Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Re: the link to the elf nudity post, I do not recall having seen anything like this, so the likelihood I would have intentionally linked to it is low. I admit to one Spree failure I'm aware of, but that related to a USB activated vibrator for use with cybersex chat rooms, which isn't particularly elfin.

Could you refer me to the post, so I can edit or delete the link?

Unless you have magical powers, or mod powers, leagl or e/o will have to do it for you. I'll find it later from home.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
That is because you are a racist asshole.

I think that you are a sexist because when he expressed his displeasure about reading about discrimination in the workplace, you only called him a racist and not a racist, sexist. That makes you a sexist.

[notcasesensitive]

(I think - unless I'm getting my old lechy pervs confused)




Edit - as an added benefit, I've pleased a monkey. I don't think he is the old lechy perv I was thinking of though.

[NotFromHere]

I was cruising the Amazon gourmet foods page (remember buy $50 get $10 off) and saw this...

Features:

A premium Ceylon tea blend from India
Flavored with Ice Wine in Canada

Anyone try this? It sounds good, kind of, but weird also.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Holy shit. If you go to thirty hockey games a season, you are down close to a grand in tips alone.

Some quick math made me LOL.

I remember once seeing an ad for a book about "how to win at casinos." One of his rules was "don't ever tip." I'm going to write a similar book called "How to keep your costs down when eating out at restaurants."

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I think the success of mentoring, however, depends more on luck or on the mutual sympathy of the two people involved than on a "program" being set up properly. I just think that the extent to which a formal firm-set-up mentoring program helps people find truly helpful mentors with good advice any more frequently than they would find such people and advice without such a program is sort of minimal.

BR(caveat - people new to a firm are shy and hesitant to ask for help and don't know who knows what yet, and giving them an official "go to" guy can be useful. But for long term (over the first year or two) career mentoring, you just can't "assign" that)C

Your caveats and exceptions have severely weakened your initial stance.

TM

[Not Me]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Good point. But there are 15 steps?
Hell I thought there was just 4.

1. Plastic surgery of the implant/lipo variety
2. Dye hair blond
3. Wear slutty clothing
4. Hang around the country club

Hmmm. I was under the impression that guys weren't into implants anymore. Are my guy friends lying to me about this because they think this is what I want to hear?

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Not Me
Hmmm. I was under the impression that guys weren't into implants anymore. Are my guy friends lying to me about this because they don't want to appear sexist?

[In Nigel Tufnel's slurred accent] What's wrong with being sexy?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
[In Nigel Tufnel's slurred accent] What's wrong with being sexy?

Oops. You must have been posting while I was editing.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
I have three beers in the car on the way to the game

I love the South.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

San Francisco Inspiration: An Evening of Haiku and Shakuhachi
Thursday, December 11
7:00 pm
Asian Art Museum

Admission: $5 for museum members
$10 for general admission (includes admission to the museum)

Tickets are available in person or online at www.asianart.org.

Haiku is rooted in the courtly poetry of seventeenth-century Japan and to this day is a treasured art in that country. Japan’s greatest haiku poet, Basho (1644–1694), has been compared to Shakespeare. In the West, however, this art form is often misunderstood. Almost any clever phrase of seventeen syllables seems to be categorized as haiku. But, in truth, writing effective haiku is a rare talent that requires a Zen-like attention to the subtle ways of nature.

Fortunately, in the West we do have a number of extraordinary poets who have carried on the haiku tradition in English. They write poems that combine depth with simplicity, poems that can actually bring the listener into a moment of awakening.

Join four of America’s finest haiku poets—Garry Gay, Paul O. Williams, Ebba Story, and Jerry Kilbride—as they read haiku and poetic stories inspired by the city of San Francisco and its natural surroundings.

Dr. Gerard Yun—conductor, composer, and ancient music specialist—will accompany the poets on Japanese flute (shakuhachi).

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
San Francisco Inspiration: An Evening of Haiku and Shakuhachi
Thursday, December 11
7:00 pm
Asian Art Museum

Join four of America’s finest haiku poets—Garry Gay, Paul O. Williams, Ebba Story, and Jerry Kilbride—as they read haiku and poetic stories inspired by the city of San Francisco and its natural surroundings.

Dr. Gerard Yun—conductor, composer, and ancient music specialist—will accompany the poets on Japanese flute (shakuhachi).

Uh, yeah, Ty, I'll meet you there. I'll be the one in wearing the beer hat. Tah.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
In the West, however, this art form is often misunderstood. Almost any clever phrase of seventeen syllables seems to be categorized as haiku. But, in truth, writing effective haiku is a rare talent that requires a Zen-like attention to the subtle ways of nature.

Yo.

My Tivo inexplicably picked up 20 minutes of late-night MTV. Actual videos. Lest I die from shock, MTV was careful to protect my health by assuring that those 20 minutes contained only two such videos. Two. The No Doubt homage to "Chicago" using a Talk Talk cover (!), and the Necrophiliac Video du Jour of Biggie and Tupac. Oh, and about four seconds of a Good Charlotte video. Making the false assumption that MTV played videos and nothing else 24/7, at that rate, MTV would show 36 videos a day. Just thought you might like to know that the universe has now cooled to a uniform temperature and Madonna will no longer be able to generate enough media intensity to regenerate herself biannually.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

Actually, retention is exactly what has proved tough with both women and minorities in BIGLAW. (It's a big problem for all associates, increasingly, as more and more of us lookat the partners in our firms and say "oh, no fucking way, I am so out of here"

The workaholic, gung-ho attitude is more an issue for women than minorities. There are plenty, plenty, plenty of workaholic black, hispanic &c males.

the mentoring relationships you seek out and foster yourself are somehow "inferior" to those randomly assigned to you by management? Strange.

He's just complaining because he hasn't realized that randomly assigned mentors are completely worthless.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Good to know. I'll tell all my friends who've benefited from [official mentors] by actually feeling more comfortable at work (and who have, in turn, offered to do the same for others) that they're completely wasting their time.

A real mentor is a rabbi -- and official mentors rarely qualify.