Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04

[Fugee]

Originally posted by idle acts
Just why is it that one would not have one's glass in one's hand at all times during such an event? (cause if it's an event where you need your hands free for extended periods of time, you should be comfortable drinking out of whatever glass comes to hand)

I was recently at a holiday cookie bake where a bunch of women drank wine and made cookies. Obviously we couldn't hold our glasses and handle cookie pans. This is only one occasion where wine charms were handy. As for drinking out of whatever glass, see earlier comment about cold and flu season. Color me squeamish (or more correctly, incredibly prone to catching upper resp infections) but I'd rather know which glass is mine.

Any of you who don't want your wine charms, just send them to: Fugee, Minneapolis, Minnesota. I'm sure they'll find me somehow.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I, frankly, don't think Kiera is very good looking.

You people are all nuts.







She's not drop-dead said Fred, but she's very good looking. (And I still don't see the issue with her teeth.)

TM

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Fugee
explaining ringy things

Ah. I don't think that would work very well, especially after a few drinks. These each have a different coloured lighthouse dangling from them. And they are tiny. So I don't see people really even noticing which one is theirs, never mind remembering it. Perhaps that is why you don't see them very often?

[Can you hear me now?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You people are all nuts.







She's not drop-dead said Fred, but she's very good looking. (And I still don't see the issue with her teeth.)

TM

I thought I recalled her being hot. I wouldn't say no.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You people are all nuts.







She's not drop-dead said Fred, but she's very good looking. (And I still don't see the issue with her teeth.)

TM

She actually has some talent.

Haven't seen her in PotC, but elsewhere, she CAN act. And the fact that she has a British accent that doesn't sound like the short-tongued Masterpiece Theatre crowd is a plus.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by idle acts
Just why is it that one would not have one's glass in one's hand at all times during such an event? (cause if it's an event where you need your hands free for extended periods of time, you should be comfortable drinking out of whatever glass comes to hand)

If you give people something to eat and something to drink (especially if the drinks have alcohol,) they have a tendency to be awkward and to spill both the food and the drink. These things invariably land on couches, carpeting or clothing that is dry clean only. This would make me, and potentially other people, unhappy. We can limit the risk of this happening, and thus likely avoid my unhappiness, by enabling people to put their glasses down.

Now, fortunately for me, located about my apartment in a variety of strategic spots are these things called tables. On top of each of these tables are things called coasters. Working together these items allow my guests to put their glasses down.

[SlaveNoMore]

ThurgreedMarshall
You people are all nuts.







She's not drop-dead said Fred, but she's very good looking. (And I still don't see the issue with her teeth.)

TM

The only sub-20 actress cuter than her is Jessica Alba, and she may be the hottest piece on this planet

[Fugee]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Now, fortunately for me, located about my apartment in a variety of strategic spots are these things called tables. On top of each of these tables are things called coasters. Working together these items allow my guests to put their glasses down.

And if you had some decent wine charms, a couple of people could put their glasses on the same table and be able to identify their own glasses!

As far as noticing, you the host don't put them on glasses; you have them available by the empty glasses. The guests chose their own wine charms and thus remember which one they chose -- at least while they are sober enough to care which glass they drink from.

And if your guests are really stupid, you can make ones that have their names:

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by baltassoc
At least the baltspawn cleaned up. Toy-o-rama. Word is the Fisher Price Little People Farm RAWKS.

Not after the 50,000th time the cow goes moo, the horse goes neigh, the pig goes oink and the old mcdonald had a farm song plays.

TM

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Fugee
And if you had some decent wine charms, a couple of people could put their glasses on the same table and be able to identify their own glasses!

And if your guests are really stupid, you can make ones that have their names:

Yes, you have convinced me. I will make the wine charms available for use. Now I understand the wisdom of the woman who gave them to me.

As far as guest stupidity, only a few are lawyers, so the bulk should be ok.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Ever wonder how far the email Nigerian scams could play out?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...0_scam290.html

This is so sad, but I wonder how anyone so dumb could have gotten to this point in life without being robbed earlier.

Stupid and greedy is a terrible (but common) way to go through life. Fuck him.

[pony_trekker]

Me to my 26 year old single mom niece with 4 kids:

"Why don't you have another so that you can play full court?"

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I came across an interesting blog post about racism and the Uruk-hai. It ties in to what was posted earlier re: "killing the brown people."

I loved the Lord of The Rings and this is just silly. Orcs are orcs. Although I tend to think that albino creatures tend to be scariest, I wasn't offended that all of the Orcs were dark skinned. I couldn't tell if they were really very dark or just dirty and I think that's what Jackson intended. Not offensive at all.

But I will note that all of the men and women (and I mean ALL) in that movie were white. I'm not a scholar of the book, so I don't know what Tolkien intended, but damn. No black, asian or hispanic people in all of middle-earth? Maybe it's just a product of where they filmed (New Zealand, right?), but sheesh.

No real complaints, though (other than it being way too long -- the whole last 40 minutes was useless and unecessary to stay true to Tolkien's intent -- I would rather have seen the Hobbits fighting to regain the Shire upon their return than Sam's wedding and Frodo's and Bilmor...er Bilbo's departure). All in all, a very good movie; my favorite of the three (and I liked the second book better).

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Now, THIS should be the board motto. On a related note, while tying in the thread about PLF picking up 16-year old hotties at hip hop shows, I learned a lesson this weekend.

When one is approached while reading a book at an Irish bar in Portland (where part of my family lives) clearly patronized by many local college-age kids on a Friday night and asked if I am Italian, and then how old I am (after denying any Italian lineage), the answer is not the truth. The truth apparently turns off drunk, horny 21-year Portland State students just returned from a year studying in Salzburg. I apparently need to start lying about my age - heavily.

What the fuck were you doing reading a book in a bar full of 21-year old, drunk, horny co-eds?

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
The correct answer to the question: "How old are you?" is "How old do you think I am?"

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

The correct answer is, "How old are you?" She will follow up with "How old do you think I am?" and that's when you go way high or way low. Then you can move to another topic (like her tight sweater) seamlessly. If she answers straight up, "21," Then you say, "Bullshit. Let me see your ID. Who snuck you in here?" She will either produce (in which case you can tell her how horrible she looks on the ID, which will allow you to compliment her on her current appearance after she pretends to be offended) or won't (in which case you enter the next level of flirting: "Why not? What do you have to hide? Etc."). Jesus. I thought this was standard operation, no matter what your age.

TM