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

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I gave up all hope when I read the articles about shiksas demanding bat mitzvahs. Just the party part, of course, not the "learn the torah" and what it all means part.

Your proposal, while thought provoking, seems to be premised on a principle that says the government should buy out the tobacco farmers from the tobacco quotas they were given (by the government) years ago.

A party for the sake of a party? Who deserves that?

Not a one of my friends who's been bar mitzvahed would be able to tell the torah from an atlas. Their bar mitzvahs were just huge parties where they all made serious piles of cash. And I'm pissed about it. Catholics don't get jack. Nor do any other Christian demoninations. A couple of buddies I had in college had serious "mad money" accounts starting freshman year, and a load of it was bar mitzvah dough. Christianity blows. Its a lose lose proposition for the adherents on everything. The closest we poor Catholics get to bar mitzvah is first communion and confirmation. You're like, 9, I think, at first communion, so you get paltry gifts. Confirmation is a joke - no one even knows what it means, so nobody even throws a party, and consequently, you wind up with nothing more than the $100 your decrepit religious aunt from Connecticut mails you. Rome's gotta get this shit fixed.

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I had a big fucking wedding with all the trimmings.

Res ipsa.....

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by baltassoc


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.

My record for one year: 12 weddings

"The Rose" was sung acapella at one of them. Warning: laughter echoes in the balcony of a church.

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No one's even talking about it.

TM

That's because its off-topic. Its not even being discussed on the Sports board because goff is a game.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
I doubt he goes back to Butch. It might happen, but I see him going to Leadbetter or someone like that rather than back to Butch. Too much bad blood.

I know. I was hoping that he would look at the player he was and swallow some ego, but it doesn't help when Harmon is on the air saying things like, "Tiger's in denial," and "He would never come back to me because he thinks he's got it all figured out."

Too bad.

TM

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

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.

That's because Greg Norman retired the category in 1996.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
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.

We did the blowout wedding as well, and I had a fucking blast. At the end of it, I did look back and say "Why didn't we take the cash?" But that would've been a mistake. Life's too short not to have a fun wedding. When else can you take a two week vacation without a care in the world. Hell, I even enjoyed all the engagement parties. You fire back some drinks, eat good food and shoot the shit with folks who are all there to see you.

I didn't plan shit. The only real problem we had was we ran over the guest amount allowed at the golf course and they gave us a rash of shit about how the fire dept would flip out because we had too many folks in the room.

I defy anyone to find a better feeling of contentment than the one you get when you slide into the seat of the plane on the way to your honeymoon. I imagine that's how leaving law must feel...

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Adder
So, late last night a get a call from a drunkin ex. This is a girl I dated a looong time ago, and have occasionally hooked up with since when we were both single and in the same place. After a substantial cooling off period after she dumped me, we have again become fairly good friends.

That's hardly a situation I can complain about, but she is single again and has apparently now decided that she wants to date again.

She says that she compares every guy she meets to me, and they don't measure up. I suspect that she has an idealized and unrealistic image of me, 'cause, really, I'm not that great of a guy.

Anyway, point being that I don't think I want to date her again, and I guess I feel kind of bad about that. In her drunken and depressed state last night, she keept pressing me for why I wouldn't date her, but I didn't really have a good answer. I'm just past romantic feelings for her I guess. Maybe it is a by-product of the first time we broke up. Or maybe it is that dealing with the continued drama in her life over the last several years has left me uninterested.

But, of course, she also made me promised that last night's conversation wouldn't change our friendship, but as we all know, that may not exactly be possible.

So anyway I don't really know what to do about the whole situation. I don't know if it would be better to just pretend that the conversation never happened or to try to extricate myself from the friendship. While I don't want to date her, I certainly don't want to hurt her any more than necessary.

Jesus Christ, man. Don't you know a disguised booty call when you hear one? She wanted to fuck, but didn't want to say, "Come over." You should have fucked her.

If she's not within booty-follow-through distance, then she's nuts and you should cut her off.

TM

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I know. I was hoping that he would look at the player he was and swallow some ego, but it doesn't help when Harmon is on the air saying things like, "Tiger's in denial," and "He would never come back to me because he thinks he's got it all figured out."

Too bad.

TM

Good for Butch. Tiger deserves this for being stubborn.

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Jesus Christ, man. Don't you know a disguised booty call when you hear one? She wanted to fuck, but didn't want to say, "Come over." You should have fucked her.

If she's not within booty-follow-through distance, then she's nuts and you should cut her off.

TM

Conversely or vice-a versa, as the case may be, if she was within bft distance, then she should cut his nuts off.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
We did the blowout wedding as well, and I had a fucking blast. At the end of it, I did look back and say "Why didn't we take the cash?" But that would've been a mistake. Life's too short not to have a fun wedding. When else can you take a two week vacation without a care in the world. Hell, I even enjoyed all the engagement parties. You fire back some drinks, eat good food and shoot the shit with folks who are all there to see you.

I didn't plan shit. The only real problem we had was we ran over the guest amount allowed at the golf course and they gave us a rash of shit about how the fire dept would flip out because we had too many folks in the room.

I defy anyone to find a better feeling of contentment than the one you get when you slide into the seat of the plane on the way to your honeymoon. I imagine that's how leaving law must feel...

FWIW anf FYI to all of my friends, blow-out weddings are usually a blast for guests. Pony up so I can enjoy myself.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Who is it that always gripes about people who have cash bars at their weddings? Sebby?

Well, I've been to two weddings in the past three weeks and the first one had an open bar for about 2 hours, and then they switched to cash after the stuff they had pre-paid for ran out (f'ers didn't tell anyone that was how it was going to work, not that they were obligated to, but if I had known, I woulda stocked up for the night). The second one had a pure cash bar. Didn't even get a f'ing glass of sham-pain. Assholes.

I'm going to start asking around, discretely, ahead of time for info on whether there's going to be a cash bar or open bar and then I'm going to purchase gifts accordingly.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I hope you're kidding. The problem with your sexist proposal is that it assumes that it's only women that want the elaborate wedding ceremony. That is bullshit.

This is probably outable, but what the fuck. I used to work as a wedding planner and in my experience planning dozens of weddings, the groom (and/or the groom's parents) is often just as insistent on a big elaborate wedding as the bride. I agree that generally women are more likely to be insistent on a wedding than men, but not by that large a margin. Grooms just don't get the bad rap as being groomzillas b/c they are lazy and let their brides make all of the arrangements

I will admit that men seem much more interested in the reception than the actual ceremony though.

BTW, I hope that IRL, you have never actually used the phrase "Hey girls."

Agreed. On the rare occasion that Mr. Bunny and I talk about our theoretical wedding, it is he who wants the big wedding (he is more focused on teh reception aspect) and me who wants to elope. The only way I am ever able to get him off this position is to suggest that we could use the wedding money to (no, not buy lunchboxes) buy a '67 corvette (which we both really like). But then he talks about his aged grandmother and how she was so insistant on having a big wedding for his mother that there were 3,000 people in attendance (I KID YOU NOT) and how it would send her to an early grave (even though she's already 87, so I think that point has passed) if he didn't have an elaborate wedding. Sigh. I just want the cash.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Who is it that always gripes about people who have cash bars at their weddings? Sebby?

There is nothing more tacky that having a cash bar at a wedding. Who does this? Who, BRC, who?

If one cannot afford to ply your guests with unlimited alcohol, then it is far preferable simply to close the bar early or serve only beer and wine. Or only wine, cheap wine, that no one will want more than one glass of, than to have the guests pay for the bar. What's next--dinner with a chicken breast, but an optional upgrade to steak for $8?

Oh the humanity.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
FWIW anf FYI to all of my friends, blow-out weddings are usually a blast for guests. Pony up so I can enjoy myself.

And be sure to invite a few people who cut loose and provide great photo ops.

ABBA(great wedding guest)Kiss