Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[Jack Manfred]

Trading Spaces was always a knock-off of the inspired Changing Rooms, and Paige Davis was always a cut-rate, hackneyed version of the lovely and Scottish Carol Smiley. The cult of Paige Davis is inexplicable. She looks like every girl who was on the Selection Committee for Homecoming in high school, like every girl who was on Spirit Committee for Greek Week in college, and like the one female junior associate on the Recruiting Committee at my old firm in LA. She is demonstrably unsexy. Perky is not sexy.

Sherilyn Fenn is sexy:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Fugee

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/11/1....ap/index.html

.... The practice, which began in Japan and also has spread to Los Angeles and New York,

Anyone know where the new york locations are?

Has anyone else tried the new aosept. They have added in a built in cleaner and have put tons of warnings all over the bottle about spritzing the stuff directly into your eyes.

I tried it last night and my lenses don't feel as clean as they do when I use the old fashioned daily cleaner before aosept

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Paige Davis ..........like every girl who was on Spirit Committee for Greek Week in college,

Jack, you gotta understand. To lots of us, to be with a Spirit Committee girl would be extremely exotic. Most girls I knew were on line to get into dime beer night at Mac's when Spirit Committee was meeting.

Sherilyn Fenn is sexy:

this seems at first blush like a statement that is hard to question, but a quick visit to IMDB raises a cloud:

Sherilyn practices meditative kundalini yoga, and every room in her house has féng shui elements-- crystals in one corner, water in another.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jack Manfred
The child wouldn't be either. If the parents aren't religious, and don't rear the child to be religious, the child is not religious.

True, but that doesn't mean they aren't Jewish. According to traditional Jewish belief the determinant is biology, not philosophy.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
this seems at first blush like a statement that is hard to question, but a quick visit to IMDB raises a cloud:
quote:
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Sherilyn practices meditative kundalini yoga, and every room in her house has féng shui elements-- crystals in one corner, water in another.
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That said, I'd still like to feng her shui.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I inferred, that the Vincent D'Onofrio's character was Jewish. Which led me and Mrs. Str8 to say "he is???? Hooray, world's smartest jew."

Does that make Fox Mulder a jew too then? Because D'Onofrio's character (Goren) is the same. In fact, it's the same damn show. Brilliant male investigator sidled with a moron female investigator whose only purpose is to listen to brilliant male investigator's analyses.

Beat Cop: "Here is the body. There is absolutely no physical evidence within 300 miles. We suspect suicide."

Goren: "No. No. I suspect foul play. Here. Smell this. What you do not smell is called Iocane powder. I'd bet my life on it. It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadlier poisons known to man. If you look at this man's passport you will find no stamps from Australia, so clearly he did not know enough about the poison's origin to use it on himself. That, combined with the poison's properties spells Muuuurder."

Goren's partner: "Can I smell the powder?"

or

Mulder: "Hmmm. Take a look at that 18 inch vent, 60 feet above us in the ceiling. You see that thread? It supports my theory that we're dealing with a Shapeshifter here [you gotta love the tie-ins]. I believe that we're dealing with someone who can change the molecular make up of his body, such that he can squeeze in and out of small places undetected."

Scully: "But Mulder, that doesn't fit with a reasoned analysis in any legitimate scientific field, every single one of which I can pull up from memory at the drop of a hat. I'm skeptical."

TM

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Apparently the Walmart Playboy is out. http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/12/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes

The article provides an example of the type of woman who posed.

No one who works in my local WalMart looks like this.

[Sparklehorse]

Today's letter to Cary Tennis at Salon.com is about something that highlights a major difference between men and women. A woman writes to ask:

"What goes through men's minds when they say they're going to call and then disappear for a few days?"

And Cary's reply (excerpt):
"I can't speak for all men who are shallow because some men are not shallow but most of us are and for us I can say that when we say things we don't mean, we say them because the truth might make you unhappy and we cannot stand to see you unhappy because you can get upset and get over it right away but if you yell at us even once then for days afterward we can't think straight or write brilliant code or fish well. We cannot handle women getting upset. It ruins everything. So naturally we try to avoid it."

So here's a poll, what's the most ridiculous thing you've done or had done to you in order to avoid getting the other person upset?

My personal favorite: I have an ex who is still a good friend who was the king of avoiding getting me upset. Some years after we'd broken up, he was dating someone seriously and told me finally that they were planning to get married. One Monday, he came to my office to meet me for lunch. He was wearing a shiny new band on his left ring finger. Nothing was said until I asked what's up with that new ring?? He got married over the weekend and didn't want to tell me because he knew it would "upset" me! (In some fairness to him, it was a city hall kind of marriage with the big event happening a few weeks later overseas.)

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse

So here's a poll, what's the most ridiculous thing you've done or had done to you in order to avoid getting the other person upset?

Got married...twice.

First time I remember my parents standing at the head of the aisle with me saying "You don't have to do this, we can just go and have a big party without the wedding." They liked my first husband, they just thought we had no business getting married when we barely knew one another, etc., etc., etc. Well, he had asked and I didn't want to hurt his feelings so I married him. Nice guy.

Second time I got married and told them about it a few months later (when I also told them I was more than a few months pregnant). Again, they thought I had no business engaging in either activity. Once again, didn't want to hurt feelings by saying "thanks for asking but I really just wanted the kid."

My parents know me too well and thought I should stay single and childless forever. The current husband (#2) seems to be working out okay. The kid is great. I think I'll ride this one out and see where it takes me.

TF

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Got married...twice.

First time I remember my parents standing at the head of the aisle with me saying "You don't have to do this, we can just go and have a big party without the wedding." They liked my first husband, they just thought we had no business getting married when we barely knew one another, etc., etc., etc. Well, he had asked and I didn't want to hurt his feelings so I married him. Nice guy.

Mine was not the act of getting married, but it was likely staying married for far too long to someone who I had no physical interest in. I couldn't bring myself to tell him this for years because "he was such a nice guy!" He still is a nice guy in fact. Just not my guy.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
So here's a poll, what's the most ridiculous thing you've done or had done to you in order to avoid getting the other person upset?

Well, my real answer is the same as Thrasher, but she's already covered that (although for me it was only the first marriage).

But I did have a relationship once in college that was odd in that we never once fought. We dated for almost an entire year, and in that entire time, not one single fight. I took this as a great sign until one day I woke up and realized that our lack of fighting hid from me the fact that I really didn't like her very much. To tie it into the poll, I did wait a week to tell her, because the realization came in the middle of finals week. Because at the same time I didn't want to deal with her for the week, I moved into my new apartment early (we didn't live together or anything - but she didn't have a car and my new apartment was not within walking distance) and didn't answer the phone, using the excuse that I really had to finish a research paper (which was true, but I could have done it in the dorm).

I still think I did the right thing, especially after going to law school, where it seems that everyone dating someone who wasn't a law student got dumped during finals.

[fufu]

Last night I read in the December issue of Glamour magazine that Korean women who feel they are follically challenged in the pubic area are having pubic hair transplants. Kinda like a reverse Brazillian.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by fufu
Last night I read in the December issue of Glamour magazine

Just curious -- have you avoided breaking off your relationship with Glamour magazine even though you are out of your teens because you are afraid of upsetting it?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse


So here's a poll, what's the most ridiculous thing you've done or had done to you in order to avoid getting the other person upset?

My personal favorite: I have an ex who is still a good friend who was the king of avoiding getting me upset. Some years after we'd broken up, he was dating someone seriously and told me finally that they were planning to get married. One Monday, he came to my office to meet me for lunch. He was wearing a shiny new band on his left ring finger. Nothing was said until I asked what's up with that new ring?? He got married over the weekend and didn't want to tell me because he knew it would "upset" me! (In some fairness to him, it was a city hall kind of marriage with the big event happening a few weeks later overseas.)

Holy shit. I may have dated the same guy, though as far as I know, he never got married. Shortly after we broke up, he started sleeping with/seeing (I'm not sure to this day what type of relationship it was) someone else and every time he told me about the relationship, he'd tell me how bad it was and how he didn't think it would work out. Shortly after they started hooking up, I was moving from one state to another, and I went to see him one last time for some good-bye sex. It was terrible. He didn't talk to me for a few days after that and when I finally got him to tell me what the fuck was going on, he confessed that he was really into this other chick and that things were going great, and sleeping with me was a huge mistake. He explained that he never told me about how much he liked this chick because he was afraid that it would upset me.