Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
You're damn right.

With illustrative examples. Though, I think our MFM guys are no longer with us.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Taxwonk is Fat! Thurgreed's Mom is a prostitute!

That's the spirit!

I am a str8-wannabe and fake "insider" knowledge of the biz!

Courtney Love is in court again, and looking a little shopworn, as usual!


Organized religion is dumb!

Harvard men probably get out of the shower to pee!

[Dave]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
The woman running one group commented that guys would rather hang out with 20-something women or a set of golf clubs than with a highly educated woman that has a ker-pow resume.

Mmmmmm. 20-something women with killer resumes AND golf clubs. Works for me. Too bad they don't hang out near the courthouse.

And thank you for helping me get that image of an ambigiously gendered 350 lb individual in a kimono with really robust puppies and lengthy equipment out of my head. That was truly migrane- and vomit-inducing.

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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
What are you talking about? And who are you?

Signed, a newbie

I'm the Itchy half of Itchy and Scratchy. Sometimes I'm both.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Sebby, is that you? Reading comp. It's not about the waking up but the falling back to sleep. But thanks, now I gotta go. Gotta go. Right now.

My point is that I am already going to have to go back to sleep, regardless of whether I turn on the light. I might as well avoid pissing all over the bathroom in the process.

edit: spelling

[Dave]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Jack White and Michael Jackson ought to get together and crank out a few kids. But which would be the female of the species?

[Skeks in the city]

Docs successfully froze parts of a woman's ovary. Six years later the doctors transplanted the tissue back into her abdomen, and it began to produce eggs. One egg was fertilized and grew into a healthy embryo. This is a breakthrough because freezing eggs generally does not work.

The technique runs about 6k for the initial surgery and freezing, plus $40 a month for storage.

article re freezing ovaries

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Docs successfully froze parts of a woman's ovary. Six years later the doctors transplanted the tissue back into her abdomen, and it began to produce eggs. One egg was fertilized and grew into a healthy embryo. This is a breakthrough because freezing eggs generally does not work.

The technique runs about 6k for the initial surgery and freezing, plus $40 a month for storage.

article re freezing ovaries

Why not just buy a Rolex?

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Why not just buy a Rolex?

I will bypass the rolex and the viable eggs and go for diamond earrings. Really, really nice ones (for resale value), but no more than 1.5 carats tw. Thanks!

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by robustpuppy

Despite rumors to the contrary, I am not ambiguously gendered.

I know, you're unambiguously male.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Harvard men probably get out of the shower to pee!

Amalia W. della Paolera ’07, who performed as Britney Spears and who was led to believe her breasts were growing larger as she sat on the stage, said she would not consider herself hypnotized under the usual definition.

I wish I'd been hypnotized to think the average Vassar/Harvard woman was hot, or alternatively, that the few hot ones were hypnotized to think I was.
Hank Chinaski '91 Law '94

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Mike Damone would beg to differ. It's an integral part of his Five Point Plan:

First of all Rat, you never let on how much you like a girl. "Oh, Debbie. Hi."

Two, you always call the shots. "Kiss me. You won't regret it."

Now three, act like wherever you are, that's the place to be. "Isn't this great?"

Four, when ordering food, you find out what she wants, then order for the both of you. It's a classy move. "Now, the lady will have the linguini and white clam sauce, and a Coke with no ice."

And five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.

Cut to EXT. NIGHT. Mark and Stacey driving in a car. Kashmir can be heard over the tape deck.

Watched the collector's edition DVD last night. Sean Penn was apparently a wack-a-doodle, even then, who made his parents call him Spicoli throughout the shoot.

[Fugee]

We haven't had enough controversy lately so let's get into the significance of a person's name.

One of my guardian babies is getting adopted. His first name is Damareus -- slightly uncommon but easy to pronounce. His pre-adoptive parents (who have fairly common first names themselves) mentioned that they thought his name was too different and want to change it. To.....Semaj (pronounced Seh-MAHZH; it is James backwards). The mom mentioned that they might put his name down as Semaj/James in case James would be better for him in business when he gets older.

First question: If they write his name down on the official papers as "Semaj/James," that would be his official first name, right? And have to go on his social security card and drivers license etc.? I want to be sure of that before I tell them they might want to pick one or the other or do something that doesn't involve a slash.

Second question: How do you think having an unusual, not obviously pronounceable name, affects a child's future? The reason I care is that until the adoption order is signed, I am responsible for looking out for the best interests of this kid and I am wondering if I should talk to the parents-to-be about giving him a less creative name. He's had to overcome enough obstacles in his life and I don't want him to suffer down the road because of a name. Or should I let it go? (Remember this is Minnesota, lily white land of Scandinavian names.)

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Fugee
We haven't had enough controversy lately so let's get into the significance of a person's name.

One of my guardian babies is getting adopted. His first name is Damareus -- slightly uncommon but easy to pronounce. His pre-adoptive parents (who have fairly common first names themselves) mentioned that they thought his name was too different and want to change it. To.....Semaj (pronounced Seh-MAHZH; it is James backwards). The mom mentioned that they might put his name down as Semaj/James in case James would be better for him in business when he gets older.

First question: If they write his name down on the official papers as "Semaj/James," that would be his official first name, right? And have to go on his social security card and drivers license etc.? I want to be sure of that before I tell them they might want to pick one or the other or do something that doesn't involve a slash.

Second question: How do you think having an unusual, not obviously pronounceable name, affects a child's future? The reason I care is that until the adoption order is signed, I am responsible for looking out for the best interests of this kid and I am wondering if I should talk to the parents-to-be about giving him a less creative name. He's had to overcome enough obstacles in his life and I don't want him to suffer down the road because of a name. Or should I let it go? (Remember this is Minnesota, lily white land of Scandinavian names.)

Backwards James is flat out a stupid name for a kid (the name itself may not be stupid but the reasoning for coming up with it is idiotic). That said, unusual names can go either way fora kid. I had an unusual name growing up and I hated it at times, but now I think it is pretty cool. Sure I was teased some and fucking substitute teachers ALWAYS butchered it. But now I can basically go by mey first name and I get a lot of compliments on it. I actually do sign almost everything first name only. If only the legal profession lent itself to that sort of thing, I'd drop the last name altogether.

Oddly (or maybe not I guess), it seems that in our country at least little girls are given unusual names more than little boys are.

I wouldn't let them put a slash in his first name. Just give him a middle name he might like instead of backwards James and be prepared in case he picks that one for daily use when he is old enough to decide for himself...

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by Fugee
Second question: How do you think having an unusual, not obviously pronounceable name, affects a child's future?

Having an unusual, not-obviously-pronounceable name is a career-limiter. And a major pain-in-the-ass.

Unusual names that are not obviously pronounceable suck. While growing up, the kid will be made fun of in school. As an adult, people will not engage him (e.g., in casual conversation, when calling on people in class, etc.) as often as a person with a plainer name, out of fear that they will mispronounce it. Having an unusual name will doom the kid to a lifetime of correcting people and generating unnecessary awkwardness incident thereto.

p(Frankly, I don't know what's worse . . . having my name or being named "Parenthesis" since the latter, albeit unusual, is obviously pronounceable.)c