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

[Replaced_Texan]

Don't know original source of the article. It was e-mailed to me by a friend.


Boy gets stuck in supermarket game machine
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Jan. 5, 2004 | SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy had to be rescued with the help of a locksmith Saturday after crawling into a supermarket's stuffed animal game machine while his father talked on the telephone.

"He was sitting right in there with the stuffed animals," said Shift Commander Mark Zittel of the Sheboygan Fire Department.

He said the boy, whose name was not released because he is a minor, crawled through about an 8-inch-by-10-inch opening to get into the glass enclosure via a chute where the toys come out, but when he tried to get back out his way was blocked.

The stuffed animals are prizes that can be hooked by players with a crane-like device.

"His dad was three feet away at a pay phone," Zittel said. "He was talking on the phone and he said the next thing he turned around and the kid was in the thing."

He said the boy stayed calm and didn't panic as firefighters responded to the Piggly Wiggly store and then moved the game machine to the back of the store and got a locksmith to open the main loading door. The process took about an hour.

"There was no panic," Zittel said. "We could have broke the glass if there was an emergency."

The boy was not injured or traumatized but desperately had to go to the bathroom, he said.

But rescuers hadn't figured out how the boy was able to crawl into the game, or why no one in the store's busy lobby spotted him and stopped him before he got inside.

Originally posted by baltassoc
No, you're being overly sensitive. I could have been more specific, admittedly, and narrowed the "rap" field to "the crap they play on MTV," which is what I meant, but I didn't.

I also wasn't trying to be too judgemental: this site is (or was) all about the Benjamines too. Nothing wrong with that. I was just trying to wrap my head around the fact that when I thought the term "sell out" at seeing Snoop Dog selling cell phones, and the negative connotation that invokes, I was perhaps imposing a cultural assumption that is inappropriate (or perhaps simply irrelevant) in the rap context. I'm willing to accept that, but as my post noted, my biases are such that while I can see relaxing the standard (i.e. selling out is okay), there is still some limit (custom written songs and redickulous videos are still too far).

So I ask again: is selling out really "selling out" when making money is considered a definative positive in the underlying cultural paradigm? And if so, isn't this really more honest than the pablum rock artist try to spout about not being in it for the money?

I am not r4eallly following this but I believe the sell out comes from the fact that Snoopy Dog Dog started as a gangsta rap pioneer and is now a corporate suckup. the gangsta is gone. no more gin and juice.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by baltassoc
underlying cultural paradigm

aaargh

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
aaargh

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Hey crying is fine. Just be discrete. You should also be discrete with your hand melting.

Ironically, the only time that I am not discrete is when I have taken too much acid and I melt into something else.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
aaargh

Here we go with that "Pirates of the Caribean" crap again...

[Fugee]

I don't understand how people on the Atkins diet can consume more calories than people on the low-fat diet but lose more weight (from BRC's earlier post). I thought weight loss was strictly a matter of calories consumed minus calories expended. Does the Atkins diet make you consume more calories than if you ate the same number on a non-Atkins program?

As for law school, I was a talker but I'm hoping not to the point of becoming hated. At least I was never the free space in gunner bingo. My talking was partly as a strategy to reduce the risk of being called on when I didn't know the answer and partly because, like many Es (on the Myers-Briggs scale), I talk to process information.

I also read all the cases and took comprehensive notes in class. Law school was totally on my dime and I was terrified that I wouldn't get a job after school (my law school wasn't one where merely graduating guaranteed a good job) so I took studying quite seriously. I actually enjoyed everything about law school except exams.

There was a transgendered woman in my class. I had lead a very sheltered life and was a bit freaked out at first. I also think it was early in the process (serious 5 o'clock shadow by Con Law). By the end of school either I was just used to thinking of her as a she or 3 years of hormones made her look less like a guy.

One woman in my Tax class got the prof so angry he had it in for our whole class. She would always argue that various provisions were racist or sexist. She got all worked up that awards given in professional sports are taxable but the Nobel Prize and similar academic ones aren't. The professor responded that anyone who thought blacks couldn't win a Nobel Prize was the racist. I blame her for my bad grade in that class because the exam was beyond brutal.

One of the guys who was most vocal in his hatred for law school is now a tenured professor at a law school. Go figure.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Ironically, the only time that I am not discrete is when I have taken too much acid and I melt into something else.

As long as you do it discreetly . . .

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by baltassoc
No, you're being overly sensitive. I could have been more specific, admittedly, and narrowed the "rap" field to "the crap they play on MTV," which is what I meant, but I didn't.

I also wasn't trying to be too judgemental: this site is (or was) all about the Benjamines too. Nothing wrong with that. I was just trying to wrap my head around the fact that when I thought the term "sell out" at seeing Snoop Dog selling cell phones, and the negative connotation that invokes, I was perhaps imposing a cultural assumption that is inappropriate (or perhaps simply irrelevant) in the rap context. I'm willing to accept that, but as my post noted, my biases are such that while I can see relaxing the standard (i.e. selling out is okay), there is still some limit (custom written songs and redickulous videos are still too far).

So I ask again: is selling out really "selling out" when making money is considered a definative positive in the underlying cultural paradigm? And if so, isn't this really more honest than the pablum rock artist try to spout about not being in it for the money?

What you're asking is, do classical economists have a word for "greed"?

[Hank Chinaski]

So Pete Rose has admitted he did bet on baseball, including the Reds (to win only).

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ok.ap/?cnn=yes

Selig apparently has implied with an admission he'd let Pete in.

Rose agreed to the lifetime ban in August 1989 and applied for reinstatement in 1997, but Selig hasn't ruled on the request.

After meeting with Selig, Rose came away thinking he would be reinstated "within a reasonable period." Other baseball officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the following month that Selig wanted Rose to admit he bet on baseball as part of any reinstatement agreement.

"We haven't seen the book. Until we read the book, there's nothing to comment on," Selig told The Associated Press on Sunday night.

As long as Rose is banned from baseball, he is ineligible for the Hall of Fame ballot. His last chance to appear on the writers' ballot is December 2005. After that, if he's reinstated, he could be voted in by the veterans' committee.

"The application remains pending, and the commissioner will take all of this into account," Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, said Monday.

Banning him from the Hall of Fame is an empty solution. Betting on games is terrible, but isn't the Hall of Fame for the fans? Do people wandering around now see Ty cobb as the number 2 hitter alltime, and keep looking for who was number 1? Or is there some Pete Rose explaination.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I am not r4eallly following this but I believe the sell out comes from the fact that Snoopy Dog Dog started as a gangsta rap pioneer and is now a corporate suckup. the gangsta is gone. no more gin and juice.

Well, yeah, that's where I was originally coming from, but then I was thinking that maybe there is no real "sell out," because, well, making money is what being a gangsta is all about (that and the misogyny, of course).

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

Banning him from the Hall of Fame is an empty solution. Betting on games is terrible, but isn't the Hall of Fame for the fans? Do people wandering around now see Ty cobb as the number 2 hitter alltime, and keep looking for who was number 1? Or is there some Pete Rose explaination.

It all makes sense once you're willing to recognize that Bud Selig has turned MLB into a complete joke.

Why Rose's admission that he bet on baseball should allow him back in is beyond me: he was banned from the game for betting, not for lying about doing so. He should never be allowed to participate in a major league game again. Let him into the hall of fame, as far as I'm concerned, but the permanent ban on participation should stand.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Only one I remember clearly was a woman who had been paralyzed in college (waist or so down). She got pretty upset by the rest of the class's debate on how damages should have been set in the hairy hand case. i think she was upset that damages could possibly compensate. if she shows up in the jury pool on atort case, be sure to strike her.

I find the handicapped annoying too, but this just seems excessive.

TM

[taxwonk]

Bit isn't it time we moved on here? Perhaps a hypothetical would help.

If X, a married, fat bald, hairy lecherous tax attorney were to walk into a bar in Washington DC, our nation's capital and a place where such people are not universally shunned on sight, and offer to buy R, a svelte, witty, young-ish single but committed an attorney a drink, would her slapping him constitute:

a) an ancient tort

b) a civil rights violation;

c) a low-carb cardio activity (Atkins-approved);

d) CBS's newest reality show; or

e) A PLEA TO FUCKING MOVE ON TO SOMETHING MORE INTERESTING FOR GOD'S SAKE EVEN DRUGS CAN'T MAKE THIS DRIVEL INTERESTING

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by bilmore
As long as you do it discreetly . . .

You are like the non-subtle person that spoils the subtle person's joke.

In fact, you are not just like that person, you are that person.