Fashion Board - Muse to the Fucktards

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Snidely Condescending
Well, now, Adder, that's not entirely true. While I am sure that the Union Club doesn't have any actual fraternity lads as members, many the shop floor foreman in one of the factories owned by a coroporation that was owned by a conglomorate whose voting stock was controlled by a blind trust that was in Popsie's portfolio was a Greek from one of those land-grant, square-state state schools. And you can be sure that the managing director of that factory respected Chip the Tri-Delt, or whatever.

Of course, that was before Popsie shut that factory down. And I am sure that Chip the Zeta, or whatever, remains as a well-respected greeter at one of those dreadful bread-box stores that cousin Albert keeps droning on about.

I am sure I recall some Chips[s] at the Harvard social clubs. And I am sure you could rustle up one at the Yale Club as well.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ironweed
College nicknames in my sophisticated and erudite circle included:

Waz
Butsis
Sneaky
Buky (as in "Bukowski")
Stevie Rasta
Dan The Man
Mojo
Stip

and

Penske Account

I was fixing to call bullshit- then I remembered you went to Florida Coastal

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Fugee
It's been hot here and I've been cooling down in the evenings at the local cheap last-run movie theater.

I had the misfortune to see "Friends With Money" on an evening when I just wanted a light and fluffy chick flick. That movie was baaaaaaaaaad on so many levels. It didn't even have the requisite chick flick feel-good ending.

So Str8, how does a movie end up so lame? Maybe it was the casting -- Jennifer Anniston didn't fit as the loser friend because she didn't seem like she'd be friends with the rest of the women.

Or the lame plot. Do you think it might have started out as a semi-decent script and been rewritten into crap?

This is only one example of the bad movies that get made. Who decides to pour millions into making a bad movie? And why?

There have to be better scripts floating around Hollywood.

There are certainly lots of terrible movies out there. The ultimate reason is sometimes "too many cooks": The writer's idea gets interpreted by the director, whose vision gets reshaped by the studio. Or in some cases, nobody really has any strong vision whatsoever. The biggest offender of this that I've seen in recent years is the Stepford Wives remake.

Other times, movies get the "greenlight" before a script is even written -- Adam Sandler wants to do Movie X, and wants his friend to write it, and wants his other friend to direct it. Sony will be making and releasing Movie X on 4000 screens.

Still other times, a studio is determined to make a movie based on a book that a certain producer or studio executive likes -- regardless of whether that book can be made into a good movie or not -- and even regardless of whether that book can be adapted into a promising screenplay. This is usually the case where a studio has won a bidding war for rights to this coveted book (Michael Crichton's Timeline comes to mind -- also, there was no way that "Lemony Snicket" was not going to get made -- not saying that that was bad . . . ).

Other times, a movie gets the green light just based on a promising idea, or the fact that it has potential to be a franchise, or could sell lots of merchandise. The upcoming "Transformers" movie was given an early green light, I believe, before anyone had seen a script.

All that said, I thought Friends With Money was pretty good. It rang pretty true -- I identified with a lot of that crap, especially the part where you leave an event and spend the car ride home deconstructing what everyone said and basically gossiping about the other people. My wife and I do that all the time -- I never did that before I lived in LA.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I was fixing to call bullshit- then I remembered you went to Florida Coastal

I believe that the proper turn of phrase is "I was fixin' to..."

(I have heard it shortened to "I was fittin' to...", however).

[SlaveNoMore]

sebastian_dangerfield
Paul Lynde and a Faces reference. Nice.

"Nod is a good as wink to a blind horse" would be a nice Faces reference.

His was another [of many] recent Paigow references.

[i miss paigow [sniff]]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
recent Paigow references.

[SNIFF]

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I am sure I recall some Chips[s] at the Harvard social clubs. And I am sure you could rustle up one at the Yale Club as well.

I thought Snidely went to Harvard and you went to Yale. So confusing!

[Adder]

Originally posted by Snidely Condescending
Well, now, Adder, that's not entirely true. While I am sure that the Union Club doesn't have any actual fraternity lads as members, many the shop floor foreman in one of the factories owned by a coroporation that was owned by a conglomorate whose voting stock was controlled by a blind trust that was in Popsie's portfolio was a Greek from one of those land-grant, square-state state schools. And you can be sure that the managing director of that factory respected Chip the Tri-Delt, or whatever.

Of course, that was before Popsie shut that factory down. And I am sure that Chip the Zeta, or whatever, remains as a well-respected greeter at one of those dreadful bread-box stores that cousin Albert keeps droning on about.

Um.. I was talking about a land grant (if not square state) school.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I thought Snidely went to Harvard and you went to Yale. So confusing!

Nope, being the vapid sort that I am I simply hung out there at the Harvard social clubs. My friend was dating a guy there. lame I know.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
(I have heard it shortened to "I was fittin' to...", however).

that's Alabama, or La.- maybe Mississippi- is Fringey from the Ark-La- Tex?

quiz for the rest- what is the 4th state in the Ark-La-Tex?

[i was penske]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
that's Alabama, or La.- maybe Mississippi- is Fringey from the Ark-La- Tex?

quiz for the rest- what is the 4th state in the Ark-La-Tex?

MIssissipi?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Word around the water cooler is that he was fired for serial sexual harassment.

of a six year old? in a car?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
from http://www.divorcepeers.com/stats38.htm it looks like the divorce rates at least aren't so high as I had thought.

• Age at marriage for those who eventually divorced in the United States, 1990
  
  ▪ Under 20 years old
  Women 27.6%
  Men 11.7%

why would men under 20 have such a low rate- high school sweethearts actually work out? I assume the higher level of women getting divorced after marriages under 20 YOA are women marrying older guys.

Because men that young don't marry, they pay child support. Only the ones who take ownership of the wife get married, and they don't divorce, they just beat and have flings.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
of a six year old? in a car?

More re this (and worth at least what it costs).

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Have you ever had a food item and you couldn't decide whether it was good or not? Vegan Snickerdoodle. Not delicious, yet strangely compelling. Not even particularly cookie-like. But lots of cinnamon. Which is good.

Maybe I'm only drawn to it because my emotional food issues are feeding off of its odd-ingredient issues. I'm a vegan cookie enabler??

I find this post deeply disturbing. Very deeply disturbing.