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

[evenodds]

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

namaste.

That is a lovely thing to say.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Is it okay if the Italian side of your family has ALWAYS said it*?

*only around other family members at dinner.

Yeh, they get a pass.

[purse junkie]

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!

Or, you could just genuinely think holiday lights are pretty, and like things, instead.

P(loves "the little drummer boy" so go to hell you godless heathen)J

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by 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

So why will people refer to her as Strom's "love child"? Shouldn't she be his "fuck child"?

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
So why will people refer to her as Strom's "love child"? Shouldn't she be his "fuck child"?

Stop it right now, or we'll get into another discussion on self-loathing.

Edited to add: I was unclear when this story first came out whether she was contesting his will. Does anybody know?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Thomas Pink has been getting a lot of props lately. What's the dillio?

You go girl.

Don't hate.

Cheerio!

Well, Americans wear point collars, which are the uniform or accountants and guidance counselors everywhere. And Americans also tend to wear exclusively white or blue shirts with everything and buy their suits and shirts too big, which makes them look like a middle manager pulling an old suit out of the closet to accept some lifetime service award.

Pink, and Charles Tyrwhitt and some of the other English shirtmakers cut their shirts thin and offer spread collars, which is the only sort of dress shirt that really looks good with a suit (the tab collar is an abomination, the rounded collar is only acceptable if you're an NBA first round draft pick or Deion Sanders and the buttoned down collar is only apporporiately worn casually, sans tie... even if you're a blue blood like Dr. Dean).

Pink stuff lasts foreever and the stitching is perfect. Of course, if you can swing Brioni or Borelli, that's better, but you'll pay twice the price. Turnbull & Asser is also good shit, but the collars aren't real spreads - they're more modified American spread. Tyrwhitt is the best bargain, but they don't last half as long as Pink and the fabris don't come in all the cool patterns like Pink.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
So why will people refer to her as Strom's "love child"? Shouldn't she be his "fuck child"?

I cannot understand why you are always so misunderstood.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by 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

Well, his family at least did the right thing, unlike Thomas Jefferson's family, which still excludes the Hemmings from extended family gatherings.

The strangest bit of the whole thing was the daughter's lawyer's explanation that "Well, she never out him even when he was a segregationist, because they had an understanding that he was just doing that for his job." I'm not sure what to think of an arrangement that bizarre. I can't decide whether to grudgingly applaud Strom's willingness to support and privately acknowledge this women or really dislike the guy for being such an twisted hypocrite. Politicians really are the most flawed of us.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by evenodds
I cannot understand why you are always so misunderstood.

Make a Seinfeldian observation and...oh well...

It was a joke.

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

I believe that namaste is the hindu equivalent of peace out. but thanks for playing.

[Pretty Little Flower]

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!

Originally posted by purse junkie
Or, you could just genuinely think holiday lights are pretty, and like things, instead.

P(loves "the little drummer boy" so go to hell you godless heathen)J

I assume that Thurgreed still has purse junkie on his ignore list, but I don't think he wants to miss this post.

[Not Flaming]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Or, you could just genuinely think holiday lights are pretty, and like things, instead.

P(loves "the little drummer boy" so go to hell you godless heathen)J

Beeyotch, please. This is uncool. Way. It is Tuesday. Gratuitous flame day is Friday. Check your calendar or daykeeper or timekeeper or palm pilot or sony clie or Microsoft Outlook or sundial or whatever it is your type uses to track the passage of time and get back to us as appropriate. Until then thou shall not be flaming, like me.

Peace. Out.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I can't decide whether to grudgingly applaud Strom's willingness to support and privately acknowledge this women or really dislike the guy for being such an twisted hypocrite.

No one deserves applause for supporting his children. It's like clapping for someone because he managed to get his shoes on the right feet.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I believe that namaste is the hindu equivalent of peace out. but thanks for playing.

Well, I don't really "play", actually, but I'm greeted with that at least twice daily, and no one has ever used it as "peace out". But YMMV, I guess.

[ABBAKiss]

Can you stretch out your avatar a bit? She looks very Star Jones.