Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

Originally posted by dtb
So, how does one go about finding a job as a copy editor? I realize the pay must be shit, but I feel it is my calling, and I can no longer let the machine get it.

http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/

Good luck!
RL

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Nebraska senator Hagel (R) said US may have to reinstitute the draft. My question to y'all is this....if you are openly gay, can you avoid the draft?

what if a guy is way past draft age but never registered for the draft? Is there some kind of penalty that could ever be imposed on him?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Gattigap
So today's blogging by Wonkette inadvertently uncovers some weird fashion trivia:

Has anyone even heard of this before?

Yes, but that's hardly surprising. It is designed less to deal with "puffy shirt" (which is really caused by the shirt being cut too wide) and more to deal with "shirt creep" which is just as bad and lets the shirt get all bunched and twisted around in a weird way that you don't see much anymore because now the problem is puffy shirts. This problem is also largely solved by having longer shirttails, which stay tucked.

I would imagine that shirt garters would, indeed, make most people feel pretty silly (I also understand that, if worn too tight, they can look very weird when you sit down), but I also imagine that its surviving practitioners would feel undressed without them.

BR(spent a bit of time this morning admiring a pictoral history of men's hats, so I'm rather well disposed to sartorial anachronism at the moment)C

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
But it will make you a much better pitcher!

Hey, this is kind of sexy. Uh oh -- does that mean I am a fag? No. Of course not.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
what if a guy is way past draft age but never registered for the draft? Is there some kind of penalty that could ever be imposed on him?

Yes. They become coach of the Boston Bruins.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
what if a guy is way past draft age but never registered for the draft? Is there some kind of penalty that could ever be imposed on him?

Do you register for the draft when there is no draft? I vagely recall that you do, but I can't remember (never having had to do it).

I'd also imagine there would be a statute of limitations on failure to register, but I don't really know.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Jesus H. Christ. Do you make all your decisions based on how they will look to other fucking people?

It's a small car. It's quick (the turbo) and it handles very well. I like the way it looks. Who gives a shit whether some idjit like SD is handing out cool points or not if I drive it? If I ever did buy one (and I'll never own a car in the city), I wouldn't buy it because I wanted to get laid. I'd buy it because it's a fun car that I could park anywhere.

I think the reason why you and SD hate it so much is because you picture a certain type of person driving it. That's just stupid and should not be the basis for any decision anyone makes.

TM

Its a fuckin status car. It says "I'm hip".

Car nuts are excused for buying a mini. If they truly like it for what it is, thats fine. Most people are not car nuts. Mini makes its money selling to silly women, Eurofools and doctors who pick one up for their daughters as an afterthought while picking up their own new 5 Series. Oh, and they sell a lot to the young urban coffe house crowd.

I'm on my 14th car since I was 16. I've bought and sold piles of metal, and you wouldn't get me near a trendy silly piece of shit like a Mini if the goddamn thing had a handjob machine inside it.

Its a statement car in the same sense that your 60 year old dad's foreign convertible screams overcompensation. I can at least find the mid life crisis 500 SL amusing, since its way overthe top. The statement that Mini makes is "Hey, I'm a hip urban guy with Eurotrash tendencies. I know a great car bargain when I see it, and my like minded friends who scorn American gas consumption will think a hot little ride like this which is environmentally frinedly is the coolest thing since roadhead." That's not a fun statement. That cat should save his money and hurry up with my fucking coffee.

My ultimate ride? An old suicide door Lincoln Convertible, Caddy Fleetwood or a New behemoth 600 S, all in black with black interior.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Do you register for the draft when there is no draft? I vagely recall that you do, but I can't remember (never having had to do it).

I'd also imagine there would be a statute of limitations on failure to register, but I don't really know.

He better not need any Federal Job Training.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/w...ive+%2Bservice

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Its a fuckin status car. It says "I'm hip".

Car nuts are excused for buying a mini. If they truly like it for what it is, thats fine. Most people are not car nuts. Mini makes its money selling to silly women, Eurofools and doctors who pick one up for their daughters as an afterthought while picking up their own new 5 Series. Oh, and they sell a lot to the young urban coffe house crowd.

I'm on my 14th car since I was 16. I've bought and sold piles of metal, and you wouldn't get me near a trendy silly piece of shit like a Mini if the goddamn thing had a handjob machine inside it.

Its a statement car in the same sense that your 60 year old dad's foreign convertible screams overcompensation. I can at least find the mid life crisis 500 SL amusing, since its way overthe top. The statement that Mini makes is "Hey, I'm a hip urban guy with Eurotrash tendencies. I know a great car bargain when I see it, and my like minded friends who scorn American gas consumption will think a hot little ride like this which is environmentally frinedly is the coolest thing since roadhead." That's not a fun statement. That cat should save his money and hurry up with my fucking coffee.

My ultimate ride? An old suicide door Lincoln Convertible, Caddy Fleetwood or a New behemoth 600 S, all in black with black interior.

I'm sorry, what was that about a handjob machine?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I'm sorry, what was that about a handjob machine?

I think SS owes us a review of the Sapphire Seductress (or Onyx Onanist, or whatever it was called). SS?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
This from the guy who bought into the whole Maine Coon hype? Save your money. There are plenty of strays.

Mine was a stray kitten. We didn't know what he was until we took him for shots and the vet said "He's a Maine Coon, or at last mostly Maine Coon." That explained the super long coat the Mrs and I had been wondering about.

I'd never own anything but a stray.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by leagleaze
At the moment, yes. But one imagines they would have to reconsider the don't ask don't tell policy if they reinstated the draft. If they didn't a lot of people would suddenly be gay.

I could just imagine the test to prove it. Ok you, kiss that man.

More than the test, I'd love to hear the backpedaling logic that would be offered.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Parents: two audis. surprised?

Sister's family: Audi and Subaru Outback (not just for lesbians). Though I think they are looking into something to haul the little ones around it- they actually testdrived the Porchse SUV (!) but I think that was just on a lark. Dont know what they got. will ask.

Your folks are worried about Benzes breaking down, so they buy Audis??? Audis are atrociously expensive to fix and don't last half as long as a real* Benz. My uncle's got a 1980 Benz that he still drives. Damn thing must have 300k on it. Still runs like a charm. No Audi ever built has seen those numbers, and if it has, its owner put a lot of cash into fixing it along the way.

* An S or E model, which Benz has been making forever. The C class is a newer line, and I'm skeptical of newer lines.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
[It's] a statement car...

As long as it doesn't make the statement "I'm so self-important that I would go to the corner across the street from the taxi stand at Penn Station because I need the cab more than all those schmos in line do", I'm okay with it.

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Your folks are worried about Benzes breaking down, so they buy Audis??? Audis are atrociously expensive to fix and don't last half as long as a real* Benz. My uncle's got a 1980 Benz that he still drives. Damn thing must have 300k on it. Still runs like a charm. No Audi ever built has seen those numbers, and if it has, its owner put a lot of cash into fixing it along the way.

* An S or E model, which Benz has been making forever. The C class is a newer line, and I'm skeptical of newer lines.

You are having another reading comphrehension meltdown.