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

[Sparklehorse]

Shamelessly stolen link from Craig's List since it seems perfect for a FB Friday:

Quiz Link Here

Edited to add that I thought the second series was easier than the first and I saw a vibrator that I own!

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by spookyfish
For want of a umlaut, the sentence was lost.
For the want of the sentence, the message was lost.
For the want of the message, the battle was lost.
For the want of the battle, the war was lost.
For the want of the war, the kingdom was lost.

For want of something funny, my breakfast was lost.

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Sorry to rant about my commute, first off. No more. or, nevermore quoth the raven.

Second, I really think it's one of two thing. People's neediness or loneliness, OR they're stalkers and they think you're cute.

FWIW, it was a guy and he was middle aged and unattractive. Squicked me out.

I'd posit Slave, sts, but I don't hurt Hank and SS's feelings.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
For want of something funny, my breakfast was lost.

Perhaps you should be thanking me then.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Perhaps you should be thanking me then.

WELL, it's certainly an effective weight loss method.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
WELL, it's certainly an effective weight loss method.

Really? I've never heard of this before. Please elaborate.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Apparently Burger's e-mail was right and there is a new Internet worm that is attacking web sites on mass and that poses a danger to surfers:

Experts studying Internet attack

Go to Windows update to get the latest patches:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

Do I need to update if it says "no critical updates available at this time"? But other updates exist?

Originally posted by baltassoc
You need to move. Either out of TCOTU or way closer to where you work. Seriously. Do you see the rest of us (excepting Paigow) complaining about our commute?

Chastened by Pony Trekker I took the subway this morning and left the limo at home. On the train was a woman who took about ten minutes to deliver a public service announcement regarding the identities of "all the CIA and FBI agents who pose as Jehovah's witnesses." Highlights included CIA agent Richard Plant ("as in infiltrator!") and CIA agent Robert Bird, who was apparently given that undercover name in tribute to the CIA's invention of SARS and other avian flu bugs. She knew it was a federal offense to disclose their identities, but did she care? No!*

I don't think Wodehouse was a Nazi, or even a Nazi sympathizer, but it's somewhat easier to keep a stiff upper lip in a hotel than a prison camp. His little Berlin episode indicates more limp passivity than anything else.

Finally, I am still a virgin, but willing to explore other options. My PM box is shav -- I mean cleaned and ready.

*confidential to Penske: I blame GWB.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Again, we'd need to know breast size and clothing info to make any intelligent response here.

I've never noticed this on trains, but have in health club locker rooms. it seems like it is often the case I am one of 2 people in a big empty locker, and we happened to pick the lockers next to each other. Its weird and creeps me out.

At my old gym, they would hand out locker keys in numerical order, so if there were four men in the entire gym, we would all have lockers next to each other. I informed them that it would be more effecient to hand out a key for each locker room section, i.e., men one through four would get placed in sections one through four and so on, but to no avail.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Translation: Wonk is looking for some bead catchers and pullers.

TM

Okay, I'm packing a few extra pounds, motherfucker, but I'm not anywhere near a group. I'm also half a country away from Houston.

Has your mind become so smog0addled that you can't even recognize a thinly-veiled admission that RT and Fringey are finally giving in to those secret curious urges they've harbored since the long, lonely nights in the dorm. Apparently, RT's heard that Fringey gives a hell of a shoulder rub.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ironweed
Chastened by Pony Trekker I took the subway this morning and left the limo at home. On the train was a woman who took about ten minutes to deliver a public service announcement regarding the identities of "all the CIA and FBI agents who pose as Jehovah's witnesses." Highlights included CIA agent Richard Plant ("as in infiltrator!") and CIA agent Robert Bird, who was apparently given that undercover name in tribute to the CIA's invention of SARS and other avian flu bugs. She knew it was a federal offense to disclose their identities, but did she care? No!*

...BUT did she wear a tinfoil hat?? That's key.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Shamelessly stolen link from Craig's List since it seems perfect for a FB Friday:

Quiz Link Here

Edited to add that I thought the second series was easier than the first and I saw a vibrator that I own!

I got 10 out of 14 on both series. I didn't see any sex toys from our collection in either set. But I'm not ruling out a secret stash on Mrs. Wonk's part.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I got 10 out of 14 on both series. I didn't see any sex toys from our collection in either set. But I'm not ruling out a secret stash on Mrs. Wonk's part.

10 of 14 from the forst, 7 of 14 from the second...

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Apparently Burger's e-mail was right and there is a new Internet worm that is attacking web sites on mass and that poses a danger to surfers:

Glad to know my IT department is on top of shit. (Hi IT!)

My better, home solution is to say fuck microsoft and stick with a mac. That is all.

[sunnybunny]

OK, so I'm back on my ebay rant. I bought an item that wasn't as it was described. I sent the seller an email. She didn't respond. I sent her another email. She didn't respond. I sent her an emails asking her whether she got my other email. SHe said her granddaughter had deleted some of her emails (i guessed that meant no) so I sent it again. She didn't response. I sent it again. Then I send an email saying that if I don't hear back from her by [last friday] I would consider it that she didn't want to address that her item wasn't accurately described and would leave negative feedback. I didn't hear back. Monday morning I send her an email saying that I was leaving negative feedback that day. She sends a response saying "what are you talking about?" Apparently her inbox only allows her to get messages that have no substance in them. So, I leave negative feedback and then I file a complaint with paypal to get my money back yesterday. TOday I get a message in my inbox from her with one word in the text. That word---evil.

I am many things, but I never thought I'd be boiled down to the word "evil". Dumb, maybe, badspeller definitely, but evil? evil? evil? She happened to have sent the email not as a response to mine, but with the "send a member an email" link. Which provided me with the opportunity to copy both ebay and paypal on the response in which I outlined why it was an abuse of the ebay mail system to send nasty messages using it and not to cumminicate about items, among other things. In total, I've probalby wasted more than an hour of my life (and the time of anyone who is reading this) for less money than I'd spend going out to dinner...but I decided it was my eBay member civic duty to put the bad apples in their place...otherwise the integrity of the system is compromised. Yes, you can thank me for saving eBay!