Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04 - Page 180

ltl/fb · 03-24-2004, 01:27 AM

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Originally posted by bilmore
It's too bad. I went through some shit and changed, and so did you, too, and now we're both assholes. 'Cuz, your posts define you. Especially without explanation.

Or not.

I assume this is intended as an insult, but I'm not quite getting it. If something about that last post offended you in such a way that you'd rather I deleted it, I'm happy to. It wasn't intended to offend. Hardly anyone is on here, so if we both delete it's like it never happened. It was probably better suited to PM anyway.

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bilmore · 03-24-2004, 01:28 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I assume this is intended as an insult, but I'm not quite getting it. If something about that last post offended you in such a way that you'd rather I deleted it, I'm happy to.

No, it wasn't. Mostly just sadness. G'night.

pretermitted_child · 03-24-2004, 01:47 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
. . . a rightways-forward "e" is not a schwa or however you spell that.

Indeed, the rightways-forward "e" would be "e" itself. The schwa would be "e" rotated 180 degrees (which would be equivalent to turning the "e" upside-down and flipping it sideways, I suppose).

Behold, the schwa:

Not Me · 03-24-2004, 02:14 AM

I have been on the west coast waaaaay too long. I live on the peninsula (silicon valley) not SF so I wear jeans/pants/maybe occasionally a skirt to work (unless going to court, then I dress appropriately for court). I have forgotten what is acceptable east coast business attire. This is not for court. This is for an east coast business meeting with east coast business people at a start up (yep, there are a few still).

Can I wear boots with a long skirt in business setting or is that not acceptable? It is fucking cold there now and the boots would keep me warm. They are not stilletos or anything sexy. Just below the knee length boots with a long skirt.

It is a high tech start up, not a big corporation. I know what it is like at a high tech start up out here (i.e., anything fancier than a concert T-shirt with stains on it will cause you to be ostracized), but I think the east coast, even start-ups might be different. Don't know and all the people I work with are men and they are fashion idiots.

Bottom line is that I will be fucking cold out there and when I am cold, I am not nice. So I am going with a sweater and long black skirt and I want to wear boots, too, to keep warm.

Please advise.

Fugee · 03-24-2004, 02:59 AM

The Good Book says "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven."

When it comes to the FB, the time for flame wars is Friday. Flaming on a late Tuesday evening is just.....unseemly, not to mention deeply unsettling to creatures of habit like moi. So if the two of you (and Wonk too) could just stifle it for the next 48 hours, equilibrium can be restored to Lawtalkers. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation,

Sincerely,

Fugee

Not Me · 03-24-2004, 03:02 AM

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Originally posted by Fugee
The Good Book says "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven."

Or in other words, get a room.

Shape Shifter · 03-24-2004, 03:31 AM

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Originally posted by Fugee
The Good Book says "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven."

When it comes to the FB, the time for flame wars is Friday. Flaming on a late Tuesday evening is just.....unseemly, not to mention deeply unsettling to creatures of habit like moi. So if the two of you (and Wonk too) could just stifle it for the next 48 hours, equilibrium can be restored to Lawtalkers. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation,

Sincerely,

Fugee

Is this the Cut Direct, or whatever it is you call it when you feel morally superior to people?

Shape Shifter · 03-24-2004, 03:33 AM

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Originally posted by Not Me
Or in other words, get a room.

You're avatar is fucking hilarious. But why the self-loathing?

evenodds · 03-24-2004, 03:41 AM

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Originally posted by bilmore
A. Sober. Sorry. Wish now I wasn't. Give me three hours. Lowenbrau and a kayak - heaven.

Lowenbrau???

I had no idea people actually drank this. In fact, I hadn't thought about it in a decade and a half, until I saw Tony drinking it on the Sopranos on Sunday. All I could think through the whole scene is "Lowenbrau? Who the fuck drinks Lowenbrau anymore."

Now, I know.

Even(wondering why I ever left my ridiculously cushy in-house gig)Odds

Jack Manfred · 03-24-2004, 04:14 AM

And people wonder why I don't post at work...

To answer the poll (instead of getting sucked into some sort of Dynasty-era bitch-fight)

I'd Move To
1. San Diego
2. Las Vegas
3. Denver
4. Chicago
5. Toronto
6. Newport Beach
7. London
8. Dublin
9. Galway (Ireland)
10. Paris
11. Vancouver *
12. Austin *
13. Seattle *
14. Portland *

I'd Not Move To
1. New York (while a practicing attorney)
2. Philadelphia
3. Detroit
4. Fresno (see also Riverside, Bakersfield, Stockton...)

* I've never been to these places, but I hear they're nice

Atticus Grinch · 03-24-2004, 04:29 AM

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Originally posted by evenodds
Lowenbrau???

I had no idea people actually drank this. In fact, I hadn't thought about it in a decade and a half, until I saw Tony drinking it on the Sopranos on Sunday. All I could think through the whole scene is "Lowenbrau? Who the fuck drinks Lowenbrau anymore."

We were discussing this on the PB (the nice board) yesterday. Lowenbrau is actually a respectable beer in Munich; the problem is some German asshat licensed the name to Miller for American brewing ages ago. For a time it was brewed by Miller itself, then they granted the license to Labatt's in Canada using the "original Munich recipe." They never succeeded in overcoming its reputation as a shitty Miller beer, as your post indicates. But now (I'm told) it's being imported directly from Munich in an effort to bring it back upmarket with its real Bavarian peers: Spaten, Paulaner, and Franziskaner. The last time I drank a Lowenbrau was Thanksgiving Day, 1990, during the Miller days. I drank two half-yards of it in a D.C. pub, then threw up all over a Chinese restaurant. I think I'll wait a while before I try the improved version. However, the prop master at the Sopranos set might have been making a point about Tony's tastes.

BTW, a quick web search will tell you that many ostensibly imported beers are actual brewed in North America under license to the original brewers, and so are technically not "imported": Foster's ("Australia"; really brewed in Canada by Molsen on behalf of Miller), Sapporo ("Japan"; actually Canada), Kirin Ichiban ("Japan"; actually California by Anheuser Busch); Carlsberg ("Belgium"; actually Canada by Labatt). And get this --- most versions of Guinness sold in North America are actually brewed in Canada. So is Harp, but that should surprise no one. Sneaky Canadians.

Not Me · 03-24-2004, 04:46 AM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
the PB (the nice board)

All I have to say is that things better get nasty again on the PB or I am outta here. Fuck that. If I want nice, curteous, politically correct dialouge where people show respect for each other, I will live IRL and skip the Internet chat world.

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch [Long schpiel about beer]

You wouldn't happen to know anything about boots (to be worn on the east coast)?

spookyfish · 03-24-2004, 10:33 AM

Has anyone called a medicine man or an exorcist or somebody to purge the evil spirits from the board?

Just wondering.

Replaced_Texan · 03-24-2004, 10:38 AM

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Originally posted by spookyfish
Has anyone called a medicine man or an exorcist or somebody to purge the evil spirits from the board?

Just wondering.

Can they also purge the bug in my lungs that keeps me hacking and won't let me sleep?

Shape Shifter · 03-24-2004, 10:52 AM

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Can they also purge the bug in my lungs that keeps me hacking and won't let me sleep?

I don't know any medicine men, but we can play doctor.