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

[robustpuppy]

Speaking of Jane Austen, last night I had a scorching hot sex dream about Jeff Goldblum. A portion of the dream took place in the 19th century and involved long skirts and actual bodice-ripping. Funny that, because the dream started out in the present day, at a meeting with a group of Dutch lawyers who brought sex toys to their presentation before a group of regulators. It must have been the cold medicine.

Anyway, does anybody else think Jeff Goldblum is (or was) sexy? The height, the shoulders, the lips, and the voice do it for me.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by idle acts
That guy went to your law school, too? Damn, he was annoying.

Good poll topic. Describe your weirdest/most annoying/most interesting classmate in law school (or undergrad if you want to include two answers).

In my law school, we had this guy who wore a suit (the same one) to class everyday (and it wasn't a night program). He carried a huge briefcase -- I'm talking litigation-bag-big. He would never let anyone look inside. We all thought he was carrying a dead ex or something in it (or maybe just the head). He was fucking crazy. Anyway, the suit and the bag were weird, because he didn't have a job. A friend asked him why he dressed like that and he said he wanted to practice being professional or something.

He had one of those hockey haircuts where they cut off any hint of sideburn and get carried away so that the lower hairline starts way above the ear. He spoke to no one and had to have the seat adjacent to the thermostat. He showed up to every class 10 minutes early, turned the thermostat to absolute zero and then guarded it fiercely. Pissed everyone off. And since, our section and two others shared certain classes (3, I think), we had to suffer in the cold multiple times a day.

He almost came to blows with a classmate when we decided to retake the thermostat one day. The day before he had screamed at a female classmate (and made her cry) who attempted to adjust the heat and I had to tell him to calm down. So the next day, a few of us got to class early. One of us took his seat and waited for him to come in and turn down the thermostat. He gave the guy a dirty look, asked him to get up and had a fit when he didn't. He then turned the thermostat down, put his briefcase on the table next to his usual seat and went to the bathroom. We took his huge briefcase and put it in the back of the room and raised the temperature. When he got back, he went nuts and turned all red and started fuming like he was going to do something. I had to come all the way to the front from my usual seat at the back of the class to keep him from starting a fight.

We had heat for a few days after, but not for long because no one wanted to take that seat and deal with him every day.

I wonder what he's doing now. mmmmm? Are you he?

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
It almost always rains in Maui then.

North or south? Big difference.

TM

[evenodds]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I had to tell him to calm down.

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall I had to come all the way to the front from my usual seat at the back of the class to keep him from starting a fight.

You were a peacemaker?

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Good poll topic. Describe your weirdest/most annoying/most interesting classmate in law school (or undergrad if you want to include two answers).

In my law school, we had this guy who wore a suit (the same one) to class everyday (and it wasn't a night program). He carried a huge briefcase -- I'm talking litigation-bag-big. He would never let anyone look inside. We all thought he was carrying a dead ex or something in it (or maybe just the head). He was fucking crazy. Anyway, the suit and the bag were weird, because he didn't have a job. A friend asked him why he dressed like that and he said he wanted to practice being professional or something.

He had one of those hockey haircuts where they cut off any hint of sideburn and get carried away so that the lower hairline starts way above the ear. He spoke to no one and had to have the seat adjacent to the thermostat. He showed up to every class 10 minutes early, turned the thermostat to absolute zero and then guarded it fiercely. Pissed everyone off. And since, our section and two others shared certain classes (3, I think), we had to suffer in the cold multiple times a day.

He almost came to blows with a classmate when we decided to retake the thermostat one day. The day before he had screamed at a female classmate (and made her cry) who attempted to adjust the heat and I had to tell him to calm down. So the next day, a few of us got to class early. One of us took his seat and waited for him to come in and turn down the thermostat. He gave the guy a dirty look, asked him to get up and had a fit when he didn't. He then turned the thermostat down, put his briefcase on the table next to his usual seat and went to the bathroom. We took his huge briefcase and put it in the back of the room and raised the temperature. When he got back, he went nuts and turned all red and started fuming like he was going to do something. I had to come all the way to the front from my usual seat at the back of the class to keep him from starting a fight.

We had heat for a few days after, but not for long because no one wanted to take that seat and deal with him every day.

I wonder what he's doing now. mmmmm? Are you he?

TM

We had one guy who toted thje massive bookload in . . . . a baby carriage. He had no baby.

And we had somebody who ate a bunch of weird green shit out of a plastic bag in class like it was lunch time. consistently. the professor was horrified and gave this person dirty looks but said person was obviously oblivious.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Exploiting dumb America has always been a goal of mine.

It's a good goal, given that your chances of exploiting fat America look so grim.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Not only is she not hot (though I think she looked her best ever last night), her voice is grating. But she is an old hag.

and speaking of old hags, didnt Samantha look amazing last night on SatC? best she ever looked IMO. Anyone have thoughts on the show? Either show?

Completey agree. Not attractive at all. And let me guess, Sam got naked and fucked some guy in the wheelbarrow, right? Show me some Kristen Davis!!

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
It's a good goal, given that your chances of exploiting fat America look so grim.

Apparently you haven't heard of Dr. Coltrane's STOP EATING SO FUCKING MUCH diet.*

*Yes, I know this is stolen.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Apparently you haven't heard of Dr. Coltrane's STOP EATING SO FUCKING MUCH diet.*

*Yes, I know this is stolen.

If this is what you are going to call the diet, I agree with bilmore: your chances of success are slim.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Apparently you haven't heard of Dr. Coltrane's STOP EATING SO FUCKING MUCH diet.*

*Yes, I know this is stolen.

Great. From now on, when I see your posts, I'm going to have this mental picture of Richard Simmons.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
While I agree that some of the benefit of Atkins (indeed, any diet) for most people is removal of Twinkies from the usual meal rotation, apparently the most recent (actually independent) several studies discovered (i) people on Atkins loose more than people on low fat diets when consuming the same number of calories, (ii) people on Atkins lose more than people on low fat diets when consuming several hundred calories per day more than the low fat dieters, (iii) people on Atkins usually eat more fresh fruit and vegetables than non-Atkins dieters and about the same amount as people on strict low fat diets, and (iv) Atkins dieters lower their cholesterol more than low-fat dieters. (No word on the cancer/free radical thing yet, either way, so far as I've found, which makes sense simply because enough time hasn't passed to check long term stuff like that - all each side can do is state their beliefs about what will happen longer term, with basically nothing empirical to back any of it up.) It sure doesn't mean Atkins is good for you, but it clearly means that conventional low-fat thinking is in some basic way wrong.

The independents who did the research all basically say "these results weren't what we were expecting and we don't know why." Of course they don't know why. My take on the whole thing is that dieticians of all stripes, whether low fat or low carb, private gurus or gov't experts or whatever, have no clue what the fuck they are talking about. The "established experts" with the low fat stuff have basically been proven wrong when their theories are tested against others in controlled environments. I seriously doubt any of the "new" low-carb guys are any better. They all sound like they are trying to convince you that Jezis saves and based on about as much uncooked evidence. They all spout equal ignorance, or belief rather than knowledge to be more kind, and might as well be recommending that we stick pins in voodo dolls to lose weight. The only sure thing is that fat, salt and sugar are tasty and people in general have completely lost control of their will power. I'm with SD: moderation is the only truth, but whatever magic tricks people need to employ to get there, fine.

BR(best diet so far, as several others have mentioned: eat nothing that comes prepackaged. That unfortunately involves learning to cook, sort of)C

What are the criteria for a cult? And does Atkins involve tithing yet?

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Apparently you haven't heard of Dr. Coltrane's STOP EATING SO FUCKING MUCH diet.*

*Yes, I know this is stolen.

This sounds like a Sally Jessy Raphael "Send My Unruly Teen to Boot Camp" episode.

I don't see bitch-slapping fat people succeeding so much in the long term. Anyone forced to never to eat stuff they like eventually falls off the wagon like a drunk at a Jack Daniels factory. How about, "You Can Still Mainline Twinkies But Only Once a Week, Goddammit"?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
Great. From now on, when I see your posts, I'm going to have this mental picture of Richard Simmons.

I'll be keeping my pants ON, thank you very much.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by baltassoc
But now I'm thinking, can a rapper ever really sell out? Or rather, isn't selling out what rap is all about. For a genre that is "all about the Benjamines," in which prestige is directly related to the amount of bling bling one can hang around one's neck and/or park in the driveway, is there anything that can be considered too much?

You're as stupid as Bilmore.

TM

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Good poll topic. Describe your weirdest/most annoying/most interesting classmate in law school (or undergrad if you want to include two answers).

We had one woman in our class who was certainly transgendered (though I never discussed it with her) and she dropped out after second year (a shame b/c she was very smart).

The most annoying honors goes to the tool who always argued with professors because he thought he was so smart. He got into a fight with our ancient torts prof (a big law and economics guy) during which he personally attacked the guy and told him that his 45 years of research on the subject were crap and that there is no place in the world for law and economics analysis. Every single guy in my class wanted to beat the shit out of this clown.

But I guess it all worked out, as he did very poorly grade-wise (and blind grading system, so sucky grades were not purely out of professor spite) and I'm not sure he ever got a job practicing law.