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

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by TexLex
I need a birthday present stat

Okay. Your spouse has lived through 100% of his birthdays to date.

Thurgreed(what do I win?)Marshall

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by TexLex
I told the last set I was a witch - they have no response in their little books for that and they left quickly.

I've tried selling them on the benefits of the American Church of Satan, expounding on the philosophies of Anton LeVay. That works pretty well, too, and if you had to read Byron's Manifred in college you can even get the gist of it right (Crowley's harder).

Perhaps not surprisingly, I've found that claiming devout Roman Catholicism scares them away about as fast as Satanism and witchcraft. Many evangelical proddies don't seem to see much of a difference.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Does he have fountain pens? I've gotten a few guys, including the Mr., addicted to fountain pens. It's old fashioned, so it appeals to romantics, and a mechanical gizmo, so it appeals to techie-fixit guys. You can get them monogrammed. Hey, he may even use it to write, or at least sign checks.

I'm particularly fond of Montblancs and Parkers, but Scheaffers are quite reliable and have a wider price range. I find watermans and crosses scratchy. I have no real opinion on Pelikans

Not a bad idea. I've also heard mention of little ones, and one suggestion can be photographic equipment. Men, cameras and kids are a good combination, and there is a never ending supply of add-on gadgets and extras if you get him hooked on a 35 mm (solving this problem for once and for all). If he prefers home videos, good video editing software is pretty expensive, and video cams also have lots of add-ons. Also, techie gadgets proliferate, and so of the good au currant ones include mp3 players and ceiva players.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
and ceiva players.

What's that? And can it play "Copacabana" or "The Pina Colada Song"?

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Why is the Flower saving all of his Prettiness for IM and PM? Can't we get a Little love on the Board?

He was trying to sway the jury of me on the award. it was all very hush hush.

and of course the whole point of my post was a gratuitious, see how cool I am, the flower writes me! it would have been better if I could have said, Flower, my lover, imed me.

but get IM, rp and we can have a conference!!! we can invite my beloved pushy who is too scarce these days. i will bring the sandwiches, you bring the sodas!

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Men, cameras and kids are a good combination, . . .

Geez, don't make an admission like this publicly! You can be traced in spite of your anon name, you know.

(Edited to add, out of an abundance of caution, that this post in no way implies that I condone . . . well . . . anything . Yeah, that's it. I don't condone anything. Nuthin'.)

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by purse junkie
What's that? And can it play "Copacabana" or "The Pina Colada Song"?

Plays digital photos. http://www.ceiva.com/

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
My favorites are the kids selling M&M's out of the cases that you can get at Sam's...

They tell you they're selling them for the "team", but when you ask them what the "team" is, they can't even tell you what sport they supposedly play...

I give them an A in capitalism, but you need to get your story straight first...

They sell them on the train here - "to help stop drug abuse" however, they have no literature and are affiliated with no apparent "organization."

[bilmore]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
They sell them on the train here - "to help stop drug abuse" however, they have no literature and are affiliated with no apparent "organization."

Well, do they look high? Maybe it's working.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by purse junkie
What's that? And can it play "Copacabana" or "The Pina Colada Song"?

They are frames that plug into a telephone socket and download photos off an internet site, so you can have one frame with a neverending slide show of a whole bunch of your photos. Good for offices and for relations, since it means you can just email a photo to someone's desk frame.

As you can tell from Bilmore's post, he keeps one hooked up to one of those websites recommended by a Roman Catholic Priest. (Edited to add: Bilmore is having a very bad day. On the politics board, he admitted to drug use and called one of the members of Bush's cabinet Satan. Now this.)

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Okay. Your spouse has lived through 100% of his birthdays to date.

Thurgreed(what do I win?)Marshall

A pained groan and a piece of cake if you can make it down here by Monday. I'm not buying you a present too, however.

-TL

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Perhaps not surprisingly, I've found that claiming devout Roman Catholicism scares them away about as fast as Satanism and witchcraft. Many evangelical proddies don't seem to see much of a difference.

This is my schtick. Turns out, most door-to-door evangelicals turn off the hard sell when they're told you attend a "competing" church of any kind --- as long as it's Christian. They'll still want to talk, but there's less to talk about, and less likelihood they'll save a soul.

Honest to God true story: a pair of JWs knocked on my parents' door some time when I was visiting. My dad starts jonesing for "Jesus Christ Superstar" on Ash Wednesday, and he had it on, this being in late Lent. I opened the door as "This Jesus Must Die" was coming on, and the chorus hit as the were gaining momentum in their schpiel. I smirked, they blanched. They just sort of wandered away. I thought about calling after them, but I couldn't think of anything to say that would have made the effect more perfect. "They listen to music about killing Jesus." {Solemn nod.}

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Plays digital photos. http://www.ceiva.com/

That would be a far more attractive product if it could be done completely through the internet (e.g., hooked up to a computer with a cable modem/dls) without a monthly fee.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Perhaps not surprisingly, I've found that claiming devout Roman Catholicism scares them away about as fast as Satanism and witchcraft. Many evangelical proddies don't seem to see much of a difference.

There is one?

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I've also heard mention of little ones, and one suggestion can be photographic equipment.

AHA!!!! Digital camera. Was I not just complaining recently we didn't have one? Anyone have any suggestions as to buying one of these thingies for the technologically challenged?

-TL