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

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I do bore evenodds
Once a mentor and friend, now gone
Baby bird falls from nest

You broke simple rules.
Not six-eight-six. One less each.*
This pig has no wings.





*I know it should be fewer, but that's has one too much syllable. Call it poetic license.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Time to revamp the format to scandals and animals.

Or scandals with animals, but I already told the story about Hank's mom.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
To quote Kramer, we've officially bottomed out. (Of course he was talking about wax bean brand snobbery, but I think we're on the same page.)

Time to revamp the format to scandals and animals.

In that case, have you heard that the current Governor of Texas (alas, not his predecessor) might or might not have been caught by his wife in bed with the current Secretary of State of Texas (male)?

Also, polar bears at the Singapore zoo are turning green due to a fungus in their fur. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science....ap/index.html

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
rice brand snobbery? this might even be a FB all-time low. I'll check the stats for comfirmation.

Absolutely. And yet because I've been slammed not once, but twice, I have to respond.

I didn't buy the ten pound bag of Uncle Ben's, but I wasn't about to throw it out. Starving children in Africa and all that. It does taste a little weird. And it takes longer to cook. That being said, long grain rice is long grain rice.

And about the electric stove: sometimes, one has to make choices. Any way I look at it (and I've looked at it a lot, from installing a propane system and stove to moving to a different part of the city), me getting a gas range is going to cost me at least $15,000. Buying a house with gas instead of the one I picked would have put me back at least $80k (for multiple reasons not directly related to the availablity of gas lines). Sometimes, an electric stove and a heat pump just have to do.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

There was an old man from Detroit
Japanese poetic forms he tried to exploit
He gave his lines an extra word
With results quite absurd
And it was all tired and unfunny anyway.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Or scandals with animals, but I already told the story about Hank's mom.

Speaking of Mom, I found her diary last night. do you know that poor woman never had an orgasm?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
There was an old man from Detroit
Japanese poetic forms he tried to exploit
He gave his lines an extra word
With results quite absurd
And it was all tired and unfunny anyway.

Said an eager young poet named Ty,
"Haiku? Hey, I'll give that a try!
"A sonnet or two,
Limericks too!"

I'm so bored that I just want to die.

[NotFromHere]

O'Donnell to get married in S.F.
Ex-talk host says Bush's call for same-sex ban prompted decision

So now we can blame W for bringing Rosie's fat ass into town.

SAN FRANCISCO - Rosie O’Donnell flew across the country Thursday to marry her longtime girlfriend in the city where more than 3,300 other same-sex couples have tied the knot since Feb. 12. The couple traveled to San Francisco from New York on Thursday morning. They have a 1 p.m. PT appointment to pick up a marriage license.

Earlier Thursday, O’Donnell announced her wedding plans on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” just two days after President Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
“I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral.

Maybe just one too many verys in there. You can tell she's been talking to the kiddies a little too much recently.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4381717/

[Anne Elk]

Anyone interested in trying out for a new reality series? Link here.

Staring Mavericks owner Mark Cuban,

"The Benefactor" will air for six episodes this summer. Cuban will give $1 million to a complete stranger after he puts contestants through a series of tests and tribulations to see who is the most worthy person to take his money.

I wonder if rice-cooking is one of his trials?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Speaking of Mom, I found her diary last night. do you know that poor woman never had an orgasm?

Okay.


Ew.


Really.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by baltassoc
That being said, long grain rice is long grain rice.

Oh my Fred, you did not just say that!!! My asian grandmother is spinning in her grave. The slander, the ignorance. Agh.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by baltassoc

And about the electric stove: sometimes, one has to make choices. Any way I look at it (and I've looked at it a lot, from installing a propane system and stove to moving to a different part of the city), me getting a gas range is going to cost me at least $15,000.

The way I see it is that if you can't cook as good a meal on an electric stove as a gas stove, then you shouldn't be talking about cooking. It's heat. Cavemen got by for years without a Viking too.

[Can you hear me now?]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Well that, and the fact that he used Uncle Ben's. Uncle Ben's? Run to the nearest ethnic store and pick up something, anything other than the Ben.

Sounds nice sockie mcsock, but when I go to a so-called “ethnic store”, as a white-bread toast boy I find it tres intimidating. I look around and see stuff that looks like oyster sauce, but the words on the label look something like this:



Which for all I know could mean paigow spunk!!!

I.E, I no cannot read it so good. And the price of a full-time shopping translator is too rich for my blood. Not to mention that most of us busy lawyer type persons have no time after work to go carousing here or there to find one of these mythical “ethnic stores”.

Also, apropos of the original Uncle Ben reference, ethnic rice has a bad ass reputation. It can take a very long time to cook, and based on experience it’s quite e-z to wreck and then you end up with a pan of gloop.

I’m more partial just using plain old Uncle Ben’s or Minute Rice, the five-minute versions and flavoring them with some good old boy seasonings and spices and beans and stuff. BAM! Also, at Costcos or Uncle Sam’s Club, you can buy the stuff in bulky boxes, although not a five year supply of instant rice but maybe like 100 kilos. My mom always told me buy in bulk , especially all of the nonperishable stuff. Stock up from the cheapest source possible for a rainy day as those ethnic stores are a pain in the ass to get to when you really have a hunkering for some rice.

Anyway, that’s my .02. Opinions?

[pony_trekker]

Delicious looking antitrust case as long as you can find a plaintiff. Maybe DOJ files, then it's easy to cut and paste into a complaint.

However, broadcast radio is about to become as irrelevant as broadcast TV. Now that subscription only/commercial free satellite is available in every car, Howard Stern is virtually guaranteed to jump to XM, broadcast radio will be as irrelevant as the CB radio.

Big story a week ago in Salon.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The way I see it is that if you can't cook as good a meal on an electric stove as a gas stove, then you shouldn't be talking about cooking. It's heat. Cavemen got by for years without a Viking too.

Stop! Stop with the blasphemy! You can NOT live your life without a Viking OR a SubZero. These are necessities. They are NOT just appliances. You're killing me. Next you'll be telling me you use paper plates and plastic forks.