.e. saddle-sore knights of the keyboard) questioned the team's toughness. "I want to see somebody cowboy up and stand behind this team and quit worrying about all the negative stuff," Millar growled after a loss to the Oakland A's."

So I assume Red Sox fans are at this moment Cowboying Up. Thank god. I hate namby-pamby crybabies.

(it is amazingly satisfying to taunt losers when you have no team that you like)

Jack Manfred · 10-17-2003, 04:38 AM

FBA: let me add my voice to the chorus of GA's telling you to dump the golddigger. Ambitious is a thinly-veiled code word for "will work his ass off to buy me things."

Paigow: dump that guy... or don't... it's not like you'll ever be happy with your dating prospects.

Rest of the Board: I wore Toughskins jeans until I cared about what I wore and switched to Levi's 501s. I did have a couple of Braggin' Dragon polo shirts... It's amazing how opinions on clothes go from "I like blue" to "I want to wear whatever is cool/girls will like/will keep me from getting picked on" in a week's time.

If I was in charge of the music at Yankee Stadium, I would have played that Hail to the Republic music from Star Wars once the last ball entered the stands. The Yankees need to accept and cherish their role as overpriced bullies who chomp on the bones of scrappy underdogs. Everyone knows Fox would have preferred a Red Sox-Cubs series. They're going to try to hype Yankees-Marlins, but I predict worse ratings than last year.

10-17-2003, 09:18 AM

Much obliged for all the kind advice. Much obliged also for the malicious, if not humorous, attacks and revenge plots against this gal.

Acknowledgements: NCS, your a gem. The guy I’m not callin Coltrane, youre the shit and so are the smart slackers. Shapeshifter who looks like a Slestak dude from Land of the Lost, yea whatever. BRC youre awesome, but Ill give yall a bit more info in a sec that mkes me think shes not a goldigger. Pony Im honored you dont think Im a tool. Hank, no, nuh uh, not a whiner, but you mihgt be right about 5 year plans. Flinty, damn thatd be sweet to call her out in the sack, but thats not my style. Maybe that proves her point. If I was more driven Id say something like that to her. Purse Junkie youre right on. 3M scotch tape guy and Replacement Person, good questions. Anyone I missed, thanks for the thoughts.

To respond, and muddy the waters, now see I dont think shes a goldigger on account of the fact that she recently dumped a shortlived flame who was highly wedged, owns property in a couple states and countries, and is a frequently flier for his successful business. She said his impression of her, even though shes ivy educated, well traveled, and grew up upper middle class, was that she was a hick. She says shes not after wealth, though itd be nice, and that the differences in how they viewed money and what they considered to be refined made for a mismatch.

Now I might not be the driven type for partnership as frankly I dont see myself wanting to be partnered up with some of the asswipes in my office and Id rather have extra time on my hands than money. But its nice of you BRC to still see that Im someone who knows here hes going.

I dont know the motivation behind her insistence that someone be driven and go after what he wants careerwise. I suppose thats a good question to ask her. It does strike me a little odd that shes in her early thirties and hasnt developed a career of her own from what I can see. Shes not a lawyer and was fine with just getting her college degree at 22. I havent the foggiest what she did between 22 and 31. She moved out to my town less than a year ago from another state. Her contract job ended, as did her last relationship, and her sister who lives out here offered her a job managing a project for her business. So shes living with her sisters family and doing project management and some volunteer work. She has 3 o4r 4 other siblings across the contry. Both of her parents are doctors.

Maybe this smacks of rank hypocrisy on her part, but if my ambivalence toward partnership is irrelevant when Im driven in my personal life, than her lack of accomplishment in career should also be irrelevant. All in all Id say shes smart and attractive and does show some strength of character, even if shes a bit misguided.

One other thing she told me that she said was similar to an appearnace of lacking drive was that Im really easy going and havent verbally mixed it up with her. Shes not looking for a fight but said that since shes a strong personality she likes to be met head on intellectually about stuff. I told her Im easygoing but that she aint seen nothin yet. And hell, Im passionate about politics and can hold forth like no ones business, but since she told me she has no interest in politics I thought it considerate not to discuss it with her. Thats about to change.

Well thanks again all.