Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03 - Page 1482

Atticus Grinch · 09-09-2003, 09:32 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
This is so like to government to form 3 teams to investigate 1 thing.

Notice the Lockheed spokesperson also said "We're reviewing the paperwork." How long would that take? In the real world, this would be a Post-It note saying "We dropped it."

leagleaze · 09-09-2003, 09:40 PM

Ok I just got 6 different emails with that stupid virus in it. This is getting annoying.

NotFromHere · 09-09-2003, 09:48 PM

Well, not really, but good news for those of us without kids...

Elizabeth Warren is a Harvard law professor and bankruptcy expert and discusses these findings in her new book “The Two-Income Tap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.”
In just twenty years, the number of women filing petitions for bankruptcy had, in reality, increased by 662 percent.

Our study showed that married couples with children are more than twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as their childless counterparts. A divorced woman raising a youngster is nearly three times more likely to file for bankruptcy than her single friend who never had children.
Over the past generation, the signs of middle-class distress have continued to grow, in good times and in bad, in recession and in boom. If those trends persist, more than 5 million families with children will file for bankruptcy by the end of this decade. That would mean that across the country nearly one of every seven families with children would have declared itself flat broke, losers in the great American economic game.
More adults will file for bankruptcy than will be diagnosed with cancer. More people will file for bankruptcy than will graduate from college. And, in an era when traditionalists decry the demise of the institution of marriage, Americans will file more petitions for bankruptcy than for divorce. Heart attacks. Cancer. College graduations. Divorce.
A family with children is now 75 percent more likely to be late on credit card payments than a family with no children. The number of car repossessions has doubled in just five years. Home foreclosures have more than tripled in less than 25 years, and families with children are now more likely than anyone else to lose the roof over their heads.
Full story here

robustpuppy · 09-09-2003, 10:09 PM

This add popped up when I clicked on NFH's link, and maybe it's just me (are you horny, baby?), but this woman looks very relaxed, and not just because she's on vacation, if you get my drift.

NotFromHere · 09-09-2003, 10:23 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
This add popped up when I clicked on NFH's link, and maybe it's just me (are you horny, baby?), but this woman looks very relaxed, and not just because she's on vacation, if you get my drift.

Yeah. What's she doin' with that hand?

Edited to add...hmmm, I didn't get that ad, I got a Circuit Shitty ad instead.

09-09-2003, 10:59 PM

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
She needs iron.

Same thing happened to me (not a red-meat eater), but I don't need iron. I can't explain it. I have also craved boiled shrimp, lemonade, and sugar-snap peas. I developed aversions to chicken and chocolate early on.

On bankruptcy - I do an occasional Ch.7; Most of my bkr clients are married and most of them seem to be pretty stupid - with the exception of the few that have had real medical crises with no insurance. I also do foreclosures - they are way up in 2002-2003. People with limited funds need to prioritize what gets paid and what they can live without. Mortgage, taxes, and HOA dues come first and if you haven't figured that out - you don't need your house that badly.

-TL

Edited to ad that I got a car insurance pop-up.

leagleaze · 09-09-2003, 11:09 PM

The way to get around plane security? Ship yourself of course...on a cargo plane.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Southwest...way/index.html

robustpuppy · 09-09-2003, 11:42 PM

NotFromHere

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I didn't get that ad, I got a Circuit Shitty ad instead.

TexLex

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I got a car insurance pop-up.

Obviously I have sexier cookies than the two of you.

Anne Elk · 09-10-2003, 12:29 AM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
So you're moving a nearly completed $239 million weather satellite from a vertical position to a horizontal position.

Ooops. Schadenfreude!

My favorite excerpt:

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Lockheed Martin spokesman Buddy Nelson said an initial evaluation revealed that the cart "was not in the proper configuration for the planned activity."

Is that the PC way to say "we fucked up"?

notcasesensitive · 09-10-2003, 01:29 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I'm usually helpful on for-real things and mean about random things I know nothing about. Unless people doubt my wisdom on the for-real things I'm helpful on. Then I abuse them.

So you are mean quite often then?

notcasesensitive · 09-10-2003, 01:37 AM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Obviously I have sexier cookies than the two of you.

Was this ever in question? Are you going to put away the nutter butters now or will I have to come over there and make you?

ias_39 · 09-10-2003, 02:46 AM

Originally posted by TM

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<re shaved beaver> It's soft, but is it downy? I want to touch something downy.

Originally posted by SS

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Then you want baby seal. Pervert.

Right word, wrong sense. Think Oddyseus, the downy, the hardboiled. TM's into things tricky.

He met this little girlie, her hair was kinda curly
Went to her house and bust her out, he had to leave real early
These girls are really sleazy, all they just say is please me
Or spend some time and rock a rhyme, he says "It's not that easy"

Thurgreed ain't pervd (he don't bed downy birds)
but you assume (on your own)
They offer tits (and lots of ass)
but he just leave it alone
It's like that y'all (y'all), but he don't quit
He keep on (rock!) shock! Cos this is it...

ias_39 · 09-10-2003, 02:58 AM

Originally posted by cheval de frise

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It doesn't take any guts to flame people when you don't have to deal with the fallout.

And is there ever fallout from the radioactive fire you breath, godzilla's got nothing on you, chevy.

ias_39 · 09-10-2003, 03:17 AM

Originally posted by robustpuppy

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Obviously I have sexier cookies than <NFH & TL>.

I didn't think you were the kind of woman that, in the act, would let her fella know she's composing a grocery list.

idle acts · 09-10-2003, 03:32 AM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

How to Be the Recipient of a Toast:
. . . . Do not touch your glass. Do not touch your motherfucking glass.

Ye gods, I thought I was the last person in America who knew this rule. I have actually had assjacks say to me (as toast recipient) "But you're not drinking!"

That is when I cease to smile awkwardly and begin to smile patronizingly.