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

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I had a similar experience, except it was with the word pud and I was in highschool.

My younger brother brought eternal shame on the clan when he used the phrase "nard guard" while bragging about his tricked out BMX in front of my Aunt, only to be asked, "What's a nard?" A reasonable question to ask, if you didn't grow up in the early eighties. My brother hemmed and hawed, and finally had to resort to pointing.

Ah, nard guards. They were like legwarmers for boys --- totally useless, but their absence would be noted in the daily schoolyard coolness reckoning.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by leagleaze
You are making me feel better. And pud means penis, as in pulling your pud.

But, bugger all, you must admit this is quite amusing, when an English friend visits, he always asks what pud we're having after we finish dinner. Heh heh, next time, I shall tell him he's a lucky chap if he can eat his own pud instead of having to pull on it like everyone else! What what?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by leagleaze
You are making me feel better. And pud means penis, as in pulling your pud.

Thanks. I have another confession. The sight of the written word "penis" makes me giggle. And now, so does the word "pud".

The sight of an actual penis/pud does not have the same effect under normal circumstances. Maybe if a towel is hanging from it.

[ABBAKiss]

Edited becauase I should have read ahead.

Carry on.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
But, bugger all, you must admit this is quite amusing, when an English friend visits, he always asks what pud we're having after we finish dinner. Heh heh, next time, I shall tell him he's a lucky chap if he can eat his own pud instead of having to pull on it like everyone else! What what?

A colleague of mine who lived in England for a time told me that after dinner he once announced he was stuffed. His dinner companions looked at him in horror. He said what? They said, you're pregnant??

[evenodds]

A shocker:

the bottom two were Trenyce and Ruben.

Trenyce goes home. Josh stays.

[evenodds]

Tony Parker, the starting point guard of the SA Spurs, has been named to People's 50 Most Beautiful list.

Here is a picture of Mr. Parker:



Though he'll only be truly beautiful if he hoists the O'Brien NBA Championship Trophy.

Even(go Spurs)Odds

PS Oh, yeah, Halle's on the cover.

[str8outavannuys]

I had lunch with the daughter of crazy-evicted-couple today, in a last ditch quasi-mediation information-gathering effort.

The daughter kept rambling about a group called "Enlightened Millionaires," and asking if I was one. Some quickie google searching reveals it to be a cult started by the pussies responsible for Chicken Soup for the Soul.

She had some "creative solutions" when it came time to talking about settlement. Such as (i) her parents moving back in to the house for six months or a year, and thereafter, the company who purchased the house at foreclosure auction paying her parents' rent at a luxury apartment building for a number of years. Or perhaps (ii) what with the house being nice and big, perhaps the parents could live upstairs and my fiancee and I downstairs. Or vice versa.

Insert crazy-person-music here. She also told me that since they like me so much, that when they win the lawsuit, they will come up with creative ways for us to buy the house with no downpayment.

It was an interesting lunch. The gyro was very good.

Str8.

[evenodds]

Well, I guess you know everything you need to start getting out of the house deal.

Even(congrats on getting the 4000th post.)Odds

This post was already located on the Politics Board.

It is post #1389.

Edited to remove political spam. E/O

[Fugee]

Originally posted by evenodds
A shocker:

the bottom two were Trenyce and Ruben.

Trenyce goes home. Josh stays.

Ruben in the bottom 2????? I thought he had a lock on the final two with fans galore. But the Marines must have put Josh's call-in number on speed dial at the base because he should have gone home this week. He was dreadful last night as he is every time he can't just do a Garth Brooks impersonation.

[SlaveNoMore]

coup_d'skek
The WSJ ran an article on affirmative action regarding troubles of an Asian Groton Grad with 1560 SAT scores. LINK

So, am I to guess that it was Ruben and Trenyce's bottom finish that prompted this post from you?

not7yS

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Anyhoo, it strikes me as ironic that the primary benefit of the sexual revolution was to prolong women's independence, but we didn't change the social structures that previously permitted a woman to make relationship investments early, and once.

"Permitted", nay basically "required". Hence, the so many first generation female GPs that never had kids and often never married.

We've left a lot of women less powerful in the relationship marketplace when they want to marry at 38. If I were a woman, I'd be pissed that no one saw this coming.

It depends how you slice the demographics. Strictly from an age perspective, women in their late 20's have the odds more in their favor than they have in quite some time with respect to the older men they tend to favor. However, if you are focusing on career women with college or even more advanced education, you also need to take into account their preference for guys with similar education and such. That cuts the other way, given that something like 60% of college grads are female these days (50/50 at the elite schools). And then, when you take into account other things, like the demagraphic preference educated women have for men over the median height for their age group (5'10"), good shape, &c, the odds get even worse.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by coup_d'skek
The WSJ ran an article on affirmative action regarding troubles of an Asian Groton Grad with 1560 SAT scores. LINK

The article overlooks ETS' strategy to help minorities at the expense of geeks. The article ignores is that ETS recentered the SAT to screw people with high scores and help minorities.

How does it help minorities? It helps people whose scores are middling and hurts people whose scores are great. It used to be a 1600 was a rare bird, something like 20 a year. Now there are hundreds or even in the thousands. But it's not like only minorities have seen their scores go up.

What that WSJ points out is that there are a bunch of "preferred" classes of applicants -- certain minorities, legacies, jocks, etc. -- and asians who aren't in one of the other preffered classes (since they don't count as "minorities") are SOL. Nothing particularly insightful there.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by coup_d'skek
The WSJ ran an article on affirmative action

Sure. Set us up with a good article, and don't even mention that it's for subscribers only.

Tease.