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

[SlaveNoMore]

greatwhitenorthchick
I completely agree. He's just annoying. I don't find listening to him enjoyable at all.

He's extremely talented and he deserves a hell of a lot of props for bringing back and crooning into the mainstream - all before the age of 25.

Cut the man some slack.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Have you ever been tracked down -- presumably by Google -- by someone you lost contact with eons ago? And have you ever Googled an old friend/lover/spouse/crush to contact them (or spy on them, you stalker you)?

I once Googled and contacted a friend from college after hearing her on NPR. Nothing creepy about it, just dropped her a note of congratulations on her apparent new position. She responded similarly.

My name in real life is too common to be Googled, especially since it is shared by someone who is relatively famous. I have been contacted a few times through Classmates or similar. One was creepy; two were welcome virtual reunions with people I hadn't seen for years.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick

2. I think marriage is definitely deader in the UK than here, if anecdotal evidence means anything.

My sister's future in-laws, Germans, are stunned that she and their son would be interested in marriage. too bourgeois. or too proletariat. or too american. or maybe just past its sell-by date. not sure which, but one of their other sons has a child and is shacked, and they seem not to object to the arrangement.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Have you ever been tracked down -- presumably by Google -- by someone you lost contact with eons ago? And have you ever Googled an old friend/lover/spouse/crush to contact them (or spy on them, you stalker you)?

I googled my best friend from college a few weeks ago, and e-mailed him when I found out where he worked. Nice e-mail back. A few months ago, I googled the guy I consider to be the missed opportunity of my life, and found out he got married. He's in law school at Boalt Hall and started about six months after I left the Bay Area. I never contacted him.

I got a call out of the blue a few months ago from my sister's best friend in high school. She was looking for career advice and wanted to take me out to coffee to chat. I didn't know how she'd found my number, but I figured my sister had given it to her. She later told me that she'd googled me.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Have you ever been tracked down -- presumably by Google -- by someone you lost contact with eons ago? And have you ever Googled an old friend/lover/spouse/crush to contact them (or spy on them, you stalker you)?

No.

That was fun. Next poll, please.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by tmdiva
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Well, based on response to him here, I wasn't shocked that John Stevens made it into the finals, but I can say I was a little disappointed. Not too disappointed, though, because everyone I liked (and lots I didn't) who wasn't already picked is coming back for the wild card round.

Interestingly, all the wild card contestants are from the final 32--so there won't be anyone entirely new next week, like there was last season (Carmen Rasmussen anyone?). Also, so far there are six women and two men in the final 12. There are seven women and five men in the wild card round. It seems quite unlikely (though I suppose it's always possible) that there will be equal numbers of women and men in the finals this year.

tm

PS Some friends of mine who've been together for 18 years went down to the county office today to get a marriage license. Happy day!

I'm curious to see if the wild card round will include "judges picks" or whether it will be the top four vote getters. I'm guessing it'll be 3 judges' picks again, because they desparately need pretty people in the final 12. Good news for the short-haired blondes with whom I'm so enamored. Also good news for the pretty boy from week 1.

[idle acts]

Originally posted by Not Bob

Have you ever been tracked down -- presumably by Google -- by someone you lost contact with eons ago? And have you ever Googled an old friend/lover/spouse/crush to contact them (or spy on them, you stalker you)?

Yes, I was googled last year by a high school crush of mine, who found me on my firm's website and was WAY TOO impressed by my job.

So I googled him back and learned that he still lives in the small town where we went to high school, sells real estate and is married to his college girlfriend. When I mentioned these facts to him, all e-mail communication ceased.

[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Have you ever been tracked down -- presumably by Google -- by someone you lost contact with eons ago? And have you ever Googled an old friend/lover/spouse/crush to contact them (or spy on them, you stalker you)?

I've been tracked down a few times mostly for career advice. No teary reunions or anything.

I had a friend when I was in 6th and 7th grade with whom I got into all sorts of trouble, drinking, drugs, cutting school, vandalism, etc. He was probably my best friend actually. He was sent away to live with his dad and attend military school. We lost touch.

I googled him and found one address/phone number about a mile from my home (I was living in another state at the time). But his name is not uncommon so I was not 100% sure the phone number was his. I called the number once and listened to the answering machine and decided it was probably him, my long lost delinquent friend.

In the end, I did not leave a message and never called again. I simply could not come up with a way to say "I tracked you down via Google" without sounding like some freak stalker. I figured that as my name is almost unique, he could track me down if he had any interest.

I have lexus'd my ex-wife. Nothing too interesting there. She married the guy I thought she would marry and is living in a home of expected location and price. The only remotely interesting thing is she held onto the "Sandwich" name until she remarried. I.e., she did not revert back to her maiden name after our divorce. I know of no other divorced woman who held onto her ex-husband's last name. Divorced women usually can;t wait to dump their husband's name. I guess she figured she'd eventually remarry and it was too big of a hassle to change it.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
No.

That was fun. Next poll, please.

Me neither. Problem is that the only people I want to contact have gotten married and changed their damn names. What the hell good is that? Google needs an FKA button for those purposes.

And you have to wait a few hundred posts for the next poll.

While you're waiting, here's a game where the goal is to lose all your marbles. Not a stretch for some of you.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Have you ever been tracked down -- presumably by Google -- by someone you lost contact with eons ago? And have you ever Googled an old friend/lover/spouse/crush to contact them (or spy on them, you stalker you)?

I've been tracked down by a few exes. Either on google, through them calling my mom or randomly (so he says) seeing me on my firm's webpage. I haven't found it particularly troubling except for the previously described here ex who calls me drunk to discuss how to leave his wife and his recent flings. Ugh.

I have never contacted an ex through google and the like but I have contacted old friends from eras gone by that way. Of course it seems that half of my high school graduating class became attorneys, so Martindale Hubbell is typically the search engine of choice. They've always acted happy to hear from me and I've stayed in fairly close touch with my middle school best friend (Doug to my Bob) ever since.

And paigow, I did not get that memo, but I assumed we lagged Europe in everything that matters (freer sex, legalized pot, nudity on tv, etc.), so I'm not surprised.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I've never even seen the "WHAT!" WHAT!" WHAT"..."OKAAAAAAAAAAAY!!" guy in real life and it's still fucking hilarious. I knew Chappelle was a genius when I saw the underrated Half Baked, but he has transcended to places unknown. Pretty soon, he will disappear and join the Mayans.

Coltrane: You gotta get out a bit. You never heard Lil Jon? Kings of Crunk?

To the windows . . . to the WALLS.
To all skee skee skee skee skee skee.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Why start in San Antonio? After Baton Rouge, it's pretty much boring, boring, boring, interjected with scary, scary traffic (Houston) and merely scary traffic (San Antonio - which isn't bad generally, but I-10 is horrible, especially after being lulled by 200 miles of no turns).

However, I think 1-40 through Oklahoma is worse, because it's just as boring, but a) you have to pay for the privilege of driving on Interstates in Oklahoma, and b) there are cops every 15 feet in Oklahoma looking to pull over anyone with out of state plates going a mile over the speed limit, which makes it take even longer.

Also, I'm not a big fan of the Pennsylvania turnpike.

Worst drive is the stretch of the Connecticut Turnpike from Stamford to Bridgeport going west in the morning, and east in the evening, any time from November-March. Will take 1.5 hours to go 20 miles. Guarantee.

Purely on aesthetics, I'll go with 40 around the panhandle. And the neighboring parts in Oklahoma and New Mexico. I reckon that the Trans Canada Highway through Manitoba is pretty bad too.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by soup sandwich
The only remotely interesting thing is she held onto the "Sandwich" name until she remarried. I.e., she did not revert back to her maiden name after our divorce. I know of no other divorced woman who held onto her ex-husband's last name. Divorced women usually can;t wait to dump their husband's name. I guess she figured she'd eventually remarry and it was too big of a hassle to change it.

I kept my ex husband's last name and I'm not the only person I've known who has done so. I did so mainly out of laziness and because I was already in the professional world and didn't feel like dealing with the congratulations on your marriage conversations I was likely to have to get through when I told people my name changed (no, sorry, divorce). Also we had a pretty easy split with not a lot of bad feelings, so I have nothing in particular against his name.

My mom just changed her name back to her maiden name some 20 years after her divorce from my dad. She has been giddy about it and has found it very liberating, but their marriage was B-A-D bad and she kept the name mainly because of me and my sister (it is now much less important to her to do so, as neither of us go by it anymore). She got some laughs from the DMV person when she brought in the 20 year old divorce certificate however.

[dtb]

Originally posted by soup sandwich
The only remotely interesting thing is she held onto the "Sandwich" name until she remarried. I.e., she did not revert back to her maiden name after our divorce. I know of no other divorced woman who held onto her ex-husband's last name.

I do. I don't know that many divorced women actually, come to think of it. But the ex-husband of the woman I know who kept her ex-husband's name is a cool one, so I'd'a probably kept it too!

(Think -- Rockefeller and similar...)

[bilmore]

Originally posted by soup sandwich
I know of no other divorced woman who held onto her ex-husband's last name. Divorced women usually can;t wait to dump their husband's name.

Almost all of the divorced professional women I know kept their married name.

Too much time and effort had already gone into branding to make it feasible to switch.