Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I was hoping for haiku.

Yes, that would have been nice. Or at least a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter.

[AngryMulletMan]

Originally posted by taxwonk
If this one doesn't take, I'd think it might be time to cut bait.

OK, here's my rant. Marriage, assuming it's like a contract, ought not to be like a fee simple absolute proposition. If we look at it as more of a leasehold interest, everybody would have more incentive to be nice.

Think of the possibilities. You'd know the term would expire and would be up for renewal or renegotiation. Spouses wouldn't get fat.

Yeah, sure, we'd have some tricky assignment and subletting issues, but the use provisions would be hilarious.

And multiple leaseholds would be allowed in, say, Utah.

AM(sick of paying spousal support)M

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I now believe that you, too, will make partner some day.

That's twice you've used this. Shall we add it to your list?

TM

[bilmore]

Originally posted by AngryMulletMan
OK, here's my rant. Marriage, assuming it's like a contract, ought not to be like a fee simple absolute proposition. If we look at it as more of a leasehold interest, everybody would have more incentive to be nice.

So, having established your interest, all that's left to discuss is price?

That sounds familiar . . .

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
That's twice you've used this. Shall we add it to your list?

TM

You keep harping on my list and I'm sick of it. You just don't like it because it implies that you and Paigow have similar qualities. Go back to combing the Findlaw annals for all of your song parodies.

Pookie.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by spookyfish
[blah, blah, blah] I'd bet dollars to donuts [blah, blah, blah]

Is it just because I live in NYC where everything costs too much or is this no longer such an attractive bet? Krispy Kreme's dollar to donut ratio is like 1:1 (includes transaction costs :wink: ).

TM

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is it just because I live in NYC where everything costs too much or is this no longer such an attractive bet? Krispy Kreme's dollar to donut ratio is like 1:1 (includes transaction costs :wink: ).

TM

In short, yes. It's because you live in NYC.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I was hoping for haiku.

The Earl of Soxford might say:

What about women?
In yore: power in some spheres.
Now: "free" to fuck? Hah!

[lawyer_princess]

Here's a good gender-neutral insult for you. It's more in the "stupid" category than the "jerk" category like we've been discussing, but it's good in a sofa king we todd did way.

My husband was reading The Bell Curve and around that time had a conversaton with a very stupid person. In tellling me about it, he said the guy was way far down the left tail of the bell curve. So now whenever we encounter someone incredibly stupid, we call them "left tail." The beauty of it is that we can even say it to their faces and they're too left tail to get it.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by purse junkie
"Bitch" is always sexist and I hardly ever use it. Used against a man, it's a negative implication that the guy is like a woman--horrors! Used against a woman, it's almost always a punishment for someone who steps out of her proper place.

Bullshit. "Bitch" is the female equivalent of "asshole." Everyone who has said they call women "assholes" here today is most likely full of shit. Some words fit better with men. Some with women. While I'm not denying that "bitch" is certainly female specific and asshole could be (in theory) used on women, they both mean the same thing for different genders in most cases.

When I call a piece of shit female partner a "bitch" under my breath as I walk away, it is no different than when I label a piece of shit male partner, "asshole." I think most people use those words this way.

If you really feel the need to be careful about being sexist, just use "dumbass" or "piece of shit." Those work wonderfully on men and women.

Thurgreed("bitchy," on the other hand, is almost always sexist)Marshall

[bilmore]

Originally posted by lawyer_princess
So now whenever we encounter someone incredibly stupid, we call them "left tail." The beauty of it is that we can even say it to their faces and they're too left tail to get it.

I hate to say it, but this is somewhat akin to the two nerdy guys in the matching Star Trek shirts giggling about how the big tough guy in front of them probably doesn't even know that Eskupoplians NEVER shake right hands without snorting, and so he just looks STOOPID.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by lawyer_princess
Here's a good gender-neutral insult for you. It's more in the "stupid" category than the "jerk" category like we've been discussing, but it's good in a sofa king we todd did way.

My husband was reading The Bell Curve and around that time had a conversaton with a very stupid person. In tellling me about it, he said the guy was way far down the left tail of the bell curve. So now whenever we encounter someone incredibly stupid, we call them "left tail." The beauty of it is that we can even say it to their faces and they're too left tail to get it.

Okay, about this Bell chick. We've established she's got a nice ass. But is she all tail? What about her tits? And is she young and pretty or an old hag with a butter face?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Not Bob
The Earl of Soxford might say:

What about women?
In yore: power in some spheres.
Now: "free" to fuck? Hah!

Nicely done.

[lawyer_princess]

Originally posted by bilmore
I hate to say it, but this is somewhat akin to the two nerdy guys in the matching Star Trek shirts giggling about how the big tough guy in front of them probably doesn't even know that Eskupoplians NEVER shake right hands without snorting, and so he just looks STOOPID.

Well, he is a geek, but not a Star Trek geek. More of a Stanford geek.

Anyway, just watch the evening news or Cops or Jerry Springer and you'll see that there are a lot of people who are very left tail and that it's the best way to describe them.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Yes, that would have been nice. Or at least a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter.

Sheesh! The double standards up with which I must put. Fine:

Alas! Tho never better have they fair'd
Now like the nymphets spinsters are compar'd.