New Fashion Board 10-3-2003 - 11-7-2003 - Page 365

notcasesensitive · 10-31-2003, 03:41 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
You've enlisted the squirrels too, haven't you? They've been peering in windows, I think doing recon.*

*I love using this term b/c I can't spell the actual long word it's short for.

If the squirrels start bothering you, you just let me know. I have a way with the squirrels.

Atticus Grinch · 10-31-2003, 03:42 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I see my best friend, who died in 1996, pretty frequently -- usually just sitting on a corner of the bed. Less so in recent years, which is disappointing.

How do you people not absolutely lose your shit when [your brain is telling you that] either (1) a person you know is dead or (2) a total stranger you've never seen before is sitting on the corner of your fucking bed? If you tell me it's because you are overcome with a sense of calm and well-being, you're higher than Less.

A friend once owned a flower shop. She was always having trouble with her cash register --- the drawer would always be found open. Other office equipment behaved weirdly in other ways, and other businesses in the same building reported unexplained pranks, mostly missing office supplies that would turn up again later in unexpected places. When she took some photos for her shop's website, a strange oblong glow appeared in several shots. She has turned around several times to catch a glimpse of a young boy, about 12 or so, standing rather rigidly in some kind of costume, not looking at her. She asked me to look into the history of the shopping center. Some quick checking disclosed that the shopping center was built on the parade ground of a military school for boys that closed in the 1920s. She didn't know this until I researched it for her.

All in all, I'd rather have a haunted businessplace that wake up to find someone, once again, sitting on the corner of my fucking bed. Yipes.

robustpuppy · 10-31-2003, 03:42 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Apparently some people are just not cut out for the horror film genre.

I'm one of them. I have enough cortisol as it is.

And I need a new avatar.

str8outavannuys · 10-31-2003, 03:44 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
TM Narrow Escape Story

TM

I'm sure I'm just repeating what someone else has already said, but THAT is some scary shit (as opposed to Ringu), and I for one am thankful that your spider sense and quick-door-opening skills were in full effect on that day.

Makes me once again thankful that I grew up on the not-so-mean streets of north Toronto.

Not Bob · 10-31-2003, 03:45 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Don Zimmer may sign on with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Should make for some entertaining Sox-Rays games, which have spawned several memorable dust-ups in the last couple of years.

As predicted in one of my World Series haiku. I'm too lazy to search for it, but (if memory serves) the line was "Zim goes to Sweet Lou."

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Although why Zim wants to spend his last years sitting on the bench of a sorry-ass team that plays in a sarcophagus, I'll never know.

Two words: Early bird specials, baby. Plus, whoever owns that AA franchise is Not George.

pretermitted_child · 10-31-2003, 03:46 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive

No Halloween avatar for me. My flair qualifies as a costume...

Finally, fringey, I liked both Cathy and Lucy better. Probably because an idiot on the TX board has had that Kermit one for a while though.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you . . . notcasesensitive, Avatar Consultant.

pretermitted(just look at what she's done to me)child

str8outavannuys · 10-31-2003, 03:47 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan

I predict the Bills will not get their asses kicked this week -- thank god for bye weeks. Wish I could say the same for the Falcons -- but they'd get beat during a bye week anyway.

Every Bills loss is one step closer to getting a real coach.

Anybody seen my wife Toni Tenille around?

notcasesensitive · 10-31-2003, 03:47 PM

... and reaches in to try to get it out - http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/1...eut/index.html

"Metro-North Railroad staff could not help the man, so they stopped the train and called police officers and firefighters to extricate him, a process that took 90 minutes using "jaws of life" rescue equipment."

The worst part -- it was during the commute home. How pissed would you be to have your train stopped on the ride home so that the jaws of life could come and pull some guy out of the train loo?

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-31-2003, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob

Hard loss in the Bronx
Cashman's next job: "fries with that?"
Zim flees to Sweet Lou.

It bears repeating.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-31-2003, 03:50 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive

The worst part -- it was during the commute home. How pissed would you be to have your train stopped on the ride home so that the jaws of life could come and pull some guy out of the train loo?

1) ewww
2) why would you want your phone back at that point (the article helpfully notes it has not been found)
3) if the other loos were occupied, probably quite pissed (or not pissed enough)
4) ewww

bold_n_brazen · 10-31-2003, 03:53 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
How do you people not absolutely lose your shit when [your brain is telling you that] either (1) a person you know is dead or (2) a total stranger you've never seen before is sitting on the corner of your fucking bed? If you tell me it's because you are overcome with a sense of calm and well-being, you're higher than Less.

[flower shop stuff]

All in all, I'd rather have a haunted businessplace that wake up to find someone, once again, sitting on the corner of my fucking bed. Yipes.

Because it's sort of bizarre and interesting when its happening... and because it kind of feels like being higher than Less.

leagleaze · 10-31-2003, 03:55 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
1) ewww
2) why would you want your phone back at that point (the article helpfully notes it has not been found)

So we were thinking the same things here. And how likely is the friggen thing to work after sitting in a chemical holding tank. And it isn't like you would be able to wash it clean enough since if it wasn't destroyed from the dunk in the tank, it would be by the cleaning process.

What a fucking moron.

bold_n_brazen · 10-31-2003, 03:55 PM

Please note the Halloween avatar is NOT, I repeat NOT, a photo of the Brazenette (cute as the troll baby may be).

But thanks for asking.

Replaced_Texan · 10-31-2003, 03:56 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
2) why would you want your phone back at that point (the article helpfully notes it has not been found)

When my sister dropped her phone 23 plus floors down an elevator shaft and it broke into a million pieces, they were able to recover the chip, and the 400 plus phone numbers therein. Some of those numbers were hard to get the first time around.

Bad_Rich_Chic · 10-31-2003, 03:59 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
How pissed would you be to have your train stopped on the ride home so that the jaws of life could come and pull some guy out of the train loo?

Way, way pissed.

But then, I have to remind myself not to get all pissy when the subway bogs down because someone in a train in front had a stroke or something. I'm an impatient creature.

I hope they billed the guy for the emergency services costs. Because, even more than being delayed, I would be really pissed if fishing this guy's sorry ass out of the crapper is being paid for out of my tax dollars.