Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04

[evenodds]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I didnt write slainte, I wrote schlante. Are you the patron saint of the Irish now too?

It's the same Gaelic word spelled differently and pronounced the same.

I leave the whole patron saint thing to Patrick.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by evenodds
The only way to irritate an Irishman is to misattribute Slainte to the Scots.

that and ordering Bushmill's in a Catholic pub

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I like this concept. Pick a signoff from a different culture to sseem ironically cool and festive, while subversively passive aggressively conveying that the cheers person sounds like a schmuck. It has to be subtle so they aren't sure whether they have been insulted, but not so subtle it flies by their just got the memo head. How about "aloha" or "ciao"? Nah, these have been done to death in previous decades though I could be reviving them- but that might go over the head of the behind the curve guy. Never having seen someone ahead of the curve, he might think I was behind him in the curve line. Any suggestions? I dont get out of Connecticut much so I am not so cultured.

Arriba?
Andale?
Salud? (which is spanish for cheers sorta )

WEhat is the French equivalent of Cheers? Nothing is more pedantic and pretentious than the French version of anything?

How about "godspeed"? It adds several additional layers of ironic coincidentalism.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Not Bob


I am tempted to give her one of my John Nordstroms**[with french cuffs],

These are nice shirts and during the men's half-yearly sale or whatever they call it they are marked down from $100 plus to about $50.

godspeed Not Bob!

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Try Pink.

The store, not the neon-clad no-neck monstrosity.

(edited to cut down on quote length; that's someone's big peeve)

Thomas Pink has been getting a lot of props lately. What's the dillio?

You go girl.

Don't hate.

Cheerio!

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Why so angry? Holiday season getting you down? Too many wreaths and dreidels and holiday specials and what have you? Have you spent too much time in parking lots in malls, trying not to let your holiday cheer spill over into homicidal rage at the bleach-blonde Hummer-driving trophy wife who just took up the last 17 spots in the parking lot. Are you tired of forced holiday gatherings where meaningless conversations and vacant smiles thinly veil a seething cauldron of contempt and misanthropy? Are the shiny baubles and gaudy blinking lights insufficient to distract you from yet another joyless season of darkness and despair? Are the omnipresent holiday songs that blare out from tinny loudspeakers and taxi cab radios and unschooled children's choirs, with their laughably naive messages of peace on earth and joy to the world, beginning to claw at the very fabric of your existence to the point that you would rather be tied down and have your eyes gnawed out by a pack of feces-encrusted rats the suffer through another rendition of "Little Drummer Boy"?

Buck up, camper! Just a couple of more weeks and it will be January, and we can begin to prepare for what I consider to be the most wonderful time of the year - those magical couple of weeks leading up to President's Day!

Whiff.

Originally posted by evenodds
It's the same Gaelic word spelled differently and pronounced the same.

I leave the whole patron saint thing to Patrick.

then answer the question- did I write out the pronunctiation correctly ?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
The only way to outEnglish someone is to go Scot. also, it reminds me of schlong a little bit. will this convey my point?

Uhm, e/o......know what I mean?

godspeed!

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by evenodds

I leave the whole patron saint thing to Patrick.

I miss St. Pat. Did he ever get licensed to post over here?

[bilmore]

My favorite new ad for diamonds:

"You got her.
She got you.
Don't you think you should do something before this sinks in?"

The cliche signoff to end all cliche signoffs. It makes the use of cheers sound positively hip.

namaste.

but will the guy get the messge?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
The cliche signoff to end all cliche signoffs. It makes the use of cheers sound positively hip.

namaste.

but will the guy get the messge?

Only if he has more of a clue than I do -- or, huh?

And, apropos of nothing, why not "banzai!" as a signoff?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Not Bob


**Ordered online thanks to the chefster, who recommended that brand back in the day. And the nice thing about men's shirts is that a 16 inch neck usually is always a 16 inch neck.

Unfortunately I've noticed that this isn't true with sleeves.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
The cliche signoff to end all cliche signoffs. It makes the use of cheers sound positively hip.

namaste.

but will the guy get the messge?

Well, that's a greeting, not a signoff, so he'll at least be a little confused.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Isn't this always how it is?

"The family of the late Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina acknowledged on Monday that Essie Mae Washington-Williams, a retired teacher living in Los Angeles is the daughter of Mr. Thurmond and a black woman who worked for his family as a maid nearly 80 years ago."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/16/national/16STRO.html

TM