Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03 - Page 14

baltassoc · 11-10-2003, 06:59 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
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.)

I had a roommate in college who discovered at the begining of his final semester that no one had previously mentioned to him that his English degree required at least one course in pre-20th century British lit. The only class fitting the requirement his last semester was "Austen and the Brontes." It was him and 23 women. Every class he would come home with a crazed look in his eyes, sort of half way between being glassy-eyed from boredom and completely furious. As he put it, each class was amazingly boring until the topic of how much men suck came up, and then he would be repeatedly berated until the end of the class. He noted once that the class's ratio would have made it a great place to hook up, if it hadn't been that each of the women in the class (including the prof) seemed to be waiting for Mr. Darcy to ride into the classroom on horseback to sweep he off he feet and take her away. I don't think they ever worked out how all 24 of them were going to fit on the back of a horse. This from a guy so sensitive he wrote (decent) love sonnets to his girlfriend on a regular basis. Austen is that evil.

SlaveNoMore · 11-10-2003, 07:01 PM

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

My list of magazines (to which I subscribe, and then, most often, throw into the recycling can):

WSJ [not a magazine, but whatever]
The Economist
National Review
The American Spectator
The Wine Spectator
Gourmet
Cuisine Light
Cooks Illustrated
Rolling Stone
Alternative Press
The Utne Reader
McSweeney's
Maxim
New York
Time Out New York

s4(Damn waste of trees)e

ThurgreedMarshall · 11-10-2003, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Added bonus -- you could use this in anatomy class to study internal organs.

Yeah. I don't know what the fuss was with that photo. She looks a little sickly to me. But, I'm not really saying much because she looks great in the other shot.

TM

Flinty_McFlint · 11-10-2003, 07:03 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
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 have it on pretty good information that you've left Boys' Life and Cat Fancy off this list.

Carry on. Indeed. Whatever. Salmon.

robustpuppy · 11-10-2003, 07:03 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
[Women in roommate's class] ... Austen is that evil.

I fail to see how your conclusion follows. Please explain.

R(not quite apoplectic in response, but I cannot speak for dtb )P

Tyrone Slothrop · 11-10-2003, 07:06 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.

The phone book is pretty boring if you sit down and start reading it cover to cover. I subscribe to it, though. Or maybe not, but they seem to bring it every year.

baltassoc · 11-10-2003, 07:06 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Harper's Bazaar? My wife gets that. Isn't it a chicks' fashion mag?

Therre is a very funny piece by David Foster Wallace in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again that is built on this confusion when he is covering the Iowa state fair for Harpers and is suddenly and mysteriously the center of attention at the bake-off.

It's a great book, and a much easier read to get into than his fiction. The eponymous piece about being on a cruise ship is quite hysterical.

ThurgreedMarshall · 11-10-2003, 07:07 PM

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

Why would you need a list for this? Do you consult your list when something comes on that you're not sure about and then watch it if it actually is on your list?

TM

NotFromHere · 11-10-2003, 07:08 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.

Dude, those aren't abs. Those are bones.

These are abs.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 11-10-2003, 07:11 PM

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

Yes. Yes. Yes. Saw a play, got drunk 5 days straight, yada yada yada, Ms I Know Everything About England...

Edited to add that maybe living in France for two months made me think that EVERYONE is fat.

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand · 11-10-2003, 07:12 PM

NTTAWWT

University of Chicago researchers studying baboon behavior uncover greeting ritual among males which, oddly enough, resembles the behavior of drunken twentysomethings in bars...

Excerpt: "The animals first make eye contact in a "come hither'' expression and then approach in a swinging gait swagger. Then there's some coy touching of the hips -- or perhaps one might turn his rump to the other. Lips might smack. And then comes the diddling, a technical term for just what you probably think it is -- fondling each other's genitalia."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/...-baboon10.html

Flinty, leader of the invading monkey horde, apparently could not be reached for comment.

dtb · 11-10-2003, 07:12 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I fail to see how your conclusion follows. Please explain.

R(not quite apoplectic in response, but I cannot speak for dtb )P

Not really apoplectic either -- horses/folks/etc. -- but the end part seemed to come out of left field.

(Thanks for the giggle about the 24-on-the-back-of-the-horse bit -- pretty funny.)

Mr. Knightley is my favorite hero from the "big 6" (in print, that is... on screen, Brandon/Knightley/Darcy trade off, depending on which adaptation I've most recently seen.)

My husband is nonplussed as to why Professor Snape makes it onto my laminated list. (Although if I do say so myself, I think I've got a better chance of hooking up with Colonel Brandon, uh... I mean Alan Rickman, than my husband does at hooking up with Britney Spears, so, there you go.)

Shape Shifter · 11-10-2003, 07:14 PM

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
NTTAWWT

University of Chicago researchers studying baboon behavior uncover greeting ritual among males which, oddly enough, resembles the behavior of drunken twentysomethings in bars...

Excerpt: "The animals first make eye contact in a "come hither'' expression and then approach in a swinging gait swagger. Then there's some coy touching of the hips -- or perhaps one might turn his rump to the other. Lips might smack. And then comes the diddling, a technical term for just what you probably think it is -- fondling each other's genitalia."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/...-baboon10.html

Flinty, leader of the invading monkey horde, apparently could not be reached for comment.

What bars are you going to? Ditto the NTTAWWT.

evenodds · 11-10-2003, 07:14 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Why would you need a list for this? Do you consult your list when something comes on that you're not sure about and then watch it if it actually is on your list?

We actually had this as a poll a couple of months back, and that is the list to which I was referring.

Even(Hi, Crankypants!)Odds

Shape Shifter · 11-10-2003, 07:16 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Saw a play, got drunk 5 days straight, yada yada yada, Ms I Know Everything About England...

What do they call African-Americans there?