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

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by mmm3587

Edited to fix puncutation errors.

Corect puncutation is imprtent.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by AngryMulletMan
I feel horrible. Fuck you. Feel better now?

Much, thank you.

p.s. you and your pile of cash are my favorite.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by mmm3587
It's almost laughable to me that, through evolution, boys are predisposed to playing with trucks. It's the things that they see, hear and experience that make them want to fill the role that society has determined is appropriate for them.

I used to laugh at the parents who claimed to have raised their boys in total isolation from any depiction of guns saying that the boys "magically" started using the pointed finger and "you're dead" during play. Silly them, I thought. The boys must have seen someone with a gun between their no-TV households and their ultra-crunchy Montessoris. They had to have seen it somewhere, right?

Until I read a magazine article about so-called primitive cultures in the South Pacific experiencing the same phenomenon going back centuries. Entire cultures that hadn't seen guns, and yet they do the finger-pointy-you're-dead thing during play. Turns out, it's the ancient fantastic wish for the power of the Evil Eye --- the desire to cause effects over long distances, combined with the desire to do harm.

ETA: As for trucks versus dolls, I heard a child development psychologist say that boys seek toys involving the interaction between materials and surfaces (e.g., percussion instruments; sliding things across the carpet) while girls seek toys involving the interaction between proxies for people (i.e., dolls). There's probably a solid evolutionary basis for that development.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The offending photo in my old post ..............Please accept my assurances that the photo was not obscene when it was first posted. However, the webmaster who performed the linky-switcheroo is now my hero.

The guy was also careful to pick a new photo that matched your original somewhat, at least given your "never trust a big butt and a smile" parenthetical.

[AngryMulletMan]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Much, thank you.

p.s. you and your pile of cash are my favorite.

Great! Now let's all get back to flinging feces!

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Curt Schilling logged into a bulletin board for serious Red Sox fans
[...]
I'm trying to think what the analogue would be here, but I'm not sure who the right person would be. Candidates?

Johnny Cochran, or some Candian hockey player.

[Pope Paul V]

Originally posted by Tycho Brahe
Sir. I spent Twenty Years on an Island in the Baltic Sea, staying up all Night to make Many and Sundry Observations, without which you could not have proposed your New Theorems. A Little Gratitude is in Order.



Four Danish Astronomers walk into a Bar. Says One, can I buy the First Round? Say the Other Three, in Unison, "Round? No -- Epicycles!"

Trust me, it's funny if you can observe it within two Arc Cycles.

Don't like that one? How about this:

Why doesn't Texas fall into the Gulf of Mexico?

Because Oklahoma sucks!

You are both going to hell! Pagan fuckers!!

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by dtb
[First paragraph of lengthy justifications for why her kids generally conform to stereotypes, not unlike postings by innumerable prior posters.]

[Second paragraph acknowledging some attachment of boy to girly books, indicating that she has, like others, typed the books to begin with.]

My personal experience has been that kids may as a whole gravitate toward some gender typed toys, but I have yet to see a kid I know well (and we have A LOT of kids in our families) attracted only to toys "appropriate" for their gender. My son loves trucks, wheels, etc.

But, he doesn't like blocks, he thinks cooking is a blast, and he will engage in some dress up play. On the other hand, a relative's son who had all kinds of male-oriented play preferences also decided he wanted a play kitchen for Christmas when he was 5 and his Dad quickly sent the signals that this was inappropriate.

Also, my daughters love chess. They are very good at it. But at family events the boy cousins gather around the chess board. The signals are sent and the girls are excluded. Last gathering required parental intervention to get girls included (BTW, girls demolished boys, then 10 year old girl went on to play to draw with Dad of boy who couldn't get kitchen set - YAH!).

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Pope Paul V
You are both going to hell! Pagan fuckers!!

And say hello to Pius XII when you get there.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
The guy was also careful to pick a new photo that matched your original somewhat, at least given your "never trust a big butt and a smile" parenthetical.

That reminds me of what that post was about. The picture was formerly a banner ad for Ronald B. DeVoe, Jr.'s new real estate agency in Atlanta. Hence, the jokes about "Poison" ("that school district is poooisoooon . . ." etc.) and Bobby Brown meeting your life insurance needs.

I do not think the site hosting the ad was necessarily associated with Re/Max Real Estate or Ronnie himself, but no, I can't remember the url.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
This is absurd. Barbie is incapable of killing with her bare hands because she's, well, barbie. Fact that Bimbo Barbs might prefer Jock Joe over Ken Doll hardly makes her less of a bimbo.

On the other hand, Sailor Moon could rip out Joe's private parts, surgically alter Ken's face with them, and still have some stuff left for the next misogynistic boy toy that came her way, all while skipping class.

Clearly, your Ken has never fought with my 80s Republican Barbie. Because my Ken got his pasty little ass blasted back to the Stone Age.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Clearly, your Ken has never fought with my 80s Republican Barbie. Because my Ken got his pasty little ass blasted back to the Stone Age.

Now you're suggesting that the Republican Women's Club Barbie has chops?

Sister, she's still a bimbo, just a bimbo with silver hair, a rich hubbie to cheat on, and some discrete surgical scars.

Sailor moon would take care of her. Hell, the Power Puffs could cream her. But she's probably about right for Ken.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by purse junkie
My Ken got his pasty little ass blasted.

I was always told that Ken enjoyed this, NTTAWWT.

[Tycho Brahe]

Originally posted by Pope Paul V
You are both going to hell! Pagan fuckers!!

Lutheran, yes. Pagan, no. Do not forget, Your Eminence, that I was Imperial Mathematician to the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph II, in Prague. Which is highly overrated, I must say -- full of American hipsters, but it hasn't been a Happening Town for Centuries. And what gives? I said, the Sun and Moon revolve around the Earth. Jeez. (Oops.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I do not think the site hosting the ad was necessarily associated with Re/Max Real Estate or Ronnie himself, but no, I can't remember the url.

Why don't you search for whatever text you recall, and see if Google cached it?