Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Rugby and cricket also have laws. A friend of mine works for professional cricket, and she's responsible for updating the laws. Apparently, she's been in the middle of not a few international incidents.

What do you expect from people that call closing binders "bibles."

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I just got my packet with my tickets, plus the letter telling me that I have two entries in the lottery for Superbowl tickets. Here's hoping.

Cowboys or Houston Cows? That is what the mascot is, right?

[W.W.L.D.]

BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But are there consistent underlying motivations?

Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:

* Fear and aggression
* Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
* Uncertainty avoidance
* Need for cognitive closure
* Terror management

"From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination," the researchers wrote in an article, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.

[c2ed]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
All this talk of football has gotten me amped up about REAL football. Training camp starts in 22 hours and PreSeason starts in 15 days.
:partytime

It's the only thing I have to look forward to this fall, since basketball is going to suck out west here with a 2 team race.

Actually, some teams are in training camp as we speak. I cannot wait for August 7, when there will finally be something more exciting than golf to watch.

C(still lobbying to make SuperBowl Sunday a national holiday)deuced

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by leagleaze
what is ringette?

As far as portions, I have found two ways to deal with it. One is I just ask them for a half portion and pay full price. Most often however, if I don't know what to expect and the amount is obviously too great, I cut it in half right from the start. If it is something easily cut in half, i.e. a piece of chicken, that is simple enough. If it is pasta or something, I just push half to one side of the plate. I either give the other half to someone else or leave it. I don't take it home because I won't eat it anyway. It is a waste, but better in the trash than in my body.

I find if I do this I have already told myself this is all you are eating, no matter how yummy it is the rest doesn't even exist for me. Works pretty well. I ate out recently and had some tiramisu (sp) and the piece was so huge it was absurd. I just cut it in half and left the other half sitting there until someone else at the table couldn't resist it sitting there and asked me for it. Of course this might cause everyone who eats with me to get fat, but not my problem.

Obviously your mother didn't give you the "starving kids in (name your poor country here)" speech ad nauseum, and how, you know, since we're poor you should never waste food. It still galls me to see people wasting food, I can't help it, I've been brain washed. If you order a large, but really only needed a small and you're being wasteful about it - it just bothers me. But a lot of places will let you order a half order, most places will not. We usually don't go to those places often.
Anyone every try to eat a Claim Jumper salad? I'm telling you, it's as big as your desk. Stupid. And they use that cabbage/carrot/filler crap. Leave that stuff out and give me less food. I don't need filler.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Cowboys or Houston Cows? That is what the mascot is, right?

I think he's supposed to be a bull.

It was an interesting naming strategy. Marketing Texan stuff in Texas is a little difficult, because everyone already has flags and bumper stickers and hats and shirts with the Texas flag on it. So I think the bull comes in so we're forced to buy merchandise in order to show our support.

Our don't mess with Texas shirts aren't enough, apparently.

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Do any of you know anything about food allergy/avoidance diets? (Background: some folks think that some fat people are fat mostly because they eat foods to which they are allergic, and their body stores the food instead of processing it normally; cutting out those foods leads to weight loss).

Does anyone know whether this is good science or bunk?

Str8.

pre-law, pre-med same difference.
Its bunk - don't think there are any scientific studies that support this theory. That being said, there are theories such as differences in breaking down carbohydrates and efficient insulin use (cited in diabetes, used as basis for Atkins diet etc.), that have scientific support. Cut out those types of foods and body will process more efficiently - but most of the foods cut out are processed breads, pastas, garbage etc. - junk food. Still the age old - eat healthy, reasonable portions (I don't care if you are on the Atkins diet 72 oz steak is not healthy), and exercise.

JMHO,

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I just got my packet with my tickets, plus the letter telling me that I have two entries in the lottery for Superbowl tickets. Here's hoping.

Y'all are on the big events next year, huh? Isn't the (baseball) all-star game in Houston too?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I think he's supposed to be a bull.

It was an interesting naming strategy. Marketing Texan stuff in Texas is a little difficult, because everyone already has flags and bumper stickers and hats and shirts with the Texas flag on it. So I think the bull comes in so we're forced to buy merchandise in order to show our support.

Our don't mess with Texas shirts aren't enough, apparently.

Yes, he's a bull, but isn't the name the Texans? I guess what confused us the first time we saw the mascot and heard the name is that it doesn't go together. If you're going to be the Texans, then get a Texan, not a bovine. If you're going to use a bull head, the call yourself the bulls (Chicago notwithstanding), or the beefsteaks, or something cow related.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
When I lived in Japan for several months, the show was in its production stage/initial run and was on air weekly. The thing was basically a religion in Japan. Unfortunately, Liberace is now dead and can't match Kaga in outlandish dress.

What is it with you and japs?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
If you're going to be the Texans, then get a Texan, not a bovine.

What do you want the team to use, GWB? Ross Perot? Judge Kent?

[i]

Breakfast, maybe, althought the six-egg omlette is coming soon to a Denny's or IHOP near you, probably.

Bleah.

Breakfast is the biggest offender. Anyone seen the Denny's (I think) french toast cinamon bun entree - 2 of those 1,000 calorie Cinnabuns, dipped in egg batter and fried, then covered in powdered sugar. Yikes

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Y'all are on the big events next year, huh? Isn't the (baseball) all-star game in Houston too?

Yeah. We did all of this infrastructure building to make the city look more attractive for the (failed) 2012 Olympic bid, so we've got a new baseball stadium (2000), football stadium (2002), basketball/hockey arena (2003), ligh rail connecting all of these things (2004) and mega convention hotel (2004). They were talking for awhile about turning the Dome into a state of the art track and field facility. 8th Wonder of the World and TWO retractable roofed stadiums. Apparently none of this countered the heat and humidity as far as the US Olympic Committee was concerned, so we lost the bid. But we're picking up all sorts of other events, so it wasn't a total loss. Superbowl rotation, All-Star Game, and I think I heard something about the NCAA tournament people liking the new basketball arnea.

I'm pretty sure that Enron was a major contributor to a lot of these projects. Ken Lay's name was tactfully removed from all of my inaugural season Texans literature, but he was one of the original parnters in the effort to bring football back to the city. I don't know what happened to the air conditioning part of the 30 year free-air-conditioning-for-naming-rights-to-the-baseball-stadium deal.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What do you want the team to use, GWB? Ross Perot? Judge Kent?

I wanted to see them called the Executioners. Or the Humidity.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What do you want the team to use, GWB? Ross Perot? Judge Kent?

OH, hell no. That's my point. The Houston Texans are the people who show up to the games and pay for the tickets. So they should be going to go see the Houston Texans? I think it's the weakest attempt at picking a name in the history of names. Did they at least have a contest? Or was this all they could come up with?