Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04 - Page 145

greatwhitenorthchick · 12-17-2003, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
sad story

I don't have a sad story - but this reminded me of the very happy christmas I had once. When we were little we were not allowed to have Barbie or anything pink or girlie or doll-like (except for stretch armstrong) because of the whole gender-stereotyping distorted image of women thing*, so many Christmases were disappointing since all of our friends would get the latest Barbie this and that and we would get an educational board game (although I had meccano and tinker toys and all sorts of good building stuff, so my parents did not give crappy presents. Just non-girly ones).

So this one year our clueless aunt who lived in England sent us all "Sindi" dolls, and accessories, and makeup and all kinds of Sindi crap. I believe Sindi was some sort of UK Barbie equivalent. Of course my parents could not take the gifts away. We could not be more overjoyed. Best Christmas gift ever.

*and yet we developed eating disorders and full-tilt embraced slutty behavior and plastic surgery, so go figure mummy and daddy.

notcasesensitive · 12-17-2003, 05:09 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
that is that retarded thing with the really large color buttons thta lit up and you had to press them hen they lit up? Thats like a test that should be administred for DUIs or something. how was that fun?

It was fun for people who liked memory games I guess. The point was to remember the sequence of colors lighting up and repeat them back. It typically led to the person (assuming it was played alone) sitting there chanting something like "red, red, red, yellow, green, red, red, yellow, blue, yellow, blue, green" to [her]self. I really liked memory games when I was a kid. Probably because they did not require the participation of another person. Hence I could play a mean game of concentration (isn't that the one with the matching cards that you have to find?).

I assume that the solid memory training of my youth has counteracted the drugs/alcohol of my twenties and will protect me from memory loss when I get into my forties, or whenever that sort of stuff is supposed to kick in.

bilmore · 12-17-2003, 05:10 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I don't have a sad story - but this reminded me of the very happy christmas I had once.

For my fourteenth Christmas, my uncle gave me a transmission.

Best present ever.

spookyfish · 12-17-2003, 05:10 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Probaby why I got an A plus on the Bar exam.

Funny, I thought I was the only one.

ltl/fb · 12-17-2003, 05:10 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
that is that retarded thing with the really large color buttons thta lit up and you had to press them hen they lit up? Thats like a test that should be administred for DUIs or something. how was that fun?

i vaguely remmber Merlin was kind of the same thing but a little red gizmo.

and I remmeber that game DTB spoke of. It made me completely neurotic and paranoid that if I didnt finsih someting I would die. Heartpounding type shit. Probaby why I got an A plus on the Bar exam.

I think the thing with the big color buttons that lit up and you had to press them in the same order that they lit up was fun for the same reason as dtb's game. There'd be the adrenaline stuff as you tried to get it right. Inevitably, you'd get it wrong at some point and there'd be a big mean buzzing noise and then it would be like you were a big failure. Probably why ncs got an A plus on the bar exam.*

*note that I don't know that she actually did this. hyperbole.

leagleaze · 12-17-2003, 05:12 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I assume that the solid memory training of my youth has counteracted the drugs/alcohol of my twenties and will protect me from memory loss when I get into my forties, or whenever that sort of stuff is supposed to kick in.

Ask Bilmore. Then again, he probably wouldn't remember anyway.

Penske_Account · 12-17-2003, 05:13 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
Have you worn kilts with a lot of people?

I have.

notcasesensitive · 12-17-2003, 05:15 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Probably why ncs got an A plus on the bar exam.

Oh sure, try to out me!

I find it funny when partners get excited about that sort of thing (someone in our firm got the best score on the TX Bar exam this year!)*. I thought that doing that well was a sign that you spent too much time studying.

*yes, I have heard some variant of this line on multiple occassions since moving to TX.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 12-17-2003, 05:18 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Oh sure, try to out me!

I find it funny when partners get excited about that sort of thing (someone in our firm got the best score on the TX Bar exam this year!). I thought that doing that well was a sign that you spent too much time studying.

My year I was the first person to leave the bar exam. Finished up on the second day with about three hours to spare, got up and walked out. Past about 3,000 people. And, of course, passed.

That was much better than being first on the test.

Tyrone Slothrop · 12-17-2003, 05:19 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Speaking of zoos, are the penguins at the San Francisco zoo migrating again? Wasn't it around Christmas time that they started migrating last year?

We were there just recently, and they were not "migrating" (i.e., swimming in endless laps around their little habitat). Since the penguin curator (penguinician? Big Penguin? penguinczarina?) at the zoo ["penguin keeper Jane Tollini"] is a genius at getting media play when her little charges do anything more novel than pooping and sleeping, it's hard to imagine that they could be migrating and we all missed it. I thought last year's migration was not a function of the time of year, but of the arrival of a new batch of birds from the Cleveland Zoo (or some such place) with a bunch of new ideas.

Note to self: Scroll, then post. Not vice versa.

Alex_de_Large · 12-17-2003, 05:19 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I don't have a sad story - but this reminded me of the very happy christmas I had once. When we were little we were not allowed to have Barbie or anything pink or girlie or doll-like (except for stretch armstrong) because of the whole gender-stereotyping distorted image of women thing*, so many Christmases were disappointing since all of our friends would get the latest Barbie this and that and we would get an educational board game (although I had meccano and tinker toys and all sorts of good building stuff, so my parents did not give crappy presents. Just non-girly ones).

So this one year our clueless aunt who lived in England sent us all "Sindi" dolls, and accessories, and makeup and all kinds of Sindi crap. I believe Sindi was some sort of UK Barbie equivalent. Of course my parents could not take the gifts away. We could not be more overjoyed. Best Christmas gift ever.

*and yet we developed eating disorders and full-tilt embraced slutty behavior and plastic surgery, so go figure mummy and daddy.

I had a similar experience. My parents, especially my mother, wouldn't let me have any guns or war related toys as a kid (yet they bought me Star Wars stuff: nobody said they had to be consistent). Anyway, my grandmother visited from abroad and asked me what I wanted most: at the time, it was the GI Joe F-14 Eagle. Man, that thing kicked ass. Anyway, sure enough, Christmas morning rolls around and under the tree I find the F-14. My mother fumed about it for nearly 2 weeks. That plane ruled...

bilmore · 12-17-2003, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
Ask Bilmore. Then again, he probably wouldn't remember anyway.

Fortunately for me, clean living and pure thought will keep my mind sharp and alert well into my late thirties.

(Edited to add: ) Oh. I think I might have fucked up the tense.

dtb · 12-17-2003, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by spookyfish
I was racking my brain about this. I think the game you are thinking about is called Perfection.

No wonder it was so traumatic. You almost had Perfection in your grasp, and then. . .

Edited to add: The more I think about it, this says soooo much about you.

YES!! That's the one. I knew Concentration wasn't it -- I am so glad you found that!

(And what exactly does it say about me?)

greatwhitenorthchick · 12-17-2003, 05:22 PM

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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
(yet they bought me Star Wars stuff: nobody said they had to be consistent).

I had tons of star wars stuff. A light saber, action figures, even a stormtrooper helmet. Fake weapons. And a real (non star wars related) pellet gun. But no Barbies. Parents are weird.

leagleaze · 12-17-2003, 05:22 PM

I had a merlin

My elder sister had a simon

My cousins had this neat thing that actually talked to you. I can't remember what it was called though.

Anyone remember anything like that?