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

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Don't be so insecure. You're above basement level.

I think you mean "frightened" if he was thinking he was down at basement level with me.

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by evenodds
You're taking bangability rating advice from Wonk?

Be nice. Wonkster once called me a bus. I'm not quite sure what that means, but I'm pretty sure it means I'm really bangable.

It better mean I'm really bangable.....

If he meant something else, then he's a nutknuckle.

Who's going to watch The Bachelor tonight? There's a set of twins on it. How much you wanna bet they both make it through the first round? Isn't that a common fantasy for all men?

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Originally posted by barely_legal
Be nice. Wonkster once called me a bus. I'm not quite sure what that means, but I'm pretty sure it means I'm really bangable.

I think it means you have an enormous ass. Some people like that -- but it's a niche market. No general appeal.

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I think it means you have an enormous ass. Some people like that -- but it's a niche market. No general appeal.

oh well. better than being an enormous ass, I guess....

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I think it means you have an enormous ass. Some people like that -- but it's a niche market. No general appeal.

I think it entitles you to a gun license in Georgia.

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Originally posted by barely_legal
oh well. better than being an enourmous ass, I guess....

That would be him.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I think it entitles you to a gun license in Georgia.

Holy shit. Arby has a concealed carry permit?

[NotFromHere]

In an attempt to break the all Texan party, I've been told the one with pointy ears is hot. I think she's got an ugly face and bad implants. What's the deal?

Sept. 24 — Red alert! “Star Trek” is under attack, and the damage report is far from promising. Is it time to put the Starship Enterprise into dry-dock for good, or is there still some speed left in those warp engines after all? Increased competition for audience share-of-mind notwithstanding, Trek’s latest incarnation, “Enterprise,” is up against an unprecedented number of disgruntled fans.
Much of the venom — including an online petition to have him replaced — has been directed at longtime Trek executive producer Rick Berman, who picked up the mantle from creator Gene Roddenberry and has guided every series and movie from “The Next Generation” forward.
And it’s not just fans who think Trek is in trouble: In July, video game manufacturer Activision filed suit against media giant Viacom, claiming that the company let its Trek franchise “stagnate and decay.” Viacom disputed the claims, but the charges struck a collective chord with fans. Trek, they say, is off track.

And is it over for Star Trek?

[Sidd Finch]

I spent some time book shopping this weekend and picked up one long-awaited item, the new novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Pulitzer-winning "Interpreter of Maladies" was among the most magnificent short story collections I've ever read. Also the new novel by Chuck Pahlaniuk, which sort of fits in this poll and sort of doesn't.

Which leads me to this poll. What book do you most want to see published? Based on either topic, author, or whatever, but what is the book you look for whenever you browse in a store?

For me, I look for new novels by Helen DeWitt and by Arundhati Roy pretty much every time I'm in a bookstore. DeWitt wrote the brilliant "Last Samurai" several years ago, blending superb writing, a moving story, and a creative level of formal construction better than anything new I've read in quite awhile. Roy's first novel was the Booker-winning "God of Small Things." In the past few years, DeWitt seems to have fallen off the writing planet, while Roy seems to prefer writing political commentary that's occasionally engaging but more often annoying, if not downright offensive.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
No being Pope is for life. You can't quit, you can't get fired. There is a "special" vote that the Cardinals can call for - but I can't remember if any Pope has ever been voted out for health reasons.

You can't get fired, but you can quit. Only we call it "abdicate," which is the term I will use in my next letter of resignation.

Like every other ecclesiastical dignity, the papal throne may also be resigned. The reasons which make it lawful for a bishop to abdicate his see, such as the necessity or utility of his particular church, or the salvation of his own soul, apply in a stronger manner to the one who governs the universal church. It is true that the Roman Pontiff has no superior on earth into whose hands he can resign his dignity, yet he himself by the papal power can dissolve the spiritual marriage between himself and the Roman Church. A papal Abdication made without cause may be illicit, but it is unquestionably valid, since there is no one who can prohibit it ecclesiastically and it contravenes no divine law. The papacy does not, like the episcopacy, imprint an indelible character on the soul, and hence by his voluntary Abdication the Pope is entirely stripped of all jurisdiction, just as by his voluntary acceptance of the election to the primacy he acquired it. All doubt as to the legitimacy of papal abdications and all disputes among canonists were put an end to by the decree of Pope Boniface VIII which was received into the Corpus Juris Canonici (Cap. Quoniam I, de renun., in 6). The Pontiff says:

Chevy Disclosure: The Catholic Encyclopedia . It goes on:

Church history furnishes a number of examples of papal abdications. Leaving aside the obscure case of Pope Marcellinus (296-308) adduced by Pezzani, and the still more doubtful resignation of Pope Liberius (352-366) which some historians have postulated in order to solve the perplexing position of Pope Felix II, we may proceed to unquestioned abdications. Pope Benedict IX (1033-44), who had long caused scandal to the Church by his disorderly life, freely renounced the pontificate and took the habit of a monk. He repented of his abdication and seized the papal throne again for a short time after the death of Pope Clement II, but he finally died in a private station. His immediate successor, Pope Gregory VI (1044-46) furnishes another example of papal Abdication. It was Gregory who had persuaded Benedict IX to resign the Chair of Peter, and to do so he had bestowed valuable possessions upon him. After Gregory had himself become Pope, this transaction was looked on by many as simoniacal; and although Gregory's intentions seem to have been of the best, yet it was deemed better that he too should abdicate the papal dignity, and he did so voluntarily.

The classic example of the resignation of a Pope is that of St. Celestine V (1294). before his election to the pontificate, he had been a simple hermit, and his sudden elevation found him unprepared and unfit for his exalted position. After five months of pontificate, he issued a solemn decree in which he declared that it was permissible for the Pope to abdicate, and then made an equally solemn renunciation of the papacy into the hands of the cardinals. He lived two years after his abdication in the practice of virtues which afterwards procured his canonization. Owing to the troubles which evil minded persons caused his successor, Boniface VIII, by their theories about the impossibility of a valid Abdication of the papal throne, Boniface issued the above-cited decree to put the matter at rest for all time. The latest instance of a papal resignation is that of Pope Gregory XII (1406-15). It was at the time of the Great Schism of the West, when two pretenders to the Chair of Peter disputed Gregory's right, and rent the faithful into three so-called "obediences". To put an end to the strife, the legitimate Pope Gregory renounced the pontificate at the General Council of Constance in 1415. It is well known that Pope Pius VII (1800-23), before setting out for Paris to crown Napoleon in 1804, had signed an abdication of the papal throne to take effect in case he were imprisoned in France (De Montor). Finally, a valid Abdication of the Pope must be a free act, hence a forced resignation of the papacy would be null and void, as more than one ecclesiastical decree has declared.

I lack any information to the contrary of the above.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
What book do you most want to see published? Based on either topic, author, or whatever, but what is the book you look for whenever you browse in a store?

Excellent poll.

I looked for Lahiri because Interpreter of Maladies was exquisite and look for Roy because God of Small Things is an all time favorite.

I also look for something new by Jim Crace, who wrote Quarantine and Being Dead.

Edited to add: I see Crace has a new novel (finally) that was just released this month.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I spent some time book shopping this weekend and picked up one long-awaited item, the new novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Pulitzer-winning "Interpreter of Maladies" was among the most magnificent short story collections I've ever read. Also the new novel by Chuck Pahlaniuk, which sort of fits in this poll and sort of doesn't.

Which leads me to this poll. What book do you most want to see published? Based on either topic, author, or whatever, but what is the book you look for whenever you browse in a store?

For me, I look for new novels by Helen DeWitt and by Arundhati Roy pretty much every time I'm in a bookstore. DeWitt wrote the brilliant "Last Samurai" several years ago, blending superb writing, a moving story, and a creative level of formal construction better than anything new I've read in quite awhile. Roy's first novel was the Booker-winning "God of Small Things." In the past few years, DeWitt seems to have fallen off the writing planet, while Roy seems to prefer writing political commentary that's occasionally engaging but more often annoying, if not downright offensive.

I used to watch for another book from Dave Eggers, after reading A Staggering Work of... but after reading his attempt at a novel last year, that desire has been quelled. I did just buy a memoir from one of his fellow McSweeney's alums though, so I'll let you all know how that goes -- Dan Kennedy, Loser Goes First.

this is nonresponsive but I'm halfway through the Namesake and cannot wait to get home to finish it tonight. It is completely absorbing.

I guess I keep waiting for maybe a female Catcher in the Rye- that becomes part of that high school literary canon.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Lot's of fascinating stuff about resigning as Pope, including cites and quotes to any number of Popes who have gone to the beyond.

Thank you, Atticus. After all my lengthy discourses on things Middle Eastern on the politics board today, you have saved me from being the biggest nerd in the place today. I salute you.

So can the Pope, like the President, step down temporarily due to disability? Cf. West Wing.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
What book do you most want to see published? Based on either topic, author, or whatever, but what is the book you look for whenever you browse in a store?

Sadly, mine are all too obvious. I look forward to Sedaris, Pynchon, Rowling (sad but true) and The Collected Works of Pretty Little Flower.

Oh, and I voraciously read novels written by Harper Lee just as quickly as they are released --- the most manageable of my vices.