New Fashion Board 10-3-2003 - 11-7-2003

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Worse is when asked to say it as a guest.

And don't even try a simple "No, thank you." It gets you a look of outrage like you just took a baseball bat to St. Francis.

[str8outavannuys]

Because I know you all care, I was at a Fashion Week event last night. It was light on the celebs, but Tommy Lee was there. There was a rumor that Mary Kate and Ashley were in the building, but I didn't see them. Hottest woman I saw, aside from a few of the models, was . . .



Ah, fair Olivia. For those of you who can't instantly recognize celebrities who weren't celebrities two weeks ago, Ms. Olivia Wilde is the star of the new Fox mini-show "Skin." She apparently doesn't yet know she's an A-/B+ list celebrity, because she was there early, along with the rest of us common folks.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Walter_Disco_Mitty
Please post something about yourself that tells the board just how hip and edgy you are. It need not be the twenty bands you are concurrently listening to at the moment.

Here is mine. I plan to ride my recalled-but-not-returned Segueway in Moab this weekend.

I plan to go to a Halloween party this weekend dressed as Britney Spears. Or as penile origami -- I haven't quite decided yet. Tres hep, no?

And what or where is "Moab"? Sounds like one of those cities in the Old Testament that got sacked and looted, or turned to ash.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by purse junkie
And don't even try a simple "No, thank you." It gets you a look of outrage like you just took a baseball bat to St. Francis.

I think I need to learn a hebrew or islamic equivalent, just to throw it back at 'em.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by LessinSF
The girls on this show have a Eurotrash sex appeal.

That they do.

But what I'm really looking forward to is Average Joe, with her:

Can't wait for that chick to get it on with these guys:







TM

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Worse is when asked to say it as a guest.

Depending upon whether I cared a rat's ass about the host, I might like this:

Dear Lord,
Thank you for this humble meal of moderately palatable vittles
cooked by this rude couple
Could you please let me win the lottery
so I can eat caviar and drink Cristal with hot babes
before having a threesome where I do lines off their TITS
and never have to suck up
to another fucking so-called Christian again.
God, I hate their sanctimonious, holier-than-thou attitudes
Amen.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
It's taped to the doors of their professors.

You must have been a humanities major. I used to be able to decide which classes to punt during add/drop based on the comics on the prof's door. It never led me wrong.

Doonesbury: Keep.
C&H: Keep (mebbe; depends which one).
Bizarro: Keep.
Ernie Pook's Comeek: Keep.
Life in Hell: Keep.
Any New Yorker: Keep (only applies to English profs).
Bloom County: Keep.
Outland: Punt.
Zippy the Pinhead: Keep, but fill out the W/P form just in case.
Cathy: Punt like a mutherfucker.
Peanuts: Punt.
Herman: Punt.
Robotman: Punt like the wind.
Far Side: N/A (I didn't take engineering, math or science).
No comics: Definitely keep. That's gangsta.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by purse junkie
And don't even try a simple "No, thank you." [to saying grace while a guest in someone else's home] It gets you a look of outrage like you just took a baseball bat to St. Francis.

Well, St. Francis of Assisi was kind to the poor and small animals, so don't take a baseball bat to him (although Atticus will likely note that you may have meant St. Francis Xavier, the number 2 Jesuit behind Loyola, who tried to convert the heathen Orientals before being maryred some way, and who may have deserved a beating for imposing his Western Eurocentric patriarchical Christianity upon the peace-loving indigenous peoples of India).

And, heck, it's their house, they can decide whether to pray or not. And even ask you to join them.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
offer Halle $500k and before she accepts or turns it down, she can create the buzz that her tits are worth $500k. And I told you how she could make it public and a positive (for her) even if she turned it down. The other examples I just used illustrated that the producers can't hope to completely control everything that goes on with a movie.

Well, let me make an admission. I don't know fuck all about Hollywood. You did drop "the producer would like the buzz that she was asked, but wouldn't"; that's growth. As to the rest, I think we're both guessing about what a star might do, unless you have some deep ties to the film industry. My ex-aunt was the minor star in a recent movie about 2 couples, where the other 3 were major stars. She never showed her tits, but was probably never offered much to do so. I could ask her if you want (to ask her I want $1000).

It's like arguing with SD.

so everyone you argue with makes confused stupid points?
If it's just Sebastian and me, okay. But if you find a third or fourth, I want you to promise to look in the mirror. Promise?

Julia Roberts refuses to take off her top. She is not seen as a prude.

my point was, I've never heard she was offered anything. I googled and she has made statements she wouldn't. As an aside, Julia saying she wouldn't do nudity is not nearly as sad as if we heard Halle say it.
The other point is, there is a difference between simply and generally saying "I wouldn't do nude roles" and saying "You know this guy offered me 500K to show my tits, but I said no."
that's a pompous thing to say on a few levels- if you don't see that, I really don't know what to tell you.

Her willingness to take off her top for a part that wasn't paying her an extra $500k (or maybe not even that much for the whole role), would show that she has dived into a role where she does things that are against her nature.

probably, although hollywood tends to be cautious of rewarding things like, simply/finally showing boobs. I mean, they aren't giving away awards to those who just do this. I happen to think the buzz of seeing her nude in Monster's Ball would have been greater w/o Swordfish, and would have lessened some peoples opinion of the flick. Now, so far, I don't have a vote, but that's what I would have thought.

Goodbye, sock.

I'm so not a sock that I don't know who people are referring to when they tell John Basedow to use em's Primary Sock- reading between the lines of what one person said I guess Purse Junkie, but it seems like its real obvious to everyone else.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Well, St. Francis of Assisi was kind to the poor and small animals, so don't take a baseball bat to him (although Atticus will likely note that you may have meant St. Francis Xavier, the number 2 Jesuit behind Loyola, who tried to convert the heathen Orientals before being maryred some way, and who may have deserved a beating for imposing his Western Eurocentric patriarchical Christianity upon the peace-loving indigenous peoples of India).

And, heck, it's their house, they can decide whether to pray or not. And even ask you to join them.

RP, please note the foregoing correct use of "patriarchal."

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Walter_Disco_Mitty
Please post something about yourself that tells the board just how hip and edgy you are. It need not be the twenty bands you are concurrently listening to at the moment.

Here is mine. I plan to ride my recalled-but-not-returned Segueway in Moab this weekend.

I carved a pumpkin last night and put sunglasses on him. He was hip. And edgy.

Moab rocks. That whole area rocks.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by purse junkie
And don't even try a simple "No, thank you." It gets you a look of outrage like you just took a baseball bat to St. Francis.

Reminder that is important to this story: I am a MOT, a jewess, a jewess girl even.

True story: Several years ago, I was the Maid of Honor at the wedding of a friend I've known since we were 5 years old. Said friend is catholic. During the mass, I stood when others stood, sat when others sat, and sat during any required kneeling. In fact, the priest placed a chair for me on the pulpit in lieu of one of those kneeling thingies so that I wouldn't be standing there like an ass whilst everyone else was kneeling.

At the reception, the groom's very drunken father came up to me, hugged me as if he had known me all my life, and asked "So Brazen, how'd you like to say grace?"

I thought about offering to make a motzi if he could get me some challah. He was led away, eying me suspiciously as the groom whispered in his ear that I was not eligible for grace-saying.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by evenodds
Which makes you the same as everyone else here.

Seriously, the I'm cooler than you nonsense always irritates me. No matter how cool you think you are, you went to school for three extra years rather than backpacking around Europe or playing professional sports or modeling or working construction during the day so you could play music at night.

Whining about your choices is tiresome, and railing against the geekier of your fellow lawyers in an internet forum is incredibly hypocritical.

When I was a young lawyer and I told people what I did for a living, I was always mildly embarassed. I would mention, laughing, "but I am so much more interesting than that." Now, what the fuck do I care if other people think or know I am more interesting than that.

We have boring jobs. I love mine because I actually help people make their dreams happen. It's not a big job, but it's mine. The day to day is boring as hell, but the impact on my clients is enormous. What could be cooler than that?!

Even(not close to being the coolest person in my house or in my immediate family -- and I am okay with that)Odds

I did backpack around everywhere - during law school. I was at school basically tuesday thru thursday of each week, and when I was there, I worked at a firm, so I really wasn't ever "in school" mentally. In fact, I went to Europe for an extended vacation during second semester first year. Why not? Wasn't like I was doing much at school until exams rolled around anyway.

And I'll thank you not to remind me that I cannot sing a lick and have no ability to play instruments.

No one is really cool, E/O. We all bring bags of insecurities with us. I think, however, that rather than embrace the inner geek, it might be better to make an effort for us to do the opposite. But that's just my theory, and yes, I'm a royal fucking hypocrite, because here I sit, bagging a lunch with friends to play on the net and go buy cds at Tower at lunch.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I think I need to learn a hebrew or islamic equivalent, just to throw it back at 'em.

I'm as goy as they come, but occasionally I'll throw our dinner guests a curveball by offensively imposing Judaism on them.

Baruch atah Adonai
Eloheinu Melech ha-olam
Ha-motzi basar chazir min ha-aretz.

[Watchtower]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I think I need to learn a hebrew or islamic equivalent, just to throw it back at 'em.

This ought to be perfectly acceptable. Among Jews, Muslims and Christians, it is pretty clear we are all praying to the same God, so whatever way you want to ask her blessing really ought to be fine.

And if someone has a separate tradition for blessing food, it strikes me that they should certainly be able to do so. It is not a particularly American thing; the idea of asking a blessing for a meal has always struck me as fairly universal.

Is it your desire instead that your hosts eat unblessed food, against their ways, because you are present? When a guest visits a Kosher house, should the couple just forget about keeping the plates for the right food and encourage the guest to pile it all on?

Grace really doesn't strike me as a particularly onerous thing to suffer through for an acquaintance (I'd say friend, but I'm not sure after reading these).