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

[Sidd Finch]

1. People who use "air quotes."

2. People who use the word "literally", especially when they really mean "figuratively." (e.g., "There were literally, like, millions of people there!")

3. Anything that involves filling out forms.

4. The way my possessions seem to have spawned in the process of being moved from one home to another. (There is no other way to explain the fact that I have at least five kinds of salt.)

5. Anything involving applications to pre-school. Including but not limited to the notion that a year of pre-school should cost more than my three years of law school.

6. Stupid lists.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch

5. Anything involving applications to pre-school. Including but not limited to the notion that a year of pre-school should cost more than my three years of law school.

If I ever have kids, I can't see any good reason to raise them in this country.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by tmdiva
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Jonah picked a really stupid, meandering song (what was that? E/O?) that really didn't work for him, and he went really overboard on the ornamentation, but at least he was mostly in tune.

Carl Thomas, I Wish I Never Met Her

I loved Latoya. I get goosebumps when I hear someone with perfect pitch, and I had them throughout her performance. Five notes in, the Odd Man started with "she's a ringer. There is no way that woman is not a professional singer. Look at her poise. She obviously does this for a living." Fortunately, we had it on the dvr so I could watch her again without his running commentary.

Originally posted by evenodds
Carl Thomas, I Wish I Never Met Her

I loved Latoya. I get goosebumps when I hear someone with perfect pitch, and I had them throughout her performance. Five notes in, the Odd Man started with "she's a ringer. There is no way that woman is not a professional singer. Look at her poise. She obviously does this for a living." Fortunately, we had it on the dvr so I could watch her again without his running commentary.

You tell the Oddman that we think she is a ringer for a ringer.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
1. People who use "air quotes."

2. People who use the word "literally", especially when they really mean "figuratively." (e.g., "There were literally, like, millions of people there!")

3. Anything that involves filling out forms.

4. The way my possessions seem to have spawned in the process of being moved from one home to another. (There is no other way to explain the fact that I have at least five kinds of salt.)

5. Anything involving applications to pre-school. Including but not limited to the notion that a year of pre-school should cost more than my three years of law school.

6. Stupid lists.

1. The air-quote is like a Hitler analogy. Use it and your audience immediately starts daydreaming.

2. "Literally" is a Valley Girl version of "actually."

3. Forms are below me. I just refuse to do them. I can write an appellate breif, but will not fill out the notice of appeal. If its got boxes and requires checks marks, I'm not even looking at it. That's bureaucrat work. This is why I pay someone to do my taxes, and look over homes sale agreement shit. I hate forms so much I'll pay anything not to deal with them.

4. Paper is the most insidious detritus. Victoria's Sectret and J. Crew have wallpapered me to death.

5. Applications are worse than forms. They're busy work for mindless clerks.

6. I actually like lists. They're great if you have ADD.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
If I ever have kids, I can't see any good reason to raise them in this country.

Unless you plan to eat them.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
2. "Literally" is a Valley Girl version of "actually."

Totally.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Unless you plan to eat them.

A modest proposal in an Atkins frenzied country. The low-carb kiddie diet. Lose weight AND save money.

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Totally.

I want you, naked, except for a pair of blu blockers, on my desk.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I want you, naked, except for a pair of blu blockers, on my desk.

Vixen.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
that was almost as good as Roger Daltrey with Tits.

I saw Rogerette gushing to Katie ("I'm secretly just like Martha Stewart") Couric this morning about the monumental end of SATC.

"It was so humanizing to give Samantha breast cancer."

"Oh yes, Katie, but the real message of this season was you don't need a man, but sometimes you do."

"Oh yes, did I mention I lost my husband, and I love kids. I'm remarkably resilient, aren't I?"

"Who's shoes are you wearing, Katie?"

"Oh, I thought you'd never ask..."

I just pray my TiVo got it all. And that Couric gets hit by a city bus.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
A modest proposal in an Atkins frenzied country. The low-carb kiddie diet. Lose weight AND save money.

American Children are well marbled like good veal, unlike their grizzled European and Asian counterparts.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
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).

You are correct -- it is the subjunctive. (My 8th grade English teacher gave us this handy hint: think of the hot dog song -- I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner -- when conveying something that is other than the actual state of things/conditional.)

[evenodds]

1. We generally vacation together. Rarely, I fly home to see my mother alone or ahead of him by a few days or a week.

2. One cat, no children. She accompanies us to my mother's so she can spend a couple of weeks by the pool.

3. We both work outside the home. Obviously, I have much more flexible time than he does.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The kids are learning:

Giant lobster shipped from Washington to Maine for release in native waters dies before return

In other news, Friendship Long Island area stores are requesting supplemental shipments of butter and garlic.

TM