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

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Here is the problem with this board:

Whenever anyone gets criticized, everyone checks to see who is doing the criticizing and who is getting criticized. If I'm doing the criticizing (for example), someone points out when they think I've acted in a way similar to the action I'm criticizing. Or they reach (and you never have to reach far) for something else I do that's annoying and try to hold that up. Okay.

When it's paigow, everyone can't wait to jump in and tell her why she's a looney. I understand this because she rarely makes much sense. And she doesn't understand the following, which is the point you've all been waiting for:

No matter what is being criticized, almost everyone on this board automatically thinks it would be hilarious to incorporate it into every single one of their posts for all eternity. It isn't.

And if you're still doing it 3 years later, paigow's right. You are trying to signal to everyone else that you know stuff that is particular to the board. But who cares about the reason? The point is, it is stupid, overdone and objectively not funny.

Everyone is guilty of this. I make no exceptions. But why is it that no one notices when it is no longer clever to say, for example, "For Fred's sake. Oh, Fred, you devil. Fredland. I swear to Fred. Etfuckingcetera." Not everything can be an FBism. "Timmy" survives because it was a clever way of summing up a certain type of behavior. People aren't using it to be funny. They are using it to reference that behavior.

In short, sometimes you have to let the fucking joke die already.

TM

You should be embarrassed by this post. No one gives that much of a shit. No one gives a shit if you or anyone thinks she's funny. No one gives a shit if he's respected or not. No one gives a shit if she repeats herself. No one gives a shit about this little internet forum that you seem to hold in such high esteem. It's an insignificant outlet for bored people to post about things they don't give a shit about.

And if they do, well fuck them. Go find some real friends.



Happy Friday everyone. I love you all.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Poll: Post the full text or best fragment of your favorite poem. Extra credit for extensive sexual metaphor.

There once was a girl from Nantucket.....

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
This puts me in mind of a Poll: Post the full text or best fragment of your favorite poem. Extra credit for extensive sexual metaphor.

This puts me in mind of a Poll: How many of us would rather be English professors?

[idle acts]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
There once was a girl from Nantucket.....

Now that would be one GIGANTIC bud. NTTAWWT

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
"Timmy" is shorthand. "Fred" is not. If you need to repeat some dumbass Fred joke 100 times to feel like you're part of the group (listen carefully), you're probably not part of the group. Or worse yet, you are and you're making a fool of yourself.

Just be yourself and people will engage you. Inserting "Fred" into your posts isn't going to get anyone's attention. It just means that you are completely unoriginal. And that can't and shouldn't make you secure in a group.

Bilmore, when everyone steals your style of talking out of their ass about shit they know nothing about, I'll call them out on that too.

TM

Fred is giong to be shorthnand for being a needy tool who must feel accepted by the group. Like Slave.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
This puts me in mind of a Poll: How many of us would rather be English professors?

Not I. To wit, I do not have a favorite poem. I don't think I could come up with an accurate line from a poem. Atticus's post made me realize that Frankie Goes To Hollywood makes me misremember even the one line I'm kinda familiar with from that super-famous poem.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by idle acts
Now that would be one GIGANTIC bud. NTTAWWT

Is it man from Nantucket?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Fred is giong to be shorthnand for being a needy tool who must feel accepted by the group. Like Slave.

Oh for the LOVE OF GOD. I can't take this.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch Coleridge stuff.

To stand within the Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honeydew
And drink the milk of Paradise

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
The ironic part of this is that paigow actually uses parts of people's posts in her posts all the time. A standard paigow post, has a reference in the middle back to a post a few weeks back.
She does it very well, and it is one of the funnier parts of her act.

A difference is that its always a reference back to something that only she remembered to reference until she does reference it. Sometimes I think she must keep a notebook.

Looks loike someone got an "A" in Paigowology. And I dont use a notebook. I just reutter gems I remember so they don't die like the foul truths from which they grow, or sink like a chocolate submarine launched from the forested starfish living in Sebby's hindside,

()I()

[SlaveNoMore]

paigowprincess
Fred is giong to be shorthnand for being a needy tool who must feel accepted by the group. Like Slave.

Lookin for love, in all the wrong places.

[SlaveNoMore]

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
To stand within the Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honeydew
And drink the milk of Paradise

We have assumed control.

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I might have a guess. I'm no diety yet, but I plan to be one day. Good thing because mod-level powers don't quench my power lust.

It's spelled deity.

p(Timmy!)c

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Is the "Berry" in "Berry Hunter" some kind of clitoris or nipple reference? Though, one more often hears clitoris referred to as "bud" when a nature theme is being used.

I think that it's "Berry" as in Halle Berry, Academy Award winning actress. "Berry Hunter" is, I am pretty sure, a Thurgreed tribute and or stalker sock, based upon Thurgreed's oft stated level of regard for Ms. Berry.

Why? Because I like to be helpful.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
This puts me in mind of a Poll: Post the full text or best fragment of your favorite poem. Extra credit for extensive sexual metaphor.

If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch 'em -- you'll swing, on my oath! --
Make 'im take 'er and keep 'er: that's Hell for them both,
An' you're shut o' the curse of a soldier.
Curse, curse, curse of a soldier . . .

When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier . . .

When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,
Don't call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch;
She's human as you are -- you treat her as sich,
An' she'll fight for the young British soldier.
Fight, fight, fight for the soldier . . .

When shakin' their bustles like ladies so fine,
The guns o' the enemy wheel into line,
Shoot low at the limbers an' don't mind the shine,
For noise never startles the soldier.
Start-, start-, startles the soldier . . .

If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!