Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[robustpuppy]

robustpuppy, you're a Critic!

"You are a Critic which means you are a Thinker / Success. Your primary sub-type is defined by "Thinker" characteristics and your secondary sub-type is defined by "Success" characteristics.

That means you're complex, thoughtful and never content to skate on the surface. Chances are you veer towards being so analytical and introspective that even positive qualities can seem like faults. The truth is that you have a very perceptive, gentle spirit.

How do we know all this? How do we know that you hate chaos at work and prefer a structured environment? Or that sometimes you feel undervalued by your boss?"

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Gattigap
How the fuck did Johnny Depp get nominated for Best Actor?

Don't get me wrong, I thought Pirates was great fun, and Depp's character was quite entertaining. But I'm having a hard time understanding how a film inspired by a Disneyworld ride got an Oscar nomination.

Because without him there is no movie. So he took a movie that was basically a misbegotten piece of shit and made it .... mediocre. And that, people, is what a good Hollywood actor does (cf. Jack Nicholson).

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

*Hank trivia- I'm supposed to be best man for a good buddy. My toast went to how we developed the rule for croquet, and reminded him that it doesn't apply to married life. At an early drunken meeting with happy couple, I did an early draft. SHE demoted me to a non-speaking usher role. Didn't even just reject speech and ask for rewrite. That is my history, and part of the reason I'm unsympathetic when some new poster cries about negative feedback to something they say. Walk a mile in my shoes, then complain.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
This must have been a good toast. You should have done it anyway.

I did, to an "invite only" group in a side room.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Touché

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Since we have done a test.

Here's a good one. What is your personality?

I think these tests just suck up to you.

I hate these fucking things...



AdL you're a Rock Star!

People are impossibly attracted to you wherever you go — whether or not you know it or not. There's something about the confidence you emit through your actions, conscious and otherwise, that compels people to want to come in for a closer look.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I hate these fucking things...



AdL you're a Rock Star!

If you hate them, why did you take this one? And why do you hate this one, given the result?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

*Hank trivia- I'm supposed to be best man for a good buddy. My toast went to how we developed the rule for croquet, and reminded him that it doesn't apply to married life. At an early drunken meeting with happy couple, I did an early draft. SHE demoted me to a non-speaking usher role. Didn't even just reject speech and ask for rewrite. That is my history, and part of the reason I'm unsympathetic when some new poster cries about negative feedback to something they say. Walk a mile in my shoes, then complain.

A draft of a best man speech? You can't tell your buddy the substance of the speech beforehand. That's like seeing the bride in the dress before the wedding. You kill the surprise, which is part of the fun of the best man speech.

Letting the wife hear it beforehand is OK, but if she didn't like it, her obligation was to tell you, not have you demoted.

And your buddy needs to relocate his balls. The bride doesn't get to veto the best man unless he's a real mess, which I'm assuming you're not.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Sports rule #1- It ain't cheating if you don't get caught*. Note: this is sports only, does not apply to relationships, or lawyer stuff.

*Hank trivia- I'm supposed to be best man for a good buddy. My toast went to how we developed the rule for croquet, and reminded him that it doesn't apply to married life. At an early drunken meeting with happy couple, I did an early draft. SHE demoted me to a non-speaking usher role. Didn't even just reject speech and ask for rewrite. That is my history, and part of the reason I'm unsympathetic when some new poster cries about negative feedback to something they say. Walk a mile in my shoes, then complain.

Soory. Double post.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
If you hate them, why did you take this one? And why do you hate this one, given the result?

An essential component of the Rock Star Personality is to express disdain, sometimes publicly, for the crushing adulation of one's fans (fuckers won't leave me alone, love!) before retiring to trash one's hotel room.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Gattigap
How the fuck did Johnny Depp get nominated for Best Actor?

Don't get me wrong, I thought Pirates was great fun, and Depp's character was quite entertaining. But I'm having a hard time understanding how a film inspired by a Disneyworld ride got an Oscar nomination.

The trend seems to be correcting past mistakes with current awards. Depp was not nominated not for his work in Pirates but for his previous body of work that my friends at The Academy have previously ignored.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Wow. That's pretty impressive that she had the balls to demote you, and also, that you said something that bad that she decided she had to do so. As far as your buddy, who apparently is a big pussy (or was concerned about his ability to obtain some), why didn't he stand up for you?

I gave a speech at a rehearsal dinner a few years back. I had to narrate a slide show as part of it. Up comes a picture of my friend as a child sitting on the lap of a John Wayne Gacyish clown. The entire room is silent. I looked down at the script, which said "[Friend] loved clowns." I just sipped deep on my drink, grinned and said through the mic "This is a setup, right? You don't really expect me to read this, do you? I can't really touch this one... it works on so many levels." Half the room gave me shit for not having the guts to say "And here's [Friend] losing his virginity" while the other half (old people) asked me what I meant. The bride's mother realized what she'd done and sheepishly snickered afterward, "Sorry, that was an awkward picture... I forgot [Friend] has a twisted sense of humor."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
The trend seems to be correcting past mistakes with current awards.

my nominee- POTY

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
The trend seems to be correcting past mistakes with current awards. Depp was not nominated not for his work in Pirates but for his previous body of work that my friends at The Academy have previously ignored.

So when does Richard Greco get his recognition?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I hate these fucking things...



AdL you're a Rock Star!

People are impossibly attracted to you wherever you go — whether or not you know it or not. There's something about the confidence you emit through your actions, conscious and otherwise, that compels people to want to come in for a closer look.

Well, its clearly inaccurate. I told me most people like me and it told you that your were attractive.