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

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by dtb
But the ex-husband of the woman I know who kept her ex-husband's name is a cool one, so I'd'a probably kept it too!

(Think -- Rockefeller and similar...)

Seems like a pretty bad idea. The last thing I'd want if I were not a Rockefeller, or du Pont, or whatever, is to be thought to be one on the basis of my last name, and have to put up with the charitable solicitations and the expectation that lunch is always on you because, hey, you're a rockefeller.

Overall, it seems divorced women often keep their exes names, like ncs's mom--for the kids, or because the hassle of changing is just too great. Anyone dealt with SSA of late? Minimizing your dealings with them is to be encouraged.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Purely on aesthetics, I'll go with 40 around the panhandle. And the neighboring parts in Oklahoma and New Mexico. I reckon that the Trans Canada Highway through Manitoba is pretty bad too.

Hmph. I think that 40 is pretty from around the Cadillac Ranch to Albuquerque.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I reckon that the Trans Canada Highway through Manitoba is pretty bad too.

Shifter, you get your license yet?

[sunnybunny]

Ok, to get back from my lunch experience and find this is almost scarey.


Ok, so when I was 17 I was madly infatuated with a really hot and mysterious Mexican American whom I dated briefly, but he went off to college and moved away to Mexico to teach philosophy part time and work in a metalworking shop (odd combo I know)...so anyway, he has a very distint name and I put it into googe a while ago on one of my "i wonder whatever happened to X and I'm sure in teh mood for trying to read documents on the Internet in Spanish" only to find out that he had just moved back to DC and was doing a masters in DC right under my nose...so for months I've been wondering if I'd ever bump into him and it happened today when I was walking down teh street looking like a bum who had slept in my office...I was fidgeting with putting hte "days of the week" on the top of my birth control pack that I had just picked up from the corner CVS, and was thinking to myself at the time, "God, I hope I don't run into anyone I know as I'm doing this on the street" and I felt eyes looking down on me and there he was, about 40 feet away, letting out his most amazing smile as he walked away in a crowd of suits. I never imagined it would happen like that...he was and is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. 11 years I've pined away over that man.


I am a loser, not that y'all didn't know that already.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Shifter. you get your license yet?

Got my permit. Mom says she may let me drive the minivan on that stretch this weekend. Look out, Manitoba!

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I have been googled and contacted. I have googled myself and though my name is very common, I have a bunch of hits that are about me, still you have to know how to find them.

I have never googled anyone else to contact them or really even to check up on them. Mainly I have done it out of curiosity I think.

I googled my college flame and found a listing for a club lacrosse team he played on. Included were home and work numbers.

Because I already knew he was married, and because I really only wanted to hear his voice, I called the number at work, thinking he'd be gone for the day and I'd hear his voice mail and that would be the end of it.

But, he answered. And I hung up.

20 seconds later my phone started to ring. I looked at the caller ID and sure enough, its him. I pick up the phone and immediately hang up. 20 seconds later it rings again....and I let it roll over to voice mail. Where he was greeted by the message "Hello. You've reached Bn'B. Blah blah blah." He didn't call again.

I have never been so embarrassed.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Coltrane: You gotta get out a bit. You never heard Lil Jon? Kings of Crunk?

To the windows . . . to the WALLS.
To all skee skee skee skee skee skee.

I get out all of the time. I just don't listen to shit music.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I get out all of the time. I just don't listen to shit music.

You haven't tired of your Jock Jams cd?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
I felt eyes looking down on me and there he was, about 40 feet away, letting out his most amazing smile as he walked away in a crowd of suits. I never imagined it would happen like that...he was and is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. 11 years I've pined away over that man.

Make sure to invite me to the wedding. Oh, and serve booze at the reception -- the good stuff, and not with a cash bar.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I googled my college flame and found a listing for a club lacrosse team he played on. Included were home and work numbers.

Because I already knew he was married, and because I really only wanted to hear his voice, I called the number at work, thinking he'd be gone for the day and I'd hear his voice mail and that would be the end of it.

But, he answered. And I hung up.

20 seconds later my phone started to ring. I looked at the caller ID and sure enough, its him. I pick up the phone and immediately hang up. 20 seconds later it rings again....and I let it roll over to voice mail. Where he was greeted by the message "Hello. You've reached Bn'B. Blah blah blah." He didn't call again.

I have never been so embarrassed.

My image of you is blown. Bold and brazen my fine ass.

[Replaced_Texan]

Every morning, I listen to NPR from the time that I wake up until I get to work. And over time, I've developed a crush on the weather man. I have no idea what he looks like, no idea about anything other than his voice and his ability to help me decide what to wear in the morning.

Anyhow, my local NPR affiliate is wrapping up (thank god) their spring membership drive this afternoon, and the weather guys are supposed to be manning the phones for the home stretch. I'm already a member of the station; I gave generously last fall. So if I call, it's gonna be a redundant membership, though I'm sure they'll be happy to take my money. I'm not guaranteed to talk to him, and one hopes for the good of the station, he'll be too busy to chit-chat anyways. They do ask, when you call, if you have any particular statements you'd like to make, so I could jsut say "RT thinks weather guy is dreamy" and ask them to read it on the air. But, it's not as if I couldn't just send him a fan letter via e-mail, or I could just wait until the fall, cuz it's not as if they deviate too much from whatever fundraising formula they've devised.

So, should I call this afternoon and tell the weather guy that even when it's rainy he brightens my day?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
So, should I call this afternoon and tell the weather guy that even when it's rainy he brightens my day?

Yes. But less cheesy, more sexy.

And I'll do it for you, if you pull a boldnbrazen and chicken out.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
You haven't tired of your Jock Jams cd?

Y’all want this party started, right
Y’all want this party started quickly, right

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yes. But less cheesy, more sexy.

And I'll do it for you, if you pull a boldnbrazen and chicken out.

One of the guys on craigslist says that I should say "even when it's not raining, you still make me wet." I'm a little worried about restraining orders if I take that approach.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
One of the guys on craigslist says that I should say "even when it's not raining, you still make me wet." I'm a little worried about restraining orders if I take that approach.

Go with your gut on that one. Unless you desire never to meet this guy in person and to be made fun of by his co-workers when he relates the story to all of them.

I agree with rp. Be careful of cheesy.