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

[Atticus Grinch]

Darwin Award contender takes the Darwinism part a little too seriously. {Spree: Safe for work. No NSFW pics, but text is not for the squeamish.}

In other weird news, this 17-year-old is pleading guilty to attempted deliberate homicide for trying to mow down a jogger so he could have sex with her corpse. Can't really blame him for pleading out, since in Montana the public defenders are all completely fucking crazy. {Both are just news articles.}

And in still other news, Shakespeare and Gertrude Stein wouldn't get into Vassar, but Ted Kaczynski can write his own ticket to the Ivy League. {Sour grapes by the principals of The Princeton Review, courtesy of The Atlantic.}


[oops. meant to quote not edit. either that or I'm figuring out how to abuse my authority here. ncs]

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
In other weird news, this 17-year-old is pleading guilty to attempted deliberate homicide for trying to mow down a jogger so he could have sex with her corpse. Can't really blame him for pleading out, since in Montana the public defenders are all completely fucking crazy. {Both are just news articles.}

And in still other news, Shakespeare and Gertrude Stein wouldn't get into Vassar, but Ted Kaczynski can write his own ticket to the Ivy League. {Sour grapes by the principals of The Princeton Review, courtesy of The Atlantic.}

For those you keeping score at home, that's one up and two down for Montana. Oro y plata.

[taxwonk]

We kissed beneath a streetlight
Its harsh light projecting our transgression
Your lips like petals soft and pink
Your mouth redolent
Of red wine chocolate and cigarettes
And so we slipped

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Darwin Award contender takes the Darwinism part a little too seriously. {Spree: Safe for work. No NSFW pics, but text is not for the squeamish.}

um, so, if he were a celebrity, he would NOT have been eligible for a wild card pick.

sounds like the plot to a disney movie with the cage escape by the critters, but then it takes a sudden turn away from most Disney movies...

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by dtb
I thought the fourth line was "As he wiped off his chin" -- I suppose either works.

Actually, the line is "As he licked off his chin."

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Read then post, wonk. You are trailing even ABBA.

Hey, they don't call it wonking for nothing. Assclam.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Fuck. I'm sorry I even brought it up.* Why does it always have to come back to Flinty?

*I still think it's a great poem, and almost makes the four fucking years I spent in French class worth it. Almost, but not quite. And even though she doesn't deserve it, I am putting this in a footnote just to piss off Paigow. And Thurgreed, since by doing so I'm simply repeating a not-funny insider joke that has been beaten to death.

Hey buddy, leave me the fuck out of this one. I'm just going to sit here and be quiet, lest somebody take offense at my boring posts. Oops, too late.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by pony_trekker

Fact.

I too use it as a drug delivery system and enjoy hearing the little yuppie princesses command "no foam non fat skim soy latte decaf and make it snappy mommy needs it bad"

Holy shit, a Starbucks grande has as much caffiene as TEN cans of Mountain Dew.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

Yeah, that's me. Power hungry and demanding worship ... I've changed so much in the last year, and no one stopped me from becoming an ego maniac. Why didn't someone stop me... ?

Because we like to be dominated.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick

I think it's "you're not he". I could be wrong though. dtb?

It's no surprise that a maple flavored slut knows about copulative verbs. Yes, their predicates take the nominative case.

[Cantinflas]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Ah. I see. Whatever.

The point is, maybe no one knows you personally. But guess what? You're not the only person here. A lot of the people on this board know each other outside of this board. So don't act like everyone here is cloaked under a complete shroud of anonimity. People have moved with this board since it started. Maybe you were there for a couple of those moves, maybe not. During all that time, you have opportunities to meet people. So the board starts off as something to do as a lark and then you get to know each other. And here we are.

I'm not saying this to be fb cool. I'm saying this to show you that this place isn't made up of a bunch of strangers. The simple fact that we left infirmation and started our place (thanks leagle) should have clued you into the fact that people do give a shit about this place.

We try to police morons like Not Me and other stupid socks from ruining this place. Every once in awhile someone else kicks me (or whoever) in the ass when we're perpetuating a conversation or argument that no one else has interest in.* Every once in awhile, I tell people to stop being cloned sheep and to be funny or interesting. Surprise!

It is in all of our interests to keep this place interesting. Hell, we lost plenty of cool posters already because they got sick of it. If you want to have fun and be entertained, cool. But, if you don't care about the quality of what gets posted, fuck off.

TM

* Yeah, I know.

I don't even know who you are anymore.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
[in Montana the public defenders are all completely fucking crazy.

You would be one harsh CEO Atticus, all they did was have a beer or two after dodging a meeting:

Hearing reveals alcohol abuse, pornography in public defender's office
By GREG TUTTLE
Of The Gazette Staff

A District Court judge said Wednesday that Chief Deputy Public Defender Roberta Drew lost credibility when she twice failed to show up for sentencing in a drug case. Drew called in sick the second time, Judge Susan Watters said, and was seen hours later drinking beer with her boss at a downtown bar.

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and a little anatomy study:

Selvey described the antics and foibles of several male attorneys in the Public Defender Office during his 10-year tenure as head of the department. Bevolden worked for Selvey about a decade ago, and was caught putting pornographic pictures in the case files of another office attorney, Selvey said.

"I told him privately that, you know, if I was not the one who opened the file it could be objected to," Selvey said when describing how Bevolden was reprimanded for the incidents.

In a separate statement, Bevolden described the pictures of naked women as "locker house horseplay between us guys." Bevolden said he didn't remember being reprimanded by Selvey.

"Did you find that funny?" Tim Kelly, Drew's attorney, asked Bevolden in the deposition.

"Well, that's why we did it," Bevolden said.

If a prosecutor can't have an occasional beer, and take a look at the porno ffrom time to time how they going to sell the long hour/low pay?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
That's it. I don't think you're drunk with power. Leagle goes in and out of those phases, but my criticism of your recent posting style is limited to what I said above. Especially since I whiffed on the "step off" comment (which will now be incorporated into every post for the next 8 years).

TM

Everyone needs to watch out. This could become a case of standard office Darwinism. Once someone starts challenging management, management co-opts/promotes them. I give it a week or two and Thurgreed will be a moderator.

[Cantinflas]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Everyone needs to watch out. This could become a case of standard office Darwinism. Once someone starts challenging management, management co-opts/promotes them. I give it a week or two and Thurgreed will be a moderator.

Step off fool!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
This reminds me of the time we were dining at Le Moulin de Ponceau in Chartres, and Michael asked for "la pâtisserie a formé comme un cygne," and the waiter nearly fell into the millstream from laughing, because what he had actually said was "formé comme une singe." Oh, how we laughed!

Good times, good times.

Was this in the last year? An american saying that in France nowadays could really start a fight, especially if that WAG Michael follows up with his
vous savez, un singe de reddition
comedy bit.