Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by dtb
This was the subject of a discussion between my husband and me the other day. What exactly do you mean by "bum rushed"? He says it means something or other that I don't think it means (and I won't say who thinks what, so as not to influence your answer -- and I'm not sayin' which way I think you'd be influenced.)

OK, I'm going by memory, but I'm sure someone's out there googling this one. Bum's rush is a "quick escort" out of a place. The term bumming around comes from (I think it was the depression) when the unemployed (bums) would hang out in large groups. Police would disperse by "quickly escorting" the bums out of restaurants, bars, alleys, etc. Hence the bum's rush.

[W.W.L.D.]

A man in Germany charged with killing and eating a gay man he met in an Internet chat room had previously "auditioned" four other potential victims, according to a magazine report.

The report in Thursday's Stern quotes investigators as saying the four "cannibalism candidates" agreed to be subjected to a physical suitability examination by their prospective killer.

Lured by Internet ads saying "I could just gobble you up", the four men - three from Germany and one from London - travelled separately to the killer's home near Kassel in central Germany.

Three of the men baulked at going through with being eaten, saying they had assumed it was an erotic role-playing game. The fourth man was rejected as "pudgy and unsexy" by the killer.

The partially devoured remains of the eventual victim, a computer analyst from Berlin, were found at the residence of the 41-year-old suspect.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I caught an old video from a band who I think takes the cake for all time best band name: Camper Van Beethoven. That's my entry for the poll: Name the most clever band name you've ever heard.

You will be disqualified if you have to explain any of it. That is all.

I know I am late to this but:

"I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness"

Even(spent the day shopping)Odds

[idle acts]

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I caught an old video from a band who I think takes the cake for all time best band name: Camper Van Beethoven. That's my entry for the poll: Name the most clever band name you've ever heard.

You will be disqualified if you have to explain any of it. That is all.
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Threshold of Pain

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by W.W.L.D.
Lured by Internet ads saying "I could just gobble you up", the four men - three from Germany and one from London - travelled separately to the killer's home near Kassel in central Germany.

Three of the men baulked at going through with being eaten, saying they had assumed it was an erotic role-playing game.

Maybe we're missing something in the translation from Germany. Just to be clear, I copied the text above, translated it into German with help from AltaVista, and then back into the English. The real story:

Attracted by saying InterNet ADS "I could devour you straight above", the four men - three from Germany and one of London - separately traveled to close main Kassel of the murderer in central Germany. Three of the men baulked with to be eaten on gone through, say were accepted them that it was a erotisches role playing play.

Much clearer.

[Socking_Up]

Originally posted by purse junkie
I don't remember who it was who added a garnish of fried fish fins to some sort of guts-flavored ice cream, but it was a classic of "watch and hurl" television.

For some "look and hurl" net surfing, consider

The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream

(spree: The pics are of cartons, so you probably won't retch)

[Atticus Grinch]

Lightning strikes woman's tongue stud

Body-in-the-bed myth comes true

and the piece d'resistance:

Holding severed head in place, he defied death

[Socking_Up]

From the NY Post:

"The Kobe Bryant case brings to mind the young Chuck Berry. The rock 'n' roll pioneer, like Kobe, was good-looking, famous, wealthy - and black. Berry, who toured all over America just like an NBA player, was always afraid he'd be charged with rape after having sex with willing women who flocked to his dressing room - not to say that Kobe's accuser is in this category. But Berry protected himself with a Polaroid camera. Before he'd have sex with a fan, he'd insist she strip and pose for a photo with him, smiling with their arms around each other. If Kobe had a Polaroid shot like that, he might have a much stronger defense."

What I want to know is ... what did he say when a fan said "it's Turkey time!" to him?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
1. What black neighborhood were you in?
2. Who were you talking to afterward?

I can't imagine a black neighborhood where the right move is to call the cops for a bar fight. And I suspect if someone heard you calling 911, the fight would stop, the dj would pull the needle off the record, everyone would turn and look at you like you lost your mind right before you got bum rushed.

TM

It was just past Hyde Park on the el. I only lived in Chicago briefly a long time ago, so I don't remember that well.

I was talking to the other (mainly) white dudes I was meeting for dinner down there.

Yeh, that was why the consensus was to not call from there, but to back off and go around the corner or something.

[ias_39]

Originally posted by dtb

This was the subject of a discussion between my husband and me the other day. What exactly do you mean by "bum rushed"?

swarmed and asswhipped by multiple assailants

[lookingformarket]

Originally posted by W.W.L.D.
The fourth man was rejected as "pudgy and unsexy" by the killer.

Wonk,

You were lamenting just yesterday that there was no utility in your build and here the FB comes to save your sense of self-worth.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Speaking of which, I finally saw Secretary last night, and I wish it hadn't taken me so long. I've never been a big James Spader fan, but he worked for me, and Maggie Gyldenhaal really worked for me.

That was a good film. I think that Maggie Gyllenhaal should be in more movies... perhaps maybe all movies. Of course, I have the same feeling about Catherine Keener. So perhaps Maggie Gyllenhaal and Catherine Keener should divide the upcoming production schedule together... except for one or two very special films which will feature both Maggie and Catherine. These films, to no one's surprise, will be the ones competing for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Best Actress competition, naturally, will be a two-woman race.

Damn, I forgot about Monica Bellucci. OK, ok, new rule. All movies have to have at least one of the following: Maggie, Catherine, or Monica. They'll certainly be busy, but they'll have one month off every year, when they'll be busy with me.... Because if I had just one wish, it would be for all the children of the world to hold hands and sing in a spirit of universal peace and harmony, but the logistics would just be impossible, who am I kidding... [Please someone get the Steve Martin reference.]

Oh! and I almost forgot vengeance upon my enemies! I'll have to rework my list....

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by AngryMulletMan
You might also like an Australian movie called Love Serenade, which has possibly the best strip tease scene in history. Miranda Otto is priceless.

That's now on my list. Miranda Otto was the best thing about Human Nature, better known as the film written by Charlie Kaufman that wasn't Being John Malkovich or Adaptation. She played a woman who pretended to be French to attract men. Actually for the first half of the movie you think she's French, and the Kauffman wrote her as a stereotype way. Midway through, you learn she's totally faking. Brilliant.

The sad thing was... I thought she was hotter because of the whole French thing. I was as duped as the other characters in the film.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
And now I will collect my sonnet from EO. Thank you.

Notcasesensitive loves reality
TV, indie rock, and Texas Hold ‘Em.
She would choose Love over money or Rob.
As a poster, she contributes her wit:
Excellent, always pithy, never lol.
She is not banished to the Land of Fu.
Notcasensitive’s brilliance overwhelms
The dumbasses who live here in Texas.
She is more charming than the Metroplex,
Houston, and all the Streets of Laredo.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Better legs than Gwinky, calves than Abba,
She is as beautiful as all Texas:
The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Oh yeah, its an allergy alright. An allergy to self-control, good eating habits, and any form of body movement/exercise that doesn't involve food going into their mouths.

You know, for people who claim to be so happy with themselves (as opposed to skinny people who they claim are totally unhappy and in denial or whatever) fat people sure do spend a lot of time trying to find reasons for their fattiness that doesn't involve any blame/responsibility placed on themselves. If being fat is so great why not admit that you do everything you can to be that way? It ain't like some cut dude is going to deny lifting weights and claim that it is all genetic.

Hell, everyone would probably love to sit on the fucking couch all day and stuff their faces with all of the crap that tastes so good and call it genetic or an allergy but we don't because we obviously lost the furcking gene lottery and wound up with the genes that make you feel responsible for your own behavior.

Great, another smug, self-satisfied ass clown who's so certain that everyone in the world who doesn't fit within her standards is a lazy, undisciplined degenerate. The world doesn't have nearly enough of those.