Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[bill killer]

That kind of bullshit is what drove me to transactional work. It's a virus, moron - people don't generally transmit them on purpose. Why are opposing counsel always raving assholes?

(Why, Bilmore, why?)

(Actually, where is Bilmore? Where, Bilmore, where?)

Originally posted by baltassoc
[...]I was once threatened by opposing counsel with sanctions for sending his client an e-mail with a virus in it. Turns out my dumb-ass client got infected and had both my e-mail address and his former business partner's in his address book.

Edit: fixed. quotes. ncs

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
StraightActing.com is a website that features a survey that allows you to determine your gay "quotient"
by answering a short survey. The survey is unscientific, of course, and is only for the purposes of fun;
not for determining how truely gay or straight some is. If u are interested in seeing how u rate, visit the
StraightActing.com website.


THat's their pitch.


www.straightacting.com

I took the quiz for Slave. He's certainly the source of a toaster in some enterprising young boy's future.

Your score is 141

LEVEL 8 -- EXTREMELY FEMININE

You got it, you flaunt it. You don't even try to hide it. You want the world to know that you are proud of who you are and if it means two snaps with a 'you go girlfriend' then so be it. Life is too short to be someone you're not, and you'll be damned if you're going to suppress your girlish charm for anyone.


eta: no offence

[dtb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Speaking of whom, has anyone read "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" yet?

I read the first story -- hilarity ensued.

Really.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My friendly neighborhood bookstore is urging me to read P.G. Wodehouse. Never done that. Anyone with a view, pro or con? I'm a sucker for a whole series of books that come with tasteful jackets, ...

I hated reading Wodehouse. It was very disappointing because I am also a sucker for a shoel series of books (with or without the tasteful jackets). Can't figure out why. Yes, I like the TV series. I even like Lord Peter Wimsey books, but the collection of Wodehouse that I read was dead boring. I may try one as an Audio book. The Elizabeth Peters that I am listening to now (He Shall Thunder inthe Sky) is very good.

Speaking of audio books, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris is very good. Loved the story about Santa Claus in the Netherlands.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Speaking of audio books, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris is very good. Loved the story about Santa Claus in the Netherlands.

was this an intentional Coltranesque move or do you have the entire board on ignore?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ironweed
Perhaps best known for creating Jeeves and broadcasting amusing stories via the wireless from the comfort of a hotel in Berlin circa 1941. He has his defenders, including George Orwell.

Lest it be thought that Wodehouse was a Nazi sympathizer, this is far from the case --- it's more a sign of the Germans and Americans being unable to "get" British humor. The apparent flippancy with which he took his internment (first in an honest-to-goodness detention camp, and then more famously in the Berlin hotel) was interpreted by some (including the Germans) as a sign of sympathy for the German "cause," but it seems more likely he was trying to be very "British" about his capture and detention.

In fact, the five broadcasts were rehashed from a long morale speech he gave to fellow British internees at the camp in Tost in Upper Silesia --- stiff upper lip; it's not too bad, chaps; show the blighters, etc. Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry then projected the recordings into Great Britain in an effort to convince the British public that Wodehouse was on their side. This is probably not so, as Wodehouse was largely apolitical but repeatedly cariacatured the British fascist movement in his fiction as being a bunch of idiots and Nazi dupes, most notably with his Spode character, a mockery of Sir Oswald Mosley.

Shortly after the war, the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence cleared him of any wrongdoing --- probably because, after the war was over, they "got" what Wodehouse was doing by proclaiming that detention had no effect on the spirits of British detainees. Of course, one wonders what he would have written if the magnitude of the Nazis' other little project had been more widely known, or known to him.

I'm a fan, but admit I've seen more of the Fry & Laurie adaptations than I've read.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Lest it be thought that Wodehouse was a Nazi sympathizer, this is far from the case --- it's more a sign of the Germans and Americans being unable to "get" British humor. The apparent flippancy with which he took his internment (first in an honest-to-goodness detention camp, and then more famously in the Berlin hotel) was interpreted by some (including the Germans) as a sign of sympathy for the German "cause," but it seems more likely he was trying to be very "British" about his capture and detention.

In fact, the five broadcasts were rehashed from a long morale speech he gave to fellow British internees at the camp in Tost in Upper Silesia --- stiff upper lip; it's not too bad, chaps; show the blighters, etc. Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry then projected the recordings into Great Britain in an effort to convince the British public that Wodehouse was on their side. This is probably not so, as Wodehouse was largely apolitical but repeatedly cariacatured the British fascist movement in his fiction as being a bunch of idiots and Nazi dupes, most notably with his Spode character, a mockery of Sir Oswald Mosley.

Shortly after the war, the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence cleared him of any wrongdoing --- probably because, after the war was over, they "got" what Wodehouse was doing by proclaiming that detention had no effect on the spirits of British detainees. Of course, one wonders what he would have written if the magnitude of the Nazis' other little project had been more widely known, or known to him.

I'm a fan, but admit I've seen more of the Fry & Laurie adaptations than I've read.

I sure hope that Sidd isn't wearing short shorts when he reads this post, for his coworkers' sakes.

[Dave]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Well I did convince peopel on Parents that I have a SJP or D.

A Sarah Jessica Parker? Ugh.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I'm a fan [of PGW], but admit I've seen more of the Fry & Laurie adaptations than I've read.

Can you imagine a more perfect casting of Bertie Wooster than Hugh Laurie? I cannot. He's ideal. Stephen Fry is too young to play Jeeves, but he was competent.

The stories are such a hoot.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Speaking of whom, has anyone read "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" yet?

Sedaris makes me want to gack. And not in the "keeping myself fit and trim" kind of way.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
was this an intentional Coltranesque move or do you have the entire board on ignore?

I feel so loved and respected here! That's why I keep coming back.

Well, that and all of the tail.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
was this an intentional Coltranesque move or do you have the entire board on ignore?

Neither. I was slow on the submit button. Please accept my humble apologies.

Anne
Going home to wonder about why we all thought of Sedaris when Ty asked about Wodehouse.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by ironweed
Only suckers and tourists wait on the cab line.

Iron(walking up the block casually)weed

Only wusses, tourists and princesses use cabs. Mayor Mike and I take the subway.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by bill killer
That kind of bullshit is what drove me to transactional work. It's a virus, moron - people don't generally transmit them on purpose. Why are opposing counsel always raving assholes?

(Why, Bilmore, why?)

(Actually, where is Bilmore? Where, Bilmore, where?)




Edit: fixed. quotes. ncs

If I had a dime for every time I got threatened with sanctions I wouldn't have to do this any more. If I had a dime for every time I was actually sanctioned, I would have, well about three bucks.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive

what a sick bastard[, that judge jerking off on the bench]. I'm looking forward to the cash awards that are sure to come to his law clerk, the court reporter and all of the people assigned to that task of disposing of his bodily fluids.

The article said he was jerking off, not forcing them to suck and swallow.