Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Beach. Fiji. Me. Him. The officiant. A handful of others. Linen shift, some tropical flowers, a party somewhere with champagne, dark rum, fresh seafood (especially bluff oysters), fresh fruit. Honeymoon on a sailboat for a week or two of snorkeling, diving, drinking, and making noises that carry far over the water.

Substitute Hawaii for Fiji, and add a party for friends and family upon their return to Podunkville, and you've described the wedding of my friends Big Ed and Michelle (uh, I don't know and don't want to know about the noise-making part with them).

Big Ed won a trip to Maui for selling the most Fina Super Unleaded in his region, and he and Michelle figured out that getting married on the beach was the best way to avoid the fight they would otherwise have had with their families about whether Father O'Malley or Pastor Skip should officiate.

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That is all. Well, that, and I wanted to see my avatar again. Rrrrrow!

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by the Spartan
Me. (hi Cooter!)

Hi Penske! :hi:

A propos of nothing, your new moniker reminds me of this:



Of course, you'll be safe when he changes the hat. Unfortunate timing though.

Where's this beach I'm supposed to be looking at?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
That was a joke.

Surely you jest.

And for the record, I haven't cleaned a ziti pan in weeks.

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Surely you jest.

And for the record, I haven't cleaned a ziti pan in weeks.

Doing the low-carb thing?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by barely_legal
This is probably outable, but what the fuck. I used to work as a wedding planner ...

I loved you in that movie -- and the look on your face when you first realized that the cute guy who rescued you when your heel got stuck was the groom in the wedding you were putting together? Cinema, baby, pure cinema. That's the only word, cinema.

If I admit that I misted up a bit at that part, does that mean that I am a pussy-whipped mama's boy?

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Three things (I note that I'm not disagreeing with all of Jack's points, though I think the coming out party thing is pretty silly):

1. Not all women are into the big wedding concept and some even go along begrudgingly with the desires of others

2. Having been to two weddings so far this year, I was reminded how much all weddings are the same

And now the gratuitous personal account:

Your first point is extremely important, and I would say it's not just "some" that go with the desires of others but rather "most," at least to some extent.

Two gratuitous personal accounts:

1) I've been married twice. The first wedding had about 350 guests, most of whom I barely knew. They were all there because my ex's and my parent worked together in fairly powerful positions ina mid-sized organizations (a Biglaw equivalent would be head of the litigation section for my father and head of accounting for her mother) - and everyone needed to kiss one's ass or the other, and generally both. I had about half a dozen friends there.

The second wedding had fewer than 30 people there. I was related (or about to be) to almost all of them, except again about six mutual friends. I liked the second wedding a lot better (and so far the second marriage too).

2) One random year I attended seven weddings (by far my record - a normal year has maybe one). At each and every one of the weddings at some point while in the church they played "Everything I do [I do for you]" by Brian Adams. One even had the best man sing it in the middle of the ceremony while the bride and groom lit a candle together. At least he had a better voice than Brian Adams.


America has fallen victim to the Marital Industrial Complex. You're never getting rid of big weddings. Protest against them too loudly and you'll find yourself visited in the middle of the night by covert opperators dressed in fuchsia and teal.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Surely you jest.

I might need a seeing eye dog myself.

And for the record, I haven't cleaned a ziti pan in weeks.

Too rough on your delicate hands?

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A Tahoe is not a small car. And don't tell me there weren't any non-"small car" spaces, because there were plenty. If I were positive there weren't cameras, I woulda keyed that fucker.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by robustpuppy


Too rough on your delicate hands?

No, I wear these to protect my manicure:

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive

....but it does show what an event weddings have become and how stressful the planning is for the women having those big events. It seems to me that some portion of the "it's my special day" mentality derives in particular from the amount of freaking work that women do to plan the fucking thing. If you put 200 hours into planning some big party, wouldn't you want to have a really fucking good time there? Otherwise, what's the point?*

It will surprise no one here that I had a big fucking wedding with all the trimmings.

What will surprise everyone, and what surprised me at the time was how much fun my mom and I had planning. We loved shopping for dresses (and even went to TCOTU to do some dress shopping...in fact she bought her dress there). We loved choosing a venue and tasting the food and talking to the florist and hiring a band. We had not one disagreement the entire time (except about rose petals up the aisle....my mother won that one by exclaiming "There must be rose petals!") which for my mother and I is unheard of.

Also surprising was how much fun the whole actual day was. So I agree with Casey on this one...have a really good fucking time.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Shape Shifter and I got to be friends first when he sent me a PM saying he thought you were a "fucking idiot." Then I said, if they made me an admin I'd ban you.

And I even rooted for the Pistons. Is there nothing I can do to win your approval?

Are you're comparing yourself to a frenchman? True colors.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Johnny Miller said something recently on the radio here - that Tiger (with "help" from Mark O'Meara) has been trying to remake his swing to hit a natural draw rather than fade, and Miller thought that was stupid, given how fast he swings. If he is, as you say, off by a centimeter, he blocks it right or duck hooks it. Miller also said that all the power hitters over the years have been faders. Hooking is for old men and others with easy, repetitive swings. I can't say he's wrong.

I don't understand why he puts so much stock into O'Meara's advice. And he always has. O'Meara was a damn good player. But he was never on Tiger's level. What's the connection there, anyway?

Originally posted by LessinSF
It is a nice leaderboard, with some great stories (Haas being 50, Phil for the Slam, Shigeki the Smiling Assasin, Singh the ass, Els and Funk are well-liked) and Sergio lurking at even in 13th place.

Great tournament. Felt bad for Phil, even though he did it to himself, once again.

But Els. Damn. That's gotta be the biggest choke going into a final round I've ever seen. Damn. No one's even talking about it.

TM

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Hi Penske! :hi:

A propos of nothing, your new moniker reminds me of this:

[FAT MICHIGAN STATE DUDE, NO OFFENCE]

Of course, you'll be safe when he changes the hat. Unfortunate timing though.

I'm "THE" Spartan. He is one of the various and sundry run of the mill varieties.

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
No, I wear these to protect my manicure:

Sweet. Where do you get these?