Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Thurgreed Marshall
So, describe your first memory of when boys or girls (as applicable) and their respective sexual attractiveness finally made sense to you. [edited to include: Since I have been told that not everyone has such an experience, you can write about your first experience with the opposite sex (or same sex, depending).]

I remember the "aHA!" moment when I really understood for the first time why people have sex. I was fourteen-ish and got a backrub from a guy with THE best hands ever. In public. I was barely able to walk and unable to speak coherently for quite some time after that.

Quite an eye-opener.

He turned out to be a slobbery kisser, though. What is it with 14-yr-old boys and slobbery kissing?

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by tmdiva
If you're ever in town, we'll check this out: http://members.tripod.com/qaolin/id4.htm

tm

Kaolin could be one of the mental health patients referred to in the original article? That said, if I'm ever in Portland, I'm going!

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You're saying that a NASCAR race is analogous to an ancient quasi-religious folk festival in which it was traditional for the peons and serfs frantically to eat and drink to morbid excess in order to distract themselves from the crushing truth that all were facing lives of endless deprivation and ceaseless toil?

Oh. Nevermind.

So you're saying you've actually been to a race then.

[ABBAKiss]

Poll about attraction

I was about 7 years old when I met one of my dad's frat brothers who is by all accounts very good looking. I recall wanting to give him a kiss. The adults noticed my obvious crush on this guy and talk about it even now.

I was in fifth grade when one of my friends acquired double D's over the summer. Another friend asked to "touch" them and so we all did. As I recall, I liked TITS! even then.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What is it with 14-yr-old boys and slobbery kissing?

Infectious mononucleosis. If you can't get the panties, get infectious mononucleosis.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
I will admit that a lot of people who go to races are there to party, some people do care about the race. I am enough of a NASCAR geek to actually own a scanner so I can listen to the drivers and their pit crews. ... Besides, a NASCAR race is kinda like Mardi Gras -- you oughta try it sometime.

How timely. I am going to the Indy 500 this year, and it will be my first vehicle race. I have no interest in auto racing or the result, but am purely going to see/participate in the spectacle/party, a la Mardi Gras, or the Kentucky Derby (which we went to last year. The people I am sitting with, however, have a box, go every year, and bring a scanner. Any suggestions for what I should do there, other than drink heavily?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by LessinSF
[linking Indy 500 and NASCAR]

Isn't this like equating barrel racing with steeplechasing? Where the fuck are you from, a COAST?

f(you . . . you . . . paleneck)b

[LessinSF]

What? Did I miss that they actually turn right in one or the other?

[str8outavannuys]

Seventh grade music camp (@ Boyne River for all you GTA public school kids), I met twin sisters with long pretty red hair named Tammy and Tanya. I think they both played trumpet, certainly one did. Soooo fine. Sadly, I had poor social skills. Kinda like the REALLY dorky tall white boy on HBO's brilliant show "Kindergarten." Fast forward to Grade 9, we're in the same high school, but I'm in the gifted program and they're not, and they're way too cool for school, hanging out at the south doors, smoking, and all that. I try to pass myself off as a slacker, but no dice.

So anyways, back to HBO's "Kindergarten," I want to start an Anna Belle fan club? Or one for the little latino boy with the goofy grin. This show is way better than house porn and fashion porn.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by LessinSF
How timely. I am going to the Indy 500 this year, and it will be my first vehicle race. I have no interest in auto racing or the result, but am purely going to see/participate in the spectacle/party, a la Mardi Gras, or the Kentucky Derby (which we went to last year. The people I am sitting with, however, have a box, go every year, and bring a scanner. Any suggestions for what I should do there, other than drink heavily?

God, you are such a child.

Read about the drivers before the race, so you know something about what's going on, or you are going to be bored out of your fucking mind. Just like I am when I try to watch pro sports with my friends. I cannot drink enough to make pro sport TV bearable.

Or, make this work and figure out a way to meet TF at the race.

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I'm with you. I always wanted a closet that would dress me.

And I wanted to be Jane Jetson. She was so out of George's league.

NB, I thought of you yesterday as I watched the original Sabrina on AMC. It was better than I remembered. And I take back what I said about Bogey in that movie.

And FYI, Dosoris Lane is real.

For some reason this Jane Jetson comment triggered an image of Jane Mancini which reminded me to report the excellent news. The Style network magically appeared on one of my tvs (but not the other) for the first time (to my knowledge) yesterday. And Melrose was on between 6 and 7. I got home early due to exhaustion and crawled into bed for a nap. There it was- first season, complete with not over the top drama of Jake signing away his rights to his kid, Alison trying to find a way to pay the 15 gs to have her uterine tumor removed (with Billy there trying to help bc they were best friends and man is he a bad actor) and Dr Mancini coming through in the clutch. And the two black people. And no Heather Locklear. I definitely did not see the first season last go round and have to say the show cahnged for the better. Now I need Tivo to tape this since I am not usually home at that hour. Can Tivo keep an entire show recorded forever a la a VCR tape? Dont you only get 80 hours max?

Originally posted by lawyer_princess
I had no idea that's what she was singing. "Sidestep," really? You learn something new every day.

I always thought she said "gonna use my sassy" which I think is a better line.

Edited to add my first remembrance of sexual arousal or whatever the poll is- seeing Dick Gautier on some game show with his shirt unbuttoned to reveal that sexy chest hair. I was six. I also remember the episode of three's company where janet or chrissy spilled milk all over jack in the closing sequence and he had to rip off his shirt as a result. that was really hot. I also, emabarrassingly enough, found Billy Crystal's character Jody in Soap sexy (and I had no idea what "gay" was back then)

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by LessinSF
How timely. I am going to the Indy 500 this year, and it will be my first vehicle race. I have no interest in auto racing or the result, but am purely going to see/participate in the spectacle/party, a la Mardi Gras, or the Kentucky Derby (which we went to last year. The people I am sitting with, however, have a box, go every year, and bring a scanner. Any suggestions for what I should do there, other than drink heavily?

Less, you'll have a blast. You should prowl the red-neck, RV camp grounds the night before the race (right near the track) You'll find plenty of down-home folks willing to give you a beer and a brat and you may even get to see some TITS! (Drunk female Indy fans are notorious flashers the night before the big race).

I wouldn't recommend wading in that gene-pool, however, without covering your "feet."

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by LessinSF
How timely. I am going to the Indy 500 this year, and it will be my first vehicle race. I have no interest in auto racing or the result, but am purely going to see/participate in the spectacle/party, a la Mardi Gras, or the Kentucky Derby (which we went to last year. The people I am sitting with, however, have a box, go every year, and bring a scanner. Any suggestions for what I should do there, other than drink heavily?

To be honest, I don't know if the open-wheel crowd is as fun and rowdy as the stock-car set. I think races like Indy (and other open-wheel events) tend to draw a more sophisticated crowd -- more European-ish. Having never been to an open-wheel event, this is just my opinion from speaking to people who have and occasionally catching the races on TV (I am not a big open-wheel fan). One clue is the fact that at Indy the winner drinks milk in the winner's circle while at a NASCAR event drivers like Little E have been known to have Budweiser fights in the winner's circle. Another clue is that I don't recall ever seeing rebel flags at an open-wheel event (a staple in the infield of a NASCAR race). A NASCAR race is somewhat of a spectacle -- you show up on Thursday in your motorhome and stay through Sunday night or Monday and, well, drink and watch people make fools of themselves. Getting to watch the race is just a great bonus - I know some people who go and watch the race in the parking lot because they just went for the party and don't want to spend $110 on a ticket. I have learned a few things at NASCAR races: one, in general, women who are willing to show you their tits do not have anything you really want to see; two, some people lose their teeth before they are old people; and three, there is a drunken dumbass in every crowd who likes to start his campfire with 5 gallons of gasoline which should prompt the state to consider intelligence-based sterilization laws.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Seventh grade music camp (@ Boyne River for all you GTA public school kids), I met twin sisters with long pretty red hair named Tammy and Tanya.

Someone mark this post down. This has GOT to be the only time in the history of these boards that someone seriously answered a poll with, "One time...in band camp..."

TM