Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[Sock_For_NFH]

Ohio Cops Add Twist to Booby-Trapped Car

"The city's so-called "bait car" is now rigged to play the theme from the television show "Cops" when officers remotely disable the engine and nab the crooks."

Link.

[andViolins]

Report: Pope Did Not Endorse Gibson Film

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II never endorsed Mel Gibson (news)'s controversial Biblical epic "The Passion of the Christ," the pontiff's longtime secretary told a Catholic news service.

Published reports over the past month said John Paul gave his approval of the film after a screening in his apartment in early December by saying, "It is as it was."

The film's producers said the quote was given to them by the papal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz.

In its report Monday, the Catholic News Service quoted Dziwisz as saying, "That is not true."

The news service, which is affiliated with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Dziwisz told the agency that the pope "does not make judgments on art of this kind; he leaves that to others, to experts."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...an_gibson_film

Experts like Ebert & Roeper?

aV

[tmdiva]

Thanks for posting the link to the IRS pub, G3. It seems that whether they bring their own stuff makes a big difference, and also, whether you pay one person or all of them individually.

When they were vetting my mil before her nomination, they did the Zoe Baird analysis, and a key factor was one check/several people.

For the record, my housecleaner brings her own supplies and pays her helpers herself.

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As for reality TV, well, I didn't watch the Big Fat show, but I did watch AI, AJ and RW/RR. I'm a little sick of scooter girl already, too--I didn't think her voice was THAT great. And I would have let in the 82nd Airborne gal--she was cute as a button.

On Average Guido (the head spoiler guy also seems to be Italian-American), the previews seemed to show that not all the beefcake guys would be mean. And can it really be possible that an adult American guy can neither swim NOR ride a bike??!?

I apologize to Coral to the extent that her wimping out was caused by anaphylactic shock, and not too much smoking. It's not clear to me, though, when the spider bite took place, and it may be that her cigarette-related wimping out may have directly led to her anaphylactic shock wimping out in that she was bitten by a spider while lying on the trail.

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[spookyfish]

Originally posted by andViolins
Report: Pope Did Not Endorse Gibson Film

aV

Not that he remembers, anyway.

[bilmore]

(Sorry, I just liked this.)

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by andViolins
Report: Pope Did Not Endorse Gibson Film

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II never endorsed Mel Gibson (news)'s controversial Biblical epic "The Passion of the Christ," the pontiff's longtime secretary told a Catholic news service.

aV

I thought Gibson's traditional Catholicism is still ticked off at the Popes anyway for that whole Vatican II heresy?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by purse junkie
I thought Gibson's traditional Catholicism is still ticked off at the Popes anyway for that whole Vatican II heresy?

Yeah, but God is ticked off at Gibson's traditional Catholicism and smote the film crew with lightening twice. (scroll back to earlier boards for articles)

[purse junkie]

Killer Louise Woodward becomes a member of our esteemed profession in England:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...ork_as_lawyer/

[NotFromHere]

This is a must-have.

PFHT Pet Foil Hat Technology STOP BRAIN SCANS. Pet Foil Hat Technology (PFHT)
is the sorta-patented system that protects you and your pet from the government!

"PFHT" will not disappoint anyone who doesn't want to get noticed by the ever watchful FBI.com!
Features of this product:
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Blocks the CIA brain scans.
Scrambles the NSA brain scans.
Poaches the FBI.com brain scans.
Bakes potatoes when placed around a potato in a hot oven.
pet hat

[str8outavannuys]

A few ideas:

#1: Scooter Girl - the Scooter Song

#2: David Wilcox (hi Jack!) - Do the Bearcat

#3: Lowest of the Low - Salesmen, Cheats & Liars and/or Dogs of February and/or Subversives

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by bilmore


(Sorry, I just liked this.)

IN that same vein...

[str8outavannuys]

Guess which two stars of the small screen I saw hanging out in the same group of about 10 folks at the Grafton Hotel on the Sunset Strip?





They seemed very friendly with each other, but Nathan was more friendly with another girl there. Nathan seemed 100% not gay.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Guess which two stars of the small screen I saw hanging out in the same group of about 10 folks at the Grafton Hotel on the Sunset Strip?





They seemed very friendly with each other, but Nathan was more friendly with another girl there. Nathan seemed 100% not gay.

Who are those people? I am no TV-eschewing bilmore, so I'm more inclined to feel that if I don't know who the hell they are, they are not stars.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Who are those people? I am no TV-eschewing bilmore, so I'm more inclined to feel that if I don't know who the hell they are, they are not stars.

They're contestants from the last season of Big Brother, so he's using the term "stars" very, very loosely.

P.S. The re: line should have tipped you off.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Who are those people? I am no TV-eschewing bilmore, so I'm more inclined to feel that if I don't know who the hell they are, they are not stars.

Concur. Str8, there is a potential for insider smugness, that you, as an actual insider, must be careful to guard against. I know that is not your intent.
Still, your post has the feel of something like when you first meet Atticus and ask where he went to law school and he says "Boston."
Out with it; we know you're hooked up.