Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city

The posters for "girl next door" are good because the location of her hand on her butt has a visual reference to the copertone ads. The effect is that, at first glance, you'll likely as not confuse her hand for the top of her butt.

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
cite please.

Anything for you nutcase. The effect is better with a poster, when you're walking by:

[Dave]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If there was an award for best inadvertant misuse (not to mention misspelling) of the word apostrophe, this would be the winner.

Concur.

Apostrophe, asterisk, whatever. You try typing coherently after umpteen hours of discovery review.

Da (distracted by the sex talk) ve

ETA: BTW, is there a Paigow of the Day?

[SlaveNoMore]

Atticus Grinch
I've stopped seeing Bush as stupid, or now I see his stupidity is irrelevant. My problem with him is not that he is stupid. My problem with him is that he is a dick. And fuck Zell Miller, too.

This is paraphrased from Franken's book, right? In the chapter on Barbara and how he gets it from her?

[Fugee]

Totally different show than last week. One amazing performance, one sucky one, 3 so-so ones and 3 decent ones.

The last contestant, Latoya, made me wish I had taped the show so I could listen to her again. I'll have to tape tomorrow. She was impressive from the first notes. It is much more difficult to sing softly but with intensity than to sing loudly and she nailed it. I even called in to vote for her. She is my favorite from the first 3 weeks.

The big Hawaiian guy gave the only sucky performance and I thought the judges were kind to him. The other two guys and the North Carolina girl gave so-so performances. They sounded nice but nothing special. My guess is that the second person to advance will be either Amy (pink hair; Simon thought she sounded like a cabaret singer), Elizabeth (the first one; good stage presence) or Leah (the 17 yr old whose parents were Romanian pop stars). Leah had some pitch problems but the judges liked her and Simon said she had potential.

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Ye of little solipsism -- only Manhattan makes the grade.

And south of 96th, at that.

[hell, south of 14th for the trendy]

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Dave
If there were an award for excellence in the ironic use of an asterisk, this would be the winner.

edited to satisfy timmies everywhere.

I am not a grammar expert, but I'm not sure all timmies will be satisfied with your edit. I'm going to step out on a grammar limb and say that it should say "if there was an award". however I think that "if there were awards" would also be correct.

dtb, please correct me if I'm not timmying appropriately. This sort of grammar rule is very hard to google.

[hank, please note all my qualifiers in case I am wrong here.]

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I am not a grammar expert, but I'm not sure all timmies will be satisfied with your edit. I'm going to step out on a grammar limb and say that it should say "if there was an award". however I think that "if there were awards" would also be correct.

dtb, please correct me if I'm not timmying appropriately. This sort of grammar rule is very hard to google.

[hank, please note all my qualifiers in case I am wrong here.]

Isn't it subjunctive? Like, "If I were you, I would tie with dtb for the Timmy award."

Uh, just to have the requisite qualifiers, I don't know if I'm right or not -- note the question mark and the use of an example (to make it easier to tell me how it's different/why I'm wrong).

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Isn't it subjunctive? Like, "If I were you, I would tie with dtb for the Timmy award."

I don't know at this point. I have completely confused myself. I need to purchase a grammar book apparently. Or not think about this shit after 8:00 at night.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I don't know at this point. I have completely confused myself. I need to purchase a grammar book apparently. Or not think about this shit after 8:00 at night.

Maybe you should have some nice, soothing cheesecake? Or do a few sun salutes or whatever those things are called?

[leagleaze]

The people who make duct tape offer a scholarship for people who go to their proms in duct tape.

Some of the resulting outfits are amazing.

http://www.ducktapeclub.com/contests/prom/archive.asp#

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Not Bob
So, if one were to want to go see a sporting event in TCOTU, and the team that one wanted to see sucked and was playing a team that also sucked, what would be the best way to get tickets for said sporting event?

Subway Series, baby, whooo-hooooo! Mets will win!

Edited to add that the game will probably not be sold out, so I can get tickets at the box office, but when you're talking the Mets versus the Tigers, well, why pay face value?

For METS tickets, you should buy online -- no outrageous service charges and the team still sells a fair amount of tix.

Good seats aren't that expensive. I think the back rows of the mezzanine are like 12 bucks.

[Dave]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I am not a grammar expert, but I'm not sure all timmies will be satisfied with your edit. I'm going to step out on a grammar limb and say that it should say "if there was an award". however I think that "if there were awards" would also be correct.

Here's a link, go nuts. If your eyes don't glaze, you might be Atticus.

I'll try and keep future posts in the indicative mood.

ETA: ltl/fb shoots and scores

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Dave
I'll try and keep future posts in the indicative mood.

If you were nice, you would.

PS. David Bowie is scowling at me for some reason.

[Dave]

Rocky" star Sylvester Stallone said Tuesday he's getting back into boxing - this time finding and grooming young fighters to compete in a reality television show.

It would appear that NBC isn't aware that boxing is the new wrestling and nobody cares, unless it involves Tonya Harding.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Ye of little solipsism -- only Manhattan makes the grade.

When I say NYC, or the city, I mean Manhattan. If I mean Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, I say Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, or stinkhole.