Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03 - Page 1628

ias_39 · 09-19-2003, 06:28 PM

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

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[blah, blah, taking_the_snibs_to_the_pool is cool

You claim not to be gay, and yet you never tire of dick_in_da_butt.

str8outavannuys · 09-19-2003, 06:29 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Dtb's little incident made me think of the time that I met Leonard Cohen. I'm afraid he is and always will be #1 on my laminated crush list (not sure why, because he's old now and never was hot - it's kind of inexplicable). Anyway, I was at a little cafe on a beach, looking pretty good (if I do say so myself) in a bikini, and he was sitting at the table behind me. I was with my little sister and when I realized it was him I couldn't even articulate. It was dreadful. She told me that I'd better talk to him or else I'd be whining about it for the rest of the vacation. Anyway I got a napkin and a pen from her and got up on rubber legs and went over to him and then I couldn't even talk.

I think I managed to say something silly (don't remember what it was) and thrust out the pen and napkin and of course the pen barely worked. And all I remember thinking is that his current squeeze Rebecca de Mornay, this actress who barely before registered on my radar screen, was looking particularly bitchy and staring at me, and I wanted her to die. Anyway, after he scratched out his name, I said thank you and got back to my table. I felt like such an idiot. So uncool.

Good autograph story. I once asked Paul Anka for an autograph in Vegas. I think Sigfried, who was sitting at the table, was nonplussed to not be asked for an autograph, but Anka and I chatted for awhile about the Senators/Leafs series that had just concluded. He was still bumming about it.

Shape Shifter · 09-19-2003, 06:29 PM

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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
By now, I've had enough but felt it would be mean to blow him off right before the show.

Somehow, I don't think he would've minded. As long as you weren't sneezing or anything.

NotFromHere · 09-19-2003, 06:30 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Long ass post from the "other" place

Posted today on the SF/SV board:
I like the cut of this man's jib.

Link.

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They were inferring that he left because the place sucks like a cum guzzling road whore.

I thought swear words were out?

Anyway that whole incident could easily have been avoided had those idiots simply read my post re: what is NOT appropriate lunch choice before a meeting.

BAD:
Beans with onions
Anything with onions
Anything with beans (apparently)

Tyrone Slothrop · 09-19-2003, 06:32 PM

Another reason why it's a mistake to sing along with Justin Timberlake.

Dualit · 09-19-2003, 06:34 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Another reason why it's a mistake to sing along with Justin Timberlake.

He makes me want to drive into a tree.

Dua(but the SO really likes him)lit

ThurgreedMarshall · 09-19-2003, 06:37 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
Dumbass motherfucker, you ARE the man.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Actually, it's funny, but I was in a conference room the other day sitting across the table from the CEO of a brokerage who wanted a loan from my client. He was black. My client asked him for a personal guarantee on a $2.5MM loan. I had to lean over to the partner I was working for and say, "See? Just another example of the man trying to hold us down."

And then I went back to my office and drafted the guarantee.

Fuck.

TM

edited to fix board -L

ThurgreedMarshall · 09-19-2003, 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Attachment to a human mammal that doesn't give a fuck about you is what really bespeaks emotional damage.

Right, sweetie?

Yeah, but you're still quirky.

TM

str8outavannuys · 09-19-2003, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
New Orleans is a special case, because they follow the European riverside city tradition of using above-grade sarcophagi for the reason you mention --- high water table.

I don't know whether the N.O. sarcophagi are subject to long-term leases, as they are in Paris, where the family or some trust is eventually responsible to make arrangements for the ultimate disposition of the skeletonized remains.

If New Orleans had a Parisien catacombs, that would probably be the most disgusting place in the history of stuff.

This thread has me humming the Tragically Hip classic, New Orleans is Sinking. Except that it's not really a hummable song. But it was my favorite for much of HS/College.

baltassoc · 09-19-2003, 07:04 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Actually, it's funny, but I was in a conference room the other day sitting across the table from the CEO of a brokerage who wanted a loan from my client. He was black. My client asked him for a personal guarantee on a $2.5MM loan. I had to lean over to the partner I was working for and say, "See? Just another example of the man trying to hold us down.

Why is this the man holding you down? Now, if the man had just rejected the loan because it wouldn't do any good to have a personal guaranty from a CEO who was black, I'm following you. But instead your client seems to have said that he wasn't sure about the company, but he thought the CEO was good for it.

robustpuppy · 09-19-2003, 07:08 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
Why is this the man holding you down? Now, if the man had just rejected the loan because it wouldn't do any good to have a personal guaranty from a CEO who was black, I'm following you. But instead your client seems to have said that he wasn't sure about the company, but he thought the CEO was good for it.

Right ... but the client seemed to be unsure about a company with a black CEO.

baltassoc · 09-19-2003, 07:35 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Right ... but the client seemed to be unsure about a company with a black CEO.

Um... okay. But I've represented (solvent, profitable, expanding)companies whose white CEOs (hell, whose entire completely white management) were asked to sign personal guaranties on amounts significantly less than $2.5MM.

I don't really want to get into the whole race thing. I'm just curious why TM took this as being racial.

str8outavannuys · 09-19-2003, 07:42 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
Um, Skinny? You do remember you're a New York corporate lawyer right?

Dumbass motherfucker, you ARE the man.

If you want to beat the man, you have to BE the man. Or is it the other way around? Hmmmm. I remember hearing and saying this lots while growing up, only with a big Canadian accent. That was a fun expression from my youth, as was "when you least expect it, expect it," with which my older brother used to terrorize me.

str(I mean, how can I expect it, at a time when I least expect it? That's IMPOSSIBLE!!)8

leagleaze · 09-19-2003, 07:46 PM

what's messing up the board?

This page has its margin messed up but the only image I see is TM's and that isn't big. Am I missing something? Is it only messed up for me?

:wtf:

(Well now it is the last page for me, but either way.)

robustpuppy · 09-19-2003, 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
Um... okay. But I've represented (solvent, profitable, expanding)companies whose white CEOs (hell, whose entire completely white management) were asked to sign personal guaranties on amounts significantly less than $2.5MM.

I don't really want to get into the whole race thing. I'm just curious why TM took this as being racial.

Well he's not here, and I won't speak for him, but the anecdote made for a good reply to Wonk.

Incidentally, I might have the same reaction if the co. looked good on paper but its CEO were a woman and the client were a man. I wouldn't assume that it was the reason unless I had otherwise observed that my client were a chauvinist, but the "would he have insisted if she were a man" question would have crossed my mind.

BTW, those CEOS you speak of weren't all womyn, were they?