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

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
The SO, who is from the islands, can't swim. Freaks me out. Of course I grew up in the NJ suburbs and swim like a fish. We went rafting with friends last summer and I had nightmares about having to explain his drowning death to his family.

Anne
After conducting a very unscientific poll (in my head) of my colored friends, I realize that none of them can swim.

You did not just say "colored friends", did you? You sound like my husband's southern grandmother.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Less (on second hand, maybe I have simply proved that African-Americans are stupider than whitey in the all important Reality TV Intelligence Quotient score) inSF

Have any African-Americans ever done even passably well on a reality tv show?

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

The brake thing happened to me once IRL. Scariest driving I've ever done.

Me too. During a really bad rain storm in Philly. I was driving home from having dropped someone at the airport and was approaching a light that had just turned red. I stepped on the brakes and nothing, I tried everything you are supposed to do, but still nothing, I went right through the light. And the car was so waterlogged that all that happened when I hit the horn was a real weak gurgling noise.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Who "replaced" you, the Witness Protection Program?

You know, come to think of it, that wasn't too long after the shooting on the freeway incident. Hmmm.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by evenodds
Have any African-Americans ever done even passably well on a reality tv show?

Vee (sp?) on Survivor. Didn't she win?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

In lawschool, a friend and I were in this class taught by a raving critical race theorist, who was completely out of her mind. We collected a list of her most outrageous phrases from lectures (all of which were primo crit-satire material) and had a competition to see who could use the most of them in writing the final exam. Despite using the phrases "hegemony of patriarchal dogma" and "the racist oppression of the primacy of facts" more than once, my friend won. I seem to recall a phrase something to the effect of "the unmaking of the literalist historical narrative of the oppressor and the non-making of a free narrative of subjective experience of the unseen" put her over the top.

We both got As. We laughed and laughed.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by evenodds
Have any African-Americans ever done even passably well on a reality tv show?

They did really well on "Roots," all things considered.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by evenodds
Have any African-Americans ever done even passably well on a reality tv show?

Yes. Both women I believe. One won Survivor and one came in first or second on Big Brother.

Now that I think about it, Rubin and Justin on AI.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Ollie (in high school, I was chased by a wild pig while shroomin') Ramone

for real or in your head? I have had some funny experiences with shrooms. I don't know if this is common, but we used to eat shrooms at the tail end of the buzz from X so it was easier. One time I was certain there was a purple man sitting in a urinal who was talking to me. And once I think there was some hallucinogenic stuff mixed in with my X because this girl's face suddenly became plaid. It stayed that way for a long time. I even remember the tartan. It was like pastel blue and dark blue. weird.

these days generally I just talk to the purple man sitting under my desk because I am chicken about getting caught and getting deported.

[AngryMulletMan]

So, like, I keep having this recurring nightmare over and over where I show up for a test I never studied for. It's an algebra test and it's my evidence professor giving the test and he is really pissed because I skipped class for the entire semester. So he asks me what I know about algebra and my bubble totally bursts and to top it off, I miss the school bus home and have to walk all the way back, twenty miles, all uphill and I am so, like, out of shrooms.

So then I wake up and I am, like, totally pissed because I realize that going to work every fucking day sucks way more than flunking exams ever did.

And I'm not taking any fucking tests on the internet to tell me whether I am going to hell because I am, like, so totally there.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I have brake failure dreams too! Bizarre.

I sometimes have the "trapped at Camp Crystal Lake and Jason is in the lodge and the only working car is a standard transmission and I have to drive it to escape" dream.

But I just chalk this up to a combination of too many Friday the 13th movies and not being able to drive a stick.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Yes. Both women I believe. One won Survivor and one came in first or second on Big Brother.

Vecepia won Survivor, but she could swim decently. Danielle came in second on BB3, where the only water is the hot tub.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
One time I was certain there was a purple man sitting in a urinal who was talking to me.

New board motto?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
However, the Miami teams of the mid-late 80s under Jimmy Johnson could have made the NFL playoffs. And maybe that crazy Auburn team from a few years back that was unbeatable but was under the death penalty and couldn't go to a bowl.

You need to cut back on the 'shrooms.

TM

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
You did not just say "colored friends", did you? You sound like my husband's southern grandmother.

Well, I don't know what else to call them. African-American doesn't seem quite right because most are not African or American. Some are African, others are various islanders (Haiti, T&T, Aruba) with green cards. Privately the SO and I use tan, since he is tanner than I am, but I don't want to offend anyone in FB land.

So what is the PC phrase du jour?