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

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Amen - well deserved. Mind you, I felt pretty bad for the other guy.

Gwinky, it's nice to see you again.

Canada is having a good week. Canadian scientists report that they've deciphered the genetic code to SARs. This should aid in preventing the spread of the disease by helping to confirm cases as well as determine how long a person is infectious.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Apr14.html

Now if those same scientists could only decipher coup d'skek's posts from yesterday . . .

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by former gov't
I have heard that many CA vineyards are changing to a screw cap - ecological and economical -not enough natural cork and the plastic corks just don't do the job properly. Still, it may take me a while to accept a screw top on $80 wine for a client dinner in a restaurant.

One of the commentators in Wine Spectator has pushed for screw tops for some time. His theory is that the screw top is the best at keeping the wine from spoiling. Cork is prone to spoilage. He does admit that there is less cache with having your expensive wine opened tableside by a guy screwing off the cap...

n(back home)cs

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Gwinky, it's nice to see you again.

Canada is having a good week.

Agreed. And it's nice to see you too.

Now all that has to happen is a Canadian team winning the Stanley Cup (as if).

Speaking of hockey, I trucked my cookies to Nassau Coliseum a few weeks ago and man, I felt as if I was back in highschool watching an OHL game. That is the best arena ever.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Speaking of hockey, I trucked my cookies to Nassau Coliseum a few weeks ago and man, I felt as if I was back in highschool watching an OHL game. That is the best arena ever.

Nostalgic sigh.

The Nassau Coliseum was the site of my first hockey game -- Rangers v. Islanders, natch. I can't remember who won.

I also saw my first U2 concert there -- it was the Unforgettable Fire tour, which is ironic (sort of) because I could not remember the name of the record as I tried to write this post. I f*&!@ng had to google it!

I am going out now to buy Gingko, or Ginseng, or whatever they call the stuff that helps with memory.

r(not as old as I sound)p

[i]
Speaking of reality TV, does anyone know what happened to ABC's heinous-but-who-could-pass-up-a-show-with-Robert-Hamilton-hosting "The Family" now that nightly prime-time war coverage is over?

ABC is going to air it over the summer - hoping for better ratings against re-runs. The one episode I saw was hysterical - and Im not a reality fan. Thinking of signing my family up for the sequel.
PS - at the risk of being a Timmy - the perma-tan host is George Hamilton and he is truly in his smarmy element on this show.

Legaleez: nice mention and Legaleez quote in today's Legal Times. I don't have the link or I'd attach (I read the paper version).

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
One of the commentators in Wine Spectator has pushed for screw tops for some time. His theory is that the screw top is the best at keeping the wine from spoiling. Cork is prone to spoilage. He does admit that there is less cache with having your expensive wine opened tableside by a guy screwing off the cap...

n(back home)cs

It brings to mind Steve Martin's turn as the snide waiter in the original muppet movie.



Would you like to sniff the cap?

spookyfish

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by former gov't
Legaleez: nice mention and Legaleez quote in today's Legal Times. I don't have the link or I'd attach (I read the paper version).

Thanks. I haven't seen it yet. Is it a positive statement of the site?

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by coup_d'skek

I disagree about the Brits being state of the art. Of their older films, the only two that really struck me are Get Carter and The Long Good Friday. Of the newer ones, only Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smocking Barrels did that. When it comes to noir, America's a hard act to beat.

Long Good Friday is indeed a great, and underappreciated motion picture. In that vein, you might like "The Krays," a London gangster picture starring the twins from Spandau Ballet. I saw it at a film festival a long time ago and I remember enjoying it quite a bit, notwithstanding its brutality.

str(Mike Weir for PM)8

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by former gov't
ABC is going to air it over the summer - hoping for better ratings against re-runs. The one episode I saw was hysterical - and Im not a reality fan. Thinking of signing my family up for the sequel.
PS - at the risk of being a Timmy - the perma-tan host is George Hamilton and he is truly in his smarmy element on this show.

Damn, all I could think was "that perpetually tan guy who used to be in B movies with guys that Hart-to-Hart one who used to be married to Natalie Wood." Should've googled!

Glad it's coming back. I love watching George extolling the virtues of being a millionaire to the up-and-coming proles.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Thanks. I haven't seen it yet. Is it a positive statement of the site?

It's a concise summary of the reason for the new site, its advantage ("swear to your heart's content"), and a quote from you, Leagl (or so they claim). It has the web address in bold.

Last item, inadmissable column, p.4. Not available on the web yet.

(timmy edited; also, see next post for text)

Originally posted by leagleaze
Thanks. I haven't seen it yet. Is it a positive statement of the site?

In today's Inadmissible Section:

F*cking Law Firms
"Greedy Associates have rebelled. After administrators of the popular Web message boards imposed new rules cracking down on the use of profanity, vulgarity, and abusive language a group of longtime users launched their own rival site, lawtalkers.com. The site went live March 28 and allows users to "curse to your heart's content" while sharing inside information about law firms and salaries,as well as general opinions on politics, sex, fashion and the like. The split with Greedy Associates, which is owned by West Publishing, wasn't so much because users couldn't bear to discuss firms without swearing. It was more a protest over how the new policies were instituted. 'To have things run a certain
way for a long time, to have no discussion of concerns - which might well have been legitimate - and to simply start filtering out this or that word is, I think problematic," e-mails Legalease - the moniker of the lawyer who put lawtalkers.com together."

That's it. (Any typos are mine).

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by purse junkie
I love watching George extolling the virtues of being a millionaire to the up-and-coming proles.

Evocative of his seminal role as the count in Love At First Bite. What a great movie. Maybe I'll go home to watch it now.

[notcasesensitive]

Anyone giving (or taking) odds for who will "win" Married By America tonight? I think that the playboy-posing chick and Adam Corrola dude are the favorites. Although Billy Jean and her dream to be middle class might have resonated with white-trash all over our great country.

n(and bets on whether anyone lives happily ever after?)cs

[evenodds]

You know, I completely forgot about the audience voting part.

MbA has to be the most bizarre reality tv show ever. In the past, people have accused shows from stealing ideas from each other, but I have never seen a show assemble a melange of elements so randomly and seemingly by whim from week to week.

That said, the ads make tonight's episode look very intriguing with last-second dust-ups, so I cannot wait.

Even(I am so ashamed)Odds