Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04 - Page 205

Alex_de_Large · 12-22-2003, 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I liked that ad once; after that it just wasn't funny anymore.

I like the Best Buy* ads, especially the one where the salesman confirms with the customer that they've gotten the big-screen TV, entertainment center, sub-woofer.....and his only question is "do you have a movie where things blow up?"

*I think it's Best Buy. Maybe it's Good Guys. This may not be that effective a campaign, at least not for someone who doesn't watch much TV.

The best buy ad with the guy who previously bought his wife a treadmill is also pretty funny. "Plasma, they're THIN, right?"

greatwhitenorthchick · 12-22-2003, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
That's different. I kind of like it, but only for the doughboy. what's curious is that pillsbury sold him out. salon ran a long article on the 78 page users manual for the doughboy that suggested he would only be portrayed in a favorable light in which he was always happy.

I don't understand that commercial. Is someone in the commercial supposed to be related to the doughboy? Because there's no resemblance. And I can't figure out why someone would need to take a picture of him. You say "doughboy", and only one image springs to mind.

Sidd Finch · 12-22-2003, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
Hemp is coarse, lumpy in weave and dyes unevenly. I'd have had to be on acid constantly to buy that shit in a handbag.

I would rather blow my hippie cred.

Good call -- it's always best to spend what you don't have.

(Not to suggest that "hippie cred" would be a good thing)

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 12-22-2003, 04:30 PM

Was anyone watching the Pats-Jets game Sat. night on ESPN (hi Slave!)?

WTF was up with Joe Namath on the sideline interview with Suzie Kolber: "blah, blah, blah . . . I want to kiss you."

I wasn't paying attention to the first 10 seconds of the interview, but the way he was looking at her and moving towards her caught my eye, before he gave her the line.

Was he completely wasted? and, if so, why does ESPN not breathalyze its sideline celeb. interviews?

notcasesensitive · 12-22-2003, 04:43 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Was anyone watching the Pats-Jets game Sat. night on ESPN (hi Slave!)?

WTF was up with Joe Namath on the sideline interview with Suzie Kolber: "blah, blah, blah . . . I want to kiss you."

I wasn't paying attention to the first 10 seconds of the interview, but the way he was looking at her and moving towards her caught my eye, before he gave her the line.

Was he completely wasted? and, if so, why does ESPN not breathalyze its sideline celeb. interviews?

I missed it unfortunately. Here's the CNN story on it -- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html

sounds odd.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 12-22-2003, 04:46 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive

sounds odd.

no more so than any tales of the drunk.

FWIW, two friends have run into him at football-related events. in both instances, they reported he was wasted, and the woman (of the two friends) reported he hit on her grossly much. perhaps the nose isn't just genetic.

purse junkie · 12-22-2003, 04:48 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I missed it unfortunately. Here's the CNN story on it -- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html

sounds odd.

So now Joe Namath's a drunken lech? Jesus, next thing you people will tell me that Michael Jackson's a kiddie-obsessed perv...

Oh. I guess there really is no Santa Claus, either, is there?

Sidd Finch · 12-22-2003, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Was he completely wasted? and, if so, why does ESPN not breathalyze its sideline celeb. interviews?

According to the SI article, she responded "Thanks, Joe. A huge compliment."

So I don't see what the big deal is, if she took it as a compliment.

Gattigap · 12-22-2003, 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
So I don't see what the big deal is, if she took it as a compliment.

Do you think she really meant that? I dunno, but I doubt it. Strikes me that her response was the professional way (and probably the only practical way) to try and deflect it.

Other reactions, like pushing him away and calling him an asshole, probably wouldn't have played too well with the network brass, even if she were right.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 12-22-2003, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap

Other reactions, like pushing him away and calling him an asshole, probably wouldn't have played too well with the network brass, even if she were right.

I'm guessing Michele Tafoya gets assigned the next interview with Joe Willie.

greatwhitenorthchick · 12-22-2003, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
According to the SI article, she responded "Thanks, Joe. A huge compliment."

So I don't see what the big deal is, if she took it as a compliment.

I have no idea whether she took it as a compliment or not. Saying she took it as a compliment was an efficient way to deal with it. She might have taken a lot of flak if she'd said "Eww Joe, you are grossing me out" or "get lost" or something negative (although it would have been fun to watch). She could have just ignored it. But in the split second when it was happening, saying she took it as a compliment was probably the most obvious path to take from her point of view. Saying something negative or ignoring it would take energy, and she probably wants to pick her battles. (again, she might have taken it as a compliment. who knows)

Alex_de_Large · 12-22-2003, 05:09 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
According to the SI article, she responded "Thanks, Joe. A huge compliment."

So I don't see what the big deal is, if she took it as a compliment.

She was on the air, what's she going to do, kick his ass?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 12-22-2003, 05:10 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
Hemp is coarse, lumpy in weave and dyes unevenly. I'd have had to be on acid constantly to buy that shit in a handbag.

I would rather blow my hippie cred.

Here's what we do.

You and NCS can both come visit my den. I will put a little Donovan on the turntable and apply my extensive experience to determine which of you qualifies as a spinning hippy chick.

purse junkie · 12-22-2003, 05:13 PM

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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
She was on the air, what's she going to do, kick his ass?

A drunken ex-great whose most recent glory days were when he guest starred on "The Brady Bunch"?

Even odds. No pun intended.

Alex_de_Large · 12-22-2003, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
A drunken ex-great whose most recent glory days were when he guest starred on "The Brady Bunch"?

Even odds. No pun intended.

I don't doubt that she could have hut him if she had wanted to. The fact that she was on the air, however, coupled with the fact that she presumably values her job, made it very difficult for her to do anything but take it like she did. Reacting the way that she did took a whole lot of poise.