Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
What could her damages possibly be?

Misappropriate of her likeness for commercial use? I.e., I could have sold them my image in connection with diet, but they took it for free.

Didn't someone here post about a client who used a cardboard cut-out of Michael Jordan for use at a sales presentation? $500k settlement later, they realized they shouldn't do that?

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
And correct me if I'm wrong, but, aren't you only considered Jewish if your mother is Jewish? So, you can carry a "Jewish" last name, have a Jewish father and not be considered Jewish?

That said, I don't know any Cohens that aren't Jewish.

TM

Considered by whom? I know a lady who is not jewish who married a very jewish guy and had a little baby they think is jewish. a hardcore jew friend of mine says that baby is not jewish. but that baby will probalby identify as a jew.

And I have never met a non jewish cohen and I have met many cohens in mylife.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
I was gonna say something like this but didn't and now just want to support Leagl's post.

Friends of mine (both Jewish and non) have commented in the past that with my last name (the one I was born with, not my married name you sillies) I "should be a Jew."

There's a family of attorneys in Baltimore, the Piersons (current practicing generation: Michael and Robert) that should by all rights be Irish Catholic, from their names to their appearance to their proclivity for hordes of children, but they are in fact prominant members of the Jewish community. So it goes in both directions.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Dave
christ, timmy! *

* Hi, shape shifter!

Hi, Dave. Mind if I quote some of your better work? I personally like the "socks full of sin" part (and the "crappity shoes" bit reminds me of pj. Hi, pj. Edited to correct this to BRC. Thanks, RP. Hi, RP.).

Dr. Suess Bible

Dave: And now . . . the Dr. Seuss Bible!
"One day," God said, "This is what I will do.
I'll send down my son, I'll send him to you,
to clear up this humpity bumpity hullabaloo. His name will be Christ and he'll never wear shoes.
And his pals will all call him the King of the Jews!"

He didn't come in a plane, he didn't come in a jeep,
he didn't come in the pouch of a high-jumping vo veep.
He rode on the back of a black sasatoo
which is the blackiest creature you ever could view.

He road to Jerusalem - home of the grumpity Jews
Where false prophets were worshipped, some even in two's. There was Murray von Muir and Genghis Vo Vooze
The one you could worship by taking a snooze.

Christ spoke from a mound, which is a pile of ground
And people gathered around without making a sound.
Thus he spake . . . Sin in socks, socks full of sin.
How do we quiet this Jehovity din?
"Do unto others as they do unto you" That includes you young Timothy Foo!!
One pharisee said to another he knew -

Kevin: What shall we do with this upitty Jew?

Bruce: We can wash him in wine and make him all clean
And into Sam Zittle's crucifixion machine!!!

Dave: Twirl the gawhirl and release the gavlease
And in go the nails as fast as you please.
And it is said that he said as he bled -

Scott: Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do,
For they walk through this life in two crappity shoes.

All: Do you?

Dave: Amen!

http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcri...e/drseuss.html

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Misappropriate of her likeness for commercial use? I.e., I could have sold them my image in connection with diet, but they took it for free.

Didn't someone here post about a client who used a cardboard cut-out of Michael Jordan for use at a sales presentation? $500k settlement later, they realized they shouldn't do that?

But if it was a newspaper report and the newspaper has no commercial interest in selling Atkins is that applicable?

Originally posted by baltassoc
There's a family of attorneys in Baltimore, the Piersons (current practicing generation: Michael and Robert) that should by all rights be Irish Catholic, from their names to their appearance to their proclivity for hordes of children, but they are in fact prominant members of the Jewish community. So it goes in both directions.

No it doesnt. One way street. Jews often changed their names to less ethnic sounding versions. It doesnt go the other way. I suppose that Mr. Cohen's shiksa wife could have baby cohen, who is not technically a jew, but he is half jewish by blood and that is included in my theory.

so zack could be a half jew. but i doubt it.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by baltassoc
who is more deserving to be Kylie Minogue than Kylie Minogue

I will never forgive that bimbo for her cover of "Locomotion." It was like a coked-up version of Pat Boone in his soul period.

But I can't imagine Australia's to blame for that abomination. I assume she's just an aberration. And she has at least conceded musically that she's best off as an electronic piece of ass.

[notcasesensitive]

According to realityblurred there are 8 books about this show currently published and two more on the way. So is anyone watching this anymore? If not, when did it jump the shark for you?

For me it was the introduction of Kia (I think that's her name) and the bed that she covered with astroturf that looked like a grave. That episode allowed me to see through the transformations and see the schtick behind the whole thing. I've probably watched it 3 times since then.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Faith is of course religion's ultimate escape hatch - the utterly indefensible proposition that it is somehow an elevation of human consciousness to divorce ourselves from everything our instinct and eyes would have us believe and instead believe highly improbable constructions because someone tells us they are the work of a divine being.

You are, of course, trying to be logical about something that is beyond logic. Us religious people are looking at you like the rest of the crew of the Enterprise looks at Spock. NTTAWWT.

Faith is perhaps the most insidious concept ever introduced to humanity... its really nothing more than a desperate hedge against fear of the unknown.

That's a downer of a way to look at it.

S(Thousands of years of war and strife... brought to you by... faith)D

Next, I assume you'll be coming out against nationalism, greed, hunger, etc.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
get real. of course Thrasher agrees with you (and she probably ha a name that ends in "sky" or "witz" or sometning far more ambiguous than the uberjewish name Cohen"

But then Donna Chang wasnt Chinese, so maybe you are right

Actually, it is a "berg" name and when you Google it -- which I just did for shits and giggles -- it is always within a few words/lines of "Jewish," "Jew" or "Juden" on the first 15 or so hits. Go figure.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
According to realityblurred there are 8 books about this show currently published and two more on the way. So is anyone watching this anymore? If not, when did it jump the shark for you?

Kia's Good Housekeeping wallpaper border fixation was the death knell. Ty titillating the proper matrons in the Oprah audience with his suave references to "a nice piece of ash" was just spitting on the grave.

Oh, Vern, how could you leave us?

[dc_chef]

It jumped the shark this year. The decision to keep Kia, add Rick, and have Paige ham it up more than ever, plus start calling the show a "game," all in the same season, is what did it for me.

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
According to realityblurred there are 8 books about this show currently published and two more on the way. So is anyone watching this anymore? If not, when did it jump the shark for you?

For me it was the introduction of Kia (I think that's her name) and the bed that she covered with astroturf that looked like a grave. That episode allowed me to see through the transformations and see the schtick behind the whole thing. I've probably watched it 3 times since then.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Edited to add that I bet Salon does a piece on this in like two days. Heather Havrileskky, are you reading?

If you're a fan, you might like her blog. For me, nothing can capture the frisson of the now-lost days of Suck.com.

T. (raise your hand if you miss Polly Esther) S.

edited to add a recent picture:

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
For me it was the introduction of Kia (I think that's her name) and the bed that she covered with astroturf that looked like a grave.

I think that was also the last episode I watched. I found the show sort of entertaining the first few times I watched; then I started finding it silly; then I got to the point where I couldn't stand it. They fuck around with people's homes, disparage their taste (or lack thereof) while filling their space with cheap particle board shit, and use paint to camouflage utter lack of care.

As a homeowner and an obsessive-compulsive, I can't tolerate that kind of destruction. I think I've posted before that movies or TV shows in which the property of fictional characters is destroyed, whether through a teen party (or science experiment) gone out of control, a violent fight, a criminal attack, a car chase, etc., et al, ad nauseum, make me anxious, so this I really can't stand, even though the fucking moron homeowners volunteered for this shit because they're not sufficiently smart or fit or attractive or single or interesting or fearless to have a chance of appearing on any one of a zillion other game or reality TV shows.

Edited to note that Vern's rooms always looked good because Vern lied about how much he spent and must have used his own money on materials. Smart move, Vern, way to protect your rep.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
You are, of course, trying to be logical about something that is beyond logic. Us religious people are looking at you like the rest of the crew of the Enterprise looks at Spock. NTTAWWT.

Why?