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

[evenodds]

Originally posted by evenodds
As we prepare for the onslaught of good cheer for Chanukah and Christmas, here is a poll to help us leave this morning's inanities behind:

what are your most favorite and least favorite holiday traditions in your family?

Favorite:

1. Waking my brother with the greeting: "Santa was here! Santa was here!" on Christmas morning. (Yes, so what if we are in our 30s.)

2. Cracking the first bottle of champagne for mimosas before we open the first present.

Least:

1. Having to bake cookies late on Christmas eve because my mother thinks it is more festive.

2. Fighting for control over the scissors, tape, and paper. You'd think she'd have learned by now.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Yes, ADL said "it's not like he's waving his boner in your face" or something like that, and I said that he basically WAS waving it in my face, but w/out a boner...

I wonder if this sort of thing goes in in girls' locker rooms.

I dated a chick who lived in a girls' dorm in college and her friends on the floor used to complain all the time about this one chick who stood around nude in the bathroom while brushing her teeth etc... She was pretty cute, too.

I had to use the ladies' room when I slept over and things became rather casual to the point where me and some other guys who dated chicks on the floor would routinely knock and walk in to use the urinals (the girls' floor was not always a girls-only floor - I limited my use of the bathroom to the urinal and shower because I felt that dirtying the women's toilets after a night of booze and bad food would be rude). Try as I might, I could not time it properly so I "accidentally" got a peek at the chick who stood around naked all the time. I did, however, once get an irate face full if shit from some father who was on the floor for parents' weekend and did not appreciate me walking out of the ladies room in a pair of boxers scratching my head. He was probably the dad of the naked chick...

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by evenodds
As we prepare for the onslaught of good cheer for Chanukah and Christmas, here is a poll to help us leave this morning's inanities behind:

what are your most favorite and least favorite holiday traditions in your family?

least favorite tradition: heaps of guilt directed my way when I choose not to head to the frozen north for Christmas

most favorite tradition: present opening on Christmas Eve

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by evenodds
As we prepare for the onslaught of good cheer for Chanukah and Christmas, here is a poll to help us leave this morning's inanities behind:

what are your most favorite and least favorite holiday traditions in your family?

Going to church. Puts you down faster than ambien.

[Jesus_Just_Left_Chicago]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Strike three. Tell him what he's won, Bob.

Well, Not Me, you've won an all expense paid, steerage class trip to the Land of Fu. That's right, the lovely Land of Fu, where you, Fufu herself, the eye-gougingly inane pj and Jesus has Just Left the Building will be kicking back in the lap of anonymity. Privacy is king in the land of Fu because you will be completely ignored! Congratulations.

TM

Hey, we don't want him. Unless he brings his tanks so we can blow up pj once and for all. She won't stop chattering.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by evenodds

what are your most favorite and least favorite holiday traditions in your family?

I'm thinking hard but I don't think we have any traditions. This christmas is the first occasion in about ten years that my entire immediate family (there's only five of us) will be in the same place, so I am very excited about that. And we'll only all be together for two days, so fatalities are probably not in the works.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by evenodds
As we prepare for the onslaught of good cheer for Chanukah and Christmas, here is a poll to help us leave this morning's inanities behind:

what are your most favorite and least favorite holiday traditions in your family?

Favorites - the Christmas Eve party my parents have. Friends old and new stop by. It's a mini-reunion.

Taking the dogs to the woods for a nice long romp with my sister in law. It's nice to get away from the family stress and re-discover the simple joy that can be found in a game of fetch.


Least Favorite - the formality of Christmas morning. My parents require far too much structure in their lives. Looking forward to next year when my nephew will be old enough to liven things up a bit.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by evenodds
what are your most favorite and least favorite holiday traditions in your family?

(Most): The huge day-and-night-long family gathering on the Eve, with tons of people eating tons of great food and drinking massive quantities of great drink and opening presents and playing football in the snow and yelling at the sibs and nephews and aunts and whatnot and seeing how many kids fall through the ice in the creek this year.

(Least): Getting back home very late and spending hours trying to insert Tab A mediumwise lightly into Slot Q with no hugely force as per previous instructional methods diagramity and cursing people who think that the delicate matter of toy assembly instruction manual writing can or should be left to english-illiterate Indonesian goatherds.

[andViolins]

Originally posted by evenodds
As we prepare for the onslaught of good cheer for Chanukah and Christmas, here is a poll to help us leave this morning's inanities behind:

what are your most favorite and least favorite holiday traditions in your family?

Favorite: Potato Latkes. Not some namby-pamby mushy Bob Evans potato pancake knock-off crap, but the fried [with a tremendous amount of lard] crispy on the outside tender on the inside kind with just a touch of carrots and onions mixed in.

Least favorite: When I find that I am out of Lipitor after consuming several of the above.

aV

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by evenodds
As we prepare for the onslaught of good cheer for Chanukah and Christmas, here is a poll to help us leave this morning's inanities behind:

what are your most favorite and least favorite holiday traditions in your family?

Favorite: Several. (1) the Advent calendar, with little presents for the Not Bobette every day in Decenmber, (2) the kid putting out cookies (for Santa) and carrots (for the reindeer) on Christmas Eve, and the notes from Santa thanking the Not Bobette for the treats, (3) me cooking the turkey while everyone runs around our house. I'm happy because we don't have to schlep from relative to relative -- they come to us. Mrs. NB is happy because her mother doesn't wind up doing all the work while lazy people take advantage of her good nature.

Least favorite: the annual fear and loathing caused by the Ghosts of Family Strife Past.

Favorite when I was a kid was Christmas Eve Mass in the snow and cold of the ancestral homeland, with Christmas day spent at my uncle's house with all of the extended family.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by evenodds
As we prepare for the onslaught of good cheer for Chanukah and Christmas, here is a poll to help us leave this morning's inanities behind:

what are your most favorite and least favorite holiday traditions in your family?

Favorites:

Two, actually.

The first is an ethnic tradition where everyone takes a piece of special bread, similar to a communion wafer. They address each person around the table with their wishes/hopes/etc. for that person for the holiday and the new year. Each person then breaks a piece of bread from the bread the other person is holding and eats it. Kind of hokey, but nice.

Second is when I leave a note for the kids from "Santa". Even the single non-believer in the family likes that one and likes to help. Also kind of hokey, but nice.

Least favorite:

1. The feats of strength.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore

(Least): Getting back home very late and spending hours trying to insert Tab A mediumwise lightly into Slot Q with no hugely force as per previous instructional methods diagramity and cursing people who think that the delicate matter of toy assembly instruction manual writing can or should be left to english-illiterate Indonesian goatherds.

This reminds me of waking up Christmas morning to find my Tyco racetrack all set up. I inquired as to why the pads under the little cars were worn out. I was told that Santa had to test it out first. Later (when I was 22), of course, I was told that Coltrane's Dad and his drunken uncles stayed up until 3 AM placing wagers and racing the cars around the track...

[leagleaze]

I have no holiday traditions. None. And thank you for reminding me of this fact.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by bilmore

(Least): Getting back home very late and spending hours trying to insert Tab A mediumwise lightly into Slot Q with no hugely force as per previous instructional methods diagramity and cursing people who think that the delicate matter of toy assembly instruction manual writing can or should be left to english-illiterate Indonesian goatherds.

When I first started reading this I thought you were talking about having drunken late night post christmas sex.

Anyway, I like putting stuff together. I used to put all my sisters' toys together and now I do it for my nieces and nephew (and friends' kids now and then). I don't know why. I am drawn to it. My husband likes it because it means I put all the furniture and other stuff requiring assembly together in our place.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I have no holiday traditions. None. And thank you for reminding me of this fact.

Thanks, Crankypants!

No latkes hung from the chimney with care?