Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
There's a Talbots near here and I pass it a fair amount. Are those clothes women wear when they don't want men to look at them? It struck me as a sort of Brooks Bros of women's clothing, like what George Will would dress in if he had breasts.

I may be repeating this observation. I'm having deja vu.

I think of [The] Talbots as a place to buy mannish suits with those little ties that businesswomen of the 80s would wear. Perfectly awful.

Your description is spot-on.

(What is with the love-fest between you and me today? Not that I'm complaining, mind you, but we seem to be of the same mind today.)

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Adder
Right, but any modification of Ruth's Chris should be excused as it is perhaps the stupidest business name ever created. Okay, second stupidest after Fifth Third Bank.

Nah. Both are behind Accenture. Accent on the future, my ass.

[SlaveNoMore]

sebastian_dangerfield
That's just litrall. Much better then Ruth's Chris.

Carl's Junior what, I ask?

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Does he make the pizzas?

Good question. I'll ask him and post his response. I suspect it will be something like this:

dude im so fucktup.ya know.. no i dont make the pizas I deliver thim but I toteled my car so now I just do opium alot. okay talk to you later. Send porn.

mcuh love
amdrew

That was incredibly taxing to pump out. I promise I will post his response if I remember to ask him though.

So what do you all think? Should I get andrew out to Vegas?!????

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Well, that's in no small party what good manners are for - preventing people who are comfortable with intrusiveness among a consenting group of friends from inflicting that intrusiveness on non-consenting acquaintances. How do you know which I am in unless I tell you (i.e.: ask for your correction)?

Good Lord. Everyone knows what group this is. You go ahead and wait for an invitation based on outdated rules of good manners that only you are aware of or care about.

TM

[SlaveNoMore]

dtb
I think of [The] Talbots as a place to buy mannish suits with those little ties that businesswomen of the 80s would wear. Perfectly awful.

Your description is spot-on.

(What is with the love-fest between you and me today? Not that I'm complaining, mind you, but we seem to be of the same mind today.)

Tying two threads together (uggo clothes and idiotic names), I present:

Forth and Towne

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
I'm over it, simply from saturation. You're exactly right that people don't realize that they are making a mistake adding the ess--when I used to care, any time I pointed it out I got the "that's what I said".

As to Finelli, one would likely point out that they need to differentiate "Finellis & Sons" from the other "Finellis" enterprises.

The all-too-common misuse that gets me lately is "try and" as in "I will try and deliver that to you tomorrow".

I admit that I say Nordstrom's. I am aware of it too (thanks, Mr. Man!). I think it comes from growing up with Macy's. Or Macy*s, if you prefer.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Neither rude nor helpful. Just quaintly provincial. And wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_cooler spedsezwha?

[Adder]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
I'm over it, simply from saturation. You're exactly right that people don't realize that they are making a mistake adding the ess--when I used to care, any time I pointed it out I got the "that's what I said".

As to Finelli, one would likely point out that they need to differentiate "Finellis & Sons" from the other "Finellis" enterprises.

The all-too-common misuse that gets me lately is "try and" as in "I will try and deliver that to you tomorrow".

When it becomes popular usuage, does it stop becoming a mistake? This placeholder for the old Marshall Field website, for example, refers to it as Marshall Fields.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
??? Have you been to Chicago?

You're joking, right?

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by taxwonk
You're joking, right?

Yes. But Western at Ashland? That must be a fucking super-Jewel.

[Adder]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
litrall.

You making fun of my spelling again?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Talbots has well cut, classic, conservative clothes that border on old lady. When a woman goes there she has to be careful that the clothes she selects are not dumpy. that being said, you can find some well made clothes that last years. I have stuff from there older than our oldest son he's 8

I mostly concur. Most of it is frump city, and the rest is as boring as my etiquette disputes with TM, but it is well put together, and, if you find something that does work, it will serve you well for a very, very long time.

"Brooks Brothers of women's clothing" is a pretty apt description. I might take issue with "well cut" (on the grounds that something well cut is unlikely to be dumpy), but it is pretty much the definition of classic conservative. My main interview suit from LS was a charcoal flannel from Talbots, and I still have it. That's going back to '95. It's as fashionable now (or not) as it was then. My grandmother could have worn it in the '30s or '40s, my mother in the '70s or '80s, and I'd wager my daughter will be able to wear it, too ... though hopefully she won't have to.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_cooler spedsezwha?

I guess you didn't see the Colbert Report the other night. I care not for your wiki-ality.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_cooler spedsezwha?

Yesterday I noticed that Wikipedia has entries for beer pong and quarters under its drinking game section, but no section for the viking game. I see an opportunity for authorship.

I was actually looking up "beer pong" because I have never played that and I didn't know what it was all about (apart from what I can guess from the name). It is a purely American game and never crossed the border. Weird that. We played quarters, though. And other games.