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

[evenodds]

My current body obsession has moved on from my relative fatness to the freckles on my shoulders.

Does anyone know of any non-retin A cosmetic to reverse my teenage beach baby years?

E/O

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
If this is gang-up-on-leagl-pedantic-time, I would like to point out something that has been bothering me for a while and in the interest of appearing normal, have kept it quiet, but I can hold it in no longer.

On the "welcome to lawtalkers" page, "Thurgreed" is spelled "Thurgeed".

HAH! Why didn't you say something sooner? I wouldn't have minded, just send me a PM next time.

[cheval de frise]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
For those of you who also love the strange literature of the 419 scam, attached is a correspondence between one such scammer and Mr. Randolph Carter, the well known anthropologist with Miskatonic University in Arkham MA.

If you know what that means, you will find this correspondence very, very amusing indeed.

<-------------- So, we're not the only Lovecraft fans who surf the Web. Who knew?

Originally posted by paigow_princess
(image of Less runningthrough my head for some reason)

Two years later, and there's STILL no friction? Time to cut a hole in a pumpkin. Maybe Penske can help; I hear he has some experience with these things.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
On the "welcome to lawtalkers" page, "Thurgreed" is spelled "Thurgeed".

Damn. It was supposed to be Thurgeek.

[NotFromHere]

OK, I can hold my tongue no longer. Avoid the "lucky bamboo" it brings mosquitos into the country. Plus they come from China (communists that they are).

In addition, I have never ironed my sheets, but 100% cotton pillowcases get all knotted up in the dryer, and if you don't iron them, the crease keep creasing in the same place and you'll never get them out. Still, I'm less anal than all of you.

"Lucky bamboo has long been sold by Asian gardeners and nursery owners in Southern California. But it has become trendy recently in the United States because it is used in feng shui, the increasingly popular Chinese art of arranging one's living spaces to enhance positive energy.
Sold in 15-centimeters (6-inch) stalks, lucky bamboo sends out slender green shoots when placed in water like a cut flower." Recently, though, the charmed plant ran into some bad luck.
Shipments of lucky bamboo have brought another Asian import, tiger mosquitoes, to Southern California. In Asia the insects have been known to carry viruses that cause serious infections.
No cases of disease transmitted by the mosquitoes have been documented in the United States. And so far, the insects have been found only in maritime shipments to Los Angeles. Lucky bamboo is also shipped to San Francisco, Seattle, New York and New Jersey.
As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and local pest-control agencies have started using pesticides to treat all lucky bamboo shipments arriving in Los Angeles County.
Import restricions are possible if the mosquitoes cannot be controlled, according to the county Health Services Department.
Also banned in Ottawa.communist bamboo

Health Canada advised importers to cease the
importation of Dracaena, an ornamental lily plant better known as Lucky
Bamboo, in standing water due to the potential carriage of exotic mosquitoes
into Canada. Health Canada notified the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency
to place an embargo on the importation of all shipments of Lucky Bamboo in
standing water arriving at all Canadian ports.

bamboo

Back to our "boring" day.

Originally posted by evenodds
My current body obsession has moved on from my relative fatness to the freckles on my shoulders.

Does anyone know of any non-retin A cosmetic to reverse my teenage beach baby years?

E/O

Get on Epicuren. THey cure everything.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by evenodds
My current body obsession has moved on from my relative fatness to the freckles on my shoulders.

Does anyone know of any non-retin A cosmetic to reverse my teenage beach baby years?

E/O

I found Camocare C-spot to help. I think it is pretty widely available at health food/herb etc stores, or online. It uses Ester C and a bunch of herbs. It faded the lighter freckles on my shoulders - took a while though. Use plenty of sunblock when you have it on though.

Murad has a glycolic acid formula that allegedly fades freckles and sun spots.
There is also this stuff http://www.dermstore.com/product_Whi...+Cream_392.htm
for people with hyperpigmentation - it is supposed to "whiten" your skin (interesting choice of words), but a friend's mother uses it for freckles and says it works.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
OK, I can hold my tongue no longer. Avoid the "lucky bamboo" it brings mosquitos into the country. Plus they come from China (communists that they are).

.

Can't you just dump out the water and start over? mosquito eggs go down the drain.

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Still, I'm less anal than all of you.

Sorry, no. I haven't plugged in an iron since I discovered Downey Wrinkle Release. Fucking amazing. That was last November.

Fuck me for perpetuating the ironing/duvet thread. But to make it more interesting (and topical, especially for me), if you are staying at someone's house for the weekend in their guestroom and you accidentally get semen stains on their white duvet (no duvet cover on the duvet dammit, just a white duvet on the bed), is it ok to just flip over the duvet before you leave or do you have to offer to have it dry-cleaned? how do you say "hey, do you want me to leave you some money to get your duvet dry-cleaned?" without revealing why it needs to be cleaned?

This is a serious question people.

[tmdiva]

I have a Company Store duvet and cover, and there are handy little ties in the corners of the cover and loops on the corners of the duvet. I just make sure the proper corners are matched up and tied, stuff the body of the duvet into the cover, grab two corners and shake, and voila! it's straight and it won't shift. Highly recommend it.

For office color, I recommend a small bud vase, then just picking up one or two really interesting flowers from one of those ubiquitous (at least here) flower carts every Monday. Also, my mil has some of the nice fake orchids (the big sprays of small yellow flowers), and they look just like the real thing.

tm

PS And you people dry-clean your duvets?!?!? That's really really really really bad for the down, and will cause it to lose all its lofting and insulating properties. If you use a cover, you only have to wash it every five years or so, in a large commercial washing machine with gentle detergent, and a large commercial dryer with several tennis balls or clean sneakers thrown in to prevent lumping.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by barely_legal
But to make it more interesting (and topical, especially for me), if you are staying at someone's house for the weekend in their guestroom and you accidentally get semen stains on their white duvet (no duvet cover on the duvet dammit, just a white duvet on the bed), is it ok to just flip over the duvet before you leave or do you have to offer to have it dry-cleaned?

How will they ever know, unless he was shooting something in a quite off-white color due to a diet of asperagus and Thurgreed's Momma's ass?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
God fucking damn it, I am so off my game. I might as well start a Robert's Rules of Order sock and start phoning it in.

Done and done.

Yr humble srvt,
etc.,
A. Grinch, Recording Secty.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by LessinSF
How will they ever know, unless he was shooting something in a quite off-white color ?

One word: texture.

(I was going to write "crust," but that seemed so icky.)

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Can't you just dump out the water and start over? mosquito eggs go down the drain.

The mosquitos are already here by then. The reason they noticed is that they "flew out of the boxes when they opened them." So while they are here, they can breed. This from the article...

The Tiger mosquito is a voracious biter and can effectively transmit many
viral agents, which are not normally indigenous to Canada and the United
States but are potentially harmful to humans and animals. In addition, the
mosquito can transmit viral diseases which already exist in Canada and the
U.S., such as Eastern Equine encephalitis, Western Equine encephalitis, and
La Cross encephalitis, which can cause disease in humans and animals.

Originally posted by barely_legal
Sorry, no. I haven't plugged in an iron since I discovered Downey Wrinkle Release. Fucking amazing. That was last November.

Fuck me for perpetuating the ironing/duvet thread. But to make it more interesting (and topical, especially for me), if you are staying at someone's house for the weekend in their guestroom and you accidentally get semen stains on their white duvet (no duvet cover on the duvet dammit, just a white duvet on the bed), is it ok to just flip over the duvet before you leave or do you have to offer to have it dry-cleaned? how do you say "hey, do you want me to leave you some money to get your duvet dry-cleaned?" without revealing why it needs to be cleaned?

This is a serious question people.

This just may be my new england priggishness, but isnt it verbotin to fuck or jerk off or whatever while a guest in someone's house? Debtslave? If so, I would say you are best off leaving the sheets and not saying anything bc you WASH sheets and not DRYCLEAN them. Unless the guy has splooge of color.