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

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by dc_chef
The place one is not bad, but one of my favorites is what do you like to use for "assistance" when TCB'g?

Certainly not yo' crusty mama. You might have heard, I had to stop her from sending pictures in for the 5th...Microsoft doesn't have virus protection that strong.

TM

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I re-gift wine all of the time. ... Of course, you can't re-gift to the same people who gifted you in the first place, but that's just common sense.

With a fungible like wine, sure you can. The appropriate stance is "we liked it so much we wanted to return the favor".

On the more interesting topics at hand, I like curling up with a good book, the sort that you read with one hand. If I am the only person on the board who has TCBed to that wild 13th century allegorical porno romp "Roman de la Rose," I recommend it highly. Oh yeah....

And, to tie that back into something from yesterday for Bilmore's benefit, I offer the following translated quote for your edification (on table manners, actually):

"She should not at the table close
Her eyes in sleep, nor even doze,
For many a strange untoward thing
Hath happed to dames thus slumbering
Such places are not made for sleep,
Tis wiser far good watch to keep,
For often folk mishaps have known
Thus sleeping: many have tumbled down
Supine, or prone, or on the side..."

Well, we can all see where that's going.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Girls into hip hop are generally more attractive than girls into indie/college/alternative music.

Here is the one thing I've noticed. I used to go out all the time. Bars, lounges, clubs. Mostly clubs (now it's bars and lounges where I can fucking here myself think and whoever I'm with speak -- yeah, I'm old. Turn it down). Back after I graduated from college, going out to a club that played hip hop meant following an underground party from night to night. Same few djs usually. Stretch Armstrong (tall, lanky white guy that had much skills), Funk Flex, etc. Hot girls. Mostly black and puerto rican. All other clubs REFUSED to play hip hop. Didn't want that color crowd, especially if they wanted the model set. All hip hop gear was banned at the door. Fucking sucked.

Now, on the few occassions I do go out, if you don't play hip hop, forget it. If you want the model set, you MUST play hip hop. Clubs, bars, lounges, whatever. A friend of mine dragged me to a place near my old high school, notorious back then for it's racism. He told me it changed. I walked in, and immediately did not believe him. Irish, white guys with nothing but scowls for me (the white girls never scowl -- I wonder why). Well, I spend 10 minutes in there and I want to get the hell out and what do you know? The next 2 hours, all that was played on the sound system was rap music. Surreal (not weird. surreal). Everyone in there knew all the words to most of the songs.

So, to sum up, hip hop is good. It brings people together.

TM

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

On the more interesting topics at hand, I like curling up with a good book, the sort that you read with one hand.

I like books as well. I'm sure it is way too tame and banal for many of you non-vanilla types, but I have a particularly worn copy of the Story of O. It is so dogeared compared to my other books, which are in pristine condition that one guy once said "why don't you get rid of that old thing and get a new one?" I got rid of him instead.

I also am strangely aroused by nature documentaries of lions and crocodiles and bears and stuff. Sometimes when I watch one in polite company, I have to leave the room. (Not because I think about doing it with the animals, you perverts, just because it makes me horny - I don't know why, although maybe I do subconsciously think about doing it with a bear or something, who knows). anyway, carry on.

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Here is the one thing I've noticed. I used to go out all the time. Bars, lounges, clubs. Mostly clubs (now it's bars and lounges where I can fucking here myself think and whoever I'm with speak -- yeah, I'm old. Turn it down). Back after I graduated from college, going out to a club that played hip hop meant following an underground party from night to night. Same few djs usually. Stretch Armstrong (tall, lanky white guy that had much skills), Funk Flex, etc. Hot girls. Mostly black and puerto rican. All other clubs REFUSED to play hip hop. Didn't want that color crowd, especially if they wanted the model set. All hip hop gear was banned at the door. Fucking sucked.

Now, on the few occassions I do go out, if you don't play hip hop, forget it. If you want the model set, you MUST play hip hop. Clubs, bars, lounges, whatever. A friend of mine dragged me to a place near my old high school, notorious back then for it's racism. He told me it changed. I walked in, and immediately did not believe him. Irish, white guys with nothing but scowls for me (the white girls never scowl -- I wonder why). Well, I spend 10 minutes in there and I want to get the hell out and what do you know? The next 2 hours, all that was played on the sound system was rap music. Surreal (not weird. surreal). Everyone in there knew all the words to most of the songs.

So, to sum up, hip hop is good. It brings people together.

TM

Translatino: I met stinkyass on the subway.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
So you are saying that you need a degree from a four year instittution to be a fireman or a cop? And that these jobs cannot be prole jobs bc they have always required this? What next? A phd to take orders to do political assasinations?

No, I'm saying it's increasingly required by some departments. Many are also offering incentives and tuition assistance for officers wanting to get their degrees, as they've found it to be helpful. That doesn't necessarily change blue-collar status of the job, though the job itself is changing.

Why wouldn't cops/firefighters be interested in hifalutin' book learnin'--because they're 'proles'?

Originally posted by purse junkie
No, I'm saying it's increasingly required by some departments. Many are also offering incentives and tuition assistance for officers wanting to get their degrees, as they've found it to be helpful. That doesn't necessarily change blue-collar status of the job, though the job itself is changing.

Why wouldn't cops/firefighters be interested in hifalutin' book learnin'--because they're 'proles'?

Darlin, in a classic, I went to a crap law school argument, you are confusing cause and effect. I am saying that because they had no degree for whatever reason, they had job options that included being a cop or fireman. NEver said they had no interest in reading. Hell, given the opportunities back in the dya, a cop or fireman could probably kick your ass on the LSAT.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
See, that was just stupid - she should have said "what? How hilarious, they must have confused the giver and the recipient's names when they wrote out the card! Hahahaha."

That's what I would have done. Then again, I would also have sneakily opened and checked it to ensure there was no enclosed card before regifting.

That's all I ask.

TM

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Two words: Purse Junkie.

TM

Everyone can talk about their sex lives as much as they want--nothing wrong with that. And alone among the more explicit posters, you seem to need to constantly convince us of your virility, so you go right on ahead honey if it makes you feel better.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I like books as well. I'm sure it is way too tame and banal for many of you non-vanilla types, but I have a particularly worn copy of the Story of O. It is so dogeared compared to my other books, which are in pristine condition that one guy once said "why don't you get rid of that old thing and get a new one?" I got rid of him instead.

I'm also an avid reader. I have a small shelf full of erotica in my bedroom, and I'm always on the lookout for more. I've tried, and failed, to find stuff off of the internet. Reading erotica off the internet is like reading bad fanfic. It's poorly written, and halfway through I'm wanting to edit, not get off.

[ABBAKiss]

A mirror.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Translatino: I met stinkyass on the subway.

Paigow, I still haven't met you.

Thurgreed(and I've been told that your breath actually overpowers your ass stench)Marshall

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm also an avid reader. I have a small shelf full of erotica in my bedroom, and I'm always on the lookout for more. I've tried, and failed, to find stuff off of the internet. Reading erotica off the internet is like reading bad fanfic. It's poorly written, and halfway through I'm wanting to edit, not get off.

Ditto. I did like E/O's link last night though. How do FB women obtain their erotica? Mine is primarily thru Good Vibes...

[Anne Elk]

Michigan wedding guest acts up.
Spree: guest bites of finger of a another guest at wedding reception. The details are truly shocking, smearing cake on a 9 year old, knocking out another guest. Hopefully the videographer managed to catch all the action.

Reading this article brought to mind a few questions:

1. Was he (the biter) upset about having to bring the kegs to the reception?

2. Were there any visible tats on any members of the wedding party?

3. Did he have the tomato basil or mushroom asparagus soup?

Inquiring minds want to know.

I've witnesed similar behavior at weddings while working at a cheesy wedding reception hall during high school in NJ. Lots of fights, but no bloodshed or calls to the cops. The funniest incident was when the intoxicated bride fell down the grand staircase during the introductions.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Ditto. I did like E/O's link last night though. How do FB women obtain their erotica? Mine is primarily thru Good Vibes...

Anthologies. I have a lot of the Mammoth Anthologies and some of the Herotica Anthologies. Usually about half of the stories will do something for me in an anthology. The other half, skipped. Novels are much more hit and miss, and I'm not so much of a connoisseur that I know specific authors to seek out, with the exception of Susie Bright. A few years ago, she taught a erotica writing seminar at Esalen in Big Sur that I wanted to go to, but timing was an issue, and I missed it. Perhaps the FB book club should start making recommendations in this area too?