Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03 - Page 1512

notcasesensitive · 09-11-2003, 01:39 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I love charro beans (the ham or pork soupy beans). My momma also makes the best charro beans ever.

I'm not sure about black beans here, since the lard thing doesn't bother me that much so I never bother to ask. I'm going to guess that it probably depends on the restaruant and whether or not they care about vegetarians and how they prepare their beans.

Ditto on the charro beans. I usually get those instead of black beans, despite the higher fat content. This reminds me, time for lunch...

bold_n_brazen · 09-11-2003, 01:51 PM

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Looking into it myself. From what I understand the little receiver that you can move from place to place (home, car, office) is about $200 and you may need some adapters for it. The service itself is about $10-12 a month. I'm seriously thinking about getting it, and my only question was whether you can pick it up in these concrete and steel edifices we call office buildings...

If you can, I'm buying the service for sure.

To date, the only place my receiver does not work is a tiny patch of driveway on the bottom level of the parking garage at my office. Works fine in the office. Works fine in the car. Works fine at home.

I love that if I feel like listening to Show Tunes then BY GOD let there be show tunes!

Bn'(Can't remember the last time I felt like listening to show tunes)B

bold_n_brazen · 09-11-2003, 01:52 PM

I need a new avatar...

I need an avatar PERIOD.

Any suggestions?

Bn'B

leagleaze · 09-11-2003, 01:55 PM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I need a new avatar...

I need an avatar PERIOD.

Any suggestions?

Bn'B

How about something like this mom?

Shape Shifter · 09-11-2003, 01:59 PM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I need a new avatar...

Left column, bottom picture.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/V...696/Page5.html

(spree: live animals)

You may be sorry to learn that you have died. But not before you won the Tampa Speed Classic.

http://www.networksplus.net/nga/ads/archive/feb98.htm

(spree: dead animal story, no picture)

ThrashersFan · 09-11-2003, 02:01 PM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I need a new avatar...

I need an avatar PERIOD.

Any suggestions?

Bn'B

I Googled "Bold and Brazen" and came up with this from Morna's BiPagan Page. It has something to do with a poem about a witch titled Bold and Brazen. Leagl will have to right-size it for an avatar but I think it is kinda cool and might suit you.

edit: why didn't it work?
Here is the address. www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/5430/bold.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/5430/goddess.gif

Not that I don't think a red x doesn't work for B&B, but I figured you might like me to fix it for you. It didn't work because the site prevents linking directly to photos like that. - L

bilmore · 09-11-2003, 02:03 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
I Googled "Bold and Brazen" and came up with this from Morna's BiPagan Page. It has something to do with a poem about a witch titled Bold and Brazen. Leagl will have to right-size it for an avatar but I think it is kinda cool and might suit you.

Geocities doesn't allow links.

evenodds · 09-11-2003, 02:06 PM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I need a new avatar...

I need an avatar PERIOD.

Any suggestions?

Bn'B

I was thinking a box of raisinettes

robustpuppy · 09-11-2003, 02:07 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
Pic of Bold Detergent box

I love "Cleans Even Tough-to-Clean-Modern-Fabrics."

I picture marketing types gathered round a conference room table working to come up with a euphemism for polyester.

leagleaze · 09-11-2003, 02:14 PM

Three lovely choices, all resized for your use, if you should so choose.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone · 09-11-2003, 02:24 PM

I stumbled across a new one for MR:

Admins, feel free to resize this if I fuck up the page view for everybody.

Bad_Rich_Chic · 09-11-2003, 02:26 PM

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/int/...9/11/eli_roth/

Really amusing interview with the Cabin Fever director about why horror movies are great and why so many of them suck ass.

I am psyched to see this movie, incidentally.

[Salon - get a day pass.]

dtb · 09-11-2003, 02:29 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Today I am so cautious that I will not even ask an obviously pregnant woman when her due date is unless she specifically informs me that she is pregnant.

I had a bit of fun with a client (not really my client, but my client's client...) when I was pregnant with #1 (so of course, I was wearing my regular clothing into my 6th month). So I was around 6 months, was wearing my regular pants, but had on a maternity shirt -- but it wasn't a totally obvious maternity shirt.

Anyway, at some drafting session, this guy asks, "When are you due?" And I, completely straight-faced (maybe a hint of a quizzical look thrown in), responded, "Due for what?"

The poor guy -- all color drained out of his face. I quickly reassured him, but I think I almost gave him a heart attack. Poor thing.

Sidd Finch · 09-11-2003, 02:36 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Anyway, at some drafting session, this guy asks, "When are you due?" And I, completely straight-faced (maybe a hint of a quizzical look thrown in), responded, "Due for what?"

The poor guy -- all color drained out of his face. I quickly reassured him, but I think I almost gave him a heart attack. Poor thing.

Hence the rule: Unless you actually see a baby coming out of someone's body, do not ask if she is pregnant.

dtb · 09-11-2003, 02:38 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I went to school with two sets of tripplets and four sets of identical twins I can think of offhand, to my knowledge none drug-induced

Oddly, your post reminded me of the rash assumptions I make whenever I see double (or tripple!) strollers with multiple children clearly old enough to have mastered walking sitting in them.

What are tripplets? A bunch of kids named Tripp? Or did you mean triplets? (I can't figure out if this is a spelling error, or a capitalization error...).

Identical twins cannot be drug induced. (Though how you know they were identical, I don't know -- only a medical test can confirm it.) Identical twins are a "freak of nature" -- it's not hereditary, just a freak "accident". Fraternal twins, however, are hereditary (not sure if that's the right word, but what I mean is they "run in families" -- i.e., it's an inherited trait). All drug-induced multiples are fraternal. Which makes the woman I used to work with (who has two sets of identical twins -- medically tested and confirmed to be identical) all the more remarkable!

And about the big-ass strollers, just because a child is able to walk without falling down, does not mean he or she is able to walk long distances as easily as an adult. I'm thinking 2 & 3 y.o.s probably fit this description fairly well.

Even my "big" boy (5 y.o.) sometimes gets to ride on the little "scooter" thingy (kind of a mini skateboard) we can attach to the back of the stroller (takes up no more width on the sidewalk -- he's just between the person pushing and the stroller itself) if we're going for a really long walk.