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

Originally posted by the Spartan
Apropos of none of that, I disliked your antics less when you were ironnutsedge. Why did you change?

That reminds me, what's the compassionate leave policy for the death of tribute/stalker socks? I think I should get at least a week for every CD Stealing Bastard.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
under 100, right?

[see how easily that one could have been avoided, Hank? it's like you aren't even trying.]

yes under 100. 95 to be exact. we have a big tent, and most of you can get in. Coltrane just has to bring some test scores. and TM, sorry about the roadblocks when you were coming to register. coincidence.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
One of the reasons that I like soccer is that it does emphasize skill over freakish physical attributes. Great soccer players of all positions come in a wide range of body types....


Among other things, this means you can play soccer at pretty high levels if you have the skills and general fitness needed, regardless of whether you grow up to be abnormally tall or huge.

I'm still thinking that most soccer players are taller and bigger than the general population. Lacrosse is the same way. You don't need to be tall or huge to play the game, but the shortest guy on the field will be 5'10" and weigh 195. And that's muscle.

I mean seriously, guys who grow up to be accountants do not say to themselves as they pull into their parking space in the morning, "If I'd only applied myself, I could have played professional soccer."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I smell waiver of attorney-client privilege, big boy.

worse. all the hacks he's allowed to be "Penske" pver the years amount to a naked license- loss of any identifiable characteristic defense.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I smell waiver of attorney-client privilege, big boy.

Client consent.

Similar to that exculpatory Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, if you go rent a copy of "Slave Shoe Diaries, Episode 23: Return of the Razor," you'll see me in the background with Penske during the kitchen scene.

(I'm looking both away and not entirely pleased to be there, but as Grampa always said, ya gotta go to where the work is. But I digress.)

It's hard to discern on the DVD over the foreground noise, but Penske, while holding what was later described to me as a fluffernut, instructs me to find an opportunity to discuss this grand strategy publicly, as a means of drawing attention to his oeuvre.

I leave, feeling vaguely unclean, and candidly the feeling hasn't washed away since.

Gattigap

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
worse. all the hacks he's allowed to be "Penske" pver the years amount to a naked license- loss of any identifiable characteristic defense.

If by "he" you mean counsel, you couldn't be more wrong.

I can't discuss the details at this point, but I'll try to get consent to do so at my next client emeting (which, sadly, I'm told will appear on Episode 34. I do wish my client would choose different places and times to meet.)

Gattigap

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I'm still thinking that most soccer players are taller and bigger than the general population. Lacrosse is the same way. You don't need to be tall or huge to play the game, but the shortest guy on the field will be 5'10" and weigh 195. And that's muscle.

I mean seriously, guys who grow up to be accountants do not say to themselves as they pull into their parking space in the morning, "If I'd only applied myself, I could have played professional soccer."

How many members of the NBA All-Star team are 5'10"? How many top NFL players are only 195 pounds? How many of those are linesmen?

5'10" and 195 pounds is NORMAL. On the muscular end, no doubt. But you don't need to be a freak of nature to have those proportions.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by the Spartan
No, skeks isn't trying to bore people.

Not people, just you. When you tire of a shit-stained dildoe, come to pappa.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
How many members of the NBA All-Star team are 5'10"? How many top NFL players are only 195 pounds? How many of those are linesmen?

Here's another reason soccer should be more popular in America --- its business model is quintessentially American (i.e., capitalist), while U.S. sports leagues are fucking commies. {Spree: Slate.}

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by Dualit
It appears that Summer and Greedy Associates are not alone in engaging in career limiting moves. Anyone care to venture a guess as to the ID of the firm and/or the individuals involved?

Whoa!

ETA that I know, but will decline to ID the individuals to protect the guilty. If nobody guesses the firm, I'll spill.

the firm: Dickson Minto

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
How many members of the NBA All-Star team are 5'10"? How many top NFL players are only 195 pounds? How many of those are linesmen?

5'10" and 195 pounds is NORMAL. On the muscular end, no doubt. But you don't need to be a freak of nature to have those proportions.

It's not normal in my house. Or anywhere in my neighborhood. But it sounds about perfect to me, albeit a little on the short side.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by ironweed
Facist.

Separatist swine...

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I'm still thinking that most soccer players are taller and bigger than the general population. Lacrosse is the same way. You don't need to be tall or huge to play the game, but the shortest guy on the field will be 5'10" and weigh 195. And that's muscle.

Perhaps, but it's more that they're fairly normal sized people who are athletically built or trained. Being of average height is not a nearly automatic disqualifier as it is for basketball, and for weight/size with football.

What was maradona? 5'6"? I know he looks like a lineman now, but not in his prime.

[Atticus Grinch]

A Ukrainian motorcycle enthusiast has found the perfect place to ride her Kawasaki Ninja on perfectly open roads through a beautiful natural setting without fear of cars, or kids, or stray dogs. The place? Chernobyl.

None of the pictures are graphic, but the story they tell is supremely depressing, in a way only Russian stories can be. Can it really have been 18 years ago?

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I'm still thinking that most soccer players are taller and bigger than the general population. Lacrosse is the same way. You don't need to be tall or huge to play the game, but the shortest guy on the field will be 5'10" and weigh 195. And that's muscle. "

I checked. In an unscientific survey, I checked the height and weight listed for eight players on Real Madrid, David Beckham's team here - http://www.realmadrid.es/web_realmad...illafutbol.jsp

Survey says (from tallest to shortest)...

Zindane - 185 cm (6'1"), 78 kg (172 lbs.)
Guti - 185 cm (6'1"), 76 kg (168 lbs.)
Helguera - 185 cm (6'1"), 73 kg (161 lbs.)
Ronaldo - 183 cm (6'0"), 82 kg (181 lbs.)
Figo - 180 cm (5'11"), 75 C(165 lbs.)
Portillo - 180 cm (5'11"), 72 kg (159 lbs.)
Raul - 180 cm (5'11"), , 68 kg (150 lbs.)
Michael Salgado - 174 cm (5'8"), 75 kg (165 lbs.)
Roberto Carlos - 168 cm (5'6"), 70 kg (154 lbs.)

This would suggest they are slightly taller than average, but also very lean for their stated heights. I suspect that, like our sports, they lie up on the height and down on the weight, which would make them pretty damn average.