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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

• Our company idea came about when we discovered how truly difficult it is to find modest clothing in most stores today. We found in talking to other people that we were not the only ones having this problem, that many people do value modesty today, and that their needs are not being met. Our hope is that by forming this company we will be able to make shopping for modest clothing easier and a lot more fun.

Modest by Design formalwear line. Motto: Clothing Your Father Would Approve Of. (Apparently, they didn't know dad too well.)

Viva la contra-revolucion!

I would have liked the ballerina gown when I was about six.

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Well technically, it is still illegal and not something you just go around telling people. For fear of the tattletale that works in every office. That said, I don't know anyone who has smoked crack either. Officially. There are people I suspect and people I have accused (you want me to what? Are you smoking crack?) but no one officially. I have never even seen it IRL. I hear it's pink.

The only person I knew for sure was smoking crack hung himself from a light fixture in his living room while we were all still in college. I know he was smoking it because it said so in his suicide note. Right about then I decided never to mess with it.

On a lighter note, one of the biggest self-absorbed assholes I ever knew once bought H thinking it was cocaine. He snorted a fat line before he realized the difference, with predictable (non-fatal) results. I still chuckle thinking of it. Is that wrong? Don't answer.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by ironweed
The only person I knew for sure was smoking crack hung himself from a light fixture in his living room while we were all still in college. I know he was smoking it because it said so in his suicide note. Right about then I decided never to mess with it.

On a lighter note, one of the biggest self-absorbed assholes I ever knew once bought H thinking it was cocaine. He snorted a fat line before he realized the difference, with predictable (non-fatal) results. I still chuckle thinking of it. Is that wrong? Don't answer.

You know Mia Wallace?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Hope Jack's not suicidal.

"The ad depicts a man surprised when he recognizes a friend who is sitting on the tailgate of a truck eating KFC fried chicken. 'Jack?' the first asks, 'Is that you? Man, you look fantastic! What the heck you been doing!?' 'Eatin’ chicken,' Jack replies."

Back in the olden days, sabre toothed tigers would sneak up on the dumb ones, and so natural selection got us to where we could invent the internet, heated toilet seats, dbl anal porn, etc.

Then the FTC kicks in 40 years ago to stop companies from telling people that fried chicken is a good start to their healthier diets. Now the average brain power is so fucking diluted that you have a world where someone like Spooky fish can sell his "brain power" for $300/hr.

Our government at work.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I hate the Lakers...

I despise the Lakers as much as all you people hate the Yankees. And it's not because they are fielding an All-Star team.

It's more because Shaq is a fucking dim witted, lazy, beady-eyed ass who mumbles the crap soundbites someone on his staff feeds him every week. And his eyes are perma-crossed and too close together.

It's more because Payton and Malone, once-respected All-Stars now suck so much Shaq and Kobe ass that they don't even deserve the rings they're about to put on their greedy, oversized fingers.

It's more because the rules apparently don't apply to them. When Malone threw that elbow to the no-name on San Antonio, he should have been suspended. It makes no difference whether it was in the heat of the game or after the play had ended. It was a vicious elbow, designed to do harm to someone in his most vulnerable position. In fact, he should have been given a BIGGER penalty. (By the way, Malone and Stockton should be remembered as the two dirtiest players ever to play on the same team.)

It's more because everyone talks about Kobe's amazing ability to shut out his legal problems and focus on basketball. Yeah. Must be tough. The only time people aren't asking you about your case or looking at you like a rapist piece of shit, is when you're on the court. Jordan has said a thousand times that the court is a sanctuary. You go there to get away from your problems. So, excuse me while I don't get excited when Kobe performs the way he should be.

It's more because Phil Jackson is the most overrated piece of steaming crap to ever coach a sport. Wow. He won with the absolute best players in the league over and over again. Amazing. He didn't win when Jordan left? Uh...well, that's because he had lent all his Zen bullshit books out that month. Let's see...did he invent the triangle offense that he institutes wherever he goes? Uh...no. Tex Winter did that. And there Tex Winter is, sitting right next to him. Is he an Xs and Os man, who makes the appropriate changes and draws up amazing plays, always staying one step ahead of his counterpart? Uh...hunh unh. He's gone from saying in the final two minutes of a game, "Give it to Jordan and get the fuck out of the way," to "Give it to Kobe and get the fuck out of the way." When his team encounters a rough patch, he calls a time out and then doesn't coach. "What?" you may say. Everytime his team starts playing poorly he "lets them work it out." Ha. Brilliant. I love when Marv Albert points this out as some ingenious coaching move.

It's more because I even hate the role players, Fox, Fisher (okay, I tried to hate Fisher, but I just can't -- he's too nice) and co. Right place, right time, guys. Cut down on the swagger.

It's more because their uniforms are fucking yellow and purple. Jesus.

Go Pistons!*

TM

* And I don't just mean with Hank's momma.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Back in the olden days, sabre toothed tigers would sneak up on the dumb ones, and so natural selection got us to where we could invent the internet, heated toilet seats, dbl anal porn, etc.

Then the FTC kicks in 40 years ago to stop companies from telling people that fried chicken is a good start to their healthier diets. Now the average brain power is so fucking diluted that you have a world where someone like Spooky fish can sell his "brain power" for $300/hr.

Our government at work.

Uh, if the selection process was so good in the past, why are there all these people around who are so stupid as to pay $300/hr for your time, and not even get any sexual pleasure?

Why is the government so stupid as to make these rules? Why are we so stupid as to elect them?

And, above all, why was anyone ever so stupid as to fuck your daddy (or, get drunk enough to let your daddy fuck them) and produce you?

[LessinSF]

I thought I watched this just a couple weeks ago, but it turns out ESPN was showing a rerun of last years show. Article re LAST YEAR - http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/05...elling.bee.ap/

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Looks like an autochthonous midwesterner to me. Where's Coltrane today?

Over here. Milking my cow.

With Turtle Wax.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Why are you looking above the neck?

oh yeah, I forgot. You're the one that drinks Stoli Vanilla.

Sooner or later, we all have to look above the neck. And if what we see is busted or empty, well, it ain't worth the effort.

Originally posted by Not Bob
Call me crazy, but the idea of watching a 12 year old crumble under the pressure of spelling "zrygisticghtrmthges" on live TV (while his stage mother chews on her nails) just doesn't do it for me.

But put that same 12-year old and his stage mother in a concrete-lined pit with a rabid badger and you've got a Fox reality series with legs. It's all in the details.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Not Me
It is the lower price of crack that makes it more of a problem, not anything intrinsic in smoking it verses snorting it in powder form. Because it cost less, it is easier for those in poorer areas to get it. So it became a drug used by poor blacks in high crime areas and got this rap that it somehow was responsible for all the violence that occurs when you mix concentrated poverty and making drugs illegal (and thus profitable for criminals to sell).

There is zero evidence that smoking it is in any way more addictive. Cocaine is not physically addictive like heroin is. Cocaine is only psychologically addictive like pot is.

Why are you repeating my earlier post at me?

(We look down on 40's for the same reason - cheap shit, that has become associated with certain environments that are frowned upon in "polite society". We don't put harsher penalties on illegal consumption of 40's than we do on Absolut, but that logic doesn't seem to work with crack.)

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
You know Mia Wallace?

He did this after the movie came out, so he didn't even have that excuse. Haw.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by ironweed
On a lighter note, one of the biggest self-absorbed assholes I ever knew once bought H thinking it was cocaine. He snorted a fat line before he realized the difference, with predictable (non-fatal) results.

What, he feel asleep and felt quesy?

[LessinSF]

Consolidated word lists from over the years, broken down by frequency of appearance - http://www.spellingbee.com/cwl.shtml -

s
p
o
i
l
e
r

some words that had an impact -

autochthonous
gaminerie
arete
sophrosyne
sumpsimus
serpiginous
alopecoid
lyophilize
corposant

It's better than the Wold Darts Final, which I caught the other night on ESPN2.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ironweed
But put that same 12-year old and his stage mother in a concrete-lined pit with a rabid badger and you've got a Fox reality series with legs. It's all in the details.

I was impressed. They did an article about the killer badger, and they cared enough to go to the National Federation of Badger Groups for an informative quote. It's that attention to detail that makes the difference.