Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[Not Bob]

So, if one were to want to go see a sporting event in TCOTU, and the team that one wanted to see sucked and was playing a team that also sucked, what would be the best way to get tickets for said sporting event?

Subway Series, baby, whooo-hooooo! Mets will win!

Edited to add that the game will probably not be sold out, so I can get tickets at the box office, but when you're talking the Mets versus the Tigers, well, why pay face value?

[idle acts]

Originally posted by Not Bob
So, if one were to want to go see a sporting event in TCOTU, and the team that one wanted to see sucked and was playing a team that also sucked, what would be the best way to get tickets for said sporting event?

Subway Series, baby, whooo-hooooo! Mets will win!

I know that I should know this and I'm sorry that I missed it, but what is TCOTU?

The City of The Undesirables?
The College of True Understanding?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Really? Was it in a condescending, patronizing way? Or a hip/retro/"Swingers" kinda way? Or a hostile, demeaning kinda way? Or an elderly grandfatherly kinda way?

Not that it matters for any advice I have to give on how to respond -- I have none -- but I am just curious.

I'm not sure he even realized he said it. of course he graduated law school in the 1960s, so I guess I'd go with grandfatherly, though I never talked to him before today, so no real point of reference. Also at the time that he was talking to me he might not have known I was an attorney (I think when I called him back, he might have thought I was the partner's secretary). Not that it would necessarily make a difference in the mind of the gramps.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by idle acts
I know that I should know this and I'm sorry that I missed it, but what is TCOTU?

The City of The Undesirables?
The College of True Understanding?

The Center of the Universe. NYC, that is.

[NotFromHere]

12 yo boy suspended for bringing Sports Illustrated to school.

Really? Isn't that magazine sold over the counter to anyone who wants one? Mine didn't come wrapped in brown paper.

the principal cited him for violating the school’s policy on nonverbal harassment and possession of lewd or suggestive material

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4363239/

[idle acts]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
The Center of the Universe. NYC, that is.

But of course. Thanks.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by idle acts
I know that I should know this and I'm sorry that I missed it, but what is TCOTU?

The City of The Undesirables?
The College of True Understanding?

TCOTU = The Center of the Universe. Enn Why See. The Big Apple. New York, New York. The City That Never Sleeps.

Drat. Beaten by RP (and not in a good way) again. Too much time spent replacing "king of the hill/top of the heap" with "the city that never sleeps." C'est la vie.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
The Center of the Universe. NYC, that is.

Ugh. TUALBIMM, or whatever that is. But more than a LB.

[robustpuppy]

Not to get all political or anything, but I just had a weird reaction to the "Bush Urges Ban on Same-Sex Marriage" headline in gigantic font in the upper right corner of the Wash. Post online. For a split second, it felt as if I hadn't already seen it, and didn't already know it, and wasn't completely unsurprised by it, and I was actually utterly shocked that the President of the United States in 2004 feels justified in doing such a thing. And that the public is supposedly split 46-45% on a constitutional amendment. I felt revulsion, sadness, and anger. (And yeah, I know some people feel the same way about gay marriage, but if they can't keep their feelings about it to themselves, and think the government ought to define human relationships in a manner with which they agree and from which they benefit and too bad for those who don't, then fuck them.) It was so much easier to be jaded and unsurprised.

So the idea that NYC residents might think the city is TCOTU doesn't make me TUIMM at all.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Sheesh*...

*it IS the new "whiff" right?

For the record, I invented "Sheesh". (no reallly, you can look it up).*

And it's not directly a synonym for Whiff, but Whiff's angrier, bitchier cousin.

*Wouldn't Paigow be proud?

[idle acts]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Not to get all political or anything, but I just had a weird reaction to the "Bush Urges Ban on Same-Sex Marriage" headline in gigantic font in the upper right corner of the Wash. Post online. For a split second, it felt as if I hadn't already seen it, and didn't already know it, and wasn't completely unsurprised by it, and I was actually utterly shocked that the President of the United States in 2004 feels justified in doing such a thing. And that the public is supposedly split 46-45% on a constitutional amendment. I felt revulsion, sadness, and anger. (And yeah, I know some people feel the same way about gay marriage, but if they can't keep their feelings about it to themselves, and think the government ought to define human relationships in a manner with which they agree and from which they benefit and too bad for those who don't, then fuck them.) It was so much easier to be jaded and unsurprised.

So the idea that NYC residents might think the city is TCOTU doesn't make me TUIMM at all.

I agree. It is awful. I half expect people to storm from their offices into the street at the mere idea that we would amend the Constitution to institutionalize discrimination against a group of people. And then I remember that the people of Hawaii did that very thing to their state constitution in 1998, and most people outside the state didn't even realize that it had happened.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
For the record, I invented "Sheesh". (no reallly, you can look it up).*

And it's not directly a synonym for Whiff, but Whiff's angrier, bitchier cousin.

*Wouldn't Paigow be proud?

It appears to me that Ty did here -- http://www.lawtalkers.com/forums/sho...id=102#post102

Although I typically associate it with leagl. Perhaps she is a little bitchier than the rest of us?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
It appears to me that Ty did here -- http://www.lawtalkers.com/forums/sho...id=102#post102

Although I typically associate it with leagl. Perhaps she is a little bitchier than the rest of us?

I believe that was Frenchy, but I am happy to either take the credit, or go down in infamy as the poster who prompted the first sheesh.

Come back Frenchy, we miss you.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by idle acts
I agree. It is awful. I half expect people to storm from their offices into the street at the mere idea that we would amend the Constitution to institutionalize discrimination against a group of people. And then I remember that the people of Hawaii did that very thing to their state constitution in 1998, and most people outside the state didn't even realize that it had happened.

I think it is a myopically, phenomenally stupid move by Bush that may cost him the election. The conservatives were already going to vote for him, and all it takes is an incremental further alienation of the middle to push the election to the Dems. One lifelong Republican on this board has told me s/he wants to write a letter to the White House. It won't take many of those, along with Republicans upset about boys in body bags, record deficits, record farm subsidies, etc. to tip the balance.

But for Prohibition (and we all know how well that worked), almost every amendment to the Constitution has granted greater freedoms and civil liberties to people rather than the reverse, particularly where, as here, there is no harm done to anyone else. The parallels to a Reconstruction Era "separate, but equal" are uncanny, as has been noted before, and I think (and hope) they will ultimately bite Bush on the ass. This is going to be the civil rights issue of this decade, and Bush and his ilk are ultimately going to lose it. When this Supreme Court can strike down all sodomy laws just 35 years after the first real public awareness of homosexual rights (Stonestown) despite hundreds of years of discrimination and persecution, the tide has turned and did so quickly. Bush was ill-advised to make this a flagship issue. The tide may be a riptide.

[notcasesensitive]

As previously mentioned, am missing yoga class tonight to work. As not previously mentioned, yummy turtle cheesecake is sitting in conference room across the hall from my office (leftover from birthday celebration, including my own, that I missed for aforementioned conference call today). I should stay away from that, shouldn't I? Just checking.