Fashion Board--Penske . . . forever!

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
My best friend was so unhappily married only six months after the wedding that she broke out in hives that wouldn't go away. She and her husband didn't have sex on their wedding night because he called her a stupid bitch for misplacing the car keys at the wedding reception site, and they hardly had sex after they were married because he spent every evening locked up in his home office playing computer games. He fought with her all the time over money, even though they were living rent free in her grandmother's former house and were saving plenty. She told me that she wasn't in love with him, but got married to get out of her parents house, and that her two older brothers had both gotten married the previous year and she got caught up in the whole wedding frenzy, and her ex-boyfriend also got engaged and so she realized that door was shut.

I asked her why she didn't leave, and she said "Because I don't want to be 'divorced.' I'll be a 'divorcee.'" I replied that it was sexier than being blotchy.

She was raised Catholic and her mother was pretty controlling and judgmental (and so she probably said the word "divorce" as if it were "murder,") but that didn't stop my friend from losing her virginity at 15 or otherwise having premarital sex, using birth control, being pro-choice, and otherwise being a rebel. She's also an extremely intelligent woman, notwithstanding the mistake she made at 25, and a feminist. But the label of 'divorced' still struck her as a stigma. I just didn't get it and I chalked it up to not being Catholic.

By the way, she got over it and divorced him.

She has always had a lot of cats.

Divorcees are hot to trot. Didn't she watch Happy Days?

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I enjoy being an ERISA attorney/rider producer very much. I love my job. It's a fact. But I would never ever ever brag about being an ERISA attorney. Do nerds brag about being nerds? No. They just go on their nerdy way.

However, something I would brag about (and I have done so many times), is the fact that I was August in a Snap on Tools calendar in the late 80s. And that was not even the highlight of my stellar modelling career. I am saving the highlight for when I think you all can handle it.

eta. I did in fact eat several babies yesterday while I posted my dead-serious, no tongue-in-cheek bragging post. Yum, babies.

For a dichotomy: nerd herd or float herd?

To answer my own dichotomy: float herd is more fun to watch and better players, but will certainly be less successful than was the nerd herd in S6 (1st place (Maggie), 2d place (Ivette), 3d place (Beau, right?))

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan


I decided that day that I really didn't want to come back here and be subjected to the crap that my friend, RB, barley, gwinky, the other FBetties and the poor female attorneys that work with ppnyc are subjected to. I decided to stay on hiatus for a few more weeks.

For you to be driven away by that is a crying shame.

I feel sorry for your friend's ex. Your friend doesn't need quite as much sympathy because she has you, while he has *her*.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
For you to be driven away by that is a crying shame.

I feel sorry for your friend's ex. Your friend doesn't need quite as much sympathy because she has you, while he has *her*.

2.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Sheesh. I'm a never-married, without kids, female attorney in my thirties that's jealous of those who have all of those things I don't because I devoted myself to my career instead of a man, and now I have to feel more unhinged because my right tit is bigger than the left? Way to kick a girl while she's down.

On the other board you lean to the left.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Sheesh. I'm a never-married, without kids, female attorney in my thirties that's jealous of those who have all of those things I don't because I devoted myself to my career instead of a man, and now I have to feel more unhinged because my right tit is bigger than the left? Way to kick a girl while she's down.

My right boob is bigger than my left too! It's like we're soulmates. Or boobmates.

And I'm DIVORCED.

However, as of September 28, my boobs will no longer be lopsided. They will, however, be much much perkier.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Has anyone else ever been driving along, oh let's say on the way to work, and seen a car that is kind of bizarre and wanted to follow it, just to see where such a car might be headed? Because I saw a royal blue boxy-looking* aged convertible with white leather (or pleather) uphostery, including uphostered roll-bar things on the backs of the two front seats. No license plates at all (which is not unheard of here apparently because of how getting the plates works, but normally people have dealer advertising where the license plate should be). I really, really wanted to know where it was going.


*Like how Toyotas looked 15 or 20 years ago

No, but I once followed a renowned New Haven panhandler known as the "How Ya Doin' Guy" for a few hours. I had the idea to do a story for a humor/tabloid publication I co-founded about how the How Ya Doin Guy wasn't homeless at all.

After following him for a few hours, I determined that if he wasn't homeless, he was pretty fuckin close to it, and I nixed the story idea.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I think penske is scrambling to hire the hottest asian actress he can find on short notice. I haven't heard anything back on my pm.

TM

I just pmed u I was at lunch.

Went to Bendel. No hot outfit.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
About the same time that ppnyc came back on the boards, a friend of mine got a letter from the wife of her ex-boyfriend. The letter was a reply to a letter my friend had sent her ex- a year previously. My friend's letter was a lament that things had not worked out between her and her ex, but that she wished him happiness with his new wife and the baby on the way.

The new wife felt it was necessary--a year later--to return the letter and to remind my friend that she (the wife) had won and my friend had lost. She flaunted the baby, and the marriage, and the man. She said that the pretty girls always win, and that my friend should lose weight if she ever wanted to find a man. She mocked and belittled and degraded my friend's previous love for her ex-, and she was mean and cruel and lording about it.

The same day my friend posted the letter, the same day I volunteered to beat the shit out of this horrible woman on my friend's behalf, I checked in here and found ppnyc was mocking RB for being fat and barely for being unmarried and dismissing the notion that she was immune from divorce, pain or heartache.

I decided that day that I really didn't want to come back here and be subjected to the crap that my friend, RB, barley, gwinky, the other FBetties and the poor female attorneys that work with ppnyc are subjected to. I decided to stay on hiatus for a few more weeks. I was planning on staying for a few more, but Sebby's obstinance on the PB sucked me back in.

ETA:

But my friend is an awesome woman, and so is RB and so is barely and so is gwinky and so are all the other FB Betties. And so am I. So fuck you if you think that my marital status is a mark against me. Fuck you if you think my childlessness makes me less of a woman. Fuck you if your inferiority complex about being "just" a paralegal makes you think that you have to find something that you're better at than us.

Issues. Girlfriend. and usually I like you. bitter choices, you are. *yoda*

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
No, but I once followed a renowned New Haven panhandler known as the "How Ya Doin' Guy" for a few hours. I had the idea to do a story for a humor/tabloid publication I co-founded about how the How Ya Doin Guy wasn't homeless at all.

After following him for a few hours, I determined that if he wasn't homeless, he was pretty fuckin close to it, and I nixed the story idea.

What were you doing in New Haven?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Issues. Girlfriend. and usually I like you. bitter choices, you are. *yoda*

Doln't mind her. She must have her period.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
About the same time that ppnyc came back on the boards, a friend of mine got a letter from the wife of her ex-boyfriend. The letter was a reply to a letter my friend had sent her ex- a year previously. My friend's letter was a lament that things had not worked out between her and her ex, but that she wished him happiness with his new wife and the baby on the way.

The new wife felt it was necessary--a year later--to return the letter and to remind my friend that she (the wife) had won and my friend had lost. She flaunted the baby, and the marriage, and the man. She said that the pretty girls always win, and that my friend should lose weight if she ever wanted to find a man. She mocked and belittled and degraded my friend's previous love for her ex-, and she was mean and cruel and lording about it.

The same day my friend posted the letter, the same day I volunteered to beat the shit out of this horrible woman on my friend's behalf, I checked in here and found ppnyc was mocking RB for being fat and barely for being unmarried and dismissing the notion that she was immune from divorce, pain or heartache.

I decided that day that I really didn't want to come back here and be subjected to the crap that my friend, RB, barley, gwinky, the other FBetties and the poor female attorneys that work with ppnyc are subjected to. I decided to stay on hiatus for a few more weeks. I was planning on staying for a few more, but Sebby's obstinance on the PB sucked me back in.

ETA:

But my friend is an awesome woman, and so is RB and so is barely and so is gwinky and so are all the other FB Betties. And so am I. So fuck you if you think that my marital status is a mark against me. Fuck you if you think my childlessness makes me less of a woman. Fuck you if your inferiority complex about being "just" a paralegal makes you think that you have to find something that you're better at than us.

Look. I've been in law for a long time. The women partners that make it are on wheels and never see kids, divorced three times etc. Those that do job share are not really part time. If you consider 80 hours a week pt/ The ones that are nice are usually lonely since they are stuck at work. Those that are balanced usually go in house less of a commute. Chicken or egg? who knows but it is far too common to ignore.

Women get the shaft. And it ain't their fault it is the way it is. you can't have it all. or if ya do it is at a great price in some other regard.

[Sparklehorse]

[i]Originally posted by
ETA:

But my friend is an awesome woman, and so is RB and so is barely and so is gwinky and so are all the other FB Betties. And so am I. So fuck you if you think that my marital status is a mark against me. Fuck you if you think my childlessness makes me less of a woman. Fuck you if your inferiority complex about being "just" a paralegal makes you think that you have to find something that you're better at than us.

Just wanted to see this again. Bitterness, it is not.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I'm thinking there's a better chance of a hot guy (quirky maybe) in a funky car than in a beater. Maybe he was looking for Erisa.

Perhaps he was looking for Erika, whose body, as Boogie noted, is "John Blaze." It really is too. Her ratio is first rate.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Women get the shaft. And it ain't their fault it is the way it is. you can't have it all.

So is this your confirmation that you are not a woman?