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

[Anttwat]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Yes, I went to girl scout camp, and it was secular.
And yes I was a girl scout. And before that I was a brownie. Now go ahead and make your jokes.

What the hell was the elfing thing on the brownie uniform?
Is that a brownie?
Brownie sounds so dirty.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I was a brownie too, leagl. No big deal. Although I do remember having to sing a song about being "glad and gay" though. Maybe that was a Canadian thing.

No, we sang it too. But you know, not so much an issue by the time I had left girl scouts in 6th grade. I hated being a girl scout. They never did anything fun, at least not our troop. I did like the story about the owl and the oath though.


Edited:

I would just like to say that searching for "girl scout" songs gay does give the most interesting results, and some people should be VERY ashamed of themselves.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I was a brownie too, leagl. No big deal. Although I do remember having to sing a song about being "glad and gay" though. Maybe that was a Canadian thing.

I've made god's eyes at camp. My mother puts them on bottom braches of the the Christmas tree so that the cats can bat them around without hitting the real ornaments. Those suckers have held up for 25 years.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by leagleaze
No, we sang it too. But you know, not so much an issue by the time I had left girl scouts in 6th grade. I hated being a girl scout. They never did anything fun, at least not our troop. I did like the story about the owl and the oath though.

Yes, girl scouts was boring. Too much Kumbayah.
And we never got to go to camp. I think it was because we didn't sell enough cookies. Those damn cookies.

Originally posted by leagleaze
And yes I was a girl scout. And before that I was a brownie. Now go ahead and make your jokes.

I also was a girl scout. And later - a GS camp counselor; I taught canoeing for several summers. I can sing any one of about 1500 camp songs, identify poison ivy, and deal with 32 bedwetting Brownies simultaneously while maintaining a campfire. Now, that's talent....I will never need again.

-T(Mock me if you must)L

Originally posted by Anttwat
What the hell was the elfing thing on the brownie uniform?
Is that a brownie?
Brownie sounds so dirty.

A Brownie is a little helpful elf thing that lives in people's houses. The term is much more popular in English children's stories.

-T(read a lot of English children's books as a kid)L

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by TexLex
I also was a girl scout. And later - a GS camp counselor; I taught canoeing for several summers. I can sing any one of about 1500 camp songs, identify poison ivy, and deal with 32 bedwetting Brownies simultaneously while maintaining a campfire. Now, that's talent....I will never need again.

-T(Mock me if you must)L

Well since you were a counselor - are the uniforms brown because of the name brownie? Or is the name brownie because the uniform is brown. And what is a brownie? A mythical fairy thing?
Edited to see my answer popped up while I was typing.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
I was going to consider signing up for this, until my local phone company called me SIX FUCKING TIMES IN ONE DAY last weekend to try and sell it to me!! (I found out what they wanted after picking up on the sixth time.) After that, they should consider themselves lucky they are still my phone company.

Obviously, they don't appreciate that this isn't the best way to market a service to stop annoying phone calls...

Sign up for MCI's The Neighborhood. $50 a month for unlimited local and longdistance calling, plus anonymous call blocking and all that other good stuff. I also managed to squeeze 10,000 frequent flyer miles (plus 5 miles for ever dollar spent) out of them.

No need to feel shackled by the local service provider. Deregulation was the best thing that ever happened to the phone business, from the consumer's perspective, anyway.

[Shape Shifter]

I have been disturbed lately by the trend towards outsourcing traditional white collar work to India. If these safety charts are reliable evidence of the work product, however, I do not expect this trend to continue.

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2003/charts/

(spree: the pictures are not intentionally dirty, and the word "bukkake" is only used once)

I particularly like the series where the man rolls the burning woman into a PLF-sized spliff.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Watchtower
And what more unpopular cause than telemarketers and Jehovah's Witnesses?

Stalky socks.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by ltl/fb

I think I once called someone who had that service MR mentioned and holy shit was that annoying. I think it was someone who I'd interviewed -- I got connected to some recording and had to give my name and then had to wait to see if the people would answer the phone. FUCKING ANNOYING. I can see how it would dissuade telemarketers, but it dissuades people who you might actually want to talk to as well.

If they REALLY want to talk to me, they'll go through the hassle.

Plus, I think it's different in different cities. If you were to call me from an unidentified number, it just gives you a message saying something like "The number you are calling does not accept unidentifed calls. If you wish to continue this call, please enter your area code and phone number. Thank you."

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Sign up for MCI's The Neighborhood.

I keep seeing ads for this. I get this strange feeling it's some sort of a cult.

-TL

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
If they REALLY want to talk to me, they'll go through the hassle.

Plus, I think it's different in different cities. If you were to call me from an unidentified number, it just gives you a message saying something like "The number you are calling does not accept unidentifed calls. If you wish to continue this call, please enter your area code and phone number. Thank you."

I stand by my annoying characterization even if you "just" have to key in your number. Particularly if the person calling is calling at your request or in a helpful way (e.g., job interview or dental or hair appointment reminder). I'd be inclined, if I were the reminder, to say fuck reminding this asshole, let him get charged for not cancelling 24 hours in advance if he doesn't show.

This may be why I'm in a job that involves little contact with the outside world.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by leagleaze
We have a state do not call list and I am on that. However I have not had much trouble with telemarketers anyway. Not since I got an unlisted number, something I have had since 1998. I resent the fact I have to pay to have my number NOT put in the phone book, but it's worth it.

I have an unlisted number and signed up for my state's do not call list. The Direct Marketing Association also has a list you can join. It eliminates junk mail and phone calls. They cirdulate it every quarter so it may take some time until you notice a drop in call and mail volume, but it's worked for me. You should re-up every couple of years or so.

I've seen some very creative responses to telemarketers on the board, but unfortunately I am too mild mannered to try any of them myself. I usually politely cut into their speil (sp?) tell them I don't accept phone solicitation and ask them to remove my name and number from their call list. I only get a handful of calls per year.

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
At my hippie camp we were required to use sticks that we gathered ourselves in the nearby forest and also sometimes used leather in place of the yarn. I'm just glad they didn't make us kill and skin the animals and then tan the hides and cut them into strips.

When I was a Child younger than my shoe size, I grew up rather poor and so my parents couldn't afford to send me away to camp.

But it sounds like I didn't miss out on much. I spent most of one summer gathering sticks and uprooting young bushes from a nearby park with a bunch of other children* and building an opossum trap. We did catch one, but it escaped while we were trying to figure out what to do with it. For the rest of the summer, we rode our bikes around the neighborhood, looking for dead squirrels in the gutters.

But no, we didn't kill any animals.

Pretermitted(There isn't much to do in Oshkosh, WI when school's out)Child

*whose parents, like mine, couldn't afford to send them away to camp.