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

[str8outavannuys]

I just wrote a long eloquent post that got eaten about why it's not what I would have done, but it wasn't SO bad a decision for the Wives to use the Fast-Forward. This will be shorter.

1) They've got it out of the way. That's one less decision they'll have to agonize over for the rest of the race.

2) Fast forwards are over-rated anyways. Lots of teams have gone for the FF only to find it gone, thus costing lots of time. Moreover, remember the Guidos, whose fast forward would have gotten them eliminated, but for the mother-daughter who flat out quit. And remember, there's no FF once it's down to 3 teams.

3) A couple of hours gain at this stage is probably pretty valuable. They're not leaving Europe for awhile, therefore no big airport catch-up opportunities.

3b) Because of what happened at the airport, they probably thought they needed to get their race-legs and regroup. Maybe they think they have a comparative advantage at figuring out the game and getting better as it goes on, thus they needed the "artificial" help now.

These points are all debatable, and again, it's not the choice I would have made, but it wasn't all that bad either.

With a name like connect_the_dots, one would expect you could connect them. How dissappointing. Did you know "pure profit" is a term of art?

[paprika]

This is too confusing for me... what the f is going on here? Man, am I late to this party. HELP.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by paprika
This is too confusing for me... what the f is going on here? Man, am I late to this party. HELP.

Just watch paigow princess, do what she does, and you'll be fine.

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by coup_d'skek
With a name like connect_the_dots, one would expect you could connect them. How dissappointing. Did you know "pure profit" is a term of art?

Since non-accounting costs can't be accurately calculated, how could it be otherwise. Some people, however, probably did not know that "pure profit" is a term of art. Since you learn something new everyday, I am sure that the people reading this board now who haven't fulfilled their quota can go home now. Thanks for sharing. Bye bye now.

Ct(but you didn't specify after-tax profits, so blame me for your ambiguity why don't you)D

[pony_trekker]

Geez, send hubby to a massage parlor for crissakes.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Geez, send hubby to a massage parlor for crissakes.

Hey stranger--where ya been?

tm

[pony_trekker]

Haven't been able to figure this board out yet; the othe board is doa -- as a result I have been very very productive.

[str8outavannuys]

So I caught the Lucky midseason marathon and have watched them all. I think the show is great but I have a few complaints.

1) The chips they use look nothing like real casino chips.

2) The same actor who played Murray the meat guy is also the Trache. That's just odd.

3) In the episode where Lucky is pretending to Theresa that he's not gambling anymore, and she walks in the casino and catches him, Lucky has pocket kings, and a king comes on the turn, and another on the river (with a straight-type board). He's getting huge action, but once he sees Theresa's disgusted look just as he pushes in his chips, he then folds his four kings.
No gambler would ever do that. Ever. Seemed very unrealistic to me, even given his pre-established love-hate relationship with money and gambling.

but it's a great show. Watch it.

[ABBAKiss]

...hot 30-year-old guys should not be gynocologists. I felt like he should have bought me a drink first and that I should kiss him on my way out.

Also, gynocologists should make no effort to carry on a normal conversation. Just don't even try.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
...hot 30-year-old guys should not be gynocologists. I felt like he should have bought me a drink first and that I should kiss him on my way out.

Also, gynocologists should make no effort to carry on a normal conversation. Just don't even try.

Ms. dL concurrs. Then again, she's had a female gynocologist/primary care doc as long as I have known her, which, all things considered, is probably a really healthy way to treat.

[Jack Manfred]

Here's a link to a New York Times article about Spam/spam that eerily references a divisive comment from last week.

"By the mid- to late 1980's, the fan base of Monty Python and those who frequented emerging chat networks called MUDs (for multi-user dungeons) had sufficiently merged. 'We're not talking about people who were out kayaking in their free time,' said Joel K. Furr, one of those early non-kayakers and now a technical trainer for the IDX Systems Corporation in Vermont."

[str8outavannuys]

I'm reading "The Russian Debutante's Handbook," a first novel by some guy with a long name I can never remember. It's fantastic, really. I second whoever was talking about High Fidelity. I love Nick Hornby's books. Fever Pitch is great, as is About a Boy. Completely unrelated book: "A Season on the Brink" by David Halberstram about the year he spent with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Music: For good music to work to, I recommend Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor. Trendy yes, but very very soothing. Well Godspeed is maybe not so soothing with the eerie apocalyptic rantings dispersed throughout. But it's still cool.

Movie club: I love Patrice Leconte. I'm not sure how crazy I was about the last 15 minutes of Man on the Train, but his other films are awesome. If you've got Netflix or a good video store nearby, get:

The Girl on the Bridge
The Hairdresser's Husband
Mr. Hire

I've not seen his other ones, but I'm sure they're worth watching.

My other favorite foreign director is Aki Kaurisimaki. Run don't walk to see:
The Match Factory Girl
Hamlet Goes Business
I Hired a Contract Killer
and the somewhat overrated but still amusing "Leningrad Cowboys Go America"

That's it for me.

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
First, an attraction to Asian women is not a fetish.

This is so naive. You must be married to an asian and have a history of dating mostly asians, or all asians, and are in denial about the fetish. If you are into something solely bc they are that something, and you like all the somethings as a blanket rule bc they are the somtthing and it really turns you on and is the focus of your sexual desire, its a fetish. Same thing with feet. I have at least three male friends, , who have spent serious time (ranging one to thirteen years) in Asia in pursuit of the women. That's not a fetish?

This is differnt than digging a person who happens to be an asian.

[alan derthawits]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
TIf you are into something solely bc they are that something, and you like all the somethings as a blanket rule bc they are the somtthing and it really turns you on and is the focus of your sexual desire, its a fetish. Same thing with feet.

Not same thing. all women have, or should have feet, so a foot fetish isn't looking only for women with feet, he simply has an intended use for the feet once he meets the attached women. I suppose one with an attraction to women without feet might better fit your theory. That hypothetical man would be seeking out a women based upon a particular look, like the asian chaser at issue here.