Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The funniest thing about Orwell is most people consider Farm and 1984 his best. His best is actually a wrenching essay about watching a hanging in some colony. If you can find his essay, it probably makes the greatest case against capital punishment I've ever read, and I'm not even sure that's what he intended.

God, I hope that essay was Orwell, or I'll be outed as the literary dilletante I am.

Shooting an Elephant?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Shooting an Elephant?

No, its simply called A Hanging.

http://orwell.ru/library/articles/ha...english/e_hang

Really simple writing. Fucking gives me the creeps to read it. Really horrifying. The whole breakdown of how the condemned man's system was functioning in all regards is so clinical. He really captures the degardation of the whole thing. Just a process.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
His books include The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Et tu, Babe?, I Smell Esther Williams, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist.

I've only read the last, and it wasn't my favorite, but a friend from law school adores him. The author you mentioned above sounded vaguely similar.

I have heard of this guy... I gotta buy this stuff. Thanks.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The guy's treating them like they're Beethoven.

Beethoven sucked.

[Dave]

So sad to have missed today's whiffolympics.

And very disappointed at the general lack of discussion of the most vintage of paigowesque actions -- the threat of placing the poster on the ever popular ignore list.

Buh bye. And thanks for playing.

[john123]

Originally posted by Dave
So sad to have missed today's whiffolympics.

And very disappointed at the general lack of discussion of the most vintage of paigowesque actions -- the threat of placing the poster on the ever popular ignore list.

Buh bye. And thanks for playing.

Swing and a miss!

[ltl/fb]

so, I finally decided to try Febreze. I went out Friday and got all gross and smoky (but was really really drunk during that part, so it was fine at the time, but I digress). when I got home, in between sending ill-considered IMs and PMs and emails and so forth, I Febrezed my sweater and skirt. I just put back on the sweater and NO SMOKE SMELL.

I also Febrezed my hair, and though I think it worked pretty well I have been told that that was just drunken craziness.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by paigowprincess

They said it couldnt be done, but Flower has transmorgified into Penske

For the transformation to have been a transmogrification, it would have to have been humorous. If only.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
so, I finally decided to try Febreze. I went out Friday and got all gross and smoky (but was really really drunk during that part, so it was fine at the time, but I digress). when I got home, in between sending ill-considered IMs and PMs and emails and so forth, I Febrezed my sweater and skirt. I just put back on the sweater and NO SMOKE SMELL.

I also Febrezed my hair, and though I think it worked pretty well I have been told that that was just drunken craziness.

Why does the name of that stuff sound like the name of a "feminine hygiene product"?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Why does the name of that stuff sound like the name of a "feminine hygiene product"?

I dont' know, but I'm sure you are quite stinky so if you came over here and we mated I could check out whether it works there too.

[john123]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Originally posted by paigowprincess



For the transformation to have been a transmogrification, it would have to have been humorous. If only.

Swing and a miss! You were much funnier when you were skek_anon8.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by john123

Swing and a miss! You were much funnier when you were skek_anon8.

Pedantic I may be, but the only good reason to use a ten dollar word like transmogrify is for the connotation it has than simpler words lack.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Pedantic I may be, but the only good reason to use a ten dollar word like transmogrify is for the connotation it has than simpler words lack.

I'm still trying to decide whether she meant that PLF became the actual body or blood of Christ.

[dc_chef]

Originally posted by Fugee
I'm still trying to decide whether she meant that PLF became the actual body or blood of Christ.

Are you saying that Penske is the Christ?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by dc_chef
Are you saying that Penske is the Christ?

No simple trinity could hold a candle to Penske.