Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[patentparanyc]

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* Which is why I mainline about 8000 ccs of caffiene into my viens as early in the morning as practicable - to be certain that if I have to use the stall, I will be the first of the day.

LOL they should just hook us all up to a caffiene IV. would be more efficient for billing.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
[Guys who refuse to wear pink are pedophiles]

I'd just like to mention that right this second I am wearing a pink oxford cloth button down. I also own a very light pink broadcloth point collar dress shirt, a pink polo and a tee shirt that used to be kind of burgundy but has after 15 or so years faded into a nice dark pink. I like to wear it to Home Depot.

While this seems like a lot of pink, I recently discovered I have a lot of shirts. After circumstances required me to miss several of my normal weekly trips to the cleaners, I was down to my last dress shirt the day I finally took in 28 shirts to the cleaners. I had no idea I had that many, and of course that doesn't include polos, turtlenecks and tee shirts.

To catch up on other things (been travelling):
- Britney's alleged fiance is so completely ugly and generally repulsive it's depressing. I don't mind her getting married, but damn it seems a waste for her to shack up with some guy who looks like he works the night shift at the 7-11. And while I don't want to be judgmental about the two babies (one on the way while he's cavorting with BS), somehow that's the worst part. I think because he's so young. It would be one thing if he and they were a little older, and they were the kids from his first marriage, but this just seems too trailer.

- Similarly, on one of my many recent flights, the woman in the seat next to me lent me her Us/People/In Touch(?) magazine that had a photo spread of Matt Damon cavoting around Rome with his girlfriend and her five year old daughter. Somehow, this seemed perfectly natural.

- The same magazine mentioned that Kobe ordered some obscene number of custom suits from some high end tailor in LA. The exact number eludes me, but I'm pretty sure it was more than 100. I think this was before the current trial, but they've certainly come in handy.

- Just avoid the trousers on the floor guy. Nothing good can come of it.

- SD: one word: zippers.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield


My prostheletizing here is done.*

* I probably spelled that wrong, or maybe I even used the wrong verb, which is shocking, considering my strong religious bent.

No, you spelled "done" correctly.

I have so much trouble spelling that word (not "done") that when I google it to get the right spelling, google doesn't even know what the hell I'm talking about.

"Did you mean: prophylactic?"

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I strongly disagree. The point collar shirt with a four-in-hand is an undeniable classic and is never out of place unless you are dressing for an audience with the Queen.

Or you're a guidance counselor. If certain looks were cars, the point collar would be a Ford Taurus. Utterly uncreative in every possible regard. If you can't wear a spread/modified spread, wear a button down with a rep tie and work the ultra-conseravtive look.

And no, that its an Armani point doesn't make it any better. That's just the same cheap look at a higher price with slightly better fabric.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by baltassoc


- The same magazine mentioned that Kobe ordered some obscene number of custom suits from some high end tailor in LA. The exact number eludes me, but I'm pretty sure it was more than 100. I think this was before the current trial, but they've certainly come in handy.

He can continue to try to copy Jordan. Buy all of the suits. Talk like him. Sometimes look like him.

But he'll never play like him. Not even close.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
One last bit on this... Why do some guys piss in the stalls?

You have guys who pee in the stall standing when there are open urinals? That's wrong.

However, if all urinals are taken, you can use a stall. Using the stall is preferable to standing in line*. Given the short pee time, it is possible a guy could go to use a stall because all urinals are taken, and a urinal opens up while he is still in the stall, so don't jump to conclusions.

*non-office standing in line is okay.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Or you're a guidance counselor. If certain looks were cars, the point collar would be a Ford Taurus. Utterly uncreative in every possible regard. If you can't wear a spread/modified spread, wear a button down with a rep tie and work the ultra-conseravtive look.

And no, that its an Armani point doesn't make it any better. That's just the same cheap look at a higher price with slightly better fabric.

You always throw that guidance counselor thing as the worst dressed insult. I now think of that guidance counselor on the sopranos that slept with carmela. what a tool. that is the visual I get now when you say that.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by red red rum
...the word in the firm is that this guy has a medically diagnosed phobia of urine and fears any backsplash on his clothing.

This makes no sense. If you fear urine backsplash, why would you rather have it on your bare skin? And if it somehow misses your bare skin, where the hell else is it going to go but down onto your pants and underwear on the floor.

If you want actual advice to what sounds like a fictional problem, mine would be: Use a different bathroom.

TM

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You are so serious. "No black suits in the daytime. " "Actually, the hyphen rule is such-and-such." "Simply use another bathroom."

You are missing the point. Red red rum is not writing here because he wants a solution. He is doing it because he wants to connect with us, and he knows the way to do that is to entertain with an anecdote that illuminates the indignities of our shared profession.

Maybe he wants to connect because he likes people and has fun with words. Or maybe it's because he knows that over time, if he's amusing and clever enough, at the very least, somebody here will develop a crush on him, and at best, he'll get laid. Perhaps multiple times. Perhaps multiple times in one night, with either one or many FBetties. Yes, over time, the thrill will probably wear off, and he'll become bitter and laconic and pipe up only to demonstrate that he's obsessed with porn, or politics, or paigow, but he'll always be able to think fondly on the glory days, when he was wanted by the women and admired by the men.

Of course, it's possible he's married, in which case he knows that banging an FBetty isn't something he would actually do, but he takes comfort in knowing that, if only he were single, he could, because of the power of his wit, even though IRL, he is actually hot, and by the way, the fact that he posts here and flirts with the Betties in no way reflects on the state of his relationship, but rather reflects that his job is really fucking boring.

So, my question for you, skekky mcskeks a lot, is, why do YOU post here?

No, really. I mean it. And by the way, my marriagge sucks and yes, I would fuck you.


Oh wait, were you just talking in generalities?

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
You think? I'm all for losing my real money at a no-limit table--honestly, I think I'd mind it less than losing my fake money that way. My AA was cracked twice last time by hangers-in, I wasn't being fancy, I bet or raised or re-raised everything, and still got killed by guy with a set of fives on the river.

I find that people play really loose with play money. I've been busted more times than I can count by someone who makes a hand on the river when it's clear I've already made my hand by the turn.

That shit pisses me off. You go all-in on after the turn because you've made your hand and it should be clear to the other person that is the case and the other person hasn't but the dipshit calls you and makes it on the river.

It ain't right.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
He can continue to try to copy Jordan. Buy all of the suits. Talk like him. Sometimes look like him.

But he'll never play like him. Not even close.

If you have that feature on MS word or WordPerfect that underlines in red a misspelled word, you type it in, spell check it and it will correct it for you. that's what I did for Proselytizing. 2 seconds.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
They're not judging you, they just think you should lose some weight. You'd probably feel better.

Hank's festive?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
If I were truly concerned about "urine splashback" I wouldn't have my pants around my ankles in a mens' room--the floor can't be that hygenic either...he just wants people to check out his ass.

TM...insert Seinfeld anedote here.

And you want to be my latex salesman.

TM

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
If you have that feature on MS word or WordPerfect that underlines in red a misspelled word, you type it in, spell check it and it will correct it for you. that's what I did for Proselytizing. 2 seconds.

Yeah, that's my point. You have to be somewhat close to the actual spelling in order for that (or google) to work.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Unless you're saying his trial is really his funeral; he shouldn't be wearing a black suit during the day.

What the fuck does him ignoring some outdated form of fashion etiquette have to do with taste?

TM