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

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Poll: what is the weirdest supposed "etiquette" rule you've ever heard pronounced?

Posting "LOL" is never okay when it's the only thing in the post. Posting "POTY" is okay when you actually believe it. And posting "TUAOM" is always okay since it is a critique of LOL-type posts.

TM

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Since I work on one of the upper floors on my elevator bank I usually end up in the back of the elevator for the 5:01 local to the lobby. My peeve is that all teh gentlemen, dont' get off right away. They step aside so that I can get off for them. Very nice and all and I appreciate the gesture, but it's a pain in the ass to negotiate my way around all the bodies and bags. Sometimes men should not be chivalrous, they should just get off the damn elevator!

You could be my sock puppet. I have been quite vocal in my disdain for men who trap me on the elevator. In Dallas the custom is for men to wait and get on last (thus putting them in the front of the elevator) then wait to get out until all ladies (who have been squeezed into the back of the elevator by the late entering men) have made it out. Completely illogical. I am a fan of the LIFO method of elevator entry/exit. Call me a yankee.

n(all it is doing is keeping me from getting to my destination)cs

[spookyfish]

I just looked at the Globe comparison re: Clay and Ruben and got to thinking. Okay, the Clay/Opie thing I can see, but do you think the Ruben/Fat Albert comparison is the best one they could come up with? I was thinking Fred "Rerun" Berry because of the hat thing.



You be the judge.

sf

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
When spooning into the broiled cheese on the top of a bowl of French onion soup, the far edge of the spoon should enter the cheese first, and the "cut" be made against the far lip of the bowl or cup.

Other than its specificity, perhaps that doesn't qualify as weird, because spooning soup away from you really makes sense when you're wearing white tie.

Yeah, I think that's just a specific description of the general "soup is spooned away from you" rule, though why that should rule out eating around the cheese is beyond me. Your white tie parties sound more fun than mine (or your host has a more messy sense of humor) if they are giving you french onion soup.

I think the flip-and-dip is gross, too (just makes me think "fatty!"), but I cite Judith Martin as my authority.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by spookyfish
I just looked at the Globe comparison re: Clay and Ruben and got to thinking? Do you think the Ruben/Fat Albert comparison is the best one they could come up with? I was thinking Fred "Rerun" Berry because of the hat thing.



You be the judge.

sf

Ahhh, Rerun. That brings back bad tv memories. What was that dance troupe he was in? I remember seeing them on Mike and Merv and other bad '70's TV variety shows. Striped socks, knickers, suspenders, floppy berets. So stylish.

The segment of the population that knows who Rerun is, is probably much smaller than the segment that knows who Fat Albert is.

"Hi-hi-hi-hi!"


Edited to answer to my question: The Lockers.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Posting "LOL" is never okay when it's the only thing in the post.
TM

Name one time you have been O.K. with someone putting LOL in a post, regardless of whether it was the only thing in the post.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Incidentally, I'm still futzing around with my avatar - anyone with an opinion on this one vs. the bouffant chick I had last, please speak up.

And thanks leagaleze for fixing the size for me so I could try it on.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Ahhh, Rerun. That brings back bad tv memories. What was that dance troupe he was in? I remember seeing them on Mike and Merv and other bad '70's TV variety shows. Striped socks, knickers, suspenders, floppy berets. So stylish.

The segment of the population that knows who Rerun is, is probably much smaller than the segment that knows who Fat Albert is.

"Hi-hi-hi-hi!"

I'm sure that you meant to say the segment of the population born after 1980 that knows who Rerun is is much smaller than the segment that knows who Fat Albert is. Anyone born before 1980 who is not familiar with Rerun has my disdain.

n(wasn't everyone raised in front of the tv?)cs

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Incidentally, I'm still futzing around with my avatar - anyone with an opinion on this one vs. the bouffant chick I had last, please speak up.

And thanks leagaleze for fixing the size for me so I could try it on.

I like the other one better. Much more original.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Anyone born before 1980 who is not familiar with Rerun has my disdain.

n(wasn't everyone raised in front of the tv?)cs

When somebody gives me a hug and I'm ready to be released, I say "Mama, I can't breathe."

And on another topic, I can't decide if I'm more squicked out by this picture or by NotFromHere's fingers-in-the-dip acquaintances:

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Incidentally, I'm still futzing around with my avatar - anyone with an opinion on this one vs. the bouffant chick I had last, please speak up.

I thought the other one was a little creepy, but that's just me.

-T(note the originality of my own avatar)L

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by TexLex
I thought the other one was a little creepy, but that's just me.

-T(note the originality of my own avatar)L

I think the first one was better because it's a little creepy.

Just my $.02

Originally posted by notcasesensitive

n(wasn't everyone raised in front of the tv?)cs

No. I think we've been through this before, some of us were very sheltered.

-T(but I do know who Rerun is, FWIW.)L

[NotFromHere]

Actually - I love both movies, but if you could get one of Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein - that would rock!
:bounce:

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
And on another topic, I can't decide if I'm more squicked out by this picture or by NotFromHere's fingers-in-the-dip acquaintances:

There's something very "Buffalo Bill"-like about that picture.