Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I think that God has a sick sense of humor.

It was a clean hit.

I'll change my avatar tomorrow. No energy to do it today. So sad. sad, sad, sad.

Might I suggest:

This:


This:


or this:

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
And you are a pitiful moron. You are an embarassment not only to yourself, but to your family, co-workers, acquaintances, people you pass on the street, and the occasional Siberian recluse. Your mere presence so dramatically lowers the level of discourse, it would be laughable if it were not so gut-wrenchingly sad. Your inescapable imbecility is like a virus, infecting all around you and poisoning the very well of the internet as surely as if you had cyber-thrown a virtual dead horse into it. You need to get a fucking life, and if you somehow manage to do that, then you need to get a fucking minimum wage job so you can scrape together your pennies and buy yourself a fucking clue.

Even your avatar is pathetically idiotic. The Celtics are a basketball team, not a football team, you clutter-brained bumblefuck.

My goodness! Did someone wake up on the wrong side of the litterbox this morning?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Duplicity
because em lost a bet with me and can't post on the PB until May 8.

Is that you Sidd?

I prefer to think of it as a boycott, but whatever. You have to admit that the PB isn't as lively without me.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Holy cow (tee hee). Did she recently have a guest appearance on the Sopranos?

I don't get it. Because so many dudes on the Sopranos are slim-fit-challenged? If so... heh.


(I'm trying to do that David Cross thing, where he talks about how sucky it must be to be a magician, because the best response you'll ever get is, "heh. yeah. that's my card..."; I'm not sure that came through in the typeface.)

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Duplicity
Em's only posting a lot on the FB this week because em lost a bet with me and can't post on the PB until May 8. Soon, all will be as it once was.

I missed that one. Dare I ask what the bet was?

[Duplicity]

Originally posted by Not Me
Is that you Sidd?

Sidd wanted to borrow one of my socks, but demurred when I only offered him Stupidity or Culpability.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by soup sandwich
When will all the fawning [over Esche] begin on this board the way everyone gushed over Giguere last year?

Never. Why?[list=a][*]He's a Flyer[*]Two words -- Evgeni Nabokov[*]Two more words -- Nikolai Khabibluin[*]He's a Flyer[/list=a]

[Berry Hunter]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Never. Why?[list=a][*]He's a Flyer[*]Two words -- Evgeni Nabokov[*]Two more words -- Nikolai Khabibluin[*]He's a Flyer[/list=a]

{BEST BEAVIS IMPRESSION I CAN MUSTER} Flyer! Flyer! Flyer! heh heh heh {/BEAVIS}

I will be rooting for the Flyers ONLY because no team from f'ing Florida should ever win anything in Hockey. Flames over Sharks for the same reason.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Nabokov

Are we back on pedophilia ALREADY?

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Clutter-brained bumblefuck's click here

Idiotic posters who can't understand PLF's jokes unless slapped upside the head click here.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You should pm MR on this.

My ability to smell was negated by the constant exposure to methane gas a long, long time ago.

[Not Me]

http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/4/539

• Although there have been a few anecdotal intimations that not every individual exhibits odorous urine following asparagus ingestion (Mitchell, 1989), it was not until 1956 and the publication of Allison and McWhirter's paper that the two discrete categories of "excretor" and "non-excretor" were first applied. This is understandable. Those who produce the odor assume, politely, that everyone does and those who do not produce it have no idea of the olfactory consequences. There is no reason as to why these two opposing factions should converse on this subject. A brief discourse with one's colleagues will confirm such differences and verify this state of affairs.
  
  Studies have found that in the United Kingdom about half of the population produced the odor [46/115, 40%, 95% confidence interval (CI1) 31-49%, Allison and McWhirter, 1956; 346/800, 43%, 95% CI 40-47%, Mitchell et al., 1987], whereas the frequency was greater in Americans (15/19, 79%, 95% CI 61-97%, Sugarman and Neelon, 1985). This phenomenon was present in both male and female subjects, and limited pedigree information suggested that the odor-producing trait was characteristic of, and compatible with, being inherited in an autosomal-dominant fashion, with the heterozygous state giving rise to an affected phenotype (Allison and McWhirter, 1956; Mitchell et al., 1987). In McKusick's tome on Mendelian inheritance, a personal communication to the editor from W. K. Maas explains that a nonexcretor may become an excretor during pregnancy, the unborn child presumed to be an excretor (and also, I assume, the father) (McKusick, 1983).
  
  Additionally, six subjects who ingested asparagus each month for a year were shown to give the same result (four odorous, two nonodorous) with each repeat challenge. Also, anecdotally, five subjects had reported long-term possession of this odorous trait, the time between first noticing this characteristic and laboratory confirmation ranging from 46 to 77 years---a lifetime (Mitchell et al., 1987).
  
  All investigations in the literature have been subjective, the urine being smelled by individuals (sometimes a panel of individuals) who had been previously shown to be able to positively smell and identify asparagus-related odorous urines.
  
  Objective urine analysis has been attempted. Of three volunteers who had eaten asparagus, one voided a urine that displayed four additional component peaks when examined by gas chromatography, whereas the other two subjects failed to produce profiles that differed from those obtained under control conditions (Gearhart et al., 1977). Such studies need to be extended.
  
  What is evident is that there also appears to exist a specific hyposmia (hyposphresia) or anosmia, wherein certain individuals are unable to smell the odor even from the most fetid urines. The frequency of this condition within a population is high (277/307, 90%, 95% CI 87-94%, in an Israeli group, Lison et al., 1980; 74/98, 76%, 95% CI 67-84%, in a Chinese group, Hoffenberg, 1983), suggesting that a great number of people are unable to detect the asparagus-related odor. This predicament was shared equally between male and female subjects and did not appear to be age related. A later American study suggested that both phenomena coexist. These authors concluded that "some people are excretors while others are nonexcretors; some people are perceivers (able to smell the odor) while others are nonperceivers" (Sugarman and Neelon, 1985). Clearly, this complicated issue requires further detailed investigation.
  
  The mephitic nature of these asparagus-related odorous urines was (and still is) markedly reminiscent of certain pungent sulfur-containing compounds and, accordingly, the offensive substance was initially identified as methanethiol following its precipitation as silver and mercury mercaptides. The actual techniques used for this isolation, however, were lengthy and harsh and undoubtedly degraded other sulfur compounds, if present, into methanethiol (Nencki, 1891; Crouzel, 1893; Gautier, 1923; Allison and McWhirter, 1956). Nonetheless, a French text states that this disagreeable odor disappeared upon the addition of sublimate (mercuric chloride) to the urine (Ronchèse, 1912). More recent studies have suggested that there are at least three major sulfur-containing components in the urine (Gearhart et al., 1977), and two of these have been identified as S-methylthioacrylate and its methanethiol addition product, S-methyl-3-(methylthio)thiopropionate (White, 1975). Smaller amounts of other sulfur compounds have also been detected in noisome urine, including dimethyl trisulfide, tetrahydrothiophene, and an unidentified substance containing two sulfur atoms (White, 1975).
  
  Examination of the head-space volatiles above urine samples revealed the presence of six discrete compounds in individuals who were known to produce asparagus-related odor, whereas these were either absent or detectable in only minute amounts in urine from subjects who did not manifest the odor. These chemicals, confirmed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, were identified as methanethiol, dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl disulfide, bis(methylthio)methane, dimethyl sulfoxide, and dimethyl sulfone. These compounds were given off from odorous urine in concentrations of up to several thousand times greater than normal. When assessed subjectively the most pungent compounds were methanethiol and dimethyl sulfide, which probably constituted most of the odor, with the sulfur-oxidized products, dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethyl sulfone, modifying the smell to impart a "sweet" aroma. These compound acted together in "reconstituted asparagus urine" to give the typical asparagus-related bouquet (Waring et al., 1987).

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Idiotic posters who can't understand PLF's jokes unless slapped upside the head click here.

Uh, go past the main page of Anne's link here: http://www.celticfc.co.uk/default.asp.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Idiotic posters who can't understand PLF's jokes unless slapped upside the head click here.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just say "whiff"?

[PuriTY]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Uh, go past the main page of Anne's link here: http://www.celticfc.co.uk/default.asp.

Go here www.ratemypoo.com (spree-what do you think it is) if you want to really understnd what they were talking about