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

[sunnybunny]

Dear Paigow,

Please let me know once the rap-a-gram I ordered you has been delivered. Happy Valentine's Day.


For those of you who are interested:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Feb12.html

or you may go directly to:

www.rapagram.com


That is all.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

I have two friends who are so busy counting the money they make from doing this that they almost don't have enough time to get to the office for their standard 25 hour week...

[sunnybunny]

This is totally outable but will someone please kill the guy driving the circa '86 escort with the Lyndon LaRouche ads and loud speaker on the roof that is currently under my office window? I will upgrade your handjob to a blowjob.


Thanks


Sunny

[Dave]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Ummm, I think that guy Cliff Yablonski kinda beat you to the punch on this one ...

Obviously I didn't know Cliff. But that is good stuff, reminds me of at least one poster on this board.

And I'll amend my prior statement to cover only Wisconsin expatriates, who haven't done any last minute travel.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
This is totally outable but will someone please kill the guy driving the circa '86 escort with the Lyndon LaRouche ads and loud speaker on the roof that is currently under my office window? I will upgrade your handjob to a blowjob.

Done. He's dead. Gimme a minute to clean the blood off my hands, then come on over with my bounty.

Unfortunately, just before he died he mentioned that he had an identical, identically crazy twin. We can discuss that one next week.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
So, what percentage do you guys/gals think?

Originally posted by Not Me
I would say it is about 5% of the general adult population.

If you are talking about the college educated, upper middle class to wealthy crowd in my age group, then the number is more like 10%.

As is so often the case on this board, George Orwell has some timeless wisdom for us:

• One of the few authentic class-differences, as opposed to class-distinctions, still existing in England is that the working classes age very much earlier. They do not live less long, provided that they survive their childhood, nor do they lose their physical activity earlier, but they do lose very early their youthful appearance. This fact is observable everywhere, but can be most easily verified by watching one of the higher age groups registering for military service; the middle- and upper-class members look, on average, ten years younger than the others. It is usual to attribute this to the harder lives that the working classes have to live, but it is doubtful whether any such difference now exists as would account for it. More probably the truth is that the working classes reach middle age earlier because they accept it earlier. For to look young after, say, thirty is largely a matter of wanting to do so.

George Orwell, The Art of Donald McGill, 1941

[str8outavannuys]

Since the board is slow today, I want to post something that I did last night with help from RT, but it's too much text to post here. Can anyone help me out by telling me how I can upload it somewhere and then put the link here? There's no images, just text.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
existing in England is that the working classes age very much earlier.

I guess he never saw the current Queen or her sister.

Honestly, though, there is truth to that statement. But I think it has more to do with selection bias than anything else. Rich guys get hot chicks and hot chicks are more likely to have hot kids and hot people are likely to stay hot looking longer simply because they are starting out with an advantage. Not so attractive people look better when they are young, but awful as they age. Good looking people also look better when they are young, but age better. Even without plastic surgery. They have better bone structure.

This of course brings us back to the question of how it is that Chelsea Clnton can be uglier than both of her parents (which is not to say that either of her parents are hot just that it seems to be a genetic anomoly that she can be uglier than both instead of somewhere inbetween the two).

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Since the board is slow today, I want to post something that I did last night with help from RT

You have certainly piqued my curiosity.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
As is so often the case on this board, George Orwell has some timeless wisdom for us:

the Super Bowl pool reminded me of Animal Farm.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Not Me
This of course brings us back to the question of how it is that Chelsea Clnton can be uglier than both of her parents (which is not to say that either of her parents is hot' just that it seems to be a genetic anomoly that she can be uglier than both instead of somewhere inbetween the two).

Two words: Arkan saw.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
the Super Bowl pool reminded me of Animal Farm.

With all the post-game censorship that went on, I would say more like 1984.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The guy gained like 30 pounds of muscle after the age of 30. I think it's no big surprise. Now, if they flip his trainer for a direct link to get Bonds, that would be something.

Inasmuch as this is being driven (in part) by election-year politics (see State of the Union address, Ashcroft press conference, etc.), they aren't going to go after the athletes. They like the press they're getting in the sports pages. They'd lose that in a second, even if everyone thinks Bond is a jackass who has it coming.

edited to fix spelling, and remove unnecessary apology

[Not Me]

Originally posted by bilmore
Two words: Arkan saw.

I think some sort of mutation occurred thus proving that he did in fact inhale.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Inasmuch as this is being driven (in part) by election-year politics (see State of the Union address, Ashcroft press conference, etc.), they aren't going to go after the athletes. They like the press they're getting in the sports pages. They'd lose that in a second, even if everyone thinks Bond is a jackass who has it coming.

edited to fix spelling, and remove unnecessary apology

And much of Ty's fixation on his "causes" finds resonance with "Keep the Aspidista Flying."