The New And Improved Fashion Board

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Do you really? And just what about your personal life puts you in a position to make this judgment call?

TM

I would have missed that note had TM not quoted it. But let me state for the record that I think your (PPNYC's) statement for the record is fucking stupid. If anything, Less and Spanky should be commended for their decisions not to commit. They seem to know themselves well enough to lead their lives the way they want to and don't seem to be hurting anyone in the process. Their skirt-chasing would truly be lame if they were married.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by taxwonk
See, this is where the whole problem lies. You misquoted him. He didn't ask you whether you thought Black leaders made anti-semitic remarks. He asked whether you thought African-American leaders felt they were entitled to make anti-semitic remarks.

You see the difference? In the first instance, Spanky would have been asking a verifiable, fact-based question. Spanky seldom dodes that. He generallly, as he did in the second example, asks a question that calls for speculation, by inviting the desired answer.

If only you gave Spanky the answer he asked for, this could have stopped. Now you've gone and kicked off another day of page-long posts and string quotes. Bastard.

Let me say this once and directly, and if there is anything I say that is unresponsive, let me know and I will respond fully and directly.

I do not believe that Colin Powell is an anti-Semite, or feels entitled to make anti-Semitic comments. I have absolutely no idea, however, what goes through Condi Rice's head, and have long since stopped listening to a thing she says.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ironweed
the first cavewoman ...........in Lascaux,

Euro-centric much? Man started in Africa, not France.

Or in your world were Africans only 3/5s a caveperson?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Not only are you whiffing, but you're a pussy for using a sock to ask whether you're whiffing.

I was too lazy to switch back.

A whiff, eh? Ah well. I am clearly the Dave Kingman of the FB. Only without all the home runs.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
He is not.

You see. A pretty girl could use that font.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I have also seen cans of Fosters in supermarkets. And they have it on tap in certain bars I've been to.

TM

why not pass on the killian's and try it sometime?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Not Bob
I was too lazy to switch back.

A whiff, eh? Ah well. I am clearly the Dave Kingman of the FB. Only without all the home runs.

You're your Id?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Excellent point.

Until the next post, I remain

yr obediant servant,

T.S.

All people who use this signoff seriously are crazy. This is based on my anecdotal experience with one crazy person who used this signoff.

Maybe I should qualify it to say that "all people who use this signoff seriously and have a Civil War reenactment wedding in Gettysburg and write 14-page complaint letters to their employers on their resignation are crazy."

No offense to anyone who may have had a Civil War reenactment wedding.

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Dear god. I get e-mails blessing me at the end.

Apropos of this creepin' Jesus stuff, at our parent teacher conference I saw the lists my kid's first grade class made earlier this month with all of the things they were thankful for. "Jesus" "God" and "The Bible" appeared almost everywhere, including on my kid's list -- and I am raising her to be a lapsed Catholic in our family's grand tradition. She does get a bit of "Jesusito" from her mom and Grandmother, but if she has been inside a church more than 20 times since she was baptized I'd be shocked.

I don't think this is coming from the school (public), but the other kids and, of course, their parents. I am starting to get the feeling that a community I chose in part for its soulless materialism and liberal politics is actually infested with true believers. Now I am wary of my neighbors. How many of these people have read all of the "Left Behind" books, I wonder? How long before things get uncomfortable when I turn down the invite to a Bible study group, or find my kid listening to Christian Rock ("who gave you this? WHO?")

I thought these people were supposed to be in home schools, where they can't pollute the rest of the impressionable minds with crap like how God put dinosaur bones in the ground to trick all the scientists. I am praying* that my kid turns out to be something normal, like a Goth or something.

*ha!

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
You're your Id?

Disturbing, no?

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I have also seen cans of Fosters in supermarkets. And they have it on tap in certain bars I've been to.

TM

Nice to see you two getting along so well. Maybe you can move on from here to talk about brands of other products and where they can be purchased, and so build an intellectually satisfying relationship based on mutual respect and shared interests.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ironweed
Apropos of this creepin' Jesus stuff, at our parent teacher conference I saw the lists my kid's first grade class made earlier this month with all of the things they were thankful for. "Jesus" "God" and "The Bible" appeared almost everywhere, including on my kid's list -- and I am raising her to be a lapsed Catholic in our family's grand tradition. She does get a bit of "Jesusito" from her mom and Grandmother, but if she has been inside a church more than 20 times since she was baptized I'd be shocked.

I don't think this is coming from the school (public), but the other kids and, of course, their parents. I am starting to get the feeling that a community I chose in part for its soulless materialism and liberal politics is actually infested with true believers. Now I am wary of my neighbors. How many of these people have read all of the "Left Behind" books, I wonder? How long before things get uncomfortable when I turn down the invite to a Bible study group, or find my kid listening to Christian Rock ("who gave you this? WHO?")

I thought these people were supposed to be in home schools, where they can't pollute the rest of the impressionable minds with crap like how God put dinosaur bones in the ground to trick all the scientists. I am praying* that my kid turns out to be something normal, like a Goth or something.

*ha!

Are you an atheist?

And the other post, I like Grand Central and I like beer. yay beer?

Re: NotBob or a Kandinsky painting. calm/chaos.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Disturbing, no?

You're like a living, breathing M.C. Escher drawing. Whoa.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ironweed
Apropos of this creepin' Jesus stuff, at our parent teacher conference I saw the lists my kid's first grade class made earlier this month with all of the things they were thankful for. "Jesus" "God" and "The Bible" appeared almost everywhere, including on my kid's list -- and I am raising her to be a lapsed Catholic in our family's grand tradition. She does get a bit of "Jesusito" from her mom and Grandmother, but if she has been inside a church more than 20 times since she was baptized I'd be shocked.

I don't think this is coming from the school (public), but the other kids and, of course, their parents. I am starting to get the feeling that a community I chose in part for its soulless materialism and liberal politics is actually infested with true believers. Now I am wary of my neighbors. How many of these people have read all of the "Left Behind" books, I wonder? How long before things get uncomfortable when I turn down the invite to a Bible study group, or find my kid listening to Christian Rock ("who gave you this? WHO?")

I thought these people were supposed to be in home schools, where they can't pollute the rest of the impressionable minds with crap like how God put dinosaur bones in the ground to trick all the scientists. I am praying* that my kid turns out to be something normal, like a Goth or something.

*ha!

If it makes you feel any better, my most anti-religious sibling was the most devout when we were all in catholic school (we also belong to the great lapsed sect of Roman Catholic Church). My parents were kinda worried when she'd insist on prayer before every meal.

She's tattooed and living a bohemian lifestyle in San Francisco now. Dyed black hair, motorcycle boots, buys all her clothes at thrift stores, spends her days in cybercafes writing, spends her nights in various venues checking out the music scene: the type of person you'd want your kid to be. She still has a thing for the Virgin of Guadalupe, but I like to think that's more the Mexican pagan side of her, plus the catholic part of the lapsed catholic thing. You know, the part makes us all genuflect when we walk into churches despite our best efforts and the way that we still know most of the mass by heart even though it's been 20 years since we've actually taken communion.

[patentparanyc]

There is an assoc here that is working under my boss. and he often in an administrative and procedural manner messes up things...and its starting to border on tedium to correct it. to expedite things my boss gives things to me to correct...since it is always a song and dance otherwise but really it should go back to him he will never learn otherwise.