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

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Thrasher, can I come over for beer and sports?

Yes, so long as you don't try to poke me in the ass with anything. The other day I had this really weird idea to somehow have a television mounted into the retaining wall near the pool -- I had visions of hanging in the jacuzzi, drinking beer and watching Monday Night Football and Hockey Night in Canada. Do they sell weatherproof televisions? I suppose you would need some sort of cover over the screen when not in use to protect it from the elements and birdshit. I wonder how I could make this happen...

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Guess that SO's cat must not be lactose intolerant. His favorite treat is cheese. Doesn't really like any other people food.

Or people.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
no need in BRC's neck of the woods except maybe one or two days every fourth year. its besides the point.

Most winters I've spent here, you're right, it's only really cold (by which I mean highs below freezing) 5-6 days each winter, if that. Last winter was a major bitch, though, and this winter is supposed to be the same. For a few years I've had this very silly early 1970s fur coat I'd picked up on a lark for $8 at a garage sale, and I never really had an urge to wear it, but I was SO GRATEFUL I had that thing last winter. I looked stupid, but I was WARM. I fully expect to look stupid this winter as well, but am considering getting a stupid hat to match.

Now, where I grew up we had real winter. (You kids, you don't know how lucky you've got it. Now when I was your age ...) Not quite Minneapolis winter, but every year a few people froze to death going to the corner for milk. If I were back there now I'd get a full length fur coat in a second (actually, probably a full length fur lined coat, or a long swing-cut shearling thing). I've never heard of anyone having trouble with PETA there, largely because when it gets cold, it is too cold for anyone to want to go out in anything OTHER than fur so the PETA folk stay inside.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Do they sell weatherproof televisions? I suppose you would need some sort of cover over the screen when not in use to protect it from the elements and birdshit. I wonder how I could make this happen...

Pool supply stores sell nice transparent-front cabinets that provide a secure and weatherproof environment for your TV, with hook-ups to outside amps and speakers so you can actually hear the thing.

(Take a look at the cool subsonic underwater subwoofers.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
....and yes, there is an American flag displayed at my house so fuck all y'all.

Speaking of which, a question for "y'all."

My family has its coastal lefty faction -- the effete intellectual snobs, if you will -- and its red-state, blue-collar faction -- the folks you might meet in a small town in the Mountain Time Zone. My father is in the former group. We usually avoid talking politics when we all get together, for obvious reasons, but sometimes it just slips out.

One of my cousins (in the other faction) has decided to work up a family website, which is cool. At the top of the home page, he's inserted a graphic of a flapping American flag.

My father is bent out of shape about this. He sees it as an attempt by my cousin to make a political point.

I'm not so sure. I'm not as sure as my dad that the cousin sees the flag in a divisive way, and thinks it's possible that he sees it as something we all share. Said cousin actually lives in a suburb of Seattle, so he should be more attuned to these things than someone who lives in, e.g., a rural area in the Mountain Time Zone uninhabited by liberals, but I just don't know. And I think raising this could be awkward.

So, where do you all think this cousin is coming from?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
My family has its coastal lefty faction -- the effete intellectual snobs, if you will -- and its red-state, blue-collar faction -- the folks you might meet in a small town in the Mountain Time Zone. My father is in the former group. We usually avoid talking politics when we all get together, for obvious reasons, but sometimes it just slips out.

Wait - let me get this straight - you are the conservative in this menagerie?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
The human body is a beautiful thing, clothed or naked.

This is usually not true.* Most people look better clothed. This is why fashion is so important.



*Thank you all for tending to prove otherwise on Breasticle Day II.

[Anttwat]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Yes, so long as you don't try to poke me in the ass with anything. The other day I had this really weird idea to somehow have a television mounted into the retaining wall near the pool -- I had visions of hanging in the jacuzzi, drinking beer and watching Monday Night Football and Hockey Night in Canada. Do they sell weatherproof televisions? I suppose you would need some sort of cover over the screen when not in use to protect it from the elements and birdshit. I wonder how I could make this happen...

Geez woman, how long to you sit in the jacuzzi? Isn't anything over 20 minutes like unhealthy?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
So, where do you all think this cousin is coming from?

Could be anywhere. But I'm gonna go with Alabama.

TM

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Bullshit.*

*I say this not as an admin, but just as a general calling out on a BS statement. We have no way of knowing whether people who had access to that forum actually looked at the pictures. I'm not even sure if TF (funny initials) had access to the pics. I could check, but I'm too lazy. This note has gone on entirely too long. Perhaps I should end now? Nah, one more sentence should do. Perfect. Oops, that was two.

I did have access (I am SPECIAL). I went to the board. I did not look. Call it what you want. There is no reason to mention it if it isn't true because nobody asked -- I said it to explain a time that I did not take advantage of nekkidness.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Yes, so long as you don't try to poke me in the ass with anything. The other day I had this really weird idea to somehow have a television mounted into the retaining wall near the pool -- I had visions of hanging in the jacuzzi, drinking beer and watching Monday Night Football and Hockey Night in Canada. Do they sell weatherproof televisions? I suppose you would need some sort of cover over the screen when not in use to protect it from the elements and birdshit. I wonder how I could make this happen...

Check boating supply places.

Where I come from there is a shallow section of a major river -- it's maybe a half mile shore to shore and no more than two feet deep for most of it. Everybody takes their little power boats, motors out onto this shoal, drops the cooler and a bunch of lawn chairs into the water, puts the boat's television out the back, and just hangs. You've got to really adjust the contrast and brightness alot, or it's impossible to see anything.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
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Originally posted by cheval de frise
At the rate you're going, you won't be able to afford a sperm bank when you hit 40.

Which is really a shame, when you think about it.

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Do we have to?

No -- we can just make the kind of joke that requires no thought.

[andViolins]

Slip 'N Slide makers sue 'Dickie Roberts'

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The makers of the Slip 'N Slide filed a lawsuit Monday over a scene in the hit movie "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" that shows actor David Spade skidding to a painful halt on the summertime water toy.

Wham-O is asking a judge to order the film out of theaters as long as it contains the Slip 'N Slide scene, or for a disclaimer to be added urging viewers not to try the maneuver made by Spade.

In the movie, Spade jumps belly first on the yellow plastic sheet without first inflating it with air and water. He then coats the slide with oil and crashes into a fence.

The scene has been used heavily in television and theater ads to promote the film, which was No. 1 at the weekend box office.

The lawsuit, filed against Paramount Pictures and Happy Madison Productions, charges the filmmakers violated its trademark by using the product without permission.

Wham-O also claims the scene violates the product's safety guidelines, which limit the use of Slip 'N Slide to children between the ages of 5 and 12 weighing less than 110 pounds and under 5 feet tall.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/09/08/di....ap/index.html

aV

Originally posted by bilmore
Beyond the "organic" cachet, hemp has its problems as a clothing material. It wears rather quickly, doesn't hold color well, and you will frequently wake up in the middle of the night to find your pants eating all of your chips.

But I am sure it looks fabulous with your goose down parka.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Or people.

He likes some people. He just happens to be very selective.