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

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Does anyone actually take their dogs to one of these places? There's a doggie day care facility down the street from my house, and every afternoon around the time I get home, there are several cars lined up with owners running to pick up their dogs.

No, no one actually takes their dogs there. Those "owners" are actors.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Oh. Nevermind.

When was Curb this week anyway? I saw that The Sopranos were on at 8 (CST) but I don't watch that (I did for the first season, but it lost me at some point after season 1 - I'm fickle), so I switched over to my A&E marathon. Was it on at 9? Was Colby any good?

Colby's scene was as funny as any in recent memory.

[bilmore]

When you think you're having a bad day, remember these bird-watchers:

"Birdwatchers from all over Britain who gathered in Grimsby to catch sight of a rare American robin were horrified to see her eaten by a passing sparrowhawk. They were still setting up their cameras when the predator swooped down from a row of drab factories and warehouses on an industrial estate."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3545679.stm

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Is there any reason to think that both groups being in town at the same time is anything more than coincidence? Why are the HA's meeting there anyway?

Coincidence. Actually originally they were supposed to leave town before Phelps comes. I think the police are concerned they will get wind of what is going on and decide to stay. If not the group, one or two who might be looking for trouble.
We are showing a movie and they are concerned, for some reason, about the movie, but not about the rest of our plans.

I am thinking I am missing something, but who knows.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
No, no one actually takes their dogs there. Those "owners" are actors.

I suspected as much. Thanks for the confirmation.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
THis is the definition of a Post Hoc. Next time you go against SD in court, please let me know as I would like to buy front row tickets for that battle of the titans.

Would it offend you as a lawyer if I asked the last time you argued anything in Court?

I thought so.

[the ghost of Plated's Socks]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Way back in the day, back before Infirmation, before the Yahoo boards had transformed into the IB, life on the Boards was pretty idealistic.

Ah yes, thanks for the memories. If only the "hot tub" incident had not occured we could have had paradise.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by the ghost of Plated's Socks
Ah yes, thanks for the memories. If only the "hot tub" incident had not occured we could have had paradise.

Yes, well there will always be those type of mis-steps. Some are best left unmentioned:

penske_account has selected the "Hello Kitty" IMVironment.
penske_account: allo ami
p_l_flower: Allo
p_l_flower: Comment ca va?
penske_account: thanks for skooling the newbies on altamont
p_l_flower: Well
p_l_flower: You know
penske_account: buenos tiempos buenos tiempos
penske_account: one quibble
p_l_flower: Paigow lords her old skool knowledge over them
penske_account: iyw
p_l_flower: iw
penske_account: thanks
penske_account: I knew you would
p_l_flower: You're welcome
penske_account: anyhoo
penske_account: the quibble
p_l_flower: I sensed you knew
p_l_flower: Yes
p_l_flower: On to the quibble
penske_account: i was there, although under an array of socks
penske_account: you wound me
penske_account: with the exclusion
p_l_flower: I omitted you to protect you
penske_account: hmmmm
penske_account: boc!!!!!!!!!!
penske_account: hahahaha!
p_l_flower: You knew what you did that day
penske_account: well done
penske_account: smashing
penske_account: !
p_l_flower: I think it is best to say
penske_account: yes
penske_account: on that day I came as skek6
p_l_flower: That what happened at Altamont stays at Altamont
penske_account: oh the memories

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Coincidence. Actually originally they were supposed to leave town before Phelps comes. I think the police are concerned they will get wind of what is going on and decide to stay. If not the group, one or two who might be looking for trouble.
We are showing a movie and they are concerned, for some reason, about the movie, but not about the rest of our plans.

I am thinking I am missing something, but who knows.

Will there be free beer? Weed? If not, I doubt the Angels will be interested.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Fugee
True, but if the audience is supposed to accept a woman playing a young man in love (the part of the Composer), it surely can accept a large woman as a love object in the same opera. (I hate hate hate hate trouser roles.) And the entire plot of that opera is strange anyway.

Yes, suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient of opera viewing. And in a mixed medium, where you (ostensibly) need acting and singing talent, perhaps some movement/dancing talent, and visual appeal, it makes sense that the most difficult and rare of those skills (definitely the voice) should overwhelm consideration of the other performance aspects. And, frankly, fat women singing has been a feature of opera for centuries, it would be a bit of a pity to break with tradition now.

Then again ... if opera is going to survive as anything but an historical curiosity it needs to do what it can to broaden its appeal, and in the theatrical/performance arts, that means visual panache. And enough people can sing pretty damn well, if not quite deborah voigt well, that the physical appearance may soon be the rarer, and more valuable, comodity. (See: this month's W has and entire article about a "hunky" singer who is the latest thing, whose name escapes me, but the focus is definitely not on the superior quality of his voice. Bryn Terfel may make you believe in God when he opens his mouth and you simply cannot believe what has come out of it, and he may absolutely seem the kind of guy you want to hang out with for a beer and a match, but "hunky" he isn't.)

[not_penske]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Yes, well there will always be those type of mis-steps. Some are best left unmentioned:

penske_account has selected the "Hello Kitty" IMVironment.
penske_account: allo ami
p_l_flower: Allo
p_l_flower: Comment ca va?
penske_account: thanks for skooling the newbies on altamont
p_l_flower: Well
p_l_flower: You know
penske_account: buenos tiempos buenos tiempos
penske_account: one quibble
p_l_flower: Paigow lords her old skool knowledge over them
penske_account: iyw
p_l_flower: iw
penske_account: thanks
penske_account: I knew you would
p_l_flower: You're welcome
penske_account: anyhoo
penske_account: the quibble
p_l_flower: I sensed you knew
p_l_flower: Yes
p_l_flower: On to the quibble
penske_account: i was there, although under an array of socks
penske_account: you wound me
penske_account: with the exclusion
p_l_flower: I omitted you to protect you
penske_account: hmmmm
penske_account: boc!!!!!!!!!!
penske_account: hahahaha!
p_l_flower: You knew what you did that day
penske_account: well done
penske_account: smashing
penske_account: !
p_l_flower: I think it is best to say
penske_account: yes
penske_account: on that day I came as skek6
p_l_flower: That what happened at Altamont stays at Altamont
penske_account: oh the memories

Posts like that make the benefits of not being penske that much more pronounced. U 2 are wackadoo!

The girlfriend who calls the boyfriend at work multiple times a day. I apologize to any man I might have done this to in the past. And their co-workers in the office next door.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Marriage is a subsidy for a particular lifestyle choice. I don't see why libertarians would support a monogamous lifestyle choice over a single, polygamous or polyandrous lifestyle. Why subsidize single income couples by providing them a tax break in the form of joint returns? Or any other number of benefits provided to married people?

I think that kind of hits it on the head: the Libertarian view on marriage is pretty much "if people want to marry each other, why shouldn't they? And why should the G or anyone else subsidize them? Or stop them?" So they don't want to abolish marriage in general, they merely don't believe the gov has any place (at all) limiting or sponsoring it one way or the other.

It makes sense that this wouldn't necessarily extend to renouncing marriage as a civil/legal institution entirely (why leave it to the religious sects; there are decent reasons for public, society-wide registration of a status that lots of individual private entities may be granting or enforcing or whatever, just to avoid chaos; further, it is a convenient way for people to designate the person they choose as their defacto proxy for lots of pretty important stuff that no one thinks about, like who is authorized to pick your kids up from school, make health care decisions, etc, which would be a pain in the ass to separately arrange for, as gay couples have discovered); but with respect to any special treatement in public subsidy/benefits, yeah, probably it does (particularly since the Libertarians are in favor of abolishing most of the benefits with respect to which spouses get priority or survivor status, anyhow).

Logically, yes, I think this freedom of choice would extend to a polyandrous lifestyle. For the Libertarians, a lot of potential problems with recognizing polygamy, like "just exactly how many wives should be able to claim SS survivor benefits, anyway?" disappear in a perfect world, too.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I had grown tired of dragging a laptop through airports. So I decided to pack the laptop with my checked luggage, despite the warnings not to do so. Turns out the warnings were correct.

Dude, do not fuck with petty bureaucrats with powers over your person and your stuff, they can fuck you up bigtime. Haven't you learned this by now? You may be the head of the secret cabal ruling the world, but when that security dimwit with a chip on his shoulder and a mean boss gets hold of you, it will not save you from the cavity search his self-importance and insecurity demands.

[not_penske]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
The girlfriend who calls the boyfriend at work multiple times a day. I apologize to any man I might have done this to in the past. And their co-workers in the office next door.

Unnecessary post, you could have just sent Slave a PM.