Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04 - Page 260

Skeks in the city · 12-31-2003, 01:03 AM

I'd keep Lost in Translation, LOTR, Vargas, Bad Santa.
I'd add Dirty Pretty Things, American Splendor, City of God, Man on the Train, Pirates of the Carribean, and the Good Thief.

I hate Burton. His Batman fucked up comic book cross-over movies for years. He's like Kevin Costner: a megalomaniac who needs someone to ride his ass and keep him under control.

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From MSN: http://entertainment.msn.com/news/ar...px?news=144439

1 All the Real Girls
2 Capturing the Friedmans
3 Tie: Elephant / Gerry
4 Lost in Translation
5 Bad Santa
6 Big Fish
7 Station Agent
8 Spellbound
9 Tie: In America / Raising Victor Vargas
10 LOTR

Just missed: "American Splendor" | "Morvern Callar" | "Irreversible" | "The Secret Lives of Dentists" | "School of Rock" | "Dirty Pretty Things"

Foreign Six Pack: "Ten" | "Divine Intervention" | "City of God" | "Man on the Train" | "The Cuckoo" | "Swimming Pool"

Misunderstood: "The Good Thief" | "In the Cut" | "The Shape of Things"

Overrated/Over-hyped: "Mystic River" | "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" | "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" | "28 Days Later"

Ugh: "House of Sand and Fog" | "Stuck on You" | "The Human Stain" | "Masked and Anonymous" | "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions"

bilmore · 12-31-2003, 02:04 AM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Dude, his rune indicates Jimmy Page worshipped the devil.

Ahem.

JP worshipped Tolkien.

Get your runes straight.

bilmore · 12-31-2003, 02:07 AM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
I may be with Less in the too-old-for-hot-drunken-Portland State-coeds age classification, but we take comfort in the fact that our advanced age has brought us much wisdom, which makes up for the loss of youth. Really.

I'd rather be fifteen.

notcasesensitive · 12-31-2003, 03:03 AM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
The irony you are both missing here is that I can't be the PLF of 2004 as PLF is the Penske of 2002. Face it, by the time Plated outed me as the Shadow, my best posts were behind me, the great socks, the great Ks, done, gone, history. I had jumped the shark of jumping the shark by the time this show rolled over here.

There is no irony. Your shark jumping was well documented. Or, as TM would say, whiff.

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On the bright side, maybe ncs can be the PLF of 2004.

I would, but I don't have IM.

pretermitted_child · 12-31-2003, 03:24 AM

Buttercup: Wesley, what about the R-O-U-S-es?
Wesley: Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

Obviously, Wesley hasn't visited the West Bank recently.

ltl/fb · 12-31-2003, 04:12 AM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Is there a technical term for a deliberate whiff? Does such a term exist?

I think you can only tell if someone is deliberately whiffing if you are skilled at reading not the text, not the subtext, not the intertext, but the supertext.

But I'm tired, so I could possibly maybe be wrong. Probably not.

Jack Manfred · 12-31-2003, 06:19 AM

As we can't get Chris Eigeman to discuss the text or the subtext of any real books around here, it falls to me to pitch Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point. Here's the last paragraph of the first part:

"Whitey's Buffalo base of operations is an Irish pub called Checkers: Irish flag, Killians, dartboard, framed newspaper headlines embarrassing to the British. His first night in town, Whitey heads over; first time in a while, he's not thinking about girls, he's thinking about time with friends, one long breather before flight school. And there's Loryn Winter. The impressions pile up fast: ankles, throat, dark hair, perfume, eyes, fingers poking at Diet Coke slush with a straw. Loryn is twenty-four, a local girl without the local-girl accent. Just as Whitey's love for the military carried him out of Buffalo, Loryn is the sort of girl whose good looks amount to travel plans. Her face is too polished, her clothes too snappy to be stranded so far north of the nation's party. The timing couldn't be worse: Whitey will report to Fort Rucker, Alabama in seven weeks. He calls Mark when he gets home, hands jittery on the phone. "I think I just fell in love," he says."

The only reason I'm not putting up a link is because you should click the Amazon link on the side and throw some coin Leagl's way. Highly recommended.

Alex_de_Large · 12-31-2003, 10:07 AM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
Okay, so what's the deal with the Levitra ads? For the first couple of months I saw them on tv, I thought it was (I kid you not) an ad for some sort of arthritis medication. You know, they guy can't throw the ball around any more cause he's in pain. I seem to recall an ad of this type featuring Nolan Ryan pitching Advil or Tylenol a couple of years back.

Then I come across an ad on my Yahoo page at work and for some reason click on it out of curiosity. Much to my surprise a site pops up with giant letters proclaiming the NEW SOLUTION FOR ERECTILE DISFUNCTION. Like I need that on my compter screen when the associate from the next office walks in.

Evil.

It's a direct competitor to Viagra, and if the official erectile dysfunction sponsor of the NFL (seriously).

Hank Chinaski · 12-31-2003, 10:32 AM

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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
It's a direct competitor to Viagra, and if the official erectile dysfunction sponsor of the NFL (seriously).

One of these drugs should advertise that its works to make "harder longer" etc..
That is, that its not for dysfunction only, then guys with dysfunction could buy it without feeling silly. i suppose this might make getting a RX more difficult, but I can't help but think the NASCAR guy who ads for Viagra isn't hurting his career with the current sales pitch.

Anne Elk · 12-31-2003, 10:39 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
One of these drugs should advertise that its works to make "harder longer" etc..
That is, that its not for dysfunction only, then guys with dysfunction could buy it without feeling silly. i suppose this might make getting a RX more difficult, but I can't help but think the NASCAR guy who ads for Viagra isn't hurting his career with the current sales pitch.

His NASCAR career or his career with the ladies? I can't imagine it would be comfortable driving around in circles with a hard on. Although maybe the vibrations from the car heighten the experience. Probably saves a bundle since he doesn have to use quarters in the bed.

Hank Chinaski · 12-31-2003, 10:46 AM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
I can't imagine it would be comfortable driving around in circles with a hard on.

I called this high school.

Anne Elk · 12-31-2003, 10:55 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I called this high school.

You raced NASCAR in high school? Cool (I think).

ThurgreedMarshall · 12-31-2003, 10:55 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
One of these drugs should advertise that its works to make "harder longer" etc..
That is, that its not for dysfunction only, then guys with dysfunction could buy it without feeling silly.

Translation: My peenee no work so good.

TM

purse junkie · 12-31-2003, 10:59 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
One of these drugs should advertise that its works to make "harder longer" etc..
That is, that its not for dysfunction only, then guys with dysfunction could buy it without feeling silly. i suppose this might make getting a RX more difficult, but I can't help but think the NASCAR guy who ads for Viagra isn't hurting his career with the current sales pitch.

His career in cars? No. His career with the chicks? Maybe. Does anyone want to hear a play-by-play of some guy's ED before they even go out to dinner together?

notcasesensitive · 12-31-2003, 11:09 AM

Judging by the crowd at last night's Robert Randolph show, the secret is out.

And there were at least 50 guys matching PLF's description there.