Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04 - Page 16

Flinty_McFlint · 03-08-2004, 09:48 PM

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Originally posted by Skeks in the city

Marriage is a subsidy for a particular lifestyle choice. I don't see why libertarians would support a monogamous lifestyle choice over a single, polygamous or polyandrous lifestyle. Why subsidize single income couples by providing them a tax break in the form of joint returns? Or any other number of benefits provided to married people?

I'm pretty sure I've met you at a few lawfirm holiday parties...how's the sciatica? Wanna tell me all about the tax code changes?

: )

Atticus Grinch · 03-08-2004, 09:56 PM

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Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Marriage is a subsidy for a particular lifestyle choice. I don't see why libertarians would support a monogamous lifestyle choice over a single, polygamous or polyandrous lifestyle. Why subsidize single income couples by providing them a tax break in the form of joint returns? Or any other number of benefits provided to married people?

For the same reason the government can create different business forms, like corporation, S-corporation, and LLC. Maybe I know even less about the Libertarian platform than even I'm letting on, but I don't see why Libertarian principles would command policies that discourage private economic partnerships that tend to reduce governmental dependencies.

Ah, fuck it. I'm not going to waste my time discussing the hypothetical platform planks of a fringe party that calls for the repeal of Title VII and child labor laws and the abolition of the FDA. Non-lunatics can talk about vouchers, but it takes a special kind of lunatic to advocate for abolishing child labor laws.

str8outavannuys · 03-08-2004, 10:04 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
I was reading an article on Gail Devers and it said her brother is named Parenthesis, and goes by PD.

Who the hell names a child such a thing?

Proof, since you probably won't believe me. http://www.gaildevers.com/biography.htm

The thing that had me reading the article in the first place was that MSNBC finished its weekly sports pictorial with a picture of her hands. Hands that seem to have fake nails on them so long, they look like claws, in this case, bright blue claws.

I was wondering also, what's up with that. How can you do anything with those things on your hands?

Gail Devers? You mean the World's SECOND fastest female 60m hurdler? (Go Canada! Go Perdita Felicien!)

str8outavannuys · 03-08-2004, 10:06 PM

If anyone is interested, I have presale passwords for Sting/Annie Lennox in
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Boston
Indianapolis
St. Louis

If you're interested, just pm me and I'll give you the password and instructions as to how to buy the tickets.

str8outavannuys · 03-08-2004, 10:32 PM

Reading in Variety today that there's some controversy over LCS2. Drew Carey, Brett BUtler and Anthony Clark were the judges for the semi-final competition. They scored the comics performing. After everyone performed, the producers then announced the 10 finalists. The Producers cast whoever the hell they want. They didn't cast the judges' number one choice.

Carey may sue.

Hank Chinaski · 03-08-2004, 11:04 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Hold on one second. I have seen petty, bitter, personal attacks on this board that have literally caused me to recoil in horror from my computer screen. I have seen comments so far beyond the bounds of good taste that I could scarcely believe that people would dare post them, even when cloaked in the often-illusory protection of anonymity. But this type of ad hominem attack threatens to tear at the very fabric of this board's existence. Atticus, I urge you to reconsider your words, which I can only assume were written in anger and in haste. For, as surely as the sun burns in the heavens, this board cannot survive the type of venomous discourse that I expect to follow.

Thank you Flower- you're a hero. You're like the "in crowd guy" in the John Hughes movie who gets sick of the Atticus' of the in crowd being shitty to the new guy, and who leaves his in crowd to stand up for the poor belittled new guy. Except in the Movies you know he's doing it in part to get a piece from Molly Ringwald, and I think you did this because you have a moral compass, and have gotten sick of atticus running off every new guy.

I'm sure he enjoyed running not me out of here, and he's hoping to add my scalp, you flower, should be proud of yourself, for fighting him.

Dave · 03-08-2004, 11:13 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Thank you Flower- you're a hero. You're like the "in crowd guy" in the John Hughes movie who gets sick of the Atticus' of the in crowd being shitty to the new guy, and who leaves his in crowd to stand up for the poor belittled new guy.

Sayeth a 'new guy' with more than 1,750 posts.

Da (still love the schtick, though) ve

Hank Chinaski · 03-08-2004, 11:27 PM

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Originally posted by Dave
Sayeth a 'new guy' with more than 1,750 posts.

1200 of my posts are on Politics, and if atticus is an assasin here, he's a fucking serial killer on politics- fluffy, club, etc. all gone,

ltl/fb · 03-08-2004, 11:30 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
1200 of my posts are on Politics, and if atticus is an assasin here, he's a fucking serial killer on politics- fluffy, club, etc. all gone,

club isn't gone. he's just petty. or pretty.

Fugee · 03-09-2004, 01:29 AM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
[deborah voigt booted off the London ROH's production of Ariadne of Naxos for being too fat.]

BR(you can't play a concerto on an upright, but opera is also a visual medium)C

True, but if the audience is supposed to accept a woman playing a young man in love (the part of the Composer), it surely can accept a large woman as a love object in the same opera. (I hate hate hate hate trouser roles.) And the entire plot of that opera is strange anyway.

ETA: Gwinky, I'm completely jealous of your Renee/Traviata opera-going experience.

Atticus Grinch · 03-09-2004, 02:09 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Thank you Flower- you're a hero. You're like the "in crowd guy" in the John Hughes movie who gets sick of the Atticus' of the in crowd being shitty to the new guy, and who leaves his in crowd to stand up for the poor belittled new guy.

I'd like to take this moment to remind PLF, now crowned the Board's very own Jake Ryan, of just how much Michael Schoeffling went on to do. Maybe str8 can fill us in, since he's more likely to run into him behind the counter at Señor Fish.

Personally, I think PLF is a little more like the Charlie Sheen character in Ferris Bueller. YMMV.

Shape Shifter · 03-09-2004, 02:23 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Thank you Flower- you're a hero. You're like the "in crowd guy" in the John Hughes movie who gets sick of the Atticus' of the in crowd being shitty to the new guy, and who leaves his in crowd to stand up for the poor belittled new guy. Except in the Movies you know he's doing it in part to get a piece from Molly Ringwald, and I think you did this because you have a moral compass, and have gotten sick of atticus running off every new guy.

I'm sure he enjoyed running not me out of here, and he's hoping to add my scalp, you flower, should be proud of yourself, for fighting him.

Thanks so much. What other glimpses of the obvious will you blind us with?

Shape Shifter · 03-09-2004, 02:36 AM

I am not unsympathetic to the concept of Homeland Security. But I had grown tired of dragging a laptop through airports. Too much hassle.

So I decided to pack the laptop with my checked luggage, despite the warnings not to do so. Turns out the warnings were correct. The screen was cracked and it looks like someone smashed a bug at the top and the green bugguts are dripping down. I gave up the metal watch, I remove my belt, I even wear special shoes. Is that not enough?

Fucking Tom Ridge.

Shape Shifter · 03-09-2004, 02:55 AM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The monumental success of this Jesus fellow's movie is somewhat called into doubt when you adjust the gross figures for inflation in order to compare them with historical gross revenues of prior blockbusters.

This has bugged me for a while. You grossed $200 million at $8.50 to $12 a pop? Big fucking deal. Talk to me when you do roughly the same numbers at 25 cents a pop, like Gone With the Wind did.

I wonder if anyone will be watching this flick in 2069. Of course, by then it will probably be condemned by the Space Pope.

Space pope. Big fucking whoop.

I would have hoped to have achieved something by then. At least my mom had big plans. 20 fucking 69? It's nothing but Mormons and Muslims by then. They're the one's with the marketing plan. The glossy brochures.

Pope? Don't make me laugh. I may as well be a whipped bloody Gimlet at an Aramaic-only cocktail. Sure, you have your groupies.
But the veil is pierced faster than Christ's hands on Mel's holy budget. They are dirty, dirty groupies.

2069. Hmph. Give me a raise and a generous goddamned moving allowence. Because it doesn't look so good from here.

Atticus Grinch · 03-09-2004, 03:50 AM

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I shit you not.