Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[leagleaze]

Liz really was gorgeous when she was young. She's lived pretty hard and had a brain tumor so I guess we can cut her some slack.

The others, lord only knows.





Speaking of gorgeous celebrities from the past, how about Vivien Leigh.




I think today's stars pretty much pale by comparison. Part of it is we simply know too much about their lives. But also, they've spent so much time fucking with their bodies, who knows what they really look like.

[bold_n_brazen]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/992692.asp?0sl=-42

This article will completely cure anyone of a desire for fast food.

I don't even eat at many of these restaurants and I am gagging in my chair.

A sampling:

" In a Chicago, in a Wendy’s, inspectors found dead rodent decomposing on a rat trap. At a California Taco Bell, someone bit into a taco, only to find chewing gum. An inspector in Texas found a worm in a Wendy’s salad. At a Hardee’s in Florida, a customer was handed a cup of soda with blood dripping from it. There was blood on her change as well.
The list goes on. A cockroach in someone’s soda, a sharp metal object in a man’s sandwich. "

Ack. I am seriously going to be ill.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Please, please stop with the Michael Jackson pix. ... WTF is with the Peter Pan collar....?

POTD (unintentional division).

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Liz Taylor was really beautiful in her day (and I don't think the same can be said of the others here)

Hey! Michael was perfectly lovely before he became a hideous Claymation live-action version of Japanese anime.

Not quite Liz Taylor (at her absolute best in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), but perfectly lovely nonetheless. Perhaps he could take one of his earlier faces out of storage, and wear that?

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I don't know what this is supposed to mean, but if anyone comes up with another random phrase today that charms me half as much, I will eat my thigh-high boots.

This would be a more interesting challenge if you were offering not to eat you thigh-high boots, but rather to wear them (and only them).

Ew. Now I feel all lecherous and pervy. But it has to be said.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
POTD (unintentional division).

Actually, intentional. Nice catch.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I think it was a combo of things. The details were sort of sketchy in the books I was reading, though there was a lot of inuendo. I knew that nakedness was involved somehow, probably from TV, but undressing the barbies did nothing to further my education

I think I may have revealed this story before, but my friend Paula was over at my house and we were playing with "The Sunshine Family" (hippie dolls -- I think the dad had a beard and wore sandals, a ribbed turtleneck and plaid pants) and were enacting "The History of the Sunshine Family". So, when it comes time for Sunshine baby to be conceived, Paula (who had an older sister, natch) starts mushing the mother and father's nether regions together.

Of course, I say, "What the hell are you doing?" (I don't think I said hell, actually) and she explained that that's how it was done.

My reply? Nuh-uh -- that's gross. Imagine my surprise when my mother finally got down to brass tacks and told me the 'ol "facts of life" (her prior attempt at explaining where babies came from having consisted of "well, when you're married, you just pray a lot." -- uh -- ok...., which scared me out of praying -- let me tell you!). Of course I was mortified during this conversation, but the main thing on my mind was, "I can't believe Paula was telling the truth!"

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by baltassoc

Seperate question for cable Tivo users: does the Tivo unit replace the cable box, or is it in addition to (in which case, how does it control the tuning)?

It's in addition to, unless you're getting the DirecTV/TiVo combo unit.

There are two ways of controling the tuning, depending on your system. The first is a sensor that you put over the cable box's infrared sensor. The second, more elegant solution is through a serial port on the cable box. I use the latter method, but some cable boxes do not have the serial ports. You pretty much get rid of the cable remote and only use the TiVo remote.

Word to the wise on HDTV, currently TiVO will NOT record HDTV channels.

HDTV is an awesome, awesome picture.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Hey! Michael was perfectly lovely before he became a hideous Claymation live-action version of Japanese anime.

Now I see the source of the Michael fixation.

You also like young boys.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Liz, because she was once beautiful. But I need some X, a nose clip (I shudder to think what any of those four might smell like, but I bet Liz wears a lot of perfume), and a dark dark room. And no talking.

Apropos of little of that, I feel compelled to note that your avatar is the spitting image of my first born. Unlike the Freaky foursome, he smells like an old wool sweater. FYI.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Liz really was gorgeous when she was young. She's lived pretty hard and had a brain tumor so I guess we can cut her some slack.

The others, lord only knows.

While no denying Liz's former looks, I think Liza had a certain something back in the day, like in Cabaret. It was definately fading by Arthur, but once there was something.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Now I see the source of the Michael fixation.

You also like young boys.

Please, pervert. He didn't have his first nose job til he was legal I believe. And still looked largely human (if unnaturally spindly) right through Thriller.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Liz really was gorgeous when she was young. She's lived pretty hard and had a brain tumor so I guess we can cut her some slack.

From my experience people can have part of their brains removed and not turn into freaks. I cut no slack. I'm hard task master.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Actually, intentional. Nice catch.

I'm sorry I ever doubted you. Move it over to the intentional division.

[Penske_Account]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I will eat my thigh-high boots.
QUOTE]

If I wear my skirt, you have to wear your thigh high boots. Platonically speaking of course. NTTAWWT.