Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
:idea: Maybe you could carry on (i.e., flirt) with Penske! :love: That would liven things up, indeed!!!

Hmm. I was considering carrying on (i.e. flirting) with you, Ms. Puppy, but your mean-spirited post has made that possibility far less likely. Indeed.

As an aside, here is someone from my laminated list -

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Are we looking at the same picture? Because the one I see that Slave posted the link to makes her look like she is about 20 pounds underweight. Heroin chic-like. Ugh. And the gothic black hair dye-job? Please. I am into Not Blondes as much as the next guy (Rena Sofer, Ashley Judd, et al.), but that hair style is Not Good.

She looks much better in Pirates of the Carribean. In this picture, I just want to give her a cheeseburger. And a milkshake.

She just looks pre-pubescent to me. NTTAWWT. Well unless you want to have sex with her.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
why don't we throw her in your pool and see if she floats?

I do think she's quite attractive in a very very lanky way; it's a bit skeletal for me but it looks fairly natural (no lollipop-head issue).

And most Brits are very lanky anyway. I recall commenting on their gangly-ness the last time I was there. Both the men and the women. Plus, we're just used to fatter people over here.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
And most Brits are very lanky anyway. I recall commenting on their gangly-ness the last time I was there. Both the men and the women.

Yes, like Fergie. And Princess Di before she had anorexia or whatever it was.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
And most Brits are very lanky anyway. I recall commenting on their gangly-ness the last time I was there. Both the men and the women. Plus, we're just used to fatter people over here.

You think Brits are skinnier than Americans? Did you actually enter a pub, take a train, or hell, leave your hotel?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive

How many hours a day do you spend grooming yourself?*

*I am embarrassed that when I looked this up to correct it after I typed it, I discoved I had quoted it correctly.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
You probably subscribe to stuff, maxim and that other one with the letters. probably where you get all your witty little puns from.

Its called FHM. I read all three of those mags, along with Newsweek, the NYTimes, Atlantic Monthly, my wife's Smithsonian from time to time, Rolling Stone, Time... oh, and Playboy. I used to get the Economist, but it's a bit too pricey to justify.

Stuff is getting dumber by the month, but Maxim has remained rather fresh. Now that Playboy has Maxim's old editor, its getting more and more like Maxim, which is a good thing, since no one wants to read about how to smoke a pipe, decorate a bcahelor pad or store jazz lps anymore. Atlantic is fucking great. This month's bit on the last minutes of the space shuttle Columbia is riveting. I have no idea why I get Newsweek and Time, since they copy each other every issue. I started getting them years ago, never filled out any renewal forms, yet they don't stop coming... same with Rolling Stone, which I wish would stop, because it stinks.

If you don't giggle at Maxim of FHM, you simply have no sense of humor. Hell, most chicks find it more amusing the guys.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Are we looking at the same picture? Because the one I see that Slave posted the link to makes her look like she is about 20 pounds underweight. Heroin chic-like. Ugh. And the gothic black hair dye-job? Please. I am into Not Blondes as much as the next guy (Rena Sofer, Ashley Judd, et al.), but that hair style is Not Good.

She looks much better in Pirates of the Carribean. In this picture, I just want to give her a cheeseburger. And a milkshake.

Dude, I don't even know the chick, but you need glasses. Those are some fantastic abs she's sporting. Whoever she is, she's a spicy meatball.

[dtb]

Originally posted by evenodds
I love that movie. It's firmly on the list of films I will watch whenever they are on.

Because I love the movie so much, I read S&S for the first time recently. The movie stuck close to the language (Emma Thompson did an amazing job adapting it), and I was fascinated by some of the backstory and character development she had to leave out.

It's the first movie I ever bought on DVD. Emma Thompson's adaptation was fabulous, and on the DVD, I watched it through with her commentary, which was most illuminating.

I couldn't believe she left out Willoughby's "explanation" scene -- although I wouldn't leave out how she weaves in the explanation, as it involves the dreamy Mr. Rickman, and it works really well. JASNA types usually like the Emma Thompson adaptation the best of all the Jane Austen adaptations (you wouldn't believe the volume of commentary these adaptations produce among the JASNA set... well, then again, you might.)

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
How many hours a day do you spend grooming yourself?*

*I am embarrassed that when I looked this up to correct it after I typed it, I discoved I had quoted it correctly.

Here he is again...

Unfortunately I heard a rumor that he does not meet my height requirements.

re: Maxim, Stuff, et al. They were pretty funny when they started out. I think they sorta ran low ideas and are now just getting by on girly pictures and schtick. Too bad because they had promise.



[Apparently only scruffy pictures will post here. I'm not sure if this is some sort of conspiracy.]

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Shape Shifter?

I have nothing to add other than that What's Up Doc is a great forgotten comedy from the 70s. And Foul Play. And it's getting chilly outside. I hope Tina will be okay . . .

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I have nothing to add other than that What's Up Doc is a great forgotten comedy from the 70s. And Foul Play. And it's getting chilly outside. I hope Tina will be okay . . .

Given your avatar and avowed world mission, I assumed that you would pick The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Its called FHM. I read all three of those mags, along with Newsweek, the NYTimes, Atlantic Monthly, my wife's Smithsonian from time to time, Rolling Stone, Time... oh, and Playboy. I used to get the Economist, but it's a bit too pricey to justify.

Magazines to Which (I Lead People to Believe) I Subscribe:
The Economist
The Atlantic Monthly (I justify this by reading it religiously in the MD's office)
Harper's
Communication Arts
Smithsonian
Wired
The Weekly Standard
The New Republic
Nat'l Geographic
Utne Reader
McSweeney's
The New Yorker
Jane's Defence Weekly

Magazines to Which I (Actually) Subscribe:
Sunset
Cook's Illustrated (print and paid online subscription)
Parent's
Consumer Reports (paid online subscription)
The Onion

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Magazines to Which (I Lead People to Believe) I Subscribe:
The Economist
The Atlantic Monthly (I justify this by reading it religiously in the MD's office)
Harper's
Communication Arts
Smithsonian
Wired
The Weekly Standard
The New Republic
Nat'l Geographic
Utne Reader
McSweeney's
The New Yorker
Jane's Defence Weekly

Magazines to Which I (Actually) Subscribe:
Sunset
Cook's Illustrated (print and paid online subscription)
Parent's
Consumer Reports (paid online subscription)
The Onion

I find that you can justify almost any absurd proposition (especially if it deals with foreigners) if you claim to have read it in "the Journal".

E.g. "This chutne chive Pate is delicious...I read in the Journal that Uzbekistan almost went to war with Tajikistan over a dispute concerning the proper ingredients to chutne chive pate. Luckily they took it to the WTO instead."

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Magazines to Which (I Lead People to Believe) I Subscribe:
The Economist
The Atlantic Monthly (I justify this by reading it religiously in the MD's office)
Harper's
Communication Arts
Smithsonian
Wired
The Weekly Standard
The New Republic
Nat'l Geographic
Utne Reader
McSweeney's
The New Yorker
Jane's Defence Weekly

Magazines to Which I (Actually) Subscribe:
Sunset
Cook's Illustrated (print and paid online subscription)
Parent's
Consumer Reports (paid online subscription)
The Onion

Vanity fair ain't bad. Really in-depth articles.
Harper's Bazaar? My wife gets that. Isn't it a chicks' fashion mag?
I leaf through Utne while in line at Whole Foods. Don't care for it.
Wired and Natl Geo blow.
The New Yorker isn't sensational enough.
Consumer reports might be the most boring magazine ever... "Hey, I learned which is most practical and economically sound microwave on the market!" Great. Good for you.