Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by evenodds
Sebby, you're just getting old, so you don't recover as fast as the old days.

He was hoping for something more dramatic. Aging is so pedestrian.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Actually, right now, the thought of any kind of substance is making me nauseaus. One should never mix maker's mark and Piper Heidsick (sp?). I think I had a bottle and a half of Piper and about 3 Maker's OTR Sat night on an empty stomach. To top it off I had about a half a pack of these god awful Marlboro ultra light smokes. AND, I think I was coming down with a cold. Right now, I feel like death took a very long holiday... the very concept of nose candy makes me want to puke all over my keyboard.

Is it possible to induce cirrhosis or lung cancer before 35? I feel like something's broken in there, and it may be permanent...

Sounds like a good wedding.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by evenodds
Sebby, you're just getting old, so you don't recover as fast as the old days.

Oh, that oughta make him feel better!

(Yes, son, you really are one day closer to death.)

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
The Yankees, on the other hand, could pick up a dead man who would proceed to hit .357. They could also trade a superstar who would develop an allergy to leather and grass and a fear of baseballs as soon as he starts playing for his new team.

Someone probably already chimed in here, but...


are ya' kiddin me? I can think of several Yankee pitchers who stink up the joint, and then go somewhere else and have much better careers (or at least better numbers). Jeff Nelson and Kenny Rogers come to mind immediately, but I'm sure there are others. (and it's unfair to say Nelson stank up the joint, but he pitched better in Seattle -- of course, this could be totally out of left field -- ha ha, but that's my impression.)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by evenodds
Sebby, you're just getting old, so you don't recover as fast as the old days.

Yeh, I guess, but wow, either I have a cold (my sinuses are killing me) or this is one hell of a hangover.

I went to the gym for an hour last night and ran on the machine at top resistance for 45 min to try to burn the fucker out, and it worked temporarily, but this morning I woke up feeling all out of sorts again. Maybe its a sinus thing, because my head feels like its in the clouds and I'm sort of dizzy, but otherwise, I physically feel great. I hope its sick building syndrome... perhaps I can start collecting disability.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Sounds like a good wedding.

It was just a party at a friend's house.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I knew a guy who sold a board game to Parker Bros. for several million dollars.

That must be one hell of a board game.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Polaroid is warning that "shaking it" may actually damage your polaroid picture

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/0...eut/index.html

this is a shame for me, because I like to live my life based on what hip hop stars tell me to do.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
That must be one hell of a board game.

It was Pente.

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I've eaten shellfish at dinner with Orthodox Jewish friends. They didn't take offense. They just laughed at my obvious ignorance when I offered them a cherrystone clam. Nobody got offended - they just did their thing and I did mine. That's how its supposed to work.

If an orthodox Jew gets offended when a non-Jew eats traif (non-kosher food), DAT'S CRAZY [said in voice of Brian Fellowes]. Only Jews are under the obligation not to eat that stuff. Most Orthodox Jews don't even care if other Jews eat it -- some of the most observant of them might "wish it were different" but wouldn't ever say anything.


cf. [this is a long story, but please... stay with me]. I have this friend (call him John -- 'cause that's his name) who went to a fancy prep school with this other guy (call him Tim -- I'm not sayin' whether that's his name...), whom I knew in college. So Tim is from this very blue-blood, "fancy" hi-falootin' family yadda yadda yadda. However, at some point in Tim's late college life (by which time he and I hadn't run into each other, so I had no idea about this), he has some road-to-Damascus type epiphany and decides he's some born-again kind of guy (I realize that's shorthand and not all "born-agains" are this way -- I just don't remember the name of his particular, um... sect). He ends up living with the members of his cult (uh.. I mean church) in some disease-infested building in Times Square.

So John is telling me about how he and Tim were walking together down some street, and across the street and up ahead are some black-hats (the technical name for Lubavitchers who wear the side curls and black heavy coats throughout the year). Tim takes it upon himself to yell (yes, YELL) across the street:

JEWS!!! (pronounced "Jooooooooooooooz") Walk with Jesus... OR WALK ALONE!!! Egad.

I don't think John saw much of Tim after that. In fact, I wonder whatever happened to him. I always look for him in the "class notes" section of the alumni magazine, but he's never mentioned. Hmmm. (Nor is he in the "dead" section -- the only two sections I ever read.)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by dtb
Lubavitchers story.

What became of the Lubavitchers after Menachem Schneerson's passing? Wasn't he supposed to be some sort of messenger of God who'd bring the Messiah, or at least had the Messiah's digits in his Palm Pilot? So I guess the Lubavitchers are kind of the like the Deadheads after Jerry died, i.e., they've probably rationalized some sort of explanation for the Big Man's passing and now follow some half-assed version of the their former creed.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
So I guess the Lubavitchers are kind of the like the Deadheads after Jerry died.

I don't think they're doing as well with their line of ties.

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
What became of the Lubavitchers after Menachem Schneerson's passing? Wasn't he supposed to be some sort of messenger of God who'd bring the Messiah, or at least had the Messiah's digits in his Palm Pilot? So I guess the Lubavitchers are kind of the like the Deadheads after Jerry died, i.e., they've probably rationalized some sort of explanation for the Big Man's passing and now follow some half-assed version of the their former creed.

Well, they would never know for sure until after he died. (Rabbi Schneerson, that is.) I can't say I'm up on the latest talk in Lubavitch circles, but there was talk amongst the "Modern Orthodox" back in the day that the Lubavitch would form a new "sect" of Judaism, sort of like the early Christians who believed Jesus was the Messiah -- but replace Jesus with the Rebbe to complete the analogy. So far, hasn't really happened. I don't know what the party line is though, to answer your question.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
What became of the Lubavitchers after Menachem Schneerson's passing? Wasn't he supposed to be some sort of messenger of God who'd bring the Messiah, or at least had the Messiah's digits in his Palm Pilot? So I guess the Lubavitchers are kind of the like the Deadheads after Jerry died, i.e., they've probably rationalized some sort of explanation for the Big Man's passing and now follow some half-assed version of the their former creed.

They all became Phish roadies.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Adder
As a fine point of constitutional law, you are probably right. But nonetheless, I'm not sure its ignorant or intolerant to suggest to a public school teacher that this might be a wise course of action to avoid potential controversy. And, frankly, I'm not sure this as a clear a question of constitutional law as you imagine.

Nuh-uh. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist., 393 U.S. 503 (1969) (7-2 decision finding that school officials violated the First Amendment rights of students by suspending them for wearing black armbands to school, referring to the symbolic speech act as a “nondisruptive, passive expression of a political viewpoint”); cf. Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986) (high school does not offend First Amendment by punishing vulgar campaign speech; prohibiting the use of vulgar and offensive terms in public discourse is a “highly appropriate function of public school education”).

A public school teacher who instructed a student to remove a cross “to avoid potential controversy” would be bitch-slapped by every First Amendment interest group in the country, and seven if not nine Supreme Court justices.

Followups to the Aggressive Use of Con Law Thinktank (i.e., the Politics Board).